Ep 988 ｜ Mark Driscoll Calls Out Christian Strip Tease
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Summary
Pastor Mark Driscoll was kicked off the stage at a Christian men s conference after criticizing a sword swallowing performance that appeared like something from a strip club. Also, the golden bachelor and his new woman have called it quits and are getting a divorce. We ve also got a pit bull update and a few more things to discuss on today s episode of Relatable.
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Mark Driscoll was called off the stage at a men's conference over the weekend when he
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criticized the conference for hosting what kind of looked like a strip tease on stage.
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Also, the golden bachelor and his new woman have called it quits.
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We've also got a pit bull update and a few more things to discuss on today's episode
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All right, you guys have been asking me to talk about this Mark Driscoll situation, and
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I'm sorry that I have kept you waiting for as long as I have, but I've got a take on
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If you have no idea what I'm talking about, don't worry.
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Those of you who kind of know what I'm talking about, you've probably just seen the names
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like Mark Driscoll, Stripper, Church, kicked off stage, and you're like, do I even want
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It's not as bad, and also it's simultaneously worse than you might be thinking.
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This is summarized from Newsweek as well as Western Journal.
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So Pastor Mark Driscoll, you probably know him from rising to prominence several years
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ago, probably between 15 and 20 years ago when he was a pastor of Mars Hill, and that
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was a big church out of Seattle that he was the head of.
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Of course, there was a lot of controversy surrounding his leadership and some of the things that he
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But he is a pastor, again, not at Mars Hill, but at a different church, and he has kind
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of been reintroduced into the public sphere recently.
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I would call him definitely a conservative Christian.
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So I'm sure that there are plenty of things that he and I agree on.
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I know that there is because I follow him and I see that, but then there are also theological
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And this particular instance involving Mark Driscoll is going viral, and I think for good
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And I kind of, I think, have a different take on it than what I've seen on the internet
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So first, let me finish my summary, and then I'll get to that.
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So he was kicked off stage at a Christian men's conference after criticizing a sword-swallowing
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performance that appeared like something from a strip club.
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The Stronger Men's Conference that was held at the Great Southern Bank Arena in Springfield,
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There, Mark Driscoll began his talk by criticizing an earlier performance at the conference by
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It often includes big names like Louis Giglio, Kirk Cousins, other people that maybe you've
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And then the host of the conference is John Lindell.
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I hadn't heard about John Lindell from some of the messages that you've sent me.
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I would say the feeling from my audience, just from the messages that I've received, is not
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And after seeing kind of this whole interaction in this conference, I would probably be on
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One of the most anticipated features of the event is the Friday night entertainment, which
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is included in the past, professional bull riding, motocross, BMX competition, and professional
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During the Friday night performance of this year's conference, Alex Magala, I think that's
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how you pronounce his name, took off his shirt, climbed a pole on stage, and swallowed
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Daily Mail also noted that he is, he was a finalist on America's Got Talent, and when
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he was not doing like sword swallowing and scaling poles, he is a stripper.
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That is who this Christian conference decided to hire for their Friday night entertainment.
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Now, Mark Driscoll, when it was his turn to give his talk at this conference, he decided
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that he was going to call out what he called the Jezebel spirit of this performance.
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In front of that was a man who ripped his shirt off, like a woman does in front of a pole
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And then he swallowed a sword, and Jesus cried.
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So if you can't hear everything that was happening there, there is a voice, it sounds like from
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So that was John Lindell, the host of this conference.
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And that's why Pastor Mark said, okay, I received that.
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And then he picked up his Bible, he got off stage.
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And then I saw another club that was going around that there was like a huge ruckus after
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I don't know exactly what the men in the audience were responding to, but there was a lot of yelling.
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There was a lot of like, getting up, it looks like some people were leaving, people were
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Now, maybe some people were angry at Mark Driscoll.
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John Lindell ended up going on stage to try to defend himself, like why he called Mark off
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He said, he said, I talked to Mark for a half hour.
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You may not agree with him, but we are brothers in Christ.
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Of course, he cited Matthew 18, which basically says, look, if you've got a problem with a
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brother in Christ, you need to go to that brother first.
