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Was Andrew the one that helped you get the podcast back up? Yeah, he did get the podcast. You didn't help me. He did it. Don't you think you owe him a dinner for that? Oh.

Apologetics Live and the Utah Christian Research Center

We are live apologetics live here to answer your most challenging questions that you have about God and the Bible. I am Andrew Rapport the executive director of striving for eternity and the Christian podcast community of which this Podcast.

Well, it's a live stream that becomes a podcast is a proud member. I will bring in well, I'm gonna let him bring himself in because he has controls. Is our co-host drew. What's going on. Not too much.

Now, you know, I had that opening there. I had to start with that opening because well, I was in Utah this past weekend and Utah Christian Utah Christian Research Center if you're out in That area Draper, Utah.

I gotta tell you drew you would love to go to the Utah creation Christian Research Center. I Was amazed how much they packed in in one small little building. So you walk in you walk in up front and they have all kinds of archaeology for the Bible.

Then you go you a little bit further and they do these tours and tours can go for like three four hours. The first half of the tour is all on the Bible. So you go into manuscript evidence. They they go through all the textual criticism get into how we got the Bible.

They show some some old Bibles that they have go through explaining the Bible why the Bible is trustworthy. From there you go in toward the back. So it's basically two rooms with a hallway. You go into the back and that's all the Mormonism say start on in the front all about the Bible to bring people in to Say that the the Bible can be trusted because that's number one thing Mormons end up being told that the Bible wasn't Isn't reliable.

It's not trustworthy because it wasn't translated properly and so what they do is they bring people in and And Explain the the truth of the reliability of Scripture and then go in the back room and show issues with Mormonism.

Joseph Smith multiple wives. You know the the gold plates if folks don't know that there's some of that you can call in and ask questions. We'll explain this but they have the gold plates that you know Would have weighed about a hundred and twenty pounds that Joseph Smith says he carried three miles while being shot at and chased by a bear.

So he ran. Three miles carrying gold plates that weigh a hundred and like even if you they keep trying to figure out to get it down. They say that it was like 40 pounds, but it was gold. So it wouldn't have been like it gives the exact dimensions.

So yeah. It wouldn't have at the best you could do is 80 pounds and you're not running three miles carrying 80 pounds under your arm.

Running three miles carrying nothing. Yeah while being chased by bears and people shooting at you. Just say that's another thing. You're not running three miles away from a bear either that. Faster than you are.

Yeah, so, you know, so yeah, so we go out there. So I did eight sessions eight apologetic sessions a debate with Matt slick and then preached on Sunday, so Thursday Friday Saturday, we deal with topics of textual criticism how to trust the Bible the uniqueness of Christianity Roman Catholicism.

How to defend the faith apologetic social justice. So a slew of topics then Matt slick and I did a debate on the charismatic gifts. He believes they continued I believe they haven't now. It was quite interesting and that debate will be released by the Utah Christian Research Center on their YouTube channel on July 1st.

So you can check that out there. And so The history though, there's a little bit of history with that opening and that is the fact that well it took Matt nine years to outsmart me and buy me a meal and so He made the comment on his radio show.

That everyone should go out to the the center for the debate and he told people To come up to me and tell me that I owe Matt a meal and so to make it sound like like, you know, he did this with with Bill McKeever for years, too.

They're like he owed Bill meal, but he tells everyone to tell Bill that Bill owes him one so needless to say we go out for dinner after on Friday night after I get done teaching and I. And by the way, the other two topics were the Trinity and deity of Christ.

I should mention all the the topic so I get done teaching about the the deity of Christ we go out for a meal and Matt decides well, we're gonna go to a pizza place. Oh, it's gonna be closed. So we Matt decides let's go to this Mexican place.

So he figures well Andrew doesn't know Spanish so well. So I could talk to the way the the cashier and explain to her. That he should you know that he wants to buy my meal now though I don't know Spanish that well I do know Matt that well, so I knew exactly what he was doing.

So when she took the credit card and put it behind the cash register, I knew what that was for. So Matt decides well now that he's got that all taken care of he can go use the restroom. So as he walks around the corner I I just turned to the waitress to the cashier and I point to the You know to the where they have all the food as I'm gonna go orders why so she would turn and look up.

So as she turns I reach over I pick up Matt's credit card and I take mine out and she's like she goes. Well, the the guy in front of you is paying for it and I hold up his card. And she like looks down looks up and goes.

