Some Spicy Upcoming Content, Thoughts on Beth Moore, etc

The Pass the Mic Screenshots and the Problem of White-Only Space

Well, hello there, wanted to do a quick video. It's been about a week since you last heard from me, just all kinds of stuff going on these days. And I've been sort of, I've been gifted some content by someone who's been following my YouTube channel and just, you know, reached out to me to sort of talk about sort of his experiences and something that he thought was worth my attention.

And it definitely is. I've come into possession of about 100 screenshots, a ton of screenshots of a private Facebook group. And it's put on by Pass the Mic. Pass the Mic is Jamar Tisby's podcast. He does it with Tyler Burns and all that.

I mean, these are, you know, these are major players in the social justice movement. And, you know, I've addressed these people before and they so far, you know, just really refuse to interact with anyone from our side.

And I say our side, meaning the non-social justice, you know, socialist side. That's what I mean. But anyway, look, this stuff is hard to even imagine a Christian thinking this way. There's just so much.

And so I've been kind of noodling on how to best put this information out there. What should I do as far as getting it out there? Should I just do a document dump? Should I do some videos? We'll see. So I'm working on that right now.

But suffice it to say that that's kind of been occupying my mind for the last few days. But I do have a few comments today that I wanna make and hopefully this'll be helpful. So first off, I wanna give you a taste of what goes on in this group.

This is a group that was described to me as sort of a remedial sort of racism group. So it's for white people. It's a group designed to teach white people. And there's so much partiality in this group.

There's so much just arrogance and unforgiveness and just pettiness. It is just, it's really, really sick. A lot of this is very cultish as well. There's a lot of cult tactics used in this group as well.

And so we'll talk about that. We'll talk about all of it. And you'll see exactly what I mean. But this is just a little sample. This is by no means the worst thing that I found. But I wanted to share this with you because this is the kind of thing that you're gonna get in this group if you're a white person.

Listen to this comment. This is one of the rules, right? And this is a heavily moderated group. It's easy to get kicked out. It's easy to get banned and reprimanded and disciplined and heavily, heavy moderation.

Listen to this, ready? Quote, it is crucial that white members avoid taking up space. Every post, every comment, every reaction fills space in the forum. Pass the mic is intended to be a space that centers blackness.

White Privilege, Partiality, and Who Gets to Speak

Now let me step out of the quote for a second. This group intentionally privileges certain voices. So don't let anyone ever make you feel bad about being privileged. It's not the fact that you're privileged that's the problem for them.

It's the fact that you're white and it's white privilege. It's the emphasis on the white. They don't care about privilege. In fact, they intentionally privilege black and brown voices in their group. It's about the whiteness.

They don't like white people. And so they don't want white people to be privileged. They have no problem with privilege. Anyway, we'll go into that in detail. Don't worry. Let's go back to the quote. He says, every time a white person posts comments or reacts in the main form, it takes up space.

As welcomed guests, it's appropriate for our white friends to take up some space in the group. However, it becomes an issue when the collective space that white people occupy is equal to or greater than the space that people of color occupy.

Before you comment, ask yourself whether your engagement is necessary. So this is, we're gonna talk about this. And they have assignments in this group and they have exercises for you to do to really make you think, is my engagement necessary?

And there are some instances where engagement isn't even allowed. Like if you engage in a certain way, then that's a frown upon and you could get disciplined for. It's really, really sick stuff. It's really sick.

And so we'll talk about it. I'm gonna reveal more of this and I'm gonna reach out to these guys because I wanna hear what they think is going on here, why they think this is beneficial. I do wanna hear their side of the story.

But in this group, if you post something, if you comment something, if you click a little emoji, you better be careful because if you are white, you better remember that that emoji that you use, it's taking up space that rightfully belongs to blacks and browns.

So keep an eye out on the proportions because if you click that reaction and there's too much white people reacting, well, that's a major problem. Anyway, so that's what I've been working on. There's more to come on that.

It's beyond, honestly, I urge you to think of the worst that you could think of of what goes on in this group and I guarantee you it's worse. Anyway, I thought I would comment about this. Actually, you know what?

Let's do this. This is the witness. The guys on this have blocked me a long time ago. I don't really know why. But let's reach out to them and see if they'll be willing to talk. AD Robles, there's my email.

Centering and de-centering. Please let me know if someone will be willing to chat about it. Take care. Ah, you know what? Hope all is well. And there we go. Let's see if they respond. Ooh, what's happening here?

