Culturally Acceptable Violence Versus the Christian Church

Culturally Acceptable Violence and the Nashville Shooting

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Welcome to another edition of The Rap Report. I'm your host, Andrew Rapoport, the Executive Director of Striving for Eternity and the Christian Podcast Community, of which this podcast is a proud member.

This week, I was joined, or actually, I was on and joined Chris Honholds from Voice of Reason Radio. We recorded this back a few weeks ago, but wanted to play this here for our audience. We're discussing what happened in Tennessee with the shooting where a transgender person walked into a Christian school and shot and killed six people.

And the reaction from the media has been very interesting. And for that reason, I think this will be very helpful for you to check out and listen to. And that's coming your way right now on The Rap Report.

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The Nashville Shooting and the Media Reaction

Welcome once again to Voice of Reason Radio, your host, Chris Honholds, and, well, not Richard Story. Richard's not with us tonight. And no, this is not an April Fool's joke, even though it is April 1st, 2023.

Poor Rich has literally been playing watchman on the wall for his family as storms continue to beat the living tar out of the area he's in. He is in Mississippi. There have been numerous tornadoes, numerous storms, and just all kinds of havoc wreaked.

And Rich is kind of the amateur weatherman for his house. He's tracked everything from dew points to storm fronts and everything else that he tried to explain to me that went right over my head. And he was basically up all night keeping track on that so his family could rest.

So if the weather patterns came their way, they could get ready and go if they needed to. So please pray for Rich and his family. Thankfully, God is gracious and has skipped over their area, but pray for the rest he desperately needs.

However, despite the fact that I told you all on social media I was going to be solo on this and you were going to have to put up with me by myself, I'm not by myself. I actually have had a dear brother in Christ who has graciously joined, volunteered to join us.

Now, I think it's a blessing. I'll let you decide if it's worth having Andrew Rappaport on the show, but brother, how are you doing this week?

Thank you very much. I know that you do not like to do solo podcasts, so I figured, hey, if you want some company, I can join you. And we should congratulate you. I know you won't announce it, so I should.

Congratulations on what, 5 ,000 downloads for the month? Was that.

Your record there that you got? Yeah, it almost hit 5 ,200, which I still cannot quite understand. As we have explained to some folks listening to the program, we try to keep the numbers out of it, but when January came around, Podbean had the opportunity, presented an opportunity for people who hosted them to apply to be listed as featured.

Well, apparently doing that was a massive boost to our listener base, and we've picked up a lot of new listeners. Thank you all for joining us. And what's been interesting is to watch from mid-January to now, the continued increase, and we literally broke 5 ,000.

I'm looking at this going, wow, we could conceivably maybe hit close to 5 ,000, and then overnight, we shot up to almost 5 ,200 for the month of March, which for us, look, we're not just thinking, we're not going to get 87 ,000 downloads in one episode.

Daryl, love you, man. Your stuff's fantastic. You accomplished with one episode. It took us seven years to do. But for us, that was absolutely astounding that the new listeners have come on board, and they not only seem to be listening to what we put out, but y 'all have been going backwards in time and listening to everything else.

So it's been quite amazing. So yeah,.

Thank you, brother. We appreciate that. I know I do that myself. I mean, I find a podcast I like at first time hearing it. I go, oh, let me just go. I mean, I just did this recently with a, you know, I was out, excuse me, at a conference, and I'm just getting over a cold, so I will try to mute the coughs.

But I was at a conference with a Dead Man Walking podcast and conversations with a Calvinist. And so I subscribed, and then I went back to old episodes, started downloading.

A bunch. So that's what happens when you find one you like. Amen, amen. And it's been really wild to watch. I've said this before, you know, in a lot of ways, we are very unscripted. It's a conversational thing.

And so half the time, at least, we're not walking in with notes, because most of the time I'm going, what are we talking about again? And we shoot from the hip a lot, mostly because we're trying to work through these things as Christians having a conversation.

And what blows my mind is that seems to really resonate with people. And you guys seem to really benefit from it and enjoy it, which we are grateful that it's helping you. So I want to remind you, by the way, we talk about this a lot.

We are part of the Christian Podcast community, and our quote-unquote boss of that is actually sitting on the other side of the microphone, three time zones away. And that's our brother here, Andrew.

