Ep. 1436 - Female “Pastors” Are Going Viral For Claiming God Wants Us To Kill Babies
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A viral video shows a female pastor explaining why God wants us to kill babies. This is the kind of satanic heresy that has infiltrated many churches across the Western world. Also, the Covenant School Shooter s full journal has finally been released, and now it s very obvious why the authorities didn t want us to see it. Plus, the latest viral TikTok trend is actually just check fraud. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a viral video shows a female quote-unquote pastor explaining why God wants us to kill babies.
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This is the kind of satanic heresy that's infiltrated many churches across the Western world.
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Also, the Covenant School Shooter's full journal has finally been released,
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and now it's very obvious why the authorities didn't want us to see it.
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Plus, the latest viral TikTok trend is actually just check fraud.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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There's a book by Taylor Marshall called Infiltration, the Plot to Destroy the Church from Within.
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The basic idea of the book is that the enemies of the Catholic Church spent several millennia
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trying to destroy the church from the outside before they settled on a much more effective plan, infiltration.
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They would try to work their way into the church and subvert its mission from inside.
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And we've seen this happening in front of our eyes, not just in the church, but in many other Catholic institutions.
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If you walk onto the campus of pretty much any allegedly Catholic university today, for example,
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what you'll find is unrecognizable from just a few decades ago.
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Here's a report from the Catholic News Agency from just last year.
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In the wake of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision overturning the pro-abortion rights Roe v. Wade ruling,
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several bodies at the University of Notre Dame are hosting an event series dedicated to reproductive justice.
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The series has attracted criticism for its decidedly pro-abortion slant.
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An abortion doula with a tattoo of abortion equipment is one of the speakers at its next event.
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The article notes that the series was sponsored by the University of Notre Dame's Gender Studies Program,
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And evidently the Catholic perspective on abortion, actual Catholic teaching on the subject, that is,
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They didn't even try to grapple with it, even though that's supposedly university policy.
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Catholic teaching is supposed to be the fundamental guiding principle of a Catholic university, obviously.
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Pretty much all the major Catholic universities are like this now,
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from Georgetown to Villanova to everything in between.
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There's been a lot of coverage of what's happened at these schools,
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What hasn't been covered to anywhere near the same degree
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is the extent to which left-wing radicalism has infiltrated Christian churches of all types
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So this is a clip from a year ago that's just starting to get attention now.
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It's from someone claiming to be a pastor at something called the Church of Reconciliation,
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part of the Presbyterian Church USA, named Rebecca Todd Peters.
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She's also a professor of religious studies at Elon University in North Carolina.
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And once again, as she's speaking, the topic of abortion doulas comes up.
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If Jesus were here today, he would be a clinic escort distracting women from the hatred of the protesters
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or an abortion doula holding women's hands and offering support and love as they end their pregnancies.
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And I expect he would have a stern word for self-righteous legislators who use abortion as a political issue
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rather than showing compassion for the people seeking abortions.
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Today, on this Rose Sunday, I wanted to share some of the stories we have collected
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because these are the sacred stories of women's lives.
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If Jesus were giving his sermon today, he might also have said,
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Blessed are those who end pregnancies, for they will be known for their loving kindness.
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I have had two abortions, and I have two amazing children.
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Each of my reproductive decisions, to have children and not to have children, were sacred decisions
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because they reflect the moral responsibility of reproductive power that is part of our inheritance as human creatures.
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And given that one quarter of American women will have an abortion by the age of 45,
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I imagine some of your reproductive journeys also include abortion.
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Blessed are those who end pregnancies, for they will be known for their loving kindness.
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Reimagining our theological understanding of abortion is essential to addressing the violence
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that is being done to people across the country in the name of Christianity.
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In the face of the rampant reproductive injustice in our society,
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Now, on one level, it's no surprise to hear abject heresy from a female pastor.
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The existence of female pastors is already a heresy.
