The Matt Walsh Show - July 26, 2019


Ep. 304 - You Can Be Pro-Life And Pro-Death Penalty


Episode Stats

Length

52 minutes

Words per Minute

181.42346

Word Count

9,513

Sentence Count

561

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

The death penalty has been reintroduced on the federal level for the first time since 1988, and the left is up in arms. Is it hypocritical for people to call themselves pro-life and pro-death penalty? Also, a drag queen story hour goes to an even creepier direction than usual.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the show, federal executions are being reinstated. This fact, of course,
00:00:04.260 has caused much anger and consternation, especially on the left. And one claim we
00:00:08.220 keep hearing is that it's hypocritical for people to call themselves pro-life and yet be pro-death
00:00:12.860 penalty. Is that true? We'll talk about it today. Also, a drag queen story hour goes to an even
00:00:18.100 creepier direction than usual, and that's saying quite a lot. So we'll talk about that today also
00:00:23.600 on The Matt Wall Show. So this is always fun. It's always fun when the Democrats pretend to
00:00:32.140 care about the sanctity of human life. Most of the time, they don't bother, but every once in a while,
00:00:38.960 they'll go on with this whole charade of pretending to care. And that's what they're doing this week
00:00:43.320 as the Attorney General Barr has decided to move ahead with federal executions again. It's been
00:00:48.420 almost 20 years, I think, since the last prisoner in a federal prison has been executed.
00:00:55.440 There are about 60 or so people on death row in federal prison, but for the past, well, really for
00:01:01.960 the past 30 years, since 1988, I think they've executed maybe three prisoners in that time.
00:01:10.260 The reinstatement of the death penalty on the federal level has prompted the predictable reaction from
00:01:16.900 the expected people. The left is up in arms. Democrats, as I said, Democrat presidential
00:01:21.980 candidates especially, are pretending to be upset about the taking of human life. Kamala Harris,
00:01:27.220 who is such a huge fan of abortion that it would almost qualify as a fetish, came out and said,
00:01:34.060 this is what she said, this morning the Department of Justice announced they would resume capital
00:01:37.920 punishment. Let me be clear. And let me be clear. Let me stop there for a minute. The phrase let me be
00:01:44.980 clear is the most overused phrase by politicians. You got to take that out of your, the minute you
00:01:52.240 say let me be clear, I know you're about whatever's going to come next is BS. I know that. You're just
00:01:58.460 advertising it. Let me be clear. Capital punishment is immoral and deeply flawed. To many innocent
00:02:04.380 people, too many innocent people have been put to death. We need a national moratorium on the death
00:02:08.380 penalty, not a resurrection. Cory Booker said the death penalty is not justice. It is an immoral and
00:02:13.220 ineffective form of punishment that has killed innocent people and is biased against people
00:02:17.500 of color, low income, and those with mental illness. Warren says our criminal justice system
00:02:23.080 has blah, blah, blah. She's against it. Sanders, there's, there's enough violence in the world,
00:02:27.820 he says. The government shouldn't add to it. When I am president, we will abolish the death penalty
00:02:32.300 and so on. So you get the idea there. Now it should go without saying, but I will say it anyway,
00:02:39.480 that to oppose the death penalty, yet support abortion is just about the most morally deranged
00:02:47.620 position you can possibly hold. Bernie Sanders says there's enough of, there's enough violence
00:02:56.080 in the world, yet he supports crushing the skulls of children. Okay. So this makes no sense.
00:03:02.800 There are only two basic reasons to oppose the death penalty. One is this concern about executing
00:03:10.460 innocent people, but, and you hear, you know, you've heard, you heard that mentioned, but
00:03:15.120 that's not a reason to object in principle to the death penalty in every case. That's a reason to be
00:03:21.740 careful and to be certain about it. Um, but that's not a reason to oppose the death penalty across the
00:03:29.320 board because then, then you're, you're suggesting that there's no way to ever be certain that someone
00:03:36.180 committed a crime when of course there is. No, because if, if we can't ever be certain, uh, uh,
00:03:42.220 if we can't ever know for sure that somebody committed a crime, well, then I guess we shouldn't
00:03:46.080 be putting them in prison, right? Yeah. I mean, if you put them in prison and they spend 30 years in
00:03:50.820 prison, then you find out they're innocent and at least you didn't kill them, but that's 30 years of
00:03:56.080 their life that you took from them that they can't ever get back. So the way people talk about
00:04:01.680 the death penalty, they act as though it's like a, it's a flip of the coin. Ah, 50, 50, maybe they
00:04:06.060 did it. Maybe they didn't. Yes, there have been innocent people, uh, executed, which is a terrible
00:04:11.660 tragedy. But I think these days, you know, you've got DNA. Uh, if you, if you've got, if you have DNA,
00:04:19.940 um, if you have a body, if you have a confession, I mean, sometimes you can have all of those things,
00:04:25.200 then I would say we could be pretty well certain that, um, this person is guilty. Um, does anyone
00:04:33.040 think that, um, that, that, uh, uh, Jeff, Jeff Bundy might've been innocent? Timothy McVeigh
00:04:39.980 might be innocent. Charles Manson might be it. Does anyone think those people might be innocent?
00:04:45.720 Of course, Charles Manson is not being executed, but, uh, does anyone, do you hear anyone say these
00:04:50.560 people are innocent? No, we, we know that they did it. Most of the posthumous exonerations that
00:04:56.620 you hear about, which again are tragic, but most of the time that's from DNA evidence that at the
00:05:03.360 time we didn't have the technology to analyze and now we do, and we see the mistake was made, but
00:05:09.060 that's the point. Now we have that technology. So I think the real reason then to oppose the death
00:05:15.500 penalty in principle, okay, is, is let's, because let's just, for the sake of argument,
00:05:24.160 let's say we have someone, um, who's been convicted of a terrible crime and we know they did it,
00:05:32.840 you know, just for the sake of argument, let's say we've got a confession, we've got DNA, we've got a
00:05:37.600 body, we've got, we've got witnesses. I mean, all of those things, let's just say for the sake of
00:05:41.360 argument, um, would you still oppose executing that person? If so, then you have a problem with
00:05:47.980 the death penalty in principle. And the only reason to have that issue with the death penalty
00:05:53.220 in principle is if you, um, are stating that, well, we just have no right to kill somebody.
00:06:00.940 Life is sacred. Uh, there's a right to life and we have no right to take it.
