The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 271 - People Are Shocked And Offended That Christians Are Christians

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, people in this country don't seem to understand Christianity,

00:00:05.420 in case you haven't noticed. And that's why today there's outrage, because a pastor prayed

00:00:09.600 for the president, and outrage because a Catholic bishop came out against gay pride parades.

00:00:15.240 Nobody should be shocked by either thing, and nobody would be shocked if they had a basic

00:00:19.340 understanding of Christianity. We'll talk about that. Also, Texas has banned red light cameras.

00:00:24.840 This is cause for celebration, even for a parade, maybe. And I'll explain why,

00:00:29.440 plus I'll answer your emails today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:35.320 Okay, welcome to the show, everybody. Good to see you again. This is my last show,

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00:02:24.320 All right, let's begin with something that I think is a problem in this country, which is that

00:02:31.260 people don't understand Christianity. That's a common theme these days, right? And we've got a few

00:02:38.320 examples of that today. We'll start with this. President Trump stopped by a McLean Bible Church

00:02:44.440 in Virginia over the weekend to pray with the congregation in the wake of the terrible shooting

00:02:50.680 that happened in Virginia Beach. A shooting that, by the way, it seems like it just, I don't know,

00:03:00.560 we're at the point now where you have a mass shooting, 11 people are killed, and everyone

00:03:07.000 moves on in like a day. I mean, you think back to Columbine, where it was, I think it was 13 people,

00:03:14.740 I believe, were killed at Columbine. And that was the only thing people talked about for two months.

00:03:20.980 It was the biggest story in the world. And now we're at a point where we just move on in a day from it.

00:03:27.340 And I think that's, that's not a good sign. But President Trump showed up at the church

00:03:33.460 to pray with the congregation. And the pastor, David Platt, while the president was in attendance,

00:03:38.980 offered a short prayer for the president. I thought the prayer was beautiful. It was very well done.

00:03:44.720 Not political at all. Nothing partisan about it. Just a biblically sound prayer for a man in a position

00:03:51.140 of leadership. Here's, I'll play a little bit of the prayer. Here's what the prayer sounded like.

00:03:55.460 So, I want to ask us to bow our heads together now and pray for our president.

00:04:05.360 Oh God, we praise you as the one universal king over all. You are our leader and our Lord,

00:04:15.620 and we worship you. There is one God and one Savior. And it's you. And your name is Jesus. And we exalt you,

00:04:26.260 Jesus. And we know, we need your mercy. We need your grace. We need your help. We need your wisdom in our country.

00:04:37.400 And so we stand right now on behalf of our president. And we pray for your grace and your mercy and your wisdom

00:04:49.620 upon him. God, we pray that he would know how much you love him so much that you sent Jesus to die

00:05:03.740 for his sins, for his sins, our sins. So we pray that he would look to you, that he would trust in you,

00:05:14.000 that he would lean on you, that he would govern and make decisions in ways that are good for justice

00:05:21.800 and good for righteousness and good for equity, every good path.

00:05:29.620 Okay, so that's good stuff, right? Well, apparently not. At least not in the minds of people who were

00:05:34.720 offended by the fact that the pastor prayed for Trump. In fact, people were so hurt by this fact

00:05:40.920 that Platt had to issue a lengthy statement defending his decision to pray for the president.

00:05:46.840 It wasn't an apology. I've seen some news reports about it saying pastor apologizes for praying for Trump.

00:05:52.440 He didn't apologize for it, but he did explain why he did it. And I think that's a bad enough,

00:05:58.800 that's a bad sign right there when a pastor has to explain to his own congregation why he offered a prayer

00:06:06.400 for the president who was in attendance at the church. It's now controversial, apparently, for a Christian

00:06:12.020 pastor to pray for the president. Of course, anyone who has even the faintest understanding of

00:06:16.640 Christianity would not be scandalized by this. Christians pray for everybody. Christians are

00:06:21.200 supposed to pray for everybody. Pray for your friends, your foes, your neighbors, your strangers,

00:06:25.780 victims, criminals, murderers, everyone. I mean, you're supposed to pray for everyone. It's very clear,

00:06:31.540 especially our political leaders. The Bible specifically commands us to pray for our leaders.

00:06:37.260 So this, again, just shows how although America is nominally a Christian nation and most people 0.78

00:06:42.400 supposedly are Christian or are at least self-professed Christians, still Christianity is

00:06:48.880 little understood in this country. Let's look at another example, perhaps a more dramatic example.

