The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 336 - The Religion Of Environmentalism

00:00:00.360 So today was the day that the captive aliens at Area 51 have been waiting for and pining for.

00:00:08.400 The Storm Area 51 event, which I'm sure you heard about.

00:00:12.020 The raid on Area 51 organized on Facebook was kicked off today, or was supposed to kick off today.

00:00:18.720 And shockingly, nobody stormed anything.

00:00:22.160 They're just hanging out in the desert, drinking beer, listening to music.

00:00:26.740 Like, this mission, this righteous mission to rescue the captive aliens has turned into a festival.

00:00:33.940 How does that happen?

00:00:35.340 You're organizing for a raid.

00:00:37.520 It's a raid that turns into a festival.

00:00:39.940 Imagine the disappointment.

00:00:41.120 Imagine being an alien prisoner at Area 51, and you hear about this raid.

00:00:49.020 You hear about it from the scuttlebutt from the other prisoners.

00:00:52.540 Maybe you heard about it from Rorg and Snorg in the prison cafeteria at Area 51.

00:01:00.560 And now you feel like you're finally going to be free again.

00:01:02.840 The day you've been waiting for.

00:01:04.360 You've been captive all this time.

00:01:05.620 You start dreaming of being home on your planet.

00:01:08.000 You start excitedly planning your revenge invasion back on Earth to enslave and kill mankind for what they did to you.

00:01:14.760 And you're just thinking about, you know, finally returning home to Neptune, and you're smiling again for the first time in years.

00:01:22.940 And then the day arrives, and, you know, you look out from your cell, and you're expecting an army of people.

00:01:32.480 And all you see are a ragtag bunch of scrawny white boys standing around in the desert tweeting memes and laughing. 0.99

00:01:41.500 And you realize it was all a joke.

00:01:44.120 It was all a joke.

00:01:45.500 Your freedom is a joke to these people.

00:01:47.940 And then the Area 51 scientist comes and says, it's time, and they cart you away to the hospital ward to harvest your organs while you're still alive.

00:02:00.640 And the last thing you see is your own spleen being removed from your body.

00:02:05.340 That took a really dark turn at the end there, so I apologize for that.

00:02:08.160 Things got way more serious at the end than they needed to be.

00:02:10.500 But the point is that the Area 51 raid was sadly a huge, huge disappointment.

00:02:15.680 Okay, well, a lot to discuss today besides the Area 51 raid that never was.

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00:04:22.740 Okay, well, there's something else going on today aside from the Area 51 raid turned festival, and that is a climate strike.

00:04:30.460 Yes, there's a climate strike.

00:04:31.900 We are going on strike against the climate.

00:04:33.700 We are boycotting the climate.

00:04:35.880 We are saying to the climate, you stop it, climate.

00:04:38.520 You stop being so hot.

00:04:40.400 I personally, I am not going to associate with the climate.

00:04:44.220 I am not going to use the climate.

00:04:46.860 I am not going to be in the climate until the temperature drops by 20 degrees.

00:04:51.740 That is my solemn oath.

00:04:54.340 Or maybe that's not exactly how it works.

00:04:55.980 I don't know.

00:04:56.260 It's a climate strike.

00:04:58.620 I think what mainly it apparently involves is a bunch of kids skipping school.

00:05:05.880 That's what the climate strike is.

00:05:07.420 Kids are skipping school today.

00:05:08.940 They're walking out of class.

00:05:10.180 They're letting their voice be heard.

00:05:13.140 I love it when we have protests like this because kids all across the country, you know, it seems like every year there's a reason for some sort of school walkout or whatever.

00:05:21.540 And you've got this thing where kids all across the country, across the world, they're ditching class.

00:05:28.540 They're not going to school.

00:05:29.860 And then everyone says, wow, the kids must really care about this issue.

00:05:34.240 These kids are really involved.

00:05:37.240 Yeah, maybe.

00:05:38.400 Or maybe they just hate school and they're looking for any reason to walk out.

00:05:41.740 But I can remember when I was in school, I can remember a couple of occasions when we did a school walkout.

00:05:46.860 I have no idea what the issue was.

00:05:48.640 I don't think I knew at the time.

00:05:50.800 It didn't matter to me.

00:05:51.980 I just knew people were walking out for some reason.

00:05:54.160 It made no difference to me.

00:05:56.340 I was on board.

00:05:57.440 At least for that period of time, for that day, I was marching alongside those people for whatever reason to whatever effect.

00:06:05.640 Didn't matter to me.

00:06:06.480 The point is, the headline for me is, I get out of school.

00:06:09.400 And I think that's the way it is for most kids.

00:06:11.740 Um, but on the, on the sort of darker side of things, the fact is that a lot of people, kids included, and adults, um, are being sucked into what is essentially now, uh, a doomsday cult.

00:06:27.080 Now, just to give you an example, let me read a very disturbing, uh, see if I can find it, uh, very disturbing thread from a guy named Alex McKinnon, who's a writer out of Sydney.

00:06:39.300 Um, uh, not, not a grade school student, as far as I know, but let me read this thread that he put up this morning.

00:06:46.980 Um, verified account, by the way, on Twitter, he's got the blue check marks.

00:06:51.580 You know, he's an important guy.

00:06:52.540 And here's what he said.

00:06:55.420 This is not a joke.

00:06:56.220 This is what he had to say.

00:06:57.120 He said, since the federal election, I've been overwhelmed by feelings of dread, grief, and terror of what a heating planet will mean for my life, the ones I love, and our collective future.

00:07:06.800 Hashtag climate strike.

00:07:07.940 He goes on.

00:07:08.580 For months, getting out of bed has been atrociously difficult.

00:07:12.140 Any thought of the future's terrifying implications and what they will mean for the later years of my life has sent me spiraling.

00:07:18.260 I quit a good job.

00:07:19.920 I took months off work.

00:07:21.020 I started on medication, all of which has helped, but none of which has solved the cause of the existential horror I feel when I look the future in the face.

00:07:27.840 I have bawled my eyes out and screamed into pillows and felt a panic so intense it seemed impossible it could be contained in a small human frame.

00:07:35.380 I can't say that the climate strikes have made those feelings go away.

00:07:38.800 We are always signed up for too much climate atrocity and are too likely to cause more for a single protest to make the situation entirely better.

00:07:45.900 But to see tens of thousands of people all grappling with the same trauma and hurt and gut-wrenching fear, the single biggest protest I've ever seen in my life made my own little battle a little bit easier for a while.

00:07:55.040 Now, we are all headed for a future demonstrably worse than the present in ways we cannot predict.

00:08:00.480 The world will be brutal and horrific and beyond endurance, but I will help you through it in any way that I can.

00:08:06.180 I hope you'll help me too.

00:08:07.360 This has to be.

00:08:07.980 Now that I'm reading it all the way through, this guy can't be serious.

00:08:13.480 I'm looking at his profile.

00:08:17.580 I think he is serious.

00:08:19.160 Yeah, I think he's serious.

00:08:20.380 And I can't even, I mean, I can't even laugh about it.

00:08:27.420 I can sort of laugh about it, but I can't fully laugh about it because this is, I mean, this is, this is a doomsday cult.

