The Matt Walsh Show - May 21, 2018


Ep. 34 - Yes, Thoughts And Prayers Could Save Us


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10 people were killed and another 13 injured in the latest mass shooting at a Texas high school, and gun control advocates are quick to point the finger at "gun control" and blame it on the "pro-Second Amendment" movement.

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00:00:00.000 Ten dead at Santa Fe High School, another 13 injured.
00:00:06.260 The shooter is reported to have walked into the classroom and shouted woohoo as he sprayed bullets.
00:00:14.620 Although after the shooting, the police say that he showed no emotion at all, which is the same story that we have heard many times before.
00:00:23.120 People who knew him say that they're shocked.
00:00:25.880 There were no red flags.
00:00:27.740 Seemed like a normal guy.
00:00:30.660 And then this.
00:00:32.160 There have been two mass shootings in our schools in the past four months, leaving 27 kids dead, another 30 injured.
00:00:40.940 Now, CNN claims that there have been 22 school shootings in 2018.
00:00:46.580 And that's not true.
00:00:47.980 But what is true is still very, very bad.
00:00:51.660 You have two mass shootings, 27 kids killed by mass shootings in public school in four months.
00:01:00.660 See, that's the whole problem with gun control advocates when they make up or exaggerate mass shooting statistics, school shooting statistics.
00:01:08.340 The first problem is that it's dishonest.
00:01:10.400 The second problem is it's completely unnecessary.
00:01:12.820 The actual statistics are bad enough.
00:01:15.960 You know, people are not imagining things when they say that mass shootings seem to be happening with a much greater frequency these days.
00:01:23.240 That's not our imagination.
00:01:25.680 Now, people in my generation, we remember, you know, if you're around my age, then, of course, you have a distinct memory of Columbine.
00:01:36.460 And I was in middle school when that happened.
00:01:39.460 And Columbine happened and it was like unlike anything that we'd ever seen before.
00:01:45.120 And then nothing like it happened again for several years.
00:01:49.300 But now you have a school shooting and you say, oh, another one.
00:01:54.500 The top five deadliest mass shootings in America have all happened in the previous five years.
00:02:01.800 Okay.
00:02:01.960 The top five deadliest mass shootings in America have happened in the last five years.
00:02:07.120 Two of the top five were committed in the last 12 months.
00:02:10.580 14 of the top 22 have occurred in the past 10 years.
00:02:14.180 The deadliest mass shooting in American history was in 2016.
00:02:17.040 And then a new deadliest mass shooting in America happened in 2017.
00:02:22.200 So, yes, it's bad.
00:02:24.960 It's really, really bad.
00:02:27.440 Whenever this happens, people say, well, this isn't normal.
00:02:31.200 This isn't normal.
00:02:33.580 But it is normal, is the point.
00:02:37.600 Destruction and misery have been, well, they've been the norm since the fall of man,
00:02:41.960 but especially they've been the norm since the last century.
00:02:44.880 Close to 100 million people were killed by communism alone.
00:02:50.260 And then there was the Holocaust, many other genocides, not to mention two world wars, two nuclear bombs. 0.69
00:02:56.400 That was all in one century.
00:02:58.880 Now, we're told that that was the previous century.
00:03:01.800 That was the 20th century.
00:03:03.260 21st century is different.
00:03:05.820 And what we're told is that we've entered into the most peaceful time in human history.
00:03:09.800 But the people who are making those declarations as optimistic and pleasing as they sound
00:03:16.640 are simply ignoring the fact that 50 million human beings are killed by abortion worldwide every year.
00:03:27.300 And that's still going on.
00:03:29.180 The world's been on a pace of approximately 50 million abortions a year since 1990,
00:03:33.640 since at least 1990, which means that we've killed 1.4 billion people in less than 30 years.
00:03:43.480 That's 20% of the world's population.
00:03:46.060 20% of the world's population has been murdered in less than three decades.
00:03:53.540 So, most peaceful time?
00:03:56.380 Not even close.
00:03:57.360 This is what we're living in right now is by far the most violent and destructive and deadliest time in human history.
