Ep. 258 Feminists Take Celibacy Oath To Own The Cons
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Feminists have discovered the value of abstinence. They re going on a sex strike to protest the pro-life laws that have gone into effect in some states. Also, a Democratic congresswoman has yet again said something bizarre and horrific. And yet again, she is the victim.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, feminists have discovered the value of abstinence.
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They're going on a sex strike to protest the pro-life laws that have gone into effect in some states.
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Personally, I think it's a great idea. I support it 100% and I'll explain why.
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Also, a Democratic congresswoman has yet again said something bizarre and horrific.
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And yet again, she is the victim. She's the real victim because people are quoting her verbatim.
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Also, someone wrote to me with a question, a very interesting question.
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They want to know, are there contradictions in the Bible?
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I will do my best to address that question today as well on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Well, I hope you had a great weekend, a wonderful Mother's Day as well.
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I can tell you that, well, I think my wife had a great Mother's Day.
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She really loved especially the vacuum cleaner that I got her as a gift.
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And I knew that she loved it because as soon as she unwrapped it, the first words out of her mouth were,
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It is unbelievably generous of me, but that's just the kind of guy I am.
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And I even included, I had a card, of course, and in the card there was this little,
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You know, it's a little bit silly, but it was a treasure map with a map of our house
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where I had kind of put an X over all the parts that really needed to be vacuumed.
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She even asked me to sleep on the couch at night because I guess she wanted to vacuum all night in our room.
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Not to, I mean, I nailed the gift, not to pat myself on the back or anything,
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Some feminists got a, maybe you heard about this,
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who's been in convulsions of rage for days now over the Georgia abortion law.
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And finally on Friday, she decided to take things up a notch.
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Until women have legal control over our own bodies,
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Anyway, join me by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back.
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I'm calling for a hashtag sex strike, pass it on.
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Um, now a number of feminists came out in support of the sex strike,
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Reading a couple of supportive comments, just to give you an idea,
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our feminist foremothers fought for sexual liberation,
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hey, everyone upset about Melissa Milano's sex strike?
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That was the point, because women's lives are in danger.
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It's not Alyssa Milano's fault that our culture is patriarchal.
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She doesn't own that just because she's acknowledging it.
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Men should know better than to make decisions on something they know nothing about.
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And then there were some men who were supporting, uh, their expressing their support of the
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One guy said, men have autonomy over their own bodies.
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Women deserve equal reproductive rights free from government interference.
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I joined my friends, Alyssa Milano, in supporting a sex strike until women have equal protection under the law.
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Um, there, there's, there's a lot to be said here about this, but I want to focus just for a moment at the beginning here on these pitiful men.
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I mean, imagine being a weak, emasculated, submissive man who supports the murder of children because you're afraid that feminists might yell at you if you don't support it.
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And you've given up your soul and your man card and your masculinity, um, and your credibility and your respect and everything in order to obey your feminist overlords.
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And you hope that at least it will help you, uh, you know, with, with, with the ladies you're thinking because you're, because you're kowtowing to them.
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Um, but actually it doesn't, it has the opposite effect because all of the truly beautiful and worthwhile women, uh, want nothing to do with a submissive milk sop who tolerates the killing of children.
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And now you find that even the women who will potentially be with you have now boycotted sex so that you, you and your fellow wimpy men, uh, are the only ones being punished.
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It's, it's, it's, you, you, you've given up everything and now they're boycotting you because you're the, that's the thing.
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Of course, conservative men want nothing to do with feminists.
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It's only going to be men like this guy that tweeted this.
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They're the, they're the only guys who are going to be affected.
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You go online and pretend to support the measure.
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I almost feel sorry for them almost, but then I remember that they are apologists for the mass killing of children.
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And then I remember who these guys are and all of a sudden that sympathy goes away.
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But another thought I'm having is that last week, we, we should really stop and appreciate
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this, that last week was a banner week for pro-lifers.
