The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 226 - The End Is Upon Us

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Green New Deal failed in the Senate and now we're all gonna die.

00:00:04.860 So we'll talk about that. Also, the prosecutor who dropped charges against Jussie Smollett yesterday,

00:00:09.620 well, he admitted explicitly that he knows that Jussie Smollett is guilty.

00:00:14.020 So we'll discuss that. And the New York Times has tried to disprove God.

00:00:19.640 Did they succeed? That's a very important question, and we'll talk about that today as well on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.000 Well, here we are, without hope, without a future. All is lost.

00:00:40.840 The Green New Deal was voted down in the Senate. The final tally was 0 to 57.

00:00:47.240 Not one senator voted for this legislation. Not a single one.

00:00:51.920 They all said, they all said, oh, no, we'd rather, we'd rather drown the planet.

00:00:56.940 And so be it. That's what's going to happen.

00:00:58.600 And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has told us time and time again that if we don't pass the Green New Deal, we are all going to die.

00:01:06.400 And I believe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She would not lie. If she says it, it's true.

00:01:11.020 Even if it's factually wrong, it's still morally correct.

00:01:13.540 So even if we don't die factually, we're still going to die morally.

00:01:18.460 So what's the point anymore? That's the question I'm asking now.

00:01:21.040 What am I doing here in this place?

00:01:24.740 What are you doing watching this? It's over. Don't you get it? It's all over.

00:01:30.300 Everything's going to die. The caribou will die first.

00:01:32.540 They're already dying. The polar bears are next. The penguins will go.

00:01:36.600 No ark is going to save them this time or us.

00:01:39.120 But the difference is we deserve it. We deserve to die. 0.99

00:01:42.740 OK, well, I don't deserve it, but you deserve it. 1.00

00:01:45.800 OK, I've done my part. I've made I tried to save the planet.

00:01:49.960 I rode my bike to the post office last week. I reuse my hotel towels.

00:01:56.680 You know, I when I pump my gas, I shake my head disapprovingly because I don't like using the gas.

00:02:03.660 My watch is made from reused wood.

00:02:07.160 OK, I have made the sacrifices. 1.00

00:02:09.260 It's you selfish pigs. You're the ones. 1.00

00:02:13.180 This is your fault. This is all your fault.

00:02:16.740 So what to do now?

00:02:18.420 Well, there's nothing to do but wait.

00:02:22.020 For the tribulation, Mother Gaia is going to exact her vengeance on all of us, and there will be no survivors.

00:02:29.420 You are going to die.

00:02:30.860 Your family, your children, your friends, everyone, you know, will die in agony. 0.99

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00:04:18.760 A reporter for ABC.

00:04:21.680 I want to talk a little bit about Jussie Smollett.

00:04:23.880 I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it, but there are a lot of other things to talk about, including, by the way, this is coming up in a few minutes, but the New York Times, I guess, is trying to salvage its reputation after embarrassing itself many times over,

00:04:37.520 especially with the Mueller investigation.

00:04:39.600 And so the way they're doing that is they figure they're going to try to disprove God.

00:04:43.180 And so we're going to take a look and see if they succeeded in disproving God.

00:04:46.800 But first, let's talk about Jussie Smollett.

00:04:48.280 A reporter for ABC, Terry Moran, says on Twitter, this is what he tweeted, he said, Cook County Clerk's Office, that's a tongue twister, tells ABC they were shocked that no written motions were filed with the court in connection with today's surprising dismissal in the Smollett case.

00:05:06.900 On top of that, the case has been wiped off their database as if it never existed.

00:05:12.800 So they've already wiped it off, and they didn't file any motions or anything like that.

00:05:17.500 Nothing was written down.

00:05:18.340 They just said, hey, you can go, and they erased it like it never occurred.

00:05:23.240 Meanwhile, Joe Maggots, or Maggots, I guess I should figure out how to pronounce this guy.

00:05:27.380 It can't really be Maggots, can it?

00:05:28.720 That would be a really unfortunate last name.

00:05:31.860 And that's the assistant state's attorney who ostensibly made the decision to drop the charges against Smollett yesterday, although we know really it came from his boss, who's Kim Fox, who had originally recused herself from the case because of her associations with the family.

00:05:46.900 But then she decided, you know, never mind.

00:05:48.960 I think I'll get involved.

00:05:50.580 He was interviewed by a CNN affiliate yesterday, and his comments are interesting.

00:05:54.720 This is what he said.

00:05:55.660 He said, this was not an exoneration.

00:05:59.420 To say he was exonerated by us or anyone else is not true.

00:06:04.040 We believe he did.

00:06:05.440 Listen to this part, okay?

00:06:06.900 We believe he did what he was charged with doing.

00:06:11.700 So the people who dropped the charges are convinced of his guilt.

00:06:15.700 They just said, yeah, he did it.

00:06:17.600 This was never about his innocence.

00:06:19.420 And Smollett obviously knows that, by the way, which shines a different light on his comments that he made outside of the courthouse.

00:06:27.220 You may remember yesterday he gave that triumphant press conference.

00:06:31.100 And let's watch those comments again.

00:06:33.920 I've been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one.

00:06:37.980 I would not be my mother's son if I was capable of one drop of what I've been accused of.