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That's why he said that Mark Driscoll was out of line.
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He should have handled it correctly, whether you agree with the content of either of their
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So later in the conference, John Lindell and Mark Driscoll returned to the stage to discuss
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Driscoll apologized and said he should have talked to Lindell first.
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It's kind of difficult to hear the audio that we saw.
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So we're kind of like summarizing what was happening.
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He said, you want to know what John the Baptist was like?
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Driscoll apologizes for calling out the way he did and should have gotten permission from
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His words of the event, Mark describes what he was thinking as he got on stage.
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At this point, someone from the crowd yelled, Mark, you're right.
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What we're going to do is model how brothers in the Lord do reconciliation.
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So I know that there are a lot of disagreements and a lot of complaints that people have about
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We're not going to get into all of those right now.
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I just want to focus on what happened here and kind of what people are saying and then
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So some people are saying that this was all scripted.
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This was just a way for Mark Driscoll to grift and to get attention and to make it seem
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like he has this like sincere, godly posture and that he saw this as an opportunity to
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Some people are saying that it's staged between the two to try to go viral on social media.
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I saw some takes saying that there's no way that Mark Driscoll wouldn't have already known
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going into the conference that this guy was going to be ascending, um, uh, ascending a
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And then he saw it as an opportunity to, you know, present himself as the prophetic voice
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And I don't have any inside information, but I've spoken at a lot of conferences, a lot
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of events and a lot of churches as, as someone who also speaks a lot, I can almost guarantee
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that Mark Driscoll did not know that there was going to be that kind of entertainment on
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There would have really been no reason for him to know that.
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He probably has either a speaking agent or, uh, an assistant or a team of people who handles
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He probably knew who was speaking and he probably did approve of all of those things, or he entrusted
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his team with the responsibility to check all those things out.
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There would have really been, and maybe I'm wrong on this, but again, just speaking from
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my own personal experience, there would have really been no reason for John Lindell or any
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other person at the conference to run by the Friday night entertainment, uh, or run by Mark
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Personally, I think that he was genuine in the moment calling out something that he saw as
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It is apparently very publicly known that he was a local stripper.
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There was no reason to get a stripper to come on stage, to take off part of his clothes and
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There's all kinds of entertainment that you could do and then swallow a sword.
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And there's no place for that at a church conference.
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I mean, we can kind of have our disagreements about whether a church conference should even
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I think as long as the entertainment is glorifying to God and is relevant, okay, but this wasn't.
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It's not glorifying to God to basically do some kind of strange form of a striptease at
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And so I agree with what Mark Driscoll said that was wrong.
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Now, I do take issue and maybe in context, if he and I were talking about this, I wouldn't
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And he led a host of captives, as we read, for example, in Ephesians 4, 8.
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And so that part, like, I kind of take issue with.
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But he was in the moment trying to explain that this is not a representation of the humility
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that Jesus showed and that we are also supposed to humiliate.
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And also, like I said, there is like this weird sexual stripper-like aspect to it.
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And I happen to think, like, this is the more charitable reading, and I don't know Mark
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But it just seemed to me that in the moment, he really was deciding whether or not he was
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So while it may be true that he should have talked to the conference host first, I think
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that probably would have been the better way to go.
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I don't think that he got up there and thought, I'm going to create this viral moment, and
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And I think it just, in his mind in that moment, it was just too much for him not to address
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or he felt like it would be hypocritical for him to talk about, you know, a Jezebel spirit
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and sexual immorality and the kind of degeneracy that has taken over our culture and has even
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deceived many men and women in the church without calling out the fact that a portion of that
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was at the very conference where he is speaking.
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I think he was trying to be consistent and to be honest in this moment.
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And whatever disagreements I have with both of them and this conference, I do think them
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coming back up there and having some form of reconciliation and showing people how to
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But I kind of, I wish the host would have had the humility to say, you know what?
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Not only do I admire him in general, I admire him in this specific moment because he was
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We shouldn't have had that Friday night entertainment.
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He stripped like he knew what he was doing on the stage of this Christian conference.
