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I have for some announcements to give you guys some things going on. Now, what

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I wanna do, and I do this every once in a while, where we grab a bunch of smaller issues that aren't enough for one show.

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We put them together and kinda do a show that covers a whole lot of cultural issues.

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And I want to deal with them now. The first one I wanna deal with is, maybe you heard

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Mattel, the Barbie line, they make Barbie and Ken dolls, if you remember those dolls. Now, first off, if you don't know the history, the

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Barbie doll was a doll that was really, I mean, it seems tame for today's standards, but back then it was a sex doll of that time.

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And it was something to project women as using their bodies as sex objects.

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And that was really the goal of Barbie. And to then have Ken that would be this, just always looking after Barbie.

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So, we see a change. Some time ago, they decided to have a

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Barbie that would have the Muslim garb on and try to reach out to the

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Muslims, because they were obviously offended by a Barbie that was very undressed, shall we say.

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Well, to keep with the culture, well, not really, actually, because it's not keeping with the culture, it's really these companies trying to push the culture and prey on our children.

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Well, Mattel has changed again. The giant toy company has now come out with a gender -inclusive doll line.

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And what you end up seeing in this, and by the way, if you're looking for where to get this information,

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I got this from Discern. Discern is a Christian news organization. It's disrn .com,

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it's pronounced discern. So, if you could go out there, they used to be the, I forget what the old name for them was, but I could probably find out.

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But it was like the Christian Daily News or something like that. But anyway, so, discern, d -i -s -r -n .com.

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They're the ones that I saw this article, and they talk about these toys that are, they come with a variety of clothes that they can wear, wigs that they can wear, and the whole idea of this is the blurring of the lines between male and female.

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This is constantly pushing interculture. So, now what they wanna do is get dolls that, of course, they encourage both boys and girls to play with, where the object now is to change what you're wearing.

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You change them from boy clothes to girl clothes, back and forth, so that there's really no discernment anymore.

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That's where they're trying to get with this, that there's no discernment from children to think that now you can just, you could just do, you could change genders like playing with a doll.

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You could just change from, now I'm a boy, now I'm a girl, look how quick I change.

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It's as quick as changing, you can't call Barbie anymore, but changing my doll's clothing and hair and suddenly a boy becomes a girl, a girl becomes a boy.

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It is very confusing for a young child to have to figure through these things.

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Now, as we talk about this, I want you to hear from the makers of this and why they are doing this.

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So let's listen to some clips from them. I think that we have hit a moment in time with a product of its time for children that are deeply in need of this kind of self -expression without rules and without labels.

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Okay, so did you hear that? They think that there's a need. Who's begging for this?

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Are the children begging for this? Are there children out there saying, I really need a doll that I can use it that could be both male or female and it could change gender, it will, because I have that need.

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I can't live without that. Is this coming from your three -year -old? Is this coming from your four -year -old?

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No, this is coming from the culture pushing it on the three and four -year -olds.

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But did you hear what they want? No rules. That's what this is about. They need to know that they can be in this world where there's no rules to sexuality.

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There's no rules to gender. They can decide. Now, I want you to think through what they're saying and what's going on here.

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They wanna teach children that there are no rules. Is that really good for parents to be teaching?

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I mean, when they get to school, are there rules? When they get to jobs, are there rules? Should we be teaching our children that there's no rules or should we be teaching our children that there are rules?

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No, we should be teaching children, teaching that our children, there's a right and there's a wrong.

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But you'll end up seeing, especially in this next clip, that the real thing that is going on is they are catering to trying to make the claim that children are right.

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Now, this is something our culture is going on. If you're paying attention to news recently, you have this girl,

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Greta, who is this young girl, and she's the face of climate change.

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And what's everyone doing? All of these young kids wanna put themselves out there. Now, first off, they said that, oh, look, there's all these millions of kids marching for climate change in New York City.

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Yes, they were given the day off from school. You take any teenager and say, you have a choice.

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You can stay in school or you can go march for climate change. Yeah, duh, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out which one they're gonna choose.

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They're going to march because they get out of school for a day. They're basically allowed to cut school for a day.

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So they go and march. That's exactly what you see going on. And then when they get criticized, it's like, how dare you criticize us?

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We're children. No, you're pawns. You're pawns in a game, a political game.

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You're being used. Now, if you're allowing yourself to be used, well, what comes with that is you're going to be criticized.