00:06:42.540 This has been an incredibly difficult time, honestly one of the worst of my entire life.

00:06:49.040 But I am a man of faith, and I am a man that has knowledge of my history, and I would not bring my family, our lives, or the movement through a fire like this.

00:06:57.620 I just wouldn't.

00:06:58.860 So he's playing it up like he's been vindicated, right?

00:07:04.840 And he's celebrating like this was, you know, like he'd been proven innocent or something like that, when he knows that that's not the case. 1.00

00:07:15.460 So the guy is a pathological liar and a sociopath. 0.99

00:07:18.960 He's such a pathological liar that even, I'm sure even the Clintons are looking at this guy, and they're impressed. 1.00

00:07:23.240 It's hard for me to even say that he's a good liar, because you can tell that he's acting. 0.98

00:07:32.660 But he obviously has no qualms about lying.

00:07:36.440 He has no issues with it.

00:07:38.100 So what we have here is a guilty man who everybody knows is guilty, who even his allies at the state's attorney's office,

00:07:46.860 and that's a problem that he has allies there, but he does.

00:07:49.340 Because even his allies at the state's attorney's office, they say that he's guilty.

00:07:53.980 And yet he's being allowed to go free with his record wiped clean because he's rich, famous, and connected.

00:07:58.340 And that's not my interpretation of what's going on.

00:08:01.700 That is just what's happening, clear as day for all to see.

00:08:05.200 And really, this is what gets me about it.

00:08:08.160 And this is why I think it's so important.

00:08:09.600 It's the blatant nature of this corruption is what makes it all the more harmful.

00:08:16.140 So it's one thing if you've got these kind of corrupt deals that are hashed out behind closed doors in dimly lit, smoky rooms and that kind of thing.

00:08:28.500 We all know that that stuff happens.

00:08:30.860 And it's not good.

00:08:32.040 I'm not saying that it's good or it's okay because they do it secretly.

00:08:37.140 But I think when it goes down in broad daylight and the corruption is flaunted in our faces,

00:08:45.140 then I think that makes it all the more corrosive to our system and especially to the public's confidence in the system.

00:08:56.660 Because now we're being told to just simply accept that we have a two-tier justice system and some people are more equal than others.

00:09:05.920 And that's the way it is.

00:09:07.180 And they're simply putting it out there for us to see and saying, yeah.

00:09:11.360 It's one thing for us to have theories that it works this way or that a corrupt deal was made.

00:09:18.820 It's another thing when the corrupt dealmakers are out in public basically saying, yeah, that's the way it goes.

00:09:24.320 That's what's going on here.

00:09:25.800 What of it?

00:09:26.600 What are you going to do about it?

00:09:28.340 And I think as far as what needs to be done about it, I think Trump needs to get the DOJ involved because this is now,

00:09:34.760 this isn't simply a guy faking a hate crime, which is bad enough already.

00:09:40.220 When you hear something like, well, it was just a false police report, well, that's a crime that can vary in terms of its degree of severity depending on the situation.

00:09:52.040 And when you're faking a hate crime and you're famous and you're putting it out there for everyone to see, that is a really, really serious crime.

00:10:00.200 But on top of that, now we have corruption in government.

00:10:02.800 So I think the DOJ needs to get involved. 0.93

00:10:05.940 One other point about this before we move on.

00:10:07.780 You know, you're hearing a lot of people in the media try to obfuscate and get around what they know to be just straightforward corruption and injustice.

00:10:27.240 And they're trying to get around it by saying, oh, geez, it's such a complicated, weird, crazy thing.

00:10:33.540 I don't know what to think about it.

00:10:34.660 Nobody knows what to think about it.

00:10:35.540 I guess we'll never know what happened.

00:10:37.480 And then they just want to move on.

00:10:38.940 No, it's not confusing.

00:10:41.180 It is weird in many ways, but it's not confusing.

00:10:44.620 We all do know what to think of it.

00:10:47.480 It's extremely clear to all of us.

00:10:51.040 So that's not good enough.

00:10:52.620 In fact, Kamala Harris, I don't have the clip, but Kamala Harris was interviewed on, I believe it was CNN, one of the news channels yesterday.

00:11:00.180 And she was asked about this.

00:11:01.560 Remember that Kamala Harris, when this first happened, when Smollett first faked the hate crime, Kamala Harris immediately said that it came out and she knew exactly what happened and she condemned it and said this is, I believe she called it a modern day lynching and all of that.

00:11:18.120 Well, now she's gotten tongue-tied and she was asked about it last night and she said, well, I don't know.

00:11:23.960 I'm at a loss for words.

00:11:25.320 Who knows what to say about this?

00:11:26.820 It's all just so confusing.

00:11:29.500 No, again, it's not confusing.

00:11:31.300 Listen to what the state's attorney's office is saying.

00:11:33.600 They're saying, yes, he did it.

00:11:35.580 We're just letting him go.

00:11:37.800 What are you confused about, Kamala Harris?

00:11:39.540 What's confusing about that?

00:11:40.840 Speaking of double standards, I want to, I got to tell you about this.

00:11:48.320 Cardi B, as you probably know, is a very famous, very successful, for some reason, female rapper.