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He should have gotten up like during the Friday night entertainment and been like, that's
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So it wasn't that John Lindell was willing to stop Mark Driscoll from telling the truth
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about the pseudo striptease, but he was not willing to stop the pseudo striptease.
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So Mark Driscoll had to get off the stage for speaking that truth, but the stripper didn't
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So it's just a little weird, I think, like what the what the standard is.
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You're willing to kind of, I don't know, equivocate, it seems like, on a display of
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But when it comes to being criticized or called out in what he considered to be an imperfect
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And I think when we demand, this is a bigger issue, when we demand to be entertained by
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all of the flashing lights and all of the glittery splendor and the overstimulation that
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we are used to when we're watching a movie or scrolling on our phones.
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That is when I think that we are going to start to see compromise, because you've got
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to get bigger and better every Sunday, every year.
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That's what we see at Elevation Churches, what we see at Mike Todd's Church.
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So what we see at a lot of like prosperity-centric churches is that expositing the word and simple
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verse-by-verse exegetical preaching isn't, they think it's not enough for people.
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If you've ever gone to John MacArthur's church, I personally haven't before.
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Of course, he preaches exegetically, verse-by-verse, but I have friends who attend that church.
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I have friends who have visited that church recently.
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It is also one of the most ethnically and economically diverse churches, I would say,
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All he does is every Sunday preach verse-by-verse, and it is overflowing with Christians who just
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They don't want every sermon to be about them, to be about their feelings, to sit around them.
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And some preachers, like the ones I listed, you know, like Furtick and the like, they think
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that their audience has to be entertained, and then maybe one day they will be entertained
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Whatever you win people with, you win them too.
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And so I know the argument is, well, if we make things flashy and exciting, at least
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But they are coming into church to see the flashy and exciting, not to hear the gospel.
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So we win people to church with the aroma of Christ.
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That doesn't mean that we can't have wonderful artistic performances.
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That can't mean that we can't allow people within the church who have those giftings to
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use them at Sunday service for the glory of God.
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I think the graphic design and whatever technology is used should be used in an excellent way to
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It should all be pointing to Christ, not trying to overshadow the gospel in the hopes that
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someone will be able to pull back the curtain one day and see the truth of Jesus.
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And I also want to say, this is something that I meant to say when we talked about Stephen
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Furtick on Monday or whenever it was, Tuesday, that I do think that pastors, as I said, should
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be understated in their appearance when they're on stage.
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I also think that goes for like all the pyrotechnics and like all of that.
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I'm not saying that you can have like a little bit of fog machine, but not too much.
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I'm not saying that there are hard and fast rules about that.
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But I do think things should be beautiful, yet understated.
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And that includes how the pastor addresses himself.
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I think it should be respectful, but I think it should communicate humility and dignity,
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And I think that also the mentality should be, I want to do everything in my power to not
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tempt anyone in my congregation to covetousness or to envy or to greed.
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Now, everyone's sins are their own responsibility through the power of the Spirit to fight.
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But in the same way that we are to dress modestly just to do everything that we can within our
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power, not to provoke someone to lust, even though that lust is ultimately their responsibility.
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So I think we also dress ourselves with the desire to display humility rather than the
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desire to have someone be jealous of us, of what we can afford and what we can wear.
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And it is an irresponsible act, I think, as a pastor.
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I'm thinking of the ones that we've talked about, like with preachers and sneakers, to wear
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these kinds of flashy clothes so that people will look at them and say, I want that.
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You are leading them as sheep to the slaughter.
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You are not protecting them from the wolves of greed and covetousness.
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And that is a really scary prospect when you consider, as the book of James tells us, that
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teachers are going to be judged more harshly than everyone else.
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So I just think that's something to consider whenever we are looking at all of this flashy
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It's not enough to just say, well, it might meet some people where they are and be seeker
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There's a way we can be excellent and beautiful and entertaining and still point to Christ rather
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than draw people away from him like through a freaking striptease at a men's conference.
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There's a lot more probably that we could say about it, but that's all I got.
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Again, I know there's a larger conversation to have about that people, you know, want to
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hear about Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill and all of that.
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And, you know, maybe we can talk about that one day.
