The King's Hall - Against the Sex Cult

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00:00:35.860 Born in 1759, Mary Wollstonecraft was an avid enthusiast of the French Revolution and every bit its adherent.

00:00:44.680 She was considered a founding feminist philosopher by the 21st century intelligentsia,

00:00:49.060 and Wollstonecraft was better known during her lifetime for her sexual indiscretion 0.90

00:00:54.060 and numerous relationships than she was for her writing.

00:00:58.800 One such relationship was with the political anarchist William Godwin.

00:01:03.100 This relationship produced a daughter, whose name was Mary, also.

00:01:07.020 She would come to champion many of the same anarchist, revolutionary, and feminist ideals.

00:01:12.920 Mary the Younger would go on to wed one of her father's political followers, Percy Shelley,

00:01:17.960 who was married to someone else when they began a sexual relationship together.

00:01:22.280 After his death, she would engage in sexual relationships with women.

00:01:26.420 She also kept Percy's charred heart in her desk as a souvenir.

00:01:31.060 Percy would gain recognition after his death for his poetry,

00:01:34.420 while Mary went on to write a work of fiction that would start an entire horror genre.

00:01:39.200 That work, of course, was Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus.

00:01:43.040 What is often overlooked about the book, however,

00:01:45.520 is that it wasn't meant to celebrate the sexual revolutionary ideals of the French Revolution.

00:01:50.800 Instead, it was meant to show, at least in part, how monstrous they had become in Shelley's life.

00:01:55.920 The book was, according to E. Michael Jones, written as, quote,

00:01:58.700 a protest against the sexual revolutionary theories of the day

00:02:02.120 by someone who had gotten badly burned by close exposure to them, end quote.

00:02:07.600 The irony is, of course, thick here.

00:02:09.320 The woman who is celebrated as a champion of the sexual revolution

00:02:13.180 was actually lobbying a damning expose against it with Frankenstein. 0.77

00:02:18.120 She had seen firsthand how monstrous sexual immorality could become,

00:02:22.940 killing everything she loved in the process.

00:02:25.620 She had a tormented and, quite frankly, weird relationship with Percy,

00:02:29.500 and her lifestyle contributed to the suicides of her half-sister and of Percy's wife.

00:02:35.360 A monster cannot be controlled the way you think it can.

00:02:38.760 Today, the sexual revolution has metastasized and gone globally viral.

00:02:43.260 The whole world, in one sense, is a monstrous freak show.

00:02:46.040 It is the Frankensteinian sexual nightmare that the world can't seem to wake up from.

00:02:53.420 The King's Hall exists to make self-ruled men who rule well and win the world.

00:03:01.440 Well, welcome back to the King's Hall. 0.79

00:03:04.100 It is fitting that here in the month of June, when the world celebrates pride in sexual perversion with Pride Month, 0.91

00:03:13.300 that we would be doing this episode on Christian sexuality against the modern sex cult. 0.81

00:03:20.060 And before we get into the body of the episode, let me plug a small project that we're doing

00:03:25.560 that you might file under the category of, I don't know, poking the gods of the age in

00:03:30.800 both eyes, an exercise in satire.

00:03:33.740 If you go to our YouTube channel or our Twitter or a lot of our different channels, you'll

00:03:37.600 see that we shared a video on June 1st at the beginning of Pride Month, and it's a satiric

00:03:42.220 video. I won't ruin it here. It was all Dan's idea. Fine. Well, it was allegorical. Well,

00:03:48.320 we won't hold that against you. That's for each man to decide for himself. I'll take credit for

00:03:52.040 it. It was a genius idea. I also wrote it all and did the video design. That's right. While

00:03:56.820 we're taking credit. Dan did all of that. And so here in Pride Month, we wanted to take an

00:04:03.980 opportunity to do just that, to through satire, poke the gods of the age in both eyes. We've got 0.57

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00:04:24.400 single episode of the king's hall you will also get sent to you free of charge an ntfa pride month

00:04:32.360 mug what i'm just going to tell you what ntfa stands for and then you're going to have to watch

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00:04:42.680 make sure you sign up for patreon here in the month of june and we've got a special tea a special mug

00:04:48.360 special video and i don't know maybe we'll make this our june tradition here at the king's hall

00:04:53.140 i mean think about this you join patreon they're gonna get this t-shirt brian i don't even have

00:04:57.240 one i am the only one who owns one currently in the entire world and you use it on a daily basis

00:05:02.740 I use it on a daily basis.

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00:05:11.160 I believe it is the store button on our website.

00:05:13.880 But that said, Eric, what is it that we are taking up today?

00:05:17.080 What's our topic?

00:05:18.280 Yeah, it seems very fitting.

00:05:19.200 As you said, we're in the middle of June.

00:05:21.540 And so we're talking about Freud, the sexual revolution,

00:05:23.860 and really where this all has taken us culturally.

00:05:27.420 So in an earlier episode titled The Creed of Their High Places,

00:05:30.500 we started to take our boniface-sized acts to the green groves and high places of the pagans.

00:05:36.680 So in the last few episodes, our goal has been to demolish the lofty and idolatrous assertions

00:05:41.660 of this secular humanist religion. In this episode, we want to set our sights on one of

00:05:47.280 the most pernicious and seductive and well-attended pagan green groves, and that is the 0.78

00:05:52.300 pagan altar that is the humanist sexuality cult. It's the place where gender identity and sexual 0.93

00:05:58.720 expression find their most zealous adherents. Now central to this high place is the fundamental

00:06:03.800 religious assertion that man is primarily a sexual animal and his chief end is to be true 0.97

00:06:09.980 to that sexual inner self and to express that sexual inner self. This ideology burst onto the 0.83

00:06:16.580 scene in America during the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 70s and has come to reign with

00:06:22.080 absolutizing force in American culture today through woke identity politics. But here's the

00:06:28.140 thing if you trace it back it didn't start in the 1960s it has roots that stretch back at least to

00:06:33.420 the enlightenment and the french revolution and to authors like mary shelley and william blake

00:06:38.940 one of the most significant figures however in framing what would become the sexual revolution

00:06:43.500 is our man we talked about him before sigmund freud it was sigmund freud who helped promote

00:06:48.860 a central idea sex was no longer seen as merely an activity but became central to a person's

00:06:55.700 fundamental identity. For Freud, the goal of human existence was to be happy, and happiness

00:07:01.800 lay chiefly in one's ability to pursue whatever form of sexual expression they desired. In the

00:07:07.360 words of Carl Truman, in this view, quote, sexual satisfaction is promoted as one of the key

00:07:12.180 components of what it means to be living the good life. Freud provided a compelling rationale for

00:07:18.020 putting sex and sexual expression at the center of human existence. The myth is the idea that sex,

00:07:24.260 in terms of sexual desire and sexual fulfillment is the real key to human existence to what it

00:07:30.180 means to be truly human end quote. Now because the sexual animal is all that really matters

00:07:36.560 expression of it is vital to human existence. This is where our concept of gender or sexual

00:07:42.360 identity really comes from. That's why today to deny the use of someone's quote-unquote preferred

00:07:47.920 pronouns or to deny that a person would be biologically a different sex than their hidden

00:07:52.840 gender identity, as many claim, is tantamount to denying their authentic self or core identity.

00:07:59.800 You see, if you do this, you're denying their personhood. In this view, a refusal to acknowledge

00:08:04.380 that Tom might really deep down be a Sally or a Tiffany or a Britney is to deny him basic rights

00:08:10.500 of human existence. It's not a stretch to say that many view this type of denial as criminal.

00:08:16.140 It's become that in many cases in our society. It's not enough that someone be allowed to

00:08:21.040 practice something privately, it has to be publicly acknowledged by everyone. It's why

00:08:27.140 anyone who opposes the LGBTQ plus movement is labeled with some kind of phobia, transphobia,

00:08:33.780 homophobia, for example, because irrational fear or hatred must be the cause of such opposition.

00:08:39.660 If you say something culturally taboo, you're likely to face real reprisals. You could be fired,

00:08:45.580 you could be canceled or you could be sued simply for disagreeing with a Freudian view of human

00:08:51.000 sexuality. Now, the other main contribution from Freud was that he sexualized everything about

00:08:55.860 childhood, and he did it with scientific jargon that made it all sound so plausible. His five

00:09:01.780 phases of childhood development were all hypersexualized, and this made children's

00:09:05.960 sexuality fair game, particularly for educators and quote-unquote scientific professionals. 0.99

00:09:13.160 It is one huge reason why children's sexuality is a prime target for the transgender movement today

00:09:18.180 and why they are working so hard to get into education.

00:09:21.620 Parents are seen as repressive agents, as an extension of the repressive patriarchal family,

00:09:27.300 while the state's teachers are there to liberate the libidos of kindergartners.

00:09:31.520 Now, gentlemen, we're going to jump into some questions,

00:09:33.200 but first I want to cover what I'm calling the Freudian three-step.

00:09:36.980 So there's a three-part progression that took place from Freud to the sexual revolution

00:09:41.120 to the sexual politics of today again quoting carl truman here the self must first be psychologized

00:09:49.100 psychology must then be sexualized and sex must then be politicized end quote today everything

00:09:57.280 has been psychologized sexualized and now it's being politicized what better example as we've

00:10:03.040 already talked about the month of june pride month which has corporations lining up with

00:10:07.540 rainbow flags all over their profiles virtue signaling to the max gentlemen it definitely

00:10:13.380 is that by the way june 5th saint boniface day on a sunday of all days brian yes so we're taking

00:10:22.880 the axe boniface style i want to ask you guys a first question here and that's this is this true

00:10:29.500 the freudian concept that human beings are fundamentally their sexual identity is is

00:10:35.740 fundamentally it's about just sex do you think that's true no so first of all obviously as a

00:10:42.500 christian we would say no the core of human identity is not his sexuality and and i would

00:10:50.500 say that for a few reasons and then and then i'm interested to see and to talk a little bit about

00:10:55.760 why they would choose something like sexuality to make the asherah pole and why that's so consistent

00:11:02.180 like why you see that in ancient Canaanite religion, Sumerian religion, Greek religion,

00:11:06.460 Roman religion, pagan Germanic religion. I mean, sex gets turned into a God so readily in human

00:11:11.900 history. Now, I think that the way that a Christian could really simply answer this 1.00

00:11:16.440 question to say, no, while sex is very important, it's very central. It's not the core of what it

00:11:22.960 means to be human. And for two reasons, first of all, because even back in Genesis, where we see

