White Supremacy, MLKJr.’s Theology, Imputed Guilt by Race, Kyle Howard, Racialism, Phones

Greetings and welcome to the dividing line, third dividing line of this week. Unusual to be doing one on a Friday, but actually, next week's going to be really tough on programs. Probably only going to get one in.

I'm going to be gone from Wednesday on, so I guess you could just say we're doing one early for next week, I suppose. But actually, have to deal with some unpleasant issues today, I suppose. You can't stick your head in the sand and ignore what is going on.

Over the weekend, of course, I grew up in a very conservative background, so National Council of Churches always has a negative mindset for me. I'm not sure how, as a young person, I knew that that was a liberal group, but I did.

We had a number of speakers there who said some pretty amazing things, if you caught any of it. One of them was Jim Wallace of the Sojourners. You need to understand, when you do a little digging and a little looking around, the old phrase, follow the money, comes up in many of these situations.

There are large concerns around the world who are very much behind the promotion of a globalist form of government that are very interested in investing money in religious people because they know this is a good way of accomplishing their goals.

And so, follow the money with many of these organizations. Listen to Jim Wallace in his speech given in Washington over the weekend at the National Council of Churches event. Confession is telling the truth.

It's telling the truth to God and the world about ourselves. Jesus says, you'll know the truth, the truth will set you free. Confession leads to freedom. This day is about freedom for all of us. Without confession to the sin of white racism, white supremacy, white privilege, people who call themselves white Christians will never be free.

Free from the bondage of a lie, a myth, an ideology, and an idol. White Christians, since the founding of America, have been living a lie. What does that do to your soul, to live a lie? Confession means to tell the truth to God and to the world so Jesus can set us free.

And a little bit later, on Good Friday, our churches preached that our sins had nailed Christ to the cross, all of our sins, past, present, and future. That means the sins of white colonialism and white racism helped to nail Jesus to the cross on Good Friday.

But did white churches in America preach how our racism helped nail Jesus to the cross? Without truth-telling, we are still in bondage and need to be set free. That's why we say that white racism is our great sin, that is America's original sin foundational to our country.

He went on, evidently, to make a reference to the Marvel movie Black Panther. I didn't see it, but I saw some clips about it. As a realistic example of what Africa would look like without the bondage of colonialism...

Yeah, um, really? That really destroys your point pretty quickly, doesn't it? But anyway, you will notice, without confession to the sin of white racism... How about black racism? How about Asian racism?

How about Hispanic racism? Racism is a sin, and since sin, biblically, is the common experience of all the children of Adam, to limit and to use terms like white, brown, yellow, black, whatever shade of skin to describe sin is biblically inane.

It's just biblically ridiculous.

Sin is a function of fallen human nature. It has nothing to do with the color of your skin. And so a white racist is a sinner in God's sight. A black racist is a sinner in God's sight, but immediately there are people who are watching right now that are going, no, no, you don't understand.

There can't be a black racist. If you say that, you are a racist. You are a racist. You may not know it. You may parade it under some grand terminology that has helped you to hide it and to hide the truth from yourself.

But if you don't realize that racism is a human sin based upon rejecting the biblical truth that all men are created in the image of God, then you're not going to even have a category for looking back in history at the black slave traders in Africa.

When I was in Malaga, Spain, one of the sort of fun things I've been doing while traveling is, since I took up running in 2014, when I'm near an ocean somewhere, I try to find a way to run along the seashore.

It's beautiful. It really is. Not in the sand. I'm not, it's not a, what was that? I'm hearing the music right now. The guy is running along the seashore. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not, yeah, I'm not into chariots of fire.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Whatever. That's more like six million dollar man there. But anyway. But, you know, if there's a trail or something like that in Malaga, there was a nice wooden trail and then it would go to asphalt.

So it was beautiful.

