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Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. The Babylon Bee is a cute little

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Christian satire company. The Bee Weekly. How you guys doing?

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Having a good week? No. Pretty good. No weird. Best week ever. Best week of all time.

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Why would Elon Musk, a non -religious billionaire, decide to be interviewed by these

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Christians? We're the only U .S. provider of astronaut transport to the space station.

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We publish six to eight satire articles a day. The story begins with Elon Musk's growing frustration with California's restrictive policies.

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Yes, California approved, but an unelected county official illegally overrode.

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Also, all other auto companies in U .S. are approved to resume. Only Tesla has been singled out.

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This is super messed up. In 2020, there was a standoff between Elon Musk and the state of California concerning the reopening of Tesla's factory in Fremont during the pandemic shutdowns.

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In May of 2020, California lawmaker Lorena Gonzalez -Fletcher tweeted,

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F. Elon Musk. In a follow -up tweet, Gonzalez tweeted that California had highly subsidized a company that has always disregarded worker safety and well -being, has engaged in union busting, and bullies public servants.

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Message received. In the same month, Elon Musk tweeted,

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Take the red pill, and announced he was moving Tesla's headquarters from California to Texas.

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The story continues with the recent rapid growth of the Babylon Bee, a

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Christian satire company. In the beginning, the Babylon Bee gained popularity within a relatively small

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Christian niche with its Christian satire. Eventually, the Babylon Bee started adding more political satire to its comedy with extremely popular videos concerning transgenderism,

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I never felt better. Free to be my true self.

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Live my truth. Just be me. Completely unrelated. cancel culture,

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You know, maybe it's just me, but I think it's bad when a cop dies too. These monsters kill if they hear you say an opinion they don't like.

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and socialism. Imagine there's no money. The Babylon Bee's political satire launched it into mainstream discussions, with even

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Snopes fact -checking the Bee's satire articles. We are fake news, and Snopes never gets anything wrong.

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So don't ever subscribe to the Babylon Bee. That would be irresponsible. Alright, we got it.

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Oh, please, Mr. Snopes, please let me go! In December of 2021,

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Babylon Bee published a video on its YouTube channel titled Trailer. The Babylon Bee Interviews Elon Musk with a note in the thumbnail saying

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We're not kidding. And sure enough, they weren't kidding. Shortly afterwards, the

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Babylon Bee published the full interview with Elon Musk. I guess before we get started, like, uh, maybe you guys could tell me, like, what's the, you know, how did the

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Bee get started? The common thought was, how in the world did a little

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Christian company like the Babylon Bee get an interview with a man like Elon Musk?

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Why did Elon Musk agree to do this interview? Well, the

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Babylon Bee has established itself as one of the most effective and humorous critics of woke cancel culture.

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Racism, it's everywhere. And as Pete Buttigieg tells us, it's baked into the very asphalt of our highways and roads.

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Here's everything you need to know about racist roads. And Elon Musk is one of the primary targets of this woke cancel culture.

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Let's change the rig tax code so the person of the year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.

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And if you opened your eyes for two seconds, you would realize I will pay more taxes than any

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American in history this year. Although the Babylon Bee interviewers did an extremely poor job of presenting the gospel to Elon Musk, This is true.

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I, so, okay, so to make this church, we have to do, we have to make sure, just, we're wondering if you could do us a quick solid and accept

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Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Personal Lord and Savior. It's a quick prayer.

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Our men today are trusting in the fact that at least one time in their life they prayed a prayer and someone told them they were saved because they were sincere enough.

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And so in their salvation, if you ask them, are you saved? They do not say, yes,

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I am because I'm looking unto Jesus and there is mighty evidence giving me assurance of being born again.

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No, they say, one time in my life I prayed a prayer. And although Elon Musk is certainly still not a

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Christian, despite this odd exchange, I mean, let's just say, like, I agree with the principles that Jesus advocated and that the, you know, there's some, there's great wisdom in what, in the teachings of Jesus and I agree with those teachings.

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And things like tone the other cheek are very important because as opposed to an eye for an eye. An eye for an eye leads everyone blind.

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So forgiveness, you know, is important and treating people as you would wish to be treated.

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Love thy neighbor as thyself. Very important. So it's like a 60 -70 % yes? As Einstein would say,

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I believe in the God of Spinoza. So, but hey, if, you know, if Jesus is saving people,

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I mean, I wouldn't stand in his way, you know, like, they'll be sure, I'll be saved, why not? Sweet, we did it?

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I think he just said yes. We got him. We got him. Well, how much do you have to hate

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Elon Musk to sit there and listen to him and it's obvious he's not a Christian, it's obvious he's dead in his trespasses and sins, it's obvious he's unregenerate, and not give him the gospel and just say, oh, praise the

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Lord, woohoo, we got him. Are you kidding me? I've heard more gospel from Joel Osteen.

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It seems clear that Elon Musk decided to team up with the Babylon Bee because of a shared recognition that the policies and ideologies of the radical left poses an immense danger to our civilization.

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If I believe healthcare is a right as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone's zip code.

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There was common ground concerning several of the issues they discussed.

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At its heart, workness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful.

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It basically gives mean people a reason, it gives them a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.

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Although there are certainly vital worldview differences between Christians and all non -Christians, certain cultural shifts have created some very interesting and unexpected alliances between Christians and non -Christians.

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If Elon Musk were paying at the same rate as the rest of Americans on their wealth, then

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Elon Musk and his kind could be funding a huge part of what we need in America.

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This is why many Christians have found some common ground with organizations like The Daily Wire.

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We're going to have one of our favorite people on. You know him, he really doesn't need much of an introduction for our audience.

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His name is Ben Shapiro. He is the editor -in -chief of The Daily Wire. He is known for saying one of my favorite things, and that is the facts don't care about your feelings.

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Check out this clip. Clip number one, Marcus, give it a roll. You're not being polite to the pronouns. Disrespect.

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Okay, forget about the disrespect. Facts don't care about your feelings. You cut that out now, or you'll go home in an ambulance.

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Yeah, that seems mildly inappropriate for a political discussion. And PragerU, and why Votie Bockham has become friends with atheists like James Lindsay.

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Another resource, and I quoted from this resource earlier, New Discourses. Now, New Discourses is curated by an atheist.