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So the reason that this is going on is that they want to throw children out there so they can't be criticized, so they must be right because what, they're children?

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How much science have they done? How much have they studied these things? I mean, if we're gonna put them in control, well, we gotta trust them because they're children and they understand everything about climate change.

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They know all the science behind it, right? Oh, no, no, not at all. So why is it that Mattel is creating these?

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Let's listen from another person that works there that created these dolls. A collection like this just knocks down every barrier to play.

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The greatest lesson of parenting is to get to know your child and honor who that child is and try to make them into the best adult human you can while keeping them safe and healthy.

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Okay, did you hear that? The goal is to let them, teach them everything there is to be a good adult while keeping them safe and healthy.

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Really, but that beginning part, let's listen to that again because this is really, should be shocking to us, okay?

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Listen to what she said. Every barrier to play. That's right, they wanna remove every barrier to play.

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Who is in control in this? In what they put out there, who's in control? Well, it's the child.

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The child is the one that should be making all decisions. Think about this, if you would, as we look at these dolls and things like this, you have, for example, in my state of New Jersey, if you go to a public school, a child cannot take any kind of medicine for a headache.

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They're not allowed without parental permission. So if the child goes and says,

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I have a headache, the nurse is not allowed to give an aspirin or Tylenol or Advil or anything to a child without parental permission.

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But you know what else a teacher can do in New Jersey? In fact, if a student was to say to a teacher, as happens in New Jersey, if a student says to a teacher,

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I'm pregnant and I want an abortion, the teacher must help that child get to an abortion clinic and know the parents are not allowed to know.

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The teacher is not allowed to tell the parents, oh, by the way, I took your child to get a medical procedure.

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Think about that. No, Advil or Tylenol, that's too dangerous. We need to make sure we get a parent's permission on that one, but I can take you to go get an abortion and I'm not allowed to tell the parents.

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Does this make any sense? This is where we're at, folks. They want to say the children are in charge.

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The children, five and six -year -olds, they know enough about everything to be able to know their gender and be able to figure this out, to have no boundaries.

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Now, let's think about this. You have to be 21 years old in this country to drink alcohol, why?

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Because alcohol will affect your senses and your discernment, your thinking, and your judgment, and therefore, dangerous things can happen if you drink alcohol.

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And so, in large amounts, and what happens? They say, you must be a certain age to where you're more mature and can handle these things.

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You're not allowed to smoke cigarettes until you're 18 years old, why? Because they're bad for your health and we can't trust that before 18, you are thinking through these things in a mature enough way to be able to make these decisions.

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You can't vote until you're 18, why? Because we think that you're not mature enough to be able to understand these things well enough to vote and pull a lever.

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But at four or five, you understand everything about sexuality, your future, what's gonna happen as an adult and whether you wanna have kids.

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You understand all of that to be able to decide whether you're male or female. Is this insane or what?

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It is, this is where our culture is. This is Romans chapter one. I'm sorry, but people sit there and ask the question all the time.

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Do you think that God is judging America or do you think God's going to judge

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America? No, no, I don't think he's going to judge

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America. But when you look at Romans one, he is judging America. This is the judgment.

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We've already given over to the foolishness of the world. It says that in verse 24 of Romans one, therefore

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God gave them up to the lusts of their hearts, to the impurity, to dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever, amen.

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This is the judgment of God what we see in our culture. This isn't God's gonna judge us for this.

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This actually is God's judgment on America. He's passing it right now.

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And so we see this in the insanity that we have before us of people that can't figure out that a four and five -year -old should not be making decisions on something that affects the rest of their life.

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That oh, I feel like I'm a girl today. I feel like I'm a boy today. And then they're reinforced by this and now people are being taught in schools and they're given towels to play with, all to reinforce that they can have fluidity in gender.

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I'm sorry, but this is a simple matter of science. You either have an X or a Y chromosome.

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That's it, XX, XY, you're done. That is science. Now for the evolutionists who argue there is no immaterial nature to anything and we're just pure chemical reactions, a product of evolution.

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Well, if we're just chemical reactions, then all boys should act like boys because that is their biology.

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All girls should act like girls because that is their biology. There is nothing else that you should see here where it's, well,

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I feel like a boy, but today I feel like a girl. There shouldn't be a change in that because the chemicals are not changing.

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You see, this is the way the chemicals are, that it either is that you're a boy or it is that you're a girl.

