The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 238 - Democrats Hand Republicans A Gift

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats are trying to force boys into girls sports.

00:00:05.300 This is, of course, ridiculous, but it's also great news for Republicans, and I'll explain why.

00:00:10.500 Also, it's been seven years, and the LGBT lobby is still obsessed with Chick-fil-A, 0.93

00:00:16.300 after the founder of Chick-fil-A seven years ago said that he supports biblical marriage.

00:00:20.700 We'll talk about this obsession and what it means.

00:00:22.940 And the newest innovation, consent condoms.

00:00:27.900 We'll talk about why they are absurd today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:38.880 Well, it seems this is my last broadcast, folks.

00:00:43.880 I have made a terrible mistake, and there's no turning back from it.

00:00:51.000 But yesterday, in a moment of reckless overconfidence, I did something that I just can't undo, I'm afraid.

00:01:03.880 After reading that story about the Democrats trying to pass a bill to force boys into girls sports,

00:01:10.400 which we'll talk more about in a few moments, I read that story, and then I sent out a tweet.

00:01:15.520 This is a tweet I sent out.

00:01:16.500 I said, this is the challenge I open up to every liberal.

00:01:19.400 Please provide one logical reason to allow biological males into women's sports. 0.99

00:01:24.240 If you can provide one logical reason, I will donate all of my money to an LGBT group and leave the Internet forever. 1.00

00:01:31.080 Just one is all I need.

00:01:32.160 Now, my point here, I was trying to communicate, is that it's such an illogical thing,

00:01:36.980 and I am so confident that you couldn't possibly come up with one good reason

00:01:40.240 that I would donate all of my money and go into the woods in seclusion for the rest of my days.

00:01:47.940 If you could simply come up with one reason, and many people tried to come up with reasons,

00:01:51.480 and none were successful until the dastardly Jake came along.

00:01:56.820 A guy named Jake came, and he said, well, I've got a reason.

00:02:02.340 If you allow biological males into women's sports, it would make the WNBA watchable. 1.00

00:02:07.440 And I read that, and I thought, well, crap. 0.96

00:02:12.800 That is a pretty logical reason, come to think of it. 0.97

00:02:15.540 It would make the WNBA watchable. 0.97

00:02:18.260 WNBA in its current form is completely unwatchable.

00:02:22.100 But if you, yeah, if you included some men in there, I do think that,

00:02:25.980 can you imagine LeBron James essentially playing five-on-one against five women on a WNBA court?

00:02:32.740 That would certainly be highly entertaining.

00:02:35.020 In fact, it would probably be more entertaining than what you get in even the NBA right now.

00:02:39.660 So there it is.

00:02:42.460 I guess I lose.

00:02:46.360 I tried to explain to my wife this morning why we're going to be donating our life savings to GLAAD

00:02:50.680 and going to live in the woods forever.

00:02:53.260 And honestly, she wasn't very receptive to the idea.

00:02:55.980 It kind of surprised me, and it was pretty frustrating.

00:02:57.980 You know, I don't know if she's making a huge deal about it, but I'm a man of my word, ladies and gentlemen.

00:03:03.500 And all we can do then in these final moments together is just, you know, try to enjoy it and remember the good times.

00:03:13.060 Now, a lot to talk about today in my last broadcast.

00:03:16.240 But first, a word from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

00:03:20.140 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is working hard to combat texting while driving.

00:03:24.440 Okay, cops are writing tickets for people who text while driving.

00:03:27.540 So you drive, you text, you pay.

00:03:29.520 Thousands of people die every year in crashes related to distracted driving.

00:03:33.440 It's a huge problem.

00:03:34.580 And that's why cops are out there.

00:03:36.180 They're writing tickets.

00:03:37.900 And it's not just a dangerous problem.

00:03:40.420 It's also deadly.

00:03:41.360 Between 2012 and 2017, nearly 20,000 people died in crashes related to distracted driving.

00:03:48.720 That's how much of an epidemic this is.

00:03:50.800 And if your own safety isn't enough reason to stop texting while driving, then, well, how about this?

00:03:55.300 It's illegal.

00:03:56.900 And how about this?

00:03:58.300 You know, when you send or receive a text and you take your eyes off the road for about five seconds,

00:04:03.860 at 55 miles an hour, that's like driving more than the length of a football field without looking, with your eyes closed.

00:04:09.280 So that's why cops are writing tickets for this.

00:04:11.820 And remember, if you text while driving, you will get caught.

00:04:14.980 You drive, you text, you pay.

00:04:17.160 All right.

00:04:20.900 Come to think of it, I did open that challenge to liberals, right, specifically.

00:04:24.920 I did say liberals.

00:04:26.160 I said I opened this challenge to liberals.

00:04:28.020 And there's no way that Jake is a liberal if he's making a comment like that about the WNBA.

00:04:33.080 No self-respecting liberal would ever make a disparaging remark about the WNBA.

00:04:38.180 So I think I get off on a technicality, actually.

00:04:40.680 Praise God.

00:04:42.100 So you're not going to get rid of me that easy, I suppose.

00:04:44.740 That was a close one.

00:04:49.020 But all of that stems from this move by the Democrats that I mentioned.

00:04:53.900 As the Daily Wire reported yesterday, every single Democrat in the House, save for just one,

00:04:59.040 has voted for a bill that would force schools to allow biological males to intrude into female sports.

00:05:06.300 And the bill would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to offer these legal protections to or for, quote, gender identity, 0.88

00:05:17.780 which would compel schools to make room for biological males on girls' sports teams. 1.00

00:05:24.420 Now, obviously, the measure has no hope of becoming law right now with Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling the Senate.

00:05:33.540 So it's not going to become law.

00:05:34.940 But if and when it ever does become law, if Democrats are running everything, well, it would be the end of women's sports as we know it. 1.00

00:05:44.460 There's just no way that women's sports can survive when you've got when men are allowed to come in and dominate, which, of course, they will. 1.00

00:05:51.420 And that is bad news for women. 1.00

00:05:54.220 This is all bad news for society on a number of levels.

00:05:57.600 It's bad news for common sense and science and all of that.

00:06:02.540 But politically speaking, this kind of stuff is great news for Republicans.

00:06:07.760 OK, the Democrats here are rallying around a position that no sane person in the country thinks is reasonable.

00:06:15.340 Not just none.

00:06:16.940 OK, even these Democrats themselves don't think it's reasonable.

00:06:21.720 Which is why none of them were talking about this 10 years ago.

00:06:24.940 This wasn't an issue that anyone was talking about.

00:06:27.420 But the political winds have blown them all the way out here onto the fringes into this sort of ideological backwater where now the Democrats feel like they have to appease the most radical elements of their base.

00:06:42.620 And they feel that in doing that, they have to deny the basic biological differences between men and women.

00:06:48.560 And aside from them, and like I said, those fringe radical elements of the progressive base, no one else is on board with this.

00:06:58.160 So this is a total loser issue for Democrats. 0.97

00:07:01.080 It's a complete loser for them. 0.93

00:07:03.260 The Daily Wire report quotes the Human Rights Coalition's statement on this bill. 0.97

00:07:07.800 Now, the Human Rights Coalition, they are part of that fringe, ideological, radical backwater.

00:07:14.020 And they said that opponents of equality in athletics for transgender athletes have argued that...

00:07:21.680 Now, of course, the irony is that they are the ones opposing equality in athletics.

00:07:25.560 Now, when you've got girls competing against girls, now you've got essentially equality or some semblance of equality in athletics because they're all girls.

00:07:36.840 They've all got that in common.

00:07:38.700 And then it just comes down to, well, who's actually the best athlete within those parameters?

00:07:43.900 And, you know, who's best prepared and who's practiced the most?

00:07:46.720 And that's how you succeed.

00:07:48.260 So that's equality.

00:07:49.500 What they're talking about here is completely unequal.

00:07:51.840 When you put a man onto the track against the women runners, that's not equality. 1.00

00:07:58.700 That's the exact opposite of it.

00:07:59.860 That is an unfair, insurmountable, biological inequality.

00:08:07.360 But anyway, they said opponents of equality in athletics of transgender athletes have argued that girls who are transgender have unfair physiological advantages over cisgender girls.

00:08:19.200 And as a result, will dominate women's competitive sports. 1.00

00:08:22.900 But they say that this is not rooted in fact.

00:08:26.800 Not rooted in fact.

00:08:28.540 It is absolutely a fact that men have more muscle mass, larger fast-twitch muscle fibers, larger lungs, larger hearts, longer legs, much more testosterone, much less estrogen,

00:08:39.080 a larger capacity to produce oxygen when they exert themselves, among literally dozens of other biological advantages, right?

00:08:49.480 And this is as much a fact as gravity.

00:08:55.880 All but the most fringe and bizarre members of the far left know and acknowledge this reality.

00:09:02.320 Now, I think part of what's happening here is that Democrats are allowing themselves to be led astray by polling data.

00:09:12.380 There is, I've looked up the surveys on this.

00:09:16.100 How many Americans really are in favor of having biological males compete against girls in high school sports or sports at any level?

