The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 258 Feminists Take Celibacy Oath To Own The Cons

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, feminists have discovered the value of abstinence. 1.00

00:00:04.280 They're going on a sex strike to protest the pro-life laws that have gone into effect in some states.

00:00:10.240 Personally, I think it's a great idea. I support it 100% and I'll explain why.

00:00:15.240 Also, a Democratic congresswoman has yet again said something bizarre and horrific.

00:00:21.800 And yet again, she is the victim. She's the real victim because people are quoting her verbatim.

00:00:26.660 Also, someone wrote to me with a question, a very interesting question.

00:00:30.820 They want to know, are there contradictions in the Bible?

00:00:34.240 I will do my best to address that question today as well on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:41.840 Well, I hope you had a great weekend, a wonderful Mother's Day as well.

00:00:45.280 I can tell you that, well, I think my wife had a great Mother's Day.

00:00:49.340 She really loved especially the vacuum cleaner that I got her as a gift.

00:00:55.220 And I knew that she loved it because as soon as she unwrapped it, the first words out of her mouth were,

00:01:01.340 I can't believe you would do this.

00:01:03.780 And I said, I know, it's unbelievable.

00:01:06.560 It is unbelievably generous of me, but that's just the kind of guy I am.

00:01:10.020 And I even included, I had a card, of course, and in the card there was this little,

00:01:14.800 well, I called it kind of a treasure map.

00:01:16.300 You know, it's a little bit silly, but it was a treasure map with a map of our house

00:01:22.300 where I had kind of put an X over all the parts that really needed to be vacuumed.

00:01:28.320 And it was great.

00:01:30.280 She even asked me to sleep on the couch at night because I guess she wanted to vacuum all night in our room. 1.00

00:01:36.260 And so it was just, it was great all around.

00:01:39.520 Not to, I mean, I nailed the gift, not to pat myself on the back or anything,

00:01:43.560 but I just wanted to tell you that.

00:01:47.180 All right, this is exciting.

00:01:49.620 Some feminists got a, maybe you heard about this, 1.00

00:01:52.780 they got a sex strike going over the weekend.

00:01:55.700 The strike started with Alyssa Milano, 0.99

00:01:58.260 who's been in convulsions of rage for days now over the Georgia abortion law.

00:02:04.500 And finally on Friday, she decided to take things up a notch.

00:02:07.800 And she said, we're going to do a sex strike. 1.00

00:02:09.660 This is what she said.

00:02:11.220 Our reproductive rights are being erased.

00:02:13.580 Until women have legal control over our own bodies, 1.00

00:02:16.140 we just cannot risk pregnancy.

00:02:18.520 Join me by not having sex until we get,

00:02:21.920 so that's just kind of a funny phrase. 0.84

00:02:23.640 Join me by not having sex. 0.68

00:02:26.620 Anyway, join me by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back. 0.94

00:02:30.480 I'm calling for a hashtag sex strike, pass it on.

00:02:34.500 Um, now a number of feminists came out in support of the sex strike, 1.00

00:02:40.360 and they got it trending on social media.

00:02:43.040 Reading a couple of supportive comments, just to give you an idea,

00:02:46.320 Maureen Shaw said,

00:02:48.020 our feminist foremothers fought for sexual liberation, 0.99

00:02:51.000 which goes hand in hand with bodily autonomy.

00:02:53.200 It's up to us to protect it.

00:02:55.020 Desperate times call for desperate measures. 0.61

00:02:57.340 Sex strike. 0.51

00:02:58.960 Um, it sounds like a movie or something.

00:03:00.760 Desperate times call for desperate measures. 0.93

00:03:03.160 Sex strike. 0.77

00:03:03.700 Uh, columnist Sarah Reese Jones says, 0.93

00:03:08.120 hey, everyone upset about Melissa Milano's sex strike?

00:03:11.500 Thanks for helping this trend.

00:03:12.900 That was the point, because women's lives are in danger. 1.00

00:03:16.680 P.S.

00:03:17.060 It's not Alyssa Milano's fault that our culture is patriarchal. 1.00

00:03:20.440 She doesn't own that just because she's acknowledging it.

00:03:23.640 Uh, someone else says,

00:03:24.600 sorry, boys.

00:03:25.400 Yes, I said boys.

00:03:26.860 Men should know better than to make decisions on something they know nothing about.

00:03:30.380 Our bodies, our choices.

00:03:32.200 Hashtag sex strike.

00:03:33.520 And then there were some men who were supporting, uh, their expressing their support of the

00:03:37.940 sex strike as well. 0.86

00:03:39.260 One guy said, men have autonomy over their own bodies.

00:03:42.720 Women deserve equal reproductive rights free from government interference. 1.00

00:03:46.560 I joined my friends, Alyssa Milano, in supporting a sex strike until women have equal protection under the law. 1.00

00:03:53.560 All right.

00:03:54.180 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.

00:04:05.240 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.

00:04:16.620 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. 1.00

00:04:28.580 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.

00:04:37.980 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. 1.00

00:04:48.620 And so that's already backfired on you.

00:04:50.760 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.

