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I would say if the authorities didn't want us involved in the public square, they ought not to have crucified

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Jesus in the public square. Use humanistic principles. It's the same idea. It's the same end.

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I would say, what's the problem with stardust bumping into stardust? In the cosmic picture? None.

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There's no problem. In the cosmic picture, it won't matter. No, Mr.

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President, you are not protecting reproductive freedom. You are authorizing the destruction of freedom for one million little human beings every year.

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I'm sorry, my friends, but I am tired of seeing Jesus presented as a weak beggar.

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He is a powerful savior, and the gospel is not a suggestion, it is a command.

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Reverend Holder, don't you sympathize with that? I sympathize with every single human heart wishing to know the one true and living

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God, but I believe there's only one way that that can happen through Jesus Christ, and the gospel is about repenting of sin, not celebrating it.

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Right now, you're on the threshold of an amazing adventure. We will explore the spiritual abyss.

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You have not experienced this before. You're going to love it.

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Welcome to another episode of Apologia Radio. Guys, important year ahead of us. This is my favorite.

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Actually, in all the years we've been doing Apologia Radio, close to like a decade now, one of my favorite times was the election.

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Last season, the election season, was just the greatest. So much content. So much to work with.

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So much was happening. It was a fun day yesterday. Let me tell you. I know. Sharing all those amazing memes. There were some good ones.

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Of Grandma Gugu. Grandma Gugu. Grandma Gugu. Did you make that up, or is that - No, I got it from Dennis Miller.

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Dennis Miller called it Gugu. He used to come on Hannity and stuff. What's his face?

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The guy canned. Anyways, he used to come on there and talk about Grandma Gugu. Grandma Gugu. Grandma Gugu.

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Petty Pelosi. Petty Pelosi. You guys, the thing that was the ... I was watching it live, and I think

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I even messaged Luke in the middle of watching it. Her face. It's worth watching the entire

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State of the Union address. Just listen to what President Trump is saying, but watch

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Grandma Gugu. It is amazing. She can't control herself. She's talking to people.

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It's like, who are you talking to? She's making these - I don't think Mike Pence is having a conversation with you. She's making these weird eyes the whole time.

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Playing with her dentures. Yeah. It's really something else, man. Just to watch. Suddenly preparing to rip the ...

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Yeah. Did you see her? Yeah. That's the best part. Hold on. Zach Morgan, I'll cut you.

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He's trolling us. Is he? He's in the other room. That's why I yelled. What's he doing? I saw someone coming in there talking about our satanic symbol on Flat Earth, and I was like, ready to bam when

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I see a Zach Morgan. Our fellow pastor. He's in the other room. That's why

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I'm yelling. Nice. Sorry. Go ahead. Nice, nice, nice. We're going to review it today.

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Today, you're here. Welcome to Apology Radio. We're going to do the State of the Union address, talk about some stuff, and we're going to talk about the

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Iowa caucus debacle, the Democratic situation happening. We're trying to figure out who's going to run against President Trump.

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Of course, we want to talk about - You mean who's going to lose to President Trump. That's true. Yeah. We're going to talk about all this in light of a biblical worldview.

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We're going to try to address these cultural issues from a Christian perspective with a grounding in the word of God, but we're also planning to have some fun because this is some neat stuff.

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I mean, you have to admit, as much as it's like the most awful display of just a breaking of decorum and just the most adolescent asinine behavior with Grandma Gugu, it was very entertaining.

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It's reality television. It is reality television, but she's the president. State of the Union address, and the woman leader, the woman ruler in the back can't control her emotions enough where she starts preemptively tearing the thing.

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Her face. This is the best thing. If you get a chance, don't do it now, but do it later. Go watch it when she tears it. You see that -

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They weren't big stacks, though. She really shrunk. The fact that she had to pre -tear it, I'm really concerned for her health.

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She's also 105 years old, so it's probably hard. But she pre -tears it, but if you watch, when she does tear them, she looks over at her team too.

