Ep. 319 - The Dumbest Boycott Yet
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Summary
Trump wants to buy Greenland, and the people of Greenland don t want it. So what do they do? They say they don't want to be owned by the U.S. government, and they're not going to let it happen.
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Maybe you saw this report yesterday that President Trump has apparently repeatedly inquired about the possibility of buying Greenland, you know, that big that big hunk of ice up north.
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And now I think personally, this is exactly the kind of weird, but actually pretty good idea that I hoped Trump would have a lot more often.
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I was hoping for Trump to, in my best case scenario, Trump would, in his presidency, have a whole bunch of ideas that make you go, well, maybe.
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Like that kind of reaction is what I was hoping we would get.
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And there hasn't been enough of that, in my opinion.
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There's been, you know, this, Space Force was one of those the first time you heard it.
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You're like, really? Well, actually, pretty good.
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So we want, I mean, if you're going to hire someone like, if you're going to elect someone like Trump to be president, then I think buying Greenland is exactly the sort of thing, the sort of idea that we would hope he would bring to the table.
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They've got like polar bears, I think, or penguins, one of the two.
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But it would at least be fun to brag about at the U.N. meetings.
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We could at least, we could, you know, we could say to the other U.N. ambassadors, you know, oh, hey, we just finished that Greenland deal.
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We just, you know, we just doubled the size of our overall landmass.
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Just as we're all beginning to really like the idea of owning Greenland,
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I mean, that was really, that was sort of my add-on.
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Then the Greenland government, which consists of, you know, three guys in an igloo,
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they emerged from their igloo and they issued a statement.
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I guess we're going to have to do this the hard way.
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You know, we don't have John Bolton in the White House for no reason, if you get my drift.
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Okay, you could do it the easy way or you could do it the hard way.
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And it looks like Greenland wants to do it the hard way.
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I think it may be time, if you know what I mean here,
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it may be time to spread some democracy and freedom in Greenland.
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Honestly, you could send one SEAL team in, not actual, well, maybe actual SEALs,
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You could send one team in and they could conquer the whole country by dinner time.
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One guy slips on the ice, another guy gets trampled by a caribou.
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Greenland just has to decide how it wants to play this.
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And your court, which is about to be our court, one way or another.
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So I want to discuss, and look, I know I say this all the time,
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So yesterday, the hashtags Boycott CVS and CVS Denies Care were both trending on social media.
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And if you went and checked those hashtags, you would have found lots of people panicking
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CVS was attacking women's access to birth control.
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CVS was preventing women from getting birth control.
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This is all the stuff you would have seen on Twitter.
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And the ACLU obviously jumped in on the action because there is no outrage too petty for the
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If there's a petty outrage anywhere, they're going to be there on the scene.
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NARAL, the extremist pro-abortion group, they were on the dogpile as well.
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Now, you might assume when you see this, you would think, oh, they must have, what, did
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they hike their prices on birth control a little bit or something like that?
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I told you this is the dumbest boycott of all time.
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The boycott began with a startup company called Pill Club, which is a pill delivery service.
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And if I could, a side note for a moment to remark on the fact that it's creepy yet appropriate
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that something called Pill Club exists in modern America.
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But in any case, Pill Club, as I said, it's a startup company.
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Well, Pill Club is in a dispute with CVS because their contract with CVS came up and CVS wants
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to renew that contract with lower reimbursement rates, meaning Pill Club would get less money
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from CVS for delivering CVS's pills to customers.
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One pill delivery company will be getting slightly less money for delivering pills.
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And this somehow translates to women being prevented from using birth control.
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I mean, it's just, I don't think I've ever seen a boycott that is this wholly unjustified
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There have been a lot of unjustified and pointless ones, but I've never seen it this bad before.
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So let's follow this logic all the way through.
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If CVS is charging Pill Club more, or rather they are paying Pill Club less, then that means
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Pill Club will either have to charge its customers a few bucks more or stop delivering
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Which means that if you're a woman who has Pill Club delivering you birth control pills, you're
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either going to have to pay a little bit more or find a different delivery company or, God
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forbid, leave your house and go to the store yourself to pick up the pills.
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And somehow this minor amount of energy being asked to put in this tiny little bit of effort
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to leave your house, you leave your house all the time for things.
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So now all you got to do on your way home from all the other things you're doing, stop
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That now is an attack on your very health and well-being.
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Guys, this birth control thing is just so absurd at this point.
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We've now reached a point where a woman is being attacked and being prevented from using
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birth control if the birth control is not transported directly to her door for cheap.