00:06:54.880 On Saturday, a bishop from Rhode Island, Bishop Thomas Tobin, sent out a tweet that has sparked backlash.

00:07:05.000 And you know, it's bad when it sparks backlash. It's got to be bad because, I mean, there are only

00:07:11.980 a thousand different backlashes that happen every day. So, you know, it's not like people are having

00:07:18.540 bad. It's not like we have backlashes over stupid things, right? We choose our backlashes very carefully. 0.99

00:07:23.340 We specifically choose a thousand different ones every day. We're very discerning about it.

00:07:29.120 So, but this is a major, this is a worldwide controversy now, people getting very upset.

00:07:35.100 Here's what the tweet said from Bishop Tobin said, a reminder that Catholics should not support or attend

00:07:40.940 LGBTQ pride month events held in June. They promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary 1.00

00:07:47.780 to Catholic faith and morals. They are especially harmful to children. Okay. Now, 0.99

00:07:53.580 you may not agree with that. A lot of people don't, obviously, but how could anyone be shocked?

00:08:05.040 That's what I don't get. See, this is where it shows people don't understand Christianity,

00:08:08.520 that you have all these people that are shocked by the statement, scandalized. They can't believe

00:08:13.700 that anyone would come out and say something, at least of all, a bishop.

00:08:18.100 The Catholic Church has always been opposed to pride parades. Always. Why? At least when I say 1.00

00:08:30.320 always, as long as pride parades have been a thing, the Catholic Church has been opposed to it. Why is

00:08:35.080 that? Because according to the Bible, marriage is between a man and a woman, and sex is meant to be 0.96

00:08:41.220 kept within marriage. That is the biblical understanding. That's the Catholic understanding.

00:08:46.280 That's the Christian understanding. This is standard Christian teaching. As such, of course, an 0.99

00:08:52.880 observant Christian will not be in favor of events that celebrate something which they believe to 0.85

00:08:59.420 be sinful. And this is not just about gay people, by the way. You know, I'm guessing that if you asked 1.00

00:09:07.460 Bishop Tobin, Bishop Tobin, how he feels about, say, you know, these debauched spring break, you know,

00:09:16.100 events, spring break, which has become a celebration of debauchery among heterosexuals and homosexuals, 1.00

00:09:25.180 too, that attend. I'm guessing if you asked him how he felt about that, about, you know, a bunch of

00:09:29.560 college kids going down to, you know, going to the beach somewhere, Cancun or whatever, and engaging in all

00:09:40.520 these kinds of activities, I'm guessing that if you asked him how he felt about it, he would say that he's

00:09:44.540 against it. I'm guessing he would tell you that he doesn't like it, because it's a celebration of and an

00:09:51.880 opportunity to participate in sexually immoral behavior. Not specifically gay behavior, it's also 0.94

00:10:01.700 heterosexual behavior. But the point is, from the perspective of the bishop and from any devout

00:10:08.200 Catholic, is that this is behavior that ought to be within, kept within marriage, biblical marriage.

00:10:15.100 I'm guessing you that, I'm guessing that he would also tell you that he's against explicit

00:10:21.440 TV shows, like Game of Thrones, which depict and glorify immoral sexuality. I'm guessing that if you

00:10:29.980 asked him how he feels about a heterosexual couple living together before marriage, he would tell you

00:10:35.540 that he's against it. And if there was some weird kind of event, or a bunch of cohabitating heterosexual

00:10:41.700 couples got together and had a parade to talk about how proud they are of living together before

00:10:47.260 marriage, I'm guessing that Bishop Tobin would be against that. And he would say, no, that shouldn't

00:10:52.660 be happening, and you shouldn't participate if you're a Catholic. The point is that he's being 0.92

00:10:57.340 consistent. He's a Catholic bishop, and he's being consistent with Catholic teaching. He is expressing

00:11:03.840 a biblically coherent and consistent point of view, and one that does not simply target homosexuals.