00:08:38.880 This is, this is like, this, that's not an exaggeration at this point.

00:08:43.940 There are people.

00:08:45.020 Now, to some of us, to those of us who are a little bit more balanced, we can laugh this off, but there are people, I guess, when you, when you've got prominent individuals like AOC and pretty much any Democrat and liberals across the world and the country, when they're insisting and saying over and over again, the world's going, you know, coming to an end.

00:09:08.120 It's going to end in 12 years and, you know, there's all these coastal cities are going to be underwater.

00:09:12.780 We're going to drown.

00:09:13.440 It's like, there are people who hear this stuff and they really take it seriously.

00:09:20.420 Now, think about this.

00:09:22.660 The walkouts today, then things like the climate confessions on NBC.com, which we talked about yesterday, gave you a chance to anonymously confess your sins against the climate.

00:09:34.480 And then there was the confessions to actual plants at a liberal seminary that we, seminary that we talked about the day before yesterday and on and on and on.

00:09:43.460 It's very clear that, you know, I, I, I called a doomsday cult.

00:09:47.420 Well, a cult is another word for a religion.

00:09:50.380 Cult is, you know, religions are technically cults.

00:09:53.200 And I say that as someone who's a member of religion myself, that's the word cult has taken on this, this pejorative meaning.

00:09:59.260 And, but, um, in a broader sense, you know, in a broader, less pejorative way, you know, religions and cults are, are, are synonymous.

00:10:08.600 So you could call it a doomsday religion, a doomsday environmentalist religion.

00:10:13.980 And that's, that really is what it is.

00:10:16.380 And that's, that's not a joke.

00:10:18.240 It is literally a religion.

00:10:20.340 It has all of the hallmarks now of a religion.

00:10:24.200 It has its core ideological tenets.

00:10:26.840 It has its apocalyptic vision.

00:10:28.900 It has its rules and codes of conduct.

00:10:31.280 It has tithings and offerings and sacrifices.

00:10:34.280 It has a call to repentance.

00:10:35.980 It has its high priests and priest, priestesses, AOC being one of them.

00:10:40.480 It has its prophets, Al Gore.

00:10:43.480 It has its child saviors, Thunberg. 1.00

00:10:45.760 Thunberg, um, it, in every sense, this, this is a religion.

00:10:50.960 It's got everything that a religion has. 0.91

00:10:53.800 America has found its religion and this is it.

00:10:58.020 This, I think, speaks to a certain truth, which is that apparently, it would seem, religion

00:11:05.380 actually is a basic need that we have as human beings.

00:11:08.780 We can't escape it even when we try.

00:11:10.920 The West, the West is by far the least religious civilization in the history of the world, but

00:11:16.380 only at first glance.

00:11:19.260 Um, and only if you're, if you're believing, if you are looking at the, the polls and the

00:11:25.180 surveys and saying, how, how many people are unaffiliated with any religion?

00:11:29.460 Well, there are more unaffiliated people, uh, today than there have been at any other

00:11:35.160 point percentage wise.

00:11:36.200 But if you look a little bit closer and you don't even have to look that close, you see

00:11:44.440 that the religious instinct has just manifested itself in a slightly different way.

00:11:49.040 It's not, they're not really unaffiliated.

00:11:50.840 They're just affiliated now with a different religion and one that we don't call a religion,

00:11:55.300 even though it is.

00:11:57.360 Now, it would seem that there is a, a fundamental need here.

00:12:01.720 And if you're an atheist, you can claim that the fundamental need for religion, the instinct,

00:12:10.540 whatever you want to call it, you could say that it's evolutionary, it's psychology, it's

00:12:13.700 psychological, um, whatever, uh, not proof of a God.

00:12:18.960 That could be your claim.

00:12:20.080 If you're a theist, you say that the fundamental need speaks to an innate sense of, uh, uh, an

00:12:25.880 innate knowledge of, an innate longing for the divine.

00:12:31.460 I'm not going to get into that debate, though you know where I stand on it, but that's, that's

00:12:35.020 not really my point here.

00:12:35.980 My point is simply that the need is clearly there for religion and environmentalism fills

00:12:43.360 that need for a lot of people.

00:12:44.720 And it's not a coincidence that as we go on, it, it begins to more and more resemble religion

00:12:52.700 and it takes on more and more of the characteristics of religion.

00:12:55.860 This repentance stuff that we see two of these things in the same week, we're now, now that

00:13:02.460 this confessional aspect of it is, uh, to me, that was kind of like the last piece that

00:13:09.740 we needed to really call it a religion.

00:13:11.500 And now we've got it and okay, so it's, it's a religion.

00:13:14.380 You could just classify it.

00:13:15.760 You've got Christianity, Judaism, Islam, you know, Hinduism, environmentalism, right?

00:13:22.740 In the list of, of religions.

00:13:25.040 All right.

00:13:25.800 Um, I've been meaning to mention this, uh, for a few days, a restaurant in Baltimore is

00:13:34.440 being accused of racism and this is going to shock you.

00:13:38.120 The reasons are frivolous and stupid.

00:13:39.880 If you can believe it, a frivolous claim of racism, that doesn't sound like the culture

00:13:46.960 I know.

00:13:47.360 It doesn't sound like our culture.

00:13:50.120 So reading now from the daily wire says, um, a soon to be opened restaurant in Baltimore

00:13:55.100 is being called racist because it posted a sign with one specific message.

00:13:59.120 The restaurant has a dress code.

00:14:00.760 Um, the chop tank, which alerted prospective customers that it will be opening soon on

00:14:08.860 its website, posted a dress code listing some items that would be unacceptable to wear on

00:14:12.720 its purposes, including excessively baggy clothing, offensive, vulgar, or inappropriate

00:14:18.560 attire, athletic attire, jerseys, brimless headgear, backwards or sideways hats, work and construction

00:14:25.580 boots, sunglasses after dark.

00:14:29.520 Um, on Twitter, uh, one Twitter user described themselves as a photo journalist tweeted dress

00:14:34.620 coded sign at the new chop tank restaurant in fells followed by another tweet.

00:14:39.000 Uh, and then from there, the controversy starts, uh, one Twitter user said, this is racist as

00:14:44.680 hell.

00:14:44.900 I will never enter your restaurant and will actively warn others away from it.

00:14:48.760 Have a great day.

00:14:50.760 Um, someone else said y'all could have saved yourself some time at the chop tank and just

00:14:55.440 posed a no black people sign.

00:14:58.060 A writer from L magazine tweeted that the restaurant had a blatantly discriminatory dress code. 0.94

00:15:03.800 And the Washington post is writing about it on and on and on.

00:15:06.540 Um, people are calling it racist.

00:15:10.340 Uh, this, this is.

00:15:13.840 One of those cases, um, where the people calling it racist, and this happens a lot where the

00:15:24.380 people who call something racist have revealed themselves to be racist because if you read

00:15:32.440 that list and you think, oh, that's going to disqualify all black people, how is that not 1.00

00:15:37.600 racist?

00:15:39.400 Are, are you just, is that not engaging in, in, uh, in, uh, insulting stereotypes?