00:06:05.460 Well, there just is no way to apply that principle to convicts, but not to babies. There's, there's no
00:06:16.920 way to do it. That is an argument that cannot be coherently made. You cannot coherently make the
00:06:23.520 argument that, yeah, uh, we can't kill, uh, convicted murderers, even if we know they did it
00:06:28.080 because life is sacred, right to life, can't kill people. Um, but then, uh, support abortion. It just,
00:06:33.500 you, you can't do it. You can, uh, but, uh, but you can't do it rationally and coherently.
00:06:42.820 If the life of a convicted child rapist is sacred, if even he has the right to life,
00:06:49.260 then I don't see how a child could ever be said to lose it under any circumstance, period.
00:06:54.960 No matter the, the manner of the, of their conception, no matter anything.
00:07:03.000 As I've shared before, I've gone back and forth on this issue, not on abortion, but on capital
00:07:06.940 punishment. And I have been, um, even somewhat recently, I've been against the death penalty.
00:07:11.440 And my reason was, was this, uh, I opposed it in principle based on, on this about the right to
00:07:16.240 life, the sanctity of life and all of that. Uh, but I've always been against abortion also.
00:07:22.180 So there was no conflict there. I have most, most recently changed my mind on the issue because
00:07:27.380 I've realized that the concept of a right to life is a bit more nuanced than I'd made it out to be
00:07:35.260 in the past. Now in the past, I would have said that a right to life is absolute. Everybody has it.
00:07:39.780 It can't be lost. Um, it, I've, I've realized that that's just, that's just not the case. In fact,
00:07:47.560 even when I have, even when I said that a right to life is absolute, I didn't really believe it.
00:07:53.740 Not that I was being dishonest, but I just, I hadn't thought it all the way through. I had,
00:07:57.580 I was, I was being inconsistent because the fact is that our rights can be lost. We all know that
00:08:04.840 if you go to prison, pretty much all of your rights are either gone forever. If you're in prison
00:08:12.160 for life or suspended, um, you, uh, you don't have free speech in prison. You don't have the right
00:08:18.200 to bear arms in prison. You don't have property rights in prison. Um, you don't have any protection
00:08:24.360 against search and seizure in prison. You don't have privacy rights in prison. You don't have the
00:08:29.060 right to assemble in prison. You don't have voting rights in prison on and on and on. And we all realize
00:08:35.140 that it has to be this way. We, we couldn't have prison without suspending those rights. Obviously you
00:08:40.700 can't have a prison where everybody still has all of where, where the bill of rights is still
00:08:45.000 totally intact. You just, you couldn't do it. So you can't have prison without suspending those
00:08:49.120 rights and you can't have, um, a, a safe and civilized society without prison. And so that
00:08:53.980 means that we have to be able to suspend those rights if somebody is convicted of a very serious
00:08:57.480 crime. So then if it, once we've established that the question is, well, we've just, we can suspend
00:09:03.320 or, or, or eliminate all of these other rights potentially, if someone commits a horrible crime
00:09:09.120 and they're convicted of it, um, can the right to life also be lost? And it seems to me that it can
00:09:14.920 be. And that is a conclusion that, that we all to some extent agree with. I mean, if somebody breaks
00:09:21.680 into your house, you have the right to shoot them. You have the right to defend yourself, which means
00:09:27.100 that an intruder in your house, while he is an intruder in your house has essentially forfeited his
00:09:33.860 right to life. If we're going to say that his right to life is absolute and it cannot be lost ever,
00:09:38.420 that means you can't shoot him. Even when he's in your house, you can't because he's got a right
00:09:42.180 to life. You can, you're taking away his right to, to life. If you think that it could be okay to
00:09:47.060 shoot an intruder in your house, then you believe that the right to life in effect can be lost or
00:09:52.960 suspended given, uh, certain circumstances. So if you believe that the right to life can be lost,
00:09:59.540 and if you believe that all of, uh, that all of the rights enshrined in the bill of rights can be
00:10:03.040 lost, then it just seems logical that yes. I mean, do the death penalty in principle could be
00:10:09.100 acceptable given those two facts. Um, it took me for some reason, a long time to put all that together
00:10:14.980 and realize that, Oh, okay. Um, that's it. So, and this is why, uh, there, there is a conflict,
00:10:27.000 a contradiction in supporting abortion, but not the death penalty, but there is no contradiction in
00:10:31.920 supporting the death penalty, but not abortion. You can obviously argue reasonably, it seems to me
00:10:39.660 that a child raping killer loses his right to life. You cannot argue reasonably that a child,
00:10:44.840 um, uh, you know, that, that a child raping killer retains his right to life, but the child
00:10:51.820 might lose his right to life. So that you can't do. I mean, I, so that's, that's the point. That's why
00:10:56.840 there is, when people say, Oh, well, you support the death penalty. I thought you're pro-life.
00:11:00.120 No, no, I, I'm explaining here how that works. It is perfectly possible. It is perfectly reasonable
00:11:07.160 to say that, well, of course a baby can't lose his right to life, but, uh, but if you kill somebody,
00:11:12.760 you might, you just, but you can't do the other way where the baby can lose his, but the convicted
00:11:18.820 killer can't. That doesn't make any sense in terms of sanctity of life. I mean, you could argue
00:11:25.040 that the most extreme penalty is necessary for those who so terribly violate the sanctity of life.
00:11:30.680 You could, you could argue that the sanctity of life in fact demands that we have the death penalty
00:11:35.460 because if somebody else violates the sacredness of another person's life, then, um, in order to
00:11:42.180 reinforce and protect that sanctity, we, uh, we must have the death penalty. So that's where I stand.