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If she has to put in, you know, uh, if she has to pay a little bit more or, or leave her
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Meanwhile, all the women who complain that they can't, here's the thing.
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If you are a woman in modern America and you're claiming that you absolutely cannot afford birth
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Um, I certainly think you can leave your house to get it if you really need it or make other
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But I, I think even aside from that, you, you, is this idea that, ah, it needs to be free
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We live in the, we live in, in, in a country that runs on consumerism.
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All of us, we're constantly buying things we don't need.
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We got, I mean, any, it doesn't, it really doesn't matter what we, even if we're not talking
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about birth control, whatever it is you're claiming you can't afford 99% chance you can
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It's just that you, you've, you, your priorities, you've prioritized other things.
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Now, if we're talking about a Lamborghini or a, you know, a six bedroom mansion, then yeah,
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But if we're talking about just sort of every, everyday average items saying you can't afford
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The women who complain that they can't afford birth control and, and who, who claim that
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it's a basic health necessity on top of it, how many of them have Netflix subscriptions?
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Um, how many of them have unlimited data plans?
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How many of them buy essentially a whole new wardrobe every year?
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I'd like to see that Venn diagram because I'm betting that Venn diagram is basically just
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a circle with, with, because all of that is jumbled together.
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Of course, the whole idea, um, as I said, the whole idea that anyone can't afford birth control
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Because by the way, when we talk about birth control, um, that that's, that is a category
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that includes not just pills, that also includes, you know, uh, things that you can buy at the
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So again, the idea that, that there are people who simply cannot afford anything like that.
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And so we have to get the prices down or give it out for free.
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Otherwise we're gonna have all these unwanted pregnancies, so-called unwanted pregnancies
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Um, you know, I think that probably the majority of people can afford it just fine on their current
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People who are a little bit more strapped for cash, you know, maybe you cut out a few
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discretionary expenses if it's important to you.
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A lot of this just comes down to priority, but we all have expenses that we could cut
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out if we needed to, but this is even, I, I guess now we're at a point where you need
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It needs to be brought in your door, walked up the steps, placed into your palm with a glass
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And you're being murdered essentially by, by, uh, by the patriarchy.
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I mean, come on, it's just, uh, completely ridiculous.
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David Hogg says it's harder to get cold pills than an AR-15.
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It's harder to get cold pills like Sudafed or something than an AR-15.
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Now, I don't know where David Hogg lives, but apparently in, in his neck of the woods,
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in his part of the country, you can go to the grocery store and buy an AR-15 for six bucks.
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Um, and you only have to show the cashier your driver's license and you're in and out in three minutes.
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What, what, what grocery store sells AR-15s for six dollars?
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All I got to do is just, you know, I go to the, the 16 year old cashier says, can I see your ID?
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Look, showed my ID and I'm, and I'm out of there.
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The way the left talks about guns and so-called assault rifles and so on, uh, it just makes it
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really clear that they, they have, have literally no idea what they're talking about.
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They have no clue what is actually involved in buying a gun.
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I think Barack Obama claimed famously, what was it that he said?
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He said that, uh, if I remember correctly, he said, he said, it's easier to get a gun than a
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This kind of comparison where it's, well, it's harder to get X than a gun.
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Uh, liberals are doing this all the time and the comparisons just keep getting more and
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AR-15, let's start with the fact that they're very expensive, which is, which is a barrier
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for entry for a lot of people, a lot more expensive.
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Now that's something that you really might not be able to afford, unlike birth control
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It's, you can't just walk into a place, buy an AR-15 and you're out in two minutes.
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If people like David Hogg would take the time to do just a slightest amount of, of research
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into what they're talking about, they would discover this.
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Um, all right, here's something else from, this is an interesting report from the Daily
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It says the journal of one New York university's women's and gender studies program.
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This is a journal from a New York university's women's and gender studies program.
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You know, whatever's going to happen, whatever, whatever is, whatever comes next, you know,
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Um, it's published a paper that insists that milking cows is comparable to sexual abuse,
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emotional trauma related to pregnancy and non-consensual hormone treatments.
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The paper is titled readying the rape rack feminism and the exploitation of non-human
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reproductive systems was included in dissenting voices published and edited by the women's
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and gender studies program at the college at Brockport, uh, state university of New York.
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Ryan notes that the author and intern for Brockport's women's studies department, um,
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Ryan is, uh, is, uh, Celine Ryan is writing for campus reform.
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Uh, she says an intern for Brockport's women's studies department asserts that she must discuss
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the under-researched feminist aspects of animal agriculture, adding the same way women's health
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The dairy cows reproductive system has been poked and prodded.
