Dan Darling Melts Into a Puddle of Goo In 5 Seconds - They All Do

Talk about Bruno. No no no no all right. Let's jump into it today. I went ice fishing this morning and it's been pretty warm the last couple of days. The ice was a little sketchy I'm not gonna lie there's definitely some water on top but it's still like eight inches ten inches thick so I felt safe I didn't feel any weirdness but it was you know a little strange to see water on top of the ice.

I got one pickerel I almost got a pike I lost it right at the hole. I was so frustrated about that. And then there was another fish that it felt pretty heavy it was running with the bait but I never was able to hook it so a couple of pieces of failure but I did get one.

So I'm excited about that also discovered why people don't go. I don't usually see people out there when it's windy because the wind just like takes all your stuff and it's gone basically after that I lost a bucket so nothing important.

But anyway anyway I wanted to just quickly make a few quick comments here. One of the things that I I consider a tremendous blessing is all the people that reach out to me and they have they have like they have questions about something in the Bible but it's not like theology per se it's you know cuz I you know when people ask me theological questions I like all I I'll tell them what I think but I normally I say hey you know go to your pastor kind of thing but but but what's a big blessing is when people come to me about like embarrassing passages that they believe a certain way that's kind of embarrassing and they want to know like if they're crazy like for example like oftentimes people will come to me about the existence of Giants and I'm not talking about like someone 10 feet tall like I'm talking about people things like that and or or or dragons you know the Bible talks about dragons the Bible talks about you know unicorns things of that nature and people ask me about that kind of stuff and and quite frankly I mean that that's such an honor I mean I count that a blessing that people are comfortable enough with me to know that they can ask me that kind of stuff.

And and pretty much every time I'm like yeah I believe that I believe a donkey talked. I believe in dragons because the Bible talks about dragons. I believe in in Giants like real you know Giants not like you know Shaquille O 'Neal type Giants like actual Giants.

I believe in that kind of stuff. In fact I believe that when God created the world he actually separated the waters below it with the waters above and that there was water up there above the firmament and when he flooded the earth he opened when it says he opened up the gates of heaven the windows of heaven.

That's what it says. I think in the King James it calls him windows. I believe the water that was up there fell down and that's what flooded the earth and all of that. If you haven't really considered that theory I think you really should.

It's it's very clear in in the creation narrative that that's how it went down. But in any case by the way I just want you to all to know if you were one of these people that came to me with a you know something that you felt kind of embarrassed about because quite frankly let's just face it like like evangelical leaders like to explain that kind of stuff away and they often they go on the offensive like as if like what you're reading it wrong.

It's like well no I'm not reading it wrong. That's exactly what it says and they they want to explain things away. I find that very frustrating when when evangelical leaders are clearly embarrassed about what the Bible actually says and they try to explain it away in a way that doesn't doesn't.

It doesn't come from the text it comes from a desire to please people. And I find it such an honor to be someone that you feel comfortable with telling me about your you know what you believe the Bible says and so regularly I believe it too.

So it's like God bless you. You know I'm not I'm not embarrassed to believe in dragons. Not not even a little bit. I'm not embarrassed to believe in Giants not even a little bit. So in any case um speaking of that I wanted to just kind of mention this did this is this is so it's not frustrating because I expect it so why would I be frustrated about it.

Dan Darling, the Washington Post, and the Problem of Doxing

But it makes me feel it's like it's cringy sort of but it makes me feel like weird to to feel what would it be like to be a man like Dan Darling and and this is the example I'm gonna use he actually posted a tweet that was actually a pretty good tweet.

It's about how the people that had donated to the trucker convoy in Canada somebody had hacked the the system they were using to donate and released all of their information. And so the Washington Post because you know they're this is an evil organization right.

The Washington Post an evil conglomerate. They of course started reaching out to people that why'd you donate. You know I get things like that and imagine being like a regular person like if if the Washington Post reached out to me like I wouldn't be that surprised because I've got you know a thousand videos on YouTube like I put my stuff out there whatever but imagine being like a regular Joe and you did like an anonymous like $40 donation to the trucker convoy just to support the truckers you know again you know how I feel about that whatever.

And then you get the Washington Post couple what was the reason you do that. And then you know who knows what they're asking and and people are all freaking out and stuff like that and that's and so Dan Darling here he recognizes that for what it is it's weaponizing some illegally sourced information and the media listen like Dan Darling trust the media.