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She's like, her big Gugu eyes come out, so she tears it and big Gugu eyes like, you guys see what

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I'm doing? You see what I'm doing? This is why we don't want women rulers. That's true.

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I said it. If you guys are like, oh my gosh. Such a fetus shrink. That's so counter -cultural, and Christians aren't supposed to speak like that.

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Well, I'd like to talk like Isaiah in Isaiah 3 .12, where it says, oh my people, their oppressors are children, and women rule over them.

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It was considered a judgment of God to have women rule over a nation, and that's just, you know, we've got to ask the question, do you want to be biblical, or do you want to placate to the culture, the current culture you're in?

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We're Christians. We're Christian pastors. We love the Lord. Whoa, did we lose it? Am I still on?

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You're on. I just got really quiet. Can you guys hear me? Am I in your ears? Yeah. Okay. Nope. Maybe. Nope, you're not.

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Nope. Well. Maybe push it in some? Well, how about that?

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There it is. There? Okay. All right. Is that better? Okay. Time to replace the cable. That's right. We need new cables. These are about 10 years old.

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No big deal. Well, so the culture we live in today has been overrun by feminism, the feminazis, and cultural

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Marxism, and just so much cultural decay and transformation that even evangelical

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Christians, people who would once be seen as fundamental Christians, that word has changed even in itself, have essentially succumbed and yielded to the culture in the area of proper gender roles.

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One of the things that's clear in Scripture is that it's a judgment of God to have women rulers over a nation.

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I want to say, look, we're all sinners. Men are going to sin as rulers as well. This isn't to say if you have men, you're going to have a sinless society.

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No. Proper roles will be in place, but here's the problem. Look, when you have a woman

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Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, sitting in the back behind the President, there's a certain amount of decorum, a certain kind of decorum that should exist there.

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She's rolling her eyes in the back. She cannot contain herself as an old grandma.

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She can't contain herself in the back to not ... She misbehaves the whole entire time.

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She's not paying attention. She's rude. She's disrespectful. She can't contain ... It could be the alcohol, too. Who knows what's going on?

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Then she tears it up. I mean, when in history, in the American history, has something like that happened, it's just a terrible, terrible thing.

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I saw something that is actually illegal. I don't know if that's true or not. I saw it. I read that, too. Yeah. To destroy documents in that room like that.

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Of course. If any one of us were to run up there and grab it and rip it, we'd be arrested for destroying.

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You wouldn't make it up there, but ... I don't know. Maybe now I can. Yeah. Yeah. With your new heart stuff.

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I'll make it. I'll make it at least halfway. Yeah. Well, I was thinking, even in a situation, in a smaller version, you got to ...

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It's just a ministry like this. If any of us in this ministry had done something that was a violation of proper decorum or just something that was bad, it was just all together, you don't do that, you don't behave in that way, we'd get checked within this little realm right here.

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We'd be like, you can't do that, you can't misbehave like that, stop doing that. We would check one another.

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This is the State of the Union speech. This is the highest level of government. Yeah. In the world.

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She needs to get spanked. She needs to get spanked. The best tweet I saw was it said, Donald Trump's superpower is making people behave the way they think he is.

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That's hilarious. It really is incredible. If she doesn't get in trouble for it, it'll be surprising.

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I had a lot more respect for Mike Pence now. He sat there like she didn't exist the whole time.

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I would have been throwing her backhand, I don't know, I've been doing something, he's just like...

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I have to admit that I'd probably be looking at my jaw going, like the whole time, like what are you doing?

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I told Charlie, you know how he calls his wife mother, he took a lot of heat for that when they won and stuff.

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I feel like he always just sits back with this grin like, we did it mother, mother we did it.

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The thing that people say about the beginning of Trump snubbed her with a handshake, I want to be fair, because we have to always be just, so I want to be fair.

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I looked at it and I was like, wait a second, he handed it to Pence and to her, and he didn't shake

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Pence's hand, and also he handed it to her and he goes to turn around when she put her... I don't think it was like a...