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The author writes throughout our lives, we were offered an idealized image of dairy cows,
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where these animals graze on beautiful pastures have room to sew and play and are comforted
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We are presented with images of a life well-lived, but when it comes to the deaths of those same
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animals, the picture, the picture, perfect story comes to a grim reality.
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Um, dairy cows are forcibly impregnated or raped and blah, blah, blah.
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So this is a, this is a, this is a feminist issue with feminists now comparing themselves
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Um, it's actually interesting because over the last few days, we've been during the email
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portion of the show, we've been talking about factory farming because I had a vegetarian email
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me a few days ago and, uh, and, and tried to say that, you know, I shouldn't be so dismissive
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of the vegetarian argument because even if I don't agree with it, it's not irrational.
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And I said, when it comes to criticisms of factory farming, that's certainly not an irrational
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I think that there's, there's something to be said about that.
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Um, so if you want to make a criticism of factory farming, there are so many avenues
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There's so many arguments you can make, yet somehow this person managed to make the craziest
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Well, there's this story about, uh, Tlaib and Omar being banned from Israel.
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Uh, I was going to do a whole thing on this, but I realized I don't care that much.
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Makes no difference to me either way, honestly.
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I guess I was going to go into a whole thing, but I think you've heard enough people probably
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I want to give time on a Friday, uh, for the emails.
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This is from Jake says, uh, great overlord of this multiverse and other multiverses.
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Yesterday, you gave the example of a 16 year old boy dating a 49 year old man that was
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You talked about how aside from the gay aspect of this story, it's inherently evil for a
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So as a Christian, I asked myself, is it actually wrong to have such a large age gap with someone
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If neither person is underage, let's say for the sake of argument that there is some minimum
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age involved like 18 or 21, biblically speaking, is there any reason why an 18 year old morally
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shouldn't date or marry a 50 year old, assuming they are opposite genders?
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It's weird and goes against our cultural norms for now, but what is the biblical argument
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If it's consensual and neither person is underage, I've heard before, uh, though not proven fact
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that Jesus's mother, Mary was probably in her earlier mid teens and his father, Joseph
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was probably in his mid thirties when they got married and had Jesus.
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If that's true, we'd have, let's say a 15 year old marrying a 35 year old.
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Technically Mary would have been underage by our standards.
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Just curious what your thoughts are on this and where you draw the line.
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Um, well, I don't think I said it's inherently evil for a young person to marry an old person.
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Um, but when you talk about age gaps and what we were discussing yesterday, just to be clear,
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this was a story in pink news, which is a gay news site.
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They were celebrating the story, the, uh, uh, uh, the quote unquote relationship between,
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um, a 50, there was like a 55 year old man and a 22 year old guy, except that they had been
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quote unquote dating for six years, which means they started quote unquote dating, uh, when he
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That is clearly not, you know, not just inappropriate, but that's right.
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And then you add on top of that, it's bad enough given the ages, but you add on top of that,
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the fact that this guy, even at 22, he looked like he was about 10.
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So you can imagine what he looked like when he was 16.
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What does that tell you about the, the, you know, the sexual proclivities of this older
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However, I don't think I ever said that it's inherently wrong for there to be some sort of
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age gap between, between two people who are in a relationship.
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There's a, there's a difference between say, um, someone who's 35 being married to someone
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There's a difference between that and even something like 35 and 20.
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Now at 35 to be in a relationship with a 20 year old, that's legal.
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Nobody could say it's illegal, but I do think that oftentimes it can be just the, the, the
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difference in, in maturity, you know, I guess that's what it comes down to the, the, the
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maturity gap between a 55 and a 35 year old is very small and it may be non-existent because
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you get to a certain point where you've grown, you're an adult.
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Now you've been an adult for a long time, you know, you've, and you've just experienced
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And, um, so the difference between you and, and that's why at 35, you could get along with
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someone who's 50 and as a peer really, but some of these age gaps you're talking about
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here, um, 18 and 35, you mentioned, well, the maturity gap between an 18 year old and
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And I think back to myself when I was 18, I was basically a whole other person.
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Um, the difference between me now, uh, at 33 and when I was 18 is so vast that it's,
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I was, I might as well, at 18, I might as well have been, you know, five years old maturity
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And I think that's, so that's why it can be in some cases.
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Now, maybe there are exceptions, you know, that you could have a 20 year old who's just
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I'm not saying there aren't possibly exceptions.
