Literally Anything But God's Way - Good Faith Climate Part 3

All right, I had a cancellation today so I am going to do a video today.

I wasn't planning on it but here we are. And what I figured is we'd continue the Good Faith Debate.

It's very controversial. Half of you guys don't like the Good Faith Debates, half of you guys really like the

Good Faith Debates, but it is a quick way to do content since I only have a little bit of time today.

Let's jump right into it. If you remember, this guy in front of you was just talking about the global climate change disaster, that it's only a few decades away.

I know that we were wrong before and it was only a few decades away, 30, 40, 50, 60 years ago, but still it's just right around the corner.

If we don't do anything now, catastrophic problems. Miami's going to fall into the ocean, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.

Somebody in the comment section, if you want to give it a look, has listed the various weather predictions, the very alarmist weather predictions over the last 50, 60 years and how we only had a few decades left and they just listed it.

It's just unbelievable that anyone could believe this kind of thing right now. It's a cult.

It's ridiculous. It's just really sad. It's a sad thing. I mean, you look at this man and he's a sad man.

You could just tell he's a very sad man and he of course believes in this very sad eschatology, which is what it is.

It's the eschatology of the pagans and here we have Jake Meador believing in it.

Somebody else noticed this too and actually I picked up on this after I had already done my video, but it was a good catch on this guy's part.

If you remember his little example about why the government needs to step in, he said, well, when you're a parent, it's not so much about disciplining your child because of what could happen today.

It's more about what could happen if you do this in 20 years. If you notice, my commenter noticed, he said, interesting.

He thinks the government is daddy. That's what he thinks. He thinks the government is his daddy and they're supposed to be disciplining us and making sure that we do the right thing for tomorrow.

A lot of people are commenting on this guy's voice. I got to be honest with you. This is an intentional, his voice is intentional.

You know what I mean? People that talk this way, they talk this way intentionally. They can turn it off and on as they wish and so he chooses to talk this way.

This is his choice. All right, that catches us up. Let's continue. Likewise, while culture can and does inform practices,

I think culture and law should be understood as friends rather than adversaries. A society where cultural norms and public policies are in conflict isn't going to endure in that way for long because something is going to give one way or the other.

I think you could say we've seen that recently in lots of laws regarding sex and gender. It's not an accident.

In other words, like he talks this way intentionally and he dresses the way he dresses.

He borderline cross dresses intentionally. He has the long kind of flowing kind of female hair intentionally.

This is all an intentional aesthetic. He presents himself in a very non -masculine way intentionally.

You need to understand that. That's an intentional choice on Jake's part. You need to ask yourself what the laws eventually shifted in response to changing cultural norms.

They should work together. There's one other angle to consider here and this is an argument

I'm borrowing from my friend Brad Littlejohn. He's argued given the degree of...

Brad Littlejohn's another piece of work. It is extremely unlikely the government is never going to have to act to deal with these things.

The question before us is more are we going to try and do what we still can proactively or are we going to react in the heat of crisis?

When sidewalks are melting, railroad tracks are... When sidewalks are melting, railroad tracks are disintegrating.

Okay. You might not know this but it's about 45 seconds later.

I've been laughing for the minute. My goodness. Yeah. Brad Littlejohn.

Sidewalks melting aside. Brad Littlejohn, he's a real piece of work too. These guys are little friends and all of that.

Brad Littlejohn is famous because he was a COVIDian. He was one of those, that government must act and we must have vaccines and all that kind of stuff.

Of course, he was wrong. Obviously, he was wrong. Again, you don't need to be a scientist to know that that was wrong.

You didn't need to be a genius to know that the government doing what it was doing during COVID was overstepping its bounds, was wrong, would lead to problems, would lead to danger, things like that.

You didn't need to be a scientist to know that. Brad Littlejohn has not seen a government action he doesn't like.

He's not really the kind of guy you'd want to quote right now. In fact, he's refused to admit he was wrong.

Well, actually, he kind of does. He's like, it was the fog of war. We were all scared.