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Well, it could have gotten better if they overturned Roe v. Wade.
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That's really the only thing that could have made it better.
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Um, because think about what happened last week.
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The Georgia law was passed banning abortion after six weeks.
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Uh, we have that hugely successful pro-life rally and then feminists decide to stop having
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I mean, you couldn't have asked for a better way to, you couldn't have asked for a better
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We, that was, I almost got tired of winning last week, almost, but of course, the biggest
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takeaway is that Alyssa Milano and her friends, uh, what they're doing here is they are acknowledging
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If you aren't sure that you want a baby, then it's foolish to risk pregnancy, which means
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Um, I don't, that's why conservatives and pro-lifers, we're totally on board with this.
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Keep, keep the sex strike going indefinitely, or at least until you get married.
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And if you never get married, then yeah, you should really own the cons.
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You should really, uh, you know, show us what's what by being celibate your whole life.
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I would, uh, again, I, I, I cannot express this enough.
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Um, um, I am fully supportive of any feminist who wants to be celibate.
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I, I could not be a bigger fan of that idea, especially if you're not married.
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Um, how else do, do they think we're going to react?
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These feminists who say they're going to, they're pledging celibacy.
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What do they think we're going to, do they think all the conservatives are going to say,
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Um, no, we're not going to react that way because as I said, first of all, it doesn't
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Conservative men generally will avoid left-wing feminists like the plague, but more importantly,
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you're doing exactly what we've been advocating all along.
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And you're doing it for the reasons that we've been giving, giving also.
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You're avoiding sex because you don't want to risk pregnancy when you're not in a position
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The only difference is that, um, you think that killing the baby is a viable option.
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And the only reason you're going on a sex strike now is because you're afraid that you'll be
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Uh, which is, which is pretty horrible and morally deranged, but the, the basic idea here
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we agree with, which is sex is something that naturally, fundamentally creates babies.
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Uh, and anytime you have sex, there's a chance of a baby being created.
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So if you don't want a baby, then don't have sex.
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That's, that's, yeah, we're, we're on board and we've been saying that for years.
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It's great that feminists have finally caught on and are, are understanding that.
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And of course, the last thing that comes to mind when you think about this is, um, how
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we're always told that the sex lives of feminists and liberals and everyone, their sex lives are
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They're constantly advertising what they're doing in the bedroom or what they're not doing
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Um, but if you, if you're going to put it out there and tell us, I say thumbs up.
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Um, I am sad to report that representative Rashida Tlaib has been victimized again.
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She, uh, she apparently has been, she's being unfairly attacked again.
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She said, policing my words, twisting and turning them to ignite vile attacks on me will
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All of you who are trying to silence me will fail miserably.
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I will never allow you to take my words out of context to push your racist and hateful
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Uh, so why are these quote vile attacks being waged this time?
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Well, because of this, she was on a podcast called Skullduggery, which is a Yahoo news
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And in the course of that discussion, this is what she said.
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I'm going to read, um, I'm going to read verbatim and I'm going to read the entire context.
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Well, here is the entire context of what she said.
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She said, um, there's always kind of a calming feeling.
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I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust and the fact
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that it was my ancestors, Palestinians who lost their land and some lost their lives,
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their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways have been wiped out
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And just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews post the Holocaust,
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post the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time.
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And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that right in many ways, but
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they did it in a way that took their human dignity away and it was forced on them.
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So putting aside the, it's a little bit unintelligible, a little bit incoherent, but putting that aside,
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a calming feeling when I think of the Holocaust, what now here's the thing.
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I don't need to twist those words to make them seem bizarre at best because they just are bizarre.
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If you're going to start a sentence with, I get a calming feeling when I think of,
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if this is like Mad Libs or something and the sentence, I get a calming feeling when I think of.
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Now, there are a lot of things you could fill in the blank with.
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You could say sunsets, beaches, puppies, rainbows.