00:15:51.460 No, this is a dress code that is put forward for everybody.

00:15:55.300 And there's a logical reason for a lot of it.

00:15:58.700 Like for instance, um, one of the reasons why establishments don't like really baggy clothing,

00:16:04.600 especially in the city is because you can hide stuff in it like a gun, for instance.

00:16:09.080 Um, they don't want vulgar attire where, well, that's that most, most places don't want that

00:16:15.860 because that offends other customers and you don't want to offend paying customers.

00:16:19.380 Uh, you don't wear athletic attire.

00:16:21.440 Well, again, that's, that's just, if, if you're trying to be a slightly nicer kind of restaurant,

00:16:26.840 maybe one step up from Burger King or Subway, then you don't want people walking in, in, 0.98

00:16:32.520 in basketball shorts.

00:16:34.320 Um, don't wear sunglasses after dark.

00:16:36.480 Again, this is just, this, and that's, that's another thing.

00:16:39.460 There are a lot of places.

00:16:40.440 If you go into a bank, it's going to say, don't wear sunglasses and hats in the bank.

00:16:43.900 Is it discriminatory?

00:16:45.400 No, they're just because you might be trying to rob the place.

00:16:48.140 Um, so to look at that list and say that it's discriminates against that to me seems

00:16:56.000 extremely bigoted and racist.

00:16:58.020 I think that a, a dress code like that seems to me to be completely reasonable.

00:17:03.180 No matter what your race happens to be, anyone of any race is perfectly capable of complying

00:17:08.540 with that dress code.

00:17:09.960 And, uh, and it should really be as simple as that.

00:17:12.840 All right.

00:17:13.700 Uh, not to go too rapid fire here, but.

00:17:18.140 I've also been, I've also been wanting to talk about something else and I can't let

00:17:21.440 the week, uh, end without, without bringing this up.

00:17:27.840 And I'm sorry that I have to talk about it.

00:17:29.660 Well, I don't really have to talk about it, but I will anyway.

00:17:32.860 The New York times a few days ago ran a story and.

00:17:36.920 And okay, well, here's the headline of the story.

00:17:40.420 All right.

00:17:41.480 The headline is, well, it's not a story.

00:17:43.700 It's a, it's a op-ed women poop at work. 1.00

00:17:49.480 Get over it.

00:17:52.100 That's, that's real.

00:17:53.140 That's, that's the headline.

00:17:54.840 Um, in fact, here's the, here's the screenshot of the, of the headline there.

00:17:57.920 So just so you can see, this was published in the New York times and it's an article

00:18:05.160 all about, well, I, you can tell what it's about.

00:18:07.260 Uh, it's kind of self-explanatory and this is, this is something I talk about a lot.

00:18:12.300 Um, not women pooping, but, but, uh, but, but rather feminists finding the weirdest ways 1.00

00:18:16.960 to be persecuted, just the weirdest feminists who are so desperate to be victims and so desperate 1.00

00:18:22.640 to be persecuted, that they, they go searching for it and they find it in the weirdest places.

00:18:29.100 Um, and they find the weirdest claims about discrimination that they face.

00:18:34.520 Like whoever told women that they can't go number two at work.

00:18:40.340 Is that even a thing in my 33 years of life?

00:18:44.280 I've never heard anyone say that, or I just is, I don't think that's a thing.

00:18:50.320 Um, are, are there jobs where they say, where like you walk into the bathroom and there's

00:18:57.860 a, there is a gendered code telling you what you're allowed to do in the bathroom. 1.00

00:19:04.120 Like men can go number one and two women can only go number one. 0.99

00:19:07.380 Is, is that a thing?

00:19:08.360 Are there, are there places, are there jobs that have rules like that?

00:19:12.040 If so, I will say I'm, I'm totally against it.

00:19:15.080 I, I, I, I have no problem.

00:19:16.480 I will, I will march with a feminist in that case and say, no, men and women, uh, should 1.00

00:19:21.580 be allowed to, you know, use the toilet at, at, at work.

00:19:24.480 Uh, but I don't think that's a thing.

00:19:26.420 The real story here is the picture accompanying this article.

00:19:31.340 This to me is, is utterly mysterious, but I want to show you this picture.

00:19:35.120 This is the picture that went along with the headline.

00:19:37.120 And as you can see there, okay, what it just makes me, it really makes me wonder the, the

00:19:44.120 woman who wrote this article, she obviously has had some very specific experiences at

00:19:50.800 her job, which I don't know if she works in the New York times or if this was, or what?

00:19:55.020 Um, uh, but there are weird things happening in her bathroom at her work that I don't think

00:20:01.620 happened at other places.

00:20:02.320 So look, okay, you've got a woman with her shoes off in the bathroom and her bare feet 1.00

00:20:06.780 on the floor.

00:20:08.580 And then you've got, that appears to be, I don't, you know, I, I, I don't want to be

00:20:12.180 transphobic, but that appears to be a man in that one.

00:20:14.500 I mean, it's someone with pants they're facing in the other direction.

00:20:17.820 Appears to be a man.

00:20:18.720 And then you've got two women in the stall next to him. 1.00

00:20:22.720 What in the world is happening in this bathroom?

00:20:25.140 What is this even supposed to be?

00:20:26.840 So the real headline of the story is very weird stuff happening in New York times bathroom.

00:20:36.320 If you go to New York times, do not use their bathroom under any, so apparently if you're

00:20:40.160 a woman, you're not allowed to, or I guess you can, but maybe they have to do two and 1.00

00:20:43.940 a, is that okay?

00:20:44.820 Maybe that's the issue.

00:20:45.800 Maybe the New York times, um, to save space, they make women share stalls and that's why 1.00

00:20:51.740 they're not allowed to.

00:20:52.380 Anyway, I don't want to get too graphic with it, but this is, uh, just completely bizarre

00:20:57.780 and strange.

00:20:59.860 All right.

00:21:00.600 Um, we'll go to emails, mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com.

00:21:06.960 This is from Kevin says, Hey Matt, I read your article on the daily wire about prime minister

00:21:12.120 Justin Trudeau wearing blackface and how we should apply the left standards to them.

00:21:17.120 Um, I know that this is something that a lot of conservatives struggle with their insistence,

00:21:21.860 um, that, uh, uh, lost my place that conservatives should not jump into the, the mire of leftist

00:21:30.100 PR tactics.

00:21:30.760 While I agree that the left should be called out, uh, for their blatant and unwavering

00:21:34.420 hypocrisy for what they did to Megan Kelly and treating Trudeau and Ralph Northam with

00:21:37.640 kid gloves.

00:21:38.240 I believe that we should not attack Trudeau and look at the totality of the circumstances.

00:21:42.700 While I don't agree with many of Trudeau's policies, the man does not deserve to be destroyed

00:21:46.020 for something for doing something ignorant and stupid. 0.54

00:21:47.880 This is the best tactic and, uh, we should not engage in leftist attack strategies.

00:21:51.880 Just wanted to give my thoughts.

00:21:53.320 Well, this is what we've been talking about over the last few days.

00:21:55.880 And, and I agree it is, uh, I've been wrestling with this as well.