00:05:03.720 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. 0.82

00:05:10.940 Of course, conservative men want nothing to do with feminists. 1.00

00:05:14.620 So conservative men are not affected by this.

00:05:16.920 It's only going to be men like this guy that tweeted this.

00:05:19.960 They're the, they're the only guys who are going to be affected.

00:05:23.420 Um, and so then what do you do?

00:05:25.060 You go online and pretend to support the measure.

00:05:27.200 So, yes, I support this sex strike too. 0.94

00:05:29.420 I am sure. 1.00

00:05:31.300 Um, these guys are so pathetic. 1.00

00:05:34.580 I almost feel sorry for them almost, but then I remember that they are apologists for the mass killing of children. 1.00

00:05:40.920 And so I don't feel so bad anymore.

00:05:42.820 I get very close to feeling bad for them.

00:05:44.920 And then I remember who these guys are and all of a sudden that sympathy goes away.

00:05:51.600 Um, so there's, there's that.

00:05:53.560 But another thought I'm having is that last week, we, we should really stop and appreciate

00:06:02.640 this, that last week was a banner week for pro-lifers.

00:06:06.180 It could not have gotten any better.

00:06:08.500 Well, it could have gotten better if they overturned Roe v. Wade.

00:06:11.720 That's really the only thing that could have made it better.

00:06:13.920 Um, because think about what happened last week.

00:06:16.820 The Georgia law was passed banning abortion after six weeks.

00:06:20.380 Uh, we have that hugely successful pro-life rally and then feminists decide to stop having 1.00

00:06:27.100 sex at the end of the week. 0.94

00:06:28.460 Feminists become celibate. 0.99

00:06:29.840 I mean, you couldn't have asked for a better way to, you couldn't have asked for a better

00:06:33.800 capstone on the week than that.

00:06:36.060 It really is, uh, incredible.

00:06:37.700 We, that was, I almost got tired of winning last week, almost, but of course, the biggest

00:06:46.060 takeaway is that Alyssa Milano and her friends, uh, what they're doing here is they are acknowledging

00:06:53.820 the effectiveness of abstinence.

00:06:57.200 So she says, we can't risk pregnancy.

00:07:00.340 So let's stop having sex.

00:07:02.400 Yes, exactly. 0.98

00:07:03.980 Alyssa.

00:07:04.680 That's, that's, that's the point.

00:07:07.700 Uh, that's what we've been saying.

00:07:10.960 If you aren't sure that you want a baby, then it's foolish to risk pregnancy, which means 0.99

00:07:16.620 it's foolish to have sex. 0.99

00:07:18.180 Uh, so a sex strike is a great idea. 1.00

00:07:21.380 I fully support it.

00:07:23.520 Um, I don't, that's why conservatives and pro-lifers, we're totally on board with this.

00:07:30.560 I think it's a great idea.

00:07:32.180 In fact, I would say go further than that.

00:07:34.900 Keep, keep the sex strike going indefinitely, or at least until you get married. 1.00

00:07:40.920 And if you never get married, then yeah, you should really own the cons.

00:07:44.780 You should really, uh, you know, show us what's what by being celibate your whole life.

00:07:50.240 Right?

00:07:51.160 I would, uh, again, I, I, I cannot express this enough.

00:07:54.660 Um, um, I am fully supportive of any feminist who wants to be celibate. 1.00

00:08:00.220 I, I think it's awesome.

00:08:01.860 I, I could not be a bigger fan of that idea, especially if you're not married.

00:08:08.080 Um, how else do, do they think we're going to react?

00:08:13.340 Like, what do they think is going to happen?

00:08:17.320 These feminists who say they're going to, they're pledging celibacy. 1.00

00:08:20.560 What do they think we're going to, do they think all the conservatives are going to say, 1.00

00:08:23.020 oh no, feminists, no, no, please have sex. 1.00

00:08:25.280 We want you to. 1.00

00:08:26.360 No, please.

00:08:27.200 Anything but that.

00:08:28.040 Um, no, we're not going to react that way because as I said, first of all, it doesn't

00:08:33.040 punish us. 0.92

00:08:34.620 Conservative men generally will avoid left-wing feminists like the plague, but more importantly, 1.00

00:08:40.920 you're doing exactly what we've been advocating all along.

00:08:45.180 And you're doing it for the reasons that we've been giving, giving also.

00:08:49.160 You're avoiding sex because you don't want to risk pregnancy when you're not in a position 0.93

00:08:53.300 to care for a baby. 0.96

00:08:54.320 The only difference is that, um, you think that killing the baby is a viable option. 0.92

00:09:03.260 And the only reason you're going on a sex strike now is because you're afraid that you'll be 0.98

00:09:06.680 prevented from doing that.

00:09:09.080 Uh, which is, which is pretty horrible and morally deranged, but the, the basic idea here

00:09:17.220 we agree with, which is sex is something that naturally, fundamentally creates babies.

00:09:28.660 Uh, and anytime you have sex, there's a chance of a baby being created.

00:09:34.380 So if you don't want a baby, then don't have sex. 0.93

00:09:39.440 That's, that's, yeah, we're, we're on board and we've been saying that for years.

