Ep. 493 - James Fairbanks Shouldn't Spend a Day in Jail
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss mail-in voting, the coronavirus, and why I don't think it should be legal. I also talk about why voting should be as easy and painless as possible for everyone.
Transcript
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Welcome to the show, everybody. Most of this show today is going to be a little bit different.
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It's going to be dictated by you and your emails, because there are a whole bunch of them,
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a whole bunch of emails and stuff that I've gotten over the last few weeks,
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many of them not directly tied to current events, and thank God for that.
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And I haven't had a chance to answer a lot of them. So today, for my only show of the week,
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I want to really back away from some of the news and current events and everything,
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and just for today, go through some of my emails and topics that you have brought up and answer those.
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But first, the one topic I'll bring up myself, and I have just a few things to say about this.
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There's been a lot of discussion recently about vote by mail, or mail-in voting,
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or vote from home, as the Democrats have christened it.
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Democrats want to push for mail-in voting and spend billions of dollars to fund it,
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and Trump is against the idea, and that's basically the breakdown of the controversy here.
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The reason we're given for why we have to do vote by mail is that, of course, come November,
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the coronavirus is still going to exist, and we don't want people going out to the polls and getting infected.
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That's the argument, anyway. The reason that Trump gives for not wanting mail-in voting
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is that there's an opportunity for fraud, because it'd be very difficult to protect the integrity of the voting process
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when people are doing it at home and mailing in the ballots.
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Now, a lot of states already had mail-in voting. That's a thing that already existed.
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But in many states, you can only do it under certain circumstances, like if you're elderly or disabled.
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And even the states that allow anyone to mail-in vote, most people don't do that.
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Now, we could be looking at a potential situation where you've got tens of millions of mail-in ballots.
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How do you keep track of everything and, as I said, protect the integrity of the voting process?
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Now, here's what I'll say about that. I also am against mail-in voting.
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I'm against it in general, though, even aside from the coronavirus or anything else.
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I don't like it. But my reason has very little to do with voter fraud.
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Yeah, that is a concern. Trump is right. But that's not the primary concern.
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And I think when it comes to the integrity of the voting process and issues that have to do with voting,
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voter fraud is a much, much lesser concern than something else that I want to talk about.
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And it's also true, as others have argued, by the way, that the idea that voting will be significantly dangerous
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I think we've established by now that you can leave your home and you should be OK.
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You can go out and do things and still avoid being sick.
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You don't need to be locked away. In fact, you probably should not be.
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Not probably. You definitely should not be locked away.
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So it will be perfectly possible and really not that difficult to have people go to the polls in person and vote
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I mean, after all, it's not like people are going into the booth, you know, as groups, or at least they shouldn't be.
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So we're already socially distanced when we vote.
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So I'm not really sure I understand what the problem is.
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But aside from that, aside from fraud as well, and aside from the fact that this isn't even an issue,
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my problem is that voting shouldn't be that easy anyway.
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Anyway, this all goes back to the fundamental flaw in the way that we think of and approach voting in modern culture.
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We see it as this sacred, universal right held by everyone.
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And so we have to make it as easy and painless and convenient as possible for people to do it.
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And any obstacle that's put in the way, any inconvenience that they suffer,
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any sacrifice that's required of them in order to do it is seen as depriving people of this right
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or at least interfering with their ability to exercise it.
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Now, there are some problems here, starting with this.
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Voting is not a sacred, universal right held by everyone.
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In fact, we don't treat it that way in this country even now, really.
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We do obviously think that there should be some parameters put in place to determine who can vote.
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Our founding fathers thought that there should be even more parameters.
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Now, of course, for a long time in this country, women couldn't vote.
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That doesn't mean, however, that we should have to do away with all of the barriers and obstacles
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So, yeah, you do away with the racial and gender-based obstacles, sure.
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But the original idea, only property owners vote.
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Only contributing and competent members of society vote.
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Take away all of the racial and gender elements of it, and the basic idea is a good one.
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Politicians, especially Democrats, though, want everyone to vote.
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They want to make it as easy as possible for everybody to vote.