It was really nice. Anyway, I tried to run along next to the ocean. And one of the things you'll see along the seacoast are these lookout structures. And they were built initially because African pirates, in essence, would sail across the Mediterranean and land in small villages and would steal people to make them slaves in Africa.

Now, these were Africans enslaving Europeans. Was that a sin? Yes or no? If you say yes, then it's not a matter of white versus black versus Asian. Most of us don't even know about the tensions that exist in Southeast Asia between various, sometimes even small ethnic groups.

And man, if you ever talk to anybody, the Koreans, the Japanese, the Chinese, oh, wow. I mean, we don't hear much about over here, but tremendous tensions that exist between.

People.

We couldn't tell by looking at them, but they can. And when the church goes into any of those areas, it has to deal with those pre-existing issues and it does so in the exact same way. That's why we're dealing with this, is because what we're seeing is a movement that is capturing large portions of even, sadly, Reformed works.

And it's undercutting the only way that the church has ever had to find peace in those situations, which was not by doing genealogical ancestral repentance. It was by seeing who we are as new creatures in Christ, barriers wiped away, nailed to the cross, one in Him.

We focus on that. We don't focus on what our ancestors did. I'm even seeing amazing, I'm seeing people trying to go to Daniel 9, trying to go to Leviticus and drag us back under the Mosaic code, back into the cursings and blessings of Deuteronomy 28 and 29, as if that's what the church is supposed to be doing.

And I'm just like, wow, compare that stretch with what I provided in the last program from Colossians chapter 3, direct exegesis to the church, and you might get an idea what's going on here. But anyway, here you've got Wallace and you've got these others at this, and really it's straightforward racism at these things.

This is when you are willing to ignore, when you're willing to simply talk about whites as a whole and ignore the distinctions, ignore all the differences, when you're willing to just throw people into a bucket, you are a racist.

You are a racist. So there is this huge racist get together, all in the name of justice, of course, I mean, that's how you get away with it. I mean, you have to think a lot of these folks down their hearts, realize that they are really stretching things.

But anyway, when you can just throw terms like that around without even recognizing how ahistorical, illogical, irrational your words are, it's the same thing. I don't care whether you say white or black or yellow or tan or brown, it doesn't matter to me what shade, we're all people of color.

I know people who are actually lighter skinned than I am. Tough to do, but I do. I mean, you ever been to Norway? They never see the sun in Norway. So I've seen people like that, so I'm a person of color to them.

It doesn't matter. You see, when you break it down that way, what they're saying is, well, it's more of a cultural thing. You're part of this culture of oppression, you know, and that's when the mask really starts falling off and you really start seeing that this is a political movement that is taking on religious overtones.

It's willing to slather some religion on there. And hey, if you can get people to become so emotional that they become attached to these things and they really are religious and they really do have religious motivations, hey, now you've really accomplished something.

And that's why, again, you have to see who's giving whom to what. Giving what to whom, I guess, would be the way to put it. Anyway, so that's why we say that white racism is our great sin. That is America's original sin.

Well, when you repent of a sin, do you have to keep doing it over and over again? What is the end game here? What is the final desired outcome of all of this? I mean, every meaningful sound church that I know of is open to everyone to come and hear and to participate and to be a part of it.

Everyone I know. And when you encounter churches that aren't that way, they are very quickly marked out and condemned. So if you find churches that are straightforward saying, you know, we're only comfortable with this, that, or the other, that's what so bothered me last, well, November of 2016.

When Jamar Tisby says after Donald Trump is elected, I'm afraid to worship with white people because that's a disassociation that finds its origin in him. I think he's one of the same people that was talking about, hey, you know, we black people need to be given time to just be with other black people and to do black people things and things like that.

And I'm like, you know, if a white person said that, they would be rightly condemned inside the body, I suppose, even outside, I would think. But given that a sound church anywhere in the world is going to be open to everyone, then all sound churches have to deal with the fact that wherever they are, Africa, Asia, India, South America, I mean, I'll be honest with you, I know almost nothing about the kinds of racial tensions that exist in South America, but I guarantee you they're there because I believe in total depravity.