00:09:25.300 Well, and I found a couple of, so one survey that I found says, alleges that opinion is basically evenly split.

00:09:37.180 But I am absolutely certain that these polls, which Democrats are probably looking at, do not reflect public opinion accurately.

00:09:47.720 Probably because most people are confused by references to transgender girls.

00:09:52.940 Now, if you go up to the average person and say, should transgender girls be allowed to race against other girls? 0.97

00:09:57.820 And that's probably the way these poll questions are phrased.

00:10:00.460 I think most people are going to say, yeah, because most people don't know, what do you mean by that?

00:10:05.200 Most people don't know what that means.

00:10:07.000 They're not familiar with this bizarre lingo.

00:10:09.580 They don't understand that when you say transgender girl, what you mean is biological male pretending that he's a girl.

00:10:15.780 Now, if you put it like that, if you say, should biological males be allowed in women's sports?

00:10:24.100 I think you're going to find that the numbers are far more slanted.

00:10:32.720 I mentioned a few weeks ago, I did a completely unscientific Twitter poll about this, where I asked people, should biological males be allowed into women's sports?

00:10:41.940 That is a fair, non-biased way of phrasing it, because that's what we're talking about, right?

00:10:47.040 And there were something like 35,000 votes counted, and it was 97% against.

00:10:53.040 Now, again, not scientific, you know, skewed data, because most of my Twitter followers are probably going to skew towards being conservative.

00:11:02.860 But still, I mean, even so, I guarantee you, I could not find that kind of consensus with that big a group of people on any other issue.

00:11:13.540 I mean, I could have put a poll up about abortion, about anything, gun rights, immigration.

00:11:18.680 You're not going to find a 97 to 3 split, even among conservatives, on any other issue.

00:11:25.100 But on this, I mean, it's just obvious.

00:11:28.200 So if Democrats want to go this route, they're welcome to it.

00:11:32.620 Republicans should beat them over the head at every opportunity with this issue. 0.51

00:11:41.040 The Democrats are staking out a position that is explicitly anti-science, anti-woman,

00:11:47.020 and that is a fact that Republicans would do very well to highlight frequently and loudly.

00:11:51.580 And as we head into the election season, every Republican who finds himself on a debate stage with a Democrat should bring up this issue,

00:12:00.700 should force the Democrat to defend his belief that there are no biological differences between girls and boys.

00:12:09.880 Let them, you know, let them go out on that limb and try to explain that.

00:12:16.380 I tell you this, they don't want to.

00:12:18.340 The Democrats, they don't want to be asked about this issue publicly.

00:12:21.760 They really don't.

00:12:23.000 What they want to do is just pander to the LGBT lobby because they feel like they have to do that politically

00:12:28.960 and then never have to speak about it again.

00:12:32.020 That's what they want, and I think Republicans ought to not oblige them on that point.

00:12:39.600 Now, I've always said this is a winning issue for conservatives,

00:12:42.660 and I think public opinion is shifting more in our direction on this.

00:12:48.340 Especially the more that Democrats push it.

00:12:51.660 In fact, just yesterday, I happened across an article online from a feminist website, 0.90

00:12:55.920 from a website called The Feminist Current, which is not a website that I usually check,

00:13:01.460 but there was an article called,

00:13:03.600 I supported trans ideology until I couldn't anymore, 0.93

00:13:06.700 by a feminist explaining how she woke up to the reality that transgenderism is pseudoscience 0.62

00:13:15.160 and it doesn't make any sense.

00:13:15.960 I want to read a quick paragraph of what she said,

00:13:18.680 talking about her days as a trans advocate and how she used to advocate for it,

00:13:23.620 although she doesn't anymore.

00:13:24.640 She said,

00:13:54.640 I'd argue that because I felt like a woman, it must be true. 0.99

00:13:59.880 Other times I resorted to name-calling, labeling women who said trans women were male bigots

00:14:06.200 who were stuck in the 50s and didn't believe in civil rights.

00:14:10.440 Now, and then she goes on to talk about her process of waking up to reality,

00:14:14.720 but this is really fascinating because when you hear these arguments

00:14:17.700 about people being born in the wrong body, feeling like men, feeling like women, and so on,

00:14:24.440 and you wonder how any rational person could fail to see the problems with such arguments,

00:14:31.840 well, this is how.

00:14:32.760 It's someone who feels politically obligated to say these things,

00:14:38.620 even if they don't understand what it is they're saying or why they're saying it.

00:14:43.320 All right, moving on.

00:14:47.540 This is great stuff.

00:14:48.560 As reported by The Hill, the city council in San Jose, California this week

00:14:52.800 voted unanimously to fly rainbow flags in support of LGBTQ rights near a Chick-fil-A,

00:15:03.960 which is going to be open next month near the city's airport.

00:15:06.700 So they got together and the city council got together and voted

00:15:10.080 that they're going to troll Chick-fil-A by flying rainbow flags.

00:15:14.440 That's, I mean, it's just so brave, isn't it?

00:15:18.100 I am astounded by the bravery, the boldness.

00:15:22.200 You know, I can really see why gay rights folks always compare their plight 1.00

00:15:25.760 to the plight of, you know, slaves in the 19th century,

00:15:29.640 because this is exactly the same, right?

00:15:31.440 It's the same kind of fight, same kind of heroism required.

00:15:34.640 On one hand, you had the underground railroad,

00:15:37.300 and now you have rainbow flags at the Chick-fil-A drive-thru.

00:15:40.540 It's just, there's no difference at all, right?

00:15:46.500 In all seriousness, though, it's been,

00:15:50.060 when did this whole thing with Chick-fil-A start?

00:15:53.140 It started with Dan Cathy, with the founder of Chick-fil-A,

00:15:57.420 saying in an interview that he supports biblical marriage.

00:16:01.440 And that was in, what, 2012?

00:16:04.280 It's been seven years.

00:16:06.460 It's been seven years since the founder of Chick-fil-A

00:16:10.820 said that he believes in the Bible.

00:16:13.180 And the LGBT lobby has not given up.

00:16:16.360 They have not let up.

00:16:18.200 They can't let it go.

00:16:20.060 Now, in the meantime, Chick-fil-A has not been discriminating.

00:16:24.300 In fact, Chick-fil-A had never, at no point,

00:16:26.280 ever discriminated against LGBT people.

00:16:29.240 They've always hired gay people, so there's no discrimination.

00:16:32.780 They're not kicking gay people out of their stores.

00:16:34.440 They're not denying them employment.

00:16:36.420 So that's never been the case.

00:16:37.940 That's not what's going on.

00:16:40.180 This is about the founder of Chick-fil-A

00:16:42.700 saying that he believes in the Bible as it pertains to marriage.

00:16:45.800 Seven years ago, and they haven't let it go.

00:16:49.900 So, I mean, I remember when this all first happened,

00:16:53.900 and it backfired spectacularly on the gay rights people,

00:16:59.020 because then you had, you remember, everyone started flocking to Chick-fil-A.

00:17:02.720 And I remember that first day, Chick-fil-A day.

00:17:05.800 And I mean, my local Chick-fil-A, when I went to support them,

00:17:09.020 they were just packed to the rafters.

00:17:11.580 And it was a huge backfire.

00:17:13.980 And I thought, naive as I am at the time,

00:17:16.560 I figured, okay, well, they're going to back off of this and let this go.

00:17:19.740 They had seven years later, they still haven't.

00:17:23.180 That's why I say the LGBT lobby is just, 1.00

00:17:27.720 these are petty, vengeful bullies 0.99

00:17:32.480 who will never let anything go. 0.96

00:17:36.560 And if you cross them, they will not let you out of their clutches.

00:17:39.600 Look at what they're doing to Jack Phillips.

00:17:42.420 They just keep coming after the guy.

00:17:44.340 I mean, he won, he essentially won in the Supreme Court

00:17:46.800 because the gay rights folks got scolded, reprimanded for targeting this guy.

00:17:54.780 And they still won't let him go.

00:17:58.560 Pettiness and vengefulness is what you find 0.99

00:18:01.320 among the radical gay left. 0.99

00:18:06.900 All right.

00:18:07.400 Sorry to skip around so much,

00:18:08.580 but I wanted to discuss this for a moment as well.

00:18:14.700 From CNN, it says,

00:18:16.480 it takes four hands to open this new condom

00:18:19.360 created by an Argentine company

00:18:21.380 in a bid to highlight the importance of consent.

00:18:25.440 The consent pack of condoms

00:18:27.860 was designed by an ad agency, so on and so forth,

00:18:30.580 it takes four hands to open it.

00:18:35.880 It's just supposed to help with consent.

00:18:37.580 The tagline reads,

00:18:39.000 consent is the most important thing in sex.

00:18:42.660 And the PAC's unique system requires four hands

00:18:44.980 or two people to agree to open it

00:18:46.460 by clicking four buttons on the top and sides of the box

00:18:48.860 at the same time.