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But I think, I could be wrong on this, but I heard that he absolutely did ignore her at the prayer breakfast today.

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Oh he did, okay. So I think it's just a thing of like, he's the president and one of the worst things you could do is just ignore somebody, especially somebody who wants power.

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Well keep in mind that she also just tried to impeach him earlier the other day, so. I mean she can't control herself, so hey, just for fun,

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I want to play this for everybody, I think this is a really cool little clip here, this is from years ago, this was when

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Palin was running alongside, why am

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I losing it, McCain. And so this is CNN and this is Pastor Voti on CNN, I want you to hear, this is a hero, this man is a hero, on CNN saying this.

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Last time on CNN. Yeah, he wasn't... So he said, we'll have you back, they did not have him back, yeah.

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Here's Pastor Voti when Palin was brought into the race. But she'd be banned from leading many congregations, so why does

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Sarah Palin seem to be winning over so many evangelicals? Let's bring in two people who may have some answers for us.

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Whitney Bauckham is a pastor at Grace Family Baptist Church in Spring, Texas, and Margaret Feinberg is an evangelical speaker who lived in Alaska for five years and saw

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Palin get elected to governor. Good to see you both. Thank you, thank you for having us. Margaret, let's start with you,

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I want you both actually to touch on this quickly. Why does her faith matter? Her faith matters because it says a lot about who she is as a person and her outlooks on life and the policies that will come to play in our nation.

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Reverend Bauckham? I agree completely. Political ideology is really an outgrowth of our religious beliefs.

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You can't separate what a person believes from how a person will govern. So I think it's incredibly important that we know where people stand on religious issues.

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So Margaret, why do you think she's winning over these evangelicals that have been so skeptical of McCain?

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I think on one hand, she's known for her conservative values, and that's translated in her leadership and her time in Alaska.

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But I think also for younger evangelicals, there is a hunger to see a more exciting ticket. There was kind of a ho -hum factor for McCain, but when

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Palin came on board, she added the The va -voom! ...in order to garner the attention and the excitement for young evangelicals.

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And here's what's interesting, Reverend Bauckham, she's winning over church members, church leaders that don't even allow women to preach at the pulpit, yet she could be leading the country.

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What do you make of that? Yeah. Well, it's interesting. The bottom line on that is people look at this ticket, and their fear is that we will have

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Barack Obama as our president, that we will be moved toward a socialist agenda, that we would have the most radically pro -abortion candidate ever to run for president to serve in that office.

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And that is an untenable position for evangelicals. And so they look at this, and they're trying to decide this based on what's best for the nation in the here and now, and oftentimes overlooking some of those other issues.

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Do you think that that's something that ... are you saying that shouldn't be overlooked? I mean, do you think that women ...

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in evangelical circles where women are not allowed to preach, let's say that Palin and McCain do win, and here you have this woman that could possibly be leading the free world, and yet there's evangelicals voting for her that don't even believe that a woman should preach at the pulpit.

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Could this change the face of how evangelicals believe in the woman's role? I don't think it'll change the way evangelicals believe about women's roles.

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I think it has sparked a discussion. And quite frankly, feminism has gained a foothold in many evangelical churches.

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Do you think that's a good thing? No, I don't. Not at all. Why not? Well, because we're about the gospel. The culture doesn't dictate truth.

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The gospel dictates truth. My job is not to be a political pundit or a political activist. My job is to be a pastor and proclaim the truth of the gospel as clearly as I possibly can.

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Well, wait a minute. What about the Old Testament and the prophet Deborah? I mean, she was a political leader. She was a wife.

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She was a mother. She was one of the biggest forces. This is in the book of Judges. So that's the gospel right there.

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She certainly was. And the fact that something happened doesn't mean that it's normative for the church.

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In Isaiah chapter 3, for example, one of the signs that a culture is under judgment is that women are in leadership in their nations.

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So Deborah was actually a sign that things were very bad in Israel, not a norm for the church.