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They want to make it so that you almost literally don't have to raise a finger yourself, lift a finger to vote.
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If they could come to your house and carry you to the polls like a baby, cradling you in their arms
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and humming lullabies the whole time, they would do that if they could.
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Is it because they're just such huge fans of the democratic process?
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Is it because they just really believe in, you know, having people involved?
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No, it's because they benefit by having uninformed, lazy, stupid, non-contributing people voting.
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The voters they don't want, though, are informed, intelligent, mature.
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I mean, the kind of voters that would be willing to make a sacrifice, the kind of voters that will, you know,
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it's so important for them to participate that they'll carve out some time on the actual day of voting and go to the polls and do it.
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Now, these Democrats, those are the voters they don't want.
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So instead, they drown out their votes in a flood of stupid, in a flood of lazy and stupid.
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Big turnout means that a lot more than just the informed and interested and invested people came out.
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And that's why, while everybody cheers for big turnouts, I hope for small ones, much smaller.
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Ideally, there would be, you know, 10 or 20 million people voting.
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I mean, the really invested, the really informed, the really involved people.
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And if it was just them, America would transform for the better practically overnight in that scenario.
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You know, you have a basic sixth grade civics exam as a requirement for voting.
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So if you were to just, I mean, take everything else out of it.
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If you were to require sixth grade civics exam, taxpayer, citizen, ID, and you have to show up to the poll on the day to vote.
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Leave all those five parameters, not very onerous at all.
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That would rule out the vast majority of the electorate.
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But the thing is, those are all the people we want to rule out.
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Those are all the people that have no business voting in the first place.
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If you can't pass a sixth grade civics exam, you have no business voting in the first place.
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I think it should be a little bit more difficult.
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I think it should be harder to vote, not easier.
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Oh, but you're advocating voter suppression, Matt.
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I mean, the type of voters who can be suppressed because they're scared to go to the polls eight months after a virus came to America.
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I want to suppress them by forcing them to either make the sacrifice and take the risk and go or stay home.
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So, if somebody isn't willing to put in that minimal amount of skin in the game, then we don't need them.
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And, you know, it's no hard feelings and no offense intended.
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If you're someone who wouldn't think it was worth it to go out and vote, that's fine.
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I'm not one of these people who says, you're a bad American if you don't vote.
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If you haven't been paying attention, if you don't care that much, if voting isn't really that important to you, that you wouldn't even leave your house to do it, then you decide not to vote.
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In fact, not voting in that case is the patriotic thing because you are staying home rather than inflicting your ignorance on the rest of us, which I think is selfless and patriotic, and it's the right thing.
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That if you're in that camp, you just shouldn't be allowed to vote in the first place, or you should be forced to put in some effort.
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You know, you say this kind of stuff, and people are like, how dare you?
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The idea that you would suggest that anybody should be prevented from voting is scandalous.
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That's only because we are such a stupid, we have become such a stupid country in many ways, that we would find what I have just said scandalous.
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When this was originally the idea, in the first place, this is how it's supposed to work.
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We'll move on, and like I said, we're going to go to the mailbag.
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A lot of interesting questions, and let's go right to it.
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I'm dying to hear your take on James Fairbanks.
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If, and I know I said we weren't going to be all beholden to current events, but I had,
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I got to talk about this because it is very interesting.
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If you haven't heard, James Fairbanks is the name of a man in Nebraska who confessed to killing
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And Fairbanks just walked into Condalucci's house, shot him in the head, killed him, right?
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The wrinkle here is that Matteo was a convicted pedophile.
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So let me read from the District Herald on this.
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You need to hear all the details because, as I said, fascinating.
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The real-life Dexter was only caught because he wrote a lengthy letter to the media explaining
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why he did it and vowed to turn himself in as long as they published it.
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Fairbanks says that he had been, that he had seen Condalucci on the sex offender registry
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while he was looking at a house in the neighborhood.
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He was upset when he went to view the home and saw the pedophile outside looking at children.