00:11:10.680 It is a view that is centered around an idea of chastity and modesty. Again, you're free

00:11:17.640 to disagree. But what is there to be surprised by? How could you be outraged by it? You already,

00:11:27.020 unless you're a total idiot, you know that this is how the Catholic Church, this is what the 1.00

00:11:31.060 Catholic Church's teaching is. You must know that by now. So how could you be offended if someone 1.00

00:11:37.480 who represents the Catholic Church comes out and says their point of view on the subject? 0.99

00:11:46.380 It's so silly. It's just so ridiculous. 1.00

00:11:51.000 One other point here. You know, you can't march through the streets literally announcing your 0.94

00:11:58.060 sexuality to the world. You can't constantly shove it in front of people's faces. You can't insist

00:12:04.380 that we all look and acknowledge your sexuality and then get offended when someone offers an opinion

00:12:11.000 about it. You brought it up. If you don't want people talking about it, then don't bring it up.

00:12:17.200 If you don't want to know, if you don't want Bishop Tobin's opinion on your sexuality,

00:12:21.760 then why are you marching through the street announcing it?

00:12:24.700 So this is kind of how the conversation goes. The LGB camp, you know, the LGBT camp will say,

00:12:31.680 hey, everyone, look at us. Look at us, everyone. Look, look, look at us. Please look at us. We're

00:12:36.680 marching through the street. Look, look at us. This is what, let us tell you about our sexuality. I know

00:12:42.060 you didn't ask, but we're going to tell you. Look at us. Please, please. We're proud. We're proud.

00:12:47.660 And then someone says, oh, okay, well, here's my opinion about that. How dare you give us your 0.90

00:12:52.380 opinion? This is none of your business. Well, if it's none of our business, why are you talking

00:12:58.320 about it? Why are you literally marching in the street announcing it if it's none of our business?

00:13:06.460 See, you can't do that. You can't have it both ways. You can do it. You can march in the street.

00:13:12.020 You're free to do that in America, but you can't have it both ways. Okay. You can't shove this

00:13:18.920 unwanted information in my face and then tell me that I'm, that I'm supposed, how I'm supposed to

00:13:24.860 respond to it. It doesn't work that way because this is America. So America, in America, you have

00:13:31.020 the right to march through the street and tell everybody about your sex life if you want to.

00:13:35.560 I don't know why you want to. I have no interest in doing that, but you can do that, but you don't

00:13:41.300 get to set the rules for the conversation. Okay. You can't bring it up to me and then tell me how I'm

00:13:50.040 supposed to respond. I'll respond however I damn well please. If you don't want to hear my opinion,

00:13:57.240 don't bring it up. Now here, you know, that goes for any topic, literally any topic, any topic you bring

00:14:10.440 up to me, I am well within my rights to offer my opinion on it. I mean, I'm, I'm within my rights

00:14:16.000 to offer my opinion, even if you don't bring it up, but especially if you do, if you don't care about

00:14:22.560 my perspective, then don't tell me about it. There are a lot of things. Um, there are a lot of,

00:14:32.380 uh, details about my life, my personal life that, uh, of which I, I don't care, you know,

00:14:41.640 that, that I don't care what your opinion is about those things. You know, I tend to keep my private

00:14:48.040 life private. And the reason why I keep it private is that the things that are private to me, um,

00:14:57.380 it's just, it's, it's none of your business. And I don't care what your opinion is about it.

00:15:03.380 I don't care what your perspective is about it.

00:15:07.720 You know, things about my family and, you know, how my family works and, and, and, and all of that.

00:15:13.100 I don't care what your opinion is. I don't care what your perspective is. No offense to you,

00:15:17.380 but that's why I don't bring it up. That's why I don't talk about it.

00:15:19.860 Anything about my life that I put out there in the open for general consumption,

00:15:28.820 I must be putting it out there because at some level I do care about your perspective.

00:15:36.740 Now I might hope that you have one particular perspective. You know, I might put it out there

00:15:42.400 because I'm hoping that you'll have an affirming, approving perspective, but I don't get to decide

00:15:48.880 that. That's a risk I take. If I put it out there and, and, and you have a negative perspective,

00:15:52.960 well, that's, you're, that's, that's just the way it goes. Let's take an example. My faith,

00:16:02.340 for example. Okay. Now my faith is a, is a, is a private detail about my life in a sense. You know,

00:16:10.200 it's, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a detail about my personal life, about me, my faith. Yet I do talk

00:16:18.620 about it openly. I do put it out there. Number one, because I feel that as Christians, we're called

00:16:25.540 to do that, that we're not supposed to just keep it private, but I do put it out there. Not because I

00:16:36.340 want you to affirm it or to tell me it's okay to be Christian, but I do want to tell you about it.

00:16:43.780 And I know that when I do that, I open myself up for criticism because I might tell you about my

00:16:50.560 faith and you might not agree with my faith. So you might have criticisms. You might argue against it.