Oh. And I said, yeah, we're gonna use my card. So Matt comes around the corner as she's now like she's just about to ring up with my card and Matt's like smiling because he thinks he's got me and I lift up his credit card so you could see and I said Use my card and so she puts it in just as Matt's like.

This is a this is a epic feud that has been going on for a very long time. Yeah, from what I understand to my count he's only gotten you one time once I was live on this show. Yep, which was really good, but it's only been one time.

Yeah, that was the hundredth episode. So yeah.

Yep, Matt turns to me and says you're a jerk. Of course. I made him explain why I'm a jerk during the debate.

I don't know if it was on camera when we were off. But yeah, that's funny. That's funny. But I Understand you have some sort of a in the news clip about a.

Gender man. Help. Help me understand. What is a transgender a.

Okay, so from what I can gather a transgender is someone who thinks they were assigned a Gender at birth. They don't identify with that gender and so they transition Into another gender the opposite gender.

Yeah, it's always the opposite gender. Hmm and They're very marginalized and people mistreat them. So no one actually wants to be transgender, right? They that's their argument.

They always say I would think no, no one can handle this. No one wants to be it. You know, we're so few so few and and they're they're so big.

It's it's just that's curse to have to deal with because appeal so mistreat them. Yeah. Yeah, so there's There was in the news was a person I forget they're running for for Congress or in Congress I forget a woman who claims she is a Man that is transgender to a woman.

In other words a woman who claims to be a woman, but she's Wants to make sure she's got her intersectionality points. So she claims she's a male transgender back into a woman. Folks the left has lost their minds.

This is a natural woman right by a lot of woman who Claims she's a man. Okay, so she claims transgender. Yeah, she identifies as a man but so as a.

She identifies back as a woman. She is a she's a biological woman. Yes, who identifies as a woman but as a transgender woman, okay.

You know, you didn't transition into anything, right.

This is why I didn't want to tell you this beforehand because I thought your reaction would be classic. Yeah. This is this is people just going. I want attention. I want attention. There's nothing wrong with me, but I want attention.

I mean and that's. That's it. That's what this whole movement. That's what all of this really is about is attention, right? So when when June hit. Where I live, we don't have pride parades, right. The the town I live in the small town I live in we don't have pride parades, but people you know, I mean what to do.

Yeah, so left out I know but in some of the county groups that I'm in people were asking is there gonna be a pride parade? And so I would comment under and I'd say hey if there is who wants to join me in doing evangelism at the pride parade if They decide to do one.

And so people were coming in and saying why are you shoving your religion down their throats and blah blah blah? And all the stuff. And I said, hey, I'm not the one doing a parade. I'm not the one that has to have a parade to show off my deviancy to shove it down everyone's face.

I'm not shoving it down everyone's face. I'm just showing up at the parade giving Christ. It's them who has to have the parade to put on display their debauchery. That's right.

Jewish Lineage and the Question of Descent

Okay, so let me see. KT is Said how was the line of Jewish ethnicity traced biblically through fathers or either parent? I I think it would be well. It is interesting because the religion Judaism is passed through the mother but the lineage would have been passed through the father.

Yeah, we we did this. We went over this a while ago when we had that discussion with Ben Zion. The lineage of Christ. And then he said he actually said it's past. He said it's passed through the father.

There's no instance where it goes from the father and crosses to the mother and then continues. Until we pulled out a lineage. Yeah. Oops.

Answering Questions on Cessationism and Counseling

All right. So John Says I will be watching the show live rather than listening to the podcast on my street outreach tomorrow. God bless your ministry. So if you're watching live John, why don't you join us since you've sent both of us some comments about cessationism.

Because we would like to discuss that with you now. Let me get to some emails that I got so we could respond to some. We got this one in this is a little bit of a longer one drew but this was after we had the guy that was talking mental illness and you know, It was getting there was a long like what three and a half hours of you know.

Where he was took up two and a half of it. Just and then, you know called us all kinds of names and then said that we were calling him the names he called us. But anyway. So I got this good morning, I am a podcast listener of both the rap report and Apologetics live by the way, the rap report is my other podcast.

I do Andrew rap ports rap report. Just search for rap report with two P's. Okay back to email. Mm-hmm. Unfortunately, I cannot catch it live, but I listened back through the week. The debate format is what what they're sorry.