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Condalucci, 64, was found dead in his home in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday after being
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On Thursday, Fairbanks, 43, was charged with the first-degree murder and use of a deadly
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In a confession email about the crime, Fairbanks, a former Omaha public school employee, wrote
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that, quote, I've worked with kids for years who've been victimized and I couldn't in good
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conscience allow him to do it to anyone else while I had the means to stop him.
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The letter was sent to the various media outlets anonymously and posted to a social media.
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The mother of one of Condalucci's victims, Laura Smith, has even started a Facebook group
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Her son, Anthony, took his own life after being sexually abused by the pedophile when he
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Smith has spent years trying to get justice for her son who died from an overdose in 2017.
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Let's go into the details of the pedo's crimes because they really do matter.
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She made a run to the grocery store late one evening and when she came home, she found
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I knew something was instantly wrong, Smith told the Daily Beast.
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She said that her son claimed he had wet the bed.
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I ended up packing my stuff the next day and when we were leaving, my son quietly said,
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The child told her that Condalucci had touched his genitals and forced him to touch his while
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The child predator pleaded guilty to attempted lewd and lascivious content or lascivious assault
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upon a child in 1994 and was only sentenced to four years of probation and drug counseling.
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In 2007, Condalucci struck again and raped a 13-year-old girl.
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He was sentenced to five years in prison but released in just over two because of, quote,
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So, that's at least two molested children, only two years in prison between the two cases.
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And we all know that there are many other victims aside from those.
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This man was molesting a five-year-old in 1994.
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What do we think he was doing in the intervening decade and a half?
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You know, another important note here is that the pedo's own daughter says that her dad was
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a monster and children are safer now that he's gone.
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And she thinks that Fairbanks should only get probation for murdering her dad.
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Right off the top, I'm glad that the pedophile is dead.
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No one on earth should shed a tear for this monstrosity, obviously.
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I mean, when you die and your own children call you a monster and say that the person
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who killed you shouldn't go to jail, I mean, that just, if we didn't already know it from
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his crimes, that confirms you as a just top-of-the-line scumbag, right?
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Now, on the other hand, I also think that the courts can't explicitly condone vigilante
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They can't come out and say, hey, you know, it's okay to kill pedophiles.
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But if I were in charge, this man would not spend a day in jail.
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You know, I'd give him community service, probation, call it a day.
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Well, the pedophile molested a five-year-old child, you know, a five-year-old.
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And I know that I don't need to explain why that's a horrible thing, but it's worth stopping
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Think about the mentality, okay, of a man who looks at an innocent five-year-old child and
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sees in that child a thing, an object to be used sexually.
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Think about the depths of evil, of just utter spiritual darkness and desolation required
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to see a five-year-old child like that and then to act on it.
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And then when he's, what was it, 19, he dies of an overdose.
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That was a boy whose innocence needed to be protected.
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And instead, this piece of filth, this human garbage, this animal took that innocence,
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And even if the death didn't come, you know, for another 15 years, he took that boy's life
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So let me ask you, if you can pay your debt to society for molesting a five-year-old by serving
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probation, then what debt does a person owe for killing the molester who does that?
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The pedo got no jail time for molesting a five-year-old, two years for raping a 13-year-old.
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Could it possibly be a greater crime than the molestations themselves?
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I mean, for Fairbanks to get a harsher penalty than the pedophile himself got for preying
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upon two children, at least, would be an enormous miscarriage of justice.
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There's no way that we could call that justice.
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And I know people are uncomfortable with the idea of, you know, we got to punish vigilantism,
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I think justice here is looking at the pedo sentences and using that as your baseline.
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So if he got a total of two years and I'm the judge, I'm looking at that and I'm giving
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Fairbanks, I don't know, six months of probation or, you know, even half a day of community service.
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I'll have him go clean up the side of a highway for, you know, six hours on some Tuesday, then
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send him home so his neighbors can throw him a party, have a barbecue.
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So that way, you know, you've technically convicted him.
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You haven't explicitly condoned vigilantism, but also you're being just and you're being fair.
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We should also highlight, I mean, it mentions it in the article, but according to Fairbanks,
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he says that the thing that ultimately got him to act was that he, you know, was outside
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and he talks about this in detail in his letter that he sent and he posted on social media,
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But he says he saw this guy outside in his driveway, just like staring down some children
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And so Fairbanks knew, okay, that this guy is going to continue to victimize children.
