Ep 979 ｜ Atheist Richard Dawkins Begs Christianity to Come Back
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Corbin Albert apologizes for sharing a testimony of a young man who says that he was freed by God from the deception of transgenderism. And lastly, a man who apparently might have been gay. All of this and more on this episode of Relatable.
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Famous atheist Richard Dawkins says that he wants Britain to remain a Christian country.
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Also, U.S. soccer star Corbin Albert is apologizing for sharing a testimony of a young man who says
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that he was freed by God from the deception of transgenderism. And lastly, dinosaurs apparently
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might have been gay. All of this and more on this episode of Relatable. It's brought to you by our
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.
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All right, let's get right into it. I've been wanting to talk about this Corbin Albert story
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for a few days now. It's a really unfortunate story on a lot of different sides. It's a lesson
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for all of us Christians, what courage looks like, what it doesn't look like, the various pressures
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that will be against us to compromise and to fold. Yesterday, we talked about the announcement and
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proclamation of the so-called Trans Day of Visibility, where we had President Biden as well as the entirety
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of his administration as well as several progressive leaders making announcements of celebrations of
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this day that celebrates evil and wickedness and barbarism and brutality against the Imago Dei,
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against the body that celebrates a lie that you can become the opposite sex. It is going to be
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more and more difficult as Christians, not just to say controversial statements like
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John 14, 6, that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, but very obvious statements like a man is
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a man, a woman is a woman, that is biologically true, and that cannot be changed by way of feeling or
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declaration. So it's really not John 14, 6 that is only controversial, but it is also Genesis 1,
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Genesis 1, 27, Genesis 1, 1, that God created the heavens and the earth, all of these are going
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to be deemed forms of unacceptable bigotry. And if we can stand on this very controversial truth
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that Jesus is the only way, truth, and the life, and that no one comes to the Father except through
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him, then we have to also be able to stand on very obvious, observable, biological, and biblical
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truths that only male and female exist, and that these are not replaceable, they're not
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interchangeable, they're not fluid, this is not on a spectrum. And so here's an example of this
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playing out in real life. Corbin Albert is a 20-year-old professional soccer player and current
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member of the U.S. Women's National Team. She received significant backlash after she shared a
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repost on TikTok. So I'm not on TikTok. So for the rest of you 30-year-old olds out there,
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that it's like similar to retweeting. So she didn't add any commentary of her own, she just reposted it.
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And it was a teen's testimony about struggling with drugs and sexual sin, including transgenderism,
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and then finding freedom and peace through Christ. So here is the testimony that this soccer player
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shared on her TikTok. Zot3. I knew I needed to get help, so I went to counseling, but never revealed
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the shame I was battling with feeling transgender. A few months later, I started taking hormones.
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However, in the midst of this time, God led me to ACC through a new friend. I was introduced to Jesus,
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and the Holy Spirit started consuming me, and I actually felt his tangible presence. I even felt God
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tell me to stop taking the hormones. I threw them away and have not been on them since. God truly
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Oh, sweet boy. That just, I mean, it breaks my heart, just what Satan does and how he tempts us
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and deceives us. And I also just want to, aside from this story that we're about to unravel with
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this soccer player who shared this video, I just, I just want to praise God for that young man's
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testimony. There are different arguments and debates and theological discussions that we can have. Of
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course, apologetics, all of that is really important, but you can't argue with someone's testimony. And so
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praise God, we've had many people sit on this couch with a similar testimony that God, through the power
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of the Holy Spirit, freed them from that sin, from that addiction, from that deception and confusion.
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So he also talked in his testimony about his battle with alcoholism, drug addiction, pornography,
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same-sex attraction, and then, of course, feeling that he identified better as the opposite sex.