00:18:49.900 Okay, so the consent condom. 0.97

00:18:52.920 Now, of course, this is counterproductive and silly 0.92

00:18:56.600 for many reasons,

00:18:57.560 starting with the fact that if your goal is to make sure

00:18:59.660 that people are using condoms,

00:19:01.700 then probably making it harder to open them

00:19:04.000 is not the way to go about it.

00:19:06.060 And besides,

00:19:08.060 according to the progressive affirmative consent rules,

00:19:11.880 consent has to be verbally and affirmatively offered

00:19:16.120 throughout the sexual act.

00:19:18.960 That's what they say.

00:19:19.940 So just because you got the box of condoms open,

00:19:23.000 that doesn't mean anything

00:19:24.480 in terms of as far as consent goes by this standard.

00:19:28.980 But more to the point,

00:19:31.560 here's what I really want to focus on.

00:19:33.500 Number one,

00:19:35.760 you see yet again just how complicated

00:19:38.340 everything is

00:19:40.560 when you're intent on having cheap, 0.98

00:19:42.960 unattached sex with strangers. 0.98

00:19:44.360 If you're intent on that,

00:19:46.340 everything is complicated.

00:19:48.240 And, you know,

00:19:49.240 now you need special condoms and everything.

00:19:51.760 If you just get married,

00:19:53.700 you don't have to worry about this stuff.

00:19:57.340 And yes,

00:19:58.280 I realize that some married people still use condoms,

00:20:01.700 but you don't have to.

00:20:04.260 And you don't need to be terrified

00:20:05.880 that God forbid the sexual act

00:20:08.340 actually results in a child,

00:20:10.320 which is totally natural.

00:20:11.940 If that were to happen,

00:20:13.800 you know,

00:20:14.160 it's not a big deal.

00:20:14.780 If you're married,

00:20:15.320 that's not some kind of

00:20:16.240 life-shattering occurrence.

00:20:17.720 It's a great blessing,

00:20:19.020 even if you weren't planning on it,

00:20:20.400 even if it's a,

00:20:21.700 you know,

00:20:21.980 even if you're not where you want to be

00:20:24.380 financially or whatever,

00:20:25.420 it's okay because you're married.

00:20:28.080 You've got the proper context

00:20:31.440 to,

00:20:32.840 you know,

00:20:33.580 in which to introduce,

00:20:36.420 into which you can introduce a child.

00:20:38.120 So just get married

00:20:41.340 and stop worrying about this.

00:20:42.780 It's so much easier.

00:20:44.880 All of these things that single people,

00:20:47.500 people in the dating world,

00:20:49.820 especially those who are determined

00:20:52.460 to continue being,

00:20:53.860 you know,

00:20:54.720 sexually active in that context,

00:20:56.760 all these things they worry about.

00:20:57.960 I see that.

00:20:58.420 I just think,

00:20:59.000 I'm so glad I don't have to,

00:21:00.360 I don't have to worry about that stuff.

00:21:03.160 But the second point is,

00:21:04.380 notice the tagline,

00:21:06.340 consent is the most important thing in sex.

00:21:09.760 Okay, now,

00:21:10.980 it's true that consent obviously is essential.

00:21:16.360 But that's a given. 0.87

00:21:18.000 Because having sex with someone 0.99

00:21:19.500 who doesn't consent is rape. 1.00

00:21:21.400 That makes you a rapist. 1.00

00:21:22.640 And you should go to prison forever. 1.00

00:21:24.700 That is, 0.92

00:21:25.380 if it's actual non-consensual sex.

00:21:27.180 If it's sex where both people 0.78

00:21:28.680 are clearly willing and eager,

00:21:30.600 but there is not a verbal

00:21:32.640 and continuous affirmation

00:21:34.360 all throughout the act,

00:21:36.060 well,

00:21:36.260 that just makes you human.

00:21:37.420 Because no human does that.

00:21:39.700 We're not,

00:21:40.280 that's not how it works,

00:21:41.160 right?

00:21:41.280 We're not robots.

00:21:44.460 But,

00:21:45.380 again,

00:21:46.080 if it's actual non-consensual sex, 0.90

00:21:49.200 then it is rape. 0.99

00:21:51.300 And clearly that's bad. 0.80

00:21:53.060 That, in fact,

00:21:53.880 is one of the worst things

00:21:55.000 a human can possibly do

00:21:56.340 to another human.

00:21:57.960 But, okay,

00:21:58.400 let's say

00:21:59.980 that we have

00:22:01.000 the consent base covered.

00:22:03.700 Both people want to do it.

00:22:05.980 Actively,

00:22:06.560 affirmatively,

00:22:07.260 verbally consenting.

00:22:08.340 Great.

00:22:09.140 So that's out of the way.

00:22:10.080 We can put that to the side.

00:22:11.180 That's established.

00:22:14.300 Okay,

00:22:14.760 what's important now?

00:22:15.920 You say consent

00:22:16.560 is the most important thing in sex.

00:22:18.680 And it's not just

00:22:19.440 this condom company

00:22:20.520 that says that.

00:22:21.120 I mean,

00:22:21.280 this is what,

00:22:22.120 this is what you hear

00:22:23.100 from the left now

00:22:23.880 when it comes to

00:22:24.400 consent is all that matters.

00:22:26.580 Yeah,

00:22:26.720 but what after that?

00:22:30.120 What's the most important thing

00:22:31.660 in consensual sex?

00:22:34.120 You can't say

00:22:34.580 that the most important thing

00:22:35.340 in consensual sex

00:22:36.080 is consent.

00:22:37.180 That's,

00:22:38.580 you might as well say

00:22:39.160 the most important thing 0.89

00:22:39.840 in sex is sex.

00:22:40.800 It's just,

00:22:41.100 that's already,

00:22:41.800 that's redundant.

00:22:42.960 What's the most important thing

00:22:44.080 in consensual sex?

00:22:45.020 Is there anything else?

00:22:45.920 Any other concerns

00:22:46.860 that we should have?

00:22:48.160 Anything else

00:22:48.800 to take into account here?

00:22:51.740 We've made consent

00:22:52.880 the only remaining rule,

00:22:54.560 the only remaining

00:22:55.380 ethical standard

00:22:57.280 governing the sexual act,

00:22:58.780 which is a problem

00:22:59.680 because there are

00:23:01.260 a lot of other ways

00:23:02.660 for the sexual act

00:23:03.760 to harm people

00:23:04.860 aside from rape,

00:23:06.680 aside from STDs

00:23:07.900 or unwanted pregnancies.

00:23:09.980 People are harmed

00:23:11.020 by the sexual act

00:23:11.860 consensual sex 0.53

00:23:13.240 all the time.

00:23:14.820 They're harmed emotionally,

00:23:15.820 they're harmed spiritually,

00:23:16.760 psychologically,

00:23:17.640 because even though

00:23:19.700 it was consensual,

00:23:21.180 if it wasn't committed,

00:23:22.900 if it wasn't loving,

00:23:24.740 if it wasn't respecting

00:23:26.060 of the other person's dignity,

00:23:27.640 then it is harmful

00:23:29.500 to the person.

00:23:30.320 It is degrading

00:23:31.120 and it's harmful.

00:23:32.500 And that is why

00:23:33.760 so often

00:23:35.060 on college campuses

00:23:36.000 you have people

00:23:36.600 waking up the next day

00:23:37.680 feeling like

00:23:38.860 they've been violated

00:23:39.660 even though

00:23:40.680 the sex 0.61

00:23:41.640 was completely consensual.

00:23:42.900 They consented,

00:23:43.700 they wanted to do it

00:23:44.460 in the moment,

00:23:45.320 later on they regretted it.

00:23:47.260 Where is that coming from?

00:23:49.020 You know,

00:23:49.320 it's coming from somewhere,

00:23:50.620 where it's a very real thing.

00:23:51.940 It's a real emotion

00:23:55.080 that you feel

00:23:55.840 after the fact

00:23:56.480 that you should listen to.

00:23:58.300 Now,

00:23:58.600 it doesn't mean

00:23:59.080 that you were raped,

00:23:59.940 it doesn't mean 0.90

00:24:00.360 that you need to go

00:24:01.220 to the police

00:24:01.860 because you did consent,

00:24:02.760 it wasn't rape, 0.55

00:24:03.440 but you were violated.

00:24:05.280 You were violated consensually

00:24:06.760 and you participated

00:24:08.600 in your own violation,

00:24:10.160 but it was still a violation.

00:24:12.320 And that's why

00:24:13.040 you feel that way.

00:24:13.640 So consent

00:24:16.420 is the most important thing?

00:24:17.680 No, actually,

00:24:18.400 you see,

00:24:18.820 I think love

00:24:19.680 is the most important thing

00:24:20.860 in sex

00:24:21.280 and love obviously

00:24:22.440 includes consent.

00:24:23.860 It can't be loving

00:24:24.820 if it isn't willing,

00:24:26.220 but it also includes

00:24:27.700 a lot more than that.

00:24:30.660 Primarily,

00:24:31.340 it includes,

00:24:32.440 I think,

00:24:34.180 an actual concern

00:24:35.740 for the other person

00:24:38.020 as a person,

00:24:39.740 not just as an object

00:24:41.940 of your sexual fulfillment.