So wherever your church is, you can't be blind to the realities of history. But what is your answer to it? Your answer is not to give in to those worldly categories. Your radical answer is to say, you have left those old relationships, you've put off the old man.

You've put on a new man that is being renewed in the image of the one who created him. And that renewal is one that does not know. Male and female and Jew and Gentile and Scythian and barbarian, it doesn't, that's no longer a part of what binds us together.

And this is the radical, beautiful message that can allow the church to exist and can be this oasis of peace in the middle of the mess of the world. That's what gives it its strength and its uniqueness.

What I'm seeing is people coming in saying, that's too simple. We need to bring those old relationships in. We need to bring that stuff from the past in. We need to keep going over it and going over it and going over it.

And it brings the division that then causes the church to lose sight of what its actual goal is. We are in the midst of a fight for our life in Western culture because of the rise of secular humanism and the rise of totalitarian secularism.

And what better way to make sure that we are defeated than to divide us along the lines of our skin color? And what happened 100, 200, or 500 years ago? What better way to distract and to divide than that?

And I think that's the exact purpose of certain people, exact purpose of certain people that are putting the money out. It may not be the people that end up doing the actual dividing, but there you go.

So, amazing, amazing things were said. Here is a rabbi. We will not be divided by the perpetrators of, now listen to the lines here, white supremacy and homophobia and Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.

Well, that's interesting. I have not personally met a white supremacist. I really haven't. Somebody may have shaken my hand once in a line someplace. I don't have any control over that. But I've never encountered one.

And I would find white supremacy and black supremacy or Asian supremacy or any kind of white supremacy gross, repulsive, disgusting, reprehensible, and in the church, absolute blatant heresy. Absolute blatant heresy.

It's one race, one blood, made in the image of God, period, end of discussion. And if you promote any kind of racial supremacy or racialism, I'm going to say you are wrong. Now, what we need to understand then is the response is not going to be generally exegetical.

It's not going to be to argue the Bible. I mean, you know, someone's going to throw out, well, but what was Daniel doing and that type of stuff and completely avoid the context. But look, we've got the high ground.

We can just sit there. Well, let's start back in Colossians 3 again, okay? There's no way around it. It's straightforward. I mean, I had one guy on Twitter tried to say, well, I just don't agree with that reading.

When I tried to push, there was, it was jello. There was no meaningful response at all. Just, well, I just don't see it that way. Well, that's nice. How do you see it? Let's see some meaningful interpretation here.

And you just don't get it. You just get emotions and feelings and, oh, but these folks just make me feel so good about myself when I feel guilty and things like that. You just hit something out there that just made the thing start talking in here.

Rich is playing with technology. So anyway, this idea, you know, white supremacy and homophobia, well, that gives you some idea and you'd expect this from the National Council of Churches, okay? We get that we're talking about some incredibly leftist type people there, but at the same time, what a lot of people are rather astounded by is what we saw at the MLK 50 gathering.

And that is, we heard a lot of the exact same categories without the added homophobia type stuff that was clearly present in the other. But a lot of the very same willingness to generalize about whites, whoever they are, I mean, I've got a bummer last name for this particular discussion, but, so you're connected, ready for use.

Yeah, everyone's hearing it. It's, yeah, it's great. Anyway, a lot of discussion of whites in general. And, you know, am I allowed, by the way, am I allowed to be offended by that? I mean, I never want to speak of blacks in general, because I recognize all sorts of different backgrounds and experiences and in the church levels of sanctification and the whole nine yards, just like I do everybody else, whether they're Filipino or Chinese or Hispanic or German or whatever, throwing everybody into one bucket and just treating them all as if they're all the same is grossly offensive.