00:11:28.580 that it's not good for the man to be alone, that he needs a partner who is other than him sexually

00:11:35.120 even in order to be fruitful and fulfill his mission. That even then at the center of his

00:11:40.920 identity is still this unique status amongst creatures as God's image bearer, as God's icon

00:11:48.340 and all that that means. And God is not a sexual being, right? God is not a sexual being,

00:11:57.000 even though God has, you know, I'm not going to say preferred pronouns. That actually seems

00:12:01.040 blasphemous. God's reveals himself to us as father and son with male pronouns. Obviously that that's

00:12:07.860 true of God, but God is, God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom,

00:12:12.320 power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. Right. He's not a man. So are you saying Bethel

00:12:17.800 was wrong to sing good, good mother? Oh, that was, that was, that was actually someone covering

00:12:23.060 Bethel was it actually Bethel I thought it was I thought it was like a Bethel knockoff church I 1.00

00:12:27.880 don't know it's like a lumberjack dyke lady singing it either way it was bad and then the 1.00

00:12:31.840 other place I would go is to say that Jesus tells us that that in the eternal state there won't be 1.00

00:12:36.660 marriage so so right there sex has a purpose it has many purposes typological purposes purposes

00:12:42.840 in our dominion mandate and in fruitfulness and in preaching and communicating many glorious

00:12:49.340 things i now i'm self-conscious every time i say the word glorious here in this podcast and that's

00:12:54.720 so true thank you that's mine the twitter people will truly understand why we're laughing but no

00:13:00.020 i would go to those the dovetail dyer carpenter king of maine yep shout out shout out to you man

00:13:05.540 i would say that for those two reasons we can say that while sex is a to be sexual is to is part of

00:13:13.220 what it means to be human in our creatureliness now that sexuality is not the core feature

00:13:20.340 of humanness period. But I would say more fundamentally our status as God's image bearers

00:13:27.840 and the mission that God gave us is more fundamental. So, so it brings up an interesting

00:13:32.700 question. You kind of hinted at this at the beginning and Dan, maybe I'll kick this your way.

00:13:36.540 So you go back to Mary Shelley and the French revolution. One of the things that they did was

00:13:41.040 try to destabilize family relations through things like pornography, Mary Shelley and others

00:13:46.340 celebrating, you know, just these heinous sexual acts and sins and whatever else. How do you see

00:13:52.440 sexuality, the exploitation of sexuality being so central to like revolution? Why are those

00:13:59.940 connected? That's a really good question. I think one of the reasons is because natural man is easy

00:14:07.160 to manipulate through desires,

00:14:09.340 through his appetites,

00:14:10.120 through exactly.

00:14:11.280 Sexuality is definitely powerful.

00:14:12.780 Very powerful. 0.97

00:14:13.700 I mean,

00:14:14.360 I've heard people say certain radical things about masculinity.

00:14:18.660 Like if without sex and a sex drive,

00:14:21.660 men would have no motivation to build, 0.91

00:14:23.700 you know,

00:14:24.120 to fight,

00:14:25.000 to win things like that.

00:14:27.160 And so I think that that is a core element to the demon gods of,

00:14:33.140 of our world. 0.69

00:14:34.840 Manipulating image bearers.

00:14:37.160 through their appetites, like Brian said, is through their sexual appetites. And so I think

00:14:41.460 that's one of the reasons. I don't know if you have thoughts about that. Yeah, I do think that

00:14:45.900 carnal man, like there's a reason that carnality is one of the key identifiers of man in the flesh,

00:14:51.780 man in Adam, man in his fallenness, is that these desires that were supposed to serve in an

00:14:59.340 unfallen, innocent, or righteous state, they were supposed to function as compass bearings

00:15:03.220 pointing you to fulfilling your duties, your God-given duties, your appetites,

00:15:09.520 your desires in an innocent or righteous state actually pointed you to being what you were made

00:15:14.020 to be. So sex and sexual desire was a good thing that pointed you towards fruitfulness and dominion

00:15:21.260 and things that are actually God-glorifying. So whenever you get a good, glorious appetite that

00:15:29.140 God's given you, and then you add sin to the equation to the degree that that thing was a

00:15:34.200 powerful good, it will be an even more powerful evil. So this is, you know, even back to the

00:15:39.740 question I posited in the beginning here, I think that the reason that sexuality gets put 0.64

00:15:46.120 in the seat of worship so often in human history and so consistently, everything again from the

00:15:52.120 Asherah poles, which are just phallic symbols to these ancient fertility gods and cults to

00:15:59.220 Aphrodite and the temple of Aphrodite and Greek and Roman culture. You know, it's just a consistent 0.87

00:16:04.720 theme. And it's, I think the reason is because it was made to be such a powerful servant of God

00:16:10.660 in man's mission as God's image bearer, that the temptation, as soon as you dislocate and stop

00:16:16.880 worshiping God, the proper object of worship, you will start worshiping the next things down

00:16:22.460 in your mind in terms of glory and goodness and pleasure and joy. And sex is such an obvious,

00:16:28.680 it's such a powerful good that it's easy to see why when you stop worshiping God, 0.92

00:16:34.180 you would worship sex. Yeah. I think that is really huge. And you, we think about even Israel, 0.73

00:16:39.320 right? They're pictured as God's bride. They're committing adultery. Jeremiah says, you're a

00:16:44.620 whore. You know, you go to these green groves in high places and it's fundamentally a adulterous 1.00

00:16:50.020 sexual act, even spiritually speaking. So that tends to make sense. I said early on that one of

00:16:56.760 the claims here is the chief end of man is to be true to the sexual inner self and to express

00:17:02.040 that sexual self. So maybe one of the questions we could ask just quite simply is what is the

00:17:06.840 chief end of man this is where you have to sing man's chief end is to glorify god and to enjoy

00:17:16.040 him forever i've oh i didn't know where i didn't i was harmonizing okay that was pretty based yeah

00:17:22.820 i mean i've listened to that maybe once and it's like in my it's ingrained in my head now i cannot

00:17:29.160 hear anything else so i read that question so i want to ask that if it's the chief end of man

00:17:35.080 You've just sung this beautiful rendition.

00:17:37.980 I can't believe we did the whole thing.

00:17:39.460 But unpack that for me.

00:17:41.400 How does that contrast with the chief end of man is sexual expression?

00:17:45.240 If we say that man's chief end, and I think rightly, is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever,

00:17:51.500 that means that there's this dialogical or relational aspect to man's nature,

00:17:57.760 meaning that you cannot atomize.

00:18:00.360 you can't isolate an individual and have him be and do what he was made to be and do man was

00:18:06.600 was created for relation vertically with God horizontally with with other humans and then

00:18:12.920 even vertically downwards with creation and and all of that's wrapped up in this question man's

00:18:17.780 chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever meaning that we're supposed to as we

00:18:22.740 relate to God reflect back his glory that's what we were made to be and do and then in that act

00:18:28.540 of reflecting back his glory and walking in our nature as image bearers, that that is actually

00:18:34.700 made to be pleasurable and enjoyable. So think of how many, I mean, how many aberrant worldviews

00:18:40.940 and philosophies are refuted in that concept that refutes Gnostic asceticism, where pleasure is bad,

00:18:47.980 the body's bad. You know, it refutes you. I mean, we can go down the line. We've talked about a lot

00:18:52.740 of them. But you can see how this demonic negative image or perversion of that statement,

00:19:00.200 that chief and a man would be to become, to express my inner sexual self and to, you know, 0.86

00:19:06.880 be my inner sexual self. It's like, I have to, because I wasn't, I was created to be in

00:19:12.240 relationship and to not be an Adam floating around by myself. I can't actually be satisfied

00:19:17.860 in my identity, unless it's being reflected to somebody else received by them, affirmed by them,

00:19:23.800 unless there's a relational component to the expression of myself. So I think just like any

00:19:30.460 other sin, you always see that it's parasitic or it perverts some good thing. Sin doesn't create

00:19:37.580 ex nihilo. It gets in and corrupts or acts parasitically towards something God created.

00:19:43.560 Since sin can't create anything at all, it can only corrupt that which God created.

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00:20:52.460 You know, we see that man whose chief end

00:20:55.140 is to glorify and relate to God and enjoy him

00:20:57.180 and find his pleasure and his ultimate satisfaction

00:20:59.560 in those things.

00:21:00.580 We would see that whatever you make a God,

00:21:02.760 you will make it the chief end to glorify that thing

00:21:04.860 and enjoy that thing forever.

00:21:06.200 And there's always gonna be a relational component to that

00:21:08.780 since we weren't created to be these atoms floating around.

00:21:11.660 I mean, does that make sense?

00:21:12.640 You guys following what I'm saying there?

00:21:14.300 So somewhere in the introduction or in the Mary Shelley story,

00:21:18.520 I think you brought up one of the byproducts of the French Revolution

00:21:22.680 and French Enlightenment thinking was this idea of the pursuit of happiness.

00:21:27.020 Yes.

00:21:27.340 So in a way, you could say that the foundations of this sexual revolution

00:21:31.980 that has manifested itself and where we find ourselves today 0.84

00:21:34.940 with rainbow flags flying everywhere

00:21:37.180 and defiance of the high and living,

00:21:39.240 one true living God,

00:21:41.040 is that ultimately the United States foundations

00:21:44.980 were built off of French enlightenment thinking

00:21:48.340 with Thomas Jefferson authoring a lot of the founding documents,

00:21:52.520 the pursuit of happiness,

00:21:55.100 life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

00:21:57.220 being the core of the American ideal.

00:22:02.260 And so, like Brian had said,

00:22:04.940 When you turn and you start worshiping the fertility gods, which is ironic, and I'm sure

00:22:12.440 we'll get into it at some point, with the lack of fertility of people in our time, but

00:22:18.320 this pursuit of happiness instead of the pursuit of the glorification of God and finding our

00:22:23.860 enjoyment in that, because God doesn't say no sex.

00:22:26.580 He doesn't say like, don't eat the fat, you know, on good food.

00:22:30.980 He doesn't say, don't drink the wine.

00:22:33.040 He says yes to all of those things and acknowledging him as the creator of every good and perfect gift.

00:22:39.880 And he says yes to those things.

00:22:42.120 And here's the context for them.

00:22:44.740 You should enjoy this because it is going to be, it is actually going to give you happiness.

00:22:48.760 It's going to give you joy in enjoying these things rightly.