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I get a calming feeling when I think of rainbows.
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But Holocaust, you get a calming feeling when you think of the Holocaust.
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Now, look, the rest of the context, she does talk about how the Holocaust was a tragedy and
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And I guess that's what she's referring to, which is that, well, you're taking my words
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But you also did say that you get a calming feeling when you think of the Holocaust.
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And there's really nothing you can say before or after that sentence that's going to make
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There are certain sentences that if you say them, you've said them, and there's nothing
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that you can say after that to make it okay, unless the context is you're quoting someone.
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So I just use the phrase, I get a calming feeling when I think of the Holocaust, but
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But if you're expressing your own feelings, there's, it, it, nothing's going to make that
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But Tlaib isn't the only Democrat woman being victimized by verbatim quotes.
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This seems to happen a lot with, uh, with Democrat women, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has, uh, once
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Apparently as she wrote this over the weekend, she said, this is a technique of the GOP to
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take dry humor and sarcasm literally and quote, fact check it like the world ending in 12 years.
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You'd have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it's literal, but the
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She's a relatable millennial making office jokes.
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She relates, she gets me, but dry humor and sarcasm.
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So she's now saying that when she said the world's going to end in 12 years, that was
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So what, so the world isn't ending then she's saying she was being sarcastic about it.
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So this whole time, was she making fun of environmentalists?
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When I read the green new deal, my, like many people, my first reaction was this has to be
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And now she's telling us what, that it was, this is all some, this is performance art on
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Because if that's the case, then bravo, it's brilliant.
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But I feel like that's not, that can't possibly be it.
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You know, this is, this is the tactic used by people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a
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lot of these new, uh, female Congresswomen on the democratic side, where they go out
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And then all we do is quote what they said and criticize it, which is perfectly valid.
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Uh, I can't let this one go without mentioning it.
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Here's an argument that has gone viral, um, because I guess people think it's very persuasive.
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And so I've, I've got to say something about Heather Ann Campbell is a TV writer, apparently.
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So no more self-pleasuring gentlemen, unless you want to be convicted of a felony, carrying
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a cell phone in your pocket damages your sperm.
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So no cell phones either skirts only for men to protect sperm.
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And she goes on talking about other ways, other forms of legislation that will need to
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be passed, uh, in order to stop men from killing their sperm.
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And you, you get the point here, the, the analogy, the comparison she's trying to draw.
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Well, she's clearly trying to equate that with, um, outlawing abortion and saying it's a, it's
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Now, even though this is a ridiculously stupid argument, uh, you do hear versions of it a lot.
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Um, I suppose I, I did last week, the, the, whatever it was, the seven dumbest pro-abortion
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I guess I, I should have included this because what we're doing here is conflating sperm with
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an actual human being conflating them on the basis that they both have DNA.
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People pro-lifers say that conception is when, um, life begins, but nobody is saying that everything
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that has DNA is its own life and should be treated like a person.
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Nobody thinks that you're committing genocide when you scratch your nose or when you clip
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Because the issue is that the DNA in question in that case, when you clip your fingernails or
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when you scratch your nose, um, that DNA is your DNA.
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But even if you, if all the, if you shed skin cells, you still continue existing as a person.
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You go on surviving even as your DNA is shed through your skin cell.
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But the being that forms upon conception becomes a thing with unique DNA.
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This is a unique separate entity with its own DNA.
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So, um, sperm is an ingredient for lack of a better term.
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It's an ingredient that helps to make this separate person, but it is, it is not itself
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I think it's a really crucial distinction here.
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And it's now, this is kind of a crude analogy, but I, I understand that, uh, it doesn't work
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So it's similar to, um, if you're going to say, well, sperm is a, is a potential person.
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Um, that's like looking at a stick of butter or a cup of sugar or a bag of flour and saying
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No, the cake is when all those ingredients are combined and mixed.