00:11:50.320 That's the way I see it. That's the way I see it now anyway. And, um, and I think when it comes down
00:11:58.480 to it, some crime, you know, just to, I guess if you were to summarize this in, um, in one sentence,
00:12:06.500 some crimes simply warrant simply necessitate, uh, the death penalty. I think maybe it's as simple
00:12:18.080 as that. Some crimes just cry out for it. And I'll show you what I mean. There are five people
00:12:25.600 now in line for executions in federal prison. These are the people that the Democrats are crying tears
00:12:32.180 of sadness for, um, asking us to feel sympathy for, well, the DOJ released info about the crimes
00:12:39.780 that these people committed. And, um, so I'm going to read the information that DOJ released
00:12:45.800 about these people and the crimes they committed. Of course, I warn you, it's very disturbing and
00:12:49.580 graphic. If there are little kids listening, maybe turn it off for now. Um, but I do think it's
00:12:55.940 important that we remember what these people did to deserve this. You just, you just, you can't talk
00:13:01.540 about the death penalty without talking about the kinds of things people do to, to warrant it. You
00:13:08.040 can't, you can't leave that aside. Like it's irrelevant. Um, so I think it's important for us
00:13:13.500 to, if we're, if we're saying that five people are in line now for the death penalty, well, I think
00:13:17.540 we should, it's, we should ask, what did they do? And you have to ask that, I think, before you decide
00:13:24.300 whether or not you, uh, support the death penalty in their case. So, um, here they are. Daniel Lewis Lee,
00:13:31.020 a member of a white supremacist group murdered, murdered a family of three, including an eight
00:13:35.240 year old girl. After robbing and shooting the victims with a stun gun, Lee covered their heads
00:13:39.840 with plastic bags, sealed the bags with duct tape, weighed down each victim with rocks and
00:13:44.940 threw the family of three into the Illinois Bayou. Um, Lesmond Mitchell stabbed to death a 63 year
00:13:54.480 old grandmother and forced her nine year old granddaughter to sit beside her lifeless body for a 30 to 40 mile
00:13:59.660 drive. Mitchell then slit the girl's throat twice, crushed her head with 20 pound rocks and severed
00:14:05.920 and buried both victims heads and hands. Wesley Ira Perkey violently raped and murdered a 16 year old
00:14:13.660 girl that dismembered, burned and dumped the young girl's body in a septic pond. He was also convicted,
00:14:18.600 um, of bludgeoning to death an 80 year old woman who suffered from polio and walked with a cane.
00:14:24.560 Alfred, uh, bourgeois physically and emotionally tortured, sexually molested, and then beat to
00:14:32.760 death his own two, two and a half year old daughter. And then Dustin Lee Hunkin shot and killed five
00:14:39.820 people, two men who plan to testify against him and a single working mother and a 10 year old and
00:14:44.660 six year old daughters. All right. Um, so that is, um, you know, it's not an emotional argument to say
00:15:00.540 that you, you listen to those crimes and to say, well, these people just don't deserve to live anymore.
00:15:05.020 That's not an emotional argument. Uh, I think that's just reasonable.
00:15:13.360 You know, these people are monsters. These are, these are monstrosities. These are abominations
00:15:20.440 and, um, they do not deserve to live. Uh, least of all, do they deserve to be cared for by the state
00:15:30.280 for the rest of their lives? That's the other part of this, because the only, if we're not going to
00:15:34.340 execute them, the only other option clearly is to, uh, is to keep them in prison for the rest of
00:15:40.520 their life, not only keep them in prison, but given the horrific nature of their crimes. I mean,
00:15:47.480 you take this guy, Alfred bourgeois who, uh, raped and beat to death his own two and a half year old
00:15:54.700 daughter. Okay. That's someone who, if you just throw them into the general population in prison,
00:16:00.480 uh, he, he's, he's going to be, he himself is going to be raped and tortured and beaten to death
00:16:07.080 for sure. Now, personally, I would say maybe that's, uh, that's, uh, that's just Darwinism at
00:16:15.960 work there. That's, uh, that's, that's, that's, you know, that's the natural consequences of your
00:16:20.580 actions. My point is, I don't think I, I don't know if I necessarily support giving protective
00:16:25.700 custody to people who are only given protective custody because their crimes were so horrific
00:16:30.460 that even the other prisoners don't want to be around them. I think, you know, that's the
00:16:34.820 consequence. Okay. If you don't want to be stuck in prison with a bunch of people that want to beat
00:16:39.200 you to death, then don't beat children to death. It was pretty simple. I mean, it's just simple.
00:16:43.060 If you do that, then you know what, that's your problem. Um, that's my attitude, but that's not the
00:16:48.580 attitude that the state has. And, and, you know, maybe for good. Also, the other problem is it would be,
00:16:52.560 it would be, it would be dangerous for the prison guards when you create this chaotic environment,
00:16:57.040 it becomes a feeding frenzy. And so it becomes dangerous for other people, including the prison
00:17:00.880 guards. So, which means that, um, uh, as much as this Alfred thing, uh, might deserve himself to
00:17:10.920 get the same treatment that he gave his daughter, uh, you know, that, that just can't happen. So if
00:17:15.440 we're not going to execute him, that means that we're keeping him in protective custody for the rest of
00:17:19.580 his life, uh, which special treatment, more expensive, we're spending more money to feed and
00:17:27.160 house and care for this man because he raped and tortured his own daughter. That to me is unjust.
00:17:34.860 That's just, it's, it's unjust. It's not right. I mean, the, the, the, the, for some of the,
00:17:44.180 you take, um, Dustin Lee Hawkins shot and killed five people, including a mother and 10 year old
00:17:50.300 daughter, uh, her 10 and six year old daughters, the family members of those victims are among the
00:17:57.760 people who have to pay money to keep this person alive and protective custody. It might not be that
00:18:03.740 much money. I mean, their, their share of the, of the bill isn't going to be much, but the fact that
00:18:07.960 they have to put out a dime in tax money to keep this guy alive and protected in jail, I think is
00:18:14.240 unjust. So that's just another reason you do something like that. I think maybe this is the
00:18:21.060 way we look at it. Um, we should have prison. Okay. We just, we have prison, treat everybody the same.
00:18:29.760 You know, everyone goes if, but if your crime is so horrific that we can't even put you in a regular
00:18:39.580 prison, that you need special treatment in prison, well, then that's someone who should be executed.
00:18:46.120 Maybe that's the way we look at this. That to me seems reasonable. And you know, it's, it's,
00:18:52.280 it's pretty simple. If you don't want to be executed, then don't go and rape and kill children or
00:18:57.940 murder, uh, women, or you just don't do that. It's the easiest thing in the world. It is the easiest
00:19:03.760 thing in the world to avoid being executed by the state in this country. Anyway, just don't do those
00:19:08.980 things and it won't happen. But if your crime is so terrible that we can't even put you in a regular
00:19:16.780 prison, if that's what a monstrosity, that's what an animal you are, then, um, then that is a crime
00:19:27.020 that cries out for the ultimate punishment in my view, which, as I said, again, I admit is, uh, has,
00:19:38.120 has changed, but this is where I stand now. And, um, I think it's the most reasonable point of view.