The debate format is one It that They try reading this again. The debate format is one that is engaging and edifying. I Appreciate this that scripture is used to interpret culture and not the other way around.

I have Suggestions for three episode topics. One of which you've already covered. Okay. So here's some topics. We're gonna have to think about doing in one that was already covered, but we're gonna do more.

The mental health episode Was a topic I was very interested in at least in the u .s. We've all seen the prevalence of increased Dramatically in recent decades. I think the church is afraid to address it precisely because it has been medicalized.

The gentleman who came on to express his opinion unwittingly made your point for you as an aside I I do want to thank him for turning me on to a W pink as As he was a theologian whom I was previously unfamiliar.

So there was something good that came out of that. Because that was part of his name. She goes on says I don't want to pile on but I imagine that Some of his difficulties with communication could be improved with coaching.

Discipline disciplined thinking and an attitude of humility a Diagnosis can unfortunately be an idol when we allow it to become an Entity identity. I want you guys to circle back on the topic if you dare.

Well, I'm gonna stop there to say Um Catherine we dare and we will in fact what we're gonna do is more than just there. We plan to do a summer series on Counseling issues. I plan to bring both of our speakers at striving fraternity.

Aaron Brewster and Anthony Russo both are ACBC counselors along with my own pastor and his wife. Who those two are also ACBC counselors and we're gonna do a slew of different topics. In other words, we're going to have four counselors to help drew out.

Oh It'll be live counseling. No. We're gonna do we're gonna deal with some different topics and therefore if folks have some interesting topics. Let me know what topics you think we should cover in areas of counseling.

Yeah, you know her. I think her observation of that episode in particular the Gentleman who came on is very good, right? It's a very good observation in terms of saying there needs to be the way he was communicating.

Discipline in thinking Is usually often lost when people try to come on, right? They have so much they want to say there. But they're not disciplined and they're thinking and ordering their thoughts to present what they're trying to say.

And then oftentimes what happens is they end up contradicting themselves, which is what happened. Yeah, I think her observation is very good and the humility aspect as well.

Yeah, so I Think we you know, she's saying he made our point which he did throughout.

He's very angry when Aaron kept saying you can just go back and listen, yeah. He didn't like that for some reason.

Because he kept calling us liars and he didn't like us saying you could listen to see if we told lies. But so Catherine goes on says I Really enjoy the segment on the most recent episode on discipleship.

I would like a whole episode on that particularly how to How it can be structured within American Church. Although we primarily think of Jesus and his disciples God gives examples throughout the Bible from Moses Joshua to Elijah Elisha.

He devotes large portions of his word to accountability expected within the church family. Titus two and three immediately come to mind and What is biblical counseling but focused discipleship,. I wonder if many of these mental health conditions could be Could be solved with with discipleship.

We'll cover those.

That's a good observation too. One is the need for discipleship a biblical discipleship because in the American Church We confuse fellowship with discipleship and they're not the same thing. And The people just think if we get together and we hang out we go bowling or whatever that that's discipleship.

No, it's not. And then when we consider our society everyone in our society Tries to seclude themselves so much right and they're always on their phones. They don't want anyone anyone around or to talk to anyone or anything.

And what does that do to yourself to your brain right. Your brain function instead of putting that down? Getting around people and actually learning from one another and helping each other grow. Yeah.

So here's here's the rest of the email next paragraph and while you're being controversial. No. We never deal with controversy here. While you're being controversial. I've heard you all bring up the sin of gluttony.

Oh Well, okay. I've never heard this talked about in Christian circles. Hmm. I doubt it will given the attitude surrounding consumption of More than just food in the u .s. Look, I belong to an SBC Church our covered dish functions are what keep attendance so high as it is.

Can you can you guys do a series on the seven deadly sins? For or Modern our modern American Church is great about confronting some sin but misuses others. It seems that gluttony sloth slash laziness wrath pride greed envy and lust are seven pillars of the culture today and social media fans.

Fans of the fire of our flesh like nothing else. Thanks for your podcast. Your example and instruction is encouraging.

Respectfully Catherine I. I can't help but laugh because I was thinking today that Down here in the South, right? Everyone thinks that judging is the worst possible sin you could do right. And they take that verse out of context.

But they think that's the worst possible thing you can do but gluttony is perfectly. Okay. Yeah.