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And if you go and you, you, you put it in the oven, um, nobody, you know, no one says
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that it's only a cake once it's been in there for 30 minutes or I don't know.
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No, when, when we put a cake in the oven, we say a cake is in the oven.
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You know, if you made a cake and you put it in the oven and it's been in there for one
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minute and I come in and I say, Hey, what's in the oven?
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You're going to say a cake, a cake's in the oven.
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You're not going to say, Oh, a glob of ingredients, a mixture of ingredients are in the oven.
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And if the cake isn't, isn't cooked all the way, if it's undercooked and someone serves
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you an undercooked cake, what are you going to say?
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You're not going to say, Oh, this cake is still ingredients.
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Sperm is one of the ingredients that goes into making a person.
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So if sperm is destroyed, nobody thinks that a person has been destroyed.
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Just like, uh, if, if I go and I steal your stick of butter,
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you're never, you're not going to say, Oh, you stole my cake.
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But if you had it all ready and you had it all mixed and it was just in the oven for a
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second and I come in and I take it and I throw it out, you're going to say, you destroyed my cake.
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I feel like the distinction is, um, relatively easy to understand.
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And they're just pretending they don't understand it.
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Matt wall show at gmail.com is the email address.
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This is from, uh, Amanda says, Matt, love your show.
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Wanted to ask you about a conversation I had with an atheist friend recently.
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He insisted confidently that the Bible is full of contradictions.
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He said, if it contradicts itself even once, then that proves it's not the word of God.
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He listed a bunch that I can't even remember, but it was a long list.
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Later, I looked it up and found an apologist who said basically that the claim that the
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Bible contradicts itself is ridiculous and a lie by atheists.
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His explanation seemed logical, but are atheists really making this up?
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We've got the claim that the Bible contradicts itself.
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Then the claim that, um, this proves that it's not the word of God.
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And then the competing claim that such claims are ridiculous and unfounded.
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Uh, I, I happen to basically disagree with everyone you've cited there.
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Um, I don't believe ultimately that the Bible contradicts itself, but the idea that those
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claims are completely ridiculous is itself ridiculous.
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And I think an apologist, I don't know what apologist you're referring to there, but an apologist who
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just waves off this issue of Bible contradictions and say, ah, it's ridiculous.
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Um, I think that's someone who is way overcompensating, uh, and being far too defensive.
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Now, yes, the job of an apologist is to defend the Bible.
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So defend the faith, what being an apologist is.
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So in that sense, they're going to be defensive, but I mean, I mean defensive in the negative
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sense of, um, of, uh, you know, defensive in the sense of really not defending, of not
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even engaging with the argument, but instead, um, completely dismissing it.
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So, uh, just because a statement is wrong now to say the Bible contradicts itself.
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I think that that statement is wrong, but just because it's wrong doesn't mean it's ridiculous
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And if we treat every challenge to our faith as ridiculous, then we only show that we are
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Uh, if we're not going to take the challenges to our faith seriously, then the people who
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are challenging our faith have no reason to take us seriously.
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And so we don't want to, we don't want to do that.
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We want to be intelligent, thoughtful, and honest.
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Now I'll, I'm going to focus on the gospels when talking about this.
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Um, so I want to specifically when it comes to the gospels, because we got to focus, you
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Uh, you'll hear about contradictions in the old Testament too, especially in the first
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book, Genesis, where scholars these days, some scholars propose what's called the documentary,
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um, hypothesis, which says that the Pentateuch was cobbled together from like four different
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sources, which they claim in some cases compete with one another.
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And, uh, they'll cite, for instance, the two different creation accounts, seemingly, um,
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the, um, the, the, the, the seeming different versions of the Noah story that can be found
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I'm not going to focus on that, but I will say that I reject this idea of that, you know,
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It doesn't even really, now it doesn't, it doesn't make sense, uh, because if, if someone
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was going to cobble together these different sources, why wouldn't they iron out the differences?
