Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 30, 2026


Hillary Clinton Wrote a Hit Piece on Me. My Response


Episode Stats

Length

28 minutes

Words per Minute

174.93796

Word Count

5,029

Sentence Count

331

Misogynist Sentences

27

Hate Speech Sentences

17


Summary

In response to Hillary Clinton's article in The Atlantic on my new book, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion," I offer four reasons why Hillary Clinton is wrong and why the Christian Right is right.


Transcript

00:00:00.620 Hey, y'all. Welcome to this special episode of Relatable. Our typical Friday episode will
00:00:06.460 be coming out tomorrow. I am so excited for you to watch that episode, but I've got a
00:00:12.420 very important response to give you today to none other than Hillary Rodham Clinton. First,
00:00:19.180 I just want to make an announcement. I want to announce that I love my life. I love living.
00:00:24.060 I'm happy to be here. That is an important declaration to make. Anytime you get in the
00:00:29.300 crosshairs of the Clintons, which to my astonishment, I am. Now, yesterday I was having
00:00:36.000 a lovely chat with my dad and my husband and my phone started buzzing. And I looked down to several
00:00:43.640 messages letting me know that Hillary Rodham Clinton, of all people, had just published an op-ed
00:00:50.640 in The Atlantic focused on yours truly and my book called Toxic Empathy, How Progressives Exploit
00:00:56.480 Christian Compassion. And this article is titled MAGA's War on Empathy. Now, if I had made a list
00:01:06.300 of predictions for 2026, this would not have been on the list. So I want to take this very unexpected
00:01:14.820 opportunity to do a few things. Number one, I want to respond to the misrepresentations that are made
00:01:21.460 in this article. Number two, I want to highlight the hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton's claims. And
00:01:27.480 number three, I want to encourage you. This article might mention me by name, but it is not actually
00:01:34.280 about me because the truth is, if it weren't for all of you, Hillary Clinton would not care about me.
00:01:39.900 It is because of your presence, because of your courage, because of your resolve, your influence
00:01:44.940 over this and future generations that Clinton is writing this article. And if there is ever a time
00:01:51.640 to stand firm and to double down, it is right now. And then number four, lastly, I want to make an
00:01:58.260 honest appeal to Secretary Clinton and the audience that she is trying to reach with this article.
00:02:04.720 Now, as a preface to help us kind of get our bearings, I want to set up the context, the why
00:02:11.100 for this article coming out right now, because my book is not new. It came out in October of 2024.
00:02:17.480 The discussions and the debates are not new. It became a New York Times bestseller right after
00:02:22.500 its publication, largely because of this immediate reaction, which truly was, by the way, unexpected
00:02:28.520 and unintended by me, just the immediate offense that it caused. But it caused all of this buzz in
00:02:34.900 the media simply because of the first two words of its title. Let me read you just a few of the
00:02:40.620 headlines of the articles that have been written about this book in the past year. We've got the
00:02:45.960 New York Times, How Empathy Became a Threat, which is about my book. The Atlantic, The Conservative
00:02:52.120 Attack on Empathy, about my book. Salon, Maga's War on Empathy was started by a woman. New York
00:03:00.780 Magazine, The Christians Who Believe Empathy is a Sin, which, by the way, is not the title of my book and is
00:03:07.860 not really the argument. But these misrepresentations are common. The Guardian loathe thy neighbor.
00:03:16.540 Also not my argument. Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy. So this has been
00:03:23.980 written over and over and over again. And it's always the same mischaracterizations and the same
00:03:29.980 argument. So why again? Why now? Why Hillary Rodham Clinton? The deeper reason first, before I get to the
00:03:36.580 obvious kind of superficial reason, the deeper reason is so incredibly clear to me, and that is
00:03:42.920 that we are over the target. We have gotten to the heart of progressive manipulation. We looked at their
00:03:49.140 lies straight in the face that abortion is health care, that trans women are women, that no human being