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There is no idea that you have the biology that can keep shifting back and forth. And there is such confusion that, let me give you, and I'm gonna tell you this right now,

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I do this, torture myself for your benefit. I'm getting this from the Gender Reveal podcast.

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I'm gonna play just some clips, but I listen to this stuff so that I can bring this stuff to you guys so you don't have to listen to this nonsense garbage.

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But there is, it's interesting because these gender podcasts are huge.

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I mean, thousands and thousands of downloads per episode and it's nonsense stuff.

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I mean, it's just non -common sense. But here's a big thing that they were thrilled with, so that the dictionary now is validating them.

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So here's just a little clip from the Gender Reveal podcast. You may have seen headlines this week that Merriam -Webster, the dictionary, added the non -binary pronoun they to the dictionary.

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I've heard three main reactions from this. One is, why do we care? Because the Oxford English Dictionary is the definitive source of the

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English language. And that's true, but the OED generally focuses on history. Like for example, the fact that we have been using they as a singular pronoun since 1375.

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And also, you can't access the OED without a like $250 subscription on the internet. And so,

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I can't, we can't talk about it. The second point people. Okay, so let's start with the first point before she gets to the second point.

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I didn't even bother playing the clip of the third. But notice what she says. The Oxford Dictionary, which is the definitive dictionary, that's the definitive one, why?

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Because it looks at words in its history. Why do they like to go to the Merriam -Webster? Well, they like to go to that one because it's more fluid.

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It's the one that's more dealing with cultural changes. And that's the one that allows them to keep playing games with words.

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Words have meanings. When you remove the meanings of words, and you say that it can mean one thing today and tomorrow means something totally different, then the words become meaningless.

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And this is 1984. Go read that book by Orwell. That's exactly what you have.

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You have new speak, where things can have one meaning today and then all of a sudden, they go, oh, no, no, we gotta change the past.

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Because in that book, they say, whoever controls the past controls the future. That's exactly what we see going on.

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People are trying to rewrite history, and now what they're trying to do is control language so that they can control the thinking that people have.

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And so they wanna go to a dictionary and say, well, see, now that this dictionary's gonna vindicate us.

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But the reality is, the historical word for they has always had been there in the

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Oxford Dictionary. And yeah, it could be used in the singular, but not the way they wanna use it today.

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And this is what you end up seeing. I mean, think of the word racist or racism. It's changing.

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It used to mean something when you show a prejudice toward people that have a certain ethnicity. Now it has to do with economics.

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Really? Like, totally different. Why? Because they just gotta change the word. Now, let's listen to her second reason.

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Making is, didn't Merriam -Webster already have singular they in the dictionary? And yes, they had third person singular they in the dictionary.

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But now, not only does it say that you can use they as a pronoun for one person, it also says that they can be used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is non -binary.

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And then there's an example sentence that says, I knew certain things about the person I was interviewing. They had adopted their gender -neutral name a few years ago when they began to consciously identify as non -binary.

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That is, neither male nor female. They were in their late 20s. So, not only do we now have the dictionary on our side that they can be a singular pronoun, but we have the dictionary on our side that non -binary people, one, exist, and two, use they -them pronouns.

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Okay, so does the dictionary prove they exist? Well, they do exist as either male or female.

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Either XX or XY. Now, when they claim they identify, how could they identify something other than their biology, unless, of course, there's an immaterial part of them called a spirit, that part they wanna deny in evolution, the part that they wanna deny in all of their evolutionary atheistic thinking, the reality is they're appealing to an immaterial part of them.

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So, you end up seeing here, they're just going, oh, look, the dictionary vindicates us. No, the dictionary is not vindicating.

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It's saying that this is the way that people are using these words so that people understand the usage of their constantly changing language.

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But I want you to get an idea from this podcast of how they view themselves. Now, I'm gonna play the context, the first part of this clip.

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Now, I've clipped out some of the middle because I want you to hear the beginning context of the situation they set up, and they talk about how this beginning part is so aggressive.

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If you don't call someone by the right pronoun, you're so aggressive. Listen to this.

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Any thoughts on dealing with being misgendered by strangers? The grocery store manager called me young lady and I want to scream.

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Yeah, it does suck. I'm really sorry that happened to you. People have this thing too where a lot of people, like including me, don't correct people at their jobs because they're like, this person is just trying to do their job and they have enough to deal with without customers complaining that they misgendered them.