We didn't really know what to do. He's one of those guys. Brad Littlejohn. These guys are socialists.

They pretend to be conservative and they've got a few conservative -ish beliefs, but ultimately, government is their daddy.

That's their baby daddy. Maybe it's their baby daddy or maybe it's just daddy. It could be daddy or baby daddy. Who knows? Brad Littlejohn and Jake Meador, if you guys follow guys like, if you guys follow, if you know people, because in this audience, we don't have people that follow

Jake Meador and Brad Littlejohn. And if we do, you guys, shame on you.

Shame on you. Oh man. But if you've got friends that follow Jake Meador and Brad Littlejohn, I don't know.

I mean, I don't know how you could help them, but they're going to deserve what they get. It's just that simple. These people are not, yeah,

I'm just going to leave that one in my brain. As they were in England and Northern Europe just this past summer, government can't sit on its hands at that point.

The streets are literally melting. We're going to have rivers of concrete and it's going to melt into the ocean.

It's going to kill the wild urchin, the sea urchin. The sea urchin and the coral reefs will be covered in cement, melted from Europe and France.

So many things are disrupted. I think it is better to have laws that are passed proactively in concert with culture and commerce.

I think it's better to let daddy handle it now than to daddy, because then daddy will have to come spank us later.

This is all very perverted. It's all very perverted. They've got this daddy complex.

Somebody asked me in the comments, is socialism inherently effeminate? Yes, it is.

It's right and good and holy for a woman to rely on her husband. That's the way the world works.

It's good for a husband to provide safety and shelter and things like that for his wife.

But when you treat the government like daddy and you're a man, you understand you're acting the way a woman ought to act towards her husband.

You're marrying the government. Daddy will take care of it ahead of time. Otherwise, daddy's going to have to come spank us.

Pretty perverted when you think about it. And reacting in the heat of crisis, particularly because it's childish to commerce and markets.

I think government regulations passed in crisis often prove to be far more draconian. And they often are far harder to unravel than laws that are passed proactively, where we're able to work with a broader coalition.

Every mannerism, you need to understand this. This is not meaningless.

You know what I mean? Every mannerism he has, the way he speaks, the way he dresses, it's all the opposite of how he should be acting as a man.

It's not. There's no masculinity here. Like I said in the video, this was a joke that a lot of people missed.

Somebody should have created or saved his masculinity. And that's right. Somebody should have created and saved his masculinity.

He's barely got any left. Everything about his presentation screams,

I am a woman and he's actually a man. And this is the same sin as cross -dressing, the same sin as transgenderism, except it's a little bit muted.

It's muted. He's not a transgender. He's not saying that he's a woman, but he presents himself in a womanly type of a way.

And this is not meaningless. This is actually something that he's doing intentionally. And it reveals a problem inside of him.

That it's, I know people, man,

I know people that are struggling right now, man. And some of them are closer to me than others, but where they've got relatives that are starting to dress like the opposite sex, they're starting to act like the opposite sex.

And there's just so much, there's so much pain out there for this because it's so abundantly obvious that when you do that and you start presenting to the world that which you are not, there's a deep problem in your soul.

There's a rebellion against your creator inside of you.

And there are so many people hurting in this way. And for Gospel Coalition to just present a man that's doing the same thing, muted of course, but doing the same thing and to not really say anything about it.

In fact, the fact that I'm bringing this up, a lot of people are going to think that I'm being mean or unfair or something like that.

Gospel Coalition would never bring this up. They want to normalize this kind of behavior. Gospel Coalition hates your guts.

There's no help coming from Gospel Coalition. There's only, the only things that are coming from Gospel Coalition are going to continue to hurt you and your church.

It's just that simple. The stuff that they produce, that's okay. It's really not all that helpful. And then the poison that you imbibe at the same time while you're getting the few little bits of meat around the bone, it's not worth it in the end.

Jake Meador could be saying the right thing. He could be on the opposite side of the debate. Imagine Jake Meador on the true side of this debate, and Matson was on the pro -climate cult side of the debate.