00:03:55.180 is illegal. And we said, no, I see what you're doing. And we are going to give that a name. And not only
00:04:02.140 that, but we're not buying it anymore. You aren't going to exploit my compassion to support policies
00:04:07.080 that are bad for my family and bad for the country. No longer am I going to allow my emotion to paralyze
00:04:13.420 my critical thinking. And now they're afraid. This is the tool that progressives have used to capture
00:04:19.880 women for a very long time. And they thought they had the female vote in the bag forever. So when you
00:04:26.640 have a woman, a Christian, a wife, a regular suburban mom talking to other Christian wives and moms about
00:04:34.060 critical thinking and biblical truth, they know they're in trouble. When we've got 7,000 women, by the
00:04:40.780 grace of God, showing up from around the world to our no-fluff Christian women's conference, and even the
00:04:46.820 Washington Post has to write about that, they're looking at that. They're looking at y'all. And they're
00:04:52.980 thinking, shoot, this is a thing, isn't it? Like, this is getting out of our control. 2020,
00:05:00.320 they looked at the landscape of Instagram, and they thought, okay, we almost have a total monopoly
00:05:05.200 on female compassion. Now, in 2026, their hold has weakened a whole lot. And that is because
00:05:13.240 of y'all. They don't trot out former Secretary of State, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,
00:05:21.240 unless they are really worried. But why this moment? Why right now? Hillary Clinton tells us.
00:05:29.300 She says in this Atlantic article, Americans have now seen with their own eyes the cost of President
00:05:35.200 Trump's abuse of power and disregard for the Constitution. Videos of the killing of Petty and
00:05:40.420 Renee Goode, she says, by federal agents have exposed the lives of the Trump administration, officials who
00:05:45.860 were quick to smear the victims as domestic terrorists, even Americans who have grown
00:05:50.320 habituated to Trump's excesses, have been shaken by these killings and the reflexively cruel and
00:05:55.160 dishonest response from the administration. Okay, so that is the framing. Look how cruel Trump is.
00:06:01.460 Look at what's happening in Minneapolis. And somehow this cruelty is being justified by people whom
00:06:08.700 she calls, quote unquote, Christian influencers. She says the glorification of cruelty and rejection
00:06:14.980 of compassion don't just shape Trump, the Trump administration's policies. Those values are also at
00:06:21.260 the core of Trump's own character and worldview. And they have become a rallying cry for a cadre of hard
00:06:26.640 right Christian influencers who are waging a war on empathy. My husband and I have this inside joke that we
00:06:33.780 use all the time. A few years ago, our oldest heard us talking about her quietly, and she piped up from
00:06:39.360 across the room and goes, is her name me? And so whenever it seems like, wait, is that person talking
00:06:44.800 about me? That's the question that I had in my head when I was reading this paragraph, the Christian
00:06:49.020 influencers, is her name me? And the answer is yes. Yes, it is. Here's what she goes on to say in this
00:06:54.620 article. The day after taking the oath of office last January, Trump attended a prayer service at the
00:06:59.620 National Cathedral. The Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Marianne Edgar Budd, directed part of
00:07:05.160 her sermon at the new president. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in
00:07:11.060 our country who are scared now. She goes on to say the right-wing Christian podcaster, Allie Beth
00:07:16.380 Stuckey, called the sermon toxic empathy that is in complete opposition to God's word and in support of
00:07:21.880 the most satanic destructive ideas ever conjured up. Toxic empathy. What an oxymoron, Hillary Clinton says.
00:07:28.220 I don't know if the phrase reflects moral blindness or moral bankruptcy, but either way,
00:07:32.460 it is appalling. This is certainly not what I was taught in Sunday school, not what my reading of
00:07:37.680 the Bible teaches me, and not what I believe Jesus preached in his short time on earth. However, this
00:07:43.900 example that she gives, that I responded to, that I said is an example of toxic empathy and represents
00:07:50.720 some of the most evil ideas on earth, is not in the quote that she gave of the sermon. She is
00:07:57.660 betting that you will not actually go to my tweet and see the speech that I was responding to.