It was kind of his brainchild to put this together, where a bunch of like-minded Christians come together and help, you know, benefit each other by helping cross-promotion, doing things like what Andrew and I are doing now, being on each other's shows, and giving you a resource where it's like, if you're looking for solid content, you're going to find it through Christian Podcast community.

So I want you to go check that out and listen to Andrew's shows. I give him a lot of grief. We love to give each other grief. That's what we pretty much live for on social media is to terrorize each other.

But you really appreciate his content. He's got multiple shows, but his rap report and the Apologetics Live shows are the two that I am most have been either been involved with or have listened to. And I really encourage you to go check out both of those.

I give him a lot of grief, but I am grateful for our brother here. You give me grief? Oh, just a little. Okay, wait,.

Hold on. We can actually, we have it recorded. Oh no. Here we go. This is from a previous episode.

You did. Andrew is a master manipulator, master planner, master, you know, whatever it is he's going to do because he knows well in advance how he's going to twist you up in circles and then try to make it look like it was your fault.

So just ask Matt Slick. Ask Matt Slick. That poor guy is getting no mercy from Andrew since Andrew's been out there this week. Out there in Idaho, they were ministering to the Mormon community out there and poor Matt can't even buy dinner without Andrew mocking him saying, I beat you to it and putting him on video.

I mean, for the record, I didn't do the video just for the record, but hey, we were in Israel. I encouraged everyone to buy Matt his lunch so that he couldn't. And we had some people do that. It was nice.

And, but I did, I did let Matt buy me an ice cream bar. So see, I'm, I'm a nice guy.

Yes. Yes. Now, now I've been told by Rich, since you graciously volunteered to fill in for him, he was fine with you filling in for him, provided you brought him back in Iraq from Israel like he asked you to.

So if you didn't, I'm going to have to kick you off the show because that was the,.

That was the deal. It's a good thing that I have one. All right. All right. But he has to come.

Here to pick it up. I'll make sure to relay that, which you'll figure out once the show drops,.

He'll listen in. And I mean, look, I had to, I had to play a clip because he knows I keep, I keep this whole rack of clips from, that he always busts on me for, for keeping and, and enjoying to play them at good times.

But we are going to talk a serious topic tonight. And one that I'm glad, I'm actually really glad that you allowed me to come on because I haven't spoken about this publicly. So I'm, I'm really glad Bill do this with you.

Yeah, no, and we're grateful to have you brother. It's this, I always love the content that you bring to any show that you're on, whether you're doing it your own or you're on with other folks. So I know you're going to have some great contribution to this as well.

And this is one of those topics that unfortunately, it's probably been covered a million different ways. And we were praying about that at the beginning or prior to the show starting. What we're hoping to do tonight is we hope we cover it from a different perspective than most people will.

And what we're hoping to do is may it be a reminder of the desperate need we have to proclaim the gospel, especially in times such as these. So if, unless you're literally been living on an island in the middle of nowhere, you know what happened this last Monday, March 27th.

On that date, a individual by the name of Audrey Hale walked into Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee and opened fire. She did this as a pre-planned attack. She did this as I would call a hate crime against Christians, which we'll go into.

She killed six people. Three of them were children, nine years old, Evelyn Deakhouse, Haley Scruggs, and William Kinney. And sadly, one of those children was the daughter of the pastor of the church that runs that school.

The three adults were Catherine Kuntz. She was the head of the school, 60 years old, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Mike Hill, 61. Well, here's what we do know that prior to going into the school, she had actually messaged a middle school friend via Instagram.

And interestingly, I'd read an article where that friend came forward and noted that Hale had almost a not maybe borderline stalkerish mentality toward this friend, just constantly showing up at places, constantly finding ways to contact her.

Just very bizarre behavior, she described it as. We know that she messaged that friend and said, I'm going to die today. You're probably going to hear about me on the news. And I really care about you.

You were an amazing person. We know that at 10, 11 a .m. Nashville time, she entered the school and that by 10, 25 a .m. law enforcement officers had engaged her and ended her threat. If you have not had the opportunity, I will cautiously recommend to watch the Metro Police video that's been released of that high risk shooting incident because it shows you how you should actually respond to an active shooter incident as opposed to some that have gone really horribly wrong when bad decisions were made.