So when he's when he sees this and he doesn't like it you know he's not gonna really say anything that serious because he wants a column in the Washington Post as far as as far as he's concerned I mean the Washington Post is a force for good.

So he says this this is a good tweet. It's not strong enough but it's a good tweet. He says I am incredibly uncomfortable with the WAPO doing this using hacked private information about donations to shame and dox the donors is chilling whether or not you agree with this cause.

Imagine the way this could be used against ordinary people and their donations. Good point. I mean Dan Darling made a great tweet here and that I agree. I mean like when you make it anonymous donation you shouldn't have to worry about somebody hacking the site and releasing your information.

And then you know the mainstream media come into your door to ask you why you made the donation. It's like it's just ridiculous. This stuff happens very regularly. Obviously I believe that if if this was the Black Lives Matter rally for example I don't think Dan Darling would have been that nuanced about it he would have came out.

Oh this is an outrage and things like that. But whatever I mean that's common you know people people of this persuasion they just they don't have even scales. We can't expect them to have them and all that.

Why "Do What Is Honorable in the Sight of All" Does Not Mean Softening the Truth

So the next tweet though is is this this woman Morgan who is his challenges him right. And she so so she says what do you mean by doxing like she's obviously very for this she's a very obviously very liberal person because she supports the doxing and you know Dan Darling kind of says what he means.

And then she challenges him and says I actually think this was handled very ethically in that only the name Pete private citizens who were those who replied to the post inquiries. WAPO didn't just publish the searchable table.

So she's saying like it's okay because they only actually named the people that responded to their request for inquiry. Now again imagine being a normie like if the Washington Post contacts me at this point I already have planned what I'm gonna say.

I'm gonna tell them to go pound sand. I'm not gonna talk to them. I don't care what it is and I don't know maybe maybe I'll come up with something more flowery at the end but I don't talk to I don't talk to journalists anymore.

But but imagine just being a normie right. And you get the WAPO comes to you and and now you don't know what they're gonna do because as far as you're concerned these are evil people. Because they are evil people they're gonna probably try to destroy your life and so you respond and so Morgan here I don't know her so I'm not gonna say anything about her but Morgan here thinks that just the response see that's ethical it's ethical now to to publish this information even though you got it from an illegal source and all of that kind of thing.

And at first Dan Darling says well I'm still uncomfortable with it. Imagine being called by a journalist after what you thought was an anonymous donation and and he says you know he puts this paints this picture like you'd be nervous you wouldn't know quite what know what to do.

Maybe you don't have your wits about you you're not used to this kind of thing so maybe you'll just respond and so he's still uncomfortable with it and then but but so you think okay well that's good.

I mean at least he's kind of pushing back you know Dan Darling at least he's kind of pushing back but then he the very next tweet is those are some good points though this is complicated stuff and it's like are you serious Dan like can you imagine being such a puddle of goo that somebody makes some ridiculous point about how it's totally okay to publish people's names even though it's anonymous even though you got the information through hacking if they respond to you it makes it totally okay and Dan Darling just melts into a puddle of goo.

Great point this is so complicated and it's they're terrible points. Obviously these are horrible points. Here's Megan Basham here telling it's not a good point obviously and I agree with her it's it's a terrible point but I don't I'm not so interested in the point what I'm interested in is is just the the the no there's just there's nothing here like like like this is what's what's so frustrating about this.

I'm gonna use the word frustrating because the best I can do like like Christians actually have a leg to stand on on some of this stuff right. Like like you know if if if someone's doing something illegal and you participate in it and you're part of it now like we have a standard here there's nothing complicated about this right.

Nothing. And again we understand that if this was a Black Lives Matter donation and someone you know Fox News started publishing people that were donating to Black Lives Matter or to Antifa or something like that all the nuance would go away like we understand that right because again this is this would be this would be messed up right.

But Dan Darling melts into a puddle of goo with like minimal pressure like nothing really happened here Morgan just said no it's it's totally ethical and he's like well I guess you're right I'm still not comfortable with it but you know it's complicated it's like all the nuances there and and I think and I think I know where this comes from guys and and maybe you disagree you think this is a small thing it is a small thing I whatever I mean it is what it is right but but the thing is like I think that there's this there's a there's a there's a drive in a lot of evangelical leaders to and I'm gonna quote a Bible verse here do what is honorable in the sight of all right.

