The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2054 - Trump's New Plan for Moms INFURIATES Lib Feminists

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00:01:31.100 It's Labor Day.

00:01:32.180 Okay, that's fine.

00:01:33.040 I don't care.

00:01:33.580 I have to come to you.

00:01:35.000 I have to come to you live or quasi-live because the Trump administration has just proposed

00:01:40.960 the, definitely the greatest family policy of either Trump 1 or Trump 2, maybe the greatest

00:01:49.260 policy of either Trump 1 or Trump 2, and that is to support mothers, mostly, but fathers too,

00:01:56.700 I guess, who want to stay home and raise their kids. So right off the bat, you are going to hear

00:02:05.160 some people who are more laissez-faire, who are a little more either libertarian or neo-conny,

00:02:09.240 they're going to say, well, we don't need another federal welfare program. Great, great news,

00:02:14.080 because this is not a new welfare program. There is an existing program, which is the

00:02:18.740 Child Care and Development Fund. And right now, that program goes to subsidize single mothers

00:02:25.960 almost entirely. So it's a subsidy for mothers to pay for child care so that they can go work 0.99

00:02:33.280 in the widget factory, which is fine. That's all well and good. But what the Trump administration 1.00

00:02:37.480 is doing, and apparently this is being spearheaded largely by the vice president, J.D. Vance,

00:02:42.260 what they're doing now is saying, okay, well, if we're going to be subsidizing single mothers

00:02:47.800 to get child care for their kids while they go out to the office, we should also offer some of

00:02:55.160 this fund to mothers and fathers who want to stay at home and raise their kids themselves.

00:03:02.800 This is really, really good stuff, and it's driving the left nuts. Because when the left says,

00:03:07.980 you know, we just want to pay for medical insurance, we just want to give people child

00:03:11.720 care, that's obviously not really what they're talking about. This goes down to the early days

00:03:17.080 of second-wave feminism, this goes down to the heart of leftist policy. There was a famous debate,

00:03:22.140 infamous debate in the 70s, between Simone de Beauvoir, the French feminist, and Betty Friedan,

00:03:28.560 who's another leftist feminist. She was American. And during this debate, Simone de Beauvoir said,

00:03:33.800 we cannot give women the option to stay home and raise their kids because if they have that option, 0.98

00:03:38.920 too many women will take it. Betty Friedan, who was also wrong about everything and super lib and 1.00

00:03:44.260 feminist. Betty Friedan said, whoa, lady, that's crazy. If women want to stay home, they should be 1.00

00:03:49.020 able to, shouldn't they? And Simone de Beauvoir said, no, feminism cannot succeed if women have 1.00

00:03:55.060 the ability to stay home and raise their kids. So we currently have a fund that is paying for 1.00

00:04:01.440 child care for people who struggle with it. The proposal from the Trump administration is, okay,

00:04:07.860 well, if we already have this fund, can some of the money go toward mothers raising their own

00:04:13.700 children, rather than mothers going off to the office, being forced to go off to the office,

00:04:20.680 and then sending their kids to go be raised by Mamdani and a bunch of his bureaucrats. There

00:04:24.640 was a Gallup poll that came out, this was some years ago now, somewhat recent, you know, it was

00:04:29.000 maybe 2015, 2016, somewhere around there, which showed that 54% of working mothers wish that they

00:04:36.560 could stay home and raise their kids, at least for a period of time. So the majority of working

00:04:42.740 mothers want to be able to stay home and raise their kids. And the leftists and the feminists 1.00

00:04:49.160 have said, no, we'll subsidize you to go work, but we're not going to subsidize you to raise 1.00

00:04:54.340 your kids, even out of that same fund. This welfare program as it currently exists is basically just

00:05:01.980 a subsidy for corporate America and it incentivizes single parenthood. So what the Trump administration

00:05:08.440 is doing is saying we're not going to get rid of this welfare program. We're not going to enlarge

00:05:11.820 this welfare program. We're just going to use it in ways that incentivize marriage, that incentivize 0.99

00:05:17.160 people raising their own kids, especially when they want to, which is the case for the majority 1.00

00:05:20.820 of working women. This is great, great stuff. The left is going to go crazy here and they can't even 0.97

00:05:26.600 adopt it. As the left talks about affordability and the difficulties for people to raise their

00:05:31.900 kids, they're not going to adopt this policy because it cuts against the heart of leftism.