00:22:52.180 But because so much of our modern enlightenment thinking has been turned inward on itself, pursuing my individual happiness as an independent, free agent from God, it has twisted itself into, quite honestly, like a monster far worse than Frankenstein.

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00:23:52.360 Well, and I think that's the point. So if you read E. Michael Jones, I think Monsters from the

00:23:57.380 Id, Brian? Monsters from the Id, yeah. He makes this exact argument. He says that Mary Shelley,

00:24:01.400 essentially what she's doing is showing when you change the definition of freedom and liberty in

00:24:05.720 the french revolution right liberty is being you know total you know unbounded sexual expression

00:24:11.240 that would be one form so they say that's liberty really what you've done is you've created a monster

00:24:16.200 that you can now not control of course if you read the story prometheus you know going back to greek

00:24:21.320 he's the titan who gives man fire so technology and then is punished by the gods the birds come

00:24:27.460 and pick his liver out every day it grows back and they pick it out again so the the enlightenment is

00:24:32.500 really showing that frankenstein was supposed to be this prometheus through science and technology

00:24:38.340 we can conquer all the problems in the world the problem is they do that they get rid of traditional

00:24:43.720 christian morality and then it turns into this monster of course in the book the monster kills

00:24:48.960 you know he kills the spouse and it's this terrible tragic horrible story so i think that's

00:24:55.440 really where we're at where these enlightenment ideals today have turned monstrous yeah so one of

00:25:01.000 the questions I want to ask you guys is about the fruit of this enlightenment thinking in our

00:25:05.720 culture. I was reading a study from 2018, 2018 study claimed that over 50% of male transgender

00:25:13.100 individuals attempt suicide. I don't know what percentage is successful over 50%. So if you 1.00

00:25:20.660 believe this, you know, gender identity, you know, self sexual self-expression is the key to

00:25:25.080 happiness. People do it. And then they're utterly unhappy. They've got a monster on their hands.

00:25:29.580 so my question is where else do you see this culturally what is the fruit downstream of this 0.87

00:25:34.220 sexual ethos yeah it's like when you create when you worship that which is not god it always

00:25:40.860 biblically degrades and enslaves you i think those are the two themes and ultimately both of those

00:25:46.780 lead to death you're being enslaved to death which degrades you so you see these you know 0.99

00:25:52.840 what's what's fascinating about this transgender mind virus that's going around is that what it's 1.00

00:25:59.460 promising is that technological divine man can take hold of himself and through technology, 1.00

00:26:06.240 surgical technology, elixirs of, you know, chemical technology, literally Frankenstein,

00:26:12.540 we're going to chop you up. Yeah. We're going to take your male genitals and we're going to

00:26:18.680 turn them into female genitals. We're going to take female genitals and, you know, attempt to 1.00

00:26:23.640 make male genitalia. And what it's promising is this ultimate liberation and freedom and 0.99

00:26:29.580 self-expression. It's promising that you can become gods. I mean, really at the end of the

00:26:33.320 day that you can have the power of self-definition, self-glorification. And it's, you know, it ends

00:26:40.700 up being instead of renewal and transformation, this great word that I want every King's Hall

00:26:45.460 listener to write down. Transmogrification is the word. And it means like an absurd transformation. 0.91

00:26:51.080 Interesting. That's what it ends up being. Instead of transformation into glory, it becomes transmogrification where you end up enslaved and degraded to where this thing that is actually beautiful.

00:27:05.060 think about how beautiful human sexuality actually is in its creational and divinely appointed

00:27:12.760 purpose there is almost i mean there are few things in creation that are more glorious than

00:27:21.180 a beautiful naked woman to whom you are married there's i mean adam when he sees eve he's sick

00:27:28.120 i hear at last is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone when you think about the power again back

00:27:33.480 to this, why would it end up being worship? The power of human sexuality through human sexuality,

00:27:39.400 you see the creation of immortal souls, these souls that will live forever. And so what all

00:27:47.340 of these sexual perversions do in exalting this great, beautiful, you know, glorious thing to the 0.51

00:27:55.200 state of Godhood and then attempting to worship it is they always end up degraded. And you start 0.74

00:27:59.780 looking at this beautiful act of sexual union is perverted into men penetrating and sodomizing one 0.98

00:28:06.880 another where the poop comes out i mean i just really wish you hadn't said that i'm no this is 0.98

00:28:12.740 this this is what you when paul says the actual reality like you can put a rainbow flag over it

00:28:17.520 and make it seem nice but and if you're listening to this and you're like well that's kind of

00:28:20.980 graphical paul says take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness instead expose them in ephesians

00:28:25.760 511. So one of the things that you can do, there was a great article, a guy named Thabiti Anyabwile

00:28:30.820 wrote about recovering your gag reflex. Ron Burns, Ron Burns, when it comes to homosexual sex, 0.98

00:28:36.720 because if you think about what it actually is, you start to see the way that it's actually taken 0.98

00:28:42.140 this beautiful thing and degraded it in the same way that, you know, Mary Shelley created this

00:28:48.020 horror genre. And the way that that's morphed, if you look at these, some art house niche horror

00:28:53.320 genres today and things like film. They actually made fun of this in the office with Gabe,

00:28:57.640 these films that are like 30 minutes, they have no plot. They're just disgusting maggots and 0.99

00:29:02.660 rot and filth. And they're, they're designed to unsettle you, right? Human beings, we can't help 1.00

00:29:09.900 but destroy what we worship. If that thing is not capable of bearing the weight of human worship.

00:29:14.760 So sex is no different. When you see the, you can see the fruit of it anywhere,

00:29:18.380 anywhere you follow the worship of sex, you will find degradation, death, enslavement. That's what 0.67

00:29:25.140 you'll find. Does it surprise you, Dan, that Freud set the stage for our world today? But

00:29:31.640 I was thinking about some stories in Alabama that hit the news this week, one of which is State

00:29:36.240 Farm supporting, I can't remember the name of the organization. You can look it up. It made national

00:29:41.580 news but state farm is supporting an organization that is infiltrating schools and giving transgender

00:29:49.540 books to like kindergartners wow uh nike supports it adidas a bunch of other big companies are

00:29:55.680 supporting this i saw brian reaching for a glock maybe i was about to say a keyword that would

00:30:02.260 have immediately got us canceled do you know what i'm saying though it's like i guess i just want

00:30:07.500 Why are they going after kids?

00:30:09.140 Why is Freud going after kids?

00:30:10.860 And as we'll,

00:30:11.940 we'll dig into this in a little bit,

00:30:13.400 but they are going after your kids.

00:30:16.240 People have to know this.

00:30:17.580 Yeah.

00:30:17.860 Yeah.

00:30:18.040 I think one of the themes throughout this whole episode will be that people

00:30:21.020 that worship demon gods, 0.99

00:30:23.860 the demon gods of sex turn into monsters. 1.00

00:30:28.960 You turn into Molech. 1.00

00:30:30.100 They turn in. 0.99

00:30:31.020 Exactly. 0.64

00:30:31.460 I was Molech is a great example.

00:30:34.600 and so this is uh they're sacrificing your children on the altar of molek is what they're

00:30:42.920 doing yeah and really this whole thing is is just an absolute monstrous tragedy like trying to turn 0.98

00:30:49.520 every kid into a frankensteinian exactly so you say you know that up to 50 percent of transgender

00:30:55.420 males attempt suicide okay over 30 for women so so there there you go there there's bearing fruit 1.00

00:31:01.840 you're seeing where the transgender movement has has bore fruit and it's in it's in death it's in 1.00

00:31:07.940 uh i people that don't actually want to exist they want to decreate themselves that's right 1.00

00:31:14.100 further i mean because the the only next step other than completely defacing the image of god

00:31:20.040 in surgical means and through uh coverings of makeup and and just false nails and hair and

00:31:27.460 And all of that is actually death. 0.96

00:31:30.260 That is the next step of uncreation.

00:31:33.200 And so it's so monstrous because children obviously are innocent, but you have these

00:31:39.320 people that are on the sidelines that not only partake in what's going on, but encourage

00:31:45.080 others to partake in it.

00:31:47.400 And to the extreme of we're going to indoctrinate children as even behind your back in order

00:31:52.700 to make sure that we get our agenda pushed

00:31:55.020 to make sure that our God, their God, 0.99

00:31:58.180 their God, the demon God of sex gets its glory. 0.99

00:32:03.280 And what really, really makes me mad, Eric, 0.99

00:32:06.720 what really makes me mad

00:32:08.800 is then you have supposed mainstream 1.00

00:32:12.660 and even reformed Christians that are like, 0.50

00:32:16.000 yeah, we get that this is a sin,

00:32:18.860 but we're going to be tolerable towards certain movements.

00:32:22.700 you have certain movements that are like, yeah, covenant friendships. Okay. Like if you're a guy

00:32:27.820 and you find another guy attractive, like you can live with them as long as you don't do anything,

00:32:31.720 you know, but you can live with them in a covenant friendship. Should I call you Mr.

00:32:36.380 Or even, you know, to the point of accepting homosexuality in their church. Yeah. And it is 0.90

00:32:42.500 absolutely monstrous because then you have issues like you had throughout a old covenant Israel, 0.93

00:32:48.440 where they would bring in gods into the temple,

00:32:51.460 false gods, or they would partake,

00:32:53.180 like you said, into the green groves and high places 0.99

00:32:55.300 with temple prostitutes. 0.87

00:32:57.220 And actually it's interesting 0.96

00:32:59.160 as you look through the old covenant, 1.00

00:33:01.400 I believe it was Moab who sent their women in 0.99

00:33:03.940 to the camp in Israel to attempt to draw their people away. 0.97

00:33:09.160 Was that with Phineas?

00:33:10.880 I think that's a story I'm thinking of.

00:33:12.820 When Phineas ran them through with a spear. 1.00

00:33:14.900 Correct, correct.

00:33:15.800 Was blessed by God.

00:33:16.300 Is that like winsome nuances?

00:33:18.860 I think Phineas is definitely the definition of winsome.

00:33:21.740 I mean, his pictures.

00:33:22.820 What you're talking about, Dan, is you have godly Phineas, the Levite, I believe,

00:33:26.960 who cleanses the camp of sexual immorality.

00:33:30.640 That's a perfect picture of what we ought to be doing, 0.96

00:33:33.560 where you give no quarter to the demon gods of Molech. 0.92

00:33:37.620 And then later, what we have are the anti-Phineas,

00:33:40.840 who's the son of Eli, the priest.