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And he says, it's because of God that I'm alive today. And so praise God for that. I totally
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understand why Corbin Albert, who I had never heard of her before, but who professes Christianity,
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why she reshared that on her TikTok. So because the video acknowledged same-sex attraction and so-called
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transgender feelings as sin, LGBTQ activists like Megan Rapinoe, you remember her. She is like the
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completely insufferable progressive activist. They were quick to call out Albert's post as hate. So
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I guess Megan Rapinoe saw it and then she posted this to her story. She said, for people who want to
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hide behind, quote unquote, my beliefs, I would just ask one question. Are you making any type of
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of space safer, more inclusive, more whole? Any semblance of better, bringing the best out of
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anyone? Because if you aren't, all you believe in is hate. And kids are literally killing themselves
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because of this hate. Wake, TF up. Yours truly, number 15. Now it's interesting, actually, because
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now Albert wears the number 15 now that Megan Rapinoe has retired. And then other senior players
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within the U.S. Women's National Team shared Rapinoe's post. And the team captain, Becky Sauerbrind,
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shared it with the caption saying, well said. Well, of course, she is being inclusive of this young
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man who had a very real and emotional testimony talking about his own personal experiences and how
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the Holy Spirit liberated him. That is loving. That is celebrating something that is good. And no,
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no one is killing themselves because of that. Unfortunately, young people who think that they're
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the opposite sex have many other diagnoses that preexisted their deception and confusion about their
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gender. We know that to be true. They are far more likely to be suicidal, even if they have
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accepting friends, accepting community, accepting schools, accepting families. We've seen this in
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studies of Sweden, which as a society is extremely accepting of being identifying as the opposite
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sex. They are far more likely to be suicidal than the rest of the population, because I can imagine
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it's very frustrating to realize no matter how hard you try, no matter how many hormones you go on,
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you never actually will be able to accomplish your goal of actually being the opposite gender. And so
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they're just trying to empathy shame you, empathy bully you, to morally extort you, to coerce you into
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accepting their completely absurd two plus two equals five position to make you feel that saying something
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that is true and right and good is killing people. That is wrong. And even if it were true that that
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correlation and causation exists, which it's not true, that doesn't change the biological reality of the
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gender binary. Therefore, it is worth affirming. Unfortunately, Corbin fell, or Albert rather,
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fell into the pressure or was swayed by the pressure that she felt and she did issue an apology.
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All right. So I don't know what other influences she has in her life. I don't know if it was just
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Megan Rapinoe's message, which she confirmed, by the way, to an outlet that she was talking about
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Albert. It was kind of cryptic and vague, but of course she was referencing Albert's original post.
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And so I don't know if it was just that. I don't know if it was because the captain of the team
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reshared it, but she obviously felt a lot of pressure to apologize for what she had shared on
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TikTok. And so here's what she said. She said, I want to sincerely apologize for my actions on social
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media. Oh, it just breaks my heart that she would apologize for that. Liking and sharing posts that
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are offensive and sensitive and hurtful was immature and disrespectful, which was never my intent. Girl,
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I'm not, I mean, I'm not here to judge you because we've all been in a position where we wish we hadn't
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compromised and we had been more courageous. I've certainly been there before, but it just hurts
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me to read these words. So immature and disrespectful, which was never my intent. I'm really disappointed in
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myself and I'm deeply sorry for the hurt that I have caused to my teammates, other players, fans, and
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friends, and anyone who is offended. I truly believe that everyone should feel safe and respected
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everywhere and on all playing fields. I know my actions have not lived up to that. And for that, I
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sincerely apologize. It's an honor and a privilege to get to play this sport on the world stage and I promise
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to do better. Oh my gosh. So she must have gone through a very intense struggle session because
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that was an extreme apology. That wasn't just, you know, I shouldn't post my personal beliefs on social
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media, which I think would have been silly to say too. But she could have kept it a lot shorter. She
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could have simplified it a lot. But I mean, she said that she's disappointed in herself, that it was
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immature, that it was insensitive, that it was disrespectful, that she promises to do better.
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I mean, we heard that language a million times in the summer of 2020. And so she obviously had
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someone or a group of people say, you harmed this group. You could have pushed someone to suicide,
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which is absolutely ridiculous. And you need to apologize. She might've had someone write this
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apology for her. I'm sure she had someone edit this apology and check this apology to make sure
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that it was contrite enough. And it's just so sad to see. Again, I'm not trying to sit in a place of
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condemnation or judgment, but I can say just like looking at the objective standard of God's word,
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that this was the wrong thing to do. I'm not afraid to say that. This was the wrong thing to do.
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This was the sinful action to take. Just to be perfectly clear about that. This was sin to
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apologize for this. If the word of God says something, it is good enough for us to repeat.
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We were never guaranteed that repeating God's word and sharing the truth wouldn't come with
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consequences. Actually, we were told that in this world, we will have trouble. But take heart.
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Jesus has already overcome the world. So the comfort that we have is not that we won't deal with
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repercussions, not that we won't be excluded, not that people won't try to chastise us or condemn us
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or push us out in some way. The comfort that we have is that Jesus has already overcome the world.