00:04:07.480 And it's not even close.
00:04:10.120 Things are not getting better.
00:04:11.880 That's what I'm trying to say.
00:04:13.940 Things are not getting better.
00:04:15.800 They have not been getting better.
00:04:17.320 They're not getting better now.
00:04:18.740 They won't get better.
00:04:20.860 I'm sorry to tell you this, but it's just a fact.
00:04:24.400 Things are getting worse in a hurry.
00:04:25.980 We've simply gotten better at ignoring how bad they are.
00:04:30.700 We've gotten so good at it that we've got this entire chunk of 50 million humans killed every year,
00:04:37.500 and we could just completely put that to the side, like it's not even happening.
00:04:41.060 We could just discount that and then go around talking about,
00:04:45.120 oh, it's a peaceful time.
00:04:46.700 It's such a peaceful time.
00:04:48.440 I mean, even the Santa Fe shooting, which just happened on Friday, by the way,
00:04:55.460 seems to already be forgotten by a lot of people.
00:04:58.580 It seems like the next morning we forgot about it.
00:05:01.280 I know the royal wedding had a lot to do with that.
00:05:04.100 The royal wedding, which was, I mean, it's such an amazing romantic story, right?
00:05:08.660 Of a woman ditching her husband, leaving him in the dust, and then going to marry someone who's richer.
00:05:15.000 It's such an amazing romantic story, right?
00:05:17.880 Well, yes, it's so great.
00:05:19.380 We should all be happily ever after, right?
00:05:22.000 Destroy your marriage and go marry somebody else. 1.00
00:05:24.300 Fantastic.
00:05:25.440 So we've moved on to that, and we're good at that.
00:05:27.980 We're good at moving on quickly.
00:05:29.660 And I think we call that resilience.
00:05:31.840 That's what we try to call that.
00:05:33.840 We like to pretend, oh, we're resilient.
00:05:36.340 Americans are so resilient.
00:05:37.660 There's a mass shooting, and we just move on.
00:05:41.080 It's not resilience.
00:05:42.320 It's indifference.
00:05:45.180 And there is a difference between those two things.
00:05:48.480 Now, it should be noted that there's one other conspicuous global trend that's been happening across the world,
00:05:54.900 along with all the bloodshed and the death and destruction and murder.
00:05:58.060 However, over the last 100 years, along with that, there's been another trend,
00:06:02.920 and that other trend is secularism, godlessness.
00:06:06.280 Most countries in the world have become increasingly godless as the years have progressed.
00:06:10.500 The West is seeing historic levels of atheism and secularism,
00:06:15.360 to the point now where there are some countries in Europe that are predominantly majority populated by unbelievers.
00:06:23.420 And these two things are not a coincidence.
00:06:25.320 The nightmare that we've lived since the turn of the previous century has been the direct result of this.
00:06:33.780 It's been the direct result of the world rejecting God.
00:06:37.500 We have fled from God, and we have fled out into the wilderness.
00:06:43.880 And what we've found out here in the wilderness in our freedom is evil and despair and death on an unprecedented scale.
00:06:55.440 We have become an empty country, an empty country, an empty world.
00:07:01.580 Emptiness is the thing that kind of ties all this together.
00:07:04.840 The war, the shootings, the genocide, everything, abortion, ties it all together. 0.74
00:07:10.280 Because there's this void that's left behind when you push God out.
00:07:16.160 And as a world, as a world, we have pushed God out.
00:07:22.340 And we've left this giant gaping hole.
00:07:26.080 And now we're struggling and fumbling to fill it with something.
00:07:29.960 These school shooters on an individual level,
00:07:32.320 you know, they have this emptiness, this hole inside them.
00:07:35.000 They try to fill it with something.
00:07:36.160 Usually they turn to media and video games.
00:07:38.960 This is yet another school shooter who was an avid video game player.
00:07:42.540 But I know we're not going to talk about that.
00:07:44.180 It's completely, totally, absolutely unrelated.
00:07:47.360 It's got two things of nothing to do with one another at all, of course.