00:05:36.700 The heart of leftism, which says we want to separate parents from their kids. We view parents

00:05:41.100 is an obstacle to the raising of kids. You know, these are our kids. It takes a village. And we

00:05:46.220 trust parents to some degree, but really we want them in kindergarten, actually pre-K, actually

00:05:51.680 pre-pre-K, actually in Momdani's New York. We want those kids in preschool starting at age two. And

00:05:57.300 you know what? We're going to have a parents' night out. Drop your kids off with city bureaucrats.

00:06:01.800 Do it whenever you want. Less family time, the better. Really, really good stuff. The Trump

00:06:08.740 administration should be commended for this. The objection, the best objection to the policy is

00:06:13.780 we don't want to enlarge the welfare state. This does not do that. This is a certainly a

00:06:19.380 no-brainer for conservatives. Even libertarians have proposed similar kinds of policies. It's

00:06:24.200 just Trump and Vance actually had the guts to do it. I love this. It's awesome. I love it enough

00:06:29.240 that I will interrupt my Labor Day for it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:06:38.740 the uk has its first deaf and blind doctor and this is being reported in the mirror as

00:07:02.240 great news you know another barrier broken it's this gal uh her name is alexandra adams and

00:07:09.920 alexandra adams has had a real tough life uh she's got all these problems she's deaf she's blind

00:07:15.560 she uh she wanted to be an athlete and i think she competed in the paralympics

00:07:21.240 could be wrong about that i thought i read that and she said from a young age that she wanted to

00:07:26.500 be a medical doctor and her teachers said well maybe not you know maybe you shouldn't because

00:07:31.220 this year deaf and blind. And she said, well, I'm going to do it anyway. And she became a medical

00:07:34.800 doctor. And then she got COVID. And apparently the COVID was really tough on her. And so now she

00:07:41.280 wears an oxygen mask and an oxygen tank. But nevertheless, she is a medical doctor.

00:07:47.540 And so I say, look, good for her. Isn't that great? She's had a really tough life and she

00:07:52.300 succeeded. And that's really wonderful. And I wish her all the best. But this is emblematic

00:07:57.820 of how we think about everything in our culture, and it's totally backwards.

00:08:02.980 Because every single person, every single nice person, is going to read the story and say,

00:08:07.800 oh, that's good for you, like this and that, isn't that wonderful?

00:08:11.840 She's a deafblind girl with a respiratory condition, and she's a medical doctor.

00:08:16.640 Wow. 1.00

00:08:17.800 And not one of those people would ever want to go see her as a patient.

00:08:22.160 Not one person.

00:08:23.060 Ain't no one who needs surgery, who is worried about some kind of mark on their skin. 0.58

00:08:29.080 Ain't no one who stubbed their toe who is going to this lady to be a patient.

00:08:33.880 So why the disconnect?

00:08:36.840 It's because we view politics entirely through the lens of the individual and the individual overcoming limits.

00:08:45.620 That is what liberalism is about.

00:08:48.280 It is about transcending limits.

00:08:49.840 I think the clearest liberal, liberal, libertarian, classical liberal, whatever, in all of literature is Satan and Milton's Paradise Lost, who is just trying to surpass all of the limits, natural, divine, biological these days.

00:09:04.480 And so, our liberal culture inclines all of us, even many people who consider themselves conservative, to celebrate the stories where people surpass and exceed limits.

00:09:14.500 That is new.

