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00:00:42.480Whenever any sociological feature becomes pronounced in a society, that feature will of course have its advocates, its prophets, and priests.
00:00:51.620I would argue that the new militant atheism that has appeared in our midst over the last decade
00:00:56.740can actually be understood as the intellectual vanguard of our fatherlessness.
00:01:01.740Fatherlessness, as it turns out, has its apologists.
00:01:05.280These men are able to defend fatherlessness quite capably,
00:01:08.820for they were in fact shaped by it and want in turn to shape it further.
00:01:12.740They want to make more of what made them.
00:01:15.220But there is a perverse twist in this.
00:01:18.060Father hunger made them, and so this means that what they want to usher in is a larger famine for others.
00:01:25.260An excerpt from Father Hunger by Douglas Wilson.
00:01:28.580You're listening to the King's Hall Podcast, making self-ruled men who rule well and win the world.
00:01:37.260Well, welcome to this episode of the King's Hall Podcast, gentlemen.
00:07:22.380During that time, the new atheist movement, they were very militant, very aggressive,0.88
00:07:29.460Very aggressive. And, you know, not to change the subject, I'll circle around a new atheism, but, you know, this question about fatherlessness and atheism, I mean, I don't know if we want to really delve into the topic too much, but you can't really talk about it without talking about the French Revolution.
00:07:50.140Yeah. Right. Which was a complete like shrugging off of church fathers, the aristocracy, the gentry, like the fathers that had been in place in France.
00:08:03.080And the result of that became individualism, radical individualism and forms of democracy, you know, to where I am the ultimate rule.0.91
00:08:13.480I don't need a father of, you know, to tell me who God is or what is a just law, you know, what is what is justice.
00:08:22.640And so, I mean, the fruit is it would make sense that eventually you would get to a point to where you would have these kind of like in the bubbling cauldron of human sin and perversion that you'd get a big bubble that pops.
00:08:37.740That's like new atheism is like this anti-intellectual in a lot of ways.
00:08:42.360They want to make themselves seem like they're intellectuals, but they're actually not very good thinkers.
00:08:47.760And then they're really aggressive about it.
00:08:49.780So it makes sense that that would be one of the bubbles that would come up to the surface as a fruit all the way reaching back to the French Revolution.
00:08:57.840That also, I think, just underscores this truism that it's one of those things that once you see it anywhere, you see it everywhere.
00:09:06.480And it's what we talked about in season one with Nietzsche and the death of God, the quote-unquote death of God.
00:09:12.080They killed God, and it wasn't like they just then – there was nothing.
00:11:56.880And then that gives us the third progression, which is kind of like you could say we're in like the third progression of our downfall as a culture maybe.
00:12:04.100We just get full-blown atheism, which says that God doesn't exist.
00:12:08.460So I think one thing that we'll have to continue to unpack in this season, correct me if I'm wrong, is that we can't have robust fatherhood without Trinitarian theology.
00:12:17.440What's interesting is that you might even pause at a fourth wave following atheism because people still have a spiritual hunger.
00:12:23.900And so they still – they just dislocate that spiritual hunger on atheism to the unholy trinity in the fourth wave of me, myself, and I.
00:15:58.240And so he's not just a baptized version or a stronger version of fallen sinful man, like the Greek and Roman gods.
00:16:05.320I mean, they're just they're out there sleeping with women and they're sowing their wild oats and getting in fights with their goddess wives.
00:16:11.660And they're just like they're basically people.
00:16:13.760They're just people who are strong and can throw lightning down and never die like that.
00:16:19.900So we always end up doing that, and you always, therefore, run into this problem, wherever you try to replace the fatherhood of God with some fake version, is you run into this problem of God's righteousness that this is why there's only one way.
00:16:34.980There's only the truth, the way, the life, that's Christ, because only Christ can reconcile us to the Father, where we get God as Father, get over this righteousness problem and the gap there, and every other attempt is going to be some kind of human ladder where we make a fake version of fatherhood, deify it, but it's always just us at the end of the day.