00:19:44.240 And I fully admit, and I admitted in the past when I was against the death penalty that my reasoning,
00:19:49.280 well, it had a lot to do with, um, with the sanctity of life and all those things, but it was
00:19:55.160 also an emotional thing as well, where I just, I had a gut reaction to the, to the idea of going in
00:20:02.120 and, um, taking someone who's in prison and just bringing them into a room and killing them. It
00:20:08.940 just, it makes me sick to my stomach to think about. It still does. It's not something I would
00:20:11.760 want to see, but the more I think about it, I think it's just, it's unavoidable. You have to have it.
00:20:17.940 All right. Um, let's see what else? Well, we've talked about these drag queen story hour
00:20:27.880 abominations on the show before there was recently one of these things at a library in Oregon,
00:20:32.680 um, where men dressed as women, you know, that's the drag queen story hours, men dressed as women
00:20:42.260 come and read stories to children. Okay. And they recently have one of these in Oregon and you know,
00:20:47.340 if it's an Oregon, it's going to be, I mean, these drag queen story hours are happening across the
00:20:51.320 country, not just in crazy places like Oregon, but the ones that have an Oregon, you know,
00:20:55.200 are going to be way worse than, than, than, uh, they're going to be even worse than the ones you
00:20:59.520 find in other places. And that's the case here. Um, life site news took some screenshots of what
00:21:06.200 happened at this story hour, which the library had originally proudly published on the internet for
00:21:11.700 all to see, but then took them down. And so here, I'll play the, I'll, I'll show you these
00:21:16.280 pictures. Um, so here are the pictures you see, uh, those are children laying on top of a cross
00:21:25.020 dressing man, uh, while their parents stand by and just watch now. And that always is, is the headline
00:21:36.640 with stuff like this. The headline is these parents, they're the first ones responsible.
00:21:43.560 They're the first culprits that they would bring their children into this environment. Can you even
00:21:47.900 imagine that? I mean, what's going on in your head as a parent where you say to yourself,
00:21:55.420 you get up in the morning and say to yourself, I'm going to get my kids into the car and I'm going to
00:22:01.560 bring them to a place so that men in dresses can read them stories. I understand what the idea of
00:22:10.180 going to a story time or reading a story yourself to your kids. I mean, that makes sense. That part
00:22:15.380 of it makes sense, but of all the different ways to involve your children in a story time activity,
00:22:24.780 why go to the one where it's men in dresses? I, I, why, even if you're so progressive that you don't
00:22:32.060 see a problem with it. Why, why though? Can you give me a reason? I re I've asked this question
00:22:38.640 before. I've never to some parent who's brought their kid to a drag. Why, why did you need a man
00:22:43.620 in a dress to read the story? And not even just a manager dress, but a man dressed up to look like
00:22:49.320 some weird Tim Burton esque caricature of a woman. Okay. If you want someone dressed like a woman to
00:22:56.900 read a story, you can go to any other kind of story time at a library and the librarian,
00:23:01.460 usually a woman will read a story. Why do you need it with all the face paint and everything
00:23:07.780 and the grotesque, weird, creepy, like what do you, what's, what's the point of that?
00:23:14.160 But then to have this man lay on the floor and you say to your kids, oh yeah, why don't you go drop,
00:23:22.620 jump on top of that man there, land there with the, with the skirt on. Yeah. Go, go, go, go climb
00:23:26.960 on top of him like a jungle gym. I what's again, what is going on inside your head as a parent? Do I
00:23:31.800 even want to know? So that's a, that's just abuse on, on their part and on the part of this cross
00:23:39.140 dresser. Um, and there's a reason why the library took, well, this is what's so disturbing is that the
00:23:48.620 library has taken the pictures down now because they were getting backlash about it. But originally
00:23:53.060 they took these pictures and put them online. Like they didn't see a problem. They didn't even
00:23:56.480 think it'd be a controversy. What kind of delusional fantasy world do you have to be living in
00:24:04.440 where not only do you think it's okay to have men in dresses and weird face paint, reading kid
00:24:11.660 stories to kids, and then having the kids lie on top of that man, not only do you think it's okay,
00:24:16.380 but you don't even think it'll, anyone will have a problem with it.
00:24:22.600 All right. Finally, I've been meaning to talk about this. Uh, a few days ago, I tweeted something
00:24:26.740 that got a bit of a reaction. Um, here's what I said. Uh, I said, I'm, I'm told that gender is a
00:24:31.780 social construct, but my six-year-old daughter loves to help clean cook and take care of her
00:24:35.780 baby brother. Meanwhile, my six-year-old son loves to run, climb, wrestle, and make fart jokes.
00:24:39.920 It's almost like this stuff is innate or something. Then I went on in a couple of the tweets and said,
00:24:44.740 part of the problem is most millennial progressives who push gender theory don't have kids and have
00:24:48.420 little experience with kids. Their theories are just that theories. I have three kids with a fourth
00:24:52.800 on a way on the way. Our first two or baby were boy, girl twins. I watched in real time as they
00:24:58.340 naturally gravitated to interests and hobbies that are stereotypical for their gender. We didn't force
00:25:02.580 it. They just did what they wanted to do. Um, so this is just now, in fact, I, I, the reason why I
00:25:10.160 tweeted that is, is, um, I just was thinking about it because I remember I, it was a few nights ago
00:25:16.860 and, um, it was exactly that happening where my, my daughter really wanted to go. I was about to put
00:25:26.320 my, my, my son, my youngest son to bed, uh, two and a half years old. She really wanted to go and
00:25:30.660 read him a story, get his pajamas for him. And, you know, she wanted to do the whole bedtime thing.
00:25:35.040 She really wanted to do that. And so I said, of course I came in after she was done and, you know,
00:25:39.700 but, um, but so she, she was in the room doing that, reading the story to the baby, you know,
00:25:45.260 playing, playing mommy, which, which she loves to do. Meanwhile, my oldest son is, uh, literally
00:25:51.360 trying to scale the walls in our living room. And he actually did it. I don't even know how he,
00:25:55.420 how he, it's like almost like Spider-Man. I don't even know how he did it, but he was able to
00:25:58.680 on, on the corner of the wall, kind of scale it to the, uh, to the, to the ceiling
00:26:03.740 and then kind of like grab onto something in the ceiling and just sort of hang there.