It really is. It's just, it's racist. But it's amazing that racist attitudes can end up being expressed so boldly under the rubric of we are not the racists and you are. It's like, OK. In fact, I was looking at a article at reform, not reformed, but reformbaptist .com from this morning.

Someone named Joshua. I didn't, I couldn't find anything more on it. And this one particular, well, two paragraphs. Generalized people, especially when many of them are unable to see the warrant or simply disagree with the proposed warrant on a factual basis, are pushed away from productive discussion primarily because they do not find any free air in the submarine.

Every breath they take is used for their own demise, while a great number of opponents continue to label this dissenting group what it wishes. Privileged, racist, uninformed, etc. Anything said in response to the populace in the submarine is a use of the populace as oxygen, and that has to change.

To be clearer, a movement may decide to write off any carefully thought out response before the respondent can even be heard. The movement has taken a narrative for granted, and any rational questioner of the movement is told they are blind to their privilege, their Uncle Tom's, in the case they possess darker melanin, etc.

And this is an across-the-board dismissal. This movement will write off anyone, no matter their skin color, experiences, etc. They have a monopoly on the truth.

Exactly.

Exactly.

That was an article titled, Thabiti and TGC, a response from the Baptist Reformation by Joshua dated today. Again, I don't know who the Joshua is, but exactly. That is exactly what I wanted to communicate, so it's nice to quote somebody else rather than just yourself.

What I saw yesterday in social media was, well, let me go ahead and address the huge question, because I think it needs to be addressed. In 2004, we did a program, it's been lost, it's one of the lost dividing lines, and the blog article I wrote with it also got lost in one of the upgrades, transfers, whatever.

But I did a program on Martin Luther King, and I read from his own writings some of his beliefs. You have seen it admitted, plainly, at the MLK get-together, that when it comes to the issue of an orthodox confession of faith, that Dr. King did not have an orthodox confession of faith in regards to the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the virgin birth, the resurrection, really the whole core of the Christian faith.

His viewpoints on that, he went to a liberal seminary, and of course, the argument has been made over the past few weeks, well, that was the white folks' fault. He couldn't go to the good seminaries because they weren't letting black folks in, and so he went to a bad seminary and imbibed that, and so therefore he's really not responsible.

For it.

Well, I'm not sure exactly how far you push that, but Bob Gagnon posted just a few days yesterday an article that really put the lie to all of that, because years and years later, Martin Luther King, obviously an incredibly intelligent man, wrote about the developments he had had in his theology since his graduation up to that point in his life.

And when you read it, you see again, I went to Fuller, and I had to read lots of liberals at Fuller, and I know these names, and I know the terminology, and I can recognize what's being said. There was this article that was sent to me, I think someone on SBC Voices or something had posted this thing where, well, we know that Martin Luther King became orthodox later because he said, I've returned to the God of my fathers, or something along those lines.

So you can take that incredibly ambiguous statement, or you can take what Martin Luther King wrote himself about where he was years later in his viewpoint, and he talks about some of the things, some of the things where he had left liberalism, but what he left behind about liberalism was not his rejection of the inerrancy of scripture or divine revelation or things like that.

What he had found impossible to continue to hold to were concepts such as the innate goodness of man, which is pretty hard for almost anybody to hold to when they live in the real world anyways. And so you read the whole thing, and Bob Gagnon referenced it so you could read it.

You read the whole thing. There's nothing there whatsoever about, you know, I've come to understand God's triune nature and Jesus Christ truly rose from the dead. Liberals will always talk about Jesus rising from the dead, but they don't mean that Jesus rose from the dead.

It refers to your experience of his love in your life. Watch the debate that Jim Renahan and I did with Marcus Borg and John Dominic Croson. You'll start to get the idea of what's really at stake, and you'll even see the point in the debate where they're both like, wait a minute, do you actually think his grave was physically empty?

And it took half the debate to get there. It really did.

Remember?

And it's just like, yes, we do. Wow, that's an amazing belief.

Yeah.