00:07:51.080 Because as part of our emptiness, we are so desperate to justify all of our entertainment choices.
00:07:57.120 It's the only thing we care about.
00:07:58.700 It's just making sure that nobody questions our entertainment.
00:08:01.880 So if anyone mentions, oh, no, we can't talk about that.
00:08:04.580 That's my entertainment.
00:08:06.000 How dare you?
00:08:07.740 Now, that's going to make me angry if you question my entertainment.
00:08:10.240 The school shootings, they don't really make me that angry.
00:08:12.060 But if you question my entertainment, that'll make me angry, Matt.
00:08:15.220 So these school shooters, they look for something to fill the void.
00:08:18.880 And what they find is not satisfying enough.
00:08:21.680 Usually it exasperates the problem.
00:08:24.120 And so finally they explode.
00:08:26.520 After they get tired of wallowing in their numbness and their indifference,
00:08:29.920 they explode in this ball of rage and destruction.
00:08:34.880 And as I've said now many times, I think the main thing that they're doing, why they do this,
00:08:42.960 and there might be other individual motivations we hear about with this kid.
00:08:46.520 He apparently had a grudge against at least one of the girls in the school.
00:08:50.560 He was rejected by her.
00:08:52.200 You know, every high school in America is filled with boys that are rejected by girls.
00:08:57.380 It's like the main thing that happens to high school boys, yet most of them don't go down that path.
00:09:03.020 So why did he choose that path?
00:09:05.240 And I think mainly it's because of that emptiness inside him.
00:09:08.200 And what he was really doing, what these school shooters, mass shooters,
00:09:11.180 what they're all really trying to do is they're trying to feel something.
00:09:14.120 They're trying to feel control.
00:09:18.100 You know, they want control over life, over just this mysterious empty thing.
00:09:25.120 And that's the trajectory that the entire human race has basically been following.
00:09:31.580 And it can't lead anywhere except ruination.
00:09:37.860 You know, we really need a Jeremiah.
00:09:42.300 You know, we need an Old Testament-like prophet type of person in this day and age.
00:09:49.940 Because in the Old Testament times, they had guys like Jeremiah, they had the prophets to come and say to them,
00:09:57.000 listen, you idiots, do you understand why this is happening? 0.91
00:10:00.460 Do you understand why all these bad things are happening?
00:10:02.600 Because you've rejected God.
00:10:04.920 And oftentimes they would put it just like that, pretty much, using their own language.
00:10:09.820 But just smacking people upside the head.
00:10:13.660 Pay attention.
00:10:14.480 Look around you.
00:10:15.340 Don't act so surprised.
00:10:18.220 You reject God.
00:10:19.580 You want to live your lives of sin and you're surprised when this stuff happens.
00:10:23.920 Don't be surprised.
00:10:25.920 We need something like that in our day because what we really need,
00:10:31.460 the only solution is a mass spiritual revival and a collective return to faith.
00:10:37.740 No other solution will solve anything.
00:10:39.940 Everything else is just kind of reshuffling the problem, rebranding it.
00:10:46.060 And that's been our, that has been our solution for the last 100 years or so,
00:10:49.580 is to take a problem and just rebrand it and call it something else.
00:10:53.760 So we took the genocides of the 20th century and we rebranded them. 0.51
00:10:58.900 We put them in a clinic and we call them abortion now. 0.99
00:11:00.900 And now we say, oh, there's no more genocides.
00:11:03.180 We solved the problem.
00:11:05.060 Hooray.
00:11:05.440 Hey, so what's going to be our rebranding solution for school shootings?
00:11:09.840 I don't know.
00:11:11.220 There is no solution other than returning to God, all of us.
00:11:16.260 You know, stupid, arrogant people, stupid, arrogant, foolish people like to laugh
00:11:24.740 at the idea of thoughts and prayers in the wake of tragedy.
00:11:29.600 But thoughts and prayers really could save us.
00:11:35.720 They could.
00:11:37.240 If we really had our thoughts on God, and if we really had our knees on the ground and
00:11:44.460 unceasing prayer, things would not be like this.