00:11:57.660 And she's not only successful in rap, she has, this is a mainstream thing.

00:12:02.480 She has endorsements from Pepsi and other companies.

00:12:05.080 Well, an Instagram video that she recorded about three years ago resurfaced over the weekend.

00:12:12.740 And now I have said that I think that there should be a statute of limitations on getting outraged over public statements people made about, you know, people made years ago and things that they posted online years ago.

00:12:28.680 Digging up old posts to nail someone is usually a lame move.

00:12:34.840 And I, and I don't like it.

00:12:37.460 So when you start a sentence with, oh, an old Instagram video was, was resurfaced.

00:12:43.700 Normally I'm going to say, yeah, who cares?

00:12:45.740 Let's, let's move on.

00:12:47.560 But it's kind of a different ball game entirely.

00:12:50.300 If the old posts that we're talking about consists of the person admitting to violent crime.

00:12:56.180 Well, then I think it's different.

00:12:58.760 If this was just something that they wrote and that was offensive, well, that's one thing.

00:13:02.800 But in this video, only three years old, Cardi B admits, actually brags really, that she used to lure men back to her hotel rooms and drug them and rob them. 0.96

00:13:16.040 Okay.

00:13:16.360 She, she admitted this in front of everyone.

00:13:19.500 The funny thing is it's not really funny, but the, the sort of funny thing is, is that she admits, um, she admits this in, in the context of defending herself.

00:13:31.500 So this was evidence that she brought to the forefront to defend herself.

00:13:36.880 Now I wish I could play the clip, but it's, it's every other word is the F bomb and you wouldn't be able to understand it between all the bleeping, but she cites this fact about herself that she used to lure men, uh, from the strip club back to her, back to hotel room, drug and rob them. 1.00

00:13:54.000 She cites this in order to prove that she deserves her success.

00:13:57.980 Um, so she's getting very emotional in the video and, and, and she says, Oh, some people say I don't deserve my success.

00:14:06.280 Oh yeah.

00:14:06.960 Well, I used to drug people and rob them.

00:14:10.680 What?

00:14:11.760 No, you see Cardi B that, that, that only further proves that you don't deserve your success. 0.98

00:14:17.180 You were a, you were what, a, a, a, a stripper slash robber.

00:14:21.140 And then, and now you're a millionaire.

00:14:22.500 No, that doesn't, that doesn't help at all.

00:14:24.220 That, that makes it even worse.

00:14:26.400 Um, by the way, Cardi B is 26 years old and she made this video, I guess when she was 23.

00:14:34.860 So she's talking about things that she must've done back like in, in what, 2011 or 2010, assuming that she was at least 18 years old or so.

00:14:45.320 If she was a stripper at the time when she was doing this, the point is, it's not like this is someone who's 65 and admitting to doing something 40 years ago.

00:14:54.540 Um, in that case, even if it's, well, if it's robbery, then it's still matters, but I don't know, 40 years is a long time.

00:15:03.800 Uh, so you could at least buy the, the argument that they've changed significantly in the meantime.

00:15:08.820 But if you're talking about you're 26 years old and you're saying, Oh, back in my youth, this is what I did.

00:15:14.320 Okay. But that was like yesterday. So that doesn't really, there's not much of a time difference there.

00:15:20.740 Um, after this video surfaced, Cardi B came out with a statement, if you can call it that.

00:15:27.420 And, and it falls well short of an apology. I'll read a little bit of it as best I can.

00:15:32.640 Um, she says, I'm seeing on social media that a live, I did a live video I did three years ago has popped back up a live where I talked about things I had to do in my past right or wrong, but I felt I needed to do to make a living.

00:15:47.060 I never claimed to be, uh, perfect. I mean, some people, the things they had to do to make a living would include, uh, maybe landscaping, working at Burger King.

00:16:00.200 No, she had to lure men back to her hotel room and, uh, and rob them. And it was what she had to do.

00:16:07.160 Uh, I never claimed to be perfect or come from a perfect world with a perfect past. I always speak my truth. I always own my S.

00:16:14.560 I want to say it's good that she owns her S, uh, her, you know, that's certainly wouldn't want anyone else to have to own it.

00:16:20.660 But, um, and no one is saying Cardi B that you have to be perfect. Uh, I'm not perfect.

00:16:30.000 You're right. That nobody on the planet right now is perfect, but maybe don't drug and rob people.

00:16:39.320 You know, I, I, I feel like there's a lot of room between perfect and drugging and robbing people.

00:16:46.000 You've got just a lot of area in between. And so I, I, I feel like maybe you should try to land somewhere in that in-between area.

00:16:54.440 So it doesn't do much good if someone says, oh, it's terrible that you drugged and robbed people.

00:17:00.500 Well, hey man, I'm not perfect. Okay.

00:17:04.420 Uh, she says, I made the choices I did at the time because I had very limited options.

00:17:08.820 I was blessed to have been able to, uh, rise from that, but so many women have not.

00:17:14.600 So many women are still drugging and robbing men. 1.00

00:17:17.240 Whether or not they were poor choices at the time, I did what I had to do to survive.

00:17:21.260 So she's not even admitting that they were poor choices.