And this one was, I would call it textbook. They did exactly what they were supposed to do. And they limited the loss of life and they acted quickly. They acted with great courage and concern for those involved.

And they made sure that that threat was stopped. And when they did, you'll see in the video, and we won't link it. I'm not going to require anybody to go watch it. It's hard to watch. But she was actively engaging law enforcement from a second story window when they took the shot.

But that's how quickly and quite honestly, heroically those officers acted. We know that subsequent investigation revealed the following. Hale was once a student at the school. She was, I believe, 28 years old now.

This was kind of a grade school, age school. So this was some time ago. She identified herself as transgender. And we're going to say she, please understand, as a Christian program, we stand upon truth and we'll get into why we say that there is not, there is, I'm going to say what Daryl Harrison has been saying on Twitter.

No one is trans. Okay. I'm going to make that point right up front. That's why we're going to continue to refer to her by her actual name and by her actual gender. She identified herself as transgender.

She was a female. She was identifying herself as male. According to the police that she had written a manifesto, which has not yet been released. I saw a headline that suggested that FBI is reviewing at first and that this should be released after that.

We'll see. We know that she had a detailed map of the school and she had identified other potential targets, which were ruled out because apparently they were just not soft target enough. And finally, we know there has been reports that she was undergoing some sort of mental health treatment or therapy.

And there was one article that was, that suggested that she may have been even receiving counseling from the pastor of the church slash school. I don't know if that was confirmed or not. So that's what we do know since the shooting, here's what's happened.

Ms. Hale has been lauded by the LGBT community as a martyr. There are, there are individuals that have actually identified her as a victim because of the ongoing narrative regarding the trans community and how they are persecuted and how they are hated.

And so that the reason she did what she did was because she's a, she was a victim and a martyr. She has been portrayed very positively in the media, talking about how she was a smart and loving and quiet young woman.

She was an artist, et cetera. The media has even gone so far as to attempt, try to tamp down this, the issue of her referring to herself as trans, as transgender by in one hard article put out by Reuters, they refer to her as a former Christian school student, basically saying here was a person who was a Christian who went back into a Christian school and killed other Christian.

We know that during a recent protest in Tennessee, I think it had to do with their transgender laws, which are being debated and potentially passed about having to, let's just say we're not going to poison children and mutilate their bodies in the name of transgender protections.

So that protest is going on and while it's going on, the protesters are identifying not six, but seven victims indicating that they indicate, believe Ms. Hale is a victim, despite the fact that she brutally murdered three older people and three nine-year-old children.

She, that they are being referred to as a victim by protesters. The media has apologized repeatedly for referring to her as a woman instead of a man in initial reports. The media has reported that Hale was not accepted by her Christian family.

There was a headline, and I'll see if I can find it again while I'm going through this, that kind of referred to her as having been rejected by her family. Let me find this real quick. I was just looking at it and I'm going to, I hate when I have everything up and then I forget to do that one, but I can't find it.

The Transgender Ideology and Biblical Anthropology

While you're looking for that, I mean one of the things that.

We did notice with it is the media did call her a female initially and this is the thing that's so interesting with it is how they quickly had to change the narrative when they realized what was actually happening.

We don't see, if you look at the name of the school as Covenant Christian School, everyone refers to it as Covenant School. It's interesting the word Christians dropped out. True. Her transgenderism was dropped out in the beginning until she suddenly became a victim and now she's transgender.

It was, you saw originally the headlines former Christian student and that's the only time you'd see Christian in there when she was identified as the Christian doing the shooting. So, as far as it being a hate crime, it's interesting because in every other case, the manifesto that they write is made public.

In this one, it isn't, and they're all trying to make it about, well, this is what happened at her school when she was there in sixth grade? Yeah. Sixth grade. Okay. So, well, we don't know and the media doesn't know because the police haven't released the manifesto.

Exactly. So, they're saying, oh, this is why, but yet again, we see the media rushing to judgment on a narrative, not the truth. We don't know what the truth is because they won't release it. Exactly,.

And that's exactly one of the biggest problems, and I did find the headline. It was from Daily Mail. Their picture for this particular article puts down the statement, Trans Outcast. Big capital letters and then exclusive.