00:09:45.980 It's great that feminists have finally caught on and are, are understanding that. 0.95

00:09:51.100 Uh, so I think it's wonderful.

00:09:52.980 And of course, the last thing that comes to mind when you think about this is, um, how

00:10:00.980 we're always told that the sex lives of feminists and liberals and everyone, their sex lives are 1.00

00:10:11.500 none of our business.

00:10:14.380 And that's true.

00:10:15.400 I agree.

00:10:16.020 It's none of, it's none of my business.

00:10:17.220 I don't want to hear about it yet.

00:10:19.420 They're constantly advertising what they're doing in the bedroom or what they're not doing

00:10:23.640 in this case.

00:10:25.600 Um, but if you, if you're going to put it out there and tell us, I say thumbs up.

00:10:30.980 Great idea.

00:10:31.920 Keep it going.

00:10:33.080 All right.

00:10:33.720 Um, I am sad to report that representative Rashida Tlaib has been victimized again.

00:10:41.220 Really sad to tell you this poor woman. 0.97

00:10:43.020 She, uh, she apparently has been, she's being unfairly attacked again.

00:10:47.700 She sent out this statement on Twitter today.

00:10:49.360 She said, policing my words, twisting and turning them to ignite vile attacks on me will 1.00

00:10:54.460 not work.

00:10:55.180 All of you who are trying to silence me will fail miserably. 0.97

00:10:58.400 I will never allow you to take my words out of context to push your racist and hateful 0.90

00:11:02.740 agenda.

00:11:03.100 The truth will always win.

00:11:05.040 That's the, that's the statement she put up.

00:11:06.780 Uh, so why are these quote vile attacks being waged this time?

00:11:14.240 Well, because of this, she was on a podcast called Skullduggery, which is a Yahoo news

00:11:19.380 podcast, apparently.

00:11:20.900 And in the course of that discussion, this is what she said.

00:11:24.640 I'm going to read, um, I'm going to read verbatim and I'm going to read the entire context.

00:11:30.040 She says it's out of context.

00:11:31.780 Well, here is the entire context of what she said.

00:11:36.400 She said, um, there's always kind of a calming feeling.

00:11:41.100 I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust and the fact 0.54

00:11:46.900 that it was my ancestors, Palestinians who lost their land and some lost their lives,

00:11:51.360 their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways have been wiped out

00:11:55.780 and some people's passports.

00:11:58.380 And just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews post the Holocaust,

00:12:03.160 post the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time.

00:12:07.400 And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that right in many ways, but

00:12:11.660 they did it in a way that took their human dignity away and it was forced on them.

00:12:16.600 Okay.

00:12:16.860 So putting aside the, it's a little bit unintelligible, a little bit incoherent, but putting that aside,

00:12:25.780 a calming feeling when I think of the Holocaust, what now here's the thing. 0.81

00:12:38.160 I don't need to twist those words to make them seem bizarre at best because they just are bizarre.

00:12:48.440 If you're going to start a sentence with, I get a calming feeling when I think of,

00:12:53.660 if this is like Mad Libs or something and the sentence, I get a calming feeling when I think of.

00:12:59.780 Now, there are a lot of things you could fill in the blank with.

00:13:04.860 You could say sunsets, beaches, puppies, rainbows.

00:13:09.740 I get a calming feeling when I think of rainbows.

00:13:12.100 Any of those would work fine, perfectly fine.

00:13:15.280 But Holocaust, you get a calming feeling when you think of the Holocaust. 0.99

00:13:19.600 Now, look, the rest of the context, she does talk about how the Holocaust was a tragedy and

00:13:26.400 terrible thing.

00:13:27.160 So she says that fine.

00:13:29.280 And I guess that's what she's referring to, which is that, well, you're taking my words

00:13:32.180 out of context.

00:13:32.800 I called it a tragedy.

00:13:34.080 Great.

00:13:34.380 Yeah, you did.

00:13:35.520 But you also did say that you get a calming feeling when you think of the Holocaust. 0.94

00:13:40.140 You did say that.

00:13:41.280 It's right there.

00:13:42.600 Verbatim.

00:13:43.000 That's what you said.

00:13:44.700 And there's really nothing you can say before or after that sentence that's going to make

00:13:52.140 that sentence okay.

00:13:54.940 So context can't always save you.

00:13:59.120 There are certain sentences that if you say them, you've said them, and there's nothing

00:14:06.000 that you can say after that to make it okay, unless the context is you're quoting someone.

00:14:10.900 So I just use the phrase, I get a calming feeling when I think of the Holocaust, but 1.00

00:14:14.960 the context for me is I'm quoting her.

00:14:17.320 So that's okay.

00:14:18.060 That context makes it okay for me to say.

00:14:20.820 But if you're expressing your own feelings, there's, it, it, nothing's going to make that

00:14:29.840 not completely insane.

00:14:33.880 Sorry.

00:14:34.880 But Tlaib isn't the only Democrat woman being victimized by verbatim quotes. 1.00

00:14:38.600 This seems to happen a lot with, uh, with Democrat women, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has, uh, once 1.00

00:14:45.580 again, fallen victim to this form of abuse.