00:16:57.080 I can't, I can't start crying about it when you do that. If I tell you, here's my faith,

00:17:01.300 here's what I believe. And you say, here's what I believe about what you believe. I can't say,

00:17:05.780 well, how dare you? You're offending me. How dare you tell me that? I brought it up.

00:17:14.180 And the thing is for me, when I bring up my faith and you come with your, with your contrary opinions,

00:17:19.800 I'm, I'm excited to have that conversation. I'm more than willing to have that conversation.

00:17:25.600 I would love to have that debate with you. So I just can't conceive of, of, of talking about

00:17:31.700 something, of bringing something up about my life that I don't want to talk about. You're talking

00:17:36.660 about something you don't want to talk about. That doesn't make sense to me. So if, if, if you

00:17:43.360 really think it's, it's none of anyone's business, then just don't, don't bring it up. By the way,

00:17:47.260 one other thing here, Bishop Tobin, in that tweet I just read, he said that pride events harm children,

00:17:54.420 you know, and that's something that is especially offended a lot of people. Well, yeah. I mean,

00:18:00.860 I can't imagine why he would say that, right? It's so offensive. Oh, maybe he said that because of

00:18:05.920 this.

00:18:06.920 You can't help it.

00:18:23.360 Yeah. The headline of that video is, uh, seven-year-old trans child wins LA pride parade

00:18:45.680 with fierce strut in heels. So you've got, you've got a seven-year-old boy strutting,

00:18:55.280 according to this headline in, in high heels and a dress. Um, and, and he's at the, at the head of

00:19:02.420 the, of the pride parade. Yeah. Maybe that's why Bishop Tobin observed that these events can be

00:19:10.540 harmful to children because what you're seeing there, what you just saw in that clip, that is the

00:19:15.600 sexual abuse of a child to put a seven-year-old boy in a dress and high heels and have him strut.

00:19:25.600 That is abusive. It is the, it is the sexualization of a child and it is abusive. And so I would call 0.94

00:19:32.940 that sexual abuse of a child. You know what? I would say that if he was a girl, I mean, to have a, 0.93

00:19:40.460 why do they even make high heels that a seven-year-old can fit in? If it was a seven-year-old 0.65

00:19:47.460 girl strutting in high heels, I would say that's incredibly inappropriate and gross and wrong. 0.99

00:19:55.160 The fact that it's a boy makes it even more demented and just deranged. So what kind of 0.96

00:20:00.740 message do you think you're sending? If, if you, if you don't want people to think that pride parades

00:20:07.500 are harmful to children, then maybe don't put a seven-year-old boy in a dress and high heels and

00:20:11.460 have him strutting in front of the parade. What the hell do you think people are going to think?

00:20:19.860 Well, it's not about what they think. They're just going to observe that, okay, well, this event

00:20:24.380 in any way is sexualizing a, a seven-year-old boy.

00:20:28.560 But at LA pride parade, the people that put that on, they're the ones who chose to do that.

00:20:38.760 You can't get mad at Bishop Tobin for pointing it out. You can't get mad at me for pointing it out.

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00:22:29.940 continues to be in my mind, the best state in the union. And I continue to be jealous,

00:22:34.600 very jealous of everyone who lives there. Um, because I, I don't live there myself.

00:22:42.220 And I think Texas has everything going for it culturally and legally and so many other aspects,

00:22:49.160 except the weather is just not the weather and the bugs. Those are the one problem. If you could

00:22:55.740 take Texas and just kind of like, uh, pick, just carve the whole state out and pick it up and transport

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00:23:11.520 other States. No big deal. Then I think it'd be the perfect state. But anyway, Texas continues to,

00:23:16.460 uh, continues to impress Greg Abbott, the governor, um, posted this video over the weekend. Watch this.

00:23:24.820 Hi, Governor Greg Abbott here at the Capitol on Saturday signing bills. I'm about to sign this bill

00:23:30.140 that bans red light cameras in Texas is now law. All right. So he's banning red light cameras.

00:23:49.200 And why did he ban red light cameras? Well, because red light cameras are a money-making scam

00:23:54.200 and nothing more. It's that's all they are. There's no, there's no safe public safety angle to it.

00:24:00.800 It is just about making money. It's public. It's a money-making operation. They profit off of traffic

00:24:06.400 infractions, but do not prevent them. And there have been a lot of studies on that have shown this.

