00:06:21.320Thank you. Thank you. Some call you a matador. Okay. If you get the reference, I accept. It is a deep cut. Yeah. Is it? Stephen Miller. Is it that deep? Is it that deep? It is. We are living in one of the most entertaining timelines. I have to say. Yeah, we really are. Brian, you mentioned in the cold open, one of the things that shockingly will cause controversy in a nation like ours is stating true things about reality.
00:07:01.160And where I actually want to start with this is how much of this do you think is because evangelicals in America have been catechized by pastors to just think in sort of squishy categories, particularly about sex, race, et cetera?
00:09:10.580Yeah, I mean, we've been trained not to see certain things. Well, we've been trained that when we see certain things, we're not allowed to say them out loud. You're allowed to like privately entertain the thoughts so long as by the time they come out of your mouth, you filter them through the proper euphemisms.
00:09:26.300That's one of the things that I discovered and I kind of pushed back on quite a bit in the response to the clip and the episode was that people would be totally fine agreeing with all of the data and the facts that we talked about.
00:09:37.600So long as we call it some euphemism, as long as we say that it's ghetto culture even or, you know, some other euphemism instead of saying, generally speaking, they're, you know, black culture in America is like this.
00:09:53.220it's representative of this. If you use some other euphemism, they're fine with that. And that
00:09:59.080really is a, it's a defect in thinking and it demonstrates, you know, something we've talked
00:10:04.000about many times before, blasphemy laws that are guarding a false God. It's one of the communist
00:10:10.240playbooks where, you know, you're not allowed to talk about the, you know, why a communist in
00:10:15.800Soviet Russia wasn't allowed to have this thought and say it out loud. Why is it that if communism
00:10:21.520is so great um we are poor and america is not why is it if communism is so great that we actually
00:10:30.460have television shows where we we put up on the tv the grain harvest because apparently that's
00:10:35.860such a huge accomplishment that it's like worthy of tv but in america they just go to the store
00:10:41.380and there's there's bread on the shelves they didn't have to make a big tv special why is you
00:10:46.700You weren't allowed to notice and say aloud certain truths because those – at the center, there was a big lie that was being defended by a whole guard of smaller lies and euphemisms, and I think that's the sort of thing that's operating in our culture today.
00:11:02.360Yeah, and I think the church has, for the most part, supported the civil rights movement, which was egalitarian and Marxist.
00:11:09.040It is interesting because in the pushback that we got, there were a lot of people who were like, you can't talk about black culture that way, black people that way.
00:11:22.100Let me tell you how horrible white people are.
00:11:28.580one of the blasphemy laws is thou shalt not talk about black sins unless you first talk about 12
00:11:33.640white sins why all the black sins are the government's fault or you know fatherlessness
00:11:38.260is fault and all these things and to which i always respond like wait how do you get a lot
00:11:42.420of fatherlessness in a culture could it be that a culture is suffused with sexual sin and the lack
00:11:47.340of taking responsibility for yourself might that result in a in a the sort of society where i don't
00:11:52.680know 60 to 70 percent of households were single parent like the black community in america today
00:11:57.820but it's not actually an excuse you're just actually pointing at another pattern of sin
00:12:02.240that's rampant in a culture but this becomes part of it uh we talked about this before but
00:12:06.660like in galatians when paul is speaking about um you know there is no longer you know jew or
00:12:12.500gentile male or female on the sexual side we've had egalitarianism erode distinction in men and
00:12:18.680women yeah but now we're pushing into another area and we're finding there's there's a lot of
00:12:24.160hostility, simply in saying that races are different. Yeah. Like that people groups are
00:12:30.200different. This seems obvious. Yeah. Someone, there was a black gentleman who responded to my,
00:12:39.340I had a follow-up tweet. It was something like theology 101. Not all cultures are equal. Some
00:12:44.840cultures are more sinful or worse than other cultures. Right. And I would say this is theology
00:12:49.420101, because it's a subset of homardiology, which is the doctrine of sin, that sin does not work
00:12:55.460itself out equally in all peoples and populations. Total depravity means that sin has affected every
00:13:00.680part of what it means to be human, not that people are as evil as they possibly could be in every
00:13:05.100instance. And so you have some cultures, individuals, peoples, families that are less
00:13:10.580sinful in some area than another. And so this guy said, this is hogwash. He's like, this is ridiculous.
00:13:15.760And my response to him, he's actually yet to answer the question, which is shocking. I said, so do you think that America, slave owning America was equally righteous with post slave owning America? Did we make moral progress? Because if not, or if so, then you have to say that that one people was morally superior to another people. And of course, they won't answer the question because it's such a patently obvious statement.
00:15:23.460So the more money we've spent on black America, the less fathers we have because black women divorced black men and married the government.
00:15:32.480And do you think that's a problem inherent to black people?
00:50:22.600The Edomites. And so here's what happens when you worship demons, it does something covenantally to a people. Right. And, and then the reverse can be true also is that when like you have white Europeans who repent in mass and you get Christendom, well, that's also true.