00:22:01.600 What do we do?

00:22:02.480 Uh, we, we accuse the left of having a double standard.

00:22:07.740 We don't want to ourselves have a double standard.

00:22:10.460 So if we say in principle that we don't think that people should be destroyed or fired

00:22:15.680 or canceled over dumb things they said or did 20 years ago or 30 years ago, whatever,

00:22:22.540 um, then how can we all of a sudden abandon that argument when it's a leftist who's got

00:22:30.380 themselves into trouble?

00:22:31.940 And that's where I tried to thread the needle yesterday.

00:22:34.200 And, and, and the way that I kind of look at this is, yeah, we don't want to be disingenuous.

00:22:39.060 So we don't, when it comes to the Trudeau blackface thing, I think any, any rational,

00:22:45.120 especially any conservative, we see that.

00:22:47.600 And, and we know that objectively speaking, not a big deal.

00:22:51.580 It's not racist.

00:22:53.280 Uh, you want to call it insensitive.

00:22:55.080 Go ahead.

00:22:55.380 You want to call it stupid.

00:22:56.300 Sure.

00:22:56.800 It's not racist.

00:22:58.240 Okay.

00:22:58.560 His intention clearly was not to be racist.

00:23:01.020 So we know that.

00:23:03.020 And so we shouldn't be disingenuous and go around pretending that we really think it's racist.

00:23:09.240 Unless we're doing it ironically as a joke, in which case, go ahead.

00:23:13.300 Um, but I do think, as I said yesterday, we, this from our, with this kind of thing,

00:23:22.320 our point should be, okay, this is not a racism scandal.

00:23:27.120 Well, this is a hypocrisy scandal.

00:23:30.880 So it's the same thing with the New York times editor who, who was, who herself has participated

00:23:36.280 in cancel culture, tried retweeting things, calling for Shane Gillis to be far from SNL.

00:23:42.340 Then it turns out that she has all these offensive tweets, uh, where she has said offensive things

00:23:46.680 about gay people and people of other races and so on.

00:23:49.340 Well, our response to that is not that, oh, this person is, is a horrible bigot and, and,

00:23:55.180 and, and all of that, but it's just, this is hypocrisy.

00:23:59.660 This person is a hypocrite.

00:24:02.340 Clearly, Justin Trudeau is a hypocrite.

00:24:06.740 And so I think there's nothing wrong with us saying, okay, you forget about the standards

00:24:11.860 we hold you to.

00:24:13.180 You should hold yourself to the same standard that you hold other people to.

00:24:18.160 I think that that's a perfectly fine, perfectly consistent message that is an intellectually

00:24:24.460 honest way of, of, of, of approaching this from our perfect perspective, where we are

00:24:29.220 saying to these people like Justin Trudeau, hold yourself to the standard that you hold

00:24:34.840 other people to.

00:24:36.640 Just like the comparison I drew yesterday.

00:24:38.460 I think it's an apt comparison.

00:24:39.760 Think about what the left says to socially conservative Christian Republican politicians

00:24:46.820 who end up in scandals where they're having affairs, Larry Craig in the bathroom, soliciting

00:24:51.380 gay sex. 0.97

00:24:52.280 What do the left say in that case?

00:24:55.060 Their message is, hey, you know, we don't think this kind of stuff's a huge deal.

00:24:59.540 Uh, but you're the ones that you're the one putting yourself forward as this conservative

00:25:02.980 Christian family values, Christian values, so on and so forth.

00:25:06.340 So hold yourself to the same standard that, that, you know, live up to your own standards.

00:25:11.080 You're the ones who say that this is a horrible, evil thing.

00:25:14.020 It's terrible.

00:25:14.760 The collapse of, uh, of, of, of morality and everything else.

00:25:17.800 So hold yourself to that.

00:25:18.940 By your own standards, you should resign in disgrace because that's what you would expect

00:25:24.180 other people to do who have done the same things.

00:25:28.160 And in that case, I agree with the left.

00:25:30.040 I think that's correct.

00:25:32.400 Well, I think we can take that and throw that back at them here and say, well,

00:25:36.320 here you go.

00:25:36.780 This is your standard.

00:25:38.140 We aren't the ones as conservatives.

00:25:40.180 Okay.

00:25:40.400 We're not the ones going around saying that everything is racist.

00:25:43.800 We aren't the ones saying that if, you know, somebody said it makes a joke five years ago,

00:25:47.040 we should destroy them now.

00:25:47.980 That's, that's not our thing.

00:25:49.120 We didn't, we didn't invent that.

00:25:50.560 That's not our opinion, but it is your thing.

00:25:53.620 That is your philosophy.

00:25:56.280 So apply it to yourself.

00:25:58.300 Be consistent.

00:26:00.580 Um, all right, let's see.

00:26:04.380 Um,

00:26:06.320 This is from, uh, Sam says, hi, Matt, long time listener, big time fan.

00:26:13.760 I'm well aware of your opinions on issues such as people facing FaceTiming in public,

00:26:17.740 people sitting next to you on planes when other, when other seats are open, et cetera.

00:26:21.060 I would like to know your thoughts on when you were using a urinal in a public restroom

00:26:24.020 and someone comes in and decides to urinate right next to you when other urinals, urinals

00:26:27.780 are available.

00:26:29.640 I believe this is sociopathic behavior.

00:26:31.560 Do you agree?

00:26:32.240 I guess we're talking a lot about bathrooms today.

00:26:34.860 I didn't plan it that way, but that's the way it's turned out.

00:26:37.320 And, um, yeah, Sam, I, I sociopathic.

00:26:40.800 Yes.

00:26:41.660 Psychopathic.

00:26:42.140 Uh, I would advocate.

00:26:43.380 I think the death penalty in those cases, you could make an argument for it.

00:26:48.220 That's all I'll say.

00:26:49.000 I think, I think as a society, as a country, we need to have a national conversation about

00:26:54.200 what do we do about the sorts of people.

00:26:57.320 You got a line of urinals.

00:26:58.920 You're there's all of them are free except for the one you're using.

00:27:01.580 Someone comes in, uses the one we're next to you.

00:27:02.880 You could make an argument for not only criminalizing that behavior, but, um, making it, you know,

00:27:10.740 considering at least capital punishment in those cases.

00:27:13.920 I don't know.

00:27:14.420 We could talk more about that, but I think, uh, there's certainly a rational argument

00:27:17.620 to be made there.

00:27:18.540 Thanks for the email.

00:27:19.580 Finally, this is from Addison says, uh, dear, he who must not be shaved as a fellow lay theologian.

00:27:25.420 I commend you for continuing the tradition of maintaining your beard.

00:27:28.340 Anybody who attempts such deep discussions without facial hair should automatically be

00:27:31.900 marked as a heretic without exception.

00:27:33.600 Totally, totally agree.

00:27:35.240 Speaking of theology, I've stumbled upon a rather unique discussion in my studies.

00:27:38.560 Many years ago, somebody introduced me to a documentary titled Divided.

00:27:43.340 The filmmaker, Philip Leclerc, L-E-C-L-E-R-C, asks a very important question.

00:27:53.280 Why are the youth in our churches falling away in such terrible droves?