00:09:15.540 In the old way of thinking, in antiquity in the Middle Ages, that would have been considered

00:09:19.060 quite bad. I was at the Rock of Gibraltar once, Rock of Gibraltar, which in the Middle Ages was

00:09:25.420 called the Pillars of Hercules. There's that pillar there at the tail end of the Iberian

00:09:31.180 Peninsula, then another one in Africa. And the reason that Dante puts Ulysses in hell in the

00:09:37.900 Divine Comedy is because Ulysses transgresses limits. Indeed, because he sails past the

00:09:44.800 pillars of hercules because he tries to go further than he is supposed to go so what in the middle

00:09:50.300 ages and antiquity was considered a vice a terrible thing is now considered the great achievement the

00:09:55.260 great virtue in modernity which is transgressing all sorts of limits and it what never comes into

00:10:01.900 play in in these kinds of stories is the patience i mean look the headline says i'm the uk's first

00:10:09.300 deafblind doctor, my disability makes me a better medic. But the article never really explains how.

00:10:15.080 Obviously, a doctor would be better if he could see, or if he could hear, or if he didn't need

00:10:19.560 an oxygen tank to move around. So that's just, it's a nonsense to say such a thing. But it's all

00:10:25.480 about the orientation. And in modern culture, the orientation is entirely toward the self and

00:10:29.980 self-actualization and self-affirmation. Whereas in a healthier culture, the orientation would be

00:10:35.060 about the other person. Love is willing the good of another for his own sake, and ultimately it

00:10:39.500 would be oriented toward God. So it's like, I don't mean to knock on this girl in any way,

00:10:45.380 but it's just so emblematic, and it's a ridiculous headline because no one wants a deaf and blind 0.95

00:10:50.500 doctor. Good for her, but what else could she do? And forget about her. What else could we all do 0.95

00:10:57.540 in our lives if we didn't just place ourselves at the center of everything and considered other

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00:12:24.200 Fraud story. Hat tip to Chris Ruffo for pulling this one up.

00:12:29.520 This is a brand new $28 million mansion in Hidden Hills, California, next to the Kardashian house.

00:12:36.580 But the man who owns this property isn't a pop star or CEO. He's a respiratory therapist named

00:12:42.720 Curtis Kirkova, and he got rich by billing California's Medicaid system more than $40

00:12:48.560 million dollars oh man nice work if you can get it huh good stuff from ruffo chris is obviously

00:12:54.600 just he's just an absolute killer gromshian political operative for the right we just we

00:13:00.120 love him we love our chris ruffo uh and and there are many such cases we've uncovered a lot of fraud

00:13:04.280 in minnesota in ohio in california uh newsom uh quite crooked these stories are really important

00:13:11.020 to focus on because the the democrats are are beginning this theme they've tried it before

00:13:17.120 it lay dormant. Now it's back again for the midterms, and it will come up again a lot after

00:13:22.020 the midterms. And that is, they're going to try to call Trump corrupt. And they're going to try

00:13:26.700 to call Trump corrupt because he's a successful businessman. He lost a bunch of money in his

00:13:31.540 first term as president. He made a bunch of money in the interregnum when he was a private citizen.

00:13:36.580 And they're going to say that this is corrupt, that he's trading off of the presidency,

00:13:39.920 never mind Hillary Clinton, never mind the Bidens, never mind any of that.

00:13:43.280 Those people who are not serious businessmen, Trump obviously was, is the richest guy ever to

00:13:46.960 become president. Nevertheless, that's going to be a big, big focus. If the Democrats win the

00:13:52.200 House, especially if they win the Senate, 100% of their effort is going to be focused on dredging up

00:13:58.080 evidence of Trump's corruption, and that will be the basis of why they try to impeach him.

00:14:03.780 So what's important here is to make clear what Trump has actually done. It doesn't seem that

00:14:10.640 he's violated any laws, whether we're talking about his coins or his business interest or his

00:14:14.780 hotels. He's had hotels a lot longer than he's been a politician. But we don't just want to go

00:14:20.480 on defense here. We have to go on offense. One, because it's politically sound, but two, because

00:14:24.900 it's the right thing to do. There is a lot of corruption in America. There's a Pew Research,

00:14:30.040 no, sorry, it's Gallup, Gallup Report. I mentioned this on the show a couple days ago. Record high

00:14:34.740 89% in the US say that the government corruption is widespread. Substantial majorities of Republicans,

00:14:42.860 Democrats, and independents agree. This is really bad. The figure is up 10 points

00:14:49.620 from last year, well above readings that were in the 70s from 2010 to 2025.