00:08:03.120 What I'm responding to is this so-called bishop support of quote-unquote trans kids. Here's that one.
00:08:10.560 In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.
00:08:20.420 There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in democratic, republican, and independent families,
00:08:30.800 some who fear for their lives. And the people, the people who pick our crops
00:08:40.060 and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants,
00:08:45.280 who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they
00:08:50.820 may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.
00:09:00.940 I had forgotten about J.D. Vance's awesome facial expressions as that woman is giving her rant when
00:09:10.880 she says trans kids. He looks at his wife like, oh my gosh, this is ridiculous. And that is what we
00:09:16.200 all feel. But it's not only ridiculous, it's also evil. The idea that a child could be born in the wrong
00:09:21.180 body, the idea that a child should go on puberty blockers or should change the hormonal makeup or the
00:09:26.800 body that God providentially gave them is not only unbiblical, it is downright wicked. And it leads
00:09:32.440 to a life of brokenness for that child. And so yes, it is evil. That is the Christian position. And it is
00:09:42.460 toxic empathy that leads someone to feel so deeply for a person who says they were born in the wrong
00:09:47.960 body that you actually condone a practice or a policy that ends up maiming their body. So let me just
00:09:55.460 explain what toxic empathy is. Hillary Clinton is confused. Maybe she's only read the salon article
00:10:01.120 about my book. She hasn't actually read the book. And by the way, if Hillary Clinton wants to send
00:10:06.440 over the mailing address, I'd be happy to sign a copy of toxic empathy for her. I can send it her way
00:10:10.980 so she can read my argument in its totality. But a little TLDR. Empathy means to be in someone's
00:10:17.740 feelings. So it's different than sympathy. You feel for someone. It's different than compassion.
00:10:21.280 That means to suffer with someone. And it's different than love. To seek the best for another
00:10:26.140 person. Empathy actually means to feel how someone else feels. And it's not always bad. But empathy
00:10:32.620 becomes bad when it blinds you to both reality and morality. You are so deeply in one person's
00:10:38.880 feelings that you no longer can think objectively. You no longer consider the person on the other side
00:10:44.200 of the equation. And then you make decisions based on how much you feel for one person rather
00:10:49.840 than on what is true and moral and just. So for example, you feel so deeply for the poor
00:10:55.720 woman carrying a pregnancy that you forget about the existence, the rights and the pain
00:11:00.440 of the baby inside the womb. You feel so deeply for the man who thinks that he's a woman that
00:11:04.860 you ignore biological reality and the rights and the privacy of girls and women. Empathy
00:11:10.340 becomes toxic when it leads you to do three things. One, to affirm sin. Two, to validate
00:11:16.080 lies. And three, to support destructive policies. Christians instead are not called to callousness,
00:11:22.340 but we're called to love. And the thing about love that distinguishes it from empathy is that
00:11:27.540 it is inextricably intertwined with the truth. God is love, 1 John 4, 8. He gets to define
00:11:33.800 it. And he tells us what it is in 1 Corinthians 13. And in verse 6, we read that love never rejoices
00:11:40.960 in wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. So you cannot have in Christianity love without
00:11:47.360 truth. And this is the dichotomy that Jesus represented. Not unconditional empathy toward
00:11:53.220 every purported victim group. He showed mercy to the outcast and we should too, but he also
00:11:58.760 urged them to repent from sin. So that is my clarification of what toxic empathy actually means.
00:12:07.080 Now, Hillary Clinton wants to tell us about her faith to convince us that she is actually
00:12:13.220 the authority on all things theology. She says, I've never been one to wear my faith on my sleeve,
00:12:19.320 but that doesn't mean it's not important to me. Quite the opposite. My faith has sustained
00:12:23.740 me, informed me, saved me, chided me, and challenged me. I don't know who I would be or where I would