00:26:07.380 That's what he was doing. Um, and I was noticing this kind of dichotomy and it's just,
00:26:13.740 it's so stereotypical where you've got the boy literally climbing the walls while the,
00:26:19.380 the girl is, you know, reading a story to the baby. Um, it's, it's, I didn't, I didn't force
00:26:25.080 them to do it. It's not like I said to my daughter, Hey, put the kid to bed and Hey,
00:26:27.880 you climb the walls. I didn't say that they're just doing what they wanted to do. Um, which
00:26:33.680 is interesting to see. And so I, I made that observation. Now, of course there was outrage,
00:26:38.320 yada, yada. A lot of people insisting that their own experience with their kids has been different,
00:26:42.320 which, which fine. Okay. I'm not saying that my experience is remarkable. That's it's not,
00:26:47.720 that's exactly my point is that it's not remarkable. Um, and I'm not, and I'm not saying that this sample
00:26:53.520 size with my kids somehow proves something. My point is simply that with my kids, this little
00:27:00.200 small sample size, it fits in so perfectly with the larger sample size, which is the general
00:27:06.480 experience of human civilization since, since, uh, you know, the dawn of, uh, of man that it's boys
00:27:13.420 tend to act a certain way. Girls tend to act another way. And I have observed that myself,
00:27:20.480 which is just interesting. I think when you see these things that you're told
00:27:27.640 that are, are the product of, of, uh, of conditioning and are just these arbitrary
00:27:34.140 constructs. But when you have kids and you're not forcing any construct on them, you're not forcing
00:27:39.940 them to act one way or another, but you just see them naturally gravitate to that. That is
00:27:44.240 interesting. I mean, and again, parents, many parents, not all, there are exceptions, but many
00:27:54.220 parents have observed this where, I mean, you've got kids that are two years old that are already,
00:27:59.380 there is something it's, it's not a coincidence that the vast majority of little kids who play
00:28:06.260 with baby dolls are girls. It's not like, it's, it didn't just happen that way. And it's not because
00:28:14.000 parents are forcing it. It happens at such a young age that we couldn't force it on them. Even if we
00:28:20.240 wanted to, there's just something at a, even before the age of two, just something at a very,
00:28:25.660 at a very early age, very early where you find many, most little girls that it just, something
00:28:31.700 clicks and they, they liked the baby dolls. They liked the bright colors. They like that sort of
00:28:36.720 thing. Um, with boys, it's, you know, at a very young age, I liked the trucks. They liked the
00:28:43.240 superheroes. Uh, they getting in, they get into the fart jokes and the bathroom humor. Yeah. There
00:28:48.460 are girls that do that too, but with boys, it just, it's almost inevitable at a, at a certain age.
00:28:53.240 Again, it's like a switch is flipped and that's how they act. Um, my own kids have large,
00:29:01.700 fallen into those same tendencies, but not completely. I mean, my kids are not embodiments
00:29:06.520 of stereotypes as if that's all they are. They are also unique and individual people, but
00:29:10.980 generally speaking, they, they fit into these, uh, so-called constructs. Now there are two things
00:29:19.040 that I noticed from the reaction to this, uh, to these tweets and from the conversation.
00:29:22.780 Um, one is, as I mentioned, people thinking that exceptions disprove the rule.
00:29:33.060 And this is one of the reasons why conversations in our society are so frustrating where people just,
00:29:39.680 they don't understand the concept of speaking in generalities, which we have to be able to do
00:29:47.180 that in order to have a discussion about things that are happening in society. We need to be able
00:29:52.460 to speak in generalities. Now, when you speak in generality, you're not saying that this is
00:29:56.920 universally true across the board for everybody, but for some reason, people don't get that. So
00:30:02.580 I'll say, you know, uh, it's interesting. Boys tend to like trucks and superheroes and girls like
00:30:07.060 baby dolls. You know, I'll make that statement, general statement. And then all of all these people
00:30:10.760 say, what do you tell? So you're saying that every single girl in history has wanted to play
00:30:15.060 with baby dolls. Well, I've got news for you. My daughter doesn't like baby dolls. What do you say
00:30:19.720 about that? I don't say anything about that. I didn't say that every, yes, that's great for your
00:30:26.680 daughter. Fantastic. She's kind of the exception. Most girls do. That's my point. And so we ask,
00:30:34.620 why do most girls gravitate? Is it really just a society's forcing it on them? Is it some sort of
00:30:41.460 conspiracy or is it possible that there is something innate within girls? And is it possible
00:30:48.500 that we could call that innate thing femininity, which, which, which, which can, which you can find
00:30:54.320 in boys and girls, you know, which you can find in girls and masculinity and boys, you can find it
00:30:58.880 even at the youngest ages. That's the point. Also this, again, it's a general statement where I say,
00:31:07.380 well, millennial kid, millennials are not having kids or having kids a lot later. And so they don't
00:31:11.380 have experience with kids. And for them, they talk about kids in this sort of theoretical way.
00:31:16.200 Now, once again, I had people, well, what are you talking about? I'm a millennial and I have kids.
00:31:19.940 Your whole point is invalid. I obviously didn't mean that no millennial has had kids. I'm a millennial,
00:31:26.720 sad to say, and I have kids. So clearly there are exceptions, but it's a statistical reality that out,
00:31:32.660 that my generation is waiting much longer to have kids. And there are, there's a, there's a,
00:31:40.020 a large percentage of my generation that has had so far had no kids and, and, and a percentage that
00:31:46.120 say they plan on, they don't ever plan on having kids. Okay. So that's, that's just the fact. And I
00:31:56.380 do think that that factors in, I think that there's a connection here where we've got these
00:32:02.840 gender theories, these ideas about how little kids can choose their own gender, how the gender is a
00:32:10.060 social construct, all this stuff. All of this stuff has been coming popular, especially within a
00:32:16.340 generation where a lot of the people in that generation aren't having kids themselves. I think
00:32:21.640 that there's a connection there because in many cases, when you actually have kids, you start to
00:32:32.020 learn something about kids. It's funny how that works. When you've got kids in your house all the
00:32:36.700 time, it's not just that you, you know, a baby, you, you, you, you, you've, you've, you've done some
00:32:42.100 babysitting or something like that. You have, you have your own kids who, you know, intimately.
00:32:47.820 Right. Once that happens, you start to learn a few things. You start to see some things.