00:14:57.120 So corruption is really, really bad. The question is, where does the corruption lie?

00:15:00.900 Does the corruption lie chiefly in President Trump having meme coins or Trump stores selling

00:15:08.480 Trump watches or something like that? Is that where the corruption lies? Or does the corruption

00:15:12.580 lie in Democrats in government, allowing specifically immigrant communities to bilk 0.91

00:15:21.440 the taxpayer in exchange for political support, just like Democrats have been doing for 200 years, 0.81

00:15:26.420 just like Tammany Hall. And in California, where you get a guy who is theoretically a therapist,

00:15:33.240 he looks like he's a rapper or a gangster, and he's bilking the California taxpayer,

00:15:37.380 which means bilking the federal taxpayer in part

00:15:39.500 because California gets federal funds for $40 million.

00:15:42.580 That's where the focus has to be

00:15:44.060 because corruption is a big problem.

00:15:45.880 We shouldn't minimize the significance of corruption.

00:15:48.220 Corruption is like a miasma in a political order.

00:15:50.960 It just, it prevents you from trusting anything

00:15:53.540 and it makes everyone feel icky.

00:15:55.200 It's like radon.

00:15:56.440 It's like an odorless poison in the air

00:15:59.440 that just slowly kills everything.

00:16:01.340 So you have to root out corruption.

00:16:03.140 But in order to root out corruption,

00:16:04.620 you have to see where the corruption really lies.

00:16:06.500 and here the corruption you can point to individual republicans and say that might

00:16:11.440 have been a corrupt act that may have been a little dodgy i mean this is politics that happens

00:16:16.440 but on the left the the corruption has been systematized it's been institutionalized and

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00:19:26.560 questions. From the voice mailbag, take it away. Hi, Michael. For the better part of two years,

00:19:32.780 I've been dealing with some serious health issues, and unfortunately, there's no end in sight. I'm a

00:19:36.840 tradesman, and given the nature of my health problems, it's not possible or safe for me to

00:19:40.760 continue my career. Trying to start over in a new career is not financially feasible right now so

00:19:45.740 my wife and I made the tough decision to switch roles with her going back to work and me becoming

00:19:49.780 primary caregiver for our two kids. It has to be this way but I'm really struggling. I worked really

00:19:55.060 hard to learn a trade and build a career so I could provide and she could stay home. I've never

00:19:59.120 been depressed a day in my life but it's really getting to me and even though logically I know

00:20:02.760 the situation's out of my control I still feel like I failed. How would you go about getting

00:20:06.820 past this and making this role work as the man and head of household how can i be supportive of

00:20:11.680 my wife as she gets thrust back out into the workforce what pitfalls should i look out for

00:20:16.020 on a side note i also have a cigar question luckily my health issues don't preclude me

00:20:20.920 from enjoying cigars which is great because they're some of my favorite things in the world

00:20:24.740 the bummer is that with all this upheaval money's going to be tight for a while so it's probably

00:20:28.900 going to be a few years before i can justify putting them back in the budget that being said

00:20:33.560 Unfortunately, I only have one Mayflower Dress Robusta left.

00:20:37.500 And since that's my favorite cigar of all time, I want to save it for a very special occasion.

00:20:41.900 I usually keep my cigars in a small tupper door at 67% humidity.

00:20:46.120 Just curious if you would suggest keeping it at 67% for long-term storage or dropping it down some.

00:20:51.400 Thanks for all you do, and God bless you and your family.

00:20:53.900 Okay, well, I'm sorry to hear about your problems.

00:20:56.040 I'm sorry that you're going through this very difficult season right now.

00:20:59.380 I'm sure it's brutal.