Nashville school shooter was rejected by her Christian parents. So, that's one of the things. That's what we do know is that they are basically painting that narrative that she is a victim of Christianity, Christian hate, so to speak.

We know that the media and trans activists have alleged that the trans community will be victimized or be persecuted by anti-trans hate after this shooting. It was NBC News that listed their article saying, Fear pervades Tennessee's trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter's gender identity.

Quote, We were already fearing for our lives. Now, it's even worse, end quote. So, this is what we're seeing evolve post-shooting. Chris, how many articles are there about.

Christians shooting trans people? Last I checked, zero. Yeah, I don't remember. I mean, I remember they were quick to accuse Christians at a nightclub, a gay nightclub. Oh, but that turned out to be a Muslim.

You know, I just think that if they're going to say that Christians are out trying to kill all the trans people, there should be some statistics to support it. Am I crazy in.

Thinking such things? I think you would be crazy in the eyes of the people we'll be talking about tonight, but I think if you're a rational thinking person, no, which is the problem. We're not dealing with a lot of rationality and logical thinking.

And just a couple other last things that we've seen is that media has criticized Christians and other media personalities for saying transgender ideology is anti-Christian. That was something that came up when Tucker Carlson, I think, rightly pointed out that transgender ideology is incompatible and antithetical to Christian doctrine, and that blew up.

The response to that was almost worse than how people felt about the shooting. And then some evangelical leaders, Tom Buck shared this earlier as an example, one was Nate Collins of Revoice, was appealing to Christians to be kind in addressing Hale as someone who suffered, quote-unquote, parental rejection.

I believe his tweet was along the lines of, we can simultaneously, you know, be sympathetic and compassionate about the victims of the shooter, but at the same time have compassion toward Hale because she was a victim of parental rejection.

So these are things that have developed since the shooting, and that hopefully brings you kind of up to speed and understanding what we're actually talking about tonight. And that's the thing that I hope this is what we, or this is what our world is dealing with, Andrew, is that we are, as Christians, we just saw a Christian school slash church violently attacked children.

We're not even just talking about a provoked incident where somebody got hurt but who happened to be Christian was killed because of maybe a conflict between parties in a protest or something like that.

No, we saw someone who actively planned, actively targeted, and went to the process of killing specifically children and adults who are professing Christians in a Christian school. And yet, what we are watching is a real train wreck of reaction.

And honestly, I think by the, before the next week is out, this story is going to be buried. I genuinely believe that. One of the more recent nightclub shootings where the shooter went to court and identified, oh, by the way, I'm non-binary, within a week that shooting story died.

And I firmly believe that this one will as well because you can't get around this.

This is where I disagree with you. Okay. I do. I don't think it's going to die because they found a way to fit the narrative. As you've already said, the real victim here is not the three nine-year-olds nor the three 60-year-olds.

The real victim is the 28-year-old who just recently became transgender. Now she's 28. She went to this school because of what they did to her in sixth grade. This is 20 years later, maybe a little less, but roughly.

So, we don't know what that manifesto says. We don't know what her reasons are, but we do know one thing for sure. She went to that school to commit a form of suicide. Indeed. She knew she was going to die.

She anticipated she was going to die. She wanted to die, but not at her own hands. And she wanted, this is personally why I'm against any manifestos being made public in the sense where these people want to kill people so their voice could be heard.

That's why I like Daily Wire. It doesn't mention the names of the people that do these sort of killings. They shouldn't be mentioned. And so, the thing is, is that when you provide the manifesto and it gets out there, it encourages more people that just want to be heard to get national attention to be heard, even in their death.

And so, in that sense, I'm glad that it's not being shared. I wish they would not share any of them. But since they share all the others and not sharing this one, it leads me to believe that they read this and went, oh, no, Christians are going to be seen as a victim here, and we can't have that.

I mean, Madonna is flying to the United States, to Tennessee. Why? To go to Nashville. For the victims? No, just one victim, supposed victim. She's coming in because to support the LGBT community. Well, this was a crime committed by the LGBT community, the way that they always try to say it, right?