00:16:56.660Yeah. One of the questions I want to ask practically, it seems like as we engage people in our midst who may claim to be atheists or people who have a feminist bent or whatever it is, it seems like, correct me if I'm wrong, one of the things you have to do is look past the thing that they want to talk about.
00:17:12.640Like a new atheist is not going to say, hey, I really suffer with father hunger.
00:17:16.680But it seems like pastorally you just need to know that that's going on.
00:17:19.380Yeah, so I think at the root of a lot of this that we're talking about, there's an identity issue.
00:17:24.920Like you don't, one of the, one of the things that a good father does, and we, we all know this is true is that they leave an identity.
00:17:38.080And we can see this as we read history.
00:17:39.980And you're like, this guy's name was like Edward the eighth, you know, and he can look back and he's like, all of the other Edwards that came before me were identified with this.
00:18:05.780We have remnants of that today in some families to where it's like, you know, you have, like, the Scottish hot-bloodedness or, you know, quick to anger or whatever it is.
00:18:17.880Some of those echoes, though, still exist.
00:18:20.560And with an atheist or a feminist, the father hunger is blatantly obvious because they have no identity.
00:18:28.780And so they attach themselves to some sort of movement.
00:18:32.720The movement they're treating kind of like a father in a way to give them identity, to give them purpose.
00:18:39.060But at the root, they know that it's hollow.
00:18:41.300And so when you're interacting with these people, interacting with them on the basis of just their arguments is kind of frivolous.
00:18:50.560Because at the core, they don't even know what they're for. And it leads to, like you said, a black-pilled sort of nihilism to where they realize there is no purpose for me to exist. There's no purpose for me to exist.
00:19:05.500And so when you're ministering to these people, one of the ways that it's best to interact with them, again, is not necessarily just on the basis of their arguments, but to actually give them hope, to show them that they were created for a purpose, that they're an image bearer of God, even if their earthly father abandoned them and let them down, that there is a heavenly father that has imprinted his image on them and that they're of eternal value.
00:19:33.120And that's one of the cores of the gospel.
00:19:35.760And so I think you have to look past the arguments in a lot of ways.
00:19:38.900Yeah, and I think one of the other applications would be in our own families.
00:19:41.600Like if you want to protect your kids against the new atheism, for example,
00:19:45.860one of the best ways you can do that is be a good father.
00:20:49.200But then he, like, didn't really want anything to do with his family, so he's like, yeah, just go take the drugs, do what the Freudian guy tells you, it'll be okay.
00:20:56.800That's sort of the anti-father because you're not protecting your daughters or your sons, and you're not protecting your wives.
00:21:05.100So, Dan, if you would maybe just unpack for people, why do fathers in particular have a role in protecting the sexuality of their wives and daughters?
00:21:30.760Well, if you have a good father, he should be able to tell you what your sexuality is for, you know, and obviously the heavenly father tells you that as well.
00:21:39.800One of the first things you see in the scriptures is like, your sexuality is for creating new eternal beings.
00:28:13.720Everything is degraded when you've been promised glory, and you get degradation.
00:28:20.200Yeah, it's really interesting, too, because I think you can go back to the 60s and you can just trace in our culture where the church, I think the Roman Catholic work, Humanae Vittier, was an early one saying, like, the pill is going to be a problem.
00:28:33.500And you look at the church fathers, and it's very uncomfortable for us to look at this, but you can look at Calvin.
00:28:38.740Calvin absolutely forbade birth control, like any form.
00:28:43.260So then you look at that and you go, okay, that feels so foreign to us because we're living in the wake of 1960.