00:21:00.920 uh you you obviously have a good head on your shoulders as evidenced by your excellent taste

00:21:06.440 in cigars so on on the relatively minor question here the cigar question first yes 67 percent

00:21:12.660 in the tupper door tupper door is what we cigar guys call the makeshift humidor at a tupperware

00:21:17.440 which is great i have a lot i have a lot of cigars actually in ziplocs and that kind of stuff

00:21:21.100 uh that'll be fine um but on to the bigger question you say this is tough because you

00:21:27.740 learned to trade and you were injured and now you cannot continue in your trade, you can't pivot on

00:21:34.820 a dime to start a new career. So your wife for a season is going to have to go out there and work. 1.00

00:21:40.020 And this is tough. Now, as a lot of conservatives observe, and I've made it clear on the show many

00:21:45.040 times, yeah, the normal thing is for the guy to go out and work and for the wife to stay home. 0.74

00:21:49.720 That's the ideal situation. In our modern political economy, it's very difficult for 0.81

00:21:53.880 women to stay home, even under the best of circumstances. But there are exceptions. There 0.88

00:21:59.080 is always the Margaret Thatcher exception. I know people for whom it does actually make sense for

00:22:04.760 the wife to go out and work and for the guy to stay home, whether it's because of an injury or

00:22:08.960 what have you. It's a diverse and wonderful world, and there is the Thatcher exception.

00:22:16.900 However, you say this is not ideal, and it really pains you. So I suppose one thing you can focus on

00:22:22.820 is, what would you like to do next? You have to balance two things. The obligations that you have

00:22:28.720 right now, which is keeping the home and raising the kids and doing all of that, which you did not

00:22:34.400 expect to do. And maybe you don't feel that you're as well equipped to do as your wife is. And your

00:22:38.400 wife is going to go out there into the workforce and work for a little bit. And maybe she doesn't 1.00

00:22:43.520 feel that she's the best equipped for that. And she didn't expect to do that. And life surprises

00:22:47.380 us sometimes. So you have to do that job, which is a hard job for a woman, and it's going to be 1.00

00:22:54.420 harder for you because you're not expecting to do it. So you're in for a very difficult go for a 1.00

00:22:59.380 short period of time, at least. And then I would say you should balance that with, well, what would

00:23:05.020 you like to end up doing? You've never been depressed a day in your life, and you don't

00:23:08.720 want to let you fall into despair, which is a sin. Okay, good. Well, what would you like to do?

00:23:13.540 if your trade that you prepared for is now closed off to you, what's next? If you want to get back

00:23:20.640 to a situation where your wife is able to stay home again and you're going to be the breadwinner,

00:23:24.840 what could that even be in theory? And I'm not saying that you're necessarily going to get it.

00:23:31.320 You know, man plans and God laughs. But at the very least, I think you need to have that in

00:23:35.080 the back of your mind so that, you know, when you're working 12 hours a day to help take care

00:23:41.220 your kids and maybe cook and do all these things that you weren't ready to do. You do that for 12

00:23:46.300 hours a day. And then maybe you're preparing for another career for four or five hours a day. And

00:23:51.600 that's hard. It's going to be very hard. But I think that will help keep you grounded. Now,

00:23:56.140 if you're just totally flat on your back and your chronic health issues are such that there's no way

00:24:02.520 you can do that, well, then you're going to have to double down on this new role that you find

00:24:06.820 yourself in. But it doesn't quite sound like that's the situation. So I would balance those

00:24:10.360 two things. And it's going to give you the grit of actually working, which is good for us. But

00:24:16.540 it's also going to give you a kind of a terrestrial hope for what comes next. And it's a tough period.

00:24:23.020 And one consolation that Christians have that people of other faiths don't necessarily have

00:24:28.160 is we believe that suffering can be sanctifying. That suffering is deeply unpleasant a lot of the 0.99

00:24:34.740 time, but it can be sanctifying and we can kiss it up to God and it can teach us something about

00:24:37.940 ourselves and even improve us. So best of luck. Obviously, we can all pray for you. I encourage

00:24:43.600 the show audience to pray for you in that tough time. And I look forward, if we interact at some

00:24:48.600 point in the future in person, I look forward to having that cigar. Okay, next one.