00:12:29.520 have ended up without it. So I am not a disinterested observer here. I believe that Christians like me
00:12:34.640 and people of faith more generally have a responsibility to stand up to the extremists
00:12:39.020 who use religion to divide our society or undermine our democracy. Now, I just want to say that truth
00:12:46.660 divides. Like I'm not worried about someone accusing me or anyone else of being divisive. That's not the
00:12:53.100 purpose in anything I say. The purpose in what I say is to try to tell the truth in love as much as I
00:12:58.300 can. But Jesus himself didn't bring peace, but a sword. The truth divides, undermine our democracy.
00:13:06.160 That's just a silly accusation. Not even sure what that means. And I'm not being sarcastic when I say
00:13:11.340 I'm glad to hear that Hillary Clinton identifies as a Christian. I did not know that we had that in
00:13:16.500 common sincerely. But for her to position herself as someone who is an authority on faith, when she
00:13:22.460 admits here that she's never been public about her faith, that's a problem. That's actually not
00:13:26.760 something that's an option within Christianity. Christianity is a word-based, evangelism-based
00:13:33.680 public faith. It's not like Buddhism or other religions out there that say, well, you can just
00:13:39.620 keep this to yourself. Just lock away the belief that Jesus is king in one compartment, and it doesn't
00:13:46.840 have to affect other areas of your life. You don't actually have to tell people about it. The last command
00:13:51.900 that Jesus gives us before he ascends to heaven is, go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
00:13:59.100 baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. So we are called to be agents
00:14:05.740 of this truth in love, this gospel that God entrusted us with through Christ. And so this idea that you can
00:14:13.680 just have this compartmentalized faith that you don't tell people about, that's not what Christianity
00:14:19.280 is. So I just want to correct the record on that. But I also want to look at the fruit of Hillary
00:14:25.020 Clinton's life. Now, if she's repented of these stances, that would be news to me. I think that
00:14:30.380 would have been a much more interesting Atlantic article than the 15th article about my book,
00:14:35.780 Toxic Empathy. But as far as I know, she still holds all of these beliefs on abortion. So I just want
00:14:41.100 to go through them. Just the just the facts very quickly. First, I want to remind you what Hillary
00:14:48.020 Clinton thinks about abortion. And we can look back to her time as senator. As a senator, Clinton voted
00:14:53.600 no on prohibiting minors from crossing state lines to get an abortion. She voted no on notifying parents
00:15:00.460 when their teenage daughter leaves the state to abort their grandchild. This was in the early 2000s,
00:15:05.960 by the way. She voted no on giving criminal penalties to someone who harms an unborn child
00:15:11.260 during a crime like assault. That doesn't even have anything to do with abortion. She voted no
00:15:16.040 on prohibiting partial birth abortions. She was given a 100% rating by pro-abortion NARAL. She was
00:15:22.440 endorsed by Planned Parenthood, not only when she was a senator, but also when she was running for
00:15:26.840 president. Clinton has been clear in the 2016 debates over and over again that she believes in the
00:15:33.400 unqualified legal right to kill unborn children through all nine months of pregnancy. She has
00:15:41.800 been clear on that for years. She said, quote, I will defend Planned Parenthood. Now Planned Parenthood
00:15:46.860 kills about a million unborn children every year. She said, I will defend Roe v. Wade and I will defend
00:15:51.760 women's rights to make their own health care decisions. Now, if you want to talk about an oxymoron,
00:15:58.520 health care abortion is an oxymoron. And also just to show how much she flip flops on things like
00:16:05.860 let's look at her immigration stance in 2003. She was the one who said on a radio show, I am,
00:16:11.980 you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants. We've got to do more at our borders and people have
00:16:17.160 got to stop employing illegal immigrants. So she just kind of goes where the wind blows because in
00:16:22.940 her 2016 campaign, she described Obama's immigration policies as too harsh. And of course,
00:16:30.200 now she is criticizing the morality of, quote, mass deportations. She also flip flopped on things like