The Debate on CNN, Microphones, and Interrupting

Yeah, so we should announce we are gonna do a shorter show tonight. The plan is to go just for one hour because Drew, you know wants to go watch two old guys. Fight it out. Yeah, absolutely. I can be much of a fight.

It's gonna be one guy talking to a quote to a mic that's turned off. I I am wondering you know. They did. CNN did this whole thing about showing how the mics work like like it was a novel thing. Like look watch.

Oh Wow, did you guys catch that? I mean, I know how to mute a mic. Oh and and I get a little light when it's me. I mean like really that they were they were just displaying it and they said when someone talks over the other.

Do you think maybe what they're gonna define as interrupting will be Trump saying something they don't like. I mean. That's gonna be the definition of interrupting. Oh, sorry. He was interrupting so.

Yeah so. Debates are terrible anyway. Because they're not really debates. They're just displays of ad hominem.

Well, and they're right because they don't. I mean what should happen in my mind is we should actually have. Like it wasn't the old days we're just let the two of them ask each other questions. This is gonna be a three-on-one debate.

I like the fact that CNN is under a little bit of heat because they both the moderators have called Trump a Nazi and referred to him as being Hitler, so. Yeah, they're gonna be fair. Of course completely non-bias.

Mm-hmm. So we do have some questions coming in before we do. I want to show you some because I like you know, I like to make you feel bad. So. Yeah, yeah, I got this is my. I've had this for a long time this is my nice buttery soft Jeffrey Rice NASB Bible.

Those those are good. I'll look at it just lays flat. I like this one, but it's an ASB and so I've been waiting for New one. Look look at this, baby. Ah my my Jeffrey Rice. Nice. Is that the five solos on the side?

It says it has the five solos on the side and oh SFE for striving for eternity. Specially made with my name on it. Look at that a nice green color LSB. Now is it a reference edition? It is. Well, I I it was.

I don't know if it's a reference edition.

Which which what's the reference edition? It doesn't have it. Does it does it have references in the columns in the columns? Yeah, is it Center? Yeah, it's big print. Which is what I I was like, oh I can read this without having trouble.

I love I absolutely love Single column inside mark reference. Well, that's yeah. I I actually chose the Bible.

So I I had that sent to him bought a Bible sent it to him. He ripped off the hardcover put in this nice. This is a hard leather. This green one, but you know, that is does that make you jealous that I got that.

It really does, you know.

I've got I'm not I'm not ESB fan anymore, you know, but you know, I do have this really nice ESB Bible that according to the guys at Crossway when I took it up there 2019 G3 they said they don't make this particular one anymore.

And so I would like to get it rebound. And it needs to be rebound. Yeah, but I would love to have have that rebound.

Well, I'm I'm glad that makes you jealous because that's to Jeffrey Rice Bibles I have. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Look what came in the mail today? That's right a purple Jeffrey Rice Bible. It says Holy Bible LSB and yes SFE for striving for attorney and look at that.

He put my name on the front. Look at this as another.

LSB Jeffrey Rice binded Bible art. Are you jealous yet? My friend? I've been jealous. Yeah, I know. Ellis with that with the NAS.

Yes, so I got the buttery soft I got the hard leather and this purple one is in between. So now I get to decide which one do I like to hold?

But yeah, what you do is you have one as a preaching Bible, right? You have one as a study Bible and then you have one as kind of like an everyday carry. There you go. Melissa says Jeffrey does beautiful work.

That's right. So this one right here is my Allen and it's it's Goat skin and yeah, that's every day carry. It's just not the same. It's not the same because it's not a Jeffrey. A Jeffrey Rice. There you go.

We find but it's still it's still very soft because it is goat skin. Yeah, so post 10 of X Lux Rebinding is where you can find Jeffrey at. Oh, oh I have to. Oh, I have to say I have to tell the story.

So I was out of town last week, right? We didn't have a show. You were out of town. I was out of town. So I was out of town for work and we were in Dallas. We were at the Dallas markets. Well Thursday morning was our last day there.

And so when I woke up on Thursday Being that we're in Dallas, I was like, you know where I have to go I have to go to Herb's. Herb's house coffee company, which is where dr. Lawson does his morning Bible study?

Now I Thought because the day before was John MacArthur's 85th birthday. I thought he would be in California, right? Well, he wasn't. We showed up at the coffee house Just after about 30 minutes or so after the Bible study ended and he left.

Oh, are you just hating life that you didn't go early?