00:14:47.960 Apparently as she wrote this over the weekend, she said, this is a technique of the GOP to

00:14:53.940 take dry humor and sarcasm literally and quote, fact check it like the world ending in 12 years.

00:15:01.180 You'd have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it's literal, but the

00:15:05.680 GOP is basically Dwight from the office.

00:15:08.040 So who knows?

00:15:09.820 Oh, she's so relatable.

00:15:11.320 Isn't she?

00:15:11.920 She's a relatable millennial making office jokes. 1.00

00:15:15.380 I want to vote for her based on that.

00:15:17.400 She relates, she gets me, but dry humor and sarcasm.

00:15:21.520 So she's now saying that when she said the world's going to end in 12 years, that was

00:15:25.720 sarcasm.

00:15:26.800 So what, so the world isn't ending then she's saying she was being sarcastic about it.

00:15:34.000 So this whole time, was she making fun of environmentalists?

00:15:38.380 I'll be honest.

00:15:39.120 When I read the green new deal, my, like many people, my first reaction was this has to be

00:15:44.720 a parody.

00:15:45.320 This has to be satire.

00:15:46.680 There's no way this is real.

00:15:47.860 And now she's telling us what, that it was, this is all some, this is performance art on

00:15:54.440 her part, this has all been an act by her.

00:15:57.460 Is that what she's telling us?

00:15:58.400 Because if that's the case, then bravo, it's brilliant.

00:16:03.620 But I feel like that's not, that can't possibly be it.

00:16:10.500 You know, this is, this is the tactic used by people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a

00:16:18.560 lot of these new, uh, female Congresswomen on the democratic side, where they go out 1.00

00:16:25.280 saying stupid, insane things. 1.00

00:16:28.180 And then all we do is quote what they said and criticize it, which is perfectly valid. 1.00

00:16:35.460 And they're, and they've been victimized.

00:16:38.080 That's the way it always goes.

00:16:41.160 All right.

00:16:41.840 Uh, I can't let this one go without mentioning it.

00:16:43.960 Here's an argument that has gone viral, um, because I guess people think it's very persuasive.

00:16:51.820 And so I've, I've got to say something about Heather Ann Campbell is a TV writer, apparently.

00:16:56.740 And she wrote this recently.

00:16:58.740 Um, and I've, I've seen it all over the place.

00:17:02.180 She said, sperm has DNA. 1.00

00:17:04.920 DNA is when life begins.

00:17:07.280 Every sperm is a potential human being.

00:17:09.200 So no more self-pleasuring gentlemen, unless you want to be convicted of a felony, carrying 0.97

00:17:15.680 a cell phone in your pocket damages your sperm. 0.95

00:17:18.120 So no cell phones either skirts only for men to protect sperm. 1.00

00:17:21.980 And she goes on talking about other ways, other forms of legislation that will need to 0.97

00:17:26.100 be passed, uh, in order to stop men from killing their sperm. 1.00

00:17:31.640 And you, you get the point here, the, the analogy, the comparison she's trying to draw.

00:17:36.160 Well, she's clearly trying to equate that with, um, outlawing abortion and saying it's a, it's 1.00

00:17:42.760 a similar kind of thing. 0.99

00:17:44.440 Now, even though this is a ridiculously stupid argument, uh, you do hear versions of it a lot. 0.99

00:17:49.920 Um, I suppose I, I did last week, the, the, whatever it was, the seven dumbest pro-abortion 1.00

00:17:54.700 arguments. 0.97

00:17:55.680 I guess I, I should have included this because what we're doing here is conflating sperm with

00:18:03.540 an actual human being conflating them on the basis that they both have DNA.

00:18:09.780 And she's saying DNA is when life begins.

00:18:12.660 No one is saying that DNA is when life begins.

00:18:16.280 I've never heard that sentence before.

00:18:18.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:18:19.600 People pro-lifers say that conception is when, um, life begins, but nobody is saying that everything

00:18:27.520 that has DNA is its own life and should be treated like a person.

00:18:33.920 Your fingernails have DNA.

00:18:35.940 Okay.

00:18:36.220 Your skin cells have DNA.

00:18:38.520 Nobody thinks that you're committing genocide when you scratch your nose or when you clip

00:18:43.460 your, your nails.

00:18:45.140 Why?

00:18:46.100 Because the issue is that the DNA in question in that case, when you clip your fingernails or

00:18:52.620 when you scratch your nose, um, that DNA is your DNA.

00:18:57.900 But even if you, if all the, if you shed skin cells, you still continue existing as a person.

00:19:07.420 You go on surviving even as your DNA is shed through your skin cell.

00:19:13.940 But the being that forms upon conception becomes a thing with unique DNA.

00:19:22.740 That's the point here.

00:19:24.040 It's not just your DNA.

00:19:26.580 Okay.

00:19:27.220 Your, your child does not just have your DNA.

00:19:30.580 This is a unique separate entity with its own DNA.

00:19:35.120 That's the point.

00:19:36.660 So, um, sperm is an ingredient for lack of a better term.