00:28:48.760and the 60s, but I think what we've advocated and kind of it's been part of our ethos here,
00:28:55.220if we want to rebuild Christendom, we can no longer as a church be following the world on
00:29:02.080sexual issues. Fathers have to act as fathers. This is why understanding these things, the roots0.55
00:29:08.240of these things in the culture is so important, because otherwise what will happen is fathers
00:29:13.380out there listening to this, church fathers, literal fathers, whatever, you're a father
00:29:17.760somewhere, you won't understand that you live in a cultist that's been forming your opinions on
00:29:23.660things. And so you're going to hear certain propositions that are actually good and godly
00:29:28.880and helpful, and you're going to think they're crazy. When you tell people, hey, you should
00:29:34.420really think about whether or not birth control at all is a good idea, people think you're crazy.1.00
00:29:39.980Even a lot of Christians are like, you're insane. And what they don't realize is that almost the0.97
00:29:45.620entirety of the history of the church would say, what you guys are doing is utter God-pretending
00:29:52.740madness. It's idolatry. You have lifted yourselves up. You've thrown off restraint. You are dislocating
00:29:59.380and disconnecting sex from righteousness and from its proper—I mean, like, all those things are
00:30:04.740happening, and we're often blind to them because we've been put on the altar of the sex gods by
00:30:10.460our fathers. And so you have to understand these things. You have to understand where the 60s came
00:30:16.160from, what they did to our background assumptions, and see that those come out of worship if you are0.53
00:30:22.600to recover good Christian fruitful fatherhood. Yeah, it's also really interesting because when
00:30:28.740you look at the downfall of the Roman Empire and the Egyptian empires, they were very closely
00:30:34.240related to, you know, people talk about monetary policy, all that's true. But sort of the number
00:30:39.320one issue in rome was uh they were no longer reproducing yeah so reproduction you can look
00:30:45.260at american culture we're simply not even replacing uh even with all you know that's
00:30:50.220why we have immigration all that stuff well you do notice in pagan cultures that children0.67
00:30:53.680often suffer very i mean like the aztecs we've talked about that before yeah you know they're0.98
00:30:59.260sacrificed so so now you can see uh where you're going with this uh you know we're not replacing0.99
00:31:06.160ourselves we're not having kids we consider them a curse cultural death yeah we see them as a curse
00:31:11.180so either they don't exist or thanks to the 1960s you have them and you can conveniently just murder
00:31:18.060your child yeah yep no mistake that it's not an accident that roe v wade follows that an absolute
00:31:24.840culture of death follows and then something interesting happens in this whole trajectory
00:35:08.760And so the article goes on, kind of drawing the conclusions more clearly for us.
00:35:12.600It says, one contributor to a family breakdown, which soon spread to the poor and working class white family, may have been welfare expansion.
00:35:21.660Cash welfare in meager form existed since 1935, and some welfare took place during the Kennedy administration.
00:35:29.620But under Johnson's Great Society, which, again, was in 1964, benefits became substantially more generous and came under greater control of the federal government.
00:35:41.920thoughts? I think one interesting thing that you can see is, again, it's cyclical. You kill the
00:35:48.600father in one area and you have to kill him more in another area. So this is going to be the most0.98
00:35:53.380base to take probably that I say today. Oh, wow. But when you get rid of the fathers by making the
00:35:58.580women vote, then they will vote in these emotionally driven welfare policies thinking,1.00
00:36:03.540I'll help. Oh, there's poor people. I'll help. Let's vote. Come on, guys. So you have a father1.00
00:36:10.340at the top fdr and then lyndon johnson you have a daddy somewhere and he's manipulating all of the
00:36:16.300women voters yes to get welfare policies that wouldn't have been passed by male but like almost
00:36:20.880and none of these things would have been passed by male only voting so so you end up with a1.00
00:36:25.800matriarchy that's actually it's funny because there's a patriarch at the top the matriarchy
00:36:30.100is always there's you can't get rid of the patriarchy fully but they it's cyclical you1.00
00:36:35.500You have the women voters who are then killing the fathers in the culture by subsidizing fatherlessness, creating men who are easier to manipulate now because you can say, oh, honey, you know, free sex and don't care about the kids because I can kill them or the state will take care of them.0.95
00:36:51.260making weak men who no longer have the marriage maturity pathway and they just perpetually0.99
00:36:58.660remain as animals, as men who just, they breed and then they leave. They're wild beasts.0.98
00:37:05.820It's interesting because you read all these articles even today, you know, and they're to
00:37:10.260the tune of where have all the good men gone? Yeah. And then the reality is, well, you drove
00:37:16.300them away, you subsidized them into non-existence or at least in the form of the traditional father.