00:17:23.480 She was saying, well, whether or not they were poor choices, I, you, for the sake of argument, let's say they were poor choices, but, uh, it's what I had to do.

00:17:30.840 But the men I spoke about in my, in my life were men that I dated, that I was involved with men that were conscious, willing, and aware.

00:17:39.700 I have a past that we can't change.

00:17:42.880 I guess I should have, what?

00:17:45.720 So the men that she drugged and robbed, she, she was dating and they were conscious, willing, and aware.

00:17:54.300 So they were willing to be drugged and robbed.

00:17:56.200 So she got consent first.

00:18:00.840 I guess that would change things a little bit if I believed it. 0.57

00:18:04.720 So she said, listen, uh, I, my plan here is just so you know, to drug you and rob you. 0.97

00:18:10.300 Do I have your consent?

00:18:12.140 Oh yeah, absolutely.

00:18:15.380 I'm not sure I really buy that.

00:18:16.800 A lot of the comments on Instagram are supportive.

00:18:19.620 Uh, I'll read you a few of the comments supporting her.

00:18:22.240 Love you, mommy.

00:18:23.520 Your truth is all good.

00:18:24.820 Ask, uh, well, I can't even read these.

00:18:28.300 Don't owe nobody no MF explanation of whatever you had to do to survive.

00:18:33.540 Someone else says, you ain't got to explain S to nobody, boo. 0.91

00:18:37.640 F these people. 1.00

00:18:39.700 Uh, oh man, people are so stupid in this world. 1.00

00:18:44.120 I can't even, this is just in, illegible. 1.00

00:18:50.220 Okay.

00:18:50.620 Um, anyway, let's just suffice it to say there are a lot of supportive comments as far as

00:18:55.260 I could tell they're supportive.

00:18:56.140 I don't know.

00:18:56.620 I don't know.

00:18:57.280 Um, now let me ask you, this is the question.

00:19:00.960 I said double standards, right?

00:19:04.460 Is there any chance, is there any chance in hell that a man could admit that he drugged and

00:19:13.780 robbed women and he would still have a career after that?

00:19:17.680 Is there any chance of that?

00:19:19.060 Now, I think especially a rapper could admit to drugging and robbing men, a male rapper could

00:19:28.740 probably, probably make that admission and, and be okay.

00:19:32.380 Uh, so that, the, the double standard here is, is, is the fact that this is okay.

00:19:37.900 Not even so much because Cardi B is a woman, uh, but because of who she was drugging and 1.00

00:19:43.600 robbing.

00:19:44.880 And that's, that makes it even more perverse, doesn't it?

00:19:48.260 Basically our society is saying, eh, you know, they were guys, they probably deserved it.

00:19:53.920 They were conscious, willing, and aware.

00:19:56.440 Sure.

00:19:56.780 Oh, we'll go with that.

00:19:59.860 This is, this is absolutely crazy.

00:20:02.140 And she hasn't even apologized for it.

00:20:04.640 So it's not even as though she's saying, I, this thing I did was horrible.

00:20:13.320 I'm, I'm, I'm utterly ashamed of it.

00:20:15.740 Uh, it's a terrible thing.

00:20:17.260 I'm so, so sorry.

00:20:18.360 I have changed.

00:20:19.860 She's not even saying that she's saying, that's what I had to do, which seems to insinuate

00:20:24.740 if she fell on hard times again, if she lost her record deal.

00:20:27.960 Well, well, watch out fellas, because she might be coming for you again. 1.00

00:20:32.920 Also, now I don't know how the statute of limitations works exactly with this, but she 0.71

00:20:38.940 is admitting to a series of felony crimes.

00:20:43.780 So wouldn't the police have something to say about that?

00:20:48.300 I don't know.

00:20:49.820 All right.

00:20:50.540 Um, moving on.

00:20:52.060 This, uh, is interesting.

00:20:54.420 Um, Peter Adderton is allegedly a professor of philosophy.

00:21:00.420 Uh, he wrote an article for the New York times titled a God problem, perfect, all powerful, 0.85

00:21:08.620 all knowing the idea of the deity.

00:21:11.060 Most Westerns Westerners accept is actually not coherent.

00:21:17.120 So this, as I said, appeared in the New York times a couple of days ago, um, trying to disprove

00:21:22.960 the existence of God.

00:21:25.300 And this guy is, he's writing quite a check with that headline.

00:21:29.080 He's setting the, uh, expectation that he will essentially disprove God by demonstrating

00:21:38.320 that the very idea of God is logically impossible.

00:21:41.900 That's what he's, that's what he's claiming he's going to do.

00:21:43.980 Now, I will say that this is probably the, you know, I would say this is probably the

00:21:49.560 best available tactic for an atheist, um, if they want to disprove God.

00:21:55.080 And most atheists will, will say that they don't have to disprove the existence of God

00:21:59.600 because, uh, the burden of proof isn't on them.

00:22:03.920 But in spite of that burden of proof kind of deflection, the fact is most of them do think

00:22:11.940 that they can prove that God doesn't exist.

00:22:14.940 And, uh, they make arguments all the time that they believe do essentially prove the

00:22:19.700 non-existence of God.

00:22:21.680 But the problem is that if you want to go that route, um, there are several moves that

00:22:28.700 you can't make.