00:33:43.940 His name was also Phineas, Hophni and Phineas,

00:33:46.380 the two sons of Eli that end up being killed by God

00:33:49.540 who are sleeping with women at the entrance of the tent. 0.79

00:33:53.400 So God gives us these two Phineases. 0.75

00:33:55.440 One of them is a perfect picture in scripture

00:33:58.200 of the destruction of sexual sin from the camp.

00:34:02.340 And then you see the other one who's sinning sexually

00:34:04.620 and God destroys him.

00:34:06.060 That's interesting because the judgment then on Eli

00:34:08.380 is that his generations are blotted out.

00:34:10.700 That's right.

00:34:11.080 No fertility.

00:34:11.740 So back, back to Eric's question. Why the kids? Yeah. It's like, you'd see, again, it's always

00:34:17.120 this demonic inversion where godly, beautiful sexuality creates children and life. What they

00:34:24.780 want to do is take the product of the womb to take the fruit of the womb, like a dragon and, 1.00

00:34:30.140 and actually make them into eunuchs so that those children cannot be fruitful themselves.

00:34:35.620 and it's like a biblically it's a it's a slow death because you've you've kept them from being

00:34:42.120 able to produce fruit and one of the one of the aspects of the gospel that's so good is that

00:34:49.040 actually one of the promises this is why there's great hope for for transgender men and women who

00:34:55.000 have marred themselves and have made themselves eunuchs is that god actually promises in isaiah

00:34:59.920 for example, that the eunuch, the dry branch will be the father of multitudes. So, so through the

00:35:05.740 gospel, if you're listening to this and you happen to be transgender, you know, somebody,

00:35:09.400 one of the ways that we share the hope of Christ with transgender people is by promising them that 1.00

00:35:15.780 even though they've done everything they can to cut off their own legacy, God and his grace can

00:35:20.360 actually resurrect and bring restoration to where even if they can't have children, God will provide

00:35:26.240 an inheritance for the eunuch who repents and trusts in Christ. So that there's hope. I think

00:35:32.800 one of the things people probably hear when we talk about this, they're like, why are you being

00:35:36.920 so hateful and unloving? And it's like, we want to be completely ungentle with the idols of the

00:35:42.220 day and partly to protect the sheep and our children from being discipled by them. We want

00:35:48.500 our sheep and our children to think of those things as ridiculous, laughable follies worthy 1.00

00:35:53.540 of mockery, but we also, we do that because we don't want those transgender people to die and 1.00

00:36:01.040 cut off their own legacy. We want to see them become Christians. We're going to see them repent 0.98

00:36:05.000 of their sin and come to see the absurdity of what they've done and then to find hope in Christ.

00:36:10.960 So it's like, you know, though death brings degradation and enslavement, it's not as if

00:36:17.520 Christ can't bring restoration. I think that's an important part of the message of this season

00:36:23.240 is that we're not just talking about tearing things down

00:36:25.980 and death, death, death, death, death

00:36:27.100 and charge the hill all the time.

00:36:28.260 It's like doing that for the sake of life.

00:36:30.240 That's why we're doing this.

00:36:31.940 Yeah, and it's a good segue

00:36:32.800 because the next thing that I want to ask about is just,

00:36:35.960 and we've done this to some extent,

00:36:37.320 but painting a picture of the opposite

00:36:40.440 of this Frankensteinian sexuality,

00:36:42.820 what are we trying to accomplish?

00:36:44.180 Especially think about our kids.

00:36:45.720 We've talked a lot about that.

00:36:47.260 Brian, you've talked a lot about this,

00:36:48.460 but what is the chief aim of sexuality?

00:36:51.880 and then how do you, in the midst of this culture of death,

00:36:56.460 this culture that is literally exhibiting the judgment

00:36:59.480 and under the curse,

00:37:00.880 what do we do to portray life

00:37:02.780 and the beauty of sexuality?

00:37:04.300 And Paul answers this question in a poignant way

00:37:06.760 in Ephesians 5 when he says,

00:37:09.240 I tell you the truth, this mystery is profound.

00:37:11.220 It refers to Christ in the church.

00:37:12.260 He's talking about a man leaving his father

00:37:13.720 and mother holding fast his wife.

00:37:15.700 The two will become one flesh.

00:37:17.500 What Paul is saying is that

00:37:19.060 at the union of the bride and the groom,

00:37:21.360 life happens. That's what you're supposed to. You're supposed to see the gospel in that human

00:37:26.880 sexuality is supposed to be this great parable, living parable in technicolor that when the bride

00:37:34.800 and the groom come together, that there is life and joy and pleasure and peace and all these great

00:37:40.100 things. You know, that's what happens when a bride wins his wife, you know, he comes and he

00:37:46.600 wins his wife. He brings her to himself. He prepares a place for her. And then he unites 0.50

00:37:52.360 himself to her in sexual union. And the result is generations and fruit and legacy. And that's

00:37:59.980 ultimately just this great big picture of Christ who leaves the house of his father to win his

00:38:06.200 bride, to prepare a place for her. And then at their union, there's life and joy and peace in

00:38:11.120 our union with Christ. You know, that's why Song of Solomon is a book that has great typological

00:38:15.880 significance. This book about sex and married sexual relationship has this great typological

00:38:22.080 significance in portraying the glory of Christ and the goodness of Christ, that Christ is

00:38:30.000 satisfying, that he is good and gives life and all these things. So that's why it's such an

00:38:36.980 offensive thing for the world to make this mockery of sex. It's not just doing a sin. It's not just

00:38:45.060 like oh that was you're doing a sin with your boy parts and your lady parts oh no stop doing that

00:38:50.760 no having fun no you're you're you're going into the Louvre and you're scrawling on the Mona Lisa 0.81

00:38:57.000 with you know bright yellow spray paint it's just well or human feces would be a better one

00:39:04.060 again but you've already dear listener had to listen to one reference to somebody did throw

00:39:10.120 a cake at it just recently so did they oh yeah they did the mona lisa you know so that we've

00:39:14.720 talked a lot i think through our episodes on previous episodes on the king's hall about

00:39:19.940 human sexuality essentially we've talked about it even without saying it directly what is the

00:39:25.460 mission of man like what is this what is the mission that we're supposed to be accomplishing

00:39:29.740 god always provides the tools necessary to accomplish this mission obviously through the

00:39:35.920 Holy spirit and the changing of dead men to, to spiritually alive men, but then also, yeah.

00:39:43.040 Taking dominion and fruitfulness. Yeah. Taking dominion and fruitfulness. So he's, he's going

00:39:46.980 to make you want to do those things and give you the tools to do them. Yeah. And so it shouldn't

00:39:52.520 be surprised then when we look around the secular world, they, they have their chance to be fruitful

00:39:58.520 themselves. What would they, what would they attack? What would they, where would they attack

00:40:02.620 their, their, um, you know, the concentration of fire. And it would make sense that in any,

00:40:07.980 any culture that, that is not Christian historically, women have been subjugated,

00:40:13.580 like treated horribly. And it's, it, that should not be a surprise to us because we see this

00:40:18.520 in Genesis in the garden, that there was going to be enmity between the woman and between

00:40:24.780 the serpent. Yeah. There was going to be an enmity between them. And so we, it shouldn't

00:40:31.340 surprise us when women are encouraged to, to be barren, right. 1.00

00:40:36.680 To not produce fruit, to sacrifice their children, 1.00

00:40:39.640 to actually look like men. Yeah. 0.66

00:40:42.220 And then the opposite is true that men are supposed to be these, you know,

00:40:46.720 testosterone laden chads that would sacrifice their own lives for their

00:40:53.180 people. Uh, even if that's just working yourself to death. Yeah. Uh,

00:40:57.480 to provide and to protect. And men have been effeminized to the point where they look more

00:41:04.320 like women. Yeah. I mean, you're absolutely right, Dan. And I think, you know, pertinent to this 0.92

00:41:08.260 conversation, like why do we have these conversations? What would be the benefit for

00:41:12.180 people? I know for me reading something, maybe a little heady, like Carl Truman's book,

00:41:16.620 the rise and triumph of the modern self. It's really made me appreciate, look, when you're

00:41:21.580 scrolling spotify or you're on tv and you're watching commercials and there's this constant

00:41:27.520 bombardment of sexualized content um your kids like you're trying to protect them and no matter

00:41:32.820 what it's like seems like something is screaming yeah a sexual immorality in their face all the

00:41:37.240 time you have to understand as a dad you may be like a blue collar lineman but you've got to

00:41:42.340 understand as a dad the play that is being run against you that's right and so you cannot just

00:41:46.160 take the easy route and send your kids to public school and then watch on tv well why is the world

00:41:50.780 going left and sexually woke and identity politics. You actually have to do something

00:41:55.660 about this. That's right. And you have to, again, you have to understand the play that's being run

00:41:59.160 here with sexuality. But I guess the last thing I would say is just along the lines of understanding

00:42:04.700 the play that's being run. You can think about it kind of like these rat experiments. Have you

00:42:10.300 ever heard of these experiments that were done on rats? And I can't remember the details when

00:42:13.900 they happened. You can Google this. You'll probably find the exact numbers and whatnot,

00:42:17.600 But they've done these studies with rats where scientists take these lab rats.

00:42:22.640 You know, that's literally where we get the phrase lab rats.

00:42:24.660 They literally do this.

00:42:25.600 I'm really curious what he's going to do, by the way.

00:42:27.820 All I can hear is the sound.

00:42:29.280 And you can kind of picture they put them in these boxes and in these wire cages with, you know, all sorts of tunnels and mazes and places they can go.

00:42:38.380 And a lot of the experiments come down to seeing if they can change the rat's behavior based on different prizes, basically, different treats.

00:42:46.600 Yeah. And one of them that I've heard of is that every time they perform a certain task, like press a button, they get it's like it's like heroin.

00:42:56.340 There was one where they literally gave the rats drugs and heroin.

00:42:59.600 Some of these drugs, they basically flood your brain with dopamines and oh, you know, whatever.

00:43:03.440 I can't remember if it's dopamine, serotonin or whatever.

00:43:05.840 And and then they see what happens.

00:43:08.180 And they're like studies on the nature of addiction and on the physiological response to decision making with respect to pleasure seeking behavior.