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St. Paul stated it explicitly throughout his letters, and he wasn't exactly gentle or subtle about it.
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In 1 Corinthians chapter 14, he tells women to keep silent, quote unquote, in the church.
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And this is a theme that he returns to in other letters, which means that a church with a female pastor
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must, at the outset, eject St. Paul from the biblical canon entirely.
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You cannot keep both Paul and your female pastor.
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And that is to say you cannot keep the Bible, because once you start stripping the parts out of it
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that you don't like, what you're left with at the end of that process is not the Bible.
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It's some butchered husk of what was once the Bible.
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It is a religion that you have invented for yourself.
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Now, we should note, by the way, that St. Paul is not the only reference point on this issue.
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Jesus did not abide by the tenets of diversity, equity, and inclusion when selecting apostles,
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So, if Rebecca Todd Peters was around in the year, you know, 30 AD or thereabouts,
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I suppose she would have gone straight up to Jesus and given him a stern lecture about the importance of inclusion
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and the need for greater female representation.
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Then, perhaps, she would have tried to convince him that anyone who harms a child
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actually shouldn't have a millstone tied around their neck and be thrown into the sea,
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but should instead be celebrated as a feminist hero and awarded $500 million in taxpayer funding.
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That's obviously the position that Rebecca Todd Peters holds on this subject.
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As we just heard, after claiming that Jesus would have shepherded women to abortion clinics,
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Todd goes on to say that she's had two abortions herself.
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She says she personally works as an escort at abortion clinics every month or so.
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And the escorts are the people that escort, as the name suggests,
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they bring the women, basically bring them from their cars into the abortion clinic.
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And you might ask, well, why do you need an escort?
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And the answer is that sometimes there are pro-life, pro-lifers outside of the abortion clinics,
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not screaming at them or harassing them, but just trying to, praying for them.
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And sometimes you might have sidewalk counselors that are trying to give them information, literature,
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to let them know that there are other choices, there are other options besides killing your child.
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And the abortion clinic doesn't want these women to know, even though they claim to be pro-choice,
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they actually don't want the women to know that there are other choices.
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So they have escorts that their whole job is to make sure the woman, as she goes in,
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is not exposed to any other information on her way in.
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And then she launches into a pro-abortion riff on the Beatitudes, saying, quote,
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if Jesus were giving his sermon today, he might have also said,
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blessed are those who end pregnancies, for they will be known for their loving kindness.
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And that's obviously not just a misreading of the Bible.
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It's a satanic inversion of the biblical message.
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Peters wants us to believe that not only is it morally acceptable to kill your own child,
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It's a sort of kindness to the child that involves brutally killing him
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and then discarding his body in a medical waste dumpster.
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Something tells me that Peters would never want anyone to be kind to her in that way.
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So here, Peters, just like every other pro-abortion pastor,
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pastor, quote, unquote, is playing the role of the serpent in the garden in the book of Genesis, basically,
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tempting her confused followers to commit unspeakable sins
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and promising that they'll be rewarded for it in some unspecified way.
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Now, this is a woman who, among her many titles,
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serves as president-elect of the Society of Christian Ethics.
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She was apparently the vice president not too long ago, and she just got a promotion.
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The woman who says that Jesus would love abortion,
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who's killed two of her own children and admits to it, brags about it,
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is calling herself a leader in Christian ethics.
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And other people calling themselves Christians evidently just go along with that.
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Now, to be clear, this is not a one-off sermon.
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This woman has been using her position to promote abortion for some time.
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I did not make my abortion decisions despite my Christian identity and faith,
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Christian values that support healthy and secure families
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also require careful, thoughtful, and morally rich consideration
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Of course, the decision about whether to become a parent or not
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At that point, you are a parent, whether you like it or not.
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The only decision you have to make at that point
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is whether you'll be the parent of a living child or a dead one.
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But Rebecca Todd Peters, a self-described Christian ethicist,
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Basic tenets of Christianity like don't kill people,
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these kinds of things have to be turned on their head.