00:11:49.060 A pious, prayerful country does not kill its own kids, whether in the classroom or the womb.
00:11:55.980 So yes, thoughts and prayers could change everything.
00:12:01.160 And please don't come in and say, well, yes, Matt, we need thoughts and prayers, but also action.
00:12:07.260 If you say that, then I'm going to have to suspect that you've never prayed because you don't
00:12:12.180 understand.
00:12:13.580 It's not necessary to stipulate thoughts and prayers and action.
00:12:18.100 If you have a deep prayer life and your mind is focused on God, then of course you're acting.
00:12:23.780 Action is a natural conclusion that flows from that foundation.
00:12:30.100 It's almost impossible for a prayerful, spiritual, humble man or woman not to act.
00:12:40.520 It's almost impossible because a person like that has so much grace pouring into them as
00:12:48.820 a result of their connection with God, that to resist it and not to act would require much
00:12:55.120 more effort than to simply act.
00:12:57.640 So those who do not act do not pray.
00:13:00.760 It's just like within your own family, you know, if you're praying every day for the spiritual
00:13:06.160 and physical protection of your own children, which I certainly hope that we all are.
00:13:10.220 But if you do, of course, you're also taking practical steps to protect them because that's
00:13:17.100 part of the result of the prayer.
00:13:18.880 And you're taking the right steps because God is showing you the right steps and you're
00:13:22.600 doing the right thing rather than not praying about it and just trying to randomly arbitrarily
00:13:26.960 do things to protect your kids.
00:13:29.820 When you pray first and that's the beginning and the foundation, then the actions follow
00:13:35.380 that and they're the correct actions, not just random arbitrary actions.
00:13:42.200 So the problem is not that people are relying too much on prayer and not enough on practical
00:13:47.080 steps.
00:13:47.800 The problem is the opposite.
00:13:49.620 We rely entirely on so-called practical steps and we don't rely at all on God.
00:13:55.240 We don't even factor him in.
00:13:57.040 So what I'm saying, what I'll say again, is that if everyone in the nation had their thoughts
00:14:02.940 on God and their knees on the ground in prayer, things would get better.
00:14:09.120 Guaranteed, absolutely.
00:14:11.720 I know that for certain.
00:14:14.400 Our affliction is spiritual.
00:14:16.640 We are a nation that is falling more and more into the clutches of evil and Satan and away
00:14:22.220 from God.
00:14:23.240 And we are still too stubborn to cry out to God to save us.
00:14:26.480 So instead, we cry out to the government and doctors and psychologists and the law and
00:14:31.380 policy and pills and the media and Hollywood and ourselves.
00:14:35.260 We cry out to all of them to save us and none of them can.
00:14:38.760 And we look everywhere but up where the answer actually lies.
00:14:42.880 The key is to pray to God unceasingly to seek his help.
00:14:45.900 And to act in accordance with him.
00:14:50.800 Not to trust in our actions alone, but to trust in God and to act in faith and to go to God
00:14:57.080 and say, what are we supposed to do?
00:15:00.400 What do you want us to do?
00:15:03.920 And then whatever his answer is, you do it.
00:15:06.000 People who don't understand prayer and don't have faith in it, it's because they don't do it.
00:15:13.560 But if you actually pray, and people who actually pray unceasingly pray, you know,
00:15:18.080 they have a deep prayer life, they know.
00:15:22.480 They know that if they pray consistently over a certain problem, answers will present themselves.
00:15:28.500 And if they go to God consistently and say, God, what do you want me to do about this or that problem?
00:15:33.960 An answer will come to them.
00:15:36.340 It will.
00:15:38.140 Will.
00:15:39.840 100% will.
00:15:42.920 God works miracles.
00:15:45.120 But we have to pray.
00:15:47.060 You know, think about the story of Dunkirk.
00:15:49.080 The part of the story that the movie Dunkirk, which is a movie that I really liked, but
00:15:52.900 the movie Dunkirk leaves this out.
00:15:55.260 But, you know, we know about the, and the movie shows us how the Citizen Navy was mobilized
00:16:01.540 to rescue the Allied forces from the beach.