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That is where our boldness comes from. We are supposed to count the cost before we follow Christ.
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If we are ready to take up our cross and to follow him, we have to really understand what that sacrifice
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looks like. And really, one of the smallest forms of sacrifice is losing the approval of activists,
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the approval of the world. And yes, it might mean even being kicked off a soccer team. It might mean
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losing livelihood. It might mean really, really big consequences and unfortunate outcomes. It might
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mean losing absolutely everything and everyone in your life. Jesus came not to bring peace, but to bring
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a sword. The word of God divides. The gospel divides. The truth about who God made us to be in his image
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and that his gospel liberates us from the lies of the world, liberates us from the shackles of sin,
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that is a controversial and radical and divisive message. It is. It always will be. And it is worth
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standing on. Look, you just shared someone's testimony. You shared their quote-unquote lived experience,
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which we are told is always valid and has some kind of moral authority and can't be questioned at
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all. But because this person's lived experience has to do with the gospel and has to do with dying to
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the old self, of course, that is going to be offensive to a world that is dying. It's going to be offensive
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to people like Megan Rapinoe, who is, according to Ephesians 2, she's dead in her sin. She is under
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the authority of the prince of the power of the air. And so, of course, she's going to be angry about
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it. Let her be mad. Be mad. That is part of what we are called to as Christians, not to purposely make
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people mad, but to withstand people's offense and anger as we are standing for the gospel. That doesn't
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mean you have to be purposely abrasive or purposely insensitive, but you shared someone's powerful
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testimony and now you are kowtowing to the mob. And that is sinful and that is wrong. Now, there is
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grace for you. Absolutely. Because all of us have it at some point been cowardly. 100%. We have all been
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cowardly. And so there is grace for you and you can repent and you can actually, through the power of the
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Holy Spirit, do better in accordance to God's standards. You can. But this will require a change
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of heart, a change of mind, and it will require a lot of courage. And here's the cool thing is that
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courage is contagious. Courage is contagious. When you stand up and say, I'm not apologizing for God's
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word. I'm not going to try to let God off the hook. I'm not going to try to soften or cover up what he
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says is true. When you stand up for that, there are other Christians who will see that courage and then
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will find the bravery in their own lives to stand up for what God says is good and right and true.
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And something that we talk about on this podcast a lot is the importance of sharing arrows. When someone
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stands up and says something that gets a lot of backlash, if it is, in accordance to God's word,
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true, or if it is factually true, but it just happens to be controversial, inconvenient, uncomfortable,
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rather than us looking at that person and saying, whew, I'm glad that's not me. I'm glad I'm not
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getting that backlash. I'm glad I'm not dealing with that bullying. Instead, the right thing for us to do
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is to say, you know what? She said that and I believe it too. If you're going to launch arrows
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at her, you're going to have to launch them my way too. And it's really powerful when that becomes
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a contagion, when we all stand up as Christians and say, you know what? I will share the arrows
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with her. That gives courage to the person who originally stood up. That gives courage to everyone
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who is watching that contagion happen. That gives courage to all of us. Courage is contagious.
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And when we stand up, when we share the arrows with someone like this, who is on the front lines
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of this particular battle, powerful things happen. That is such an incredible testimony. But when we
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buckle under the pressure, when we say, actually, I counted the cost and it's too expensive and too
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costly for me to follow Christ here, then the world sees cowardice and they're emboldened. People like
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Megan Rapinoe, they smell blood in the water. And so they realize, wow, all I have to do is flex my
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influence, say something passive aggressive and gossipy about someone that I don't like,
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and they're going to buckle. That just emboldens them to do that to the next vulnerable person who
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is brave enough to stand for their faith. So unfortunately, Corbin is not an example for
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us to follow in this case. Now, again, I hope that changes in the future. I really do feel for her.
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And I feel that she has to kind of be hoisted up as a public example of cowardice. But she's a grown
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woman and she made the choice that she made and she decided to kowtow and apologize. And that's
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unfortunate. But again, there is grace. And hopefully if she is confronted with this kind of test in the
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future, she will pass. Because look, God's authority and God's approval is so much more important than
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the world's approval. What does it profit us to gain the world but lose our soul? Nothing. And so I just
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pray for her and other people like her on the front lines. Look, I know from experience, I know from
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experience how difficult it can be to stand up for what the world calls hateful and divisive, but that
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God's word says is good. And I am not perfect at it by any means. But courage and clarity in these days
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is such a powerful example and testimony. That is actually what changes hearts and minds. And again,
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I just want to say God bless that young man who with shaking hands and a shaking voice was willing to
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stand up and to share his testimony. May God embolden him. And here's the thing. Here's the thing I just
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want to say. Also, that that young man had more courage in standing up and sharing his own testimony
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than Corbin Albert had just to share his testimony. And so he is the example that we look to, not her.