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I just think that, you know, for someone who is significantly more mature and experienced
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to be in a romantic relationship with someone who is significantly less experienced and mature,
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then, uh, I think that's where it can be strange, even if it's perfectly legal.
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However, if I'm wrong, I will submit to your authority and will proclaim your correction
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Um, you know, I think that there's a lot of great things to be said for the Bible.
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Of course, it is the word of God at the end of the day, but I, you know, I would like
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If I had to point to the funniest verse in the Bible for me, and I, you know, I hope I'm
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I, the, the verse of Jesus cursing the fig tree, I've always found kind of funny.
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I understand the symbolic significance of it and everything, but just on a, on a human
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level, um, it just seems like the kind of thing that I might do if I was God, where
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you want to, you know, you, you want to take a fig from the tree and it doesn't have figs.
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And so you get ticked off and you curse the tree.
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And in one of, in one of the gospels that it tells you that the apostles are standing
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there and they're saying, Jesus is, I mean, the thing's not in, the thing's not in season.
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That's why they're trying to explain because they don't understand.
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So I think from what makes that funny is, um, is from the apostles perspective, they don't
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understand the symbolic significance of the cursing the fig tree.
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So from their perspective, Jesus was just ticked off and in a bad mood.
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So he cursed the fig tree just for the sake of it, which is, you know, I think it's kind
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Um, this is from Ken says, I know this may sound harsh, but after hearing your discussion
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about Marty's deleted tweet, I got to thinking that's a Marty Sampson who deleted it.
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It was actually an Instagram, uh, post, not a tweet.
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Uh, he's the lead singer of a well-known Christian rock band who posted something on, on Instagram
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saying that he's doubting his faith and is on the verge of leaving his faith behind.
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Uh, Ken says all of his complaints seem to be about how other people weren't doing things for
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If not his global community, it behooves him to teach people, to teach people these things.
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It seems he is in a unique position to go and learn solid doctrinal truths and then to
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Just because it's deep doesn't mean you can't sing about it.
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For hundreds of years, writers of hymns have dealt with deep theological and complicated
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Instead of complaining about how other people weren't dealing with deep theological issues,
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he should have been discovering those and then singing about them.
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Though he's 40 years old and I don't think he's qualified as a millennial, I think he's
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This seems to be, and I hate to say this, one of the aspects of a younger generation trying
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to come to grips with what is their job and what is everyone else's job.
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They said the same thing about Gen X when I was in my 20s and 30s, that we're useless,
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we don't know how to work, we're lazy, and we'd rather just sit around all day instead
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of doing something productive, and here's what all of those baby boomers and those great
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If he doesn't like it that the leadership, which he is a member of, isn't talking about
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those things, then he should take it upon himself to step in and talk.
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It's not for him to sit there and complain that the ball is just sitting there on the
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Yeah, I think you make a good point here, and I don't deny it.
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And I said yesterday, a lot of these issues that he's struggling with, apparently, are
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He's dealing with the problem of evil, alleged contradictions in the Bible, apparent contradictions
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There's nothing wrong with struggling with them.
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I think it'd be weird if you didn't struggle with them.
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I mean, as a Christian, if you've never had a point in your life where you really stopped
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and dwelled on those problems and felt troubled by them, then I just think that shows that you're
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not really taking your faith all that seriously, and you're not thinking through things.
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So there's nothing wrong with that, and as I said yesterday, I think there is a problem
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with pastors not addressing these issues from the pulpit.
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There are exceptions, and in fact, I have an email from someone who's a pastor who touches
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So there are exceptions, but for the most part, these are issues that on the sort of popular
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mainstream Christian level aren't discussed, and I think that is an issue.
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Now, as you point out, he was a member of the popular mainstream Christian scene and
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a leader of it, and so he should have been one of the ones bringing this conversation
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And that's why I think, although the questions he raises are reasonable questions and good
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questions and we should try to address them, I'm not trying to absolve him of all responsibility.
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And at the end of the day, whether you're the leader of a Christian rock band or not,
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no matter who you are, even if these issues aren't being addressed in church, it does,
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as you said, behooves us to go and pursue those answers.
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I just think we shouldn't have to pursue them quite as much because this is what churches
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It's one of the main things churches should be doing, in my view.
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Oh, we have two emails from two different Thomases.
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Hey, Matt, I was a CO on Rikers Island until I retired about two years ago, and it's not
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uncommon for COs to sleep on the midnight tour.
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It seemed to me that some COs took it for granted that it was a given that they would
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Some housing areas had spas, inmate suicide prevention aids, I guess SPA is the acronym there,
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who were supposed to supplement our tours of the area and let us know of any problems
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I never really trusted SPAs, and I would have preferred to have them locked in on the midnight
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I was pretty vigilant in making my tours with my trusty rechargeable stream light.