It's always, if they can blame it on a Christian, when an abortion clinic was shot up, that was a Christian doing it. And they were quick to say that. And then they found out, nope, it wasn't. When the massage parlors were shot up, oh, it was a Christian.

He attended church. And then they found out, yeah, that wasn't the case either. When it was a gay bar shot up, it was a Christian that did that. And then they found out it was a Muslim. You know, they rushed to judgment to blame Christians.

And as you mentioned, both earlier and in your article that you have on slavedtotheking .com, the fact that what they're doing is they're in a rush to judge Christians, but they do not want Christians to be seen as the victim.

The Christians constantly have to be the guilty party all the time. And so what we end up seeing is they are justifying, as you mentioned in your article, Maxine Waters, who justifies going out and attacking conservatives if they're seen in public, because they should be hiding.

They shouldn't be out in public. And that's exactly what ends up happening. And she goes, well, I have no responsibility for that. But they want to blame all Christians for anything that any Christian does.

We've seen this with the church shooting in Texas. I forget the other, the black church that, where they were, oh, that was national news with the black church until everybody from that church offered forgiveness to the guy that shot them.

And then they wanted, it just dropped from the news. They don't want anything of that because the only reason that interested them was it was a black church. But every time that you see Christians being killed, the media wants to blame the Christians for someone killing them.

And they're justifying. And look, Chris, we have to be honest. We have entered a third world country. America is now a third world country. We have just arrested a political opponent. That's what third world countries do.

So we shouldn't be surprised when we see things like this happening where the media, which is just propaganda for the regime, is just promoting whatever angle they have to because if they don't promote the regime's message, well, soon they'll be imprisoned or killed like in other.

Third world countries. I absolutely agree with you, brother. And I think we'll get to explain that here in just a little bit because what we're watching is a culture that is continuing to steep itself further and further into sin, into the celebration and acceptance and affirmation of sin in rebellion against God and what we see in this shooting.

And I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out what motive is. And in fact, I would argue that we can even know what motive is by listening to our own political opponents, so to speak, those within the transgender community, because they even recognize, well, it's because that's a Christian school and Christians are bad.

They're responding that way. So I think most everybody can identify that. So let's start with trans identity as a biblical issue. Now, I would challenge how Tarko Carlson presented it to an extent. I think he was very accurate in his Fox News monologue.

But one of the things he said is that he referred to trans ideology as a mirror image of Christianity. I think what he's trying to say is kind of a reverse image or an antithetical image to Christian doctrine.

And that's why I say I think his language is a little bit muddled there, but it is absolutely antithetical. And as he pointed out where Christians recognize there's nothing of ourselves that has a goodness or or I'm trying to say the right words and I'm getting ahead of myself.

So bear with me. There's nothing about ourselves that we count as good or perfect or worthy. We recognize that before God, we are unrighteous, unholy, wicked, vile sinners, and that it is through the humiliation of bowing ourselves humbly before the Lord, admitting our sins, confessing and repenting of our sins and turning to Jesus Christ that we have been made worthy, that there is something now truly good and truly righteous about us.

But it's not us. It's Christ in us where the opposite is true within transgender ideology. Transgender ideology says, I determine my worth. I determine that I am good. What I feel and what I decide of myself, that is what is paramount and everyone must accept it.

And the only sin in transgender ideology is to deny that transgender ideology is true and correct. Everything else is permissible. So they are on a collision course, despite what happened on Joy Reid's show on MSNBC, where a man pretending to be a woman, going by the name of Charlotte Clymer, tried to say that he speaks the voice of Christ through his understanding of the Christian faith through actual love and acceptance and such, and denies Christ from people who say that transgender ideology is sinful.

Rather, it is despite his claims, which are a complete misrepresentation of the truth, these two are on a collision course and we saw them collide together in Nashville. So why do I say that? Why do I say that transgender ideology is antithetical to Scripture?

It's quite simple. Scripture tells us, you look at Genesis chapter 1 verse 27, also echoed by Christ in Matthew chapter 19 verse 4, it is God who made us male and female. God made us male and female. There is not a male that God went, oops, you're actually female.

There's not a female where God went, ugh, and you're actually male. God made you what you were knit together in your mother's womb. Psalm 139 verses 13 and 14, for you formed my inward parts. You knitted me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works. My soul knows it very well. The psalmist recognizing made by God in his mother's womb. There is nothing about that that's a mistake.

