Ep. 1451 - This Man Confessed to His Brutal Crimes… And They Still Call Him 'Innocent'
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Summary
The left is in mourning after a convicted murderer guilty of brutally stabbing a woman to death was executed. They have spun up a bunch of false narratives alleging that the man was innocent. But why are they coming to his defense and why do they care so much about some criminals on death row but not other criminals in death row? Well, we ll discuss. Also, Kamala Harris sits down for her first solo interview since she stole the nomination, and she embarrasses herself as expected. Plus, a couple of pastors and the guy who created Veggie Tales are the latest Christians to come out against my new movie. I ll respond to that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left is in mourning after a convicted murderer guilty of brutally stabbing a woman to death was executed.
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They have spun up a bunch of false narratives alleging that the man was innocent.
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But why are they coming to his defense and why do they care so much about some criminal on death row, but they don't care about other criminals in death row?
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Also, Kamala Harris sits down for her first solo interview since she stole the nomination and she embarrasses herself as expected.
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Plus, a couple of pastors and the guy who created VeggieTales are the latest Christians, quote unquote, to come out against my new movie.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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On the day of August 11th, 1998, a lifelong criminal named Marcellus Williams was looking for a house to rob in a gated community in University City, Missouri.
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Now, by that point, Williams already had several prior criminal convictions, including for robbery and burglary.
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He shouldn't have been on the streets at all, but apparently a judge let him out of jail so that he could commit more crimes and victimize more people.
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And that's exactly why he was in University City on August 11th.
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When Marcellus Williams knocked on the door of a home owned by a 42-year-old journalist named Felicia Gale, nobody answered.
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And he noticed that someone on the second floor was taking a shower.
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So Williams went downstairs to the kitchen, grabbed a butcher knife, and waited.
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And when Gale emerged from the shower, Marcellus Williams stabbed her 43 times, including seven separate fatal wounds.
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He then stole Gale's purse and her husband's laptop before leaving the house to pick up his girlfriend.
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Now, immediately, his girlfriend noticed something was wrong.
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The next day, Williams' girlfriend noticed a purse in the trunk that contained Felicia Gale's identification card.
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So she confronted Williams about this, and he admitted that he had just murdered a woman.
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He threatened to kill his girlfriend if she went to the police.
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Then a few months later, Williams was incarcerated for an unrelated crime.
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This is the theme in this guy's life, after all.
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He's constantly in prison because he's constantly committing serious crimes.
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In this particular instance, when Williams was in jail, he promptly bragged to another inmate that he had murdered Felicia Gale
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and provided non-public information about the killing.
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In other words, he provided information he could not have known unless he was there.
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When that inmate got out of jail, he went to the police department and told them what he had heard.
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During their investigation, detectives spoke to Marcellus Williams' girlfriend, who confirmed that he had confessed to the murder.
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Police also found several items belonging to the victim in the Buick that Marcellus Williams was driving,
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as well as the stolen laptop belonging to the victim's husband.
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On these facts, Marcellus Williams was convicted by a jury and sentenced to death.
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On appeal, Williams' attorney raised several objections, most of which were technical in nature.
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But there were a couple of claims that related to his guilt or innocence.
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Specifically, Williams said that the jury should have been given the opportunity to determine
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that he was a mere accomplice to the murders, as opposed to the actual killer.
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That's because, according to the defense, several unidentified hairs and shoe prints were found at the murder scene.
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Additionally, Williams' girlfriend was supposedly seen with a laptop computer after Williams was incarcerated.
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But these arguments weren't convincing to the Supreme Court of Missouri.
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For one thing, there was evidence showing that several workmen and hundreds of guests
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had been inside the home in the months prior to the murder,
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so you'd expect to have some unidentified shoe prints and hairs lying around.
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Additionally, Marcellus Williams told both his girlfriend and the inmate
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that he was alone when he committed the murders.
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And finally, there was no evidence that Williams' girlfriend possessed the same laptop computer
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Now, if you tune into any mainstream media coverage of Marcellus Williams' case,
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you won't hear any of the details I just outlined,
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all of which are undisputed and come directly from the Supreme Court of Missouri.