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And like, I hear that, but also like if that employee is making you feel unsafe in that store or unwelcome in that store,

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I think it's okay to politely be like, hey, what's up? Or like one time I went to a movie with like a bunch of non -binary people and we got like aggressively misgendered and I just like emailed the manager later and I didn't like name anyone.

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I was just like, hey, everyone in my group got aggressively misgendered by your bartender. Aggressively misgendered.

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So if you call someone by the wrong pronoun, that is now being called aggressive.

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Think about that. I mean, how snowflakey are they? I mean, think about this.

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This is like, oh no, you hurt my feelings. You're threatening me.

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I don't feel safe. I mean, that's what they're talking about, safety. I don't recommend listening to this podcast full of foul language.

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But what you end up seeing in it is they are so, they talk about safety. It was amazing.

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They sit there and they say how they have to feel safe. They don't feel safe going out on a date with someone of the same sex because someone may kill them.

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I don't see that in the news. I'm not reading that very much about people just going on a date and being killed because they're going on a date.

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Oh wait, there was the Muslim guy, he wasn't a Christian guy by the way, Muslim guy who shot up a gay bar there in Florida, I think it was.

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Yeah, but he wasn't Christian for sure. But that's not seeing that very often.

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And they try to say how it was unfair because the courts are so biased toward, you know, against them.

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And I'm like, oh, really? I think it's the Christians who are being sued left and right for not promoting same sex marriage.

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They never challenged the Muslims who have a much hardliner position against homosexuality than Christians do.

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Christians only wanna share the gospel with them, Muslims wanna throw them off buildings. Hmm, little bit of a difference, shall we say?

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And yet they come after the Christians. No folks, this is demonic. That's right, I said it, it's demonic.

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This is a demonic activity against Christianity. It is an attack and a constant attack that they use this stuff to go after Christianity.

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It's not gonna stop anytime soon. And this is something that we have to be ready and prepared for because this stuff is what we see in our culture.

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That they feel that if you call them by the wrong name, that that is aggressive.

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You know, there's people who maybe they'll call someone by a nickname and people don't like that nickname.

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You know, a shorter of your name. If your name's Robert and you don't like Bob. Okay, what do most people do in that case?

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Hey, my name's Robert. Oh, okay, sorry, and it's not a big deal. It's not, there's no aggression there.

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Saying sir or ma 'am is being polite. And the fact that they wanna claim that there's something different than the way they dress or the way, well, how are we to know?

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How do we know other than looking at someone? That's why they say you have to call everyone a they.

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Because you're not, you're not, not only you're not knowing, but you shouldn't mis, give them a wrong pronoun.

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Well, that's just crazy to think about in a culture where, how are you gonna be polite? Because that's really what it is when you say ma 'am, miss, sir, gentlemen.

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These are terms used in a way of showing respect to someone. And they wanna take that and say no.

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And so what do we do? We're constantly seeing in our culture a watering down of respect and politeness to where the only thing that's gonna rule is rudeness.

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Now, this is one area, but I wanna give you another area that we see more of this stuff going on.

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And that's gonna be the issue of abortion. I wanna cover that just after this message.

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Todd. And now I wanna deal with the issue of abortion because here was very interesting.

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You have a mayor here and he was having the town council and what ended up happening at this meeting is someone got up and wanted to, and they often have this at their town council meetings.

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You have a time for a regular session where anyone can get up and speak. And this is what ended up happening at this one with Mayor Robert, oh, let me see what his name was.

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B -R -U -C -H -E -Y, Robert E. Bruchany II.

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And I want you to hear what happens. Someone comes up, it's a little hard to hear when the gentleman comes up to the mic, but he comes up to the mic and wants to talk about atrocities happening in their town.

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And soon as he mentions the murder of children, watch how quickly the council members move to shut the meeting down.

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And when this guy tries to speak, they stop him and say, sorry, we're having a motion and you have to wait till it's done.

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And the motion is to end the meeting. Listen to this. All right, so now we're moving on to say some comments.

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Harold King and Vince Barr, please step up, give us your name and address, please. Okay, now did you hear

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Harold King and Vince Barr? So there were two people that were supposed to come up, two. You're not gonna get to hear from the second one and you're actually not gonna even hear much from the first.

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Here we go. Sir, good evening. My name is Harold King. I'm a resident of Boomsboro, Maryland.