00:27:56.640 If I'm not mistaken, I believe the current statistics range between the high 80s and

00:28:00.400 low 90s.

00:28:01.800 That is a staggering number, one of great concern, obviously.

00:28:04.220 But his diagnosis of the illness is even more bizarre.

00:28:07.160 Rather than blaming it on lack of discipleship, sugar-coating preaching, or the absence of

00:28:11.000 apologetics, he more or less points the finger towards the institution of youth ministry.

00:28:15.280 His argument relies on two premises.

00:28:17.740 Premise one, there is no such thing as a youth pastor in the Bible.

00:28:20.260 Premise two, the Bible teaches family integration, not separation in the context of worship.

00:28:24.180 Conclusion, therefore, youth ministry is outside the will of God.

00:28:27.740 Now, I don't want to strawman his argument, so I'll grant that maybe he doesn't hold to

00:28:31.000 the first premise as strongly as the second premise.

00:28:32.720 Regardless, he and several others strongly support the second premise and cite various

00:28:37.420 scriptures to proof their claim.

00:28:39.080 The idea is that parents have to be involved in the discipleship process or else the children

00:28:42.660 will most likely fall away during high school and beyond.

00:28:45.020 The more committed the parents are, the more committed the children will be.

00:28:47.300 Therefore, youth ministry is not part of God's plan because of wedges children from their 1.00

00:28:53.180 parents and further divides between them.

00:28:55.460 Children look to youth pastors as fathers and in most cases just play games and flirt.

00:28:59.360 In rare instances, the youth pastor actually disciples, but even this is dangerous because

00:29:03.060 it fails to recognize the family as a God-ordained institution and Rob's parents have the love

00:29:07.300 and devotion of their children.

00:29:08.180 Church should be the place where they grow together, not separate.

00:29:11.640 I obviously disagree.

00:29:13.120 I'm reading this like I'm Ben Shapiro over here.

00:29:14.740 I obviously disagree with the first premise because many things are not specifically mentioned

00:29:20.380 in the Bible that are still permissible.

00:29:21.660 Also, it errs on the side of legalism when we get wrapped up in condemning things that

00:29:25.260 the word does not specifically condemn.

00:29:26.880 As for the second premise, I'm not entirely sure.

00:29:28.500 To be honest, in one sense, I do agree that it would be ideal to encourage parents to have

00:29:32.080 their children sit with them in church services.

00:29:34.420 On the other hand, should we be so quick to dismiss a ministry that may indeed harvest young

00:29:40.880 believers as strong, committed disciples?

00:29:42.560 Would this categorize under unnecessary dividing the body over trivial issues, or is this a rather

00:29:48.400 a discussion that needs to take place and receive our consideration?

00:29:52.120 All right, Addison, I think you raised a lot of interesting points, which is why I wanted

00:29:57.200 to read that.

00:29:57.940 Sorry for reading it so quickly.

00:29:59.660 Hopefully people could understand what you had to say.

00:30:01.540 I agree with much of what you say.

00:30:05.100 And of course, the question of why are so many people leaving the church?

00:30:07.740 Why are so many young people leaving?

00:30:08.720 That is one of the most important questions we can be asking now as a church, as a body

00:30:17.000 of believers in America.

00:30:21.200 Now, you say 80 or 90% leave?

00:30:24.160 I don't know if it's that high.

00:30:26.060 That seems a little too high.

00:30:28.060 If we're looking at 80 or 90% of kids eventually leaving the faith, then that means the church 0.93

00:30:33.160 in America is going to be extinct in 50 years, if not sooner.

00:30:35.920 That is not at all sustainable.

00:30:38.480 That is apocalyptic kinds of numbers.

00:30:42.360 I tend to think, I'd have to see where you got those numbers.

00:30:44.560 I tend to think that those numbers are not exactly, maybe inflated a little bit.

00:30:49.040 But anyway, the point is, the numbers are too high.

00:30:52.980 As for youth ministry, first of all, not all youth ministry has to remove kids from worshiping

00:31:00.040 with the parents.

00:31:01.620 That's not how it works in the Catholic church, for example.

00:31:03.880 Well, most Catholic churches anyway, you know, you got the service, the mass, as we call

00:31:10.040 it, and families are together.

00:31:13.020 And then you have the youth ministry, which is a separate thing, and kids will go for youth

00:31:17.940 group meetings and youth services, and they'll do that separate.

00:31:21.360 It's a separate thing that they'll do oftentimes on different days of the week.

00:31:25.700 They go to youth retreats and everything else.

00:31:27.180 I agree that families should be together in worship, ideally.

00:31:33.720 Doesn't always work out that way, of course, but can't always work out that way.

00:31:37.640 But I think, ideally, that's what should be encouraged, having the families together.

00:31:41.920 So I'm in agreement there with that argument.

00:31:44.240 I also agree that youth ministers or youth ministries in general can sometimes be, frankly, just

00:31:52.260 BS, a waste of time that can be very clicky, very, I suppose the word is worldly that we

00:31:58.240 would use.

00:31:59.580 Not all the time, certainly, but they can tend that way.

00:32:03.920 And so that's something that you got to look out for.

00:32:06.500 I remember when I was in high school, and my parents were encouraging me to get involved

00:32:15.000 in youth activities at the church, and I made a few attempts, and I was turned off by it

00:32:21.200 because it just seemed like, like I said, very clicky, which I think, from talking to

00:32:25.900 other people, that's a big problem in youth groups and youth ministries at churches, and

00:32:31.000 in churches in general, frankly.

00:32:32.680 But on top of that, to me, it seemed like, I don't know, everyone's just kind of hanging

00:32:39.080 out, which is fine, I guess, if you want to hang out.

00:32:41.940 Who doesn't like hanging out?

00:32:43.260 But there should probably be more going on here than that.

00:32:49.240 But actually, as I was thinking about your email, what I would like to do, I want to put

00:32:54.380 all that aside for a minute and address this question of why so many kids, so many young

00:33:00.200 adults, as they grow up, end up leaving.

00:33:05.660 Because it's a very high number, as we said, it's a big problem.

00:33:09.520 It's something that we need to think seriously about.

00:33:12.520 And I don't think there's one answer, but I would like to suggest an answer, one of the

00:33:18.600 answers.

00:33:19.020 I think one of the important answers I would like to suggest.

00:33:22.500 I think one of the reasons why a lot of people end up leaving the church, Christianity, faith

00:33:30.920 is YouTube and the internet, more generally.

00:33:37.540 This is, we would make a mistake to discount this factor.

00:33:44.040 Now, I don't mean that YouTube and the internet are the devil, though, I mean, who knows, you

00:33:48.680 could maybe argue that, but what I really mean is that at a certain point, people, Christians,

00:33:57.280 a lot of them, start to ask difficult questions about their faith, about their belief system,

00:34:04.900 about their history as a religion, about their theology, their books, you know.

00:34:11.300 People start to wonder.

00:34:12.500 They start to question.

00:34:15.600 They start to notice things as they grow older that they didn't notice before when they were

00:34:20.020 kids.

00:34:22.220 They start to do their own research, okay?