00:22:29.720 Like you can't get into science.

00:22:31.800 Okay.

00:22:32.440 Science cannot disprove God because science can only show us the workings of the natural

00:22:38.020 world.

00:22:38.400 That's all that science can do.

00:22:40.720 And science is a very important thing for that reason, because we live in the natural

00:22:44.380 world.

00:22:45.320 Um, but science cannot tell us anything about what lies beyond it.

00:22:50.000 So even if you think it's absurd to suggest that something lies beyond the natural world,

00:22:53.920 regardless, that is the claim that we theists are making, that there is something beyond

00:22:57.800 it.

00:22:58.080 And science simply cannot penetrate, um, uh, beyond, you know, the limitations of the natural

00:23:05.740 world.

00:23:06.100 So that doesn't work.

00:23:08.140 Anthropology, history, sociology, all of these avenues are, are, are avenues that atheists

00:23:13.480 will use to try to attack religion and belief in God, but none of it can do the trick.

00:23:19.600 Now, logic is a different matter though.

00:23:22.880 Um, because God doesn't have to obey the laws of science as we know them, but he does have

00:23:30.160 to be logically coherent, uh, existence.

00:23:36.140 If we're going to say that anything exists in any sense at all, then that thing must be

00:23:42.280 logically coherent, logically incoherent, logically contradictory things by definition cannot exist.

00:23:49.780 So if God is like a married bachelor or a square circle, then he can't exist.

00:23:56.420 Literally can't.

00:23:58.060 It would be a contradiction.

00:23:59.820 Uh, two things that negate each other cannot exist at the same time simultaneously.

00:24:04.240 So the question is, uh, is God a married bachelor?

00:24:08.940 Is he a square circle?

00:24:11.880 That's what the professor claims he's going to prove.

00:24:17.380 Does he succeed?

00:24:18.620 Well, let's go through this.

00:24:20.080 Uh, I'm going to go through this bit by bit.

00:24:21.840 I'll read all of his arguments such as they are.

00:24:24.460 And, uh, and then I'll respond.

00:24:26.780 I'm not going to read his entire article.

00:24:28.520 I'll just skip to the parts that are actually arguments.

00:24:32.280 So he says, let's first consider the attribute of omnipotence.

00:24:37.660 Uh, you've probably heard the paradox of the stone before.

00:24:40.940 Can God create a stone that cannot be lifted?

00:24:43.420 If God can create such a stone, then he is not, then he is not all powerful since he himself

00:24:48.260 cannot lift it.

00:24:49.140 On the other hand, if he cannot create a stone that cannot be lifted, then he is not all

00:24:53.380 powerful since he cannot create the unliftable stone.

00:24:56.120 Either way, God is not all powerful.

00:24:57.680 Oh my, uh, this is awkward where this is a philosophy professor and he's starting, he's

00:25:07.320 coming right out of the gate.

00:25:08.500 His first argument is the heavy stone thing.

00:25:12.120 That's what he's starting with.

00:25:14.600 This, I remind you again, is a philosophy professor and he comes out the gate with a theological

00:25:19.380 conundrum that used to confuse me when I was six years old.

00:25:22.940 I can remember being six years old and having this discussion with my parents about, can God

00:25:27.480 make a rock so big he can't lift it?

00:25:30.820 As an adult now, I realize that this hypothetical is nonsense.

00:25:36.080 It is a logical contradiction.

00:25:39.520 For God, who is all powerful, all stones, by definition, are liftable.

00:25:46.440 All powerful means you can do all things.

00:25:49.100 And so for an all powerful God, that means that all stones are inherently liftable.

00:25:55.900 So what you're really asking is, can God create a liftable, unliftable stone?

00:26:02.500 And the answer obviously is no.

00:26:04.640 That's an easy answer, easy question to answer.

00:26:06.780 No, he can't do that.

00:26:08.140 Does that prove that he's not all powerful?

00:26:10.040 No.

00:26:10.220 Because it's in the same sense that he can't create a square circle.

00:26:14.760 He can't exist and not exist at the same time.

00:26:17.700 He can't make north, south and south, north.

00:26:20.340 He can't make chili with beans in it.

00:26:22.600 These are logical contradictions.

00:26:24.780 If a thing has four sides, it's not a circle.

00:26:26.700 If a thing has beans in it, it's not a chili.

00:26:28.780 That's just the way that it goes.

00:26:30.800 So this question is nonsense.

00:26:33.460 You may as well disprove God by saying, can God blibbity blue?

00:26:37.680 Well, no, he can't blibbity blue because that doesn't mean anything.

00:26:43.120 He continues a little later on.

00:26:44.840 He says, let's see.

00:26:48.980 Can God create a world in which evil does not exist?

00:26:53.680 This does appear to be logically possible.

00:26:56.440 Presumably, God could have created such a world without contradiction.

00:26:59.980 It evidently would be a world very different from the one we currently inhabit, but a possible

00:27:04.560 world all the same.

00:27:06.260 Indeed, if God is morally perfect, it is difficult to see why he wouldn't have created such a

00:27:11.580 world that is a perfect world.

00:27:13.540 So why didn't he?

00:27:15.040 The standard defense is that evil is necessary for free will.