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However, our family does do most of our shopping activities here in Hagerstown, Maryland. We like it a lot here.

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And I wanna thank you for your time this evening. I'm here tonight to talk to you about the atrocity that has been occurring in Hagerstown for many years, currently at 160

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West Washington Street. That atrocity, as you may well know, is abortion, murder of unborn humans.

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Mr. Mayor, I move to adjourn. See how quick that was? That's a precedent motion. It is. I need to get a second.

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Second. So quickly they moved to make a motion. Particularly when it's saying listen to the conversation.

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See, God is - So did you hear what he said? He didn't wanna stay and hear this conversation.

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So this is a chance for a citizen to be able to speak to their council.

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And the council, they don't wanna hear it. So they just wanna close the meeting so that they don't have to hear a person.

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The guy starts to try to explain and then watch what happens, or listen. Anybody else have a motion on the floor?

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I think, you know, it's - From the moment of conception, there is a developing human life.

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When you want to - Nothing grows if it doesn't change. Point of order is Mr.

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Hefferman's making a discussion during a discussion moments of a motion that was made.

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Please wait till Mr. Heffernan is finished. So notice that the mayor just told this gentleman that he had to wait until this discussion from one of the council members is finished before he can speak.

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And there's a motion. He's not allowed to speak until the motion's done. Let's hear what this guy has to say. When you wanna change a law, it doesn't do any good to go before a body that has no control whatsoever.

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I mean, we hear this week after week after week in citizen comments, or month after month,

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I should say, in citizen comments. And this body has absolutely no control.

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Even if we wanted to do, if we all agreed to do something, there's nothing in the city charter, there's nothing the city can do.

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This is a federal. So. Okay, now here's the fallacy that guy says.

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He says, well, there's nothing we could do. Really? You guys are in control of zoning laws. You guys are the ones that allow them and zone them so that they can use that building for that purpose.

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You could stop that. You could change the zoning. You can pass a bill that doesn't allow them to do that. That's something that they have power to do at a local level.

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So there is something that they could do. They wanna play it off like, oh, it's out of our hands. This is federal.

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He's not saying I want you to put an end to abortion. He's saying he wants you to put an end to abortion to a specific address in their town that they have zoned and allowed to function.

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And they can put a stop to that for their town. There's nothing that says that they can't do that in their town.

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And so does the guy get a chance to speak? Let's find out. Part of the reason I'm here is because there are.

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We have a motion. We have a second. We have a discussion from the body. Any other discussion?

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Okay, so he tried to explain himself to this guy that made a comment. He's trying to explain what the mayor do. Go right over and just go, hey, we got procedures.

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We're in a procedural thing. Let's go. On the motion to adjourn.

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How say you? Aye. Aye. Okay, we're adjourned. Okay, so they're adjourned. That's it.

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They're done. No more. Everyone walks out. And this guy's left standing. That's exactly what we end up seeing over and over again with folks like this.

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This is, let me give you some statistics. I got this from a podcaster, from the

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Audacity to Podcast. His name's Daniel J. Lewis. And on his Facebook, he had some very interesting statistics.

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So I'm just gonna read this to you. According to Planned Parenthood's own 2017 to 2018 fiscal year report, they performed 332 ,750 abortions during that period.

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He provided the source for that. This is only abortions counted by Planned Parenthood.

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According to the CDC, 638 ,169 abortions were reported in 2015.

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That is like wiping out the entire population of Las Vegas every year.

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Wow, I thought that was a great way that Daniel J. Lewis explained that. Think about that. Explain that to people, that you are wiping out the entire population of Las Vegas every year.

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That's how many children are being murdered in this country. And a city council goes, we don't wanna hear it.

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We don't wanna hear this kind of talk. Daniel J. Lewis goes on to say, that's 1 ,748 lives snuffed out every day.

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Let that sink in, he said. And before you think that there's no home for all these children, experts estimate there are one to two million couples every year waiting to adopt.

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And yet fewer than 150 ,000 children are actually placed into these homes yearly.

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And he provides a source for that as well. So he goes on to say, how can humanity ever hope to solve smaller problems if we are savagely killing off the most innocent of us?

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How big do these numbers have to get before people do something to stop the genocide?

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And in the one minute it took you to read this post during the business hours, two to three children were murdered in the

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United States alone. Now, I think he has a very good point here.