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All right, let's move on to Richard Dawkins. And all of this really kind of ties together as we're
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talking about what Christianity should look like and how we can actually be salt and light, how we can
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shine in a dark world, how we can be like salt. So a preservative, adding flavor, making things
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better. That's what Christians are supposed to do through living out and sharing the gospel and
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manifesting it in so many different ways in our lives. So
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All right, Richard Dawkins is the famous atheist and the famous apologist for atheism. And he
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was just in a conversation with LBC, Leading Britain's Conversation. It's Britain's biggest commercial
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news talk brand, where he said that he doesn't want to lose cultural Christianity. He doesn't want to
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lose the influence that Christianity has on a culture, even though he rejects all beliefs of
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We are culturally a Christian country. I call myself a cultural Christian. I'm not a believer.
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But there's a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian. And so,
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you know, I love hymns and Christmas carols. And I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos. I feel
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that we are a Christian country in that sense. It's true that statistically, the number of people who
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actually believe in Christianity is going down. And I'm happy with that. But I would not be happy if,
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for example, we lost all our cathedrals and our beautiful parish churches. So I count myself a cultural
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How entirely incoherent and incongruent such a brilliant person is. But that's not surprising,
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because atheism is in itself a very incongruent and an inconsistent, incoherent belief system,
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even just starting from the atheistic idea of the origin of the universe, which is that something
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came from nothing. It is actually much more feasible and logical to believe that there is
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something outside of our finite understanding of existence, something that is infinite, something
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that is beyond us, something that is transcendent, someone that is an intelligent designer that
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our finite minds cannot comprehend, that is even existing outside of time and space. It's much
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more logical to believe that there is something that we can't comprehend than to say that we can
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comprehend everything, but we can't properly tell you how something came from nothing.
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Of course, he's written about this before, and I'm sure that he is a very formidable adversary when it
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comes to apologetics debates. In fact, I know he is because I've seen some of those debates.
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And he wrote a book called The God Delusion in 2006. It ended up becoming a bestseller,
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selling more than three million copies. As someone who has sold my fair share of books
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in my day, I only have one book, but I can tell you that three million copies is a lot. That's a lot
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of books. And he's sold more than that by now. But here's a summary of his book, just so you can
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understand how incredible this statement is that he just gave before I actually respond to those
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comments. So he begins in The God Delusion, stating that the belief in God is not only irrational,
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but also dangerous as it perpetuates dogma and hinders human progress. Now, isn't that interesting
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in light of what you just heard? He believes that the belief in God is not only irrational,
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but also dangerous as it perpetuates dogma and hinders human progress. The book also delves
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into the harm caused by religious belief, ranging from perpetuating intolerance and divisiveness
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to impeding scientific progress. One of his quotes is, I do everything in my power to warn people
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against faith itself, not just against so-called extremist faith. The teachings of moderate religion,
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though not extremists themselves, are an open invitation to extremism.
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And then, of course, he negates the fact or he denies the fact that atheism requires a whole
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lot of faith, again, going all the way back to where we come from. That is a faith-filled statement
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that something came from nothing and that we have evolved over the span of millions and millions of
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years into this. And you also still have to have faith for the why behind things. I guess from an
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atheistic perspective, if you kind of depart from this crazy idea that something, that all this came
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from nothing, you could try to explain the existence of the material world. But you can't explain the
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existence or the need for beauty. You can't explain why human beings all seem to share this innate
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drive to find belonging and purpose and transcendence and belief in their own lives. You can't define
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what love is. You can't define what these big concepts of purpose are. There's really no atheistic
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understanding for that which we cannot see but is real. They can't even be explained by the idea that
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everything was just passed down from our ancestors because it was useful. Because there are many
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virtues, like kindness, like love, like some form of tolerance that is virtuous that wouldn't be,
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if you look back throughout history, necessarily helpful for survival. And so where did these come from?