00:43:14.760 And sex is this

00:43:16.420 Great concentrated pleasure

00:43:18.740 So what do you think happens

00:43:21.100 When they give the rat a button

00:43:22.520 That will, I think the experiment

00:43:25.080 Was the first time they touch it

00:43:26.640 It gives them the hit of heroin or whatever

00:43:28.140 The dopamine rush

00:43:29.500 And then it doesn't give it to them again

00:43:32.680 Until they hit it maybe a hundred times

00:43:35.320 And then the rat will

00:43:36.600 Keep pressing the button until it hits it

00:43:38.280 And then they do it until it doesn't give them

00:43:40.660 Until they hit it a thousand times

00:43:42.160 And then they just stop giving them any response

00:43:44.660 And I think the rats will literally press the button thousands and thousands of times.

00:43:49.580 And, you know, it just completely, all they do, they're consumed with it, but they're

00:43:53.240 not getting any reward anymore.

00:43:55.720 This is basically what happens when you abuse God's pleasures.

00:43:58.980 He even made us physiologically to respond to things like sex, arousal, pheromones.

00:44:04.940 You know, when you see your wife, we've talked about in other, I think hard men and bright

00:44:09.360 hearth, we've talked about testosterone and the relationship between the man and the woman

00:44:12.960 where when she's ovulating she's telling him with these pheromone markers like basically

00:44:19.240 coming it's go time yeah come on let's do this and so there's a whole this whole monthly cycle

00:44:25.440 of relationship and a marriage and i'm trying to be like pg here although i've already talked

00:44:30.520 about sodomy so i guess at this point you know we're canceled i mean they're gonna they're gonna

00:44:35.520 explicit rating on this podcast social credit deducted but you see how you know god designed

00:44:44.200 for us not to worship the pleasure but to pursue it in a way that produces life this whole ovulation

00:44:50.860 cycle the woman's fertility cycle and what pornography what the the hormone pill plus 0.50

00:44:57.140 pornification of culture plus sexualization of everything does is it makes human beings like 1.00

00:45:01.740 that rat pressing that button. And the first time they discover porn at age 10 or 11 or eight or 0.99

00:45:06.480 nine or whatever it is now, they get that flood of dopamine and we're rats in the cage. And then

00:45:12.840 they want you to just press that button over and over and over and over and over and over until

00:45:16.820 you have 15 year old boys who are impotent and have erectile dysfunction because they can't be 0.90

00:45:23.280 sexually aroused anymore through even the most hardcore forms of pornography because they are 0.98

00:45:27.460 the rat yeah and i think realizing that the smartphone yeah there's a book called dopamine 0.94

00:45:33.280 nation yeah like your smartphone is like they're continually social media continually giving you

00:45:37.680 that drip of dopamine so yeah i think being cognizant of that the other thing and i want

00:45:42.060 to move into this is what i'm calling the perfect ideological storm yeah so sort of like we talk

00:45:47.140 about in theology and the bible all your doctrines are interconnected and so there's sort of like

00:45:51.560 this, you know, set of systematic theology for secular humanism. So ultimately the cultural

00:45:57.400 revolution we've seen in the last 70 years represents a convergence of what I'm talking

00:46:01.760 about, these ideologies, right? We've got Rousseau's philosophy. We've got Freud's

00:46:06.120 sexualized psychology. We've got Darwin's evolutionary theory. We've got Marx's political

00:46:11.240 machinations. One way we can connect these is by looking at Herbert Marcuse of the Frankfurt

00:46:16.520 school and wilhelm reich uh who was around you know these guys are 30s and 40s 1930s and 40s

00:46:22.440 both of whom are adherents of critical theory they believe that the sexual revolution and

00:46:27.460 political revolution were necessary to each to each other yeah reich argued for example that

00:46:33.580 the family and patriarchal structure was authoritarian and oppressive and that social

00:46:38.640 engineers had a duty so statists had a duty to free young people and their libidos from the rule

00:46:45.220 of oppressive parents so if that doesn't set you off wow yeah this is why the parents in virginia

00:46:51.440 and other places are so upset that's right because this is exactly what's happening this is according

00:46:55.800 to their plan now in fact reich wrote that quote the patriarchal family is the single most important

00:47:01.580 unit of ideological control for an oppressive totalitarian regime the state he said therefore

00:47:07.920 must be used to coerce families and where necessary actively punish those who dissent

00:47:13.780 from sexual liberation. Reich believed that the state has the right to intervene in family matters

00:47:18.820 because the family is potentially the primary opponent of political liberation through its

00:47:24.020 cultivation and policing of traditional sexual codes. So gentlemen, here's the point. Reich and

00:47:30.420 others saw the erosion of sexual mores as essential to eroding society in general. The sexual revolution

00:47:36.220 was aimed predominantly at the family, which stood as the key obstacle to remaking the world in such 0.97

00:47:41.880 an image now brian you found this out recently that's you know a couple months ago not several

00:47:46.920 times brian has found out that the modesty conversation is a hot button issue why because

00:47:54.120 of what carl truman notes he says quote the ascendance of eroticism is perhaps the most

00:47:59.300 socially significant element of the sexual revolution to be truly human requires that one

00:48:05.100 is immodest for to be otherwise to be modest is to be abnormal so i want to ask you gentlemen

00:48:11.660 And I guess first question here, why is it so important to see how these things are connected?

00:48:17.300 And again, they're being used by social planners against the family today.

00:48:22.240 I like your question.

00:48:24.320 So what I'm going to say makes it sound like I don't like your question because I'm going to ask a different question.

00:48:28.840 Do it.

00:48:29.260 What do you think about social planners?

00:48:31.080 because there's a, there's an aspect in my mind that I think, okay, this is all being engineered

00:48:36.640 by the global American empire or, or whatever, um, you know, the W E F or whatever other things

00:48:42.740 I can say to get us flagged. And then there's another part of me that's like, these people are

00:48:47.440 just worshiping demon gods and they're becoming like them. What, I mean, are there social engineers?

00:48:53.540 What do you think? I think so in the broad sense, yes, I think absolutely. So I was reading a days

00:48:58.380 of Vengeance. David Chilton just got my copy. Great. And one of the comments that Gary North

00:49:04.520 makes in there, he says in the sixties and seventies, Christians sat on their hands.

00:49:08.820 So you had Marxists and other people who were going hard in the paint. They were living like 0.99

00:49:12.320 post mill people. Yeah. And they said, we're taking the institutions. We're taking public 1.00

00:49:16.420 education. We're going to steal your kids for moral ends too. And yeah. And Gary North said, 1.00

00:49:21.580 he said, the problem was he says, Christians didn't have a plan and they didn't think it 0.98

00:49:25.040 would work and they ran this play on us that they're running today where they said look a lot 0.53

00:49:29.160 of these issues were couched in moral terms where they were saying we're going to this is civil

00:49:34.440 rights this is freedom from patriarchal oppression feminism yeah and those kinds of things so the the

00:49:40.340 liberals and the pagans these demonic ideologies always understand this thing that christians tend

00:49:45.020 to forget which is that you know you can't just uh we're that people are moral creatures and so

00:49:51.320 we will always even in our fallen state find moral arguments compelling we were created in

00:49:55.960 the image of god who's holy and thrice holy right so moral arguments will always be compelling even

00:50:01.200 when you're twisted in your fallenness yeah to where your moral compass is pointed at badness

00:50:05.480 they put this little like oh what we're trying to do is civil rights what we're trying to do

00:50:09.300 is free women from oppression and then the christians fail to actually start asking questions

00:50:13.480 about what is your foundational basis for human flourishing what are your ideas about the

00:50:17.780 foundations of morality? What is sex for? And they just get played while a lot of them sit on their

00:50:23.080 hands. So, so the attack on modesty that we, that Truman had referenced in this, in this amazing

00:50:29.420 quote is actually an attack on the morals of people. The morality of a people is the way that

00:50:36.840 they dress. They have a different moral code. Yeah. Because those morals are the structure

00:50:41.580 holding up society. Yeah. They're, they're the bones that, you know, everything is anchored to

00:50:46.000 and built on. And, uh, even to, to your question, Dan, I think there is, there's like a caricature

00:50:51.400 that you can fall in that there's like three people at the top, Bill Gates, uh, Francis Collins,

00:50:56.000 and, you know, probably, I don't know who's the big Eva, the big, biggest Eva, big Rick. And

00:51:01.000 let's say Ed Stetzer that those three guys are planning everything and they plan the Wuhan flu

00:51:06.200 and they planned everything. And that, you know, this, they're just the puppeteers. It's not really

00:51:09.880 like that, but what you do have, I think is the most helpful distinction I've ever heard

00:51:14.280 to understand and read this kind of dynamic is that there are real apostles of demonic ideologies 0.56

00:51:21.500 and all of them, even some of them that are on paper at odds with each other, like Islam is not

00:51:27.800 on board with like secular humanism on paper, but they actually are on the same team because

00:51:34.060 there's only two teams. There's the kingdom of darkness, the kingdom of light. So you have

00:51:38.660 apostles of these various worldviews is from Islam to secular humanism. And they know what

00:51:44.820 they're doing. Like, even if they don't necessarily, even if they really believe that

00:51:48.720 what they're doing is good, they're engineered. They're trying to convince people when they're

00:51:52.440 trying to do what we're trying to do in this podcast, win people to their view of the,

00:51:56.380 of the true good and beautiful. And then you have, and there are far more of these people,

00:52:01.420 you have refugees who are people who were successfully discipled by those apostles

00:52:06.340 to the worldview, the apostolic view of Islam or secular humanism or whatever else,

00:52:12.080 sexual revolution, the William Blakes, Mary Shelley's, the Freud's, the Jung's, you go down

00:52:17.380 the line. And those people, I think, make up a far greater percentage of the world. And they're

00:52:23.840 like the sheep that will follow the shepherd once they decide the shepherd's worthy of following.

00:52:29.060 Maybe he gives them a sugar lump here and then convinces them to follow him out into an asphalt

00:52:33.260 parking lot where there's no grass anymore and just depend on him for sugar lumps to live.