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And I will try to put his post and the sources in the show notes. But you think about that.

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It really sunk in with me. I really think this was a great way to put it when he said that it is like wiping out the entire population of Las Vegas every year.

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Major city, 600 ,000 people being killed in a year.

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And people don't wanna hear about it. No, it's just, we can't talk about those things. No, no, that's not important.

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The other thing I was gonna show is there was, I saw some video of people that are outside of abortion clinic and they just wanna give information to people going in the clinic about adoption, about what abortion is, about things that abortion causes on people and basically giving them other options, other choices.

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And you had a death squirt, and if you don't know what a death squirt is, basically because the

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Christians have been so good at going outside of these abortion clinics and sharing the gospel with people and telling people that they shouldn't kill their child.

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And it's been so effective and so many abortion clinics have been shut down that what do they do? They get volunteers to stand out there to protect these women.

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They walk them from their car into the abortion center to make sure they're talking over them, to make sure that they don't walk over to the

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Christians sharing the gospel. Oh no, the gospel's such a horrible thing. That this is where it comes to.

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And so we call them death squirts because they want to escort these people to kill their children. And you end up seeing that they're getting very, very aggressive.

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And unfortunately, what you saw in the video that I had seen, and unfortunately I don't have the clip of it, and it wasn't something that would play well in audio anyway, but you saw this woman that was just getting right in the person's face, the pro -life person's face.

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And she's just so smug and going, what are you going to do about it? She's leaning on her, basically her placard that she's holding up and trying to bend it.

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And she's like, what are you going to do about it? You can't do anything about it. Now, I would have called the police because they were playing music so no one could hear them.

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There's a heckler's veto that is part of the freedom of speech. When you're exhibiting the freedom of speech, which by the way, freedom of speech in America is specifically about religious and political speech.

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So when you're out there promoting the gospel, that is protected speech by the constitution.

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And there is a heckler's veto, which prevents someone from preventing a person from exercising their freedom of speech.

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And when they're playing music and they were holding up these big pink placards to block the signs that the pro -lifers were holding up, that also is a heckler's veto.

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And I would have called the police on them, had them arrested and then have the freedom to be able to speak to the people going in the clinic.

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But these Christians chose not to do that. They chose to try to reason with these death squirts and the death squirts feel that they're entitled to do whatever they want.

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They can ruin your property. They feel that you can't do anything about it and they have the right. And it was very interesting what they did say because the one death squirt was saying, if you feel offended, you have the obligation to move, to retreat, to leave.

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Really? I thought that if you're being offensive, that you should stop. Isn't that what we hear in the culture?

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No, their idea is if you feel that you're offended by my behavior, you must retreat because we must be dominant.

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We must win. We must have the final say. We have the right to everything because we think so. Where do you get said authority?

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We make it up. We just want it. And that's what you end up seeing. This is a strange culture that we live in, a very strange culture.

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I wanna get to another thing after this break that really blew me away. Do you know you can never put your hands up in the sign saying, okay.

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You know when you're pointing over someone, you say, hey, that's okay, and you wanna put your index finger and your thumb together, hold three fingers up?

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No, that is a racist symbol. We'll get to that just after this.

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All right, so those are two of the podcasts on the Christian podcast community. You should check them out, both very, very, very excellent podcasts if you have not subscribed to them.

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Five Solas and Prescribed Truth are excellent, excellent podcasts. Now, recently this week it came out that the okay hand gesture is not allowed.

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This is now considered hate speech. It is, I'm blown away by this, it's hate speech to put up the okay symbol.

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Why? Well, supposedly when you put your fingers up and you guys know what it looks like when you put your fingers, your index finger and your thumb together with three fingers sticking up, that's supposed to be the words for WP, for white power.

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It doesn't mean okay, it means white power. So every time you use it, it can only mean white power.

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So therefore, if you walk on the street and you hold up your finger, you have a friend across the street and he puts his phone to his ear saying, hey, call me and you put your hand up to say okay, well, that's a hate crime now.

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I mean, this is where it's gone to, folks. And this is from the AP News, that this is now a hate crime.

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So I got curious and decided to look up some of the other hate symbols. I mean, if the okay sign is a hate symbol, what else?

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Well, 100%, that's right, 100 % is a hate symbol. So it doesn't actually mean a complete whole of something like 100 % of something, no, no.