00:34:25.880 And they think, you know, oh, geez, well, the Genesis creation account is pretty strange

00:34:30.760 when you look at it, especially considering what we know about science and why are there

00:34:35.560 two creation accounts that seem to conflict?

00:34:37.680 What's going on?

00:34:38.540 What is going on with this Noah's Ark story?

00:34:40.600 What really is happening here, and why is it so similar to other stories, like the

00:34:44.460 Epic of Gilgamesh and that flood story?

00:34:46.560 What's going on with the Exodus?

00:34:48.360 Why isn't there, you know, when I look it up online, I see that there's hardly any archaeological

00:34:52.780 evidence to support it.

00:34:54.140 And, you know, why does God send bears to maul 42 children?

00:34:57.460 And wait, did God really just endorse slavery explicitly in the Bible?

00:35:01.120 And what's with all the wholesale slaughter in the Bible?

00:35:03.680 And, you know, what about the New Testament?

00:35:05.080 What about the infancy narratives?

00:35:06.240 And the fact that there appear to be only two, you know, two infancy narratives that

00:35:11.020 seem to really contradict each other and be two completely different stories?

00:35:14.300 And why don't the other two Gospels even mention the virgin birth?

00:35:18.220 And what's going on with the resurrection accounts?

00:35:20.280 How many angels were at the tomb?

00:35:21.620 And what happened afterwards?

00:35:22.640 And who went to the tomb?

00:35:23.440 And who left?

00:35:23.960 And where did they go?

00:35:24.580 And what exactly is happening here?

00:35:26.600 And wait, when were these Gospels written?

00:35:28.880 And by who?

00:35:29.540 And how do we know that?

00:35:30.840 And, you know, wait a second, what is with this, the whole idea of atonement?

00:35:35.000 What's up with that?

00:35:35.900 You know, why did God need Jesus to die to forgive us?

00:35:38.720 Why couldn't he just forgive us without that?

00:35:40.700 And why does God allow all these horrible things to happen, diseases and everything?

00:35:44.660 And what about evolution?

00:35:46.820 And why didn't God ever mention that?

00:35:48.340 And on and on and on and on.

00:35:49.780 Okay.

00:35:50.880 The point is, I think people, a lot of young people at a certain point, they start to ask

00:35:57.180 these questions.

00:35:59.100 Okay.

00:35:59.480 It's a lot of people.

00:36:00.220 And these are good questions.

00:36:02.060 These are good, tough, real questions.

00:36:08.560 But then here's the issue.

00:36:10.720 Where do they go for answers?

00:36:13.020 They go to YouTube.

00:36:14.660 They go to the internet.

00:36:16.580 They go to Google.

00:36:19.260 Okay.

00:36:20.080 And why do they go there for answers?

00:36:22.960 It's not their fault.

00:36:24.280 That's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

00:36:26.840 You've got all these questions.

00:36:28.380 So you go to the internet, you look it up.

00:36:31.160 They're forced to do that in many cases because our churches, for the most part, are not addressing these problems, are not even acknowledging them, are ignoring them, are not even trying to provide answers, are not addressing these things head on.

00:36:48.420 And what happens is that people start asking the questions that the churches have ignored and that their parents have never addressed.

00:36:56.160 And they go online, they go to YouTube, they find things out, they learn things, they notice things, they start to feel lied to.

00:37:03.400 They start to say, why didn't anyone ever tell me about this?

00:37:05.880 Why, what, wait a second.

00:37:07.680 And they start to say, why didn't they?

00:37:08.680 And they start to feel like things were hidden from them and their faith completely falls apart at that point.

00:37:12.620 It's like a house of cards.

00:37:13.420 It just tumbles down.

00:37:14.800 It just all falls apart.

00:37:18.500 And you lose them.

00:37:19.320 And I really believe this is what's happening in so many cases.

00:37:22.880 In fact, I know that this is what's happening because I get emails from people all the time, all the time, describing exactly this kind of process.

00:37:33.480 You have no idea how many emails I get describing not only exactly this story, this narrative of their own life, this is how it worked for them, but asking me a lot of these questions that I just rattled off.

00:37:47.200 And there are hundreds of others that people could ask related to religion.

00:37:51.540 They ask me these questions.

00:37:53.480 Now, why is that?

00:37:54.220 Is that because I'm some sort of genius theologian or scientist?

00:37:57.560 No, I'm not a genius.

00:37:58.320 I'm not a theologian.

00:37:58.980 I'm not a scientist.

00:37:59.680 I'm just a guy babbling on the Internet.

00:38:01.580 But the fact that they have to come to me, of all people, to answer these questions is a reflection of the fact that the people in their lives who should be answering them or at least addressing them are not.

00:38:16.180 They find me on YouTube and they say, let me talk to this guy because their pastor is not talking about it.

00:38:21.420 Their priest isn't talking about it.

00:38:22.460 Their parents aren't talking about it.

00:38:23.540 Their religious education, you know, they went to Sunday school.

00:38:26.220 They went to Christian school, Catholic school.

00:38:28.360 These things were never talked about.

00:38:31.580 And what I hear in emails a lot is sometimes they'll go and they'll try to talk to the pastor.

00:38:36.680 They'll try to talk to people in their lives and ask them these questions.

00:38:39.880 And what they get are platitudes.

00:38:41.640 They get evasion.

00:38:44.180 Sometimes they'll get the distinct impression the person they're talking to has no idea, hasn't even thought about this stuff before.

00:38:50.560 I think it's so important for us to realize this because, you know, I think we need to stop looking at the problem as one of purely about, you know, shallow, self-centered millennials who want to leave Christianity so they can go and run off and sin or whatever.

00:39:07.960 I think that, you know, maybe that's the case sometimes, but I think we make a big mistake.

00:39:13.300 Now, it makes us feel better to look at it that way.

00:39:15.520 We want to see it that way.

00:39:17.360 Okay, we want to say that, oh, all these people leaving, I mean, they're just not as pious as I am.

00:39:21.240 You know, they're just not as strong in their faith.

00:39:23.520 They're not as holy as I am.

00:39:25.160 And that's why they leave those wimps, those weaklings. 1.00

00:39:29.880 When in reality, no, it could be in some ways the opposite.

00:39:34.200 That they had the courage to start asking questions.

00:39:41.120 But unfortunately, nobody was there to answer those questions.

00:39:45.320 And unfortunately, they didn't really know where to look for the answers.

00:39:53.220 Um...

00:39:55.160 So, I think that we need to, uh...

00:39:58.760 Start...

00:40:00.760 I think Christians need to be, uh... 1.00

00:40:06.200 Trained, educated, really educated.

00:40:11.640 And, you know, and...

00:40:13.640 And, uh...

00:40:15.640 Now, and we would know this, too.

00:40:18.800 That's the other thing.

00:40:20.920 When we're trying to answer the question of

00:40:23.960 why do people leave the church?

00:40:27.380 You know, one thing we could do

00:40:28.940 is ask the people who've left.

00:40:32.400 Let them tell us.

00:40:34.620 Okay?