00:37:21.260But I think it's really interesting about the voting record.0.70
00:37:24.460Zach Garris says this in Masculine Christianity, but when women were made to vote, they're thrust into the civil, the civic sphere.0.83
00:37:32.880They're really put in a position where they have to act like men in the public sphere.
00:37:36.900Prior, they were protected and they were honored and the men took care of them.
00:37:40.840It's interesting, though, you can look at this in voting records even today, I think in the last election cycle.0.98
00:37:45.000it's something like 70 plus percent of the people voting for all the leftist garbage is women0.96
00:37:51.820yeah we wouldn't we wouldn't have had like a single major democrat policy pass for like 1000.98
00:37:57.180years i don't even think that's an overstatement i think you can look at the maps what what would
00:38:03.220the electoral college have looked like the votes looked like in any presidential election with only
00:38:07.860the men voting it's like red i mean the whole and i'm not saying that the republicans are like the
00:38:13.860great hero that would save us. Absolutely don't put your trust in horses. But when you compare
00:38:18.660the policies, who is it that is driving, who is being wooed and manipulated by the policymakers1.00
00:38:25.040to pass their policies that really end up just, the women are giving away their own sovereignty.1.00
00:38:30.860They're saying somebody else, you know, daddy government, govern me harder, please. That's1.00
00:38:36.840what they're saying over and over and over and over and over. They still want a father. They
00:38:42.060just want it to be the state they don't realize that's what's happening because women are more
00:38:45.680easily deceived yeah i think it's an interesting feature i know i think i've mentioned this before
00:38:50.100in past episodes uh i think it was last season um but one of the interesting features when francis
00:38:56.100schaefer this is towards the end of his life he shares a cab with rc sprawl sprawl asked him hey
00:39:01.180what's the biggest threat to america so this is like the 1980s what's the biggest threat facing
00:39:05.700america today and he said statism you can follow i think some great thinkers like rush dooney
00:39:11.120everything that was on Rush Duny's mind was statism.
00:39:16.280He had studied the Native American populations
00:39:31.960we don't understand how bad statism is for the family.
00:39:35.440So I just want to rephrase the question that we've been talking about.
00:39:38.760Why is a welfare state so bad for fathers and families?
00:39:43.060Yeah, it is really interesting, Brian, that you bring up women's suffrage and the submission of women to an entity, you know, to the patriarchy, to a father or something like that.0.62
00:39:54.520Because you still have this class of people that still want more of what they've made.0.57
00:40:02.360Like they see the issue in the black community, especially as like, you know, fatherlessness, we need to give them more, you know, and just like pouring on more support for the, for the families.
00:40:14.380Thomas Sowell, in his book, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, he says this. He says,
00:40:19.520white liberals, instead of comparing what has happened to the black family since the liberal
00:40:23.840welfare state policies in the 1960s were put into practice, compare black families to white families0.95
00:40:30.140and conclude that the higher rates of broken homes and unwed motherhood among blacks are due
00:40:34.980to a legacy of slavery. And so you can see that narrative still today. It's like the whole
00:40:41.220narrative from the state as they continue to engulf more and more of the role of being a
00:40:48.220father, that they're able to make this whole culture of shame to say like, hey, back off,
00:40:55.340because it was your fault. It was your ancestor's fault that the black community is in the state0.90
00:41:01.840it's in because you're racist. And if you don't vote for this, you're racist. So they play this1.00
00:41:07.420shame and manipulation tactic. You can see this, I mean, through all sorts of propaganda from
00:41:13.460different Marxist governments in the past. I mean, this is just a common play that these
00:41:20.580governments take because they're going to have to rule by shame. And so we obviously feel that
00:41:26.060today. And I think it's hard as part of the teaching and the education process for our people
00:41:30.920is helping people understand the play that's being run. So you're trying to get them to focus
00:41:36.320on a slavery that doesn't exist anymore. And that blinds them to the fact that Papa government is
00:41:41.320the slave master. Yeah, he's the slaver. They are controlling you in almost every way. They're the0.97
00:41:45.620ones that created this problem in your community. Right. So the government incentivizes fatherlessness
00:41:51.580and then they say, don't worry, we'll take care of your children. We'll educate them. We'll teach
00:41:56.580them how to be a functioning human being. And obviously we see the trajectory that that goes.
