They Are Going VIRAL Because of THIS | John MacArthur

Let's take a look at three disturbing stories that have happened recently and comment on why they are relevant to Christians. Story number one, Dylan Mulvaney, celebrated 365 days of girlhood by putting on a musical at the Rainbow Room in New York.

Part of this musical involved Dylan saying something very interesting about God.

I'm gonna say something that might make people feel a little bit uncomfortable. Um, I'm trying really hard to maintain a relationship with God. And I don't think that he made a mistake with me. And that maybe one day I will actually be grateful for being trans.

That this isn't some curse, but it's just a different path to the same destination.

Dylan here speaks as if God made him trans, as if he didn't simply choose to dress up as and pretend to be a woman, which is of course what Dylan is doing. No matter how hard Dylan tries to redefine his identity, our identity ultimately comes from God.

One can object to and even criminalize an act. One is obligated to be sympathetic toward a condition, but once it's a fully fledged, 24 -7 identity, anything less than wholehearted acceptance gets you marked as a bigot.

The transformation of a crime against nature, sodomy, into co-equal civic identity within little more than the span of one human lifetime is one of the most remarkable victories ever achieved by any minority group in the Western world.

A minority that didn't even exist in a formal sense a century ago has managed to overwhelm and overhaul a universal societal institution thousands of years old.

Dylan is an actor, and from the very beginning his goal has been to attract lots of attention to himself, which he has been very successful in doing. Watch how similar his behavior is even before he started identifying as transgender, and how he loves drawing attention to himself.

Does this look like a person who is just trying to live a quiet life? Of course not. Dylan has intentionally made everything about his life in transition very public, which means he should not be surprised by people who are concerned about the destructive message he is spreading to countless young people.

The War on Children and the Logic of Gender Ideology

What we're facing today is fierce, I will confess. Of all the things that disturb me in this culture, of all the horrific, sinful, wretched, wicked, corrupt influences that go on in this culture. I think the thing that distresses me most is the war on children.

This culture is weaponized to destroy children. It's systematically designed to do that. Story number two.

Watch what happens when Piers Morgan challenges Angelica Mallon regarding her gender ideology.

Okay, why can't I identify as a black lesbian?

Well, firstly, I mean, I'm serious.

I'm serious. If I can identify as anything without any need to prove I'm actually what that is, why can't I on International Women's Day say I'm Piers Morgan, I'm a black lesbian.

I think taking it to a kind of absurd status.

With respect, I think that you've already opened the absurdity door by saying it is limitless. You can do what you like. Anyone can say I'm a woman. So I simply ask you, why can't I?

I mean, this point kind of ridicules trans people to an extent.

Actually, I think what you said ridicules trans people.

Of course, Piers Morgan is absolutely correct here. It's simply not Piers who is being absurd, but it's the people who are pushing the idea that people simply are who they identify as and everyone else needs to accept whatever identity other people believe they are.

Angelica goes on to continue demonstrating the absurdity of her own position.

How many? Well, let me ask you this. Let me ask you this, Angelica, how many genders are there? Two. There are two genders. Oh, wow. So you don't believe in transgenders at all? Well, I think I think there are.

Well, hang on. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. There are two genders. Well, it's taught. Well, I didn't say well. You've literally just launched this huge defense of transgenderism. Now you've eradicated it.

I think there are two genders.

You mean male and female. There's gender fluidity. I will. Fluid between what? Between what? Between different identities. And we can choose one.

You see how difficult this is though? But it is difficult. But I think. But it's not difficult until you make it difficult.

Again, I commend Piers for asking very simple, basic questions that expose the absolute absurdity of modern gender ideology. It seems that Angelica really regretted admitting that there are only two genders and immediately tried to re-explain her answer.

And it's certainly not just Angelica, who has an enormous amount of difficulty in answering some of the easiest and most basic of questions, such as what is a woman? Can I identify as a black lesbian?

And how many genders are there?

Well, we're ashamed to say, no, actually, a woman is an adult female human. Amen. Two sexes, two genders, just two, just two, that's all. No more than that, just two.

We won't say that. In these next clips, we see Douglas Murray, an atheist, expose the mainstream media lies of Malcolm Gladwell, a writer for The New Yorker. And at the very end of this debate, we see the shocking response from the audience and learn something very important about speaking the truth in the public arena.

And at the start of the debate, 52 of the crowd believes they should be trusted and 48 believes they shouldn't. And at the end of this video, something amazing happens.

Media Bias, Fact-Checking, and the Hunter Biden Story

First, watch how Gladwell focuses on identity, politics and race and watch how incredulous the other side is in hearing Gladwell misrepresent what they are saying.

I was greatly amused by the affection Matt Tiadi has for the age of Walter Cronkite. Which he seemed to hold up as a kind of golden moment. In that moment, the mainstream media was populated entirely by white men from elite schools.