00:19:43.240 It's an ingredient that helps to make this separate person, but it is, it is not itself

00:19:48.900 a separate person.

00:19:51.200 I think it's a really crucial distinction here.

00:19:56.580 And it's now, this is kind of a crude analogy, but I, I understand that, uh, it doesn't work

00:20:02.260 a hundred percent, but no analogy does.

00:20:05.020 So it's similar to, um, if you're going to say, well, sperm is a, is a potential person.

00:20:10.460 Um, that's like looking at a stick of butter or a cup of sugar or a bag of flour and saying

00:20:17.260 it's a potential cake.

00:20:19.460 No, the cake is when all those ingredients are combined and mixed.

00:20:22.920 Okay.

00:20:23.400 Now you have a cake.

00:20:25.620 And if you go and you, you, you put it in the oven, um, nobody, you know, no one says

00:20:31.300 that it's only a cake once it's been in there for 30 minutes or I don't know.

00:20:35.240 I don't bake.

00:20:35.680 How long does the cake go in the oven?

00:20:38.020 No, when, when we put a cake in the oven, we say a cake is in the oven.

00:20:42.440 You know, if you made a cake and you put it in the oven and it's been in there for one

00:20:46.420 minute and I come in and I say, Hey, what's in the oven?

00:20:49.380 You're going to say a cake, a cake's in the oven.

00:20:52.660 You're not going to say, Oh, a glob of ingredients, a mixture of ingredients are in the oven.

00:20:57.540 No, you're going to say, that's a cake.

00:21:01.280 Okay.

00:21:01.700 Not, not just a potential cake, but a cake.

00:21:05.860 And if the cake isn't, isn't cooked all the way, if it's undercooked and someone serves

00:21:11.060 you an undercooked cake, what are you going to say?

00:21:13.380 You're going to say, this cake is undercooked.

00:21:16.260 You're not going to say, Oh, this cake is still ingredients.

00:21:19.160 It's not a cake yet.

00:21:20.940 So that's the difference.

00:21:23.360 Okay.

00:21:23.640 Sperm is one of the ingredients that goes into making a person.

00:21:28.220 It's not itself a person.

00:21:30.900 So if sperm is destroyed, nobody thinks that a person has been destroyed.

00:21:36.200 Just like, uh, if, if I go and I steal your stick of butter,

00:21:40.220 you're never, you're not going to say, Oh, you stole my cake.

00:21:43.220 It's not a cake yet.

00:21:45.060 But if you had it all ready and you had it all mixed and it was just in the oven for a

00:21:49.460 second and I come in and I take it and I throw it out, you're going to say, you destroyed my cake.

00:21:53.480 You see, that's, that's the difference here.

00:21:55.000 I feel like the distinction is, um, relatively easy to understand.

00:22:01.980 And they're just pretending they don't understand it.

00:22:04.440 All right.

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00:22:09.960 Matt wall show at gmail.com is the email address.

00:22:13.800 This is from, uh, Amanda says, Matt, love your show.

00:22:18.900 Wanted to ask you about a conversation I had with an atheist friend recently.

00:22:23.060 He insisted confidently that the Bible is full of contradictions.

00:22:27.000 He said, if it contradicts itself even once, then that proves it's not the word of God.

00:22:32.420 He listed a bunch that I can't even remember, but it was a long list.

00:22:36.000 Later, I looked it up and found an apologist who said basically that the claim that the 0.86

00:22:39.460 Bible contradicts itself is ridiculous and a lie by atheists. 0.81

00:22:43.260 His explanation seemed logical, but are atheists really making this up? 0.99

00:22:47.740 My friend did have many examples.

00:22:49.840 Was he lying or what?

00:22:51.620 Uh, thanks for taking the time to read.

00:22:53.560 And again, I appreciate your show.

00:22:54.560 All right.

00:22:56.020 Um, this is a good question.

00:22:57.660 This is, I like questions like this.

00:23:00.120 Very meaty gives us a lot to talk about.

00:23:02.500 All right.

00:23:02.740 So we got a few things going on here, right?

00:23:05.080 We've got the claim that the Bible contradicts itself.

00:23:08.760 Then the claim that, um, this proves that it's not the word of God. 0.88

00:23:12.540 And then the competing claim that such claims are ridiculous and unfounded.

00:23:18.340 Uh, I, I happen to basically disagree with everyone you've cited there.

00:23:24.560 Um, I don't believe ultimately that the Bible contradicts itself, but the idea that those 0.95

00:23:30.920 claims are completely ridiculous is itself ridiculous. 0.60

00:23:35.340 And I think an apologist, I don't know what apologist you're referring to there, but an apologist who 0.99

00:23:40.480 just waves off this issue of Bible contradictions and say, ah, it's ridiculous. 0.76

00:23:45.380 I don't even have to talk about that.

00:23:47.440 Um, I think that's someone who is way overcompensating, uh, and being far too defensive.

00:23:54.960 Now, yes, the job of an apologist is to defend the Bible.

00:24:01.120 So defend the faith, what being an apologist is.