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You won't hear news anchors recount all of the ways in which it's clear
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that Marcellus Williams is extremely guilty of murder.
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He is guilty of randomly killing a woman, butchering her to death for no reason.
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He's very guilty of that, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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Instead, you'll find emotional segments like this one, which just aired on CNN.
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Tonight, a Missouri man has been executed by the state,
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He was accused of killing Felicia Gale in 1998,
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but a re-examination of evidence raised questions about whether he actually did it.
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Missouri Governor Mike Parsons stepped in this year and ordered the execution to move forward.
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Now, that was despite prosecutors, Williams' family, and even the family of Gale pleading to spare Williams' life.
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And tonight, a last-ish appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected,
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with the 6-6-3 vote falling along ideological lines.
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A devout, practicing Muslim, Williams' last words were,
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The man's last meal, chicken wings and tater tots.
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Marcellus Williams was given the lethal injection of the sedative pentobarbital.
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And nine minutes later, he was pronounced dead.
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One of the worst human beings on Earth was executed.
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none of them would want to live next door to this guy.
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Because you don't want him breaking into your house
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Because you all know exactly that that's exactly what he did.
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And by the way, all of these morons calling for saying he's innocent,
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they're not just saying he shouldn't be executed.
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They're calling for him to be released from prison.
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They just want him released into someone else's community.
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I don't want him in my community, but someone else's.
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The anchor focuses on reinforcing the current BLM narrative
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And to that end, she talks about how prosecutors
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and the victim's family didn't want to see Williams killed.
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She barely even mentions the woman who was brutally stabbed
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or the mountain of damning evidence in the case.
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First of all, the prosecutor that the CNN anchor is referring to
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is a restorative justice activist named Wesley Bell.
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Bell was not the original prosecutor on the case,
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He parachuted in at the last moment in defiance of the state attorney general
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Earlier this year, Bell claimed in court filings
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Specifically, there was supposedly unknown DNA on the murder weapon.
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received a report indicating the DNA on the murder weapon
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and an investigator who had handled the murder weapon
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So there was no unknown DNA on the murder weapon after all.
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what exactly happened with the handling of this murder weapon.
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it was normal practice for detectives in St. Louis
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And in this case, because the killer wore gloves,
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So the detectives and prosecutors repeatedly handled the knife
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because they figured there's nothing on the knife
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None of that means that DNA evidence exonerated him,
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which is what these morons are out there saying on Twitter.
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And that is why the court upheld the conviction.
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one of the defense's own experts previously testified
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throughout the legal process that others' DNA was present.
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that the other available evidence was very clear.
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It's actually impossible to imagine any scenario
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In recent court filings and in his interview with CNN,
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Here's part of the prosecutor's interview with CNN.
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You have to wonder why there was such a vested interest
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and was even willing to plead guilty to lesser charges,
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which he is not pleading guilty to the charges.
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He's acknowledging that there's enough evidence
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But that was really for us to be able to buy time
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to be able to investigate his claims of innocence
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to give us more time to investigate this matter,
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whether or not he was, in fact, innocent or not.
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It's also about the integrity of the conviction.
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They die at the hands of people like Marcellus Williams.
