WEBVTT 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:39.440 Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast. 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:40.480 I am Corey J. 00:00:40.480 --> 00:00:41.360 Mahler. 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:42.800 And I'm Wo. 00:00:44.080 --> 00:00:48.720 Today's episode is our second part of our discussion on the subject 00:00:48.720 --> 00:00:54.400 of race as a biological thing that has real-world consequences. 00:00:54.400 --> 00:00:57.600 Uh before we get into it, I'd like to note that this 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.640 is one of the episodes that if you do listen with children, 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.200 you probably don't want to listen to this one with them. 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:07.200 We're going to get into some details and some specifics of crimes 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.000 that uh are sensitive. 00:01:10.240 --> 00:01:12.320 it's stuff that most people don't want to hear. 00:01:12.320 --> 00:01:14.320 I guess that's kind of a trigger warning to everyone. 00:01:14.320 --> 00:01:17.520 We're not going to be too graphic, but as we talk about 00:01:17.520 --> 00:01:22.640 crime and as we talk about real world consequences of things, it's 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:26.480 important at some point that we as Christians and as honest people 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:30.320 stop sugarcoating some of these issues so that we can speak frankly. 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:33.360 So today's episode we'll we'll have a little bit more of that 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:36.160 contact than usual. 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:41.440 The previous episode we established the biological reality of race. 00:01