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And, you know, the justice system had two cracks at him, did basically nothing.
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And so he decided if I don't do something, he's going to continue to victimize kids.
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What if, if you were in that position and you didn't do what Fairbanks did, which most
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people would not, but if you didn't do what Fairbanks, it would it be, would it be because
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you, you know, you think you, you, you, you think it's wrong to be a vigilante and that's
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why you refrain or would it be because you just be afraid of doing that and you don't
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My point is the thing that would stop most of us from doing what Fairbanks did isn't
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because of ethical qualms, as much as we might claim what really would stop us is just that
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Um, there have been cases like this through the years.
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Um, let me mention just one, one case of a dad.
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I don't remember his name off the top of my head, but there was a dad in the eighties,
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Um, his son was kidnapped and raped by his, the son's, I think it was his karate instructor.
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And they caught the rapist and they were bringing him, you know, they caught him in some other
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They brought him back on a plane to stand trial in, uh, in, in his home state.
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And there's, there's video of this very famous video.
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The dad was waiting at the airport with a gun for his son's rapist to show up.
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And as soon as his son's rapist walked by him and he was cuffed, you know, he was surrounded
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The dad turned around, shot him point blank in the temple, killed him.
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That dad, um, did not spend, I don't think spend one day in prison.
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Now, you know, I look at that and I think that's, that was the right move.
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I don't think that father should have went to jail.
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I completely understand why that father did what he did.
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And, um, so I, I think it's a very similar situation.
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And I bring up that case in the eighties because anyone who says, well, if we don't come
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down hard on this guy, it's going to be, uh, you know, it's going to be anarchy and,
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Well, this was a case like 35 years ago and that the father faced basically no penalty
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And it is about a chemistry teacher who gets diagnosed with terminal cancer and then becomes
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So you had to know what you were getting yourself into.
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Um, it by no means condones the evil or glamorizes it.
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There is a lot of Hollywood filth and I do talk about it, but the filthy stuff, the filth,
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the garbage is the stuff that glamorizes and condones what is degenerate, what is evil,
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Um, I, you know, if you watch Breaking Bad, I don't think you can come away from that saying,
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If you, if you had any thoughts of being a drug dealer, I think that something like
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So there's a lot of moral complexity to the show, which is exactly what you don't find in
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so much of the Christian entertainment, which, you know, I don't mean to make assumptions,
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but I'm assuming that's the kind of thing that you're, that's more your speed, which
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But I just don't, I, I don't think it, you know, I would say Breaking Bad is far more
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edifying, even as a, you know, TV MA show with, with violence and, and drugs and cursing.
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I think it's far more edifying than watching like, you know, God's not dead or some thing
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You know, one scene that, and I've mentioned this before, and it's like in season three
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or four, so you probably didn't see it because you were storming off in a huff before this
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But there's one scene where Jesse, who's Walt's right-hand man, has just murdered somebody
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But what he finds, and that happens like at the end of, I think it's season three.
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And then season four picks up and, and, you know, he's, he's, he's, Jesse's guilt ridden
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But what he finds is that things start working out for him a lot.
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And, you know, he's making a lot of money from the drugs and he gets away with the crime
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But the fact that life is so good makes him even more guilty.
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And so he's dealing with this the entire season.
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And there's a scene towards the end of the season, finally, where Jesse is at a support
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group, a Narcotics Anonymous type of support group.
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And he launches into this monologue, partially sort of confessing to the murder in a roundabout
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But, you know, it's like a three or four minute monologue.
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And in the course of this monologue, he's, he's basically crying out to be punished, crying
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He's done horrible things and, and he should be punished for it.
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And the fact that he isn't being punished makes him feel like life has no meaning and
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It's, it's a tremendous scene and there's great moral depth to it.
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It's very, very much like the kind of thing you find in Dostoevsky.
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And there's a book that you probably wouldn't like because it's brutal and violent at points.
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I mean, the book starts with, um, the protagonist murdering an old lady.