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The Golden Bachelor and his woman have already called it quits.
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At this point, okay, Golden Bachelor, you just need to write it out.
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Okay, like, what is the point of getting a divorce?
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Like, are you going to go through the process and get like you went through all of this?
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You broke all of those women's hearts and you chose this woman, Teresa, which from the
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beginning, my friend and I were like, not that lady.
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You should have listened to us and you might not be in this situation.
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I don't remember the lady's name that you should have chosen, but I also knew from the
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beginning, I think she's the one that like, played the guitar or something.
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I honestly only watched like the first three or so episodes because the friend that I was
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watching it with, she ended up having her baby, rude.
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And then we didn't, we couldn't, well, I didn't want to watch it by myself.
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So I stopped after like a third episode, but I knew from the beginning it shouldn't have
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Here they are, Jerry and Teresa announcing their divorce.
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And we've kind of come to the conclusion mutually that it's probably time for us to
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I think we just feel like it's best for the happiness of each of us to, to live apart.
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I like how the journalist had to be like, get a divorce, dissolve your marriage.
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You think it's better for the happiness of both of you.
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So what they found out after they got married on television in January, after a whirlwind
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romance through the golden bachelors, that they don't like each other.
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I mean, if you find out after a couple months, we made a mistake.
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And she says that she hopes it doesn't, um, the hope that it's given people that that
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Of course it's going to change because it, it, you are showing people this romance that
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everyone thought was real, that everyone thought was sincere and so wonderful that people who
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the world may have counted out as past their prime can date and fall in love and be attracted
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If you are getting a divorce this early on, I don't think that any of it was real.
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Maybe you had some feelings for each other, but you didn't have that kind of real, solid,
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If the marriage is already quote unquote dissolving, or they are just very superficial
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people and nothing went actually wrong after marriage.
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And they just didn't, you know, they were just used to living by themselves and they
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realized, okay, we don't really want to do this.
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It also, I feel like when marriage is in this quickly, it's like one person ended up being
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I don't know which, I don't know which person it was.
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I will say that Jerry had a very different background than what was portrayed.
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It was portrayed that he was like a restaurateur, that he was a rich, successful entrepreneur,
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and he just really wanted someone to share his wealth and share his life with.
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He was not a wealthy or successful entrepreneur.
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They just found him because they felt like we could give him a makeover, make him look like
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and present him as some like wealthy, got it together guy when really he might not be.
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Maybe he is a sweetheart and I don't know, this just didn't work out, which is a terrible
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Or maybe they ended up being completely different people.
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Teresa posted, don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
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You're talking about marriage and you are like grandparents here.
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This is not what we think about a covenant of marriage.
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It does reflect, though, the popular notion about marriage.
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I saw another couple that I followed one of them on Instagram saying, you know, we've just
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decided to end our marriage, basically irreconcilable differences.
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And while you never know what's really going on, of course, if there's like abuse happening
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But irreconcilable differences, not being happy, not having the same feelings, having a difficult
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time working out the disagreements that you have, trying to get used to living together.
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None of these reasons come anywhere close to a justification for divorce.
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And, you know, I was just thinking the other day about how growing up, and of course, when
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our parents were growing up, there was such a stigma around divorce, whether you were Christian
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And there can be goods and bads of stigma, but we've moved into this age when all stigma
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We've actually inherited stigma, I think, from our ancestors, not like in an evolutionary
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way, but we've just been taught that over time, that there should be stigma around certain
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things, because when something becomes prevalent, it's bad for you, and it's bad for society.
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Of course, there are some biblical exceptions, some biblical reasons for divorce.
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And God still hates divorce, because what God brought together, let no man separate, the
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Again, I'm not talking about abuse, but in the vast majority of situations, marriage is
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something that is supposed to be held onto, held together for life.
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And this flippant Dr. Seuss quote, to react to a divorce is such the perfect description
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of how America has destigmatized divorce, example of how we've destigmatized divorce, how we've
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normalized it, how we even celebrate it, because we will lay absolutely anything down on the
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We will leave the church that told us that something that was sin.
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We will leave the marriage that was a little bit hard.