00:24:04.400 So in that sense, they're going to be defensive, but I mean, I mean defensive in the negative

00:24:08.120 sense of, um, of, uh, you know, defensive in the sense of really not defending, of not

00:24:17.860 even engaging with the argument, but instead, um, completely dismissing it.

00:24:23.560 So, uh, just because a statement is wrong now to say the Bible contradicts itself.

00:24:27.840 I think that that statement is wrong, but just because it's wrong doesn't mean it's ridiculous

00:24:32.080 necessarily.

00:24:33.140 And if we treat every challenge to our faith as ridiculous, then we only show that we are 0.96

00:24:39.080 empty headed spin doctors. 0.92

00:24:41.300 And there's no reason to take us seriously.

00:24:43.540 Uh, if we're not going to take the challenges to our faith seriously, then the people who

00:24:48.680 are challenging our faith have no reason to take us seriously.

00:24:53.160 And so we don't want to, we don't want to do that.

00:24:55.360 We want to be intelligent, thoughtful, and honest.

00:24:57.540 So, uh, Bible contradictions.

00:25:00.440 Now I'll, I'm going to focus on the gospels when talking about this.

00:25:05.200 And this is an issue.

00:25:06.200 I've thought a lot about this.

00:25:07.420 I've read a lot.

00:25:08.020 Um, so I want to specifically when it comes to the gospels, because we got to focus, you

00:25:14.320 know, this can't be a five hour conversation.

00:25:16.520 We got to focus somewhere.

00:25:17.820 Uh, you'll hear about contradictions in the old Testament too, especially in the first

00:25:21.300 book, Genesis, where scholars these days, some scholars propose what's called the documentary,

00:25:26.360 um, hypothesis, which says that the Pentateuch was cobbled together from like four different

00:25:32.720 sources, which they claim in some cases compete with one another.

00:25:36.360 And, uh, they'll cite, for instance, the two different creation accounts, seemingly, um,

00:25:42.040 the, um, the, the, the, the seeming different versions of the Noah story that can be found

00:25:47.240 in there and so on.

00:25:49.740 I'm not going to focus on that, but I will say that I reject this idea of that, you know,

00:25:55.940 these books were cobbled together in this way.

00:25:58.220 It doesn't even really, now it doesn't, it doesn't make sense, uh, because if, if someone

00:26:03.280 was going to cobble together these different sources, why wouldn't they iron out the differences?

00:26:08.340 Why would they just put all these competing versions into together and then send them

00:26:13.480 out there?

00:26:14.120 Uh, so I don't believe that.

00:26:16.160 I don't know if I necessarily believe that Moses wrote those books, um, because they do

00:26:23.180 narrate his own death after all.

00:26:25.040 So, which would seem to create a problem there, but, um, I don't believe the idea that, you

00:26:30.660 know, they were cobbled together from various different authors.

00:26:34.140 So there are ways of, of harmonizing those apparent contradictions in Genesis and in the

00:26:39.180 other four books.

00:26:40.200 Um, it's not that hard to do, but I would rather focus on, on the gospels with the gospels.

00:26:46.660 We've got four of them, as you know, and they do appear at multiple points to contradict

00:26:54.140 each other, each other.

00:26:55.640 Um, I, I do think the, the differences can be explained some easier than others, but

00:27:02.800 to say that it's ridiculous to point to those contradictions is just not honest.

00:27:08.060 Um, there is stuff in the gospels that an objective and honest person could point to and say, well,

00:27:13.940 yeah, that seems to be a contradiction.

00:27:15.680 And I think the correct response from us is to say, yeah, I see why you say that, but here

00:27:22.240 are some thoughts about how these things might be, might fit together.

00:27:26.400 Um, there are some easy ones.

00:27:28.660 So all of the gospels have Jesus saying different things on the cross.

00:27:33.660 Um, and it's not hard to imagine that he said all of those things and each gospel just has

00:27:41.940 a somewhat condensed version of it.

00:27:43.720 So we have, we have the, the seven last words of Christ, but no gospel individually has all

00:27:51.200 seven, they all have different things, but that's not, to me, that's, that's not a difficult

00:27:56.540 one.

00:27:56.980 He said all of them, the gospels focus on different things, having, you know, they, they, they

00:28:00.780 record different things that he said and you put it all together and you have, you have

00:28:04.600 the seven last words.

00:28:05.500 Makes sense to me.

00:28:06.480 Easy enough.

00:28:07.820 Um, also from the cross, one gospel has both thieves mocking Jesus while another Luke has,

00:28:15.720 uh, one of the, one of the thieves sticking up for Jesus.

00:28:18.720 We know the, the famous story of the penitent thief, which is my, one of my favorite stories

00:28:22.740 in the gospels I've shared before.

00:28:24.660 Um, so how do you harmonize that?

00:28:26.700 Well, maybe the one thief had a change of heart while on the cross.

00:28:30.160 I think it actually makes the story even more powerful in some ways that, um, even initially

00:28:35.940 on the cross, he was defiant and then had a, a change of heart really, really at the last

00:28:42.140 moment.

00:28:42.800 So that's a perfectly plausible explanation there.

00:28:44.800 Uh, earlier in the story, um, Matthew has the lengthy Sermon on the Mount that we all

00:28:51.360 know of.