00:50:41.520yeah 15 centuries of christendom and what we can say and what we have to say if we just open our
00:50:46.360eyes and and forget about what the pc police are telling you but if you just open your eyes
00:50:50.500cultures are different yeah and christian largely white european culture people the whole just look
00:51:01.740at the whole enchilada that is better than a hindu worshiping indian culture that poops in the street
00:51:09.360and and they and and we shouldn't even owen doesn't even he's saying we should that's true
00:51:14.640yeah and so owen just released another 10-part struggle session as we were recording this and
00:51:18.640i was trying to kind of glance through it and one of his big pushbacks about this whole thing
00:51:23.020is that he can make a he can make what he he's identifying what i'm saying about black culture
00:51:27.580as a caricature he's saying well i could make an uh an equally shocking caricature about white
00:51:32.280culture it's npr and serial adultery and all these things but actually actually crime stats
00:51:38.180are not a caricature people when they make this argument they are unwilling to go to the granular
00:51:44.580data to support their argument because they cannot they cannot and here's the other thing
00:51:50.280if we zoom out civilizationally and we say what has generally white european northern and western
00:51:56.720culture produced the culture that that in its epitome is embodied in america we could say
00:52:02.620What has it produced? It's produced some of the greatest civilizations in the history of the world. God truly has enlarged Japheth, we could say. It has absolutely produced some of the greatest civilizations, some of the greatest technological advances, scholarly, Christian, doctrinal advances on virtually every level.
00:52:21.080when we can, when we compare and contrast, for example, generally white Northern and Western
00:52:25.920European Anglo, and then American culture to something like the history, entire history of
00:52:31.580sub-Saharan African culture, what kind of comparison and contrasting would we see?
00:52:37.360And it's controversial because it is so difficult to put into words how vast the chasm is between
00:52:43.600what those two cultures have historically produced. And so, yeah, Owen can, can zoom in on,
00:52:50.820all sorts of white sins that we regularly rebuke and even in the very episode by the way talked
00:52:56.120about things like birth control and the hatred of our own progeny where we allow our nation to be
00:53:01.500flooded with foreigners stop having children sacrifice them to the false gods via abortion
00:53:06.140all these things are absolutely foolish why do you think we talk about feminism so much
00:53:11.120and marxism and communism because we have been absolutely played as a nation people and
00:53:18.020civilization by these cancerous ideologies. We've apostatized, we've committed grievous sins. And
00:53:25.800what is, what is the King's Hall? What is our solution to that? It is to name them with explicit
00:53:31.420fervor. It is to call people to explicit repentance to that, to those things and to teach our people
00:53:37.820and walk them through repentance for those exact things. That's exactly what we're doing. And Owen,
00:53:42.780And here's what I'm trying to say to blacks in America.
01:06:35.920And we're talking about people who are like pretty normie conservatives who would see a clip like this and say, yeah, I mean, you're pretty spot on about this.
01:07:25.280They're like, I've seen that. But until you said it, I didn't know exactly what I was looking at. So that's our job. I recognize there are people who are in mainstream institutions and other places where they can't do that. And they're not going to counter signal us, but they're also not going to publicly support it. That's totally fine.
01:07:42.760But what I do think we need to hear on the conservative side is that one of our besetting sins, let me now talk in a general way about the besetting sins of conservatism and see if anybody's offended by it, is that we tend to be too cautious.
01:07:56.400We tend to be too cautious and too fearful of the left calling us names.
01:07:59.760We tend to be too fearful of the left saying, well, we've invented this whole playbook where you're not actually allowed to talk about that.
01:08:05.420And if you do, we'll call you a racist or we'll call you misogynist or we'll call you whatever, fill in scary word, we'll call you a Nazi.
01:08:12.640And what the right needs to get better at doing, and Charlie is, I think, a model of this, in a mainstream kind of way of saying, oh, I'm not allowed to talk about that anyway, and then he talks about that.
01:08:27.900And he was having these conversations on college campuses where there'd be a black college student that would come up and be like, you're a racist, you're this and you're that.
01:08:34.100and he'd be like, hey, can someone pull up the FBI crime statistics? All the same statistics I
01:08:38.760just referenced about fraud, homicide, rape, aggravated murder, assault, carjacking, all
01:08:44.500these different things. And just show that in every single one of these categories, blacks
01:08:49.440far disproportionately are represented. And then he would say to them, why is that? Why is that?
01:08:56.460And they would usually say, well, it's because of white racism. So it's the white people's fault,
01:09:00.060which is a generalization you're allowed to make in our culture. And he would say, okay,
01:09:03.420well, since the Civil Rights Act, this has gotten worse since the 60s. So have we gotten more racist
01:09:09.940since the Civil Rights Act than when black people could be legally forbidden from coming into a
01:09:14.640store just for being black? Well, of course, like he would just calmly dismantle the argument and
01:09:19.060show them that, no, there's actually a problem in the black community that the black community
01:09:24.320needs to address. And that was his point. It's the same point we're making. It's not,
01:09:29.160But let's all call black people names for no reason.
01:09:32.880The point is the same point Paul made in Titus.
01:09:36.120Rebuke them that they may be sound in the faith.
01:09:38.100I want, just like I want the white congregants in my church to repent of their specific sins
01:09:43.540and come into health, I want blacks in America to repent of these besetting sins and walk