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Why are they here? And why do we seem to all kind of aspire to them or want to aspire to them?
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He has suggested, just to give you an idea of his moral compass, that children should not be brought
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up into a religion, that faith-based teaching in schools needs to be eliminated. It also shouldn't
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be surprising that he is very pro-abortion and has argued very adamantly that bringing a baby into the
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world who has Down syndrome, for example, is immoral. He has even counseled someone directly
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on Twitter and we have the tweets from 2014 to abort it, abort a child with Down syndrome and then try
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again because it would be wrong, unethical to bring that child into the world. So that's Richard Dawkins.
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Of course, there's much more about him that we could talk about. And here he is saying in this video,
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sure, I believe all of that. I'm an atheist through and through. I believe that Christianity is dangerous.
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I believe that Christian morality is irrational. That's basically what he's saying, especially in
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the abortion conversation. This idea that people are made in the image of God, that they have innate
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worth from the point of conception and therefore shouldn't be murdered or mistreated. He would,
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of course, say that that's dangerous in some way, deleterious to society and just illogical. But here he's
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saying, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. I think I do still want these vestiges of Christianity to remain.
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I think I want the cathedrals. I think I want the general morality. I think I want the joy and the
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peace that comes with Christmas. And what he's really afraid of, as he's seen Britain change so
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dramatically, is the Islamification of Britain, the Islamification of Europe. And he's seen, okay, so
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we're not replacing Christianity with atheism or secularism the way that I think he would have said
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that he wanted 20 years ago. We are actually replacing it with another belief system that he sees as
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worse than Christianity, which is worse than Christianity, of course, and that is Islam. And he doesn't want
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that. And so he's hoping that we can kind of keep some semblance of Christianity because he sees now its
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benefits, especially in comparison to a religion like Islam without actually believing in Christianity. And I've
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never heard something so completely irrational or illogical in my life. Jordan Peterson responded with what I
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think is a great rhetorical question. What happens to a plant when you remove it from
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its roots? It dies. And of course, that is true. You will not convince people to retain the virtues,
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the morality, the goodness, the developments of Christianity if they do not believe in the
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authority of Christianity, which is God, which is his word. You cannot spend your career telling people
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Christianity is stupid and dangerous and warn them against it and try to invalidate the Bible and then
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say, but we need to apply it. So we shouldn't believe in the Bible, but we should apply the Bible.
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So you believe that Christianity is youthful and practical, but it is not true. And I would just
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encourage you, good sir, to dig into that a little bit more. Why do you think Christianity is useful
00:29:18.160
and fruitful and practical? Like, why do you think it has done such a revolutionary job since its inception
00:29:26.660
of producing human progress? Like, I know that you say that it goes against human progress and goes
00:29:34.280
against scientific progress, but that's actually ahistorical nonsense. Like, if we look at the
00:29:41.100
introduction of the gospel and the introduction of the Christian church in the pagan world, as we've
00:29:47.540
talked about many times, what we see is the revolutionizing of the view of science, of the view
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of medicine, of the view of human beings, the view of the poor. Christianity created these amazing
00:30:02.380
institutions that led to human flourishing and human health and well-being, like hospitals,
00:30:09.740
like orphanages, like homeless shelters, like all kinds of nonprofit organizations, charitable
00:30:15.840
organizations that demanded each society view the truly marginalized as people. That's why it was
00:30:25.680
Christians that led the charge for the abolition of slavery. That's why you have incredible stories of
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anti-Nazi Christian heroes like Corrie ten Boom and Bonhoeffer trying to protect the Jews and protect the
00:30:44.100
victims of the Holocaust. Christians have always been on the front lines of human progress, not with
00:30:53.280
coercion, but through the power of the Holy Spirit, leading by examples set in love and set in grace and set in
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generosity. That is part of what makes Christianity so different than any other belief system, is not just
00:31:16.340
true, that it's based on the fact that God made flesh came and died and rose again as we just celebrated
00:31:26.340
over Easter weekend, but that it has made more positive change than any other belief system in the
00:31:33.400
world, and it's not even close. And as we've said many times, once the belief in Christianity goes,
00:31:40.680
so all of its benefits will go with it. Of course, that's just true. Can't tell people that Christianity
00:31:47.960
is dangerous, but that love, charity, grace, mercy, the dignity of the human being, generosity, that all
00:31:57.880
of these things must remain. It just doesn't happen. It just doesn't happen. Not on a large scale.