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doing that well then you should probably have a
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aren't even qualified to hold the positions you
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fight back against evil in modern culture if you
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said and said I have no regrets about the methods
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he added the real dividing line is between those
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of us who are willing to do what it takes to win
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yep yep and there and there that is the dividing
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matt walsh in one very narrow respect you cannot
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absolutely um with so so there is this you know
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principle in judaism about what it is when you when you
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save a life you save the world and so to deceive in
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order to protect life I mean I'm all for it to deceive in
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order to own the libs may it never be phil may it never be
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and let's be clear it's not just deceive to own the libs it's
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deceive to own the libs that in a movie that you will make
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so there is a self-interest in here there's a financial interest it's also
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yeah it's deceiving for entertainment value exactly because there are a whole
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bunch of other ways that you could get make a point that you disagree with
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diversity equity and inclusion programs right other than making fun of the
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people who promote them for money I think that it's not just about lying and
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it's not just about this movie obviously this is this is the ethic that
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animates so much of the christian subculture right now
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it is if you inflate their fear that everything is on the line the world is
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going to burn the country is going to be destroyed the churches are going to be
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taken over your children are going to be you know forced out of school to have a
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sex change operation whatever like these are things that are being told to
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people if everything is on the line then it justifies
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abandoning the way of jesus in order to do what's necessary
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to save yourself and those you love here here and yep and that's what he's saying
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is the that's right it's wrong on so many levels if you if you have to set aside
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the commands of jesus in order to fulfill what you think is jesus's agenda we can be
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it is a confused morally and theologically incoherent stew of nonsense
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and it's coming from exactly the sort of weak ineffectual uninspired utterly useless
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limp-wristed spineless little mealy-mouthed empty vessels who have all but destroyed
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the christian church in the west and that's why i get a little heated about this it's not because
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i'm defending the movie the movie doesn't need defense it's doing great the audience response
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has been overwhelmingly positive certainly not worth getting upset about the opinions of these
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three guys nobody cares about what upsets me is that these three guys and the legions of christian
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quote-unquote leaders just like them have done catastrophic damage to the body of christ and
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that damage can best be summarized by the statement from the man on the bottom right of the screen
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pastor erie it was a statement enthusiastically co-signed by the other two and i i if i wanted
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to sum up all of the problems that that that we're having uh that western christendom is having
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i i couldn't do it better than what that guy just said he said and i quote
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you can't follow the sermon on the mount and engage in a culture war
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that very concisely summarizes the effeminate castrated form of christianity that has invaded
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the christian church like a parasite and it could not possibly be more wrong i mean you might as well
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say that you can't be a good boxer if you know how to throw a punch it is a it is a statement that
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misses the point so much as to be basically unintelligible it is a wrongness so wrong that
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it induces stroke symptoms in those who encounter it no pastor uh let me clear this up for you
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you can't follow the sermon on the mount unless you engage in the culture war do not light a candle
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and put it under a bushel let your light shine before men that's what jesus tells us in the sermon
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on the mount and that is the culture war it is being a light a flame a torch of truth in the darkness
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what do you think a culture war is let's break this down i'll try to make it as simple as possible
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for you guys because i know that you are not very quick to pick up on things uh culture itself is
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nothing less than everything that makes up society our institutions our traditions our customs our art
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our uh collective achievements everything that defines our society that is the culture
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the culture war therefore is the fight over that nearly every aspect of our society of our culture
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is now controlled and defined by an ideology that not only denies but aggressively militates against
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christian values and christian teaching it is an ideology that embraces and promotes debauchery
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relativism self-worship hedonism nihilism an ideology that celebrates the mass slaughter of the unborn
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an ideology that seeks to inflame resentment suspicion and hostility between different races which is
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what our movie deals with an ideology that that instills uh deep confusion in children so they don't
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even understand uh who they are what they are an ideology that yes castrates and sterilizes children
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which is what our last movie dealt with now we want to stop that we want to defeat that ideology and
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install christian values in its place the other option is to surrender so tell me pastor which part of the
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sermon on the mount calls for us to surrender to evil where did you see that can you quote me a chapter
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and verse on that one what's the part that tells us that we're too good we need to be too good and
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too sophisticated to worry about evil little things like that you know what i see when i read the
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scriptures are continued relentless calls to fight evil not lie down and acquiesce to it
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but you know all of that don't you see people like you pretend to be too good for the culture war
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you stick up your nose and act like you're above it all but in reality you are yourself actively
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fighting a culture war you're fighting one right now all three of you in that video were fighting a
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culture war in the video itself it's just that you're fighting on the other side
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trying to convince us not to fight is a battle tactic that you are employing you are employing
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it on behalf of the side that despises christian values christian teaching and the truth of the
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gospel and sadly this tactic has been very effective up to this point but i think that's starting to
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change now finally because we see you people for what you really are and what you're really doing
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and who you're really aligned with and that is why you are all today very much with a vengeance
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canceled that'll do it for the show uh today let's talk to you tomorrow have a great day godspeed
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