00:24:44.500 So I think we need

00:24:45.620 to introduce that as well.

00:24:48.520 Once we've got consent covered,

00:24:51.220 how about dignity,

00:24:53.520 respect,

00:24:54.260 love,

00:24:54.700 commitment,

00:24:55.960 selflessness?

00:24:57.360 I mean,

00:24:57.580 how about all those things

00:24:58.600 as well?

00:25:00.600 All right,

00:25:01.120 this is,

00:25:01.800 let's,

00:25:02.460 we'll go to your,

00:25:02.880 to emails now,

00:25:03.940 mattwalshow at gmail.com,

00:25:05.460 mattwalshow at gmail.com.

00:25:07.660 I'm going to fix my,

00:25:10.920 oh,

00:25:11.220 I didn't really fix it.

00:25:14.760 Says,

00:25:15.260 hi,

00:25:15.480 Matt,

00:25:15.760 I enjoy your show

00:25:17.340 and many times I've,

00:25:18.620 I've always wanted to email you

00:25:20.640 with a response,

00:25:21.280 especially the ones

00:25:21.960 that make me laugh out loud.

00:25:23.720 Your views on marriage,

00:25:25.060 kids,

00:25:25.300 and overall human quirkiness

00:25:26.540 is a highlight of my day.

00:25:27.680 I heard your podcast

00:25:28.560 about the kid leashes

00:25:29.480 and agree that

00:25:30.140 I used to be anti-kid leash

00:25:32.140 when I wasn't a parent

00:25:33.980 and then God gave

00:25:34.900 my husband and I

00:25:36.320 five kids.

00:25:37.420 Congratulations.

00:25:38.500 God does have a sense of humor.

00:25:39.820 And at one time I swore

00:25:41.320 I would never drive a minivan

00:25:42.360 and feed my kids junk food,

00:25:43.600 but here I am just

00:25:44.500 winging this parent gig

00:25:46.080 like you stated.

00:25:47.440 Yeah,

00:25:47.580 the minivan thing

00:25:48.400 is one of the,

00:25:49.040 everybody,

00:25:50.620 it's,

00:25:51.100 it's just inevitable.

00:25:52.480 It's such a cliche,

00:25:53.500 but everyone goes into parenting

00:25:54.680 saying I'm not going to get a minivan

00:25:56.400 and we were the same way

00:25:57.680 and we still don't have a minivan,

00:25:59.180 but last week

00:25:59.960 we were,

00:26:02.160 we were having some car trouble

00:26:03.820 and I had one of the cars

00:26:04.760 because I was out traveling

00:26:05.540 and so we,

00:26:06.860 my wife had to, 1.00

00:26:07.600 had to rent a car.

00:26:09.260 We have a Suburban

00:26:10.440 and that was in the shop.

00:26:12.880 She had to,

00:26:13.220 we rented a car.

00:26:13.880 We rented a minivan

00:26:14.880 because it's the biggest thing

00:26:16.160 they had available.

00:26:16.680 We could fit all the kids

00:26:17.360 and of course my wife

00:26:19.080 drives a minivan around

00:26:20.220 for a week

00:26:20.720 and she was so anti-minivan,

00:26:22.920 but she was raving 1.00

00:26:24.040 about how great it was

00:26:24.840 having a minivan.

00:26:26.380 So it just,

00:26:27.420 you can't,

00:26:28.320 it's going to happen.

00:26:29.680 Eventually you're going to

00:26:30.980 realize how great

00:26:31.980 the minivan is

00:26:32.700 and end up getting one.

00:26:34.260 Anyway,

00:26:34.740 sorry,

00:26:37.240 I got away from your email.

00:26:37.980 It says,

00:26:38.160 I am more understanding now

00:26:39.260 having kids myself

00:26:40.140 about the worries parents have

00:26:41.320 of toddlers

00:26:41.900 who can easily wander off,

00:26:42.940 but I just witnessed something

00:26:43.780 that it was so weird

00:26:44.460 I had to share this.

00:26:45.480 When at the park the other day

00:26:46.400 I did a double take

00:26:47.440 when I saw a young couple

00:26:49.300 pushing their dog

00:26:50.640 in a stroller

00:26:51.280 while their child

00:26:52.360 was on a leash.

00:26:53.700 I am so confused.

00:26:54.980 What are your thoughts on this?

00:26:56.020 I know how you feel

00:26:57.440 about dogs

00:26:58.080 just being dogs

00:26:58.920 and not humanizing them,

00:27:00.100 which I totally agree with.

00:27:01.100 My first reaction

00:27:01.720 when I saw this peculiar sight

00:27:03.260 was our society

00:27:04.480 now finds it acceptable

00:27:06.360 to personify dogs

00:27:07.840 while treating children

00:27:09.220 more like,

00:27:11.480 while treating children

00:27:13.360 more like

00:27:13.920 love them

00:27:15.080 or leave them pets.

00:27:16.340 Kids now seem

00:27:17.120 more like a nuisance,

00:27:18.180 which at one point

00:27:18.900 pets were viewed as.

00:27:20.300 Now it just seems like

00:27:21.260 the view is in reverse.

00:27:23.460 And that's from Andrea.

00:27:24.900 I don't know if I said that.

00:27:26.600 Yes, Andrea,

00:27:27.400 I am leash tolerant.

00:27:28.960 I am leash accepting.

00:27:31.720 As I stated,

00:27:33.580 but if you've got

00:27:34.420 your kid leashed

00:27:35.560 and your dog

00:27:36.940 in a stroller,

00:27:38.380 that is a bridge too far.

00:27:40.300 I mean,

00:27:40.540 if you have to choose

00:27:41.720 between leashing the dog

00:27:42.940 or leashing the kid,

00:27:44.680 I'd say definitely

00:27:46.180 do the dog

00:27:46.920 in that case.

00:27:49.100 There have to be limits.

00:27:50.500 In fact,

00:27:52.180 really,

00:27:52.620 if I,

00:27:53.100 you know,

00:27:53.360 I wouldn't,

00:27:54.360 I think the child leash,

00:27:55.480 as I said,

00:27:55.900 child leash is,

00:27:57.100 I understand it,

00:27:58.420 but I wouldn't even,

00:28:01.200 I don't even think

00:28:01.700 I'd want to leash

00:28:02.240 my kid and the dog

00:28:03.380 at the same time.

00:28:04.140 Like if I was taking

00:28:04.840 the dog for a walk,

00:28:05.700 I don't,

00:28:05.960 it just,

00:28:06.380 the optics of that

00:28:08.020 don't,

00:28:08.780 don't work for me,

00:28:11.100 really.

00:28:11.760 But especially

00:28:12.620 if you only got

00:28:13.900 one leash to go around

00:28:14.900 and you put her

00:28:15.320 on your kid

00:28:15.820 and not the dog.

00:28:17.160 Oh man.

00:28:18.660 Oh man.

00:28:20.160 Yeah.

00:28:21.020 All right.

00:28:21.360 This is from Nick.

00:28:22.180 Says,

00:28:22.480 hi Matt,

00:28:22.880 I'm a huge fan

00:28:23.440 of your show.

00:28:23.920 Appreciate all you do.

00:28:24.560 As a young Catholic,

00:28:25.180 I have done my best

00:28:25.940 to familiarize myself

00:28:26.820 with arguments

00:28:27.300 for the existence of God

00:28:28.320 and I had a question

00:28:29.140 about the argument

00:28:29.820 of,

00:28:30.440 from,

00:28:31.200 of slash,

00:28:31.780 from causation.

00:28:33.360 In college,

00:28:33.980 I had a professor

00:28:34.580 give what I thought

00:28:35.540 was an interesting

00:28:36.320 reply to the claim

00:28:37.180 that all of existence

00:28:38.000 has to have a cause,

00:28:39.120 what we call God.

00:28:40.360 Otherwise,

00:28:40.860 there would be

00:28:41.100 an infinite cause,

00:28:42.020 chain of causes

00:28:42.720 and that is impossible.

00:28:44.120 He essentially said

00:28:44.920 that it is possible

00:28:45.880 to have an infinite

00:28:46.560 chain of causes

00:28:47.260 with no first cause,

00:28:48.780 but we're not able

00:28:50.040 to logically understand

00:28:51.300 slash comprehend

00:28:52.000 what that means.

00:28:53.000 Therefore,

00:28:54.000 there does not need

00:28:54.700 to be a first cause God

00:28:56.000 because an infinite

00:28:56.740 chain of causes

00:28:57.420 is possible.

00:28:58.480 I'm struggling

00:28:59.000 to formulate

00:28:59.460 the best response

00:29:00.300 to his rebuttal.

00:29:01.100 I would reply,

00:29:02.200 I would really appreciate

00:29:03.000 your thoughts

00:29:03.620 on this objection.

00:29:05.040 Again,

00:29:05.540 thanks for all you do.

00:29:08.020 So your professor

00:29:08.960 is postulating

00:29:09.700 an eternal universe.