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He derailed that whole interview. Flawless. Catch your breath. And also, too, in Deuteronomy, for the requirements for electing officials, it says choose from among you men who are trustworthy, don't take a bribe, and fear

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God. Oh man, you're in trouble for saying that today, guys. Isaiah chapter 3 is not quoted very often in a lot of evangelical churches today.

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And I know in principle what the Bible says, there are women rulers, but there are also practical reasons of why you don't want women in ruler leadership positions like this.

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And I think a great premier example is what just took place at the

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State of the Union address with Grandma Gugu. Yeah, absolutely. I think we should say, too...

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Sounds like a spaceship's coming in the studio. The train's coming through the wall. I don't know if you all can hear that or not.

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We should say that we're not... Is it coming through the studio? It may be, yeah.

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We're not Trump apologists by any means. I will go on record and say that I didn't vote for him the first time.

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I feel like he well exceeded my expectations and I will be voting for him this time. But we're not

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Trump apologists. There's plenty he said in his speech that we were talking about. We're going to address. Yeah, we're like, I didn't agree with that. So that needs to be said because I had a blast yesterday sharing, like I said, the old memes of Grandma Gugu.

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And I had people come on, liberals, just saying stuff like we just take everything

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Trump says for a fact. It's like, no, I'm not saying that at all. I don't know if I would vote for him, mainly just because he's not the husband of one wife.

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But I don't think there's ever been a president that I genuinely love and have an affection for like him.

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That's the crazy thing. I remember when I was sitting in that room during election night and he won and I was like, oh my goodness, what is going on?

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And then for him to be as good of a leader as he's been is no... It's mind boggling.

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It was the first State of the Union speech. Probably more of a Nebuchadnezzar figure. He has this moment.

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He's eating grass? No, no, no. Am I picking the wrong... I'm kidding.

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I think you're right. Nebuchadnezzar had a moment where he repented. Yeah, you're right. I will say that this was one of the first State of the

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Union addresses where I was actually like into what was being said the whole time. I think he did a great job of going through everything that's happened and it was very emotional.

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Like I had tears in my eyes several times. Oh yeah. So there's some powerful moments in the State of the Union address. I think the nice thing about...

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I mean, this is all politics. We have to understand there's always political stuff and manipulation going on at the highest level.

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But I do like how President Trump is making at least his appeal to this is about the

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American people. He's demonstrating it in many ways in terms of what he's done for tax cuts and all the rest.

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He's trying to say it is about the American people, building businesses and those sorts of things. At the same time, you've got to hear this now, because I like what

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Pastor Luke says, we're not Trump apologists here. We need to be biblical and Christians. On the one hand, you can't say you're fighting socialism.

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And in the very same speech, you're talking about all the government programs you want to institute and all the different things.

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It's like if there's a spectrum of biblical libertarianism, right?

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And then there's a Marxism and socialism kind of on this side over here. The conservatives, you understand, the conservatives have just moved over the last four decades all the way over to where...

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I mean, conservatives today would have been seen as radical leftists back in the 50s and 60s.

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That's right. In terms of what they're willing to do to the government intrusion, control, those sorts of things.

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Like we read today, or I saw Marcus posted today, a very popular local political pundit and leader of a

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Christian conservative thing trying to get funding for pro -life stuff from the government.

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And it's like... No, it's more than that. It's the government to dictate certain pro -life organizations.

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Right, right. It's like government control of pro -life organizations. Right. And we're against abortion and we're for the pro -life stuff.

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And we're saying that's evil. The government has no place in that area. That's why as a conservative,

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I can't support regulations on abortion, just like I don't support regulations on health care or the taxicab industry or any other industry.

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Right, right. All right, hey, so let's play something. How about it? Okay, so I got lots of people watching right now live across them internets.

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Make sure you guys share across the internets. We got a lot to talk about. So let's just go ahead and play this.

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This is a portion from the State of the Union speech. This was a very moving portion where he actually had the mother and the daughter, the little girl who was born premature and she survived.

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It's a very moving moment. And I just want to play through this to say, in one sense, praise God. And in another sense, this is not enough.