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And so, I'm sorry, Richard Dawkins, but you have brought this upon Britain. You have helped bring
00:32:15.180
this upon the world. If you are now so worried about the Islamification of Europe or the Islamification
00:32:23.960
of the West, or the West losing our identity as a Christian civilization that cares about Christmas,
00:32:32.200
that sings Christmas carols, that is joyful, that cares about peace and love and charity and goodness
00:32:38.040
and morality and marriage and monogamy and all of these things that have been just so important for
00:32:46.480
human progress and civilization, then you have yourself at least in part to blame for that, because
00:32:53.940
what you've realized is that people will just exchange one belief system for another. And so, if you are sad
00:33:01.460
about how Christianity has been weakened in the Western world, especially in your beloved
00:33:06.100
Britain, who basically is turning into Londonistan now, then you can take credit for that. You can pat
00:33:14.640
yourself on the back for that. You should take responsibility because of your lectures and your
00:33:20.240
debates and your work. You should take responsibility for much of the world losing the faith that you only
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now are seen as practical and good. And just like with Corbyn Albert, there is grace for you. We have all
00:33:37.380
made mistakes. We have all said things that are not true. For all of us, there was a time that we
00:33:44.940
didn't believe. There are a few testimonies I can think of. For example, Saul turning to Paul of people
00:33:53.700
who were crusaders against the Christian faith, who Jesus changed and then used as missionaries,
00:34:01.780
used as evangelists for the only true religion that exists today. And that can be you. And I pray that
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that is true. I pray that God would humble you greatly, that you would look around and see the
00:34:18.600
destruction that your ideology and your form of apologetics has helped bring upon the world. And
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that you would just see that you've been battling against the truth for so long. And the church will
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welcome you with open arms. And we will be very, very thankful for your repentance. But I do believe
00:34:38.760
that God can save Richard Dawkins. And maybe it is the waning influence of cultural Christianity that
00:34:45.180
will do that. And we should all mourn, by the way, for the waning of cultural Christianity.
00:34:51.820
Cultural Christianity can't save. It's not salvific. So if someone just believes in like
00:34:58.040
Christian values loosely because they think, like Richard Dawkins does, that they're practical and
00:35:03.420
useful, but they don't actually believe in Jesus Christ, then of course they are not saved. There are
00:35:10.160
many people who will say, Lord, Lord, and Jesus will say, depart from me. I never knew you.
00:35:16.720
They don't really believe in their hearts. They just see it as kind of helpful and useful.
00:35:20.480
So that's not salvific, but there are still benefits to cultural Christianity. And as the influence of
00:35:28.500
Christianity has waned, has decreased, we of course have seen the celebration and the elevation of all kinds of
00:35:38.680
absolute degeneracy and depravity that is hurting, um, not just society in general, but specifically
00:35:50.480
children. And children are always going to be the first to be sacrificed, as we have said many times.
00:35:57.900
But of course, the complete demolition of the family, the acceptance and celebration of all kinds of
00:36:05.420
sexual immorality, the subversion of justice, the exchange of actual justice for things like
00:36:12.240
social justice, the increase in lawlessness, all of these things are the effect, the consequence
00:36:20.360
of the loss of the influence of Christianity. Christianity brings civilization. Christianity
00:36:27.200
brings order. Christianity brings goodness. When its principles are made manifest in a society,
00:36:35.240
in a community, in a community, they flourish. There's good fruit that then, um, is produced there.
00:36:42.700
When it goes away, rotten fruit. And we will see that. And unfortunately, we will pay the price for
00:36:49.120
that. Uh, the one good thing I will say that comes out of that, um, is that it becomes less popular,
00:36:57.880
less convenient to be a Christian, and only the real ones exist. So as Christianity is pushed to the
00:37:04.840
margins, you've got people who are forced to really count the cost of their faith and decide whether or
00:37:12.160
not they really believe it. And if you really believe that Jesus is who he says that he is, then you will
00:37:22.020
remain, uh, a Christian and remain in the faith by God's power, despite how uncomfortable and
00:37:30.660
inconvenient it is. That's what happens when it becomes less cool and less convenient and less
00:37:36.660
comfortable to be a Christian. And I think the church can shine even more brightly in that darkness.