00:24:11.060 There's an article on motorist.org. You can go to that website and check it out, which cites a bunch

00:24:15.900 of studies, uh, too many to list, but like I said, you can go and look at it yourself. All of these studies

00:24:20.960 showing that red light cameras actually increase accidents and certainly don't decrease or prevent

00:24:26.960 them. And it's not hard to see why that would be the case because people end up, end up speeding

00:24:32.720 faster through the intersection. If they know there's a red light camera, because they don't

00:24:36.960 want to be caught by it. That's what ends up happening. Um, I know I've done this myself where

00:24:41.780 I, you know, I've had times where I'm coming up to an intersection and, um, and it goes yellow

00:24:49.400 right at that, you know, there's that, there's that window about, I don't know, 10 or 10 feet

00:24:55.580 or so where it's an awkward window where if the, if the light goes yellow in that moment,

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00:25:05.900 intersection. And then you have to kind of choose which ones. And sometimes it could be safer to

00:25:09.780 speed up depending on how close the car is behind you. So, um, uh, now if, if I know that

00:25:18.540 there's a red light camera at that intersection, I'm probably more likely to speed up and try to

00:25:22.400 go through it because I know that if I try to stop for it, but I end up over the line a little

00:25:26.780 bit, I could get ticketed. And so I think that's one of the reasons why these things just create

00:25:32.420 more accidents and maybe that's the wrong choice, but the point remains one way or another that red

00:25:37.060 light cameras don't make anyone safer. They just don't. And the stats speak for themselves.

00:25:42.760 So why have them? What's the point? If you've got all of these studies that have been done over

00:25:47.620 the years and they, so many of them demonstrate seemingly conclusively that red light cameras

00:25:55.360 don't prevent accidents or prevent these traffic infractions, why keep doing them? Because it

00:26:00.420 allows the state to profit from law breaking, which creates a conflict of interest because now the

00:26:06.500 state actually wants people to run the light because they make money from it. You know, these states

00:26:13.360 become dependent on speeding tickets and red light tickets. They fund things with these tickets. So

00:26:21.860 they need you to keep on doing it so they can make money from it. In fact, there have been cities that

00:26:27.620 have actually shortened the yellow light time. This has happened in many cities where they put the red light

00:26:35.660 cameras in and then what do you know magically all of a sudden the yellow lights are shorter and why do

00:26:43.120 they do that? Because they want you to run it. Now it's very clear that longer yellow lights are safer

00:26:49.960 because they give more people more time to prepare to stop or to go through the intersection if they're

00:26:55.660 close enough. You shorten the yellow light time and you're more likely to catch people in the middle of

00:27:00.100 the intersection on a red light. They do that anyway, even though it's dangerous because it means

00:27:05.700 they make more money and they want people to run it. It's the same thing with speeding. Have you ever

00:27:11.520 been, you know, where I live, there are a lot of roads like this. It's very frustrating, but have you

00:27:14.720 ever been on one of those roads? Usually it's a back road, country road type of thing where the speed

00:27:20.380 limit changes randomly back and forth from 50 to 35, back to 50 to 45 to 30, 25, 20, 50. You know,

00:27:28.540 you're going, uh, and the speed limit changes five times in a span of 10 miles. And why is that?

00:27:36.020 Because they want you to speed. And what you're going to find is that so often, you know, when the

00:27:41.240 speed limit goes from 50 to 35 and then back up to 50 and 35 again, at one of those changes, there's

00:27:49.240 going to be a cop a lot of times hidden out there, just waiting, waiting for you to waiting to catch you,

00:27:54.700 right? So they can make some money. Um, it's, it's, uh, the thing that's terrible about is all

00:28:04.000 of this traffic enforcement stuff, which is not really enforcement, but again, it's just making

00:28:10.160 money. But it has, I think, fundamentally changed the nature and purpose of law enforcement because

00:28:16.660 we've turned police officers into tax collectors and into bill collectors, revenue generators,

00:28:21.580 uh, or not even generators, but, but appropriators. And so we have them camped out on the side of the

00:28:27.840 road, waiting for an opportunity to collect rather than out actually fighting crime and looking for

00:28:32.980 real dangerous crime that they can stop. Um, and then the red light camera thing just takes

00:28:39.040 that mentality to the next level where it says, okay, well, why do we even need the police officer?