00:24:53.080 Hey, Michael. It's Isaac. I still think Trump is doing a strong job overall. Iran is the one

00:24:58.560 call I wrestle with, but I trust his judgment more than the people yelling from the sidelines. 0.89

00:25:03.680 Tucker is in a different place.

00:25:05.320 In June, he said he was out of the Republican Party over the war.

00:25:08.920 Last week, he said a president who is considering nuclear first use should be removed immediately,

00:25:13.840 and he asked why that effort isn't already underway.

00:25:16.840 Vance still won't draw a line.

00:25:18.300 At the RJC on Monday, he was asked about Tucker by name and talked around him.

00:25:23.320 This is Trump's party.

00:25:24.540 If Vance is the guy who is supposed to carry that project forward,

00:25:27.960 is refusing to push back on Tucker coalition management,

00:25:30.940 or is it a sign he's building something else?

00:25:33.340 what's your read? Keep up the good work, man. Thank you very much. Good question. I don't know.

00:25:37.860 I mean, I guess my read is probably coalition management, right? I mean, I don't really even

00:25:43.360 totally understand what Tucker's after. It seemed like he might start a new party,

00:25:48.700 but then that was sort of a fake out, and his views have changed on things. But I don't know.

00:25:53.820 I mean, Tucker's a very clever media personality, so I don't even know exactly what Tucker's after.

00:25:58.980 But down to the basic question, if Tucker says that Trump should be removed from office,

00:26:03.340 And J.D. Vance is the vice president.

00:26:05.600 And he's obviously supporting President Trump's initiatives.

00:26:08.640 And he obviously, I mean, we just saw this the other day.

00:26:11.320 Tucker said he would never vote for Mike Rogers in Michigan.

00:26:15.000 And he essentially is endorsing Abdul Al-Sayed.

00:26:17.920 And J.D. Vance comes out and he says, it's crucial that Mike Rogers wins.

00:26:21.720 The two guys obviously have major differences of opinion.

00:26:24.820 And then on the removal from office point, J.D. Vance is the guy who could do that.

00:26:28.800 If J.D. Vance were on Team Tucker when it comes to removing Trump from office,

00:26:33.340 He would be the guy to do that, to, you know, call for the 25th Amendment, you know, to be exercised.

00:26:38.400 And he's not doing that.

00:26:40.240 So, I don't know.

00:26:40.680 It seems like a truism to me that J.D. Vance is on Team Trump and he is clearly the heir apparent to Trump and Trumpism and MAGA.

00:26:49.180 So, at least in Trump's mind, you know, at least in the mind of the administration.

00:26:53.400 So, I don't know.

00:26:54.000 I see the trepidation, but this is always an issue.

00:26:57.420 I mean, Charlie Kirk faced this issue of coalition management with all sorts of voices that, you know, there's a lot of dispute over who do you totally kick out of the tent and who do you keep in and try to mollify and try to keep them, you know, bring them closer to the center of the team.

00:27:12.180 And so that's a very, very difficult job.

00:27:14.300 It's not an enviable job, but it's an essential job in politics.

00:27:17.000 So the fact that J.D. Vance seems to want to do it, I think that's a good thing.

00:27:21.180 You know, better him than a lot of the rest of us.

00:27:23.220 But no, I don't think J.D. Vance is going to try to remove Trump from office or anything like that.

00:27:28.580 Okay, now we do have some written mailbag questions that I'm very excited to get to.