There we go. All right. So let's see what they respond. I mean, I hope they do. Anyway, I wanted to talk about this Beth Moore stuff. So Beth Moore has been on a little bit of a tirade lately about rampant sexism and misogyny in the SBC movement.

Beth Moore, Women Preaching, and the SBC’s Doctrinal Trajectory

And it's about, I mean, what this is really about, everyone knows, is about, she's a feminist and she wants to be able to preach and teach and do basically everything that Paul says she's not allowed to do.

She wants to be able to do that stuff. And she's been doing it for a long time. I mean, let's just be honest. But she wants to be able to do it openly and she wants to be able to break down the hierarchies and all that stuff.

Honestly, I'm in support of this, I really am. Because by Beth Moore doing this, it is forcing people, especially that squishy middle, that squishy middle who doesn't wanna go too far, they don't wanna make too many pronouncements, they don't wanna state their case too clearly.

She's forcing them to do it. And I appreciate this very much. In fact, I fully support her impending run for presidency of the SBC, I support it. Because I want people to get there, I want people to vote.

I want people to get their names in black and white on this issue. Do we have a matriarchy that's put forward by the scriptures or do we have a patriarchy? It's just that simple. It's just that simple.

What does the scriptures teach about this? What do the scriptures teach about this? This is the thing. One of the things that's so great about this issue in particular is that it is so simple. It is so easy to understand.

Like, you know, Peter talks about how some things in Paul are hard to understand, other things are easier to understand. This is one of those easier things to understand. And I don't mean you need to understand all the intricacies of it.

I mean, just on a basic level, this is very easy. And so if you get this wrong, at the end of the day, like, there's much more complicated things going on out there. And if you get this wrong, I mean, how do I even trust you to get the other stuff wrong?

And so if you notice, most churches, and let's just be honest. I mean, can we level with each other? Can we level with each other for a second? Let's say you were on vacation somewhere, right? Let's say you're in, you know, I don't know, Reno, Nevada, or something like that.

You're on vacation in Reno and, you know, you're there over a Sunday and you wanna go worship with the Lord's people on the Lord's day. And so you look up, what do you do? You go online, you Google, you know, churches in Reno, right, you Google churches in Reno.

And a lot of you, I'm willing to bet one of the things that you do to see if this is a legitimate church, because you could check the statement of faith, right? You could do that. But almost all statement of faith sound the same, right?

So you could do that. One of the, admit it, I mean, we can be honest with each other, this is YouTube, right? One of the things that you do is you check to see if they have women serving as pastor. And if they do, the chances of them being orthodox and sound in every other area are about zero.

Because this is the gateway drug. Once you start doing this, I mean, this is so easy. If you're willing to misinterpret this and lie about what the Bible says in this area, what area aren't you willing to do that in?

And so if you note, every crazy mainline church, they all have female elders. Every church that's a little bit wonky on the charismatic gifts, they all have female elders. You know what I mean? So this is one of those things.

It's very easy to diagnose a church. Do I go to this church? Is this an orthodox church or not? If they have female elders, the chances of them being orthodox are very low. They're very low. Okay, and so I'm glad that she's doing this.

And I hope that this forces this squishy middle to make a choice. Are you going to be liberal or not? I mean, it's just that simple. Are you gonna be liberal or not? I mean, this is great. I hope that more people have her preach because it'll let people know that this is a church that doesn't take the scripture seriously.

This is a church that doesn't do that. I hope it happens. I really do. And I think that this is all providential. This is all providential that's happening during the social justice thing because she's gonna force a lot of these social justice advocates that are in the squishy middle here that kind of think it sounds good, but they're not really all the way sold.

She's gonna force them to go one way or the other. They're gonna either go all the way woke or they're not. And they're gonna maybe come back to reality, come back home. And so that's what I think about this Beth Moore stuff.

Why a Simple Doctrinal Error Can Signal a Dangerous Trajectory

This is, look, I don't think it's good. I'd rather people not sin, of course. I don't want people to sin, but at the end of the day, the fact that she's doing this, I think is good for the true church to really see who it is.

And hear me here, because I'm not saying that if you believe in female elders that you can't possibly be a regenerate. That's not what I'm saying at all. What I am saying is that if you understand the scripture so poorly in a very easy area, you need to be very careful with how you understand the scriptures in other areas too, because that trajectory doesn't end in a good place.

It doesn't. It doesn't end in a good place. Anyway, I hope this was helpful. God bless.