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And that's because the religion she preaches is not Christianity at all.
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There are a lot of lessons to draw from this person.
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One of them is that it is simply not possible to be a pro-abortion Christian.
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Now, we can argue about the subject of abortion on secular grounds.
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And even on those grounds, the pro-life argument wins easily.
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But if we're debating the topic as self-professed Christians,
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I mean, the pro-abortion position cannot survive even a moment of scrutiny.
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Because the child in the mother's womb is a human being created by God in his image.
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And that's something that if everybody involved in the conversation is Christian,
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It is the moment that another divine image-bearer is brought into existence.
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To kill and discard this child of God, to shed the blood of your own offspring,
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So the quote-unquote Christian argument for abortion is that, what?
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That sometimes God makes children in hopes that we will kill them?
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The other lesson we might learn is more political,
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and one you've heard me say a lot recently especially,
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which is that Republicans should not be so terrified of this issue.
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I mean, the left's position on the topic of abortion,
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and stop letting the left set the terms for the debate.
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The kind of footage I just played is it's disturbing to every sane person.
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or at the very least, it's not widely discussed.
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And that was the case with the footage of this woman's sermon,
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All you have to do is point to it to win the argument.
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Say, hey, everyone, listen to what this woman is saying.
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Now, this is an especially extreme and deranged example,
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but the broader message from these con artists is always the same.
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They always want to convey the same general idea to Christians,
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and God will endorse it because it's what you want to do.
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Which is, of course, the diametric opposite of the gospel message,
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but it's what various heretical Christian organizations and churches
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It's why we have groups like Catholics for Choice and Dignity USA,
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They're all constructed around the idea that if you want to kill your child
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or identify as, quote, unquote, non-binary or whatever,
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you should be able to do it because you want to do it.
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This kind of heresy has reached epidemic proportions.
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It's what supposedly Christian churches are teaching all over the country.
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The website Protestia, I think I'm pronouncing that right,
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Here's one of them from another Presbyterian church in Birmingham.
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This is supposedly another sermon that happens to involve telling people
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that they're entitled to a lot of free stuff from the government.
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Remember when the rich man asked what to do to inherit eternal life?
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Jesus urged him to sell all he had and give it to the poor.
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When Jesus condemned the scribes and Pharisees for hypocrisy,
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to make things easy on themselves and hard on everyone else.
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announced that he would repay anyone he'd cheated four times the amount,
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Jesus declared that that day salvation had come to him.
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So how do we set our course in the direction Jesus called for?
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How do we ensure that women and families have the health care,
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the contraceptive resources, the child care, the housing, the decent jobs,
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the equitable pay, the equal protection, the access to transportation,
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That's another female quote-unquote pastor for you.
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he somehow teaches us that we should ensure that women have contraceptive resources
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and equitable pay and access to transportation.
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So really, that story is laying out the 2024 DNC platform, more or less.
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Here's a similar moment from St. Paul's Anglican Church in Cottom,
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where they performed a hymn for transgenderism.
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We'll play just a little bit of this because it's as painful as you might expect,
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You know, it's not a coincidence that any time you hear these sacrilegious hymns,
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They're just unpleasant and ugly in every possible way.
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They also, of course, aren't Christian in any sense of the word.
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But Christianity has been bastardized by these sorts of people,
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not just to promote abortion and gender ideology,
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but also left-wing racial ideology has made its way into many churches.
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So watch this moment from a church in Illinois.
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or the way that that allows me to move through the world,
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And so that is kind of the plan for our worship services through Lent.
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That we would fast for a time from prioritizing white voices
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It just so happens that if you're looking for examples
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of pastors saying blasphemous, sacrilegious things,
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a huge number of them are going to be female pastors.
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well, St. Paul doesn't know what he's talking about,
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involved and charging them with every crime you
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What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
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I want to rename the George Washington Monument