Oh, I was so mad is so so I was talking to the girl behind the counter and I was telling her I was like. You know, I've gotten to meet dr. Lawson a couple of times. We've had breakfast together and stuff and.

And she was like, oh, well, he was just here for the Bible study and I was like I said, well, give me what he had. There was your chance all right, so.

Rob Rob is saying what a burden Andrew are. What Bible do I use? Melissa said. Once I purchase my LSB, I plan on having Jeffrey bind it for me. It will be worth it. So, you know speaking of coffee, you know.

Hold on. No, I got my I just opened it today my bag of squirrely Joe's compassion, this is a Brazilian coffee. But I'll give you some compassion. Yeah. Yeah, I could that's why I need. I had I had my cup of compassion this morning and That smells so good.

Fresh fresh beans. I mean they he gets wrote some and the and then sends it right out. Squirrely Joe's coffee is a Christian based company. He's training his children you and I before we went live we're talking about training our children to To learn have a plan and you know as with their teenagers to to have a job plan and you know.

Teach train them to you know be working. Well, that's what he's doing. He's got a company that they they work at. And it is good coffee. So that we're planning to be To Have him at the conference that will be at in Arizona.

At least the coffee will be there. I should throw up a thing for that. Oh, I should take this banner off so people can read this. But he will he will be at the Christian responsibility in an unchristian world conference.

This is August 8th to the 10th. Which is just like a little over 30 days away in Vail, Arizona. Myself Kevin. Hey John Sampson. Aaron Brewster. Dan crafty. You don't know Dan. Dan is the seven-foot apologist.

Everyone will be looking up to him at the conference. Dominic Amaldi who's one of the podcasters at Christian podcast community. He is an ex-con who became a pastor and then pastor Jay Miller. So this is gonna be a good conference.

Great topics. I know that you're some of you guys are going. I don't know any of those speakers. They are all excellent speakers and so it is something that you want to go check out. Actually, I should put that banner back up and you can scan the QR code you you would be able to also just go to striving fraternity org slash veil the a IL striving for eternity slash veil will get you to Get that information about the conference.

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You will get 20 off on your first order. But do remember to go to striving fraternity org slash coffee every time you reorder. So that they know that you heard about them from us and they continue sponsoring us here and we appreciate that.

So some questions that we have coming in. Let us see what we got. We have we Rob says Ordering my coffee very soon. Thank you for that Rob. We appreciate that. Just remember to go to striving fraternity dot org slash coffee use the promo code SFE get your discount so.

The questions we have. I'm not going to do them in order because some of these were I want to get to first. So Melissa says remember Andrew that Matt has autism like Matt slicks. So she's referring to Matt Hagen who is the gentleman who came in talking about the the mental health issues and.

We're we do not mock him here but there is a big difference between Matt Hagen and Matt slick and The difference is Matt Hagen has made excuses for his sin and he said it himself at the end of the show.

That you know. Basically, he's saying that if you have a mental health issue. That that excuses you from being called out on sin. So he doesn't try to correct his behavior. His behavior was sinful In in the way he conducted himself and instead of Repenting he feels that he doesn't need to repent because he's got an idol of a mental health issue of autism.

Matt slick doesn't do that. Matt slick knows his issue. He acknowledges his issue and tries to learn to change. So he doesn't let the he doesn't let his mental health his issues be something that keep him from.

You know trying to do what's what's right and biblical at the end of the show maybe I'll just grab that clip of it where he basically where Matt Hagen had said that. The issue is that you know, people can't sin when they have these issues.

Something to that effect. But it was at the at the end and that he typed it in so I know you're friends with him Melissa but it it doesn't excuse the behavior and. And that's the thing Let's see KT is was asking this do you did you guys hear about the legacy?

Bible foundation and then she later on said about it the legacy Bible foundation is for distributing free Bibles like LSB and Resources to ministries prisons homeless shelters student ministries and other organizations.

I have not heard about it. Have you know? Okay. Well, then we won't have much to say on that one.

I have it. I mean, it's I think it's great if that's what they're doing, you know. Yeah, I always have directed people to if they're looking for Bibles like if they're doing street ministry or something like that.

Something that they can get their hands on. Quick Bibles by the case I've directed people there, but if the LSB Foundation is putting out Resources like that where they can where you can get Bibles like the LSB go there.

But put the hands of a very of the accurate translation in people's hands.