00:27:20.380 Well, not exactly.

00:27:22.180 We'll get to that in a minute.

00:27:23.720 According to the well-known Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga, to create creatures capable

00:27:28.580 of moral good, God must create creatures capable of moral evil.

00:27:32.120 And he can't give these creatures the freedom to perform evil and at the same time prevent

00:27:36.340 them from doing so.

00:27:37.860 However, this does not explain so-called physical evil, suffering, caused by non-human causes

00:27:42.980 like famines, earthquakes, etc.

00:27:45.300 Nor does it explain, as Charles Darwin noted, why there should be so much pain and suffering

00:27:50.860 among the animal kingdom.

00:27:52.000 Okay, so the problem of evil.

00:27:56.140 He goes from unliftable stone, and then next he's going to the problem of evil.

00:27:59.980 This can be separated into two basic categories, man-caused evil and non-man-caused evil, or

00:28:06.660 what we might call natural evil.

00:28:08.720 Well, the man-caused evil really presents no challenge whatsoever.

00:28:19.540 Now, the suffering itself is a challenge.

00:28:24.980 It's a huge challenge.

00:28:26.660 It's a difficulty.

00:28:28.060 But in terms of a theological challenge, there isn't much there.

00:28:32.100 If we are, as Alvin Plantinga noted, if we are to have free will, then we must have the

00:28:39.440 ability to do good or bad.

00:28:42.400 Just as if we are to have the freedom to go north, then we also have to have the freedom

00:28:47.520 to go south.

00:28:48.780 If north is the only option, then we can't say that we had the freedom to go north.

00:28:54.560 We had no other choice.

00:28:56.020 So this, to me, seems rather obvious.

00:28:58.300 Although he opened that paragraph by saying, well, you know, Christians will claim that

00:29:02.960 evil is necessary in order for good to exist.

00:29:05.680 That's not exactly true.

00:29:06.980 That's not what we're saying.

00:29:08.360 We're saying that the possibility of evil is necessary in order for good to exist.

00:29:14.620 It's not that the good is reliant on the evil or something like that.

00:29:19.140 This isn't some sort of dualist notion.

00:29:21.460 It's just that if you're going to give people freedom, then in that freedom, there must be

00:29:29.020 at least the potential for them to do a bad thing, or else it's not freedom.

00:29:34.120 And if you're forcing someone, if you're compelling them to always make the right choice, to always

00:29:38.480 do the good thing, to be loving, to be patient, to be kind, well, then it's not really them

00:29:43.680 being those things.

00:29:45.300 Then it would really be God.

00:29:46.740 Then we're all marionettes on a string, and God is just up there making us dance around,

00:29:52.020 and life becomes meaningless.

00:29:53.500 So that, to me, seems rather obvious.

00:29:57.220 What about non-man-caused evil?

00:29:59.480 The professor mentions famines and earthquakes.

00:30:03.020 Well, let's leave aside that free will actually does play a part in some of those things.

00:30:07.500 Famines are often caused by incompetence in governments, such as in North Korea, and other

00:30:12.700 kinds of human failures can cause famines.

00:30:14.700 But not always, and certainly earthquakes aren't caused by people.

00:30:19.060 There are many kinds of suffering that are not directly caused by human action.

00:30:23.580 Yet the Judeo-Christian view is that, in a way, actually, humans did cause those things.

00:30:33.380 By rejecting God, mankind fell into discord with nature, fell out of balance, and that harmony

00:30:40.380 with the natural world was lost.

00:30:42.920 Thus, you have now all these terrible things, such as famines and earthquakes and cancer

00:30:48.860 and everything else.

00:30:49.440 Now, you may not like that answer, but the point is that someone brought up in the Judeo-Christian

00:30:55.260 tradition does have an answer for that problem.

00:30:58.220 It's not like we have no answer for it.

00:31:00.100 What about animal suffering?

00:31:01.260 Again, that discord, that disharmony plays a part in that, I think.

00:31:05.780 Also, we should remember that we don't really know to what extent animals experience pain.

00:31:11.500 Now, we know that they feel pain.

00:31:12.980 They're capable of pain.

00:31:13.760 They have nervous systems.

00:31:14.820 But we don't know to what extent they are conscious of the fact that they are in pain.

00:31:21.060 Can a dog say to himself, I am in pain?

00:31:24.580 Does a dog have I concepts in that way?

00:31:28.480 Well, that's a difficult question, and it's one that the professor certainly doesn't try

00:31:33.640 to answer.

00:31:35.320 Okay, then he says, what about God's infinite knowledge, his omniscience?

00:31:38.700 If God knows all there is to know, then he knows at least as much as we know.

00:31:43.980 But if he knows what we know, then this would appear to detract from his perfection.

00:31:49.320 Why?

00:31:50.660 There are some things we know that, if they were also known to God, would automatically

00:31:54.840 make him a sinner, which, of course, is in contradiction with the concept of God.

00:31:58.480 As the late American philosopher Michael Martin has already pointed out, if God knows all

00:32:02.120 that is knowable, then God must know things that we do, like lust and envy.

00:32:07.020 But one cannot know lust and know envy unless one has experienced them.