00:52:37.180 You know, they're, they're, they're sheep, right? So, so there is social planning. There really are 0.68

00:52:42.740 these false shepherd apostle types who really are leading masses out onto the asphalt where there's 0.96

00:52:47.980 no life. There's only death, right? This, this metaphor is getting away from me, but I think it 0.58

00:52:53.720 works. So that's how I'd explain it. I don't think there's three guys at the top with their fingers

00:52:59.040 on the puppeteer strings of everything so much as I think there are lots of apostles, 1.00

00:53:03.720 but there are far more refugees and sheep. If that makes sense. Yeah. I think it's the ideology. I 1.00

00:53:09.960 don't know. I don't remember if it was a Paul Johnson thing and his intellectuals, but sort of

00:53:14.200 the idea that you sort of have most of people in life or sort of the, uh, non-character players,

00:53:20.860 I think. Yeah. They're bit players. Yeah. I mean like they just exist in the game. They're not

00:53:24.660 actually acting on it. They're extras. I think that probably is a lot of people. You've got a

00:53:28.520 lot of people who you know they're going to do what the masses do including for darkness but i

00:53:33.540 definitely think there's like these key figures uh like the men who ruled history yeah with their

00:53:39.020 ideologies and and they certainly seem to have an awareness of one another yeah and an intentionality

00:53:45.240 to accomplishing some totally usually for the left it's some progressive secular humanist

00:53:50.660 perfectionist utopian yeah ideal that always ends up frankenstein and so to your question what are

00:53:56.720 they trying to do yeah what are the social planners trying to do yeah to the degree that

00:54:00.720 they exist part of it actually ties into what we're going to talk about in our next episode

00:54:04.980 lord willing on statism but a lot of it comes down to essentially discipling the masses to

00:54:13.240 think that they're getting freedom and even autonomy and self-rule while actually enslaving

00:54:20.280 them to these monolithic God-like powers. Often it's the state that is going to give them a

00:54:27.600 totalizing view of everything of the good, the true and the beautiful and basically make people

00:54:34.080 completely dependent on these false gods, dependent on them for everything. I mean, to me, that's the

00:54:40.980 basic shape of the plan. And one of the things that makes that work to our topic today, one of

00:54:47.880 the best hooks you can put on that is sex it's one of the best ways to um anesthetize a population

00:54:54.200 this is like the bread and circus bread and circus yeah it's like giving the gladiators 0.95

00:54:58.380 prostitutes it's that kind of thing and then there's also it's not just pleasure it's also

00:55:02.580 guilt because guilt is one of the great manipulators the great manipulative tools of tyrants

00:55:08.860 everywhere is to if you can weigh a population down with complete moral guilt they all know

00:55:14.180 they're looking at ridiculously filthy pornography every day of their lives they're not going to be

00:55:17.760 courageous. If they're compromised, they're not going to be morally courageous. They know they're

00:55:21.040 bought. Like, think about that. I think about politicians all the time. And I just imagine

00:55:24.460 maybe it's not actually like this, but I imagine like a Congressman who's really an ideologue,

00:55:29.060 he's going to go make change in DC or whatever. First day he gets elected, he goes into his desk,

00:55:34.140 you know, he walks up to his big glory, you know, glorious Oak desk, sits down and he's like,

00:55:38.020 I'm going to do some work. And then he looks down and there's a Manila, Manila envelope.

00:55:41.620 And he's like, huh, what, what's that? And he opens it and it's his search history. And it's

00:55:45.480 pictures of him doing sexually illicit things it's all of the dirt on this guy and they go

00:55:51.600 do what we say or you're destroyed that actually happens i bet that happens i think you should

00:55:57.980 write a book on it and if a guy does that i mean think about that i'd read it guilt puts a hook

00:56:02.680 in a man or a woman and it ties a big chain to whatever god they're guilty of worshiping whatever

00:56:09.440 demon god they're serving and so they can just get yanked around so to me to the point like why

00:56:15.460 is sex such a tool i think that guilt and pleasure are the two driving forces yeah i think the other

00:56:22.560 thing is just from a you know social revolutionary whether you're talking marx it's all olenski

00:56:27.340 freud they just understood if you wanted to promote cultural revolution well you've got to

00:56:33.100 break down the walls right and the walls are christian morality oh that's a great point yeah

00:56:36.900 and so one of the things that you know i took away from this a long time ago i remember reading

00:56:41.400 frederick angles and i was like why is a marxist writing about the evil of the patriarchal family

00:56:49.200 yeah and then you know at some point those things clicked and so one of the things that i've come

00:56:53.500 away from this with is this is why i'm so big on patriarchy if the enemy knows that patriarchy is

00:56:59.660 the enemy and they are coming out and they're saying the core enemy i mean he says it reich

00:57:03.440 does in his quote yeah the number one enemy to our agenda is the patriarchal family particularly

00:57:08.800 christian christian patriarchy yeah so then i go well we need to beef up the christian patriarchy

00:57:14.480 we should probably not get rid of that or like deracinate it or water it down into some

00:57:19.000 complementarian fever dream yeah let's just promote it for what it is dan do you agree with

00:57:23.440 that yeah i agree you know one of the ways i i think people hear patriarchy is probably what

00:57:29.740 we don't mean more of like an islamic sort of woman give me a sandwich well i mean i say that

00:57:36.180 all the time i looked my woman in the eye socket i told her straight out i just said it man i said 0.69

00:57:42.620 i said i said i said um no i mean like you have t-ball boom cracked it out of the park no no no

00:57:49.340 i mean like subjugation like a tyrant like a mini tyrant over over his you know over his family

00:57:54.020 essentially to serve him as the tyrant and that's not what we mean i think it was um chris wiley

00:57:59.840 had mentioned tom bombadil is like this ideal patriarchal figure if you've ever read lord of

00:58:07.140 the rings and not just seen the movies you slackers you should read the books so this this

00:58:12.540 man one of the most dangerous men in middle earth he's very concerned about his lady goldberry he's

00:58:18.780 waiting she's waiting yep yep brian says that all the time when he jets out of here i say goldberry's

00:58:24.080 waiting and i get out of here yep yep he uh he defeats the the barrel wraith the barrel white

00:58:30.320 white the barrel white anyway so he's powerful guy right really happy really jovial this i'm

00:58:37.020 getting to a point in all of this i'm not just talking i'm following you this is good this is a

00:58:40.680 good connection so this man who he knows his forest he knows the trees he knows his land he

00:58:45.900 knows his responsibilities he's a dangerous man he's not going to be attacked easily enemies fear

00:58:52.220 him his friends respect him his lady loves him he produces a lot of good things in his in his

00:59:00.760 areas of responsibilities and so you see this um this principle of patriarchy being broken down

00:59:06.680 even in our military to where everybody's transient they have no sense of place they

00:59:11.640 don't have their their forests that they're tending they don't have their communities

00:59:15.280 this is i think when you look back at like the civil war and you have this this southern culture

00:59:21.740 and you have men that are actually fighting for their place,

00:59:25.360 they're fighting for their homes,

00:59:26.940 they're fighting for their farms,

00:59:28.900 those people are really dangerous.

00:59:31.000 Those people are really dangerous

00:59:32.560 because they have a sense of place.

00:59:34.460 They know where their areas of responsibility are.

00:59:37.480 They have their women and children and communities

00:59:41.820 depending upon them in order to protect

00:59:44.420 and to provide for them,

00:59:46.080 where they've taken up the mantle of responsibility.

00:59:49.080 And so if you can eliminate that,

00:59:50.920 If you can essentially neuter the patriarchy so that nobody is looking to anybody except the state for protection and provision, you can manipulate anybody to do anything.

01:00:04.260 Cultures are built by men with families to feed.

01:00:06.460 That's right.

01:00:06.860 Whoever said that, Doug Wilson.

01:00:08.780 And when you look at the play that's being run, that's so profound.

01:00:12.500 and both of both of you what you teed up here is that essentially these fake god figures who are

01:00:19.060 trying to be god the father they're conspiring to become the father and so they have to neuter

01:00:25.020 all the other fathers like eunuchs in the court of an emperor it's an orc relationship with people

01:00:30.440 yes right it's not true fruitfulness yes and so if you can neuter them make them make all the men 0.94

01:00:37.260 impotent, weak, and laden with guilt, pursuing fake sex, fake dominion in video games, fake

01:00:42.900 fruitfulness. I think Michael Foster talks about that a little bit, but you know, and then if you 0.94

01:00:48.260 can, if you do that, then the next thing that will fall is the women, the fruitfulness of women, 0.97

01:00:53.480 they'll, the men will stand aside while the women then in order to become objects of sexual pleasure 1.00

01:00:57.980 for men will chemically castrate themselves. The women will make themselves infertile chemically 1.00

01:01:04.400 copper iud's and hormonal birth control progesterone and all that and then what do you have 0.81

01:01:09.480 if this pacified guilt laden low t uncourageous men who have they own nothing they have no

01:01:17.580 ownership in what happens no they won't fight for anything so they don't care we're going to talk

01:01:22.040 about own space in this season by the way at some point so we won't keep we i don't think we'll we'll

01:01:26.660 go fully down this there's going to be stuff we leave on the table here but the agenda like the

01:01:31.020 reason sex is so central to the agenda of the the central planners to the degree that they exist

01:01:37.180 is is exactly this sex is one of the greatest tools that you can misuse that you can corrupt

01:01:45.080 in order to corrupt the patriarchs yeah that's right and i think fundamentally all of this comes

01:01:49.840 down to something jordan peterson has talked about agents of chaos on the one hand satan's

01:01:55.280 regime is chaos. You can create a lot of chaos through sexual misdirection. On the other hand,

01:02:04.580 what's amazing here, and this is kind of where I want to tie things up for our listeners. In Titus,

01:02:10.520 when the world is a mess, Paul tells Titus, go and appoint elders. Elders are fathers who have

01:02:16.280 ruled well in their own existence. So we might even quote Mother Teresa at this point,

01:02:23.080 if you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

01:02:26.060 One of the things, gentlemen, correct me if I'm wrong,

01:02:27.860 but that we ought to be doing is going home and leading well in that realm.

01:02:32.360 One of the things I want to do, I'm going to quote E. Michael Jones here.

01:02:35.960 Yeah.

01:02:36.420 And then I want to ask you what, what tangibly and practically does that look like?

01:02:41.060 So to, again, to tie off the enlightenment, Michael Jones says this.

01:02:44.420 So in the end, the enlightenment failed and we all have to depend on when the

01:02:48.400 monsters that created attack is self-sacrifice family ties and blood willing to be sacrificed

01:02:54.140 for the greater good in other words the blood of the cross the blood of the martyrs the blood of

01:02:58.380 the lamb if not you might want to consider that option as you stand around in the ruined subway

01:03:04.140 stations of enlightenment culture that all the technology and everything else that it gave us

01:03:09.400 is ruined there is nothing left but the blood of the cross wow michael jones that is a profound 0.97

01:03:14.820 quote he wrote monsters from the id and sexual degenerate modern degenerates this is for monsters

01:03:19.880 from the id yeah and i would also recommend on this c.r wiley's the household of the war for the

01:03:25.060 cosmos amazing ties together some of these these concepts yeah that is that's a profound i mean

01:03:31.260 just think about a lot of the themes of this season we're talking about these shanty towns

01:03:35.080 and slums that have been built by both unfaithfulness in the church and and idolatry in the world and 0.91

01:03:42.260 And we're saying like Boniface, go and knock those things down, clear down to the ground,

01:03:46.980 tear up the foundation stones, throw them to the side till you get down to good earth

01:03:51.400 that God made, and then start putting down some real foundation stones.