Yeah, I was gonna mention Bibles by case is probably the cheapest and I have found I mean we would buy. I don't even know how many Bibles mean especially back in the day when I had a very active team in New York and New Jersey.

I was I was buying about oh I want to say between 20 to 40 thousand tracks a year and probably I'm thinking we used to go through about a Dozen cases easy a year.

So I think I want to say isn't a case like how many isn't like a hundred or something? No, not a hundred. I would see something. No, it's it's.

Yeah, it might be closer to I think I think 25 or 30 I thought but. Yeah. All right, so another question that came in. This will be a fun one. Melissa's asking question is Christian nationalism historically rooted in racism.

Well, so. What do you mean? I. Christian national? Yeah, so let's be really clear. Christian nationalism.

Is a term that was created by the left like about a year ago. Yeah, okay. Maybe maybe a little bit longer. Christian nationalism is a term that the left has created So that they could blink that they could go into this election year blaming Christians for everything.

Wrong with America. Yeah, and I want that to sink in for folks people who want to vote third party because they're gonna vote their conscience. Just think about this. You have a party that is creating a term so that they can treat Christians the same exact way.

That Nazi Germany treated Jewish people. Blaming them for all the ills of the society. Saying that the Jewish people want to take over the country and run it. You know, they had all the control and the money and the power.

So you had the case? Where. You now have a party that is arguing to blame Christians for everything. So what is on the ballot this this election? Your Christian liberties your your right to be a Christian in America is what's on the ballot.

Yeah.

You know, they they also attribute the title of Christian nationalism to people who we wouldn't consider to be Christians. Right, even just people who are pro-america in general that they would say Oh you believe in the founding fathers and what they stood for.

You're a Christian nationalist, you know.

They just throw it out. Yeah, and and what it is at its root, okay, is this the fact that What the left wants to do with it is this to blame Christians? So they can they can have a target to blame For all of the ills and and this is not I mean historically this has happened multiple times and so I people got to recognize what that term is.

I Wrongly Encourage people not to use that term. I know that so many feel well. We can we can you know use that terp and push, you know, the the post mill view. Okay, it's not all just post mill people but.

But there I mean, there's there's two big camps that are pushing Christian nationalism right now that is the post mills and the new apostolic Reformation for different reasons, but the point being is That feeds into when the left gets to have a Doug Wilson go on the news and say yes.

We want Christian nationalism. We want Christian laws to be the law of the land. That would be great. But we what the people need to be Christian first. The way the media tries to say to see they want to force their values on us and force all of us to be Christian.

Well, no one believes you can be a force to be a Christian. Constantine tried that it was a failure, right? Because you can't just declare people Christian they have to be converted and so This is a big thing Melissa that I encourage feel not to use the term.

Because it feeds into the left now. I get that people want to try to take the redeem that term but You you know by redeeming it your feet you're we're going we're feeding right into what the left wants.

So that they could blame us for things and you know, there is a term that is Historically rooted in racism at least in America, and we would call it the Democratic Party. Yeah, it's the Democratic Party that kept that didn't want to abolish slavery.

It was the Democratic Party that brought about the Jim Crow South and segregation, right? It was it's the Democratic Party that's fighting to actually keep minorities as In a form of slavery. Beholding to the welfare system and things like that keeping them in poverty keeping them uneducated keeping them in broken families.

They're actively working.

Toward all of that and and so KT is saying here it is. Is scary to see the hate towards people who are Jewish and yes. They're aiming it at Christians after. Actually, I think that they were targeting Christians first.

The the hatred toward Jewish people is recent. That's only since October 7th. So you only a few months. So Melissa went on to say I I brought I bought Christian nationalism. Be I brought I guess brought up.

I brought Christian nationalism because Michael Oh Emerson wrote a book about it and said it was rooted in racism. I was just curious about it so yeah, I mean the thing is is that remember that I don't know who Michael Emerson is but.

The the left who's coming up with this are the same people who say that Christianity is based in white supremacy. Remember that this is their whole thing for every everything is blamed on everything's racism.

Yeah. Christianity was invented by the white man, which is weird because started in Israel, yeah.

Yeah, and and and went to Africa and Places where people were not white. Hmm.

Before it ever came to America. Yeah, you know, I should mention.

Speaking about about that and some of the things, you know with cultural things Drew do you know who Megan Basham is? I've seen her on Twitter. Yeah. Yeah, so she works over at the Daily Wire and she has a very interesting book coming out.