00:42:02.480And then economic policies as they steal from you, you know, through inflation and unjust taxation.
00:42:09.620And you're feeling the pinch and they're like, don't worry, daddy will give you some money.
00:42:14.480You know, daddy will give you some cash.
00:42:16.420You know, you've got a little kickback coming.
00:42:18.360Oh, you need help paying for your college.
00:45:47.420And so this whole project that we talked about last season of the new Christendom has to be a bottom-up. It's not a top-down. It's not like, hey, if we get the right president, politician, senator, Senate majority, whatever it is, House committee, then that'll fix everything.
00:49:19.620Industrial Revolution happened post-World War II.0.96
00:49:22.420It's impossible to send women back to the homes and for men to rule productive households.0.92
00:49:27.380So my question for you is, do you see this as a root cause and do you see it as, you know, inevitable?0.95
00:49:34.580It is not inevitable. It is a root cause. It is not inevitable. It is a root cause.
00:49:40.200You see the creeping statism every step further towards the displacement of fathers, real fathers, Christian fathers with, you know, the statist father, the fatherhood of the state.
00:49:52.740it makes it harder to get back. Every step is a further hindrance, right? It is so difficult
00:50:00.640to bring your wife home, to educate your own kids, to start a school. When we started the
00:50:05.540school here in Ogden, guys, it's very difficult. It's like we're all paying crazy property taxes
00:50:11.560that are ballooning year after year. Property taxes are now thousands of dollars per year
00:50:16.940higher than they were when I first started owning property as an 18-year-old, right? It's now
00:50:23.360astronomically higher. I think my current taxes are four times higher than they were
00:50:29.300on the equivalent property than they were in 2009 or so when I started, when I bought my first place.
00:50:34.420Well, even my home, I've owned since 2016 and they've doubled.
00:51:00.920And there are no strong men that stand up and say to the school moms, no, we just won't.
00:51:05.860Nobody is going to stand up, actually it's funny, in this case to the predominantly female city council of West Haven, where Dan lives.
00:51:13.600I'm pretty sure it's almost, is it 90% female?
00:51:16.140Yeah. It's almost all. So Dan is governed by moms, even the males. So it makes it harder,1.00
00:51:22.800but it's not inevitable. What it does require though, is you actually have to stand up and you
00:51:27.760have to keep saying no over and over and do the hard thing. It's really difficult though. Like I
00:51:32.140don't want to minimize how hard it is to bring your wife home, retake education and start chipping
00:51:38.960away, but there's no other way. Yeah. And there's a lot of opportunity right now. So it might seem
00:51:44.020possible right now but there was a there's an article that just came out a few days ago
00:51:48.340and it says that public school enrollment drops by 1.4 million students this is recent dub yes
00:51:56.420that's a dub yeah so even even like looking at the the gigantic department of education and the
00:52:02.280public school model it's collapsing yeah and and and to brian's point about earlier about like
00:52:08.500we're at you know m or wherever we are in the alphabet and z is inevitable just because public1.00
00:52:13.640school enrollment drops or because women aren't in the workplace doesn't mean you actually have1.00
00:52:17.700like a righteous society. But what it means is that there's a lot of opportunity. There's a lot0.99
00:52:22.840of opportunity. So, I mean, potent homes and fathers will. I think I see opportunity in two
00:52:29.980areas as well for kind of undoing some of the industrial revolution. We've actually gotten
00:52:34.100to this point where because of really telecommunications that many people can work
00:52:39.200from home now. So that's number one. You can kind of live anywhere and do a lot of jobs.
00:52:44.540So that would allow you to focus on localism. It would allow you to be around your own home
00:52:49.140more during the day, not going physically to another location. That would be a positive,
00:52:55.260I would argue. The other one though is hand labor. So people who work in the trades,
00:53:00.140like it's ironically, Rory Groves was correct with durable trades, that plumbers and electricians,
00:53:07.640These things are more needed than ever, and so few people are doing them.