And it would still be messed up for him to be presented in a normalized kind of way with a gay lisp, and he dresses effeminately, and he wears his little flip -flops, and he has the little mannerisms.

Quite frankly, his mannerisms are the mannerisms of a transsexual. They're like over -exaggerated things that a woman might do.

You might think I'm being mean. I'm not being mean. But you know what? If you want to think I'm being mean, you think I'm being a bully,

I don't really care. I don't really care. Because quite frankly, we need a little bit of bullying.

And I don't mean like you beat somebody up or whatever. I'm talking about people like this ought to be shamed for acting in a shameful way.

The way he speaks is shameful. The way he dresses is shameful. The way he carries his hair is shameful.

The way his mannerisms are shameful. You shouldn't act like that. That's gay. I remember when

I was in high school, when someone would do something effeminate with their hands or something like that, they were called gay.

And you know what happened? Did their lives get ruined? Well, I'm sure some of them felt really bad about themselves and stuff like that.

But you know what? You stopped acting gay because you didn't want to be called gay anymore. And you know what? Sometimes people need a little bit of that.

Obviously, we understand bullying can go too far. But that's part of your training.

This is how men act. And of course, we understand that sometimes that goes a little too far too.

We get it because we've got a whole, you know, kind of litany of manosphere guys saying that the way to act like a man is to have sex with as many women as possible.

Obviously, we know that's not true, right? But walking around like a fruitcake is not acceptable for a man either.

And that's correct. That's true. And if you do that, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. And what's one way to do that?

Well, you get bullied a little bit. Let's listen. Obviously, a lot of people are going to misunderstand what

I'm saying and say that all bullying is great and whatever. I don't even care. There's no way for me to avoid that, right?

There's no way for me to avoid people thinking that. But I got to be honest with you, but not all bullying is something that you need to be anti.

Some people need to be bullied. It's just that simple. And so that brings me to the second deeper argument

I want to make is that if we imagine politics as having this... You guys don't think that, like a lot of people will say, oh, this is not the way of Christ.

This is not the way of Jesus. Jesus made fun of people that acted effeminately. Jesus mocked effeminate behavior.

Let me... All right. I try to find the passage quickly, but my internet's a little bit weird right now.

But there are passages in the prophets where the Lord talks about their soldiers being like women.

He's not making fun of women. He's making fun of the men acting like women. He's making fun of their softness, their cowardice.

There's a passage where children will rule over you. He's not making fun of children. Children are children.

He's making fun of the men. He's making fun of their cowardice, their weakness. Anyway, there's just so much of this in the

Bible. You just got to come to terms with it somehow. You got to come to terms with it somehow. In any case, let's continue.

I don't know how much more we're going to be able to continue because I've got a little bit here that's already loaded, but my internet's being a little weird.

A purely negative view of government, where government basically exists just to protect against physical harm and protect property rights.

I think that notion of politics is more indebted to certain post -Christian modern ideas about politics than it is more traditional

Christian ideas about common life. I don't know about that because if you look at the Ten Commandments, they're pretty much negative.

That's what it is. You shall not kill. You shall not murder. You shall not steal.

That's where it comes from, Jake, but I don't think you really care about that kind of stuff. For Christians, politics are—

By the way, the ones that are positive, they're about worshiping God. About how to structure the necessary social relationships we all have so that they're mutually beneficial and delightful.

I think we make a mistake if we see the relationship between markets and culture and government as being adversarial.

I think they should be convivial. Ideally, they are three different strands of a cord wrapped together, all working in the same direction.

To put government at odds with worker wealth, for example, or to define property rights in absolutist terms is,

I think, a mistake that has more to do with modern political thought than it does traditional Christian thought.

The earth is the Lord's and the fullness therein, the psalmist tells us. This is why for much of church history, the chief concern

Christians have had with property rights has been about ensuring common use for all, not necessarily protecting individual rights.