00:27:34.480 This is from Brayden. It says, hi, Michael. I recently saw a video talking about how Christians

00:27:39.520 don't talk enough about male modesty. I hadn't heard any of the things in the video before,

00:27:44.560 but the biggest was that it's bad for men to be shirtless or post shirtless pics in the same way

00:27:48.840 it's wrong for women to wear revealing clothing in public. Personally, I don't think it's the

00:27:53.620 same because the male and female upper body are not the same. I'm curious about your thoughts on

00:27:57.220 this. Yeah, no, I don't. No, it's not. It might be wrong for men to post shirtless pics on Instagram

00:28:04.540 because that's kind of gay and vain and like ridiculous, but it's not. No, it's not the same 0.99

00:28:10.420 thing as a woman posting a shirtless pic because men and women relate to sex differently and men

00:28:15.720 women relate even to visual images differently. This is why men are much more aroused by the

00:28:22.000 visual. And for women, it's a little more emotional and a little less tangible. That's

00:28:27.180 just, yeah, we're different. You know, vive la différence. Okay, question here from no one who

00:28:36.000 says, Michael, this isn't normal for me to mail in, but I wanted to ask since you seem pretty

00:28:40.060 sound in your faith. I believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. However, I think I still

00:28:43.760 struggle with the idea that there's a heaven or that I will someday be there. I'm only 26 and I'm

00:28:48.500 sure it might just be normal, but I often find myself thinking about getting old and dying

00:28:51.920 tomorrow, missing out on many things and the lights just going out in an instant. I can't tell

00:28:56.260 if it's a lack of conviction or faith that's getting me. I was raised non-denominational,

00:29:00.400 not baptized, but I'm trying to find structure and stability in my faith. I'm not against the

00:29:04.760 Catholic or Orthodox as I quite enjoy their structure and piety. I just can't convert grapple 1.00

00:29:09.040 yet with the difference in canon, which justifies a lot of the tradition they both follow. Thank you

00:29:13.380 for your time. Sorry for the long question, if it makes sense though. Okay, no, it's a long

00:29:17.680 question, but I think it's a relatively simple answer. You say you believe Jesus Christ is our

00:29:21.300 Lord and Savior. However, you struggle with the idea that there's a heaven. Well, if you believe

00:29:27.200 that Jesus Christ is your Lord, not to mention your Savior, even just your Lord, if you think

00:29:33.440 he is God, if you think he speaks from authority, he says there's heaven. So either you must believe

00:29:41.000 in heaven or you must not believe that Christ is Lord. Because he says that there's heaven.

00:29:46.560 And in terms of your being in heaven someday, either you believe that you will be in heaven

00:29:50.340 someday or you don't believe that Christ is your savior. But you can't simultaneously

00:29:55.060 hold both opinions. So it's going to be one or the other. Then let's say you believe in Jesus.

00:30:01.000 You say you're worried about getting old and dying. Yeah, okay. I think that's fair. I mean,

00:30:06.380 Christ weeps when Lazarus dies five seconds before he raises Lazarus from the dead. Death is bad.

00:30:11.440 Death is not good. 0.55

00:30:12.260 Christianity is not a suicide cult.

00:30:13.920 There have been offshoots and heretical versions

00:30:15.860 of Christianity over the years,

00:30:16.940 like Catharism, Albigensianism,

00:30:18.860 that have been death cults, but Christianity is not. 0.82

00:30:22.680 So yeah, you can recognize that death is a bad thing.

00:30:26.300 And that is all the more reason to be so grateful to God,

00:30:29.340 to Christ, for saving us from eternal death.

00:30:32.420 Then you say you are not baptized.

00:30:36.560 Again, if you believe that Jesus Christ

00:30:38.440 is your Lord and Savior,

00:30:39.280 you're, he, he tells you to be baptized. He, baptism is so important, in fact, that he is

00:30:45.400 baptized. He is baptized, raising baptism from a ritual or a sacramental all the way to a sacrament.

00:30:51.240 So, if you believe in him, you should be baptized. Then you say, you're not against Catholic or

00:30:57.240 Orthodox, but you grapple with the difference in canon, which justifies a lot of the tradition.

00:31:02.680 Again, I don't think that's true. I think it's a little bit of a cope to say that the fact that

00:31:07.460 the Catholic and Orthodox and Coptics and Ethiopian Christians and all these people

00:31:13.800 have more books in the Bible or something than traditions that emerge out of the 16th century.