00:28:44.560 And so it cut out, cuts out the middleman. And instead, if you run the red light, it snaps a picture,

00:28:50.180 sends you a bill to your house, uh, says, Oh, you, you ran a red light. So you owe the state $75.

00:28:55.240 But why though? What even is the correlation? Why should a minor traffic infraction mean that

00:29:00.760 the state gets money? I don't even see the correlation there. It doesn't make sense.

00:29:07.120 And the whole picture just solidifies the impression that people have that the state is

00:29:15.180 this opportunistic money grubbing entity that's hiding around every corner, waiting for you to

00:29:21.640 trip up so that they can reach into your wallet and take some of your money. And that is not the

00:29:26.100 relationship that a citizen should have with his government in a free country. That that's just not

00:29:32.260 it. Uh, so I'm a big fan of getting rid of the red light cameras. They really are. And you know,

00:29:40.180 I was talking about this a few days ago. It's shocking to me that there are actual, there are

00:29:44.700 actually people, regular citizens who are in favor of red light cameras. Uh, you know, it makes me think

00:29:53.520 of that quote from the, the, the, uh, you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, bow down and, and, and lick the chains

00:30:02.020 that bind you or something like I'm, I'm mangling the quote. Um, but that's, that's what people have

00:30:07.940 come, have fallen in love with their chains. I guess that they, they actually are in favor of

00:30:13.480 red light. Again, the red light cameras, they're not there to make you safer. They are just there

00:30:18.780 to make money off you. That's the only reason that they're there. The state puts them in there

00:30:23.360 because they want you to break the law so they can make money off of you doing it. How could you

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00:32:08.720 Let's check some emails. This is from Norm says Walsh, the bearded. I think I found a perfect word

00:32:14.260 to describe anyone who is attracted to anything, all sexual. You're welcome. He asked, please don't

00:32:21.140 execute me when you gain power in the foreseeable future. Um, well, Norm, you think, you know, I can't

00:32:27.000 make that promise on the last point on the first one. Yeah, I think it's pretty good. All sexual.

00:32:31.400 You know, we talked about yesterday that we've got, um, a set, we got a word for it. We have

00:32:35.720 asexual. So those are people who aren't attracted to anything. And then there's, what was a gray 0.71

00:32:40.460 sexual are people who are just attracted to some things, which is pretty much everybody. And then I

00:32:45.240 said, well, what about someone who's attracted to every, who's sexually attracted to literally

00:32:49.260 everything in existence? Now, I don't think that such a person exists, but that hasn't stopped us

00:32:55.840 from creating labels in the, in the past. I mean, just because a person doesn't exist doesn't mean

00:33:00.000 we can't have a label for it. So I think we need a label for that just to complete the spectrum

00:33:03.860 and, uh, all sexual. I could go with that. Yeah, we'll do that. All sexual. All right. Um,

00:33:13.400 from Megan says, Hey Matt, just wanted to get your opinion on the ethics behind bodies. The,

00:33:18.120 the exhibition, this is a hugely popular exhibit that's been around since 2007. These exhibits display

00:33:24.160 human corpses that have been preserved and solidified through plastination and outer layers

00:33:29.300 are peeled back to reveal their organs or joints or muscles and the corpses. Uh, some of the corpses

00:33:34.240 are posed to show movement as if they are dancing, playing sports or doing yoga and others give a

00:33:39.840 visual, uh, for various disease states. Copying this right off their website. This is their reasoning

00:33:45.640 for using real bodies says unlike models that idealize the body through the eyes of an artist,

00:33:50.780 the specimens in the exhibition display the body and its parts as they really exist.

00:33:55.360 Idealized models have been used for many years to teach anatomy. However, models do not allow for

00:33:59.640 any variation in structure or pathologies, which is key in learning how lifestyle and disease actually

00:34:04.360 manifests inside the human body. Um, says I am less bothered by the idea of people in the U S 1.00

00:34:10.300 following strict, strict, legal, and profusely documented means of donating their body after

00:34:15.960 they die to be used solely by medical professional schools to be studied and then return to families

00:34:20.180 for final burial. However, I think that this crosses the line as these exhibits are profiting

00:34:25.940 immensely from displaying of the corpses of others in the name of education. Um, another big issue is

00:34:31.520 that according to their website, they're using bodies from China that were unclaimed and therefore

00:34:35.520 automatically donated to medical school per Chinese law. Hi Megan. Yeah, it's, it's a,

00:34:41.660 that's a great topic. I, in, in my younger and less discerning days, I did attend one of those

00:34:47.160 exhibits. Um, there was one in Philadelphia, I believe it was, and I think it was 18 or 19.