00:37:42.980
And so there's good, even in this, even as we will, and our children will suffer the consequences
00:37:49.440
of a lack of influence of Christianity. It also means that the church will shine even more brightly,
00:37:57.100
I think. And I think that's true throughout history. This respite that we've had in America
00:38:03.100
for freedom of religion and really Christian dominance, um, that's coming to, that's coming
00:38:08.840
to an end, I do think. But Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13, 8,
00:38:14.500
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against his church. And the only thing that we can do is the
00:38:20.320
next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God, and continue to share the gospel as
00:38:25.840
much as we can. Like, I can just tell you in my own life, I've had more opportunities just in the
00:38:31.080
past few years and in the past few months, even to share the gospel with curious people, not even
00:38:37.260
just on here, just like in my personal life than I ever have before. People are really hungry. They
00:38:42.880
really want to know, like, can you make sense of all of this? Can you tell me that something good
00:38:47.400
is going to happen? Can you tell me that there's a greater purpose? Can you tell me that there is
00:38:51.220
someone who loves me? Can you tell me that there's a reason why I'm here? Can you, can you help give
00:38:56.620
me some kind of peace or comfort as my life is falling apart? And it's so easy just to buy someone
00:39:02.180
a Bible and to tell them about God's plan of redemption. And a lot of people are hungry for
00:39:07.200
that right now, including Richard Dawkins. All right, for our last segment of the day, we actually
00:39:26.200
had like a whole other subject to talk about, but we just don't have time. It was about moms and weed.
00:39:31.240
And that's like, believe it or not, that's a whole big subject that we will have to save for a later
00:39:36.680
episode when we have more time, because apparently this is a phenomenon, like moms getting high. So
00:39:42.720
forget the wine moms. We're moving on to weed moms now. But anyway, that is not what we're going to
00:39:48.300
talk about. Instead, we're going to talk about this story that I saw on Twitter the other day. Here is
00:39:54.040
the headline. Are you ready for it? Like this just combines so many things that we talk about.
00:39:58.920
British Museum claims some birds, dinosaurs may have been queer and new exhibit. Now this might have
00:40:06.620
been the thing that sent Richard Dawkins over the edge. Like he might have seen this and been like,
00:40:11.220
okay, no, we got to find God. This is just too far. So dinosaurs may have been queer and new exhibit.
00:40:18.660
Well, that explains extinction. That would be why they did not make it. Okay, let's see. Let's see
00:40:27.900
what this, let's see what this says. So, okay, this is taxidermied pheasant. Okay. So this is in the
00:40:33.800
British Museum. Okay. Despite queer behavior and the animal kingdom being observed as far back as the
00:40:41.120
18th century. Okay. It is, okay. It is often ignored or hidden from the public. One example is
00:40:50.360
a female peasants changing their sex when they stop laying eggs and turn their brown feathers into
00:40:55.820
brightly colored feathering, feathering typical of males. Okay. If by queer, you mean weird? Like,
00:41:04.800
is this, is this a loss in translation here? Because the British, they say, oh, that's quite queer.
00:41:08.920
Is that what they're talking about? They do mean that when they say that, but no,
00:41:12.760
I'm pretty sure they mean trans birds. Trans birds. Okay. Okay. But okay. A pheasants
00:41:20.480
feature in some of the earliest European studies of queer behavior in animals. In 1780, naturalist
00:41:27.200
John Hunter shared his observations of sex-changing pheasants, an account of an extraordinary pheasant
00:41:32.640
with queerness visible in the natural world. The argument that it is somehow unnatural begins to
00:41:37.000
unravel, but it doesn't because you're not a bird. You're not a bird. You can't change your feathers and
00:41:43.280
you can't change your body when you stop laying eggs. You have to pay someone to mutilate your body to
00:41:49.220
look different. That is the definition of unnatural. Like, you can't just all of a sudden look like the
00:41:56.480
opposite sex. It just doesn't happen. You have to do all kinds of artificial, unnatural things to your
00:42:01.860
body to even slightly look like the opposite sex. You're not a bird. You're not a bird. Okay.