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Why would they just put all these competing versions into together and then send them
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I don't know if I necessarily believe that Moses wrote those books, um, because they do
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So, which would seem to create a problem there, but, um, I don't believe the idea that, you
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know, they were cobbled together from various different authors.
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So there are ways of, of harmonizing those apparent contradictions in Genesis and in the
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Um, it's not that hard to do, but I would rather focus on, on the gospels with the gospels.
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We've got four of them, as you know, and they do appear at multiple points to contradict
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Um, I, I do think the, the differences can be explained some easier than others, but
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to say that it's ridiculous to point to those contradictions is just not honest.
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Um, there is stuff in the gospels that an objective and honest person could point to and say, well,
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And I think the correct response from us is to say, yeah, I see why you say that, but here
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are some thoughts about how these things might be, might fit together.
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So all of the gospels have Jesus saying different things on the cross.
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Um, and it's not hard to imagine that he said all of those things and each gospel just has
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So we have, we have the, the seven last words of Christ, but no gospel individually has all
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seven, they all have different things, but that's not, to me, that's, that's not a difficult
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He said all of them, the gospels focus on different things, having, you know, they, they, they
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record different things that he said and you put it all together and you have, you have
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Um, also from the cross, one gospel has both thieves mocking Jesus while another Luke has,
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uh, one of the, one of the thieves sticking up for Jesus.
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We know the, the famous story of the penitent thief, which is my, one of my favorite stories
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Well, maybe the one thief had a change of heart while on the cross.
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I think it actually makes the story even more powerful in some ways that, um, even initially
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on the cross, he was defiant and then had a, a change of heart really, really at the last
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So that's a perfectly plausible explanation there.
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Uh, earlier in the story, um, Matthew has the lengthy Sermon on the Mount that we all
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When we think of the Sermon on the Mount, we're thinking of Matthew's version of it while
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the other gospels give us just the Beatitudes and then they have the other teachings from
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the Sermon interspersed throughout the narrative, whereas Matthew has it all in one chunk there
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Well, it stands to reason that Jesus gave the same teaching multiple times.
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He went around giving these teachings and it makes a lot of sense that he would have given
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them more than once to different audiences because it's not like everybody in the region
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Uh, the order of things being jostled around, which I think is no big deal.
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Now, uh, John has the cleansing of the temple at the beginning of his narrative, whereas
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the synoptics, uh, Matthew, Mark, and Luke have it at the end.
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Um, it's possible that Jesus did it twice, but that seems probably unlikely.
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It's unlikely that a person could get away with doing that twice, especially because in
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the synoptics, uh, Jesus cleansing the temple is one of the things that leads to his, to his
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So it seems that John moved the order of things around a little bit.
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Um, he also has Jesus being crucified on a different day.
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If you fail to understand what John is trying to do with the gospels.
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And that's one of the main, that's one of the important things here.
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When you're reading the Bible, we have to realize that the Bible is, it's, it's not,
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it's not like one person wrote the entire Bible.
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Um, they're different books, different forms of writing, and they're all trying to do different
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And so we have to know what the writer was trying to do.
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So John is clearly a more poetic, more theologically focused document than are the synoptics.
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I think the synoptics are clearly more just straight historical, um, you know, accounts,
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whereas John is doing something more theological.
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And once you understand that, once you understand that John is not writing a simple biography like
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the others, uh, though it is biographical, of course, then the switching up of the order
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and the other changes that John makes aren't a big deal.
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You'll notice when you read John that all of the people, um, who are, you know, given
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dialogue in, in, in John's account, they all sound different.
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Like Jesus sounds different in John's account than he does in the synoptics, but that again
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So I think to call that a contradiction is to show that you don't understand what these
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writers are trying to do and what John is trying to do.
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So I think all of that, you know, is, is, is basically easy to explain.
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Uh, and that's what I would say to your atheist friend.