00:16:04.020 What they leave out is that a day of prayer was called across the country, and the British
00:16:08.700 people poured into churches, and they prayed together in mass.
00:16:15.180 They prayed for a miracle, and they received it.
00:16:18.900 Mysteriously, Hitler ordered his troops to halt when he could have easily destroyed the Allies. 0.81
00:16:23.560 Then there was bad weather that grounded German planes, but then the weather, miraculously,
00:16:28.640 was good when the British needed it to be, so they'd get their men off the beach.
00:16:34.660 The people prayed, and they acted, and a miracle occurred.
00:16:38.400 And it's very possible that that miracle not only saved those men, but saved Western civilization.
00:16:46.320 God works miracles.
00:16:48.060 He's been doing it since the dawn of time.
00:16:49.740 The dawn of time itself was a miracle, a supernatural act that made possible all things.
00:16:55.860 So God works miracles, but we have to ask for them, and we have to come to him, and we have
00:17:00.940 to humble ourselves and pray, all of us.
00:17:05.300 Can God stop mass shootings?
00:17:07.380 Yes, he can.
00:17:09.480 He stopped Hitler. 0.92
00:17:11.120 He's healed the blind, cured the lame, raised the dead.
00:17:14.920 He parted the seas.
00:17:15.820 He brought forth water from a rock, brought manna down from heaven.
00:17:18.860 He brought himself down from heaven, rescued us from sin.
00:17:22.180 So yes, he can stop mass shootings.
00:17:23.760 He can do anything.
00:17:25.180 We have to pray and have faith.
00:17:27.960 And I'm speaking now, I'm speaking now specifically to those who believe, to those who believe,
00:17:34.340 and that, or at least claim to believe, and that's, what, 80% of the country or more claims
00:17:40.160 to believe in God, I know that this message to people who don't believe in God, to people
00:17:44.320 who are atheists, who are completely secular, who reject God, they hear this conversation
00:17:48.480 and they laugh and they snicker about it.
00:17:50.200 I'm not talking to them, okay?
00:17:52.000 They are, I'm tuning them out for right now.
00:17:56.460 It's not possible for me to talk about the power of prayer to atheists on the internet
00:18:01.720 because they will just laugh like children about it.
00:18:03.980 And so right now, I'm not talking to them.
00:18:05.420 I'm talking to people who actually pretend to believe, okay?
00:18:10.960 You and I, those who are left, we say we believe.
00:18:15.220 So why aren't we turning to God?
00:18:17.420 It's only through his grace that we do believe in the first place.
00:18:22.160 So what do you think God's going to say to us in the end if we took all this grace that
00:18:26.720 he gave us and we wasted it?
00:18:29.440 He gives us this grace for a reason.
00:18:31.280 So why are we acknowledging his presence through his grace and then just leaving it at that?
00:18:38.760 Like, okay, there you are, God.
00:18:41.580 And then just continuing about our days in a way where that fact has no bearing whatsoever
00:18:49.100 on our lives, on how we operate, on what we do, on how we think.
00:18:53.980 We are in for a rude awakening.
00:18:55.740 If everything that's been happening around the world for the last 100 or more years,
00:19:02.000 if that isn't enough to wake us up and to make us turn back to God,
00:19:07.080 even though we claim to already believe in him,
00:19:09.560 if this isn't enough to make us cling to him desperately
00:19:12.480 and to turn to him and have faith in him and to seek his help,
00:19:17.220 if this isn't enough, then I think when we die, we're in for a rough time.
00:19:22.780 Put it like that.
00:19:24.160 So that's the solution.
00:19:26.080 It's just that.
00:19:27.260 A mass spiritual revival.
00:19:28.740 You know, it's as simple as that.
00:19:30.140 Which I know is probably not going to happen.
00:19:33.300 But it's the only solution.
00:19:37.060 Anywhere else we look, any other solution will be a failure.
00:19:40.140 So this is it.
00:19:41.700 So let's start praying for that.
00:19:43.860 Let's start there.
00:19:44.680 Thanks for watching, everybody.
00:19:46.940 And Godspeed.