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And we need to pray for our president and pray for consistency. Because if he has the courage to say what he says here, he needs to go all the way in terms of consistency.

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So go ahead and play it for everybody so you guys can hear what we're talking about. This is President Trump calls for a ban on late -term abortions.

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2020 State of the Union address. That is why I'm also calling upon members of Congress here tonight to pass legislation finally banning the late -term abortion of babies.

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Whether we are Republican, Democrat or Independent, surely we must all agree that every human life is a sacred gift from God.

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As we support America's moms and dads, I was recently proud to say. OK, so let's do it.

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Ban the late -term abortions. Right. And we have to all agree that every human life is a sacred gift from God.

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And everyone's like, yes. OK, so let's go all the way with it. Every human life is a sacred gift from God.

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Everyone applauds. I'll talk to the other side. The Republican pro -lifers are there cheering and applauding.

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Yes, every gift is a sacred gift. It's like, well, then what are you banning late -term abortions for? Right. Shouldn't it be all of them?

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Right. Because every gift, every one of them is a gift from God. Right, exactly. I think it's pretty simple.

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It seems rather obvious. Here's the thing that also drives me bananas, and I'll shut up and let you guys jump in here.

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But no, you don't talk about this. This just shows the amount of give and yielding that's taking place in this area.

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Right. Because you've got pro -lifers that are sitting there applauding, and they're like, oh, thank God for banning late -term abortions. And I'm going to say,

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OK, yes, praise God for stopping killing this segment. Right. But how about consistency?

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Because you don't talk like that about sex trafficking. Right. Can you imagine the president goes up there and says, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to officially ban all sex trafficking of 11 years old and younger.

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Everyone goes, oh, yay! I think everyone would go, wait. Wait a minute.

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Hold on. Wait a minute. Why are you saying that? Yeah. Because if it's an evil act, if it's a criminal act in the first place, then what are you doing selecting a segment and saying, well, not 11 years old and under.

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Like, that's just deplorable. How can you do it to little children like that? It's like, no, no, no, no, no. Sex trafficking is evil anyways.

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You've got to stop it, period. It just shows the amount of slippage that's happened morally, ethically, in the area of the pro -life movement that people actually are applauding and thinking this is like a praiseworthy thing, that we've decided that this segment, well, we certainly don't want it to be that gross.

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We'll stop the cruel practice of late -term abortion. It's like, no, guys.

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You can't, on the one hand, say every life is precious and it's a gift, and you just can't do it.

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It's a complete mess. And it's a mess, I'll just say, created and helped by the pro -life movement.

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The pro -life movement has helped with this mess because they're constantly in the ear of all the presidents and Republican leaders and all these people that are pro -life, and they're like, good job, good job with that 29 -week ban, and good job with that heartbeat thing, and good job.

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It's like, no, just say it is evil. Stomp it. Or the worst ones right now,

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I think the worst legislation is the Infant Born Alive Protection Acts. Because they're already protected by law.

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It's called murder. And so for them to spend all this money and try to get all these votes to ban something, but it's all so they can say, well, look what we did.

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Jeff Leach is really huge on that. The Infant Born Alive. The law already exists.

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It's called murder. It's already a statute. Any other person that kills an infant, there doesn't need to be special protections.

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And call it out where it needs to be called out. We, of course, want to see victories.

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We want to see the pro -life movement reform and change in these areas. But you have guys like Jeff Leach who are just absolute phonies.

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A guy like Jeff Leach, I have to say, I want to show as much love and respect to the man as possible, but I almost threw up in my mouth when

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I saw him doing a livestream at the March for Life in Washington, D .C. I'm like, you're the guy that stopped a bill to criminalize abortion, and now you're at the

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March for Life? Yeah. Pretending like, you know. Jeremiah Thomas, he's a hero.

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You should be so proud of your son. All this stuff. And then goes around and, you know, makes deals.

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And just, it's corrupt. It is so. And then mocks people on the Facebook page. It's holding them accountable and calls them trolls.