All right, now you're going to have inevitably, well what about the what abouts that are genetic abnormalities? Number one, are extremely small end of the spectrum and account for virtually nothing of what we're discussing here in terms of transgenderism.

Secondly, genetic abnormalities are evidence of the fall and it does not mean that you are something other than male or female. It means that your biology as a result of the fall, just like someone who has, you know, genetic abnormalities that cause illness or have heart problems or have, you know, limb distortions, that is a result of the fall.

So before we go there, let's not even try that. But it was God who has knit us together and determined our gender. It is God who defines our gender and our sexuality. Genesis chapter 2 verses 18 to 25 says, then the Lord God said, it is not good that man should be alone.

I will make him a helper fit for him. Now out of the ground, the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

The man gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam, there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man.

And while he slept, took one of his ribs and closed up its place in his flesh. And that and the rib that the Lord had taken from him, from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, this is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

God made them male and female. God ordained the relationship of marriage between man and a woman. And for all those who say, Jesus never spoke of gay marriage. Yes, he did. Go back to Matthew chapter 19, where he refers directly to this.

This is God's ordaining of the sex and gender and sexuality and marriage and how sexuality is to be expressed. Everything in this passage. And we look at places like Deuteronomy 22, five, a man shall not wear a woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak.

Whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God. God defines even how we represent ourselves. Yes, fashions change over time. Okay. But what is clearly that which is feminine belongs to women.

Clearly that is masculine belongs to men. That's why these abominations that are currently walking the catwalk as these new fashions come out are meant to be gender neutral. They're to neuter men. They are meant to make women masculine to destroy that.

That's why they know that God's law tells them they cannot do this, yet they will. It is God who says to us in Leviticus 18, 22, you shall not lie with a male as a with a woman. It is an abomination against sexuality defined by God.

And we see it all culminating. All of this, everything that God has said about who we are as men and women, we see in Romans chapter 1 what happens to a people when they reject God's definition of gender and sexuality.

Romans chapter 1, verses 26 and 27. For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged their natural relations for those that are contrary to nature. And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another.

Men committing shameless acts with men. And receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. Andrew, we see this happening. That God has designed us. He has made us. He has defined who we are right down to our biology and how that is to be expressed and how we are to come together to become one flesh.

And yet, what we are watching with the transgender community is to say, no, it's all flipped. We can decide whatever we want to be. I absolutely agree when I hear people like Tucker Carlson say, these two cannot coexist, right?

No, they can't. And the thing is,.

Is that what they want us to do, and think about how fast this has changed. This has only been within the last decade that all of a sudden the left tapped into something that they can do to say, look, we can blame conservatives, we can blame Christians specifically, so that we can say, look, they're against love.

And that's the whole agenda of this. So, when you have these people that want to try to say, well, we should be kind to the homosexuals and the transgenders, they're not being kind to us, okay? And one of the arguments that they make is that this is, I've heard the issue of healthcare.

I've heard the issue that their lives are at risk. You mentioned it earlier, that they're going to gather together and say how, I mean, their life is at risk. While they are, as we speak, committing what was previously called insurrection, when they took over just, what, last weekend, took over a Capitol building.

And there's no news about that being an insurrection. In fact, even though there was violence, it was, again, reported as mostly a peaceful event. And what will it take for them to admit that there's some violence going on when the left is doing it?

Well, nothing, because they're going to refuse, they're going to ignore it. And that's what we see time and time again in this, is that this is all about the agenda, right? So, you and I have talked about this in the past.

Right now, truth doesn't matter. You know, theology doesn't matter. Narrative matters. That's what we're seeing. The only thing that they care about is the narrative that they can spin. And the narrative that they're spinning is, well, you know, Christians want to kill transgenders.

No, I'll tell you what Christians want to do. Christians are not like Muslims. We don't want to throw them off buildings. We don't want to kill them. We want to share the gospel with them. That's what a Christian wants to do with a transgender.

But what are you hearing from the transgenders right now? I mean, they were going to have in DC, I know it was canceled, but elsewhere, their day of rage was today, which I think fitting for April 1st, because their rage is an April Fool's joke.