00:34:51.980 And I went to one of them. It was, it was bizarre and weird and gross. Um, and just something I wish I

00:34:59.320 hadn't been a part of. I do think it's morally problematic to put dead bodies on display, like,

00:35:05.620 like, like art show exhibits. Um, I think we need to uphold the dignity of the human person

00:35:11.900 before, before death and after death, dead bodies should be treated with respect. Organ donation is

00:35:17.940 one thing, um, to give your body up to another person, you know, so that they can continue living.

00:35:23.500 I think it's a beautiful thing, but to give your body as a freak show exhibit for tourists to walk

00:35:29.360 around and gawk at, I, I, I just, I don't see that as noble or, or dignified or, uh, or anything like

00:35:37.080 that. So now you could claim as, as they do apparently that the, that the exhibit is educational

00:35:43.040 and I guess it is sort of, but whatever educating they do, they could do it just as easily with,

00:35:49.760 with, uh, without actual dead bodies. They could come up with anatomical models that are not idealized,

00:35:58.160 that are more realistic if they really want to. Um, and I, I do think it's different if you,

00:36:04.220 of course, donating an organ is one thing and also donating a body being donated to a medical school.

00:36:10.240 I would agree with you. That's different as well, but people who go to a museum exhibit are not at

00:36:16.120 medical school and they're not necessarily future doctors. Okay. They don't need an exact,

00:36:20.700 uh, rendering of what a dead body looks like for whatever you're trying to accomplish with the

00:36:27.740 exhibit. For the most part, as I said, I went to one of them. I know that people are there. It's,

00:36:32.860 it's, it's, it's, it's, uh, isn't, these are tourists, like I said, that, that come here. It's not

00:36:37.340 this, people aren't there with lab coats and, and clipboards taking notes and everything like that.

00:36:43.880 That's not, it's people go there to gawk at the exhibit. That's the primary function. And so I think,

00:36:50.060 um, displaying a dead body for that purpose is, uh, is grotesque. All right. Um,

00:36:59.900 this is from Mark says, I have stumbled upon this question while debating pro-abortionists.

00:37:06.720 Why is it wrong and illegal for my wife to, to, um, drink or do a lot of hard drugs while pregnant? 1.00

00:37:14.680 According to them, it is her body and she could do whatever she wants with it. So

00:37:18.680 why can't she do those hard drugs is, uh, addicting her children to drugs and alcohol 1.00

00:37:24.020 worse than actually killing them. I never had a pro-choice or make a cohesive argument to this

00:37:28.480 question or any question regarding abortion. Actually, they all think it's wrong, but they

00:37:32.580 don't know why. Uh, yeah, Mark. Well, that's just one of dozens of areas where the pro-choice,

00:37:38.820 the pro-choice in quotes, pro-abortion position is incoherent because you're, you, you will very

00:37:47.080 rarely stumble across a pro-abortion person who would be totally cool with a pregnant woman,

00:37:53.420 you know, doing cocaine and, uh, and chugging six beers, right? You're going to very rarely come

00:37:59.960 across someone like that. Yet, according to them, it's her body. She can do it. Not only is it her

00:38:05.700 body, but the child doesn't exist yet. That thing in the womb is not a child, not a person, not a human. 0.63

00:38:13.040 So who cares? Obviously there's an inconsistency there, but don't expect to hear a coherent

00:38:19.640 argument dealing with that because there isn't one. Um, this is from David says, Matt, as someone

00:38:29.520 with a degree in applied mathematics, I'd like to help clarify an issue. You, you briefly mentioned

00:38:33.700 last week when it comes to quantifying victimhood status, the following rules apply. Everyone starts

00:38:40.220 from a, from a base of zero. You can be a victim and oppressor, neither or both, but you can't be

00:38:45.920 negative in either category. Each claim to victimhood comes with a, with both a base point value and a

00:38:52.060 multiplication factor. For example, being black grants you a hundred victim points, but also gives 1.00

00:38:57.220 you a multiplier of 1.5. So if your only claim to victimhood is being black, you have 150 total victim 0.98

00:39:03.740 points. Multiplication factors are compounding. To continue the example, being female is worth 150 1.00

00:39:09.740 points and carries a multiplier of 1.75. So a black female has 250 base points times 1.5 for being black 1.00