00:16:37.400 gay marriage in 2004. She said, I believe that marriage is not just a bond, but a sacred bond between
00:16:42.460 a man and a woman. In 2013, she changed her stance on that. And no, this is not just genuine
00:16:49.400 evolution. This is what politicians do. Also 2019, she said completely unabashedly, quote,
00:16:57.720 trans rights are human rights. She is in complete support of the idea of men becoming women and
00:17:03.980 infiltrating women and girls spaces. Of course, she's got a long list of scandals in her past.
00:17:12.980 She's got the Clinton Foundation scandal. The Clinton Foundation took in millions from foreign
00:17:18.320 governments like Saudi Arabia and Algeria during Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state.
00:17:23.320 There are a lot of questions about what actually happened with those funds, if they were actually
00:17:29.080 used to help the poor people in places like Haiti that they were supposedly supposed to be helped
00:17:34.480 helping. Also, of course, we've got the whole email server scandal. She kept a private server with all
00:17:41.040 of her secretary of state correspondence on it. She lied about that. And in one of the 2016
00:17:46.880 presidential debates, she claimed she didn't send or receive any classified material to the server,
00:17:51.880 which, of course, was a lie. If we look back to 2012 Benghazi, she was secretary of state during the
00:17:59.480 September 11th, 2012 Benghazi attack that killed four Americans. She linked the violence to an anti-Islam
00:18:06.960 video. But of course, there's no evidence of that. The attack was a pre-planned assault by terrorist
00:18:13.480 militants. It wasn't a spontaneous protest because of any kind of any kind of video. And you'll
00:18:20.120 remember, speaking of empathy, her callousness when she was asked about, hey, what happened that
00:18:26.400 resulted in the loss of these lives? We had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was
00:18:31.920 it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference
00:18:36.800 at this point does it make? And then she also goes on to specifically highlight the problem with me.
00:18:42.940 She says the mainstream Christian view is one that rejects the Christian nationalist narrative
00:18:48.180 of rejecting the stranger and saying that people who are oppressed deserve their oppression. That's
00:18:56.380 what she's saying. People like me believe. And I don't like that there are mainstream Christians who
00:19:00.960 are repudiating that view. She says this is exactly the kind of mainstream Christian view that enrages
00:19:05.600 Allie Beth Stuckey, the author of Toxic Empathy, who styles herself as a voice for Christian women,
00:19:11.260 has more than a million followers on social media. And between lifestyle pitter-patter and her
00:19:16.500 demonization of IVF treatments, she warns women not to listen to their soft hearts. This commissar of
00:19:22.020 MAGA morality targets other evangelicals whose empathy she warns has left them open to manipulation.
00:19:28.080 Maybe they recognize the humanity of an undocumented immigrant family and decide that mass deportation has
00:19:33.380 gone too far. Or they make space in their heart for a young rape survivor forced to carry a pregnancy to term
00:19:38.440 and start questioning the wisdom and morality of total abortion bans. It's all toxic to Stuckey.
00:19:45.020 First of all, I don't know what lifestyle pitter-patter is. I should start doing lifestyle pitter-patter.
00:19:49.560 I should have a whole playlist on my YouTube channel, lifestyle pitter-patter. I'll have to think about
00:19:53.600 what to post on that. I'm not sure yet. Okay, my stance on IVF. I know why she's doing that.
00:19:59.060 She's trying to target a lot of the women who are in the middle and who are more moderate and they
00:20:04.800 hear demonization of IVF and they think it's some radical position. But my position is that all human
00:20:10.360 life matters, whether you are an embryo or whether you are a full-grown adult. And I don't think that
00:20:16.400 people, human beings, should be frozen indefinitely. I don't think that they should be
00:20:22.060 graded for abnormalities like Down syndrome and then discarded. I don't think that they should be
00:20:29.780 treated as social experiments. And I do believe that we should honor the dignity of all human life
00:20:38.660 by protecting them from the earliest moment of conception. And IVF actually puts those lives