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Also, we were taught that an inmate could hang themselves from low places as well.
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On Rikers, like at MCC, there was tons of mandatory overtime.
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A common refrain from the captain would be, you're stuck.
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In other words, put an H on your chest and handle it.
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In some jails on Rikers, COs would get stuck four out of four days.
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Most COs on Rikers work a four and two day rotation, four days on, two days off.
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You also work, also many work the wheel, which is a different shift every week.
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Also, I was thinking, could Epstein's broken bones have come from him possibly thrusting
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his head forward a bunch of times, possibly to overcome his instinct for survival?
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And perhaps that might explain the shrieking that supposedly occurred.
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We'll never know, but it would make for a good movie like The International, which I watched
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the other day, but it was only available on pay-per-view, and I was feeling cheap that
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You know, your perspective and insight as a former prison guard is valuable.
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So that's interesting and slightly concerning to know that sleeping on the job among prison
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But the idea that he could have broken his own neck by thrusting his head forward, it's
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The kind of force that would be required to do that.
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But you just, you don't hear about it very often.
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People thrusting their head back and forth and breaking their neck in the process.
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So no matter what, whatever the explanation is, whatever happened, it's definitely, it's
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We're only left, for a guy, especially given the situation and given the importance of this
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person, importance because of the information they have.
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For him to be able to break his own neck, that would be an incredible turn of events.
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The other possibilities, which may include, for instance, you know, someone getting to
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him, paying off prison officials or whatever would be involved, that would also be incredible.
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And so now it's just sort of which explanation is more incredible.
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And I guess it's left to each individual to decide that.
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This is from the other Thomas, who's the pastor I mentioned before, says,
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Hi, Matt, I never missed your show, and I appreciate you being upfront about things the Apostle Paul
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As an independent Baptist pastor who frequently covers apologetics, the harmony of the Gospels,
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and seemingly confounding questions from the pulpit, I can tell you from experience that
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only a very small percentage of Christians actually retain or work to retain such technical
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I think that's why many pastors avoid these things from the pulpit, because they figure,
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However, some such as myself still do address these things in pulpit ministry, because even if
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the people don't often retain it, at least they know now that there are explanations if
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This increases their faith, even if they don't allow their knowledge to be increased so much,
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They just can't articulate them like you or me.
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Just imagine if all Christians learned to articulate difficult things about the Christian
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Perhaps we'd have retained a little more respect over the years.
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The other reason I still address difficult things in the pulpit is because of trust in leadership.
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These people will know that I'm going to tell them the truth, because some of these
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issues we deal with don't have a slam dunk answer.
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A leader willing to say we don't fully know that proves this honesty.
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God has put enough into this world to make faith in him a most reasonable thing, but he
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has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone.
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Faith and reason must always work together in that plausible blend.
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Yeah, Thomas, I think that that's probably one of the reasons why pastors don't address,
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pastors aside from yourself and the minority who do, the reason why, that might be one
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of the reasons why most pastors don't address these difficult issues is because, I guess,
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I think, though, more common reason, I think probably there are a lot of pastors who don't
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just don't think about these things either and don't understand them enough to talk about
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I think that it's very clear to me that there are a lot of church leaders in this country
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who have an understanding of the Bible that's very paltry and pathetic.
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And so all they can really do is give you talking points and cliches and surface level
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because that's as far as their own understanding goes.
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And I think that there's also a cowardice among some pastors that they don't want to
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They especially don't want to, as you said, with some of these things, there isn't a slam
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You get into the question, you think about it, you dissect it, and at the end of it, you're
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And that's okay, because we're not going to understand everything in the universe.
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But I think there are some pastors who are afraid of that, and so they don't want to
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But either way, I think all of these excuses are bad, because this is what you do as a
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pastor is exactly what pastors need to be doing.
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If you're not addressing the questions that really matter, and that people are the kinds
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of things that really trouble people, at least trouble the people who bother to think about
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them, if you're not addressing that, then why even get up there and say anything?
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If you're going to avoid all of the difficult questions related to faith, then I just think
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There's just no reason for you to be doing this.
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I think you're being a little too generous maybe to some of your pastor friends who don't
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Something like, you know, there's the issues with the Bible, but things like, as we talked
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about the problem of evil, the problem of suffering, I'm not saying that every time you get up
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there on the pulpit, you need to be dealing with that question, but this should be a question
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Because this is one of the core problems, one of the main issues that people have.
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