00:29:12.620 The first thing

00:29:13.400 I would say

00:29:13.780 is that the Big Bang

00:29:14.700 seems to rule that out.

00:29:16.320 There was definitely

00:29:16.980 a beginning

00:29:17.740 of all we see now.

00:29:19.120 I think almost,

00:29:19.740 I think most scientists

00:29:20.640 would concede that point.

00:29:23.000 I suppose you could argue

00:29:24.180 for an infinite

00:29:25.060 eternal string

00:29:27.600 of Big Bangs

00:29:28.520 where like it explodes,

00:29:29.740 expands,

00:29:30.380 contracts,

00:29:31.940 explodes again,

00:29:32.880 you know,

00:29:33.180 back and forth

00:29:33.700 like an accordion universe

00:29:34.960 type of thing.

00:29:35.840 Or maybe more plausibly

00:29:38.040 you could say

00:29:38.700 that a multiverse,

00:29:40.120 right,

00:29:40.360 where we are just

00:29:41.840 one bubble universe

00:29:44.060 on this infinite cluster

00:29:45.820 of other universes.

00:29:47.120 all right,

00:29:49.220 but

00:29:49.380 what about

00:29:52.100 the idea of,

00:29:54.360 because here's the thing,

00:29:55.180 even in a multiverse scenario,

00:29:57.740 that doesn't of itself

00:30:00.340 get around God

00:30:01.520 because then

00:30:02.640 who created the multiverse?

00:30:03.900 Maybe we do live

00:30:04.620 in a multiverse,

00:30:05.320 who knows,

00:30:05.760 right?

00:30:06.780 And even,

00:30:07.740 I don't even,

00:30:08.640 and I'm sure there are ways

00:30:09.420 to understand this

00:30:10.580 that I just can't,

00:30:11.360 but

00:30:11.500 the universe is so vast

00:30:13.680 already

00:30:14.160 that how would you

00:30:15.920 even distinguish

00:30:16.640 from one universe

00:30:17.940 from another?

00:30:18.600 It's like,

00:30:18.760 it might as well

00:30:19.420 be a million universes

00:30:20.500 considering how

00:30:22.200 incomprehensibly big it is.

00:30:25.260 But,

00:30:26.440 yeah,

00:30:27.700 maybe it's a multiverse.

00:30:28.980 Where did the multiverse

00:30:29.760 come from?

00:30:31.040 Then you say,

00:30:31.480 well,

00:30:31.680 there are infinite universes.

00:30:33.800 All right,

00:30:34.140 well,

00:30:35.140 I would say that

00:30:36.140 that seems illogical

00:30:37.180 for this reason

00:30:37.940 and this is how I think

00:30:39.400 William Lane Craig

00:30:40.440 and others would argue it.

00:30:41.700 if we're in the midst of,

00:30:44.400 if we are in the midst

00:30:45.200 of an infinite,

00:30:46.560 eternal chain of causes,

00:30:50.100 then that means

00:30:52.600 that there have been

00:30:53.300 an infinite number

00:30:54.360 of past events

00:30:55.920 leading up to this event

00:30:58.340 right now.

00:30:59.160 So this moment

00:31:00.060 was,

00:31:03.320 before this moment

00:31:04.660 came an infinite

00:31:06.100 number of moments.

00:31:07.540 but if there's

00:31:10.060 an infinite number

00:31:10.960 of past events

00:31:12.040 before you get

00:31:13.840 to right now,

00:31:14.620 then you would

00:31:16.060 never get to

00:31:16.980 right now

00:31:17.500 because you would

00:31:19.000 have to traverse

00:31:19.760 infinity

00:31:20.460 to get to our spot

00:31:22.840 in the timeline

00:31:23.600 which you can't do

00:31:24.520 because it's infinity.

00:31:26.040 So there seems

00:31:26.820 to be a logical problem

00:31:27.860 with an infinite

00:31:28.420 chain of events

00:31:29.040 for that reason.

00:31:30.620 If,

00:31:31.080 if,

00:31:31.320 if there's an infinite,

00:31:32.340 if we have an infinite past,

00:31:33.660 then we never should

00:31:34.700 have arrived at now

00:31:35.520 because it's infinite.

00:31:36.220 And so it,

00:31:39.040 that would seem

00:31:39.480 to be logically impossible.

00:31:40.960 Not just inconceivable

00:31:42.560 like your professor says.

00:31:43.660 It is inconceivable

00:31:44.480 but it's inconceivable.

00:31:45.640 There are some

00:31:46.040 inconceivable things

00:31:46.980 that are not illogical.

00:31:50.420 The scale of the universe

00:31:51.840 is inconceivable

00:31:54.240 but it's not illogical.

00:31:55.940 There's nothing illogical

00:31:56.880 about a very big thing.

00:31:58.820 But I would say

00:31:59.820 that this is inconceivable

00:32:00.820 because it is illogical.

00:32:02.480 Because it is logically

00:32:03.460 impossible to have

00:32:04.760 an infinite number

00:32:06.540 of past events.

00:32:09.460 All right.

00:32:10.040 This is from Jeremy.

00:32:12.120 He says,

00:32:12.440 Hi Matt.

00:32:12.960 Big fan of the show.

00:32:13.840 Been listening to you

00:32:14.500 since you were with The Blaze.

00:32:15.640 My question is,

00:32:16.400 I'm Jewish and of course

00:32:17.340 I appreciate to no end

00:32:18.620 the Christian support

00:32:19.760 for Israel

00:32:20.360 and the Jewish people

00:32:21.160 as a whole.

00:32:21.500 But my question is,

00:32:22.320 why is it there

00:32:23.020 in the first place?

00:32:24.000 If we're a false religion,

00:32:25.420 if Christians thought differently

00:32:26.440 they'd be Jewish,

00:32:27.600 then what makes us different

00:32:28.740 in the eyes of Christians

00:32:29.620 than say Buddhists, 0.70

00:32:31.140 Hindus,

00:32:31.580 take your pick?

00:32:32.040 Since I'm not an expert

00:32:33.200 on Christian theology,

00:32:34.140 maybe I'm operating

00:32:35.140 from the wrong premise.

00:32:36.480 So wondering your thoughts.

00:32:37.940 Thanks for all you do

00:32:38.600 and again,

00:32:38.940 love the show.

00:32:40.420 Thanks, Jeremy.

00:32:41.600 Good question.

00:32:44.360 And it's a question

00:32:45.200 you'll probably get

00:32:45.780 a different answer from

00:32:46.580 depending on who you ask.

00:32:48.460 Depending on which

00:32:49.100 Christian you ask.

00:32:50.400 First of all,

00:32:50.940 I would say,

00:32:51.580 as to the thing about

00:32:52.460 Judaism being a false religion, 1.00

00:32:54.800 Christians do not 1.00

00:32:58.300 or should not,

00:32:59.400 cannot really look

00:33:01.360 at Judaism

00:33:01.900 the same way

00:33:02.840 as Buddhism

00:33:03.580 or Hinduism

00:33:04.260 or Islam 0.63

00:33:05.040 or whatever else

00:33:06.780 because obviously

00:33:08.640 we Jews

00:33:10.000 and Christians

00:33:10.620 share quite a bit

00:33:12.100 of common ground

00:33:13.060 theologically

00:33:14.060 and Judaism

00:33:15.480 is the foundation

00:33:17.220 upon which

00:33:17.960 Christianity

00:33:18.580 was built.

00:33:20.400 Jesus was a Jew 1.00

00:33:21.280 after all.

00:33:21.900 So while I believe

00:33:24.400 Christianity

00:33:24.840 is the true religion,

00:33:26.140 I wouldn't be Christian 1.00

00:33:27.720 if I didn't believe that,

00:33:28.540 I wouldn't call

00:33:31.900 Judaism a false religion. 1.00

00:33:34.060 Now,

00:33:34.520 I certainly don't,

00:33:35.720 I'm not a universalist

00:33:37.200 type of person

00:33:37.840 saying that all religions

00:33:39.080 are true.

00:33:40.260 Obviously,

00:33:40.780 that can't be the case.

00:33:41.460 Only one,

00:33:42.180 there are only three options

00:33:43.620 here, right?

00:33:45.040 That one religion is true,

00:33:46.620 or I guess there's two options

00:33:47.460 I should say.

00:33:48.220 One of the religions is true 0.61

00:33:49.320 or none of them are true.

00:33:50.740 I mean,

00:33:51.040 those are the options.

00:33:52.920 In fact,

00:33:53.440 there is not that third option

00:33:54.440 of them all being true.

00:33:55.560 So,

00:33:55.740 I believe Christianity

00:33:58.380 is the true religion.

00:33:59.720 That's why I'm Christian.

00:34:01.100 But,

00:34:01.660 I wouldn't call Judaism 0.83

00:34:03.160 a false religion. 0.95

00:34:05.780 I don't really,

00:34:07.540 I don't think any of its

00:34:08.640 basic theological tenets

00:34:11.080 are false.