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And one of the best Christian works of fiction ever written, hands down.
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And there's only a few other competitors and one other is written by Dostoevsky himself.
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So my point is that scene in Breaking Bad and so many other scenes are exactly the kind of
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thing you will not find in any Christian movie or any Hallmark show.
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For example, like they make an attempt at something like that with their, with their, one of their,
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you know, they got a couple atheist characters in the show who are just, who are total cartoons,
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You feel like you would meet in real life and they make an attempt to show the kind of guilt
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and emptiness that you find, um, in from, from living a nihilistic life.
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They don't even come close to what a show like Breaking Bad is able to do.
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Um, but you rule all that out because it's not PG and it deals with serious things and there's death
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and there's pain and there's suffering and there's evil and not everything works out perfectly.
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I feel like stories and the shows we watch should have something worthwhile to say about the actual
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It's okay to have some escapism that's, it's got nothing to do with anything, but, but, um,
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the stuff that's really good and meaningful is going to have something to say about the real world
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And, uh, but you, I don't know, you, you, uh, you rule that out and all I, and that's, you're right.
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But that doesn't make you a better Christian or me a worse one.
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And I'm not sure why you'd be disappointed that I have good taste.
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This is from Courtney says, Hey there, Matt, I'm a big fan of your show.
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My husband and I have had some difficult conversations about all of the government mandates and there's
00:34:06.960
one thing we just cannot come to an agreement on.
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There's a lot of talk about forced vaccinations and us being Christians.
00:34:14.840
The issue is that my husband believes that it is the right thing to do to take the vaccines
00:34:20.480
Because as Christians, the Bible mandates that we follow the laws of the land.
00:34:24.440
I disagree with him knowing that I know, knowing what I know about Bill Gates and the vaccine
00:34:28.860
We have an almost two year old daughter and I believe that it is my God given duty to protect
00:34:32.660
Should Christians comply with mandates like this or should we push back against a tyrannical
00:34:36.220
government that wants us to force, wants to force something like this on unwilling participants?
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Some advice is appreciated given that the Bible doesn't directly address this particular issue.
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Okay, Courtney, by the way, I'm sniffling so much out of allergies, just so you know,
00:34:51.700
This is a tough time to have allergies, you know, because people just, people look at you
00:35:05.760
Having a case of the sniffles is a very significant cross that I carry.
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I don't think the government should mandate it.
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I think you'd be morally justified in resisting the mandate because I don't think the government
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should be in the position of forcing people to inject things into their bodies.
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But I also think that if you decide that it's best to take it and comply, that's fine too.
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I don't think you're a bad Christian either way.
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I think either approach is consistent with Christianity as long as you're following your conscience.
00:35:40.780
I just don't, I don't think this is one of those things where we could say, well, if you're
00:35:43.640
a Christian, this is what you should do with the coronavirus vaccine.
00:35:46.440
I, you know, it's, it's, it's not one of those things that is necessarily a moral absolute.
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But here, here's, here's, here's the rub, uh, I suppose.
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Follow your conscience and you are obliged to follow your conscience.
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God gave us a conscience to be an arbiter in these kinds of situations.
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I'm not saying we, we have the final and ultimate say over what is right and wrong.
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But we are an arbiter, you know, our conscience is an arbiter and an important one that God
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Because it's right, not, not every issue that you're going to encounter, are you going to
00:36:31.140
be able to pick up the Bible and find chapter and verse and, well, here's where it covers
00:36:36.780
Uh, that's, it's just not going to be the case.
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And so there are going to be plenty of, plenty of situations in life that you've encountered
00:36:42.860
already, plenty of them, I'm sure, where you just have to think it over, uh, talk about
00:36:47.640
it, pray about it, decide what, what's best for you and your family.
00:36:52.600
Uh, this is from James says, dear Matt, beards are ugly and yours is ugliest of all.
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Um, it's just, it's just what you are scientifically.
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And you see men of great testosterone and great hairiness.
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You see in us something that you could never attain.
00:37:52.400
This is from Tim says, Matt, you guys are past your lockdown, but mine is still ongoing.