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We will reject the friendships that were no longer convenient and comfortable for us.
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We will stop doing all of the things that require discipline and self-control and self-assessment.
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And instead, we will pursue only that which is convenient and comfortable and serves us and
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And we are absolutely filled to the brim with our own happiness.
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Isn't that interesting that we choose the easy way out and it makes us happy in the moment
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and then we end up lonely, miserable, and suffering?
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And this is the whole lie of like this self-love happiness is the utmost goal trend that has
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completely taken over our culture over the past several decades, that we are constantly told
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that if you just pursue what you want in any given moment, finally, you will be liberated from all
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And it's just a lie because what have we always said since I wrote my, wrote my book about this
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in 2019, um, the self can't be both the problem and the solution.
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So if inside yourself, you are finding depression, misery, anxiety, dissatisfaction, discontentment,
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you are not going to find the solution to those things in the same place that you are finding
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You are not the solution to, you are not the answer to everything that you are looking for.
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All of that is found outside of ourselves, namely in our creator, who alone can tell us who we are
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and what we are worth, who alone is the source of happiness and fulfillment for which we long
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and that we are trying and failing to find, uh, everywhere except for where it actually exists
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And so when that happens, when we all worship the God of self, we end up normalizing and celebrating
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things like divorce, adultery, um, even a surrogacy, reproductive technology, abortion,
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anything that serves our wants, and it doesn't matter what we sacrifice in the way.
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And so, I mean, this is sad for a lot of reasons.
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I mean, I don't know if I want to say funny, but like, oh my gosh, I can't believe the golden
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bachelor has already gotten a divorce, but it also is just like a sad commentary on how
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we view marriage and the family and relationships, um, in the United States and probably not,
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Also, like when you look at the fact that there was a lot of money involved in this, you kind
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of see that there were probably some superficial motivations behind getting engaged and getting
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And then when it no longer served them financially, they got a divorce.
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Um, as the series lead, he may have been, uh, Jerry, it says, may have been paid north
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of a hundred thousand dollars for the season, which I actually would have thought that it
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Uh, Teresa, as the winner, made off with a princess cut diamond engagement ring worth,
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Um, the first ever televised bachelor reunion way back in 2003 was a 3.6.
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And they were also paid a million dollars, uh, to get married on camera.
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I think Trista and Ryan are actually still, still together.
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Um, and so we just don't know how much they were paid.
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They could have gone through with the wedding because they were paid for it.
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And then they got a divorce because it wasn't, it wasn't helpful anymore.
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Brie, should we talk about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner and their childs?
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Um, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, they're one of many celebrities that have a child now,
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a daughter, 15 years old, Serafina Rose, uh, who has come out as quote unquote trans.
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So this, uh, she, we were going to use she, but there are some outlets that will use he,
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um, came out, like introduced herself by her new name, Finn.
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When she spoke at her grandfather's memorial service in early April, this was recorded.
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Um, and so the video has been making the rounds.
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Then read chapter 16, verse eight from the book of Proverbs.
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Better is a little with righteousness than a large income with injustice.
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Um, so you probably know Jennifer Garner and Affleck.
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Um, they have, uh, three kids together and they split in 2015.
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Whose 16 year old daughter also uses gender neutral pronouns and has become close to Finn
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JLo first publicly introduced her daughter's pronouns to a crowd at the Ellie Dodgers Foundation's
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Blue Diamond Gala, where they both performed in June, 2022.
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And it's so obvious that this is a social contagion.
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Do you have anything else to say about that, Brie?
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No, I think it's just like so convenient that both Jennifer Lopez's daughter and Ben Affleck's
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And it's also just a coincidence that all of these celebrities, all these other celebrities
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have children who are very confused and deceived about their gender.
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This is Jamie Lee Curtis and her daughter, Ruby.
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I dare you to look at this person and say she, her, um, who as an adult decided that
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he was, um, a woman and Jamie Lee Curtis has been very defensive of him as, uh, as a woman.
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And then we've got Charlize Theron, who I think is one of the most, was maybe one of the first
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celebrities that I saw, um, dressing up her adopted sons that she adopted from Africa in
00:37:01.540
How was this not a bigger deal when this was first happening?