00:28:51.740 When we think of the Sermon on the Mount, we're thinking of Matthew's version of it while

00:28:56.880 the other gospels give us just the Beatitudes and then they have the other teachings from

00:29:02.000 the Sermon interspersed throughout the narrative, whereas Matthew has it all in one chunk there

00:29:08.200 on the Sermon on the Mount.

00:29:09.020 Well, it stands to reason that Jesus gave the same teaching multiple times.

00:29:12.960 Jesus was a traveling preacher.

00:29:15.280 He went around giving these teachings and it makes a lot of sense that he would have given

00:29:19.980 them more than once to different audiences because it's not like everybody in the region

00:29:25.900 was there for the Sermon on the Mount.

00:29:27.480 So I don't think there's a problem there.

00:29:29.200 Uh, there's a lot of stuff like that.

00:29:30.920 Uh, the order of things being jostled around, which I think is no big deal.

00:29:34.720 Now, uh, John has the cleansing of the temple at the beginning of his narrative, whereas

00:29:40.280 the synoptics, uh, Matthew, Mark, and Luke have it at the end.

00:29:45.420 Um, it's possible that Jesus did it twice, but that seems probably unlikely.

00:29:50.840 It's unlikely that a person could get away with doing that twice, especially because in

00:29:54.740 the synoptics, uh, Jesus cleansing the temple is one of the things that leads to his, to his 0.97

00:30:00.180 execution.

00:30:00.660 So it seems that John moved the order of things around a little bit.

00:30:04.560 Um, he also has Jesus being crucified on a different day.

00:30:08.180 Now, this is only a contradiction.

00:30:10.560 If you fail to understand what John is trying to do with the gospels.

00:30:14.180 And that's one of the main, that's one of the important things here.

00:30:16.280 When you're reading the Bible, we have to realize that the Bible is, it's, it's not,

00:30:21.600 it's not like one person wrote the entire Bible.

00:30:23.520 Um, they're different books, different forms of writing, and they're all trying to do different

00:30:31.580 things.

00:30:32.360 And so we have to know what the writer was trying to do.

00:30:35.580 What was, what was his point?

00:30:37.520 Um, what was his method?

00:30:39.840 What was his style?

00:30:40.900 Right?

00:30:41.380 So John is clearly a more poetic, more theologically focused document than are the synoptics.

00:30:47.300 I think the synoptics are clearly more just straight historical, um, you know, accounts,

00:30:56.240 whereas John is doing something more theological.

00:30:59.180 And once you understand that, once you understand that John is not writing a simple biography like

00:31:04.540 the others, uh, though it is biographical, of course, then the switching up of the order

00:31:09.920 and the other changes that John makes aren't a big deal.

00:31:12.940 Um, John is also very different stylistically.

00:31:15.520 You'll notice when you read John that all of the people, um, who are, you know, given

00:31:24.640 dialogue in, in, in John's account, they all sound different.

00:31:28.780 Like Jesus sounds different in John's account than he does in the synoptics, but that again

00:31:34.340 is stylistic.

00:31:35.260 So I think to call that a contradiction is to show that you don't understand what these

00:31:42.580 writers are trying to do and what John is trying to do.

00:31:45.520 So I think all of that, you know, is, is, is basically easy to explain.

00:31:49.600 Uh, and that's what I would say to your atheist friend. 0.92

00:31:53.220 There are, for me though, if I were to think about, well, what are contradictions in the

00:31:58.420 gospel that are more challenging to understand and explain?

00:32:02.520 I think there are two, there are two areas I would point to and they bookend the gospels.

00:32:07.160 Um, so there's the, the, the, the, the part at the end would be, um, how many angels were

00:32:19.160 at the tomb when the, when the women arrived on Easter morning.

00:32:22.160 Uh, just going from memory here.

00:32:24.660 So we have Mark, Mark says that, um, there was a, says there was a young man who greeted

00:32:31.040 the women. 0.81

00:32:32.780 Matthew has an angel.

00:32:35.400 Um, Luke has, I believe two men and then John has two angels.

00:32:41.460 So that's something atheists are going to point to and say, there's a contradiction.

00:32:46.120 You know, Mark has a young man and then John, you know, John being the last gospel written

00:32:51.720 says it was two angels.

00:32:52.940 Well, which was, it was a young man or two angels.

00:32:54.960 So there's two things we have to keep in mind there.

00:32:56.680 Uh, first of all, in the Bible, angels are referred to, this goes back to the old text,

00:33:01.500 goes back to Genesis.

00:33:02.980 Uh, you find angels being referred to as men, especially young men quite frequently.

00:33:07.780 So that seems like a contradiction until you look at it in the context of, in the, in the,

00:33:12.620 in the full biblical context.

00:33:13.840 And you understand that, um, it was common for biblical writers to call it, to refer to

00:33:18.540 angels as men.

00:33:19.680 So there's that.

00:33:21.000 What about the number though?

00:33:22.620 We've got one or two and apologists will generally address that by saying, well, listen,

00:33:28.660 um, just because you say there was one angel or one person or whatever, that doesn't mean

00:33:34.100 there weren't two.