00:32:57.560 One of the things that you learn when you have your own kids, one of the things you learn is,
00:33:01.880 is, oh geez, little kids are incapable of making choices for themselves. Now, again, there could be
00:33:10.800 exceptions. Maybe you have, maybe you, you, you've had a, maybe your three-year-old is, is very
00:33:17.220 unusually decisive and very good at making choices. Most are not. I mean, most three-year-olds or four-year-olds,
00:33:25.040 you take them even to get some ice cream and you give them three options, vanilla, strawberry,
00:33:30.580 chocolate. They're flummoxed. They don't, they don't know. They have no idea. So you have to kind of
00:33:36.100 make the choice for them. Or you have to tell them, based on what you know about them, you'll,
00:33:40.680 you have to tell them, oh, well, you like chocolate. So I'm going to get you chocolate.
00:33:44.940 But even a choice like that, most kids at three and four years old, they can't make that choice.
00:33:50.060 They just, they're not capable of it. The idea that they could choose their own gender when they
00:33:56.500 can't even choose their own ice cream flavor is, uh, is completely absurd. But I think,
00:34:02.720 now this should be obvious to people who don't have kids, but if for some reason it's not,
00:34:08.940 if for some reason you're confused about it, if you actually have kids, the reality all of a sudden
00:34:12.880 presents itself to you. And yet a lot of these people that propose these theories, uh, have never
00:34:19.920 had kids. And so that's where these, uh, delusional ideas come from, I think. All right, we'll move on to
00:34:27.120 emails, mattwalshowatgmail.com, mattwalshowatgmail.com. This is from Greg says, Matt, I've enjoyed your
00:34:32.440 recent discussion on St. Anselm's, uh, Anselm's ontological argument to prove God's existence.
00:34:37.580 Like you, I feel this argument comes up short and it feels like question begging or something.
00:34:42.240 However, if you happen to read this email in time, Ed Feaser is going to be debating an atheist
00:34:46.520 on the, uh, Aristotelian, there we go, proof of God's existence. Tonight, the debate will take
00:34:53.900 place on YouTube on the Capturing Christianity channel at 6 p.m. Um, uh, this is much more
00:35:00.600 solid philosophically and Aristotle reasoned his way to an unmoved mover hundreds of years before
00:35:05.800 Christ. Yeah, I didn't, Greg, I didn't catch the debate, but I'll go back and watch it. I like
00:35:09.840 Feaser a lot. I've, I've been asked, I've been asked before about which modern, um, apologists and
00:35:15.940 theologians I like. And I always forget to mention Feaser, but he's, he's a very good one.
00:35:19.740 Um, this is from Virginia says, hello, Matt. I love your show at your elbow. Please tell us
00:35:25.300 about bust hell wide open. And who was Nathan Forrest? I think the book at the bottom of the
00:35:29.940 pile is titled soldier and Eastern reader. I haven't been able to even guess the title of
00:35:33.660 the book on the top of the pile. That said, I do pay attention to everything you say and
00:35:36.620 agree with most of it. I'm an atheist. Um, Virginia, thanks for asking. Actually. Yes, this, um,
00:35:44.360 so these are my books that I have, that I've got here that I'm reading. This is bust hell wide
00:35:47.680 open. Nathan Bedford Forrest, you were right. You did, you did, uh, correctly identify that
00:35:52.460 Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate Confederate general on the Western front of the Civil War.
00:36:00.140 Um, fascinating figure, uh, complicated figure though, slave trader, founding member of the
00:36:06.360 clan after the Civil War was over. He did later denounce the clan, but, um, he was definitely a,
00:36:12.360 a violent, um, complex sort of figure yet. He was a man of raw military talent and genius,
00:36:20.280 remarkable physical courage as, as were many men on both sides of the Civil War. So I find that
00:36:25.060 interesting. Um, and then the soldier and Eastern reader is a collection of, uh, of his essays and
00:36:29.500 passages from his novels, which I think is a necessity. If you, you know, if you, if you've never read,
00:36:34.900 if to, to dive into something like the Gulag Archipelago, um, to go in cold, so to speak,
00:36:41.500 not having read any soldier and Eastern, I think might be daunting. So to read, uh, something like
00:36:46.080 that first to get you warmed up, I think it's a good idea. And then this here is, uh, uh, is a book
00:36:50.860 by my friend, Matt Fred called does God exist. And it's a great, easy to read distillation of
00:36:58.660 Aquinas is five proofs of God. So I'd recommend that book as well. All right. Um, that was my random
00:37:05.680 pitch for, uh, books I didn't write. This is from Nick says, Hey Matt, the name's Nick. I'm a big fan,
00:37:11.340 long time daily wire follower and recent listener to your show. You're the funniest contributor on
00:37:15.500 daily wire, but I digress. I'm a Christian at heart and I have an interest in theology. I'm
00:37:20.440 harboring a lot of hate towards an ex of mine. It's been a year since she randomly decided to
00:37:24.180 leave me after four years together. I was genuinely in love and had plans to marry her.
00:37:28.780 Once she left me, she turned into the antithesis of herself, sleeping with lots of guys, getting a
00:37:33.420 butt cheek tattoo, um, drinking all the time, having no regard for consequences. I have no idea how to
00:37:40.280 forgive her and just move on. Uh, I'm much better than I was yet. I still randomly get nostalgic
00:37:45.160 moments that immediately see about it. And I know hating is sinful as well as being vengeful.
00:37:50.000 I've been to therapy, uh, took up meditation, started seeing other people. How could I truly
00:37:54.700 forgive her and stop polluting my mind? Well, Nick, first of all, sorry to hear what you're going
00:37:59.220 through. Also, sorry in advance that what I'm going to say is cliched. I get these sorts of emails a lot
00:38:04.960 and I don't usually respond to them only because I know that I'm going to simply say the same stuff.
00:38:11.900 You've probably already heard a million times. Now, as far as you hating this girl, I'm, I'm,
00:38:17.640 maybe it's presumptuous for me to say, I'm betting you don't actually hate her.