Individual property rights are an administrative tool we use to ensure the common use of the earth for all.

Because individual use has become dominant and the commons have been neglected to such a degree, I worry that problems requiring collective action, which is what

I think we're facing, become almost unsolvable because we've lost the capacity for that common action, because we've come to see society as so grounded in conflict.

And this is a problem on the left and the right. I'm not trying to score political points either way here.

I think the revolutionary sense of politics is founded in this vision. I saw a meme that said that the

United States spent 50 years fighting the Soviet Union only to eventually become a gay, retarded version of it.

And the reason we become a gay, retarded version of the Soviet Union is because of men like this. It's just that simple.

And this is to our shame as well. Don't get me wrong. As a collective entity, the church has allowed men like this to essentially set the agenda and rule and all of that.

And of course, there's pushback now, and we're doing a good job with the pushback. I think in a lot of ways, we've kind of set the agenda now.

We've kind of created a counter -narrative. I was talking to a brother yesterday who was talking about this.

We've created a counter -narrative that's very powerful. And guys like this are,

I guess, doing a good job as well. I don't really know what he's doing, but in here, he's doing a good job. But this is how you get transsexual, perverted, brain -dead socialism.

It's through guys like this. ...of essential conflict. And I think that's a serious misstep that Christians should avoid.

Bovink has been very helpful to me in understanding that. So what is to be done?

I'll just throw out a couple policy ideas, and then we can get into the conversation. Actually, a lot of these things are starting to happen now already.

During his term, to his credit, President Trump joined an international agreement to plant a very, very large number of trees.

I don't remember the exact number, that a number of countries globally are involved in. And that's valuable. Trees can help soil quality.

They provide shade for wildlife, so that can protect species. They serve as a windbreak, which can help with soil erosion.

Enough trees can also be a carbon sink that might be able to help mitigate some of the damages we're doing through burning so many fossil fuels.

I think that's one policy we should get behind. There's a number of other provisions in the recently passed

Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden helped pass that do things like make it easier for non -profits as well as for -profit entities to get solar power set up at their facilities.

There's another regulation that came through that is going to help us phase out, so not ban overnight, but phase out a particularly nasty compound called hydrofluorocarbons that trap more heat than just burning

CO2. So I think those are good steps. Other things that we can do are we can actually offer tax credits and incentives to try and help nudge incentive structures for markets and for ordinary consumers in directions that are better for the planet.

So I think if we do start with this position of a conflict between humanity and nature or between where we work and the political entities we participate in, then

I think we are parting ways with historic Christian thought. But I think what government can do is it can try to create environments in which it is easier, this is a

Dorothy Day idea, a world in which it's easier to be good. And so what government can do through wisely developed policy is try to create spaces in which behaviors that are more conducive to environmental health are more likely to happen.

This is a something a farmer with some friends of mine at the Bruderhof community has said.

He says, the good news is that there is a way back. We can stop destroying and start restoring. We can work with nature so that in essence the land heals itself.

It is simply a matter of grasping certain principles that must be respected. And the Bruderhof have been able to do this at many of their communities around the world.

And so my hope for us is that we would be people who respect these principles and that our communities, families, neighborhoods, cities, and governments would also be such communities.

There's nothing Christian about what he just said. This is eco -religion.

This is the eco -cult, the climate cult. This is what they promote and he's promoting it as well.

And it's amazing. You even hear a lot of the language of how these climate cultists, they deify nature.

They give it a personality. And even in the last thing he said, we can work with nature. It's like, we'll work with mother nature.

Nature doesn't work with us. Unless you're deifying, or not deifying, personifying, giving it a personality.

Nature can't work with us. You know what I mean? It's just somehow it works. Climate cultists do this all the time.

But there's nothing Christian about what he said here. Nothing uniquely from a biblical, you watch a gospel coalition presentation.

You expect them, if they're going to be wrong, you expect them to at least present their untruths couched in some kind of bible argument.

That's what you expect when you come to gospel coalition. But if you notice, he didn't really do that.