00:34:12.260 So that's why

00:34:12.680 I don't think a Christian 1.00

00:34:13.760 could call Judaism

00:34:14.400 a false religion 0.99

00:34:15.040 when we share,

00:34:17.380 you know,

00:34:17.600 the Old Testament

00:34:18.320 and the basic concept

00:34:20.900 of God

00:34:21.480 and everything.

00:34:23.040 From my perspective

00:34:23.960 as a Christian,

00:34:24.780 I suppose I would call it

00:34:25.860 perhaps incomplete,

00:34:27.180 missing the next part

00:34:29.560 of the puzzle,

00:34:30.300 just as you,

00:34:31.300 as a Jew,

00:34:32.360 given that you're Jewish

00:34:32.940 and not Christian,

00:34:33.600 I assume,

00:34:34.420 would say that Christians,

00:34:36.140 well,

00:34:36.300 you couldn't say that

00:34:36.860 we're completely wrong

00:34:37.820 about everything, right?

00:34:38.560 Because then you would be

00:34:39.460 discounting the Old Testament,

00:34:40.560 which we share.

00:34:41.700 So instead,

00:34:42.520 I guess you would say

00:34:43.300 that we,

00:34:43.840 you know,

00:34:44.540 what,

00:34:45.080 we've added to it

00:34:46.060 or something

00:34:46.380 from your perspective.

00:34:47.280 So,

00:34:47.820 again,

00:34:48.560 there's common ground there,

00:34:49.740 a shared history

00:34:50.540 and so on,

00:34:51.100 which makes

00:34:53.440 that relationship

00:34:54.460 much different

00:34:57.680 than the relationship

00:34:59.560 that a Christian

00:35:00.180 would have

00:35:00.560 with something

00:35:00.940 like Hinduism, 0.94

00:35:01.700 which is just

00:35:02.300 a completely different thing

00:35:03.520 and there's no

00:35:04.680 shared ground there

00:35:05.640 at all.

00:35:08.680 As for Israel, 0.83

00:35:09.920 well,

00:35:11.240 I'll tell you

00:35:12.380 why I support Israel.

00:35:14.420 It's our most important

00:35:16.480 ally in the region

00:35:17.380 and it's a country

00:35:19.140 which shares our values

00:35:20.520 to a large extent

00:35:21.780 and that's the basis

00:35:23.500 of my support

00:35:24.220 and it's a strong basis.

00:35:25.460 That's why I support Israel.

00:35:27.420 And of course,

00:35:27.840 yes,

00:35:28.000 I respect the religious history

00:35:29.400 of the country as well

00:35:30.240 and I admire that.

00:35:32.560 I think that's wonderful.

00:35:34.300 Now,

00:35:34.680 there are Christians

00:35:35.480 who seem to think

00:35:36.580 that somehow

00:35:38.480 the fate of the world

00:35:39.740 is still tied

00:35:40.940 to the actual

00:35:41.840 physical plot

00:35:42.980 of land

00:35:43.760 there in Israel

00:35:44.980 and so they have

00:35:46.040 theological reasons

00:35:47.100 for their support

00:35:47.780 as well,

00:35:48.440 which I guess

00:35:49.180 you've picked up on.

00:35:50.280 Now,

00:35:50.580 I think that that's

00:35:51.460 a misreading,

00:35:52.080 personally.

00:35:52.600 I don't think

00:35:53.320 Christian teaching

00:35:54.100 supports the idea

00:35:55.660 that salvation

00:35:56.400 is at all tied

00:35:57.740 to geographic

00:35:59.320 locations anymore.

00:36:02.620 But,

00:36:04.020 I do think

00:36:06.360 that there's some

00:36:06.800 of that mixed up

00:36:07.540 in the support

00:36:09.180 for Israel

00:36:10.000 among Christians.

00:36:11.340 But as I said,

00:36:12.060 there's no need

00:36:12.980 to get into

00:36:13.360 the theology of it

00:36:14.520 because even

00:36:15.260 without it,

00:36:15.820 in my mind,

00:36:16.620 there's good,

00:36:19.080 solid,

00:36:19.820 strategic reason

00:36:20.700 to support

00:36:21.320 our ally

00:36:23.040 in the region.

00:36:24.120 And,

00:36:24.200 so,

00:36:26.100 I guess

00:36:26.760 Christians who 0.54

00:36:27.320 support Israel,

00:36:27.960 it's going to be

00:36:28.340 one of those

00:36:28.760 two reasons,

00:36:29.380 maybe both.

00:36:31.860 All right,

00:36:32.420 this is from

00:36:33.280 T,

00:36:34.340 just T,

00:36:35.400 I don't know

00:36:35.680 if it's Mr. T

00:36:36.300 or just the letter T

00:36:37.580 is all I'm given.

00:36:39.080 It says,

00:36:39.420 Hi, Matt,

00:36:39.800 your statements

00:36:40.240 about the Bible

00:36:40.900 disturb me greatly.

00:36:42.500 You think people

00:36:43.200 can be convinced

00:36:43.940 with logic and science,

00:36:45.360 logic and science

00:36:45.960 and scare quotes

00:36:46.920 there,

00:36:47.160 by the way,

00:36:47.660 logic and science.

00:36:50.280 You know,

00:36:50.860 it's not good

00:36:52.040 when someone

00:36:52.380 puts science

00:36:53.000 in quotes,

00:36:53.700 especially when

00:36:54.300 they put logic

00:36:54.940 in quotes.

00:36:57.160 You think

00:36:57.740 people can be

00:36:59.220 convinced

00:36:59.500 with logic and science,

00:37:00.340 but do you deny

00:37:01.080 that the Bible

00:37:01.680 is the basis

00:37:02.460 for all logic

00:37:03.500 and science?

00:37:04.240 When you look

00:37:04.800 outside of the Bible

00:37:05.560 for truth,

00:37:06.080 you find nonsense.

00:37:07.480 You cannot convince

00:37:08.520 someone of truth

00:37:09.340 without the Bible, 0.65

00:37:10.300 and even if you do,

00:37:11.540 you have only made it

00:37:12.380 so that they are

00:37:12.860 mistaken in a different

00:37:14.040 way than they were

00:37:15.720 before.

00:37:18.520 Okay,

00:37:18.900 do I deny

00:37:20.480 that the Bible

00:37:21.400 is the basis

00:37:22.020 for logic and science?

00:37:25.020 Yes,

00:37:26.320 I do,

00:37:27.640 because that makes

00:37:29.020 no sense.

00:37:30.160 Now,

00:37:31.300 the Bible

00:37:31.840 is the basis

00:37:32.720 for science

00:37:33.660 and for logic.

00:37:35.400 I don't even know

00:37:36.260 what you mean.

00:37:36.760 Now,

00:37:38.920 I'm not saying,

00:37:40.080 okay,

00:37:40.600 to be very clear

00:37:41.320 about what I'm saying here,

00:37:42.620 because I know

00:37:43.460 I'm going to get

00:37:43.820 straw manned

00:37:44.420 to death on this one.

00:37:46.460 I'm not saying

00:37:47.460 that the Bible

00:37:47.940 is incompatible

00:37:49.400 with logic and science.

00:37:50.860 I'm not saying

00:37:51.600 that the Bible

00:37:52.000 is illogical

00:37:52.980 or anti-science.

00:37:54.160 I don't think that.

00:37:55.500 And I believe

00:37:56.340 that God

00:37:57.520 is the basis

00:37:58.920 for source

00:38:00.420 of logic

00:38:01.740 and science.

00:38:04.000 God is,

00:38:04.860 yes.

00:38:05.540 And it's true 0.94

00:38:06.300 that you cannot

00:38:06.840 have logic

00:38:07.520 or science

00:38:07.960 without God.

00:38:09.580 God as the

00:38:10.940 base of all being,

00:38:12.500 of all truth.

00:38:14.520 But the Bible

00:38:15.540 is not God.

00:38:18.080 The Bible itself,

00:38:19.580 the actual book,

00:38:21.580 like the book

00:38:22.080 that I've got

00:38:22.860 several of them

00:38:23.420 on the shelf

00:38:24.040 back there,

00:38:24.440 those books back there,

00:38:25.700 they are not God.

00:38:26.480 I don't have God

00:38:27.300 on the shelf.

00:38:27.860 I have a book

00:38:28.400 on the shelf.

00:38:29.320 Right?

00:38:30.200 Now,

00:38:30.640 God gave us a book

00:38:31.820 and the book

00:38:33.040 is of prime importance

00:38:34.520 but to call it

00:38:36.580 the basis

00:38:37.160 for logic

00:38:37.820 and science

00:38:38.260 is just

00:38:38.660 a meaningless

00:38:39.340 assertion.

00:38:41.660 The Bible

00:38:42.460 is not meant

00:38:43.340 to be that.

00:38:44.380 That's not what

00:38:44.920 it's supposed to be.

00:38:45.700 God didn't give us

00:38:46.540 the Bible

00:38:46.920 as a science textbook.

00:38:49.220 And that's okay.

00:38:50.800 And it's also not

00:38:51.880 a logic 101 course

00:38:53.840 either.