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There are, for me though, if I were to think about, well, what are contradictions in the
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gospel that are more challenging to understand and explain?
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I think there are two, there are two areas I would point to and they bookend the gospels.
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Um, so there's the, the, the, the, the part at the end would be, um, how many angels were
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at the tomb when the, when the women arrived on Easter morning.
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So we have Mark, Mark says that, um, there was a, says there was a young man who greeted
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Um, Luke has, I believe two men and then John has two angels.
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So that's something atheists are going to point to and say, there's a contradiction.
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You know, Mark has a young man and then John, you know, John being the last gospel written
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Well, which was, it was a young man or two angels.
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So there's two things we have to keep in mind there.
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Uh, first of all, in the Bible, angels are referred to, this goes back to the old text,
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Uh, you find angels being referred to as men, especially young men quite frequently.
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So that seems like a contradiction until you look at it in the context of, in the, in the,
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And you understand that, um, it was common for biblical writers to call it, to refer to
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We've got one or two and apologists will generally address that by saying, well, listen,
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um, just because you say there was one angel or one person or whatever, that doesn't mean
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So it's like, uh, uh, you know, the, the comparison I've heard is, um, if you say, uh, you know,
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a police officer pulled you over on your way home from work and you told somebody, a police
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Well, what if there were actually two police officers in the car and you only said a police
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officer, does that mean that you're lying or you're contradicting the truth?
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No, it just means that you're saying it's true.
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There was a police officer who pulled you over.
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Uh, there was also a second one who you didn't mention because you didn't think it was necessary.
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But that doesn't mean that what you said is untrue.
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Uh, I don't find that to be a totally satisfying explanation, but it's, it's, you know, it's,
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Um, and then at the, at the other end, I think the most difficult seeming contradiction is
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in the infancy narrative where you've got, you know, only two gospels give you the infancy
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Um, and Matthew has, uh, Luke has the, you know, the famous story of the Holy family
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going from Nazareth to Bethlehem for the census.
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Um, and then they're there, um, and, uh, the shepherds come and there's the presentation
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in the temple and then they go back to Nazareth and that's, that's sort of the story.
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Uh, and then in Matthew's gospel, they're already in Bethlehem to begin the story and, uh, Mary
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Um, um, and then they have to flee because Herod sends the, you know, Joseph is warned
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in a dream that, that people are coming to kill, uh, their child.
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So they flee to Egypt and, and then after, uh, after a length of time, then they go to Nazareth.
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So the contradiction there is that, uh, Luke does not mention the flight to Egypt and Matthew
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Uh, so again, the way of dealing with that is saying that, yeah, Luke doesn't mention it.
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He also doesn't, he doesn't say that it didn't happen.
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Again, I find that it's, it's that work, that explanation works.
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It's true, uh, that Matthew does not say it didn't happen.
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It does seem like a rather significant detail to omit from your account.
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Um, and so we're left kind of, cause in, in, in, in Luke's account, he's got presentation
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in the temple and then next sentence, they're going back to Nazareth.
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So what we have to do to fit Matthew into Luke is to stick this entire story of the flight
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Egypt in between those two sentences, which is, uh, which seems like quite a detail to
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But, um, I think that's basically, you know, again, it's not technically a contradiction.
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And, um, and I'm also okay saying, look, you know, I can explain most of this pretty easily.
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I think any reasonable person can, there are a couple parts in there that I don't fully
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understand and I'm okay saying, I don't know, you know, I, I don't fully get it.
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I'm not totally sure how these things fit together.
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Um, I don't think we have to claim that we understand everything 100%.
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In fact, I think we should realize that we don't and admit that and be okay with that
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and then continue studying and trying to increase our understanding.
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And that's how I would maybe think of a more succinct way of giving that to your, to your
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atheist friends, because they'll probably fall asleep if you give an explanation like
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I just did, just as everyone in the audience is probably falling asleep by now.
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