00:39:16.420 times 1.75 for being female for a total of 656.25 victim points. Using these rules and criteria you

00:39:23.940 mentioned last week, we can make the following evaluation. Temporary physical disability is worth 50

00:39:30.400 points and carries a multiplier of 1. Potential for surgical complications is unfortunately worth

00:39:35.700 no points, but carries a multiplier of 1. One being an undetermined, uh, being an undetermined part

00:39:42.540 Native American carries 75 points. Oh, that's pretty good. With a multiplier of 1.25. Being part Irish is 1.00

00:39:49.160 worth 25 points and carries a multiplier of 1. So I'm doing pretty well here. Being part Australian carries 0.99

00:39:54.060 no points in a multiplier of 1. In other words, no effect. Unfortunately, being straight, white, male, 0.90

00:39:58.520 and Christian are all worth 0 points. And I'm afraid each carries a multiplier of 0.1. So your total is 0.66

00:40:05.980 50 plus 75 plus 25 times 1 times 1.1 times 1.25 times 1 times 1 times 0.01 times 0.01 times 0.01 times 0.01

00:40:16.180 equals 0.020625 victim points. When compared with the theoretical maximum score of 50,000 points for a

00:40:24.920 physically and mentally handicapped, uh, uh, uh, gay, transgender, black Muslim female making 30 cents 1.00

00:40:31.040 on the dollar doing the same work as a man, you can see that your score pales in comparison. Of 0.99

00:40:35.560 course, the major problem with the calculation of victimhood is that point values are arbitrary and

00:40:39.720 subject to change based on current events, democratic talking points, which college, which college

00:40:44.200 campus you're currently on, et cetera. But I hope this helps clarify things to the extent that any

00:40:48.420 leftist idea can be clarified. Um, yeah. Okay. That was way too much math for me. So you've confused

00:40:59.340 me there, but what I zeroed in on here is that you say that I have 0.020625 victim points. So

00:41:06.200 what you're saying is that I am a victim. So you're saying I'm a victim is what you're saying. That's all

00:41:12.340 I really wanted to establish. And I would also now, I think that your calculation is for the most part

00:41:18.580 pretty solid. You did make a few mistakes here. For instance, you said that, um, uh, that being black

00:41:25.820 grants you a hundred victim points, being a female grants you 150 points. Well, you're wrong. I would 1.00

00:41:29.880 switch that around. Whereas being a racial minority is worth more victim points certainly than being a 1.00

00:41:36.320 female. Um, because if you're a white, straight, heterosexual female, uh, you are, you know, 1.00

00:41:45.620 you are a victim and you're certainly higher on the totem pole than a white male, but you're, 0.92

00:41:51.660 you can only, the white males right below you. Right. So, um, you're, there's only one, 0.88

00:41:57.540 you are one level up as a white heterosexual, um, female. So that's how it goes. You know, 0.56

00:42:05.140 you have white males, um, then white females, and then you start, and then you get into the

00:42:10.440 racial minorities. And, but of course I would agree with you. And I think it's important how

00:42:14.520 you factored in that. Now, if you are a female racial minority, then that's going to be worth 1.00

00:42:20.880 extra. And you're going to rank above a male racial minority. So that's the way it goes. Remember, 0.80

00:42:27.540 basically females are always above males in each kind of subcategory until you get to the very top 0.97

00:42:36.280 where you have quote unquote, transgender women who are at the very top, who are the most victimized,

00:42:41.620 but of course they are not female, they're male. So, um, anyway, very interesting discussion. And,

00:42:47.920 um, I think that someone needs to do a paper on this and put it in a science scientific journal of

00:42:53.760 some kind, uh, just to really quantify all the victim points and everything. So I appreciate that,

00:42:59.020 David, and we will leave it there. I will talk to you, um, next week. Hopefully by then I will

00:43:05.280 have an intact Achilles and, um, have a great week, great weekend. Godspeed.

00:43:10.500 Sex sells, sex robs too. We will examine the difference between a casual hookup and assault 0.72

00:43:30.220 and robbery. Then in the NBA, players want to get rid of the term owner because apparently everything

00:43:35.900 is racist. Now we'll explain how, when everything is racist, nothing is racist. And finally,

00:43:40.460 president Trump goes to the motherland. Check it out on the Michael Knowles show.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 04, 2019

Ep. 271 - People Are Shocked And Offended That Christians Are Christians

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