Okay, so liberals could talk about that kind of stuff. So when it comes to, you know, I fully understand why people want to try to find some way to make Martin Luther King an orthodox evangelical. He wasn't.

He wasn't. You just, that's just, that's the historical fact. Deal with it. Now, I don't know how to deal, honestly, with the FBI material that was released only a matter of, what, three, four months ago by President Trump.

So there is, you know, you've got Abernathy's biography of Martin Luther King that has been out there for years. And it seems to me the FBI material is not that far away from Abernathy's own words and descriptions of an incredibly salacious and immoral private life.

And certainly I'm not, I don't like to trust the FBI these days for almost anything, to.

Be honest with you.

I am developing a very, very healthy libertarian streak in regards to a distrust of governmental authorities. And I wouldn't put anything past the people that age in what they were doing. But there does seem to be very strong evidence of minimally, minimally serial infidelity and adultery on Martin Luther King's part.

So you have to take all these things together. And obviously, you can look at all sorts of other people that have been involved in doing good things in the past, culturally, who didn't even make a profession of being a Christian.

And you can honor what they did without even bringing all the rest of that stuff in. But for the Christian, you have the dual issue of, you've got that area, the civil rights, the political area, but you can't just put off to the side and say, let's not worry about it.

When you have directly documented, heretical, as in separated from the Christian faith, statements combined with behavior that in anyone else would be considered utterly reprehensible. But you're not allowed to say that, at least not today.

Because people say, well, one's more important than the other. I was glad to see that at least some of the materials, online materials, I didn't spend a lot of time looking at it, but some of the online materials, just stated these things as facts.

These are the facts. These are what you got to deal with. This is the reality. His theology was not orthodox. And I think when you see people trying to get rid of that, trying to say, well, I mean, really going so far as to saying, well, he returned to the God of his father.

And I actually had one of the statements in one of the articles was, that was code language amongst the Black people that he had embraced orthodoxy. I'm just like, wow, this is not being written by a historian, I hope.

I mean, you really want to take that one into a debate. Slim pickings. Real slim there. And so you have, and I've seen, there is absolutely no reason to rejoice in someone's unorthodox confession. There is no reason to rejoice in the documentation of serial sexual sin.

Anybody who does, you've got to check your heart. But at the same time, I'm seeing such lionization, such exaltation of documentation. I'm seeing such exaltation of Dr. King, that it seems like you can't have a balanced and in the middle arena of going unorthodox, liberal, rejects the core of the Christian faith, serious moral problems, bravely stood up for doing the right things in regards to civil rights.

Evidently, that sort of factual, truthful middle ground, not allowed to go there. It's sort of one side or the other. It's just, that's what divisiveness does, is it creates that divide and no one wants to be in the middle because of all the arrows flying over your head.

So it was in that context then that the article that got everybody talking was posted on the 4th by Thabiti Anyabwili. And well, I don't need all white people to feel guilty about the 1950s and 60s, especially those who weren't even alive.

But I do need all of us to suspect that sin isn't done working its way through society. I do need all my neighbors, especially my brothers and sisters in Christ to recognize that no sin has ever been eliminated from the world and certainly not eliminated simply with the passage of time and a willingness of some people to act as if it was never there.

If this country will make any significant stride toward freedom, it must have enough courage to at least make it clear that Dr. King didn't just die, but was assassinated, murdered, violently killed, and with the approval of far too many in this country.

I just stopped for a moment. I've never met anyone in my life that did not say that Martin Luther King was assassinated or murdered. I've just never. I mean, sadly, I've met a lot of people who didn't know who he was, but most people today don't know who the vice president is, don't know who Ronald Reagan was.

They're just, they just, here's their world. If it doesn't pop up here, they don't know. That's just how it is. I've never met anybody. He met a violent death from a violent man. I'm sure there are all sorts of theories about the complicitness of governmental authorities or the Memphis police or whatever else it is, just as there are a billion theories about what happened with the JFK assassination and all the rest of that stuff.