00:33:34.820 So it's like, uh, uh, you know, the, the comparison I've heard is, um, if you say, uh, you know,

00:33:41.700 a police officer pulled you over on your way home from work and you told somebody, a police

00:33:46.820 officer pulled me over.

00:33:48.360 Well, what if there were actually two police officers in the car and you only said a police

00:33:52.460 officer, does that mean that you're lying or you're contradicting the truth?

00:33:56.160 No, it just means that you're saying it's true.

00:33:58.320 There was a police officer who pulled you over.

00:34:00.480 Uh, there was also a second one who you didn't mention because you didn't think it was necessary.

00:34:04.080 But that doesn't mean that what you said is untrue.

00:34:07.280 So that's generally how that's dealt with.

00:34:09.480 Uh, I don't find that to be a totally satisfying explanation, but it's, it's, you know, it's,

00:34:15.240 it works anyway.

00:34:16.840 Um, and then at the, at the other end, I think the most difficult seeming contradiction is

00:34:25.620 in the infancy narrative where you've got, you know, only two gospels give you the infancy

00:34:30.060 narrative and that's fine.

00:34:31.400 The other two don't mention it.

00:34:32.660 That's not a contradiction.

00:34:33.520 They just don't mention it.

00:34:34.880 Matthew and Luke give us an infancy narrative.

00:34:36.900 Um, and Matthew has, uh, Luke has the, you know, the famous story of the Holy family

00:34:44.920 going from Nazareth to Bethlehem for the census.

00:34:49.160 Um, and then they're there, um, and, uh, the shepherds come and there's the presentation

00:34:55.580 in the temple and then they go back to Nazareth and that's, that's sort of the story.

00:34:59.080 Uh, and then in Matthew's gospel, they're already in Bethlehem to begin the story and, uh, Mary

00:35:08.480 gives birth and then the three magi come.

00:35:12.320 Um, um, and then they have to flee because Herod sends the, you know, Joseph is warned

00:35:18.540 in a dream that, that people are coming to kill, uh, their child.

00:35:23.320 So they flee to Egypt and, and then after, uh, after a length of time, then they go to Nazareth. 0.70

00:35:31.620 So the contradiction there is that, uh, Luke does not mention the flight to Egypt and Matthew

00:35:39.480 does.

00:35:39.760 Uh, so again, the way of dealing with that is saying that, yeah, Luke doesn't mention it.

00:35:44.820 He also doesn't, he doesn't say that it didn't happen.

00:35:46.560 He just doesn't mention it.

00:35:47.780 And that's basically the way to deal with it.

00:35:49.340 Again, I find that it's, it's that work, that explanation works.

00:35:55.060 It does work.

00:35:55.940 It's true, uh, that Matthew does not say it didn't happen.

00:35:59.860 It does seem like a rather significant detail to omit from your account.

00:36:06.320 Um, and so we're left kind of, cause in, in, in, in Luke's account, he's got presentation

00:36:13.760 in the temple and then next sentence, they're going back to Nazareth. 0.68

00:36:17.180 So what we have to do to fit Matthew into Luke is to stick this entire story of the flight

00:36:22.120 Egypt in between those two sentences, which is, uh, which seems like quite a detail to

00:36:28.680 fit in between two sentences.

00:36:30.760 But, um, I think that's basically, you know, again, it's not technically a contradiction.

00:36:36.380 And, um, and I'm also okay saying, look, you know, I can explain most of this pretty easily.

00:36:42.500 I think any reasonable person can, there are a couple parts in there that I don't fully

00:36:47.080 understand and I'm okay saying, I don't know, you know, I, I don't fully get it.

00:36:52.100 I'm not totally sure how these things fit together.

00:36:55.340 Um, I have faith that they do.

00:36:58.480 And I think it's okay to say that.

00:37:00.260 I think it's okay to admit that.

00:37:02.440 Um, I don't think we have to claim that we understand everything 100%.

00:37:07.020 In fact, I think we should realize that we don't and admit that and be okay with that

00:37:13.420 and then continue studying and trying to increase our understanding.

00:37:17.560 So that is my very long explanation for that.

00:37:21.680 And that's how I would maybe think of a more succinct way of giving that to your, to your

00:37:26.800 atheist friends, because they'll probably fall asleep if you give an explanation like 0.68

00:37:30.020 I just did, just as everyone in the audience is probably falling asleep by now.

00:37:32.940 So we will leave it there.

00:37:34.560 Thanks everybody for watching.

00:37:35.700 Thanks for listening.

00:37:36.320 Um, Godspeed.

00:37:51.660 Alyssa Milano calls for pro-abortion women to go on a sex strike, thereby reducing the number 0.98

00:37:57.440 of unwanted pregnancies and thereby reducing abortion.

00:38:02.100 Good job, I guess.

00:38:03.380 For the left, life is a sexually transmitted disease from which no one has ever recovered.

00:38:08.420 For the right, life is a precious gift.

00:38:10.520 We'll analyze the difference at the Michael Knowles show.

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Ep. 258 Feminists Take Celibacy Oath To Own The Cons

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