00:20:44.720 at risk. And so I've got lots of episodes on that if you want to hear more. And I write about it in my
00:20:50.740 book, Toxic Empathy. And then, you know, she says, I'm a commissar of MAGA morality, which goes
00:20:57.300 so hard. Like, I'm definitely going to continue to use that. I might have to put that like behind me.
00:21:05.100 Purposely misrepresenting toxic empathy, of course. So we should just break that down for a second,
00:21:11.560 because she actually gives me really good examples of what that is. You should recognize the humanity of
00:21:19.920 illegal immigrants. They are image bearers of God, just like the baby in the womb, might I add.
00:21:25.400 But their humanity does not justify failing to enforce our completely valid immigration laws.
00:21:30.920 You should make space in your heart for rape survivors. They should. But this should not
00:21:35.300 lead you to justify killing a baby who is not guilty of anything. Like if we want to talk about
00:21:40.220 the death penalty in a rape situation, let's give the death penalty to the rapist, not to the baby.
00:21:45.540 Hillary Rodham Clinton believes that babies should receive the death penalty for a crime that someone
00:21:50.340 else committed. And then she would like to turn around and preach to us about morality and dignity.
00:21:55.900 And just remember, she has over and over again stated that she believes in the unconditional right
00:22:01.620 to kill a child inside the womb. Now, she argues that we should have more empathy and not less,
00:22:08.160 and that actually that's going to save civilization. She writes,
00:22:10.840 Empathy won't destroy civilization. Indeed, it might just save it. We can debate policies. We can
00:22:17.560 debate theology. But if we give up on empathy, we give up on any real chance of coming together to
00:22:22.620 solve our problems. Empathy does not overwhelm our critical thinking or blind us to moral clarity.
00:22:27.280 It opens our eyes to moral complexity. It is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of strength.
00:22:32.020 She's completely wrong on that. There's a book called Against Empathy by a Yale psychologist
00:22:37.940 named Paul Bloom. He's coming at it from a secular perspective. He argues that psychologically,
00:22:43.480 empathy does arrest our thinking, and that when we use it to make moral decisions, we end up making
00:22:49.580 bad decisions. He also talks about this phenomenon that Abigail Schreier has talked about on my show,
00:22:54.400 that you can be full of empathy and mean as hell. So when you feel so deeply for one particular person,
00:22:59.840 everyone that you perceive as the enemy of that person becomes your enemy, and therefore you justify
00:23:05.560 cruelty against them. It's like the mama bear effect in politics. You feel like the illegal immigrant or
00:23:12.200 the man who says that he's a woman is almost like your child that you have to protect. And everyone who
00:23:17.100 is against them and against their so-called rights, no matter how common sense those positions are,
00:23:22.480 they become your enemies. And you justify violence against them. You justify cruelty against them.
00:23:27.440 She says the empathy opens her eyes to moral complexity. But when you're saying things like
00:23:31.520 trans rights are human rights or that abortion is healthcare, well, you're not showing empathy for the
00:23:37.160 little girl who is forced to change in front of a man in a locker room. You're not showing empathy for
00:23:42.060 the baby inside the womb who is being poisoned, who is being dismembered, whose life is being snuffed out
00:23:47.920 before they're born. That's the problem with empathy. When it leads you, your morality becomes very
00:23:53.380 one-sided. It's much better to be guided by the truth in love. She said we already have Christian
00:23:58.860 influencers saying empathy is a sin. That's not exactly what I said. It can lead you to sin,
00:24:03.820 though. She says, I hope grassroots faith leaders across the country who are appalled by what they
00:24:08.840 see from an immoral administration and an extremist political right also find their voice. Influencers
00:24:14.880 like Stucky are zealously policing any deviation from the party line. But speaking truth to power has
00:24:20.920 been part of the Christian tradition since the very beginning. I actually agree with that. Christianity has
00:24:26.280 always been a boil on the back of tyrants, and it will continue to be. And she doesn't believe in