I don't know it's possible. I happen to know a lot about the JFK thing, but that's another issue. There was a reason for that and it's sort of weird. Anyway, I've told that story before. Yes, he was assassinated, murdered and violently killed.

No question about it. That continues to happen nightly in Chicago. 98 of the time, it's a black man killing another black man or a black woman or a black child. It is unbelievable what's going on in the war zone.

There are places, there are many places in the Middle East that are significantly safer than certain neighborhoods in Chicago, if you're black, if you're black. Evidently, that's not a racist thing, but one of the main things that I don't hear, and I'll finish reading it here in a second because I haven't even gotten the important part.

One of the main things that I don't hear is I don't hear these folks talking about racism by anyone other than whites. Again, I just hate using that terminology because it's absurd, it's unhelpful. But so there has been a huge, approved by the leaders of the community, massive upswing in black racism.

You see the worst of it in the black Hebrew Israelites, the religious nature of it. But you can have utterly non-religious, massive racism on the part of blacks. And there are many black people who will say you can't have a black racist because you have to have power to be racist.

I don't know how any Christian could possibly see it. You don't have to have power to be a sinner. You can be a slave with no possessions at all and your heart be filled with greed and hatred and racism.

Sin knows no color. So Christians should be addressing the issue with mankind, not with a single color, since there is no single color. But even with that, until and unless there is repentance of this animus and murderous hatred.

Thabiti, is that on everyone's part? Black, white, Chinese, Korean, Hispanic, South American, whatever, Brazilian, Chilean, everybody? The country will remain imprisoned to a seared conscience until this country and the church learns to confess its particular sins.

Particularly, we will not overcome the adamic hostility that infects the human soul and distorts human potential. All human souls and all human potential, right? Right? Don't get me wrong. I know Dr. King's life was much greater than his death.

I understand that his death gives us opportunity to reflect on his legacy. But it also gives opportunity to reflect on that twist in our soul that rose up and killed him. It gives opportunity to repent of the things some have.

It gives us, it gives opportunity to repent of the things some have with too much pride, too often refused to admit is there. A little bit tough to get to. My white neighbors and Christian brethren can start, start.

So evidently, the idea here is that nothing has ever been done. There is, there has not been a single church since in 50 years where Christians of whatever color have been reconciled to one another, have treated one another as brothers and sisters in Christ.

It's not happened. Evidently, it has not happened anywhere because we've got, we've just got to start. I reject that. I reject that. It's not true. It's simply not true. It's a false narrative. My white neighbors and Christian brethren can start by at least saying their parents and grandparents and this country are complicit in murdering a man who only preached love and justice.

That's obviously the, that's obviously the line that has caught most of the attention. My white neighbors and Christian brethren can start by at least saying their parents and grandparents and this country are complicit in murdering a man who only preached love and justice.

Um, so does, does this theory of guilt only go one direction? Um, Dr. King was one man who was assassinated and that assassination was sinful. Um, it has been suggested on Twitter over the past 24 hours that, uh, the ERLC and the others that partnered with them might maybe in 2019 do an 80 year anniversary of Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger's, uh, Negro program that has resulted in 20 million with an M, 20 million black babies murdered in this country.

And the hashtag was that's racism too. Will that happen? Be a great idea. Might actually bring people together. Wouldn't that be a great idea? Bring people together. I, I'm, I'm really hoping that that could happen, but I'm just going to be honest with.

You.

I don't think the other side would want that to happen because it would go against the narrative.

20 million, 20 million.

The reality is that when you say, what, what is being demanded here? Your parents and grandparents were complicit in murdering Dr. King. So my, my granddad was complicit in murdering Dr. King. He was white, lived in Kansas.