01:03:55.600 And at the bottom, no amount of cultural commentary, no amount of book reading, no

01:04:01.360 amount of clever human philosophy will do a dang thing to build a cathedral of Christendom.

01:04:07.260 If they're at the bottom on the first stone, you don't put down Christ.

01:04:10.480 you don't put down the blood of christ shed for sinners new life in christ if you don't build

01:04:16.740 christianly whatever you build even if it looks better than what was there before and that's not

01:04:21.200 that difficult right now you know that's certainly not difficult like in carl or what's his name

01:04:26.300 jordan peterson's a good example of this not not a christian that i know of uh maybe close whatever

01:04:31.180 the lord knows but what he's building is like what he's if you listen to him instead of the

01:04:36.360 a lot of the other pagans it's like you'll do better but best of all like even that will tumble

01:04:41.240 over and topple unless you build on christ yeah it's just a better road to the same hell yeah you

01:04:45.260 have to say so god the father god the son god the spirit at the bottom the real father not the fake

01:04:51.720 fathers and if you do that stone down at the bottom then you can build a civilization you can

01:04:59.080 build an empire you can build something that lasts yeah so that that that question dan of building

01:05:04.980 you know what are the cornerstones that you build upon i would say christian worship has to be

01:05:09.440 central we've talked a lot about that what other practical things should we do you know in our

01:05:15.180 families households churches etc as i ask that the reason i ask is because a lot of christians

01:05:19.340 will say we need a robust christian worldview and so like my generation was all about worldview

01:05:24.060 while going to public school right yeah they undermine the mission which was like well that

01:05:28.840 was just here's here's what we should do we should have a christian worldview and then not do anything

01:05:33.320 to actually produce a Christian worldview.

01:05:35.380 And he just meant doctrine.

01:05:36.940 Yeah, exactly.

01:05:37.860 So I'm asking that question of, 0.58

01:05:39.400 if Christians need to win in like, say, a couple ways now,

01:05:42.820 where do we aim our guns? 0.95

01:05:44.860 Yeah, I think this,

01:05:46.500 I don't know if you've ever heard of this before,

01:05:48.760 sphere sovereignty, different spheres of government.

01:05:52.080 Of course, you've heard of this before.

01:05:53.660 Matt Trujillo has an interesting book

01:05:55.820 that touches on this, The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates.

01:06:00.440 Anyway, so you have these different spheres of government.

01:06:02.380 He, he actually gives four spheres.

01:06:04.380 I think he includes the self, the self either he does,

01:06:08.540 or I added that one in my Sunday school class.

01:06:11.100 One of those two.

01:06:12.080 Well, it's also in, I actually taught government.

01:06:14.240 Did he?

01:06:14.520 Okay, cool.

01:06:15.100 I taught the class on the book.

01:06:17.840 So anyway, Oh yeah, that's right.

01:06:19.480 You actually did teach inside, inside the house, you know, stuff.

01:06:23.260 So you have these different spheres of governance.

01:06:26.900 You have yourself, your, the family, the church and the state.

01:06:32.380 And so within these spheres of authority, right rule is vital.

01:06:38.380 And you cannot have right rule without right law, law and rule being like governing.

01:06:46.400 And so it has to be God's law.

01:06:49.500 First and foremost, at every step of government, you have to have Christ and his law paramount as the standard.

01:07:00.580 so anytime that you approach any area of life you want to talk about real christian worldview

01:07:07.020 is what does the scriptures say do i believe it because you should if you don't you've got a

01:07:12.820 problem and then you apply it i mean that's yeah that's simple first and foremost christian

01:07:18.680 worldview and and godly rule yeah in those different spheres and obviously that's that

01:07:24.240 could be a whole series in itself yeah but but that's really the key at every turn yeah maybe

01:07:29.820 one of the big points here though and brian we were talking about this earlier but christian

01:07:34.260 education for children obviously we learned that they're going after the patriarchy yeah but one

01:07:39.140 of the key things we learned is they're going after sexually they're going after our kids

01:07:42.420 yeah how do we fortify i think that you know at the bottom you you have to start realizing that

01:07:48.240 we're in a culture that is like the ninevites that doesn't know its right hand from its left hand

01:07:52.880 morally socially it just it has no clue our culture has been for a couple generations or 0.53

01:07:59.120 more successfully discipled into the image of false gods away from God. The father has wholeheartedly

01:08:05.660 in many cases embraced statism, sexual folly basically has corrupted all four of those

01:08:12.680 governments where we don't have self-ruled men and women who rule well because they are ruled

01:08:17.900 by Christ. And so rule their own spirits. Well, the rule over their emotions there. So they're 0.79

01:08:22.320 easily manipulated because they're not ruling them. They're a city without walls, like Proverbs

01:08:26.200 says. So we don't have, you know, of course, if you don't have self-ruled men and women, 0.96

01:08:30.340 you won't have self-ruled homes or, or godly homes. So we have men who grow up not to know,

01:08:35.720 they don't know what a husband is for, what, what marriage is for. They don't know what

01:08:39.680 their strength is for. We have women who don't know what it means to be a woman. So we, we have 1.00

01:08:44.300 churches that are filled with, you know, pastorates and, and local church communities that appoint

01:08:49.660 elders who, of course they, they're not qualified elders because they don't even know what it means

01:08:53.760 to govern a household well, right? 0.83

01:08:55.860 Like 1 Timothy 3, 4 and 5 commands.

01:08:59.940 And so we make the state is just a family writ large

01:09:02.760 in a lot of ways. 1.00

01:09:03.600 It's the city fathers are fools. 1.00

01:09:06.680 So on every level, 1.00

01:09:08.020 we've lost the most basic understanding

01:09:12.400 of how to live a human life.

01:09:15.040 Every part of what it means to be human

01:09:16.980 has been corrupted by sin

01:09:18.820 and the sin has crept through

01:09:20.560 and then created devastation.

01:09:21.920 so to me the place to point your guns are just to relentlessly talk about the most basic basic

01:09:32.280 aspects of christian living so like deuteronomy 6 just the most basic we have got to re-figure out

01:09:39.440 what is a boy what is a girl what is a man what is a woman what is a household what is it for

01:09:45.820 what is the economic world and sphere what is it for what is the church what is it supposed to be

01:09:50.620 doing? What is its mission? What is mankind pointed at? What does it look like to be a glorious man

01:09:56.440 and a glorious woman, you know, so that we get these targets established rightly? Because the

01:10:01.960 problem, until you aim at the right target, everything you do is going to be, even if you're,

01:10:05.540 I mean, you might have a 50 cal, doesn't matter if you're not shooting at the enemy or, you know,

01:10:10.260 you might have the best hiking boots on your feet. You're not going to get where you're trying

01:10:14.000 to go until you have a working compass and you know where you're, where you're headed. So it's

01:10:17.520 like, we've got to figure those things out. And to your point about education, this is why

01:10:24.220 Christians have to figure out, they have to get this, they have to pass this test. I'll put it

01:10:30.140 this way. Christians need to pass this test that we've been consistently failing for three to five

01:10:35.760 generations. And it is the test of covenant succession and discipleship succession through

01:10:43.400 the generations. Well, and what, one of the things on this point that I always hear from people

01:10:47.580 is basically covenant succession doesn't work, you know, be a faithful parent, but it doesn't

01:10:52.440 matter. Yeah. And really I think what's happening in those situations, what you have in America is

01:10:56.440 a country that's catechized by Cardi B and not the church. Yeah. And so what did you expect to

01:11:02.280 happen? You're not actually believing the promise if you do that. Yeah. So it's like, you know,

01:11:06.460 So you take thinking about our children in this test of cultural transmission and education and that, you know, side of things and this test that we've been failing.

01:11:18.640 It's like we have this we've talked about this before antinomian culture.

01:11:22.760 One of the ways that the church has been played is by buying this antinomian lie that when the Bible says things about do this and you'll be blessed, do this other thing and you'll be cursed, that that actually means something.

01:11:33.360 so we have a world or we have a we have pastors and churches in a whole theological culture

01:11:38.560 that has managed to come up with clever theological ways of saying that the verse

01:11:43.680 and proverbs train up a child in the way he should go and when he's old he won't depart from it

01:11:47.040 actually means train up a child in the way he should go and i don't know flip a coin because

01:11:52.740 it's by grace doesn't really matter anyway yeah we do this absolutely asinine uh antinomian

01:11:58.980 quote unquote gospel centered error where we, we, we end up denying the things that God blesses and

01:12:06.740 curses. And so then we think that we can just do the things God says he won't bless. And because

01:12:12.100 we're under grace and not law, that there will be no consequences. And one of these things is that

01:12:17.860 we've just utterly failed to disciple and catechize our children. In fact, we've given them consistently

01:12:23.420 to a state that literally doesn't know what a boy and a girl is and we're telling that state

01:12:32.460 hey you have my total permission uh 15 000 hours by the time they're 18 you can teach them about

01:12:38.760 everything well almost everything we teach them about theology well and one of those issues though

01:12:44.680 is human sexuality so when when i was growing up like the purity culture church was like sex was 0.98

01:12:51.200 an off it was taboo right well sex is gross so save it for the one you love yeah sex is great 0.95

01:12:55.840 exactly uh yeah don't ever do it except when you get married then it's okay and don't ever ask me 0.91

01:13:00.640 about it again however what would happen is you'd go to school and your biology teacher would talk

01:13:04.940 all about sex yeah let's talk about it and so again dan i think we have to make sure that we're

01:13:09.520 the ones doing the catechizing yes absolutely i agree that we should be the ones doing the

01:13:14.580 catechizing you know something that i want to piggyback off what you said a little bit earlier

01:13:19.500 about the proverbs uh the proverbs say like um something to the effect i'm sure you guys can

01:13:24.540 create correct me uh those who spare the rod hate their spoil the child yeah well those who

01:13:30.760 neglect discipline hate you actually hate your son you hate your child yeah and this idea that

01:13:35.300 covenant succession is something that's like a fallacy or like a myth yeah or i don't know i

01:13:42.740 don't know how you actually wrap your mind around that well i think a lot of people dan i'm sorry

01:13:47.920 to interrupt, but I think a lot of people today simply don't think that covenants apply to say,

01:13:52.260 you know, 21st century Americans. The irony of all of that is the covenant curses are written

01:13:57.260 everywhere across our culture. Oh yeah, absolutely. We're evidence. Yes, that's exactly right. So

01:14:03.000 covenant succession is, is important that we get this. And along with covenant succession,

01:14:06.480 there's discipleship where you're training your children in faith. You're believing the promises.