00:42:09.740
So here's what the article says. A museum in the United Kingdom is facing mockery after claiming that
00:42:15.120
some dinosaurs may have been queer. In its latest exhibition celebrating LGBT history, a pamphlet
00:42:21.040
handed out to guests speculates on the sexuality of dinosaurs. Okay. The LGBTQI plus history exhibit
00:42:28.660
was founded in 2021. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Included among the stories is one about a cast fossil
00:42:37.440
of an herbivore's footprint. Although the excerpt knows it cannot conclusively say that the dinosaur
00:42:42.100
that made the fossil was homosexual. It is a nod to LGBT history because Christopher Winter,
00:42:51.700
the boy who found it, is now grown up, happily married to his husband, Greg, and living in a pink
00:42:58.360
house in Hastings. What does that have to do with the dinosaur that he found, which was probably just
00:43:06.740
like a dog? Yeah. Well, he was gay, so it's part of gay history. Okay. Explaining how Winter first
00:43:15.620
came across the fossil with his father at the age of 11, the description of the fossil knows that queer
00:43:21.380
history takes many forms. In this case, it takes of an important part of the fossil's provenance.
00:43:26.700
The museum speculations about an instinct creature's sexuality was met with ridicule online.
00:43:30.840
Yes, of course, as it should. Blah, blah, blah. Okay. Sorry, not saying blah, blah, blah to this
00:43:39.580
article. It's just all so ridiculous. I can't read all of it. Despite queer behavior in the animal
00:43:43.540
kingdom. Okay. We've already read that. Let's see. Dr. Emma Hilton, a biologist and board of director of
00:43:51.260
the gender critical campaign group Sex Matters, to cry at statements about pheasants is nonsense. The
00:43:56.620
only vertebrates that change sex are all fish. Birds do not change sex. Often in the process of
00:44:02.680
aging, female animals can produce male features as a result of hormonal changes. We can also see this
00:44:08.320
in humans following the menopause, but we would not say that older women had changed sex if they had a
00:44:14.360
bit of a mustache. These kinds of claims can be very wearying. So even the description that they have
00:44:19.420
pheasants she is saying is not even accurate. In addition to the exhibit highlighting several other gay
00:44:24.060
historical figures, the pamphlet also asserts under its description of a samurai suit of armor that
00:44:29.640
18th century colonialism is to blame for the destruction of many ancient gender systems in
00:44:35.420
countries around the world. Right, right, right. Uh-huh. I don't know, Brie, you got anything else to say
00:44:42.320
about the gay dinosaurs? I'm just glad that that England is informing people of this. Yeah, me too.
00:44:49.380
In the British Museum. I'm surprised that it's England. I'm surprised it wasn't France or Germany
00:44:54.880
or Canada. I don't know. A lot of queer things seem to happen in those places. That's true.
00:45:01.060
It seem to stem from those places. Or in the United States. England is joining them.
00:45:07.200
Yeah. You know, I still get a lot of angry comments about our theories about dinosaurs,
00:45:13.260
but honestly, it seems like every week someone sends me another post, another discovery or development
00:45:20.580
that dinosaurs didn't actually look how we have been told that they look. And it's like, oh, yeah,
00:45:28.860
this fossil that we thought looked like this pterodactyl is actually just a chicken. And I'm like,
00:45:36.720
yeah, I know. Okay, if they can say from a footprint that this dinosaur was a homo,
00:45:45.020
I just like, okay, tell me the scientific method that is being employed to deduce the scales that
00:45:55.180
they had, the voice that they had, like the sounds that they were making and all of that stuff. Okay,
00:46:02.760
I've always said it's just a bunch of nerds coming together and making up weird things. And now I
00:46:10.360
realize it's a bunch of gay nerds. It's a bunch of gay nerds. They're adding that. Yeah. British gay
00:46:15.480
nerds. Wow. Yeah. It's all fraudulent. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. That's a good time. That's a good time.
00:46:22.900
Well, thank you so much, Britain, for that bit of information.
00:46:32.760
All right. That's all we've got time for for today. Let's see, Brie, do we have like any
00:46:44.880
announcements or anything? Yes, just to submit your questions. Submit your questions. Relatable
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00:47:05.380
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00:47:15.180
All right. Before we go, I do want to tell y'all that my colleague, a please TV, Jason Whitlock,
00:47:20.740
they've got their second event happening in Nashville, Tennessee. This is called the fearless
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00:47:31.840
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Robinson, the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina. He's just been such a strong warrior
00:47:43.060
for truth. They also have Glenn Beck and, uh, John Rich will be performing. There's going
00:47:49.060
to be great music, food, fellowship. And so make sure you check it out. Fearlessarmyrollcall.com.
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This is on June 1st. It's going to be amazing. It was a hit last year. Fearlessarmyrollcall.com.
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All right. Well, that closes us out for today. We will be back here tomorrow.