00:38:23.580 Maybe you do. I can't see inside your heart, but I'm, I'm, I'm, I think there's a good chance you
00:38:27.960 don't. So you could put your mind at rest a little bit. There's a good chance that you feel
00:38:33.100 very angry and very hurt and very betrayed and rightly so. Um, not just by the fact that she
00:38:38.260 left, which obviously she had the right to do, uh, especially you guys weren't married yet. So
00:38:42.380 relationships end. And, and, and, and so she, of course she had the right to leave you, but you're
00:38:47.000 still going to feel betrayed. Um, probably, but more even than that is the fact that she changed so
00:38:52.540 much. And so that makes you start to feel like, well, was it all a lie? And this time I had with her,
00:38:57.660 this person that I knew, was she faking it the whole time? Um, and so you're angry about that and
00:39:02.580 you're angry at her and that's fine. That's natural. Let me ask you though, if you could
00:39:08.240 press some kind of magical button and with no consequences to yourself, this button would
00:39:14.200 cause your ex to suffer. I mean, really suffer. Would you press it? What I mean is, do you wish
00:39:24.560 suffering on her? Uh, maybe you do. And if you do, then yeah, you hate her. And that is, and that's
00:39:31.860 something you need to, as you know, get control of. But I think many times we talk about hating
00:39:40.220 people or we think we hate someone and we don't really, because we don't, we don't wish that on
00:39:44.480 them. We don't want them to suffer. Now you might wish that she would learn her lesson about the way
00:39:48.300 she's living now and, and, and stop and live a better way. But, um, do you want harm to befall
00:39:54.140 her, whether physical or emotional? If the answer is no, then, uh, then I don't really think that's
00:39:58.500 hate. I think that's, that's just anger. And I think it's important that we distinguish. It's
00:40:03.240 possible to be really pissed at somebody really, really angry and yet not hate them. And I think
00:40:08.160 that's the difference. If you're super angry, if you're really, really angry, but you still want
00:40:13.240 what, want what's best for them, then it's not hate. Um, in fact, it seems to me that part of
00:40:20.840 the reason why you're angry is that you want what's best for her and you see her living this way
00:40:26.380 and you know, it's a miserable way to live. You know, it's self-destructive and that's what makes
00:40:30.500 you angry. So again, that's not hate. That's kind of the opposite of hate. That's actually love. You
00:40:34.960 still love this girl. And, uh, and that's where the pain comes from. And that's the other thing is,
00:40:40.560 um, especially in a breakup situation, uh, if you really hated her, then I don't think you
00:40:49.940 wouldn't be missing her. You wouldn't be nostalgic. You wouldn't be having these moments where it brings
00:40:53.420 you back and you just want her back and all that. If you're having those moments, that means you don't
00:40:57.420 hate her. If you really hated her, that would be, you would have utter disregard for her. You
00:41:01.260 wouldn't care. Um, that's what hate is. And so I don't think that's hate. That's just me not saying
00:41:08.460 that, you know, I mean, you don't want to stew in anger either, but anger is natural and you
00:41:12.880 shouldn't feel guilty about it. As far as getting over the person, look, I mean, here's where the
00:41:16.360 cliches come in, but, uh, it just, it, time is all is all there is. It just takes time.
00:41:23.420 That's the only thing that I think works in situations like this. You go to therapy that that's
00:41:28.720 good. Um, it's not going to hurt obviously, but I think time is as the cliche goes, heals all wounds.
00:41:38.220 And I don't think time heals all wounds, but it does heal wounds like this, uh, in, in almost
00:41:43.880 every case, but it's a slow process. Eventually you will get to the point where, you know, driving
00:41:51.400 by that place where you guys used to hang out, uh, or where you had your first date or whatever,
00:41:55.400 or, or catching a, you know, hearing a song that you both liked or catching a whiff of, of something
00:42:01.340 that for some reason reminds you of her, that you'll reach a point where those things don't bother
00:42:06.740 you anymore. Um, where eventually she's really just your past something that's over now, something
00:42:13.060 that holds no power over you. It's just, it's something that you can think back to and think,
00:42:16.340 oh, that was an interesting time in my life. And eventually you get to the point, especially
00:42:20.080 when you do get married, where that you'll remember back to that, it'll feel like someone
00:42:24.380 else's life. Like it wasn't even you. Um, eventually you'll get there, but it just, it takes time.
00:42:29.720 And I think four years, four years is a long time to be with somebody. Um, and so that's going to be
00:42:36.820 a long process of getting, getting past it. All right. Uh, let's see from Sarah says, hi, Matt.
00:42:41.820 I love your show. I just heard your criticism of the predestination doctrine and I was cheering
00:42:46.160 internally all the way through in college. I dated a guy who was a Calvinist and it felt as though we
00:42:50.400 were worshiping two completely different gods, though. We both called ourselves Christians.
00:42:53.860 This turned out to be the main cause of our eventual breakup. We debated the issue constantly.
00:42:58.900 And I would use the same arguments you presented his response to the, what is the point of the
00:43:03.900 Bible? If you don't believe in free will question was it isn't meant to change anyone's mind.
00:43:07.680 The Bible exists purely to show God's glory and wisdom and to instruct those already predestined
00:43:12.020 for heaven in basic day-to-day life. Basically, he said, it just tells us the salvation story so that
00:43:17.340 those who are predestined for heaven can all applaud God's perfection. And it increases our
00:43:21.500 gratitude for his having chosen us. When I would ask, then what is the point of missionary work?
00:43:26.620 If we don't need to change anyone's mind, he would ask, he would answer, well, God wants to include
00:43:30.340 us in the process of helping people realize their predestined eternal salvation. They felt like such
00:43:35.160 lazy arguments, but always had just enough truth to them to make it difficult for me to contradict.
00:43:40.300 It didn't help that I am not the greatest at articulating my thoughts, especially when emotions
00:43:43.640 get involved. What would you have said? Well, Sarah, I think you articulated it well.
00:43:49.000 Um, those are lazy arguments, as you said, those are not conclusions drawn through the use of reason
00:43:57.360 and, and, and, and scripture study. Those are rationalizations meant to justify a conclusion
00:44:02.320 that he already drew or probably more likely a conclusion that was given to him by his Calvinist
00:44:09.120 parents or his Calvinist preacher. Um, and so we already had that in mind and now he's just looking
00:44:14.720 to kind of navigate these questions and get around them, not actually address them or think about
00:44:19.800 them. And so it is a lazy, I think he has reduced missionary work to, uh, a sort of symbolic effort
00:44:27.540 where you aren't, you aren't actually helping to convince any, anybody of anything. You aren't
00:44:32.060 actually helping to save their souls. Um, you, you aren't really, you're just, it's just sort of
00:44:38.440 symbolically going through the motions. God is letting you feel like you're doing something,
00:44:43.120 patting you on the head. They're there. Very nice. Oh yeah. You're doing a lot. Good stuff.
00:44:47.680 Big guy. Um, very patronizing, but you're not actually doing anything. That's, that's what
00:44:53.960 he's saying. It's an utterly dismal view of life. Uh, what he says about, well, what's the point of
00:45:00.720 studying scripture? He says, um, well, it's just, it's just to show God's glory and to, and to instruct
00:45:06.600 us in, in basic day-to-day life. Well, again, what do we need instructions for? It's all predestined.