Why you would have had such affection and say that's the gold standard and we should trust the mainstream media precisely at the moment when the mainstream media is least representative is really puzzling to me.

I just wanted to make a short list of the people who were not spoken to by journalists in the 1950s and 60s. And you may want to add some if I miss some black people, women, poor people, gay people, people with mildly left wing views.

I mean, words tell me when somebody in when it presented with a critique of his rather idiosyncratic position on Walter Cronkite comes back and says, oh, no, no, no. There's more to my great love of this man.

Matt's point was simply that once upon a time there was more trust in the mainstream media. And this is something that's just objectively true. He's not holding Walter Cronkite on some massive pedestal.

And instead of arguing the actual ideas, Malcolm Gladwell just continues to create these strawmans. And this is when you know that somebody is seriously losing a debate. Matt and Douglas are trying to stick to the topic, whereas he just keeps on attacking them personally.

Next, listen to Gladwell's defense of fact checkers.

I can't I can't sit here and let you make these statements that without any kind of we don't do that as much as we used to for financial reasons. I mean, I worked at the New Yorker. The New Yorker, if anything, has spends more money on fact checking today than it did in the past.

Now watch Murray's response to what Gladwell said about fact checkers.

I can't sit here and listen to Malcolm Gladwell talking about fact checking and the importance of it, not to get too mean, Malcolm. I read your book, David and Goliath. The chapter on Northern Ireland is more filled with inaccuracies than any other chapter in a nonfiction book I have read.

It is having written a not very well selling, but widely acclaimed book on Northern Ireland myself. My book on Northern Ireland didn't sell anywhere near as much as yours did, Malcolm, but mine was filled with facts.

And well, your your chapter on Northern Ireland was so filled with inaccuracies, Irish historians ripped it apart. Would that you had a fact checker, Malcolm, would you did your own research? But anyway, let me get back to another another one.

You have I must say, you do a very good job of it, but you must say you do have a tendency to accuse those who disagree with you. No, no, no. It's not disagreement being of being a disagreement. Malcolm, you didn't know.

You didn't know that the provisional IRA were responsible for 60 of the deaths in the Troubles. There were basic things you just didn't know, Malcolm. I'm sorry. It's not my fault. It's yours and your fact checkers.

I didn't know that the function of this debate was to reach the accuracy.

Of a chapter in a book. Well, you were the one that started talking about fact checkers. I'm simply saying, why don't you employ some?

I suspect I I or your publishers?

Douglas, why don't I? Why don't I make the point I wanted to make other than that? Briefly. Briefly. Yes. Good Lord. Take the Hunter Biden story. Oh, here we go. OK, I'm sorry. It's a very. Of course, you don't want to know.

And to that kind of Twitter, of course, you don't want to hear it, Malcolm. Of course you would. Because it goes against your ideological presumptions. That story was a big story. OK, it was a big story.

The New York Post, which I write for, but the New York Post, the America's oldest newspaper, was silenced on Twitter, was silenced across the media. You know, the Washington Post has now picked it up.

It's saying that, yeah, the laptop's true. But why didn't the media pick it up before? Why didn't they call up people? Why didn't they check whether the emails were accurate? Because they didn't want Biden to lose the election.

He was their guy.

And they weren't going to screw that up. Throughout this debate, I was impressed by how articulate Murray was in exposing the bias and corruption of the mainstream media. Here, Murray points out that the mainstream media cannot be trusted because it is not driven by truth, but rather by an agenda.

Malcolm, you're kind of, oh, my God, what a yawn-a-roo the whole Hunter Biden story is. How boring to talk about the idea of corruption at an epic scale in the first family. How boring. Who would want to harp on about that?

Let me try the counterfactual on you. Let me try the counterfactual on you. It's October 2020, and a huge number of emails are suddenly dumped, revealing unbelievable scandal in the Trump family. I don't want to concentrate on the dick pics and the crack and stuff.

Never mind about Don Jr. if he'd been doing that. Let's just focus on the on the emails. There was a very easy way, Michelle, as you know, to certify whether this stuff was true. You could call up anyone on email chains and say, did you get this email?

They didn't bother with any of that stuff. They'd have been excited as hell across most of the mainstream media. If this had been emails from Donald Trump's son saying, and I'm no Trump fan, let's not get into that cheap rut.

But if it had been if it had been Don Jr. saying to his child, you've no idea what I've done for this family, the demeaning things I've gone through. I have to give half of everything I earned to my dad.

Oh, you're Nauru. Definitely, definitely. Who'd care about that? No, the point is simply that this was one of the occasions in recent years where the mainstream media showed its transparency as a political organization.

That's why we care.

I was also amazed throughout this interview regarding how dismissive and contemptuous Gladwell was towards pretty much every good point that the other side raised. Gladwell truly acted the part of an elite who believes everyone else is just completely below him in intellect and honesty, even when it seems quite clear that the audience is very much connecting with what his opponents are saying.