00:37:57.620
I've been bored to death these last two months.
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Wondering if you have some good ideas for beating boredom.
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Um, I know you talk about fishing a lot, but there's no lakes nearby.
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Uh, what else do you do when you have time to kill?
00:38:09.580
Honestly, Tim, I don't, I don't know what that is.
00:38:14.220
Um, I can't remember the last time I was bored.
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Uh, I, I accept that there's no excuse to ever be bored.
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You know, it's easy for me to say right now because I got four kids.
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And so, you know, four young kids, they don't really
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But even if I didn't, I mean, I lived alone as an adult for half a decade and
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I just can't, how, yeah, I know with the lockdown, there's not as much to do,
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but there's still, it's, you've got an entire world, an entire life.
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I mean, there's so much with every moment that you could do or try or think about even.
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There, there are way, way more books to read than there are hours in the day to read them.
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I mean, you, you, you could set to your mind that for the next five years with, with every
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extra moment you have, you're just going to read books.
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And that would be a very fruitful and fascinating way to spend your time.
00:39:25.120
And there'd be no reason to be bored there either, because you would never get through
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I mean, even if you live for a million years, people, and I, and I hear, you're not, I don't
00:39:38.280
mean to pick on you, but you hear this from, I hear this from adults all the time about
00:39:43.660
If you lived for a million years, I would say there is no excuse to be bored, even in a million
00:39:48.500
Considering how much there is to do as a human in the world, but considering we only live
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for like 85 years, tops, and you're getting bored, I don't get it.
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Do, if you're bored in a lockdown, then I assume you don't have kids.
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And if, if that assumption is correct, I mean, geez, man, like just do, go, go anywhere,
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Why do you think that religious liberty is good?
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It goes against Catholic doctrine because the only true faith is the Catholic faith and
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show it's so it should be the only religion allowed.
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Now, granted, religious liberty is only allowed when it will cause public strife and unrest
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This is the case with the USA and so would not work with it.
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But as a Catholic, you should not be advocating for it.
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Forgive me if I'm wrong, but that's what it seems like.
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Um, there's, there's, there's no reason at all why there's, there's certainly nothing
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I assure you that, um, rules out or condemns religious liberty, quite the opposite.
00:41:20.500
Uh, so as a Catholic, you should certainly be in favor of religious liberty.
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Now, if what you're trying to say is, um, well, as a Catholic, then you believe that Catholicism
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And so, um, what good is it to give people the freedom to be in the wrong religion?
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But yes, as a Catholic, I believe that Catholicism is the one true faith.
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Of course, if I didn't, I wouldn't be Catholic.
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But I also believe that, um, I believe in free will.
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And in order for a choice to have any meaning, you have to, you have to choose it.
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So, uh, you know, what's, what's the alternative?
00:42:07.480
You know, you could have like a theocracy and force everybody to be Catholic, but what good
00:42:13.440
They're forced to, it's, it's, it's not authentic.
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You can't force it into their minds and their hearts.
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Uh, God obviously believes in religious liberty.
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If, if God wanted to just force everyone to know the truth and believe it, he could, but
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And so that, that, I wouldn't be in favor of that.
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Now I say that, I know this is a little confusing because I, of course, I'm a theocratic fascist.
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But as I've said before, for that part of it, as a theocratic fascist, it's more like the,
00:43:00.000
Because when I'm dictator, you know, the theocracy part will kind of come and go according to my
00:43:06.880
So putting that aside, no, I don't really believe in a theocracy because for that reason,
00:43:12.280
you know, you, you, you have to be able to choose.
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And I think everybody should choose, um, truth.
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But they have to choose it or otherwise it's, it has no meaning.
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00:43:30.280
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Joe Biden informs 40 million black Americans that if they support our president, they ain't black.
00:44:40.660
Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar says she believes the woman accusing Biden of sexual assault.
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And President Trump accuses MSNBC's Joe Scarborough of murdering a staffer.
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You know, if you haven't checked, it's, you know, him too.
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But for the long haul, there is something to get to be done.
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There is a lot of people who are paying attention.
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If you have to pay attention to the people, why will not stop?