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Like, is there not some, like, I don't know, someone out there who is, like, a racial activist
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who can at least say that it's crazy to adopt boys from Africa and then turn them into girls,
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Theron announced this, uh, announced publicly that, uh, her son, Jackson, is actually a girl
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at seven years old, claiming he had told her three years prior that he was really a girl.
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So, when he was four years old, okay, four-year-olds can be really smart.
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Like, as a mother of a four-year-old, a brilliant four-year-old, I know that they're, like, let
00:38:03.900
My mom has this plant in her backyard, and my mom was telling my four-year-old, this is
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a mosquito plant, and that, of course, it keeps mosquitoes away.
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Well, my four-year-old, the next day, was explaining the plants to my two-year-old and
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was going around and explaining all the different plants and what they do, and she pointed to
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the mosquito plant and said, and this one's going to turn into a mosquito.
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But she did not understand that that is not what my mom meant when she was saying this
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So, at the same time, kids are, like, brilliant and awesome and learning so much, and they also
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And so, when Charlize Theron's son said, I'm a girl, he probably was just saying something
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He probably was saying something that he saw in a movie.
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In a book, if he even said it, by the way, that is the more charitable reading.
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The less charitable reading is that she is a sick freak with Munchausen by proxy who just
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wants the attention and the satisfaction of kind of, like, being oppressed and having a
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I mean, abortion, yes, because you're murdering them.
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But then, okay, if they actually survive the womb, you're going to try to transition them
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into the opposite sex, which, of course, is living a lie and leading them down a path of
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And then who kind of was, like, looking gender fluid at one point, but who has since publicly
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dressed a lot more feminine, which is interesting.
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You've got several other celebrities whose children just very spontaneously and completely
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organically have decided to identify as the opposite sex.
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And, of course, I don't think it is spontaneous.
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I think that it is when you have parents who are either pushing this on you or who don't
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supervise what content you are consuming and who think that a child is in charge.
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And who think that a young child has some kind of, like, special knowing about who they
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And they don't have a good moral worldview, that the body actually matters and indicates
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And it can't be changed by declaration or identity.
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When you have a parent who is just, like, completely morally lost, and then these children
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are victims of the culture, which says you can change your gender, that's how this is
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Maybe they will be turned back into the right direction.
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But just another example, you should never, ever, ever look to celebrities as your moral
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They are very lost, very confused, very broken.
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Like, that's been like that for hundreds of years.
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Like, if you look at old Hollywood and you read about some of their lives and how broken
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and sad and really, like, morally destitute they were, I mean, there's something just
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very, very dark about Hollywood, probably even beyond what we really know.
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All right, Brie, I don't know if you have anything else to say about that.
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Is there any interesting factoid that I missed on this?
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There's no interesting factoids to add, but I will just say, you already touched on it,
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but specifically with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Garner, it just, it makes
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me sad because you can see the pattern of like, like, we know what Ben Affleck did to Jennifer
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Well, maybe there's more to the story, but he cheated on her with a nanny and those kids
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knew that and they see that and, and these are just the repercussions of broken families
00:42:16.420
On top of all the Hollywood stuff, that probably is just piling on top of it.
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That's a really good point is that that can cause destabilization, trauma, drama that would
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make a kid try to like figure out who they are.
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And when you don't really have any guidance on that, I also think that parents who have
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broken up their marriages, they suffer from some guilt and their thought is and desire
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is, I just want to do whatever makes them happy.
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And if their child comes to them as like, this is what will make me happy.
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And I love, I mean, I like Jennifer Garner, at least from what I see.
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And I'm sure she, I'm not saying like she is a bad mom, but yeah, it just makes me sad.
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Makes me sad for the kids who are so clearly lost.
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We'll end the week on that and then people can be upset.
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So there are just several more stories of pit bulls, um, mauling people and attacking
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other dogs, ruining lives as many pit bulls do.
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And so I'm going to go through that and then I'm going to remind you of why it is the breed.
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After being mauled by three pit bulls at a house where she was visiting.
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Apparently these pit bulls had caused several incidents, chasing kids down the street.