Very small town pastor, never met him. He, um, he died long before I was, uh, I was born. Uh, what would that be about 16, 16, 17 years before I was born? I think would love to have met him, have a picture of him in my office, a really neat poem that someone in the church wrote at his death, very untimely death, country doctor drunk, trying to take his appendix out, had to go get a drink.

Left him to die on the, on the table and, um, ministered the gospel in a rural town in flat, flat, flat, Kansas, complicit, complicit. Um, how do you, how do you make that kind of accusation? How do you make that kind of accusation?

I say, well, you know, if he died before, before Dr. King did then, but that's not the.

Idea.

The idea here is that there was such guilt in society as a whole because of the way society was because of what happened after the civil war, that the guilt is only on one side. Evidently there's never been a black racist, at least not up until that period of time.

So could we not go back in history and find a white man that was murdered by black people and turn this whole thing around and demand that Thabiti admit that his grandfather was complicit in that? Where does this end?

It doesn't end. That's why I say this is absolutely the mechanism of dividing, not uniting the body of Christ. You don't look back because the old man has been put away. What part of that is not getting through?

There's no end to this folks. There's no end to this. There are people, I've talked with people in other parts of the world that have been dealing with this stuff for a long, long time, and they've all come to recognize already.

This is a dead end. It's a dead end. It will never get you anywhere. You can always dig up something else to be offended by. That's why when we're talking about the song, the microaggression song, hey, if you want to be microaggressed, you will always be microaggressed.

But that's your choice. You're the one making the choice. Amazing, truly amazing stuff. But the most amazing thing, the most amazing thing. I had an appointment yesterday and so I got sent this graphic while I was away from home.

And when I had the opportunity, I read it and I'm like, uh, no way.

Seriously?

And so I asked for, you know, I've got to know exactly where this is. And so eventually, you know, we tracked it all down and we, we screenshotted it and did all the rest of that kind of stuff. And this is found, as far as I know, I didn't check this morning, but on Kyle J. Howard's Facebook page.

It was under a article that he had posted, a comment that he had posted. Not a comment. It was actually a status update thing where he had made reference to comments about him on one of my Facebook articles.

Now, when he initially posted that, I went looking for what he was talking about. I could not find anything. Look up, how many friends do I have on Facebook? My personal account, not the Alpha and Omega thing.

Because remember, we keep that limited. I started looking around. Now, first of all, I hate trying to find stuff on Facebook. It is not, obviously, the Analytica folks are good at finding stuff on Facebook.

Anybody who wants to hack your accounts can find stuff on Facebook. I ain't one of them. I couldn't find anything. And as of this program, I have never seen Kyle J. Howard post any of these allegedly horrific comments.

85. Okay.

Now, on my personal page, those are the only people who can comment are my friends, right? 85 people. I looked at mine. There was nothing at all that I could find that was relevant to what Kyle J. Howard was saying.

So when this, and I'm going to read it to you in a moment, but when this thing blew up yesterday, he did respond to it. And he said that it was in comments in a Facebook group. I don't post to Facebook groups.

I think I'm a member of the reformed Star Trek group. I may have said hi to them when I agreed to join. I may have said one thing in their sense then, but I don't post in Facebook groups. I don't. And I certainly don't have control because the idea was I allowed these comments to stand.

Since I, A, don't know what the comments were, never saw them. B, I would not have any control over whether they're there or they're not. So the entire foundation of the accusation was just non-existent on Mr. Howard's part.

Just non-existent. But despite all that, a fellow by the name of Joshua Brandon Ehlers had commented on Kyle J. Howard's statements. I'm slowly growing to hate social media because of reasons like this.

I used to think social media was very helpful in communicating, but now I just see people throwing missiles at one another. I'm sure if you guys spoke in person, one-on-one, none of these comments would have been said.

And if the comments were made, it would be in a heart of respect and gentleness rather than superiority and condemnation. You both have a great platform for the gospel, and I hate seeing you guys throw missiles at each other and rally troops on each side so that more divisions are caused.