00:53:12.880So I think the opportunity to start businesses that you could train your sons to work in and actually make really good money while being local in your area, working together with your people, I think there's more opportunity there was when I was, say, in high school.
00:59:49.780In fact, he's had his papers ready to file in the next higher court that the injunction they've brought against him is wildly unconstitutional, which it is.
00:59:59.900And what's funny is he's been on everything from, like, the Daily Wire to conference after conference, like, holding political rallies, talking about all the things they said.
01:00:09.380The lady was like, you're not allowed to talk about that.
01:00:14.300And then he went and he just did it and danced on the injunction.
01:00:17.520And what I love about Jeff is that he's a picture of what one tenaciously stubborn, courageous, righteous man can do in bringing a whole system screeching to a halt and basically call their bluff.
01:00:35.060But it's such a good example of what you're talking about here of legal structures in America that are legally kidnapping his child from him is how I would put it.
01:00:45.980They are legally kidnapping his child, and they're actually legally trying to murder his child because when you mutilate somebody, when you try to kill their whole identity, they even call it dead naming.
01:00:58.080I mean, this is the state kidnapping and attempted murder on a child, and can he call the police and say, hey, they're trying to do this to my kid.0.95
01:01:07.100They're poisoning him with hormones, and they're trying to cut his genitals, all of that.
01:05:20.700It does mean don't marry someone quickly.
01:05:22.300Yeah. It does mean you need to get yourself in a community where there is a mechanism for cultural transmission that will create high quality spouses for your children. It means all of that. And it's still even with that, there are no guarantees. If you want guarantees or I'm going to take the black pill, you're going to take the black pill every time.
01:08:45.960Speaking of families, number six, we've got two more points to get through.
01:08:49.660Number six, we've spoken, Brian, about this a little bit, but public education in particular is designed, it's very warp and woof, is designed to undermine a father's authority.
01:09:00.160So I wanted to read a quick, this is from an excerpt in a news article.
01:09:04.920In 2021, right, we had the dust up in Fairfax County, Virginia, over sexually explicit material that was being taught to young children.
01:09:14.440So I'm going to quote from the article.
01:09:56.900Most of my immediate thoughts cannot be published due to restrictions placed upon me by the – no, I'm just kidding.
01:10:06.740That's actually – it's shocking, but it also shows the underlying assumption they have that, again, the state is the primal authority here.
01:11:11.880I don't know what led them to take this before the school board.
01:11:16.400But it's like you have to understand, Christians, that, again, radical responsibility requires us to go and do the inconvenient, hard thing and be the guy stepping out in front of all of the powers and saying, no, we're not going to allow this.0.72
01:13:30.060And I think the other thing we would say, we can talk more about public education in another episode, but it's going to be a fight.
01:13:35.880This is why things like St. Brennan's exist, but they exist because there's been by you guys and Kevin and other people, blood, sweat, and tears on something that's really not easy.
01:13:46.140it's not the easy path if you're going to take control of the education of your family
01:13:51.660so i think that is uh important the the last thing that we'll talk about gentlemen
01:13:56.320uh number seven the media machine rages against the father so we there's countless examples
01:14:02.620of how parenthood and fathers are looked down upon in the media uh kind of the typical trope1.00
01:14:10.020is the homer simpson right where dad the american dad is just a moron yeah uh he's stupid and it0.99
01:14:15.960Really, you know, Bart and Homer, I'm thinking of one episode I watched as a kid where Bart and Homer put pots on their head and they just keep banging into each other, which actually seems kind of funny.0.99
01:14:26.160But meanwhile, it's like Lisa and then Marge, like the mom and the sister have to be the ones to like hold it together and be smart and be wise and think about the future and not do certain things like that.
01:14:38.200One of the other examples, kind of funny, kind of not, is the progressive commercial with Dr. Rick.
01:14:43.940Even if you don't know what that is, you've probably seen the commercials, right? Dr. Rick, quote, helps keep you from becoming your parents. So, Dan, a lot of funny commercials. I looked this up. He's actually got an e-book and an audio book called Dr. Rick Will See You Now. And it is titled The Essential Guide to Unbecoming Your Parents.