It's so strange hearing you debate, Malcolm, because you listen to nothing that your opponents say. It's quite extraordinary. I've met it before, but never quite so badly as it as it occurs in you. And you keep saying things that neither of us have said.

And then you try to pathologize what we say. What you decide to say things like, oh, it's a conspiracy. If it comes from this side, it's a conspiracy theory. You say we don't do our research. We're just conspiracy theorists.

Mild, apparently mild dose of it, he says in his excellent medical like analysis of his opponents. We just have a mild dose. Malcolm, why don't you listen to what comes out of our mouths and try to learn something from it, as I am with you this evening?

But at the moment, all I get is you dismissing every single story we come up with, every egregious failure of the mainstream media. I've given you a definition of what I think of as the mainstream media.

So your attempt to claim that we haven't answered it yet is just another straw man in your massive legion of straw men you keep creating this evening. But I beg you to actually consider the fact that what we are describing is, even if you think not as accurate as you would like, an expression of a problem that is going on in our societies, functioning, functioning liberal democracies need to have trust in their media.

And the best that your site has been able to come up with so far tonight is to say we get things wrong quite often, but you should trust us.

Watch Gladwell continue to call Douglas Doug, despite Douglas continuing to try to correct him, which is extremely disrespectful and prideful.

Here's what I think the debate boils down to, and that is that our opponents believe that the mainstream media are they're concerned that the mainstream media, to the extent that they have told us what it is, is filled with people who don't think like they do.

And that fact makes them uncomfortable. And in support of this, they have given us a long list of rather predictable hot button topics taken from their Twitter feed. And I was my question was, what would make them happy?

So what would restore the trust of Matt and Doug in the mainstream media? And I think what they with Matt, the answer is obvious. He would like it was the world resembled 1955 again. I would fill him with joy.

Doug would like more stories on the Hunter Biden's laptop times. Play the race. More seriously, really, I think that they would now watch.

Truth, Trust, and the Power of Public Witness

Murray stick to the topic of the debate instead of creating and attacking a straw man. As Christians, we would agree with Murray that it is extremely important for the mainstream media to be honest and factual and that it is extremely concerning that the mainstream media today seems to be driven more by an agenda than by truth and facts.

Well, Malc, I'm going to try to take this more seriously than you did in your endless creation of straw men, which just is ceaseless this evening and address what I think is the real problem we have in our century in terms of information technology.

Having different opinions is so 20th century. This century, we have different facts and it's lethal. It's absolutely lethal for the functioning of society. And if you want to see how lethal it is, look at the situation in America, where not just the media, but every institution, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, the Supreme Court, every institution, you decide whether it's for your side or not.

It's disastrous for society, but it starts with the facts. And when the facts go wrong or you become glib about them or decide that it's just the facts that will suit your side or pretend you're playing a game of honesty and are not actually playing a game of honesty, everything else in the society can go to hell.

This side has not been saying any of these straw men that you've been so kindly creating this evening, Malcolm. We've been saying that the mainstream media cannot be trusted. That is all. We're not saying don't read it.

I repeat, we're not saying don't absorb it. Of course, you'd be an idiot to say that. What, you think we're only going to read sub stacks the rest of life? There's not even time. But the mainstream media is currently failing.

It is failing you, the public. It is failing its employees. It's failing at its central task. You quoted one example of what journalism was meant to consist of. I would quote another. What George Orwell said on his statue outside the BBC.

Sadly, the employees do not read it every morning before going in. But but George Orwell famously said that the job of a journalist was to tell people facts they don't want to hear. The problem we have in our century coming up is that people will be paying for and absorbing only the facts they want to hear.

The argument we are making is one of hygiene, basic hygiene in the media, in the mainstream media. I don't want to blow it up. I don't want an end to it or anything like it. I spent a significant amount of my life in the mainstream media.

We just want it to be honest. We just want it to be factual. We don't want it to chase its own prejudices. We just want it to speak truth, whatever that is. That's not so radical.

The most shocking part of this debate was the fact that so many people in the audience actually changed their minds as a result of this debate, demonstrating that there is real power in speaking the truth.

Let's see what happened over the last 90 minutes. Did either team of these debaters swing opinion one way or another? There we go. 67 percent in favor of the motion. 33 percent opposed.

So, Christians, let's continue to boldly speak the truth as Douglas Murray did regarding the mainstream media, knowing that God uses the truth to change people's hearts and minds.

Ezekiel, Dry Bones, and the Call to Preach Truth

Every time we walk out in a pulpit, we are not movers and shakers. We are not marketers. We are Ezekiel. And God says to us in the middle of that valley of dry bones, because it's all dry bones. Can these bones live?

We will not deny him in unbelief and say no, and we will not presume upon him and say yes, but we will respond, you know, Lord, you know. Thank you so much for watching. If you like these videos and want to help support this channel, the best way to do it is to just watch these videos until the end and click the subscribe button.

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