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Nothing had been done because it's very difficult to do anything in these situations.
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Um, one, if you live in a more liberal area, many times it's just, um, they believe that
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they are being compassionate by not taking away dogs from their owners.
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Also, like this is kind of an awkward thing to say, but you'll see many times it comes down
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to like this weird social racial justice issue because a disproportionate number of pit bulls
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are apparently owned statistically by black and brown Americans.
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And so they will claim like that taking away the dogs or targeting these dogs is also like
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an attack on particularly quote unquote marginalized groups.
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And so it becomes this weird, like social justice left, right issue, which it absolutely shouldn't.
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But politics always comes into play in these issues.
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Um, there was also like, you'll remember, remember the, um, woman that I had on, I think
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it was about a year ago, whose pit bulls, um, attacked and killed her cows.
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And how awful that was, uh, in the state of Arkansas.
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And then the local prosecutor was so corrupt and it ended up being like this weird accusation
00:45:48.840
of like racism thing going on because one of the owners of the pit bulls who had gotten
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And so it like ended up being this like weird race thing.
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And it was so hard for her to get any kind of justice or accountability for her, uh, for
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And so who knows that could have been what happened in this story, but authorities didn't
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There was also a pit bull breeder mauled to death by his own dogs in Compton.
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And, um, he was, he went into their pen to feed them and then he was taken to the ground
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and mauled to death, which is absolutely terrifying.
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I also saw just a story just the other day, award-winning children's author, Rosanna Murray,
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73, had her arm and ear ripped off after being mauled by three pit bulls in Brazil just the
00:46:48.840
Also just the other day, Florida pit bulls tore apart a vehicle.
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This is, I saw a video on Twitter about this, uh, tear apart a vehicle in pursuit of a cat
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that was like hiding in the undercarriage of the car.
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And these pit bulls tore this car to shreds to try to get this cat.
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And then I saw also just the other day, um, a, a pit bull at a dog show attacked a Siberian
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Now here's the thing about this, because I always hear it's the owner.
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I guarantee, especially this pit bull at the dog show was well taken care of and well loved
00:47:38.160
Remember a couple of years ago when the pit bulls in, um, a family home in Nashville mauled
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two children to death and mauled the mother to the point to where she was in the hospital.
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I mean, this was a normal family who had these puppies, had these dogs from puppyhood.
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They were defenders and advocates of pit bulls.
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These dogs, they said were a part of their family, loved very well, snapped and mauled
00:48:11.320
It's crazy how people get so irrational about this and believe that pit bulls are the only
00:48:19.920
No other breed starts with a, uh, a blank slate like shepherds heard.
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There are all different kinds of dogs, terriers, beagles, hounds that are bred to do certain things.
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Some are better than others, but they are made to do.
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And have been bred to do over years and years of breeding to do what they are inclined to do.
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They were bred to hunt hogs and to be able to latch onto a bull and not let go.
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They were not the dogs that took care of the babies.
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They have been bred for years and years and years to fight.
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They have been bred to hang on to really strong and really heavy animals to latch onto their jugular and to not let go.
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Don't tell me your story about how your chihuahua bit you and it really hurt.
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Don't tell me your story about the one golden retriever that became rabid one day and like nipped at your child.
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I do think that pit bulls have a disproportionate number of irresponsible owners because they can be bred to fight.
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I know your pit bull is so sweet and so kind and you allow him to feed oatmeal to your newborn every morning.
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And not only are they aggressive, but they bite to kill.
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That's the difference between the pit bull and the chihuahua.
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The golden retriever is probably not going to maul you to death.
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The pit bull, if they bite you, they're not just biting you.
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Remember that skateboarder who had her mouth ripped off by the sweet pit bull a couple years ago?
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That was her cousin's pit bull that she knew was really close to.
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Again, had been raised from puppyhood and was so kind.
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Latched onto her mouth randomly in the kitchen.
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There has been enough loss of life for us to say, nope, no more.
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I'm not saying we should euthanize all pit bulls.
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It should be illegal for the protection of human beings who matter more than animals, right?
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00:51:36.920
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00:51:43.200
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