And actually, if you were worried about the climate, there is actually a

Christian response to what's going on in our climate. And actually, I just got a text message literally a minute ago.

And I think this text message is dead on. This is from Pastor Reverend, I think.

I think it's called, I think it's official title is Reverend. Reverend Josh Waller. Good guy, good following online.

And this is what he says. I think this guy is dead on. He says,

I was thinking about your climate change video, and it occurred to me that it is not out of the question that humans cause climate change.

When God gave Israel the land, he promised them that he would bless them, even in terms of climate, because he blessed their crops.

And if they broke the law, their land would become a desolation. Some of that has to do with farming, but much of it has to do with the innocent blood polluting the land.

Long story short, if we need to repent in order to heal our land, it's not owning cows we need to repent of, but abortion and other legitimate injustices according to God and not

Marx. Yeah, I mean, that's dead on. The climate cult would have you do any kind of ritual, any kind of effort besides what actually will work if the climate is giving us problems.

If our land is becoming a desolation, a desertification, whatever he said, if that's really true, that's really happening, a

Christian ought to say, okay, we need to repent in sackcloth and ashes before God destroys us.

Who knows? Maybe if we stop killing babies in our land, who knows? Maybe God won't do the disaster that he's going to do to us.

Who knows? Let's do it. Let's repent of our blood guiltiness, of all the babies that we've been killing.

Let's repent of our sexual perversions. Let's repent of this mass insanity hysteria that we're engaging in as a culture.

Let's repent because that is how a Christian approaches this issue. Is God turning our land into a desert, into a desolation?

It looks like we've broken his covenant law. Let's repent and perhaps he'll have mercy on us.

That's a Christian response. But the climate cultist goes, no, no, no, we still need to have trannies.

And of course, we still need to kill babies. But here's what we can do. We can set up a scheme where we'll have carbon credits to set up an incentive for companies to buy green products and the

Green New Deal and stuff like that. That's what climate calls anything but repentance. Maybe God will bless us then because their

God is not God. Their God is something else and someone else. And so all these schemes, you know, we're going to plant a bunch of trees.

You know, guys, you could plant all the trees you want. As long as you're murdering babies, the blood of those babies is going to cry out to God and God will curse the land.

As long as you're allowing transsexuals to groom children and easy access to your children, you could have as many carbon credit schemes as you want.

You could have as many Green New Deals as you want. Nothing is going to stop the judgment of God.

It's just that simple. It's just that simple. In any case, I hope you found this video helpful.

God bless. It's almost amazing when you think about it.

If you were to say, look, I'm really worried about the climate.

God is cursing our land. We've completely disregarded him. We've disobeyed him.

And let's just say you were the governor of, I don't know, Texas or something like that. And you said, here's what we're going to do.

We're going to have a week of repentance, fasting and praying to the

Lord. We're going to ask for mercy. And here's what we're going to do. I'm going to issue an executive order.

We're banning abortion in Texas. There will be no more abortion. And if you do commit an abortion, we're going to treat you the way we would treat a murderer.

We're going to arrest you. We're going to arraign you. We're going to try you on the charge of murder because murdering a baby is just as bad as murdering an adult or a child or something like that.

We're also going to suppress the transsexual story hours. If you want to dress like a woman, do it in your home.

But you're not doing that publicly anymore. We are repenting. And perhaps God won't turn our land into a desert.

If you were to say something like that, that would actually be Christian. That would be a Christian response to what's happening.

But a guy, a little schlub beetle like this Jake Meador guy would be like, oh, that's awful.

But we're a liberal society. So all of a sudden, all of a sudden, God's way doesn't count until you're pretending it's

God's way. But really, it's just the climate cold's way. It's just it's it's amazing how upside down people like this are.

Anyway, here's an awesome song by by Tim. I think it's by Tim Bouchang.

Sorry, brother, I forgot your name. But here it is. Good stuff. A kingly king to fight against my lord shall taste his wrath and meet his sword.