And what what what that actually means is like do something you know be honest because of course God requires that but also be completely on the up-and-up with people as well by their standard like we should be doing the honest thing we should be on the up and up with everybody right.

Not only God but also people but but I think when Big Eva hears that verse about doing what's honorable in the sight of all it's not that that you that that it's just the doing of it. It's actually deciding what you've how you feel about something or how hard you go against it based on what the world thinks is honorable.

So if the world thinks that it's it's icky or wrong to use the word sodomite then you don't use the word sodomite. And because you got to contextualize this right so you say something like well gayness is not God's best for you.

Like if the Bible says that that sodomy is an abomination before God you know like and but the world doesn't like that that's too aggressive. Well you got to do what's honorable in the sight of all and so you start softening it.

And I think that when you see Dan Darling come out hard against something it's only gonna be stuff that the world approves of coming hard against so white supremacy or racism or something like that sex trafficking something like that.

He'll come hard against that because it is honorable in the sight of God but also in the world to come hard against that. Right. But as a Christian we have a standard of how to decide these things. We don't decide how hard to go against something based on what the world is gonna think about it.

And I think that that verse is very misunderstood. In fact I remember someone telling me that it was okay to mandate vaccines and masks at a church even though God didn't say to do that it's okay to do it because it's honorable in the sight of all.

And you want to do what's honorable in the sight of all. That's a complete misunderstanding of that verse. What it's what it's saying is look it was it was in the context of bringing money to it. I should I should have had it up.

It's like first Corinthians I should have brought it up whatever. I don't have a lot of time to record the video. So the context of that verse is Paul was was sending money through someone to another church.

And he says you know you know he says do what's honorable in the sight of all not just God but also also men. What he means is you should be honest with the money before God. Obviously I mean that's an obvious one.

But also go above and beyond to make sure people know that you're being honest because we want to do what's honorable honest in the sight of all. And so it's like it's like you know it's not. It's not like changing the standard the standards the same.

You need to be honest with this money. But if it was just before God you could be honest in a secret way. No worries. But but Paul saying but make sure take take care that everyone knows you're doing this in an honest way because we want to make sure to not think people don't have anything against you or whatever things like that.

It's not talking about changing the standard or altering the standard or contextualizing this to death where the meaning is completely lost now. Because that's what's honorable in the sight of men. See this is the mistake that I think Big Eva makes right.

Why Christians Must Not Become a Puddle of Goo

So Dan Darling here says all these are good points is complicated. He thinks that's going to give him more credibility with pagans. It won't. It won't because they see how you were turned into a puddle of goo instantly.

And they don't respect that. They don't respect when they see Matt Chandler on vice .com and he's hemming and hawing. You know gayness is not God's mess for you. Because they know what that scripture says.

And now you just look like a liar to them. They know what the Bible says about homosexuality. And now you look like a liar because you're trying to apologize for the Bible. I don't think that's the way you should go.

Look obviously don't cause needless offense right. Like you shouldn't necessarily use slurs to talk about gays and stuff like that. But and I'm not saying that that's a hard and fast rule. There might be a time for something like that.

But what I am not. But what I'm saying though is we don't change we don't alter biblical language to do what is honorable in the sight of all. When when when doing so actually softens what people hear.

We don't do that. There's no reason to do it. In fact I would argue it's dishonest. That's what that when you do that kind of stuff when when Duran Darling says these are good points this is very complicated.

When he knows it's not complicated because he knows exactly how we would feel about it if it was Black Lives Matter. He's actually being dishonest when he says that this is not complicated. Megan's 100 right.

These are terrible points. It's not complicated. And so when Dan Darling you know his initial tweet he was right on in the beginning. He was right on the beginning when he said that you know this is bad.

This is bad precedent. This is not good. This is a chilling effect. All that he was right on that he should have stuck with the original thing instead of turning into a puddle of goo the minute he got even a modicum of pushback.

I think that is one of the biggest things that we need to focus on as a church in 2022. Saying what we mean standing firm not bending not being flexible. We don't have to be curmudgeon II but we don't.

We cannot be flexible on what the Word of God says to try to please the pagans into being nice to us. It's not gonna work. They don't respect you. In fact it's like a bully right. And then when they know when they know you're not gonna stand up for you for yourself they're gonna just come at you all the more.

And you're gonna have to compromise more and more and more and more until you're just denying Christ because you want people to be friends with you. I hope you found this video helpful. God bless.