00:40:35.160 Now, if you ask people,

00:40:36.780 they might tell you they left because they're disenchanted with the church,

00:40:39.840 they had personal problems with somebody in the church,

00:40:42.100 you know, so on and so forth.

00:40:43.560 You will hear stories like that, yes.

00:40:46.380 Um...

00:40:47.980 But just as likely,

00:40:50.600 they'll tell you something about some of those questions

00:40:53.100 that I mentioned before.

00:40:55.700 Um...

00:40:56.140 Some of those problems.

00:40:58.280 And they'll tell you that the best answers

00:41:00.080 they could find for those questions

00:41:01.880 were secular ones.

00:41:03.680 From secular sources.

00:41:06.160 You know?

00:41:07.760 And...

00:41:08.040 And so, what we want to do is

00:41:09.480 we want to make ourselves feel better.

00:41:10.560 And we want to say,

00:41:10.960 oh, no, no, no.

00:41:11.360 That's not really why you left.

00:41:12.600 No, that couldn't be it.

00:41:13.340 That's not it.

00:41:13.880 I'll tell you why you left.

00:41:16.740 Because I know...

00:41:17.520 I know better what's in your mind than you do.

00:41:21.100 Do we have any idea how pretentious

00:41:22.520 and arrogant and stupid that sounds?

00:41:25.740 No, no, no.

00:41:26.060 It wasn't really that.

00:41:26.860 No, no, no.

00:41:27.060 That's because you wanted to sin.

00:41:27.980 That's what it was.

00:41:28.760 Telling you.

00:41:29.300 No, no, no.

00:41:29.700 You don't know.

00:41:30.980 No, it wasn't.

00:41:31.460 Let me tell you.

00:41:31.900 No, no.

00:41:32.180 Let me tell you why you left.

00:41:35.660 Um...

00:41:36.060 No.

00:41:36.380 I think we need to listen.

00:41:37.180 I...

00:41:37.420 I...

00:41:37.820 I think maybe we could listen.

00:41:38.960 Let's listen to what they're saying.

00:41:41.340 For a change.

00:41:43.880 What ultimately needs to happen

00:41:45.660 is the church needs to help to form

00:41:47.580 mature Christians

00:41:49.080 with a mature understanding

00:41:51.500 of their own religion

00:41:52.640 and their Bible.

00:41:54.520 This is a big part of the problem

00:41:56.160 is that a lot of adult Christians

00:41:57.680 in this country

00:41:58.340 have a very immature,

00:42:01.820 childish understanding

00:42:03.060 of their religion

00:42:04.320 and of the Bible.

00:42:05.920 Um...

00:42:06.440 And the problem with an immature

00:42:07.860 and childish understanding

00:42:08.860 is that it won't hold up to scrutiny.

00:42:10.500 And also the other problem

00:42:12.520 is that you,

00:42:13.540 if you're a parent,

00:42:14.400 if you're a leader in the church,

00:42:15.660 because you have yourself

00:42:16.680 a childish,

00:42:17.620 immature understanding

00:42:18.420 of your own faith,

00:42:19.220 you are not going to be able

00:42:20.760 to answer

00:42:21.380 the mature,

00:42:23.160 intelligent questions

00:42:24.280 from people

00:42:24.960 who are apparently

00:42:25.760 more mature than you.

00:42:29.640 Um...

00:42:30.280 I mean,

00:42:30.780 I can't tell you how angry I get

00:42:32.420 when I hear people

00:42:33.200 that say,

00:42:33.740 you know,

00:42:33.900 I had these questions,

00:42:34.720 I talked to my parents,

00:42:35.760 I talked to my pastor,

00:42:36.940 and it was like

00:42:37.960 they never thought he's...

00:42:38.780 How could you be

00:42:40.720 an adult Christian?

00:42:41.480 You never even thought

00:42:42.220 about these things.

00:42:42.960 What the hell is wrong with you?

00:42:45.100 Use your brain.

00:42:48.580 Um...

00:42:49.060 I think there are a lot of...

00:42:50.820 There are a lot of Christians

00:42:51.520 who still think of the Bible

00:42:52.760 like a self-help book.

00:42:54.820 I run into this all the time.

00:42:56.140 You know,

00:42:56.280 Christians who think of the Bible 0.99

00:42:57.600 as a book of inspirational sayings.

00:43:00.940 You know,

00:43:01.540 um...

00:43:01.940 But it's not that.

00:43:03.380 There's inspirational stuff in there,

00:43:04.940 but the Bible is a library

00:43:06.240 of a whole bunch

00:43:07.680 of different books

00:43:08.540 and genres

00:43:09.020 and forms

00:43:09.640 and styles

00:43:10.280 written over a course

00:43:11.180 of a thousand years

00:43:13.300 at least,

00:43:13.740 hundreds of years,

00:43:14.680 maybe a thousand years,

00:43:16.180 um...

00:43:17.300 by dozens of different authors

00:43:18.780 who were all trying

00:43:19.400 to do different things

00:43:20.380 and none of them

00:43:20.880 had any idea

00:43:21.620 that their writings

00:43:22.680 were going to one day

00:43:23.320 be compiled in a book,

00:43:24.560 the book that we now

00:43:25.360 call the Bible.

00:43:26.880 And we have to understand that.

00:43:28.180 We have to understand

00:43:28.840 what it is

00:43:29.640 and what its many

00:43:30.640 different functions are

00:43:32.040 and were

00:43:32.880 and were supposed to be

00:43:34.000 or else we're setting ourselves up

00:43:35.600 for a crisis down the line.

00:43:37.440 When the Bible

00:43:37.940 doesn't quite live up to

00:43:39.240 or rather I should say

00:43:40.040 conform with

00:43:41.360 our expectations.

00:43:43.500 Recently I saw somebody

00:43:44.540 on Facebook.

00:43:45.100 They posted a picture

00:43:45.740 of their Bible

00:43:46.360 with a cup of coffee

00:43:48.380 and in the caption

00:43:49.920 she claimed

00:43:50.740 that every morning

00:43:52.220 she opens the Bible

00:43:52.940 at random

00:43:53.500 and she finds

00:43:54.800 her morning inspiration

00:43:55.980 wherever it lands.

00:43:57.300 You know,

00:43:57.400 she lets the Spirit

00:43:58.160 guide her,

00:43:59.160 opens the Bible

00:43:59.960 and wherever it lands

00:44:02.100 she finds inspiration.

00:44:03.660 And I read that

00:44:04.460 and I thought,

00:44:04.900 really?

00:44:05.960 Really?

00:44:06.340 Is that really

00:44:07.240 what you do?

00:44:07.780 Because first of all

00:44:08.440 if you really read

00:44:09.220 the Bible every morning

00:44:10.060 you aren't posting

00:44:11.060 pictures of it

00:44:11.840 and posting it

00:44:12.320 on Facebook, okay?