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Yeah. He's calling them trolls. Everybody's saying, hey, didn't you stop a bill to criminalize abortion in Texas?

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Did you have that opportunity? He's like, oh, a bunch of trolls. Are you a bunch of trolls? The sun is out and the trolls are out.

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Or they could be the people who are praying for you and maybe even voted for you and then saw that you're inconsistent here in this area.

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Yeah, I'm going to start saying late -term sex trafficking. Late -term sex trafficking.

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That's awesome. To Trump's credit, he's done amazing things against sex trafficking.

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I don't know if you've seen the numbers. He's arrested more sex traffickers this year than Obama did in eight years of office.

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Yeah, he got Epstein. Yeah, he did. No, Epstein got himself.

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No, he didn't. I was going to say, I think that's the point, that clip you played.

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I think that's the point when he's saying they're created in God's image and all that and you see Grandma Gugu and all of her white

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Dr. Evil fembots in the audience just throwing their eyes.

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They love to dress like they're party's founders, don't they? The KKK.

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It's funny. It's true. Before we get off this subject, I'm sure we all know they wore white to honor the suffragettes.

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I was watching with my wife and she lost it. She's like, why are they wearing white?

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I told her. She's like, no. I was like, yeah. She didn't believe me. I was like, no, that's why they're wearing white. Even in that, the hypocrisy in that, they're all about women being able to vote and work and all that, but not all women.

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Because they're also very much for a lot of little women being murdered. Being slaughtered.

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Which women are you going to support their fembots? Not the half a million innocent little women that are slaughtered every year.

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At least that we know of through abortion. I encourage you guys, watch the video.

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If you guys get a chance, again, after the show today, watch the video of President Trump calls for a ban on late -term abortions.

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Look it up on YouTube. 2020 State of the Union Address. This one was from PBS. It's a good shot.

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If you watch Trump as he's talking about late -term abortions here in Every Life Matters, just watch the conflict in this woman's face.

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Just watch her not knowing, do I agree with this? But no,

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I can't. This is against my party. You just see this conflict. She wears the conflict right in her face.

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So many times throughout this thing here. It's a powerful thing to see. You missed the part in the beginning, though, because right before that, he said he wanted to advance prenatal care.

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Yeah. And even the Democrats stood up, because it's more government -controlled health care, so they stood up. And then immediately after that, he did the abortion stuff.

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He trapped them. Yeah. That was a wise move. Everything he said was a trap to show where the

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Democrats stand and where they want. He was like a magician, wasn't he? He pulled out all the stops. He is a magician, man.

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He had cards sitting in his sleeves. Yeah. I think one of the things that's...

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Yeah, he was brilliant in many ways like that. I think one of the things that I felt the most, and maybe we'll move on from here at this point,

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I felt the most was when she tore up his speech at the end.

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The first thing I thought was like, oh my gosh, that's childish. Second thing I thought was like, ooh, that is highly offensive to all those stories.

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You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like the military, the boy and his mom. Did you see that boy comforting his mom?

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Yeah. That was so moving. Yeah, yeah. His father dies and she's crying. It was such a moving moment.

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His story and then the Tuskegee and then all this. Rush. Yeah, Rush. And then she tears it up.

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I'm like, you just tore up all those stories. That's the thing. And then she said, there's not an ounce of truth in the whole speech.

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I know. Really? Did you see her today talking about that? Her thing today? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was amazing. Nothing's true?

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The thing about Rush, I had actually seen that in the tearing of the speech clips before I watched the whole thing.

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And so I sat down with my wife when I got home and I was like, we got to watch this. And I was like, just wait. Wait till you see what

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Pelosi does. It's like the most horrible thing I can't even believe. And she goes, what'd she do?

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Like trip on a handicapped person or something? I was like, well, not, yeah.

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And then the thing with Rush, and like, here's this guy that, whether you agree with him or not, like that's not, you don't sit there when there's someone that's dying of cancer and just be like, you know what?