00:32:12.680 But to have had feelings of lust and envy is to have sinned, in which case God cannot be

00:32:16.840 morally perfect.

00:32:17.580 All right, this is kind of bizarre.

00:32:20.340 However, he's arguing here that God would need to be sinful in order to know everything.

00:32:28.860 But although philosophy is the love of knowledge, this philosophy professor has, ironically, a

00:32:35.400 fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of knowledge.

00:32:39.280 An emotional experience is not knowledge.

00:32:46.100 God is well aware that sadistic people, lustful people exist.

00:32:51.640 He doesn't actually need to be sadistic in order to have the knowledge of and about this

00:32:58.220 fact.

00:32:58.620 You might as well claim that God is an omniscient because he's never had a toothache.

00:33:06.080 It just, it doesn't make any sense.

00:33:08.940 And by the way, you've also, you've also basically with this argument discarded all of psychiatry,

00:33:15.000 psychology, all of that.

00:33:16.900 Because then you're telling us that, well, you know, unless you've actually been a sociopath, 0.67

00:33:24.020 unless you've been a psychopath, unless you've, you know, unless you've been schizophrenic,

00:33:30.180 you can't really know anything about it.

00:33:37.060 This is sort of a similar argument to the one that a kid in Sunday school might pose to his

00:33:41.900 teacher to try to stump his teacher.

00:33:43.740 If God is all powerful, then can he sin?

00:33:45.780 Can he tell a lie?

00:33:47.680 And if he can't sin, then he must not be all powerful.

00:33:49.880 And if he can, then he's not morally perfect, right?

00:33:51.900 But this is a misunderstanding of power.

00:33:54.400 Sin is not an act of power.

00:33:56.600 It's an, it's a lack of power.

00:33:58.060 It's an act of weakness.

00:34:00.080 A person sins because they have no control over their impulses and their desires.

00:34:04.780 An all powerful person would by necessity be sinless.

00:34:08.780 So when we say that God is all powerful, all knowing, when we say all powerful, we mean

00:34:13.480 that he is literally all power.

00:34:15.280 He has only power.

00:34:17.500 He has no weakness, if you want to put it that way.

00:34:20.480 Which means that, yes, he cannot be weak.

00:34:24.820 But that is not, that doesn't mean that he's not all powerful.

00:34:28.040 You see, it just doesn't make any sense.

00:34:29.780 You're saying if God is not weak, then he, if God can't be weak, then he can't be powerful?

00:34:34.280 What?

00:34:34.640 In a similar way, people who give in to lust or sadism or whatever else, they are not gaining

00:34:41.260 knowledge in doing this.

00:34:42.720 They are, in fact, demonstrating a lack of knowledge.

00:34:44.960 They're demonstrating a lack of understanding, a lack of wisdom.

00:34:48.520 Remember, part of our, part of omniscience is, is knowing everything that will happen.

00:34:53.580 Well, if you could see in real time the negative consequences of your bad actions, then you would

00:35:02.540 probably be less tempted to do them, right?

00:35:05.340 If a man could actually see in real time before he commits adultery, let's say, if he could

00:35:12.460 see his marriage being destroyed, um, his kids being traumatized, his whole life falling

00:35:18.420 apart, if he could really see that, not just kind of know about it in the abstract as a

00:35:24.720 possibility, but see it happening, then I think he would be not so tempted anymore to, um, to

00:35:31.540 commit the adultery.

00:35:33.020 So you see where perfect knowledge and perfect wisdom will mean that you're not going to be

00:35:38.360 tempted to these things.

00:35:39.320 And that's basically the end of the article.

00:35:42.880 Uh, that's it.

00:35:44.000 I mean, that's the whole, that's the whole argument against God.

00:35:48.140 I would say that it fails.

00:35:50.300 Amazingly, he never even makes the best logical arguments against God.

00:35:55.260 I'm a theist and I could have done a better job than him.

00:35:59.380 If you're trying to find apparent logical contradictions between God's various attributes,

00:36:04.620 omniscience, your best bet is to look at, um, omnipotence and omniscience.

00:36:10.960 Okay.

00:36:11.760 You could try to argue that omnipotence cannot coexist with omniscience.

00:36:16.920 So omniscience means, you know, everything you're going to do in the future.

00:36:21.040 Uh, if you do something other than what you knew you would do, you're not omniscient.

00:36:25.960 But if you can't do anything other than what you know you're going to do, then you're not

00:36:33.020 omnipotent.

00:36:34.700 Okay.

00:36:35.160 That, that, that is, that is one logical argument you could try to make.

00:36:38.680 Amazingly, this philosophy professor never makes that argument.

00:36:41.900 Uh, and that at least is interesting.

00:36:43.580 Um, where you're saying, well, if you know everything you're going to do and you're all

00:36:47.280 powerful, then how does that work?

00:36:49.000 Because don't you have to do the things you know you're going to do, which would seem to

00:36:52.460 detract from your, uh, um, uh, your, um, omnipotence.

00:36:57.960 So that, that at least is an interesting argument.

00:36:59.840 I, I'd throw that out there for the next person who wants to write an article in the New York

00:37:02.980 Times.

00:37:03.240 Although that also fails because, um, all we have to do is point out the fact that God is, uh,

00:37:10.240 is eternal.