00:45:11.120 It's all, we're on a track. We can't get off of it. What do you need instructions?
00:45:14.940 And also the other thing is the Bible actually, it's not a day-to-day life manual, uh, for, for,
00:45:21.200 you know, every step of the way, given you specific instructions on how to navigate everything you
00:45:27.060 might encounter in life. Um, that's not what the Bible contains for the most part. Um, but the Bible
00:45:34.340 does have a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of moral instruction and command and exhortation and
00:45:42.780 warning and, you know, do this, don't do this. If you do this, this is going to happen. If you do
00:45:47.200 this, this other thing, this one, there's a lot of that in the Bible. And if it's all predestined,
00:45:51.940 if we don't have a choice, then all of that is pointless. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter
00:45:55.660 that you can't get around it. Your boyfriend couldn't get around as, as I'm sure you apparently
00:46:01.200 noticed. You can't get around it without reducing it to something totally patronizing and symbolic
00:46:07.220 and pointless. Um, and then, uh, well, you got to help people realize their pre, their
00:46:13.020 predestination. Well, okay. First of all, how do you realize what you're predestined? So, so if you
00:46:19.840 think you're predestined for heaven, that means you automatically are. No, I'm sure he would tell
00:46:24.280 you that there are people who think they're predestined who aren't. And so first of all, how do you
00:46:28.780 realize it? And what good does it do when you do realize it? If you realize, if somehow you realize
00:46:35.840 that you're predestined for heaven, which again, someone has to explain to me, how do you realize
00:46:39.860 that? I mean, who, who told you? And is it possible for someone to think they're predestined and not be?
00:46:46.940 And if it is possible, then couldn't you be one of those people who's mistaken? Oh no, it couldn't be
00:46:52.520 you. You couldn't be, these other people can be mistaken. Not me. I know that doesn't make any
00:46:57.640 sense. But anyway, even if it is possible for someone to realize, well, then what? Uh, so if
00:47:03.820 you're predestined for heaven, then okay, you're going to heaven. I mean, you can't lose it. Nothing,
00:47:08.660 you cannot lose it, period. Nothing you do will take it away. So just, I mean, who cares? Live your
00:47:14.140 life. Have fun. You're going to heaven anyway. What if you realize you're predestined for hell?
00:47:19.240 What if, what if someone realized that? Predestined for an eternity of torture?
00:47:28.060 And then you're going to tell this person to, to still bask in the glory of God? Why? To give
00:47:33.340 thanks to God for what? To give thanks to God for making me so that I will be tortured forever?
00:47:40.080 I'm going to give, I'm going to, what am I giving thanks? What exactly am I giving thanks for? I can't
00:47:46.300 even give thanks for my very existence because my, I would, my, to be, to not exist would have been so
00:47:51.180 much better. So it just doesn't make any sense. I mean, you're, it's, it's a, you're turning
00:47:56.640 everything into a mockery. At best, you're turning faith and, and, and religion and the Bible into
00:48:04.100 a pointless, symbolic patronizing, um, uh, uh, husk of what it actually is. At worst, you're
00:48:15.000 turning into a, into a, into a total mockery, you know, uh, or something in between. So I, I think
00:48:22.760 you're exactly right. Um, there's just no way. Now, uh, I have gotten fair amount of emails as we've
00:48:29.040 been talking about this from people saying, okay, well, uh, you know, you say life is pointless if,
00:48:35.140 if, if it's all predestined. Well, but God, God, you know, it's, it's this old conundrum, uh, this
00:48:40.220 whole chestnut about, um, well, God has perfect knowledge. God is, is omniscient. So he knows what's
00:48:49.000 going to happen to you. And because he knows what's going to happen to you, that has to happen because
00:48:54.420 if, if, if, you know, if he knows what choice you're going to make, and then you make a different
00:48:57.640 choice and he didn't know it, therefore he's not omniscient. Um, that's, that's not what we're
00:49:03.040 talking about. That's not predestination. The fact that God who exists outside of time
00:49:07.000 knows all that is happening, or we say we, God knows what is going to happen. Well, he exists
00:49:13.580 outside of time for, so for him it is all is now. So he knows what is happening. That's yes. I believe
00:49:20.100 that I believe that God's omniscient. So he does know what quote unquote will happen to you.
00:49:26.380 We'll just phrase it that way for the sake of argument. I believe that that's not the same
00:49:32.320 thing as predestination predestined means that God engineered it that way from before you were even
00:49:40.560 conceived. He had, he himself had already put you on a track before you, you ever existed before you
00:49:48.800 made a single choice before you ever did anything. He had put you potentially on a track to suffer
00:49:54.600 forever in the fires of hell. That's a pre that's what predestination predetermination. That's what
00:50:00.540 it means. If you're talking about anything other than that, not then you can call it predestination,
00:50:05.540 but that's not really what it is. Um, so predestination, if it is predestination,
00:50:16.540 as in you are predestined, as in you had a destiny that was given to you by, by a force outside of you
00:50:22.740 before you ever exist, if that's what we're talking about, then I think it is a horrific doctrine
00:50:29.440 actually, um, that undermines the whole point of everything. Um, and, uh, and, uh, you know,
00:50:40.600 the whole concept of hell of, of, of people being eternally punished is already difficult for any
00:50:51.360 thinking person to wrap their heads around. Right. I mean, that's, that's something I think,
00:50:54.540 I think anyone who's, any Christian who's thought about it, who's actually sat down and thought about
00:50:58.180 it has struggled with it. Uh, if you, if you say you haven't struggled with the doctrine of hell,
00:51:02.460 then that just means you haven't thought about it or you're lying because there's two options,
00:51:06.220 right. Um, so it's already difficult. You've just made it impossible by, by adding in this element
00:51:14.420 of there could be people who are, who are created for the purpose of suffering forever. That just makes
00:51:19.460 it, no, I don't accept that. I can't, it's impossible to accept. Um, and it's certainly not biblical
00:51:29.220 because the Bible really seems to indicate over and over again, that there is a way for you to
00:51:36.200 avoid that, that, uh, that, uh, that eventuality. Um, and that, you know, involves your own consent
00:51:46.280 and your own choices. So it was all predestined. Then the Bible lied to us, but I don't believe
00:51:55.000 that. All right, let's leave it there. Uh, we got to head into a weekend. I hope you guys all have a
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