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Yeah, that's Rush Luboff, conservative. He's dying of lung cancer. No, no.

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I was live streaming it. So I was like kind of behind because I paused for commentary. And in the comments, my wife, she's watching it on the

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TV live. And she's like, she ripped up the speech. She ripped up the speech. And I was thinking she must've really hated the speech.

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But I didn't think she literally ripped up the speech. And so then I'm watching it. I see her do that.

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And I was like, oh my gosh. I know. She really ripped it up. And then the photos come out where she's preemptively ripping it.

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It's like she had the whole thing planned. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and they were little stacks, little, little stacks.

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Yeah. She had to pre. Yeah. She knew what she was doing. She went into it with a plan, plan, plan.

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Okay. So moving on past State of the Union, we could do a whole show on all the things that President Trump talked about.

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I don't know. Anything, maybe not move off to you. Anything in the speeches that you thought maybe we need to speak to as like a biblical corrective, like, hey, praise

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God for what Trump is doing in a lot of areas, but also. Well, the amount of money he's spending on the military is a lot.

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Yeah. And Space Force. Yeah. Space Force. You know,

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I say all the time that conservatives are big government tyrants when it comes to military and then or controlling other nations.

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And then, and then Democrats are big government tyrants when it comes to controlling individuals.

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So, but it's all about control. Also the stuff about, I don't know if you know this actually is actually good.

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I mean, the stuff about school choice. And that, I mean, one, I mean, the government shouldn't provide money for schools, but he actually called it government schools.

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He did. He clarified. He didn't say public schools. Like most people, he said governments. And I've never heard a president say that.

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Ooh, I didn't even catch that. I thought that was really interesting. And that had to be, I didn't catch that. That has to be from DeMoss's influence on him.

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Oh, yes. So, okay. So I thought that was really interesting. And then they gave, they gave that, that girl, the scholarships.

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Yeah. Choose. And, and, and the Democrats don't stand up. It's like, it's like a black girl is getting a good education.

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You should be happy for that. right. No, because the government doesn't control it. Yeah, right.

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Yeah, exactly. That was a good point. I thought I did notice that, but again, if I had a complaint, it'd be, well, you're still given a ton of money.

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And, and just, just, just to just drop this so that you might be thinking about it. Don't take offense to this, especially if you're new to Apologia Studios, Apologia Church, and the stuff that we're putting out, stuff on education.

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what's the name of the, the, our friend, Colin, um, the, the film that he did. Um, and we would point people to it's, it's about education, the schools.

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Oh gosh. Uh, forgive me, Colin, uh, the name of the movie.

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Um, Oh, um, okay. I'm going to, I'm going to find it. Sorry. I'm going to give everybody, indoctrination, indoctrination.

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There you go. Indoctrination is, Colin Gunn, our, our buddy, Colin, great film. Go watch indoctrination.

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A lot of people don't realize Christians today, evangelicals in the West don't realize that this whole public school education, government school education system, government funding, education, controlling education, feeding education, taxing for education, all that stuff.

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You realize that that's actually relatively newer for the West. That when you had

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Christian civilizations throughout history, we did pretty well with education on our own. We were leading.

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Yeah. Actually, when, when education was Christian and private in the U S we were leading the world in terms of literacy and all the rest.

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And all of a sudden government takes over. Not only is it taking money from people through coercion, but now all of a sudden you've got these government indoctrination centers where we've got people saying, well, we really should be teaching first graders about sexual orientation and about masturbation.

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You know that that's good. And also you have all the different rules that are going on in terms of vaccinations and HPV stuff, giving the

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New York city wants to talk about giving the HPV vaccination to like all the kids across the board.

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Are you kidding me? Here's if I was in New York right now and I happen to have my child in government schools,

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I never would. I'm in, in New York. I'd be, I'd be fleeing New York. Yeah.

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Cause if you're talking about putting that poison, the HPV thing into my, into my daughter, I'd be like,

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I'm out. Like I'm, I'll find a new job. I'll get it. You're not going to poison my child and hurt my child through these things, but they're forcing this stuff in New York city.