00:38:55.560 For logic,

00:38:56.640 which again

00:38:57.200 derives from God,

00:38:58.600 the source

00:38:59.020 of all truth,

00:39:00.160 but for logic,

00:39:01.100 you know what God

00:39:01.740 gave us for logic?

00:39:02.500 He gave us

00:39:03.200 our minds

00:39:04.040 and we're allowed

00:39:05.440 to use our minds

00:39:06.400 and we do use

00:39:07.800 our minds

00:39:08.200 to logically

00:39:08.880 sort through problems

00:39:09.980 every day

00:39:10.760 without consulting

00:39:11.420 the Bible.

00:39:12.100 If you want

00:39:12.740 to cross the street,

00:39:13.860 okay,

00:39:14.600 what are you going

00:39:15.220 to do?

00:39:15.360 You're going

00:39:15.520 to look both ways,

00:39:16.460 right?

00:39:18.480 Why do you

00:39:19.060 look both ways?

00:39:19.760 Well,

00:39:20.020 you are logically

00:39:21.060 problem solving.

00:39:21.920 You're saying

00:39:22.460 to yourself,

00:39:23.080 well,

00:39:23.660 I want to get

00:39:24.080 across this street.

00:39:25.700 I don't want

00:39:26.280 to get hit

00:39:26.560 by a truck.

00:39:28.020 How do I do it?

00:39:29.320 Oh,

00:39:29.660 I know.

00:39:30.140 I'll look this way

00:39:30.780 and look that way.

00:39:31.240 That's logical

00:39:33.520 problem solving

00:39:34.180 right there.

00:39:34.540 That is problem solving.

00:39:35.600 Okay.

00:39:36.580 Do you consult

00:39:37.460 the Bible?

00:39:38.280 I mean,

00:39:38.580 before you cross

00:39:39.440 the street,

00:39:39.640 do you pull out

00:39:40.060 the Bible

00:39:40.380 and say,

00:39:40.640 let me see,

00:39:41.220 let's see,

00:39:41.840 it says here

00:39:43.280 in John chapter 3.

00:39:44.980 No,

00:39:45.720 you don't do that.

00:39:46.740 You just use your head,

00:39:48.320 you use your mind

00:39:49.120 that God gave you

00:39:49.980 and you cross the street.

00:39:53.820 If the Bible 0.92

00:39:55.500 didn't exist,

00:39:56.940 would you not

00:39:57.740 be able to figure

00:39:58.400 out how to

00:39:59.280 cross the street

00:40:00.900 or tie your shoe

00:40:01.660 or solve a math problem,

00:40:04.280 do arithmetic?

00:40:05.000 I mean,

00:40:05.140 that's logic.

00:40:08.300 Well,

00:40:08.760 let's hope so

00:40:09.360 because the Bible

00:40:10.000 in its current form

00:40:11.060 as a book,

00:40:12.400 you know,

00:40:12.720 the Bible that we have

00:40:13.460 right now,

00:40:13.880 the actual book

00:40:14.600 with everything compiled,

00:40:16.040 all the little books

00:40:18.100 inside the big book,

00:40:19.340 that actual thing

00:40:21.400 did not exist

00:40:23.220 for thousands of years

00:40:25.020 of human history

00:40:25.640 and people still

00:40:27.540 engaged in logic.

00:40:28.820 The ancient Greeks,

00:40:30.040 okay,

00:40:30.340 the ancient Greeks

00:40:31.060 had no Bible,

00:40:33.540 they had no,

00:40:34.060 they had no Christian faith,

00:40:36.500 they had lots of logic.

00:40:37.960 Are you going to tell me

00:40:38.440 that the ancient Greeks

00:40:39.420 were not logical?

00:40:41.380 Do you really want

00:40:42.240 to go out on that limb?

00:40:45.200 So,

00:40:46.060 what,

00:40:46.520 Aristotle was not logical.

00:40:48.560 Are you going to tell me

00:40:48.960 Aristotle was an illogical person?

00:40:50.480 So that assertion,

00:40:54.160 again,

00:40:54.500 is meaningless.

00:40:55.940 And the Bible

00:40:56.700 is the source of science.

00:40:57.900 I mean,

00:40:58.160 come on,

00:40:58.820 again,

00:40:59.580 God is the source of science

00:41:01.440 and the Bible

00:41:02.380 is compatible with it,

00:41:03.600 but you don't look

00:41:04.580 to the Bible

00:41:05.180 to make scientific discoveries.

00:41:07.480 I'm sorry,

00:41:08.220 but scientists don't do that. 0.96

00:41:09.560 They don't,

00:41:10.520 they don't look at the Bible

00:41:11.660 and then make

00:41:12.200 scientific discoveries.

00:41:13.020 They really don't.

00:41:14.740 We didn't discover

00:41:15.720 germs in the Bible

00:41:16.780 or gravity

00:41:17.460 or heliocentricism

00:41:18.500 or the spherical earth

00:41:19.460 or the polio vaccine.

00:41:20.480 or human flight

00:41:21.220 or the theory of relativity

00:41:22.180 or black holes

00:41:22.900 or, I mean,

00:41:23.680 literally millions

00:41:24.520 of other scientific discoveries.

00:41:26.020 Does that mean

00:41:26.540 that the Bible

00:41:26.940 contradicts those things?

00:41:28.200 No.

00:41:29.160 But to say

00:41:29.760 that the Bible

00:41:30.280 is the source of them

00:41:31.680 is just a statement

00:41:33.880 without meaning.

00:41:36.000 We discover germs

00:41:37.520 in a laboratory,

00:41:38.760 not in Scripture.

00:41:40.440 The Bible really

00:41:41.480 is not used

00:41:42.340 and has never been used

00:41:43.720 as a reference point

00:41:46.360 for science

00:41:47.200 because that's not

00:41:48.860 the point of the Bible.

00:41:50.820 That's not why

00:41:51.240 God gave us the Bible.

00:41:52.060 That's not its function.

00:41:53.240 God gave us

00:41:53.900 other things for that.

00:41:55.040 God gave us science.

00:41:56.220 He gave us brains.

00:41:57.060 He gave us minds.

00:41:58.040 He gave us an orderly universe

00:41:59.360 that we can look at

00:42:00.260 and understand

00:42:00.760 and discover things about

00:42:02.200 and run experiments on.

00:42:04.100 He gave us other tools

00:42:05.160 and those tools

00:42:05.760 are good too.

00:42:06.720 Those tools are from God.

00:42:08.480 The Bible is not 0.98

00:42:09.360 the only tool

00:42:10.180 that we were given.

00:42:10.920 We were given other tools

00:42:11.900 and we're allowed

00:42:12.440 to use them.

00:42:13.220 We're allowed to think.

00:42:14.220 That's okay.

00:42:15.040 We're allowed to use our brains.

00:42:16.540 Someone told me

00:42:17.120 on Twitter yesterday

00:42:17.860 and I'm not exaggerating.

00:42:20.800 This is really

00:42:21.200 a direct quote

00:42:22.180 from this person.

00:42:22.800 He said,

00:42:24.540 you can see it

00:42:25.960 on my Twitter

00:42:26.540 if you go.

00:42:27.880 This person said,

00:42:29.060 everything God

00:42:30.280 wants us to know

00:42:31.400 is in the Bible.

00:42:33.700 The Bible contains

00:42:34.800 everything

00:42:35.880 God wants us to know.

00:42:37.940 Now,

00:42:38.820 if I had read

00:42:39.600 that tweet

00:42:40.080 a few weeks ago

00:42:41.460 before I started

00:42:42.360 this whole long

00:42:43.020 argument over this issue,

00:42:44.060 if I had read

00:42:45.340 that tweet

00:42:45.600 a few weeks ago,

00:42:46.160 I would assume

00:42:46.900 that that person

00:42:47.600 doesn't really mean that.

00:42:50.320 He's hyperbole.

00:42:51.500 He doesn't really

00:42:51.860 mean it like that.

00:42:53.680 But now I see

00:42:54.780 that he probably

00:42:55.680 did mean that

00:42:56.600 because there are

00:42:58.200 apparently a lot

00:42:59.600 of people

00:42:59.920 who literally

00:43:00.520 think that.

00:43:01.200 They think that

00:43:01.700 the whole summation

00:43:03.400 of human knowledge

00:43:04.200 is in the Bible

00:43:04.780 and we don't need

00:43:05.860 to know anything

00:43:06.320 outside of it.

00:43:08.180 But by that logic,

00:43:09.820 God didn't want us

00:43:10.840 to know

00:43:11.320 that the earth

00:43:12.280 orbits the sun.

00:43:14.060 Or that viruses

00:43:15.000 cause sickness.

00:43:17.160 And he didn't want us

00:43:17.980 to know how to do

00:43:18.500 open heart surgery.

00:43:19.620 And he didn't want us

00:43:20.340 to know about penicillin

00:43:21.360 or electricity

00:43:22.040 or Tylenol.

00:43:23.840 And so on,

00:43:24.860 and so on,

00:43:25.400 and so on,

00:43:25.880 and so on.