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It can only mean 100 % white among white supremacists. Well, if it only means that among white supremacists,

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I guess the rest of us can use it? No, because it's a hate symbol. You can't say 100 % like I'm 100 %

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Jewish because that would be hateful. So I got a little curious what other numbers may be racist.

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And hate numbers, hate symbols. Well, 12, yep, you can't do 12, 13, 14, can't use 18, nope, can't use that, you can't say 18, you can't use 28, 311, 318, 38, 43, 511, 737.

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You better make sure you're not flying one of those airplanes because if you happen to say, what kind of aircraft are you flying?

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I'm flying a 737, oh, hey, that's hate symbol. That's a hate speech right there, can't do that.

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Can't mention 83, 88, I mean, this is just insanity, folks. I went and looked and this thing goes on and on and on with all kinds of claims of like everything under the sun is a hate symbol of white supremacists, even the okay symbol.

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And this is what our culture has come to, folks. This is insanity,

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I can't hold up an okay symbol because they will say the only thing that it could possibly mean is white power, huh?

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You know, my son goes to a college where they're called the

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Wildcats for the sports teams and so that's their, you know, the name of the teams are all the

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Wildcats, so their basketball team and all that. So they do sound very similar to a okay symbol but they just open up their index finger and their thumb just a little and so it's a

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WC for wild cat. But guess what? If they do that and get a little bit too close, someone may accuse them of hate crimes.

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I mean, everything seems to be a hate crime. We live in a culture where everybody is so easily offended at everything, especially the gospel.

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But you know what I find so interesting? They expect that the Christians should not be offended by anything. No, the Christians, they always remind us that we as Christians should just take it.

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We should roll over. We should, as that one death squirt had said to the pro -life person, if you're offended by what

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I say, you should just retreat. Walk away, leave. And that's what the culture wants

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Christianity to do. They're sick and tired of hearing that they're accountable to a

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God. They know that already and that's why they're sick and tired of it because they are trying to suppress the truth that God has put on their heart in unrighteousness.

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That's what Romans 1 says. And this is the judgment we see on them because they've done that.

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And because of this, we live in this culture where they don't want the reminder that they are accountable to God.

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It is appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment. Brothers and sisters, those of you who know

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Christ, it is not a time for us to retreat. It is not a time for us to walk away and to let this go.

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This is a time for you and I to double down with the gospel. They need this.

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They need to hear that there's a true message, that there is an accountability that they're going to have to give to God.

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They need this. They want to suppress this, but brothers and sisters, if we love them, if we care for them, we must warn them.

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We must tell them this is a responsibility that we have. So my challenge to you as we look at these different issues that have been coming up, we need to look at this stuff and say, there is issues that we have that we must consider here.

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We as believers should be reaching out to them with the truth that they would recognize themselves as the sinners that we all are, that they would repent of that sin, that they would turn to Jesus Christ, that they may have eternal life.

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This is very important because without them knowing this, without them repenting, they will spend eternity in a lake of fire.

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Do you love your neighbor enough that you would warn them? They need to know. They need to know the truth.

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Even though they want to suppress that truth, that doesn't take away our responsibility to share the truth with them.

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My challenge to you today is to go and share the gospel. The more of us that do this, then maybe the more obedient we are to the call to the gospel, presentation to unbelievers that God will bring more to repentance and enough people that when they repent, maybe this culture will change.

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Maybe we can have a revival in this country that can spread throughout the world that we could see people turning to Christ.

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But it is only gonna start when you and I get out of the comfort zones of our homes, get out of the comfort of our churches.

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And by the way, what the world wants to do is now that all these people came out of the closet, they wanna shove all the

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Christians into it. They want Christians to say, you can only speak about Christ in your church.

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That's where it belongs. No, the gospel message belongs in the public square.

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That's where it belongs. And that's where we need to be sharing it. There's people dying and going to hell.

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Do you care enough about them to share the gospel with them? I know this may not have been the most encouraging episode.

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Boy, it may have been frustrating. It was frustrating and infuriating to me. I had to listen to hours of podcasts about gender to hear some of this stuff.

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And it is painstakingly frustrating. But I do that for you.

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So you don't need to listen, but you can know what's going on in the culture. I'm gonna be bringing more of that stuff to you guys so you're aware because this onslaught's not going away.

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It's going to get worse. So remember until next week, share this episode, subscribe.

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We need as believers, we need to tell people. And so I challenge you to do that.

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