00:37:12.980 And if he's eternal, that means that he exists outside of time.

00:37:16.860 We know that time is finite, that time came into existence at a specific point along with

00:37:22.380 space.

00:37:22.820 So it's a dimension of reality.

00:37:24.940 And if God is the creator of the world, then that means that he's the creator of that dimension,

00:37:29.480 which means that he exists outside of time, which means that for God, it's not as though

00:37:34.680 he knows what he's going to do.

00:37:36.820 Like he's looking in a crystal ball and he can see the future for him.

00:37:40.240 Everything is now.

00:37:41.500 So there is no, uh, what he's going to do.

00:37:45.040 There's no what he did.

00:37:46.300 It's just all now.

00:37:47.860 Now, how does that work?

00:37:50.240 How can a, how, what does it mean to be in an eternal now?

00:37:54.920 I don't know exactly.

00:37:55.760 Obviously I can't wrap my head around it, but that is the concept of God that people who

00:38:00.900 are part of the Judeo-Christian tradition are working with.

00:38:04.220 And if you're going to argue against God, or at least against the Judeo-Christian God,

00:38:10.680 then you have to engage with those points.

00:38:14.340 All right.

00:38:15.100 Finally, uh, I'm going to skip emails for today because I need to, uh, touch on this.

00:38:20.180 That was unfortunate phrasing, actually, I guess, because the subject is men's only cuddling 0.99

00:38:26.500 groups.

00:38:27.900 The daily wire reports a Plymouth, Pennsylvania men's group is introducing an all men's cuddling

00:38:34.800 event in order to help men redefine masculinity in their own lives and to cope with past sexual

00:38:42.000 abuse.

00:38:42.820 The men's therapeutic cuddle group, as it's known on meetup.com wants to help all men,

00:38:48.380 uh, and aims to provide a safe, structured, and platonic environment for men to experience

00:38:54.200 the three A's acceptance, affirmation, and affection.

00:38:58.480 Um, let's see, you have to be 18 years or older.

00:39:00.680 You have to be hygienically sound, whatever that means.

00:39:04.500 I guess that's just a polite way of telling someone they have BO or something.

00:39:08.080 Hey man, you're, you're not very hygienically sound right now.

00:39:11.940 Um, more details from the blaze.

00:39:14.340 It says group organizers suggest holding your fellow man motorcycle style, which is described

00:39:20.600 as if you're taking notes on this, um, it's described as the holder who sits on a pillow

00:39:26.000 on the floor with his back against a wall or sofa.

00:39:30.260 And the second man, the one being held sits in front of the holder facing forward.

00:39:35.280 So his back rests on the holder's chest, his head on the shoulder.

00:39:40.940 The holder will embrace the man around the chest.

00:39:43.740 And in time, maybe ask for additional forms of affection, such as handholding hair or beard

00:39:50.380 stroking, um, back rubbing and hand massages.

00:39:56.700 Other options reportedly include spooning and, uh, the cuddle train.

00:40:01.400 Now, unfortunately there is no explanation or description provide provided for the cuddle

00:40:06.640 train, but I guess we can, if we want to imagine it, here's the good news.

00:40:12.820 Um, the event is in April and you can still sign up for it, fellas.

00:40:16.080 If you want to, there's plenty of space available, uh, although there won't be a lot of space

00:40:22.320 on the cuddle train.

00:40:23.320 Um, so don't miss out on your chance to be groped by strange men.

00:40:28.820 So I guess the point here is one to combat toxic masculinity, which, uh, yeah, mission accomplished.

00:40:37.060 You have utterly obliterated masculinity.

00:40:39.480 So that, that you've done, uh, goal achieved.

00:40:46.640 And then also though, it's, they're trying to help heal sexual abuse.

00:40:51.340 Well, that's kind of strange because it seems to me that sexual predators might be exactly

00:40:59.760 the sorts of people attracted to an event like this, right?

00:41:03.080 So basically what they're saying is come out and put yourself in a position to be sexually 0.85

00:41:08.760 abused again in order to heal from sexual abuse. 0.98

00:41:13.840 Uh, that strikes me as a bit deranged.

00:41:19.120 The whole thing does really.

00:41:21.820 Listen, if you're, if you're looking for some male bonding, just go to the bar, have a pint,

00:41:26.940 uh, you know, play some pool or something, uh, you know, I think, I think cuddling maybe

00:41:33.620 takes it a step or two too far, but then what do I know?

00:41:37.480 Because I am someone who is, uh, who has been, uh, I like to think plagued by, um, toxic masculinity

00:41:43.560 after all, you know, look at my beard, which has never been stroked by a man, which apparently

00:41:49.740 is one of the options at the cuddle group.

00:41:52.040 All right.

00:41:52.560 We will leave it there on that very awkward note.

00:41:54.320 Uh, thanks for watching everybody.

00:41:55.580 Thanks for listening.

00:41:57.360 Godspeed.

00:42:10.720 I'm Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles show.

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00:42:18.340 Jussie Smollett, who now like OJ will no doubt go on the hunt for the real attackers.

00:42:23.660 Check it out at dailywire.com.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 27, 2019

Ep. 226 - The End Is Upon Us

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