00:43:27.460 You see,

00:43:27.900 this kind of stuff,

00:43:28.840 it really makes

00:43:29.560 Christians look 1.00

00:43:30.380 like sheltered, 0.99

00:43:31.580 anti-science,

00:43:32.740 illogical cultists

00:43:34.440 who believe

00:43:36.040 that the sum total

00:43:37.260 of human knowledge

00:43:38.400 is contained

00:43:39.020 in a book

00:43:39.680 compiled

00:43:40.740 16 or 17 centuries ago.

00:43:42.780 And that is

00:43:44.960 just not

00:43:46.260 true.

00:43:47.940 And

00:43:48.060 you don't

00:43:50.200 have to think that.

00:43:51.380 And you don't

00:43:52.160 think that

00:43:52.680 because there are

00:43:53.320 so many things

00:43:54.360 that you believe.

00:43:55.200 I mean,

00:43:55.420 you believe in

00:43:55.840 electricity,

00:43:56.320 don't you?

00:43:56.920 I mean,

00:43:57.340 you know

00:43:57.940 electricity exists.

00:43:59.100 It's a thing.

00:44:00.000 I've got lights on

00:44:00.700 right now.

00:44:00.980 You turn your light on?

00:44:02.680 Well,

00:44:03.180 that's not in the Bible.

00:44:04.380 It's really not.

00:44:05.140 There was not a how-to

00:44:06.240 on how to discover

00:44:07.660 electricity in the Bible.

00:44:09.180 It's not incompatible,

00:44:10.660 but it wasn't in there

00:44:12.720 because it wasn't

00:44:16.180 meant to be.

00:44:17.020 It was not.

00:44:18.280 Now look,

00:44:19.360 just think about this

00:44:20.640 for a second

00:44:20.980 because you really

00:44:22.780 set yourself up.

00:44:24.220 I mean,

00:44:24.680 you make the Bible

00:44:25.280 look bad

00:44:25.800 and you set

00:44:27.180 yourself up

00:44:28.100 for failure.

00:44:29.000 More importantly,

00:44:30.260 you set

00:44:31.000 the Christian

00:44:33.200 case up

00:44:34.800 to fail

00:44:35.620 when you

00:44:37.360 pretend

00:44:38.640 that the Bible

00:44:39.540 is some sort

00:44:40.020 of science

00:44:40.680 reference book

00:44:41.580 because

00:44:43.080 if God

00:44:44.160 really wanted

00:44:46.000 to

00:44:46.600 put

00:44:48.920 all

00:44:50.240 scientific

00:44:50.780 knowledge

00:44:51.200 in a book,

00:44:53.120 well then,

00:44:54.320 when you open

00:44:55.640 the Bible,

00:44:56.360 there should be

00:44:56.820 a lot of stuff

00:44:57.680 in there

00:44:58.000 that isn't in there.

00:44:58.940 I mean,

00:44:59.140 God,

00:45:00.920 who knows all,

00:45:02.160 has all the scientific

00:45:02.900 knowledge in the world,

00:45:03.700 if you're pretending

00:45:05.520 that that's what

00:45:06.100 the Bible

00:45:06.540 is supposed to be,

00:45:07.920 well then,

00:45:08.340 someone is going

00:45:08.760 to open up that book

00:45:09.600 expecting to find

00:45:10.580 what they do not find.

00:45:11.780 I mean,

00:45:11.980 they're going to

00:45:12.220 expect to find

00:45:12.980 just one after another

00:45:14.740 of just all of these

00:45:16.740 scientific truths

00:45:17.680 and discoveries

00:45:18.260 written in that book

00:45:19.400 way before they were

00:45:20.460 ever discovered

00:45:21.500 by man,

00:45:22.060 but that's not

00:45:22.800 what you find

00:45:23.600 because that's not

00:45:25.720 what the book

00:45:26.660 is supposed to be

00:45:27.840 and that's okay.

00:45:31.780 All right,

00:45:32.440 let's see,

00:45:34.260 one more,

00:45:35.680 oh yeah,

00:45:36.180 well,

00:45:36.540 I've definitely

00:45:37.000 got to,

00:45:38.260 well,

00:45:38.560 I need 20 minutes

00:45:39.520 for this,

00:45:39.920 but I don't have

00:45:40.320 20 minutes.

00:45:41.040 This is from Kyle,

00:45:42.040 says,

00:45:42.460 please rank

00:45:43.120 the following

00:45:43.740 Nicktoons,

00:45:45.360 Doug,

00:45:46.040 Rugrats, 1.00

00:45:46.720 Red and Stimpy,

00:45:47.940 Ah, Real Monsters,

00:45:48.980 Hey Arnold,

00:45:49.580 The Angry Beavers,

00:45:51.380 Rocco's Modern Life.

00:45:55.040 Yeah,

00:45:55.540 I was up tossing

00:45:56.580 and turning all night.

00:45:57.200 I saw this email

00:45:57.660 last night.

00:45:58.320 I was trying

00:45:58.940 to work through this.

00:46:00.280 I had a chalkboard up,

00:46:01.540 you know,

00:46:01.720 and I was connecting

00:46:03.400 the dots

00:46:04.020 and I had strings

00:46:04.780 connecting the different.

00:46:05.680 I was like,

00:46:06.660 trying to work it all out.

00:46:10.760 Here's what I'll say.

00:46:12.100 I've got to give

00:46:12.920 the top spot to Doug.

00:46:15.100 I think Doug Funny

00:46:16.180 was the voice

00:46:17.980 of his generation.

00:46:20.000 So I got to give it to,

00:46:21.180 Doug was,

00:46:21.960 you know,

00:46:22.120 that was heart and soul

00:46:22.880 and comedy.

00:46:24.280 I mean,

00:46:24.520 hilarious comedy

00:46:25.920 in Doug.

00:46:27.440 So I'll give Doug

00:46:28.380 number one.

00:46:30.080 You got to go

00:46:30.540 Rugrats number two. 0.99

00:46:31.560 I mean,

00:46:31.680 you could make

00:46:32.040 an argument

00:46:32.620 for Rugrats number one,

00:46:33.880 but I also think

00:46:35.360 that,

00:46:35.660 you know,

00:46:36.000 Rugrats was,

00:46:37.560 look,

00:46:37.800 when I got to be

00:46:38.280 about seven or eight

00:46:38.840 years old,

00:46:39.340 I had grown out

00:46:39.880 of Rugrats.

00:46:40.520 You know,

00:46:40.780 I mean,

00:46:41.060 I had graduated

00:46:41.800 to Doug at that point.

00:46:42.940 So,

00:46:43.800 but I'll go

00:46:44.260 Rugrats number two. 0.99

00:46:46.280 Then I'll throw

00:46:46.860 Ren and Stimpy in there.

00:46:48.340 Even though I wasn't

00:46:48.960 really allowed to watch

00:46:49.580 that when I was a kid,

00:46:50.340 my parents thought

00:46:50.840 it was satanic,

00:46:51.780 which,

00:46:52.240 you know,

00:46:53.660 it kind of was in a way.

00:46:54.960 It does sort of seem

00:46:55.620 that way.

00:46:56.640 So Ren and Stimpy,

00:46:57.940 satanic number three.

00:47:00.780 So I didn't,

00:47:01.240 I didn't dock it too much

00:47:02.140 for the fact of being

00:47:02.760 satanic.

00:47:04.000 And then I'll put,

00:47:05.080 I guess I'll go

00:47:05.920 Rocko's Modern Life,

00:47:08.480 Ah, Real Monsters,

00:47:12.440 Hey Arnold,

00:47:13.040 and then the Angry

00:47:13.760 Beavers.

00:47:14.180 I mean,

00:47:14.460 Angry Beavers

00:47:15.080 and Ah, Real Monsters,

00:47:15.900 those are kind of like

00:47:16.520 minor Nicktoons.

00:47:17.900 So obviously those

00:47:18.740 will be the bottom two.

00:47:19.700 That's how I would,

00:47:20.400 that's how I would

00:47:20.860 work it out.

00:47:21.280 And that is the

00:47:21.960 definitive ranking

00:47:23.600 from here on out.

00:47:24.340 And of course,

00:47:24.760 when I am theocratic

00:47:25.520 fascist dictator

00:47:26.260 of the world,

00:47:26.880 everyone will be required

00:47:27.880 to memorize

00:47:28.480 and affirm those rankings 0.82

00:47:29.920 upon penalty of death.

00:47:32.900 Thanks for watching,

00:47:33.660 everybody.

00:47:33.940 Thanks for listening.

00:47:35.620 Have a great weekend.

00:47:37.040 God's.

00:47:37.320 Today on the Ben Shapiro Show,

00:47:52.120 Ilhan Omar's defenders

00:47:53.140 castigate speech

00:47:54.180 as incitement.

00:47:55.200 Michael Knowles

00:47:55.780 is attacked at a speech

00:47:56.600 and we check the mailbag.

00:47:58.060 That's today on the Ben Shapiro Show.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 12, 2019

Ep. 238 - Democrats Hand Republicans A Gift

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