01:14:11.620 Again, you're not saying that your, that your children are saved by the good works of their

01:14:16.320 parents. That's not what we're saying. But what we are saying is that Ephesians 2 10 is true.

01:14:21.980 We're saying that we are Christ's workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works,

01:14:27.200 which he set before us that we should walk in them. And we're believing Philippians that it is

01:14:32.720 God who works in us both to will and to work for his good pleasure. So, so God is supplying the

01:14:39.100 grace at every step in our hearing, our believing and our obeying of scripture, including those

01:14:44.940 promises and passages where he commands us to train our children up, to say, as for me and my

01:14:51.600 house, we'll serve the Lord along with Joshua, to train them in the Lord's paideia. And I think

01:14:57.360 this looks like two aspects that we, in a really blue collar way, we need to figure out. One of

01:15:04.240 them is offense and one of them is defense. So defense is important. People say, well,

01:15:10.620 you're homeschooling, you're private schooling, Christian school, you're just putting your kids

01:15:13.560 in a bunker and on, on, and everyone wants to say like, Oh no, no, no, we don't, we're not

01:15:17.800 bunkering. And I'm like, yes, part of what you need, if you are going to wage a strategic

01:15:23.200 military campaign against an entrenched enemy is you need to have defense. Like you need to

01:15:27.480 have trenches, you'd have bunkers, you got to have some armor, you got to figure things out.

01:15:30.820 Training facilities. Yeah. Right. Like you'd have barracks, you have basic,

01:15:34.340 you know, basic training is thousands of miles away from the enemy often for a reason. It's

01:15:39.020 is we need, we need to actually protect our children. So there's defense where we're saying

01:15:44.040 no screens, no smartphones, no government schools, no world's catechism, no unlimited television, 0.99

01:15:52.440 no stupid stuff where we're saying no to all of that. And then there's offense where we're 0.99

01:15:59.460 training our children actively. We're introducing them to simulated conflict. We're saying there's,

01:16:06.480 there are people, our neighbors believe this, and they're going to try to tell you this.

01:16:10.700 And so what do we say to that young man, young woman, where we're training them?

01:16:16.260 And to give an example, an example would be, imagine two scenarios of a father taking his

01:16:24.940 child to the local park. You know, at our house, we go out our front door, we get the stroller all

01:16:30.980 unloaded, you know, we put all the water bottles. And by the time you're ready to go to the park,

01:16:35.120 It feels like you have half of your house in the bottom of the stroller.

01:16:38.680 You put your kids in the stroller.

01:16:40.900 One of them says, can I ride my bike?

01:16:42.360 One of them, you know, whatever.

01:16:43.200 You get all your kids bundled up.

01:16:44.940 You're walking down the street.

01:16:46.240 You're looking both ways.

01:16:47.280 You hear the cars going past.

01:16:48.700 Don't run out in the street.

01:16:49.760 Don't get hit by the car, whatever.

01:16:51.220 You walk your way over to the local park and you, okay, kids, go play.

01:16:56.360 And one dad has done defense and he's done offense.

01:17:00.560 and so at one point one of his other kids runs over to the bathroom he has to walk him over there

01:17:06.360 and he's occupied and a stranger approaches his child his little girl say a five-year-old girl

01:17:13.060 and says hey I need help finding my lost puppy can you uh I need can you hurry quick I can't

01:17:20.300 find it we need we need to find this puppy hop in my car we'll drive down the street you keep

01:17:24.580 your eyes open while I drive. Let's say one dad in this scenario has done his offense and defense.

01:17:31.360 And he said, now little, little Daphne, my little Daphne, there are men, there are people in the

01:17:37.340 world who will try to take you from mommy and daddy. They'll try to steal you and do horrible

01:17:41.940 things to you. And they'll try to take you and you'll never see mommy and daddy again.

01:17:46.060 Try to get you to get in their car. And they might say this, and they might say this, and they might

01:17:49.740 say they lost their puppy. They might say they have candy for you. They might say that your mommy

01:17:53.540 told them to go get you and to meet you at home and you're going to drive them and as soon as that

01:17:58.340 person says that you yell at the top of your lungs and you run away and you will never get in trouble

01:18:03.400 if you were wrong to have done that or and if they try to grab you you fight and kick and bite and

01:18:08.240 scream and you do it and you've trained them in the offense and the defense right you've done

01:18:12.400 everything you can to protect them you wouldn't just drop them off at the park and leave for six

01:18:15.580 hours but here's the reality in the world is that enemies are going to come when you're not there

01:18:21.720 So, I mean, you have to train your kids on both sides.

01:18:24.060 Another dad might have never talked to his kids about that.

01:18:27.520 Little girl gets in the car, door slams.

01:18:30.100 He drives away. 0.99

01:18:31.420 Horrible predator.

01:18:32.800 Never see her again. 0.98

01:18:34.160 This happens.

01:18:35.820 So when we're talking about this, what do we need to set our sights on with our children, with training our children?

01:18:41.440 We've got to just, in a blue-collar way, figure out how to do both sides.

01:18:45.380 In the defense, protect them from the world, but also the offense.

01:18:48.560 so that when we're not there, when they grow up,

01:18:51.780 when they get the smartphone

01:18:53.460 and someone pulls out the pornography

01:18:55.200 or when they hear the professor in college,

01:18:58.520 even as a 20-year-old,

01:18:59.520 so that they're ready to handle 0.98

01:19:02.240 the foolishness of these worldviews.

01:19:04.520 And guys, this is one of the reasons 1.00

01:19:06.260 why we make fun of gay stuff 1.00

01:19:09.940 and why we mock.

01:19:12.740 Because not only do I want my children

01:19:15.320 to know that those things are not true, good, and beautiful,

01:19:17.680 I want them to think they are laughable

01:19:20.420 I want them to look at the 1.00

01:19:22.420 LGBTQ agenda and 1.00

01:19:24.180 think it is absurd 1.00

01:19:26.080 and fundamentally that's what they

01:19:28.620 are catechizing your kids to do

01:19:30.500 in public school is to laugh and scoff

01:19:32.180 at Christianity

01:19:32.840 that's one of the things Freud did was

01:19:35.140 relegating religion to the infantile stage

01:19:38.820 and saying it's just laughable 0.99

01:19:40.100 we don't even need to talk about it 1.00

01:19:41.360 it's so stupid 0.99

01:19:42.120 you know it's interesting 1.00

01:19:44.980 I think that laughter 0.82

01:19:46.680 and mocking yeah in in like an elijah way the false gods and these these actually ridiculous 1.00

01:19:53.460 ideologies yeah they are literally saying that you can be men you can be a woman they're so stupid 0.99

01:19:58.740 i mean it's it's really stupid you should laugh at them what reminds me not i mean like not at 0.99

01:20:03.140 the individual person yeah but at those ideas you should laugh at them and one of the dangers 0.95

01:20:07.760 from the past is that what our fathers did is they taught us to fear certain ideologies as like these

01:20:14.540 these are really dangerous yeah like evolution is really dangerous and it is really dangerous

01:20:18.500 but that was the wrong tool in your tool belt yeah they should have said you think that we 1.00

01:20:24.540 came from some sort of hermaphrodite misshapen fish there are idiots that's it there are yeah 1.00

01:20:30.120 there are idiots who think that all life came from a rock and some water that mixed together 1.00

01:20:35.820 and got struck by lightning and then some other stuff happened isn't that absurd children there 1.00

01:20:42.140 are people who believe in like Matt Walsh's documentary, what is a woman that he's doing?

01:20:46.420 He goes to the primitive African village. Did you see the video? Oh yeah. Yeah. And he starts

01:20:50.360 asking them these questions like through a translator, like now can a man become a woman?

01:20:55.820 And then he asked the question and then they all started laughing. And he's like, did I ask an

01:21:00.160 absurd question? And of course Matt Walsh knows, you know, but it's like people, people, they get

01:21:06.520 offended by some of the stuff we do in the mockery side of things. They don't understand what we're

01:21:10.820 aiming for. We're mainly with that side, with the satiric serrated edge stuff. We're mainly not

01:21:17.020 trying to convince our ideological opponents to come to our view. We're mainly trying to protect

01:21:21.980 our children. We're mainly trying to protect our sheep. We're mainly trying to frame your worldview

01:21:27.740 listener or people influenced by our materials to do the right thing when they're faced with that.

01:21:33.880 And they're like the little girl that immediately screams, kicks, bites, and runs when the predator

01:21:39.000 comes right when you laugh at the at the the apostles that's not wearing clothes yes and you

01:21:45.160 say you're not the sycophants that are too afraid to say anything that's right because that's

01:21:49.240 dangerous yeah you have to laugh at it you have to laugh at it and and then when you when you come 1.00

01:21:54.440 face to face with the refugee of the culture who's been broken and destroyed by it and and is 1.00

01:22:00.200 suicidal and doesn't know what they're supposed to do you don't let them run the play on you 0.99

01:22:04.380 where like, it's your hate speech

01:22:05.960 that's making that person suicidal.

01:22:07.680 No, it's your demonic ideology

01:22:09.340 that you've discipled them in

01:22:10.560 and it leads to death.

01:22:12.420 And so what we do is then we bring in the love of Christ.

01:22:15.680 We bring in the restoration of Christ

01:22:17.160 and we give them what the demons can't give them,

01:22:20.660 which is actual hope, actual purpose,

01:22:23.160 actual understanding, actual knowledge.

01:22:24.960 Actual life, actual humanity.

01:22:27.220 That's right.

01:22:27.980 That's beautiful.

01:22:29.000 I think it's a good place for us to end this episode.

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01:22:52.520 this, well, they don't know their right hand from their left hand,

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01:23:43.000 To run when the predator comes, kick and scream.

01:23:45.780 And play the offense, play the defense.

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The King's Hall - June 10, 2022

Against the Sex Cult

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