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It's government school nonsense. So like if, if you're, if you're going to, if you're going to cut down a tree, you don't cut it down at the top and start trimming bushes.

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You got to rip it up from the root. Right. And so like the problem primarily is the education is not a responsibility of the government.

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It is not the responsibility of the government. So here's what my suggestion is. Education needs to be private.

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Christians, take your kids and put them back into a Christian program, put them in Christian schools,

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Christian private schools, or homeschool them. The reason why this stuff keeps going on and on and on is because the liberals and unbelievers are, and the leftists, the

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Marxists are not having kids. The LGBT community can't have kids and with their lifestyle, but we keep giving our kids to them.

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Right here. Take my kids to indoctrinate them. So in essence, I'm saying all the stuff about education funding from the government, here's the way to solve the problem.

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Take it all away. Yeah. Let it all be private. Let it all be private. And yes, it can be done.

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We do it all the time. Yeah. We're doing it now. I mean, I had apology at church, education, homeschool, private school, all that stuff.

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Like we're fine. We don't need the government to, I don't need the government to put my kid through school. Right. No, thanks.

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And if they say, I mean, also, can you imagine the amount of taxes that are going into the education system?

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Let's be honest, or let's use the modern vernacular. It sucks. It sucks.

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The public school education system just is terrible. So why don't we just keep our own money? Thank you.

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Yeah. And pay for our own kids' education. So here's the thing. People say, how would I ever afford it? Well, if we stopped all the taxation for these education systems, you'd have your own money to put your own kids through school.

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So if you let us keep our money, we can fund our own kids' education. True that.

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The only other complaint I think, and I don't even know, I don't even know honestly where I would stand on this, but Trump's immigration policy, that's a whole other animal we don't have time to get into today.

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But you know, with his big, his big, beautiful wall he's building, I will say this though. I did appreciate,

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I did appreciate something he said talking about, you know, illegal aliens coming in and stuff.

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And I think he clarified where he was. It wasn't like he's saying no, no aliens, no aliens.

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He was saying if they, if an alien comes into this country, we want them to be a part of society that we want them to participate in, you know, and work and provide.

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And you know, and then he went off on not giving, not stealing money from the taxpayers to pay for their healthcare, which

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I appreciate it. So I did, I did like that aspect of it. Socialism will not destroy the healthcare in America.

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That's what he said. Yeah. That's pretty, that's pretty bold. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I did love that.

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Yeah. Yeah. Bernie, you saw Bernie fall out of his chair. I think so. It's going to be a good year, guys.

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We're going to get to talk about all these political issues. This is my favorite because we get to talk about live on the scene, on the street stuff.

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Like we get to talk about people's claims in light of scripture. I mean, and, and across the board too, we need to be fair.

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Like, you know, we need to say, well, you know, president Trump's doing good here and not so well here. Pray for him.

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Definitely pray for him. Ask God to open his eyes to consistency in this area, but also in the area of the democratic stuff, it's going to be a blasty blast.

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It's going to be a blasty blast. It's going to be so much fun. They're like a circus right now.

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Speaking of the circus. So can you introduce us to the, we should probably go to a commercial real quick.

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Okay. Carmen, do you have commercials ready? Carmen, do you have commercials ready? I don't even think he's prepped. Are you prepped? Carmen Isaac usually does that.

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Is he, he's probably in there playing video games. Carmen. Dude, I'm always ready.

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Oh, okay. So you're ready. Are you ready with commercials? Yeah. Okay. Let's do this.

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Everybody, we got, we got a lot of people watching right now, but let's just do this. We're going to come back and talk about the Iowa caucus. We're going to talk about Pete, Perney, Buttigieg, Elizabeth, Joe Biden, all those things.

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We're going to talk about when we get back. It's going to be fun. We're going to do, we're going to have a good conversation here, guys. So stay with us. And we're going to review a quick review of an article that Scott Klusendorf did through Gospel Coalition.

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