00:31:20.440 No, I don't think that the core elements of the Christian faith as practiced by Catholics and

00:31:27.440 Orthodox and Coptics and Ethiopians and Syriacs and all the rest, I don't think that those

00:31:32.260 come from the deuterocanonical books exactly.

00:31:35.660 You know, the Eucharist comes from the gospel of St. John.

00:31:39.380 John chapter six, when Christ says,

00:31:41.660 whosoever eats the flesh of the son of man

00:31:43.260 and drinks his blood has life in him.

00:31:44.960 If you do not eat the flesh of the son of man

00:31:46.420 and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

00:31:48.220 And this is a hard saying. 0.96

00:31:49.440 And the Jews dispute this and other disciples, 0.66

00:31:52.760 you know, they go away. 0.85

00:31:54.380 And, but Peter does not go away.

00:31:55.820 And he says, why do you not go away?

00:31:56.860 He says, because you are the Christ,

00:31:58.540 the son of the living God.

00:31:59.960 And Christ says, well, only my father

00:32:01.980 could have revealed this to you, and you are no longer Peter, you are Simon, sorry, you are no

00:32:06.380 longer Simon, you are Peter, Petros, rock, and on this rock, I will build my church, and the gates

00:32:12.760 of hell will not prevail against it. So, you know, the Eucharist is from the Gospels, it's not from

00:32:17.520 the deuterocanonical books, and it's instituted then very clearly at the Last Supper, and you see

00:32:21.900 it again, the first post-resurrection Eucharist after the road to Emmaus walk at the dinner table.

00:32:28.460 So you've got all of that.

00:32:31.520 You have Christ saying in the gospels,

00:32:33.400 I give you the power to forgive sins.

00:32:35.400 Whose sins you forgive are forgiven,

00:32:36.440 whose sins you retain are retained.

00:32:37.940 That's a sacrament that is not from the Deuteroic canonicals,

00:32:40.820 it's from the gospels, on and on and on.

00:32:43.680 And you can, one thing that will be helpful to you,

00:32:45.860 I think, is reading some of the very early church fathers

00:32:48.160 and Christian writers, guys like Justin Martyr,

00:32:51.100 Irenaeus, Ignatius of Antioch, on and on,

00:32:54.340 who are describing a faith that is very similar

00:32:56.700 to the one that you seem to be seeking.

00:32:58.360 So anyway, I don't want to be too pedantic

00:33:00.160 about the whole thing,

00:33:00.960 but if you believe it,

00:33:04.700 if you say that you have this sort of kernel here of faith

00:33:07.620 where you say,

00:33:08.160 I believe that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior,

00:33:11.680 well, then you're going to believe the other stuff too.

00:33:14.020 You're going to believe in heaven

00:33:14.900 and I think you would be baptized.

00:33:18.180 And I think if you believe that,

00:33:20.480 if you can get yourself to the point

00:33:21.700 where you say, I believe in Jesus,

00:33:23.160 well, then you should keep his commandments.

00:33:25.300 That's what he tells us to do.

00:33:26.160 Okay. I'm out of time. So I'll see you next time. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:33:56.160 Saunders, you can be allowed on campus.

00:33:57.700 Ah, can you hear me okay?

00:33:59.000 Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.

00:34:01.460 This is a decision I cannot find. 1.00

00:34:03.040 Islam will conquer the West. 1.00

00:34:06.340 As-salamu alaykum. 1.00

00:34:09.640 Are we paying attention? 1.00

00:34:11.840 They've taken over the building.

00:34:13.140 They're downstairs and they've blocked the doors.

00:34:16.280 I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.

00:34:20.420 We cannot run and hide.

00:34:22.220 Mohammed is the messenger of God.

00:34:24.580 There is no God but Allah. 0.99

00:34:27.580 What do you say? 1.00

00:34:29.580 We turn those SOBs into a fine red mist. 0.99

00:34:33.580 As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go. 1.00

00:34:37.580 They call that leap project.

00:34:38.580 Stretch your mouth and lift them.

00:34:41.580 You need a course in safe weapons handling.

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