01:16:26.320It's funny that we've been talking about the 1960s because that's in a lot of ways what was at the heart of the movement was don't be like your parents.
01:16:35.760In fact, throw off all restraint that your parents had taught you and go to California and have free love, do drugs, sexual revolution, like all of that.
01:16:46.760And so, I mean, it's still a stigma today.
01:16:49.280Well, it's really interesting, Dan, because the 1960s coincide perfectly with the baby boomer generation that TV was introduced in the 1950s, really started taking off in the 1960s.
01:17:02.340I think 1960s were the first color television, more channels, that sort of thing.
01:17:07.560But it's interesting as you track those changes culturally, even in the 1950s, we had, you know, Leave it to Beaver, Ward Cleaver as the father, very wholesome family.
01:20:05.880Oh, no, I don't remember what the article said at all.
01:20:08.300No, no, no. The main point was that media and entertainment isn't just something that's nice. It's like food. Dessert's nice. But if all you do is consume dessert, you are going to look a certain way because you're feeding your body.
01:20:38.880I mean, this is what catechism does is it builds a person and their preferences, their likes, their dislikes, what is true, what is false, what is good and beautiful, what is ugly.
01:20:49.500And so the thing that you're noticing, the theme is like that men are incompetent, fathers are dopes, women are powerful, women can do anything, women are economic drivers, and they always have to fix the men's mistakes.
01:21:06.420Every point it's dig, dig, dig, dig, dig at men and then continue to try to prop up women into roles in which God did not design them to be in.0.94
01:21:16.040Yeah, exactly. And so it's showing you like in these movies and TV shows, we've all seen it, I'm sure, where you're watching a show and all of a sudden there's like a lewd sex scene and you're like, well, for that reason, I'm out. You know, you just have to put that in because free love is supposed to be something that's of value.
01:21:35.940You should like this is what they're saying instead of finding it disgusting, you know.
01:21:41.220And so the point of the article and it was, if I'm not mistaken, that entertainment shapes you like catechism.
01:21:51.240Yeah, it was actually – I now realize I wrote two.
01:21:54.640The later one that really got hot water was Seven Reasons to Delete Your Netflix.1.00
01:21:58.560And it wasn't about never watching TV, but it was about this unconscious catechesis that's taking place that's actually making you stupid.0.99
01:22:07.780It's making you lie about the nature of cultural relevance.0.98
01:22:10.700Like, well, I won't be able to preach the gospel unless I – like, remember when Mark Driscoll said, if you want to really be culturally relevant, you need to buy two DVRs.
01:22:19.500He was talking about, like, knowing everything in pop culture so you can preach the gospel.
01:22:23.900And it's like, when was the last time your knowledge of Nicki Minaj
01:22:28.000helped you share the gospel with somebody?
01:22:51.020And you were like, Mark, like, I'm thinking as a pastor, I'm so much more concerned that you have high Bible intake and prayer life than, I don't know, say, knowledge of MTV.
01:23:05.500And I think more recently, 2007, the introduction of the iPhone, that's really another, like TV, another change in telecommunications that has drastically reshaped our culture.
01:23:16.280just a quick plug i think fathers you have a responsibility to protect your wives your
01:23:21.280teenage daughters your teenage sons do not give them a smartphone if you're young kids and i mean
01:23:27.300like i've legitimately thought about this as a church how many problems does it cause versus
01:23:33.720how helpful and like let's go back to flip phones i mean i i think in a lot of ways it wouldn't harm
01:23:41.640us more than it would help us. So definitely some things to be thinking about. I read a recent
01:23:47.600study and they were talking about young girls, like self-esteem, whatever, it's worse than it's
01:23:51.200ever been. But to phase out from the cultural way of describing it, their mental health is worse
01:23:57.080than ever. And this is not just women, but men. Suicide rates, depression are really high. They
01:24:03.140found that for young girls who committed suicide, the number one factor that they found among them
01:24:08.240was that they had no real world relationships