00:24:32.960 Christians speaking the truth to power when we're speaking against the zeitgeist that is pro-abortion
00:24:38.020 culture in our country or against the idea that a man can become a woman. She is appealing to the
00:24:45.800 Christians who are wavering right now. She very badly wants the female Christian vote, and she knows
00:24:53.120 that she can pull on your heartstrings and emotionally manipulate you into no longer
00:24:59.340 critically thinking about both sides of an issue, but simply going along with what she and others say
00:25:06.500 is the virtuous choice. It is manipulation. It's moral extortion. It is weaponizing your good,
00:25:13.580 soft heart, your Christian compassion against you for nefarious and chaotic means. Remember,
00:25:19.880 empathy becomes toxic when it leads you to affirm sin, validate lies, or support destructive policies.
00:25:28.300 And so I just want to thank Hillary Clinton because she's put more eyes on this book, and it's not about
00:25:35.200 selling books. It is about getting Christian women to see what is logically and factually and most importantly
00:25:41.260 biblically true about some of the biggest issues of our day and to be able to stand confidently
00:25:46.260 in that, even when we see the swirling propaganda all over Instagram and elsewhere. And I just want
00:25:53.040 to end on an encouragement, a piece of encouragement and an appeal to you. I want to remind you of a
00:25:59.000 couple Bible verses that I remind myself of. Luke 6, 22, blessed are you when people hate you and when
00:26:06.380 they exclude you and when they revile you and spurn your name as evil on account of the son of man.
00:26:13.660 When you are speaking the truth about life inside the womb, about gender, about marriage, about the
00:26:19.940 things that the Bible makes very clear, even though those things have become political, at the end of
00:26:25.200 the day, you are being persecuted for something that is ultimately theological. And if Hillary Clinton
00:26:31.880 is against you on those things, it is a pretty good, not perfect, but a pretty good indication that
00:26:37.340 you're probably on the right track. Luke 6, 26, such an encouragement. Woe to you when all people speak
00:26:43.940 well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets. And so it's actually a bad thing when
00:26:51.260 everyone speaks well of you. Remember, Jesus, perfect, the God-man, they crucified him. Stephen, full of grace
00:27:00.120 and power, simply told the truth, shared the gospel to people who did not want to hear it. They stoned
00:27:06.080 him to death. And so if that was how they treated Jesus, if that was how they treated Stephen, if that
00:27:11.480 was how they treated the apostles, then surely today we are not going to get better treatment by going
00:27:18.280 against the grain, swimming upstream, saying what is biblically true, even when it is unpopular. And I
00:27:25.360 just want to make an appeal here because I don't actually know the state of Hillary Clinton's heart.
00:27:31.220 I can't say the state of her salvation. I can look at her statements and some of the fruit.
00:27:36.740 But honestly, this is the truth. I hope to see Hillary Clinton in heaven. And I hope that Jesus
00:27:42.580 reveals himself to her. And if you're listening to this and this is all new to you, I just want you to
00:27:48.800 know that no one is too far off. No one is too far gone. That the gospel is that God sent his son,
00:27:54.300 Jesus, to die a death that you deserve to die on behalf of your sin so that you could be forgiven
00:28:01.480 forever, so that you could be reconciled to God, so that you could be friends with God,
00:28:05.240 so that you could be free from sin today and live forever with him. Like that truth is for you.
00:28:11.000 That gospel is for you. And maybe you disagree with me on all of this, but I just want you to not
00:28:16.860 listen to me. I want you to pick up a Bible. I always encourage people get the ESV study Bible.
00:28:21.500 It's available on Amazon. It's not very expensive. Start in the book of John and go from there.
00:28:26.500 Don't take my word on these things. If you never listen to me again, that's okay with me. But I
00:28:31.680 want you to pick up a Bible and see the truth and the good news that really, really matters in all of
00:28:37.320 this. Again, tune in tomorrow. We've got our regularly scheduled episode of Relatable coming
00:28:42.300 out on Saturday this weekend. I'll see you guys then.