00:44:13.820 But second of all

00:44:15.360 because if you really

00:44:16.840 open the Bible

00:44:17.500 at random

00:44:17.980 if you open it

00:44:18.560 at random

00:44:18.880 and you stack

00:44:19.460 the deck

00:44:19.920 in your favor

00:44:20.520 because you kind of

00:44:21.520 know where

00:44:22.240 the Psalms are

00:44:23.220 or you could kind of

00:44:24.240 flip it maybe

00:44:24.740 and try to land

00:44:25.380 on Matthew chapter 5

00:44:26.380 get to the Sermon

00:44:26.960 on the Mount

00:44:27.360 or you flip all the way

00:44:28.340 back to the Epistles

00:44:29.120 you try to get somewhere

00:44:29.840 in Romans or Corinthians

00:44:30.800 or something

00:44:31.380 then yeah

00:44:33.780 you'll find a lot

00:44:34.520 of inspiration

00:44:35.160 that's very relevant

00:44:35.880 to your life today

00:44:36.680 but if you're really

00:44:39.220 opening it at random

00:44:40.160 there's a good chance

00:44:41.160 you're going to land

00:44:41.700 on a six page long

00:44:42.860 genealogy

00:44:43.660 or a long

00:44:44.840 dense discourse

00:44:45.920 on Jewish ceremonial law

00:44:47.900 or dietary restrictions

00:44:49.960 or a description

00:44:51.280 of some violent siege

00:44:52.580 that took place

00:44:53.360 or a conquest

00:44:54.320 that happened

00:44:54.960 or a prophet's

00:44:56.520 lengthy denunciation

00:44:57.480 of this or that group

00:44:58.760 of people

00:44:59.880 or dozens

00:45:00.780 of other things

00:45:01.740 that would be

00:45:02.620 very difficult

00:45:03.500 to at a glance

00:45:04.840 over your coffee

00:45:05.740 in the morning

00:45:06.360 find inspiration from

00:45:08.260 why is that?

00:45:10.480 because the entire Bible

00:45:11.680 wasn't written

00:45:12.620 to inspire 21st century

00:45:14.640 Americans

00:45:15.040 while they eat breakfast

00:45:16.060 some of the Bible

00:45:18.340 some of the Bible

00:45:19.260 was written to inspire

00:45:20.400 yes

00:45:20.700 some of it

00:45:21.480 is inspirational writing

00:45:22.480 some of it

00:45:23.580 was written

00:45:24.060 with other purposes

00:45:25.600 in mind

00:45:26.100 and to do

00:45:27.100 other kinds of things

00:45:28.720 and so that

00:45:30.960 I've just

00:45:31.580 I point that out

00:45:32.440 as an example

00:45:33.320 of the immature

00:45:36.040 silly

00:45:37.540 frankly ridiculous

00:45:39.700 you know

00:45:40.700 impression

00:45:43.160 that a lot of

00:45:44.360 we Christians

00:45:44.900 have about

00:45:45.420 our own religion

00:45:46.420 and our own

00:45:47.240 holy book

00:45:47.840 that we claim

00:45:48.860 to read

00:45:49.620 every day

00:45:49.940 read the Bible

00:45:50.460 every day

00:45:50.980 do you?

00:45:52.160 do you really read it?

00:45:53.720 do you really study it?

00:45:55.560 do you really know

00:45:56.360 what's in it?

00:45:56.980 because if you do

00:46:03.200 you know

00:46:03.720 it's just

00:46:04.140 anyway

00:46:04.960 so I think

00:46:09.120 I think that's

00:46:09.980 that's

00:46:13.440 that's a big part

00:46:14.340 of the answer

00:46:14.780 is for us to

00:46:15.780 so let's

00:46:16.580 begin

00:46:17.480 with ourselves

00:46:18.600 as Christians

00:46:19.520 you know

00:46:24.480 enriching our own

00:46:25.440 understanding

00:46:26.040 of our faith

00:46:27.140 and our religion

00:46:27.820 coming to a more

00:46:30.240 a deeper

00:46:31.000 and more mature

00:46:31.620 understanding of it

00:46:33.760 reading

00:46:36.540 you know

00:46:37.040 not just

00:46:38.000 the biblical text

00:46:38.900 itself

00:46:39.320 but the history

00:46:40.420 around it

00:46:41.220 so we can

00:46:44.280 understand

00:46:44.820 the context

00:46:45.500 of it

00:46:45.880 it's a big part

00:46:46.560 of it

00:46:46.800 there's a lot

00:46:48.220 of stuff

00:46:48.500 in the Bible

00:46:48.900 some of those

00:46:49.580 questions

00:46:49.920 I rattled off

00:46:50.620 it's easier

00:46:52.560 to answer

00:46:53.080 those questions

00:46:53.480 when you

00:46:53.800 understand

00:46:54.620 the context

00:46:55.680 surrounding

00:46:56.480 when

00:46:58.060 these

00:46:58.660 texts

00:46:59.660 were written

00:47:00.080 and why

00:47:00.960 you know

00:47:02.020 if you don't

00:47:03.020 know any

00:47:03.540 of that

00:47:04.000 and you just

00:47:05.020 pick it up

00:47:05.680 and read it

00:47:06.220 there's a good

00:47:08.580 chance you're

00:47:09.040 going to walk

00:47:09.460 away

00:47:09.880 confused

00:47:10.800 disturbed

00:47:11.740 even

00:47:12.140 so that's

00:47:15.040 my thing

00:47:15.320 and it's

00:47:15.980 got to start

00:47:16.420 in the churches

00:47:16.800 I mean

00:47:17.180 pastors

00:47:17.940 got to

00:47:18.380 get up

00:47:19.080 there

00:47:19.360 and start

00:47:19.940 giving

00:47:20.300 substantive

00:47:21.100 sermons

00:47:22.800 addressing

00:47:23.640 real questions

00:47:24.840 and issues

00:47:25.440 people have

00:47:26.060 related to

00:47:26.820 the text

00:47:27.240 related to

00:47:28.200 their religion

00:47:28.720 related to

00:47:29.500 just real

00:47:30.160 stuff

00:47:30.720 we don't

00:47:31.860 need an

00:47:32.500 inspirational

00:47:33.180 self-help

00:47:33.940 sermon

00:47:34.260 every single

00:47:34.920 time

00:47:35.300 people have

00:47:36.100 real questions

00:47:37.020 answer those

00:47:37.820 questions

00:47:38.100 at least

00:47:38.660 acknowledge

00:47:39.340 the questions

00:47:40.180 I feel

00:47:44.260 very strongly

00:47:44.700 about this

00:47:45.060 as you can

00:47:45.400 tell

00:47:45.580 but I

00:47:45.840 guess I

00:47:46.080 should

00:47:46.220 wrap

00:47:46.440 it

00:47:46.540 up

00:47:46.640 it's

00:47:46.740 been

00:47:46.840 about

00:47:47.000 30

00:47:47.240 minutes

00:47:47.500 of me

00:47:47.660 babbling

00:47:48.000 about

00:47:48.200 this

00:47:48.340 I could

00:47:49.520 go on

00:47:49.720 for another

00:47:49.940 five hours

00:47:50.440 on this

00:47:50.780 subject

00:47:51.060 as you

00:47:51.380 could tell

00:47:51.720 but we'll

00:47:52.940 leave it

00:47:53.180 there for

00:47:53.480 now

00:47:53.700 thanks for

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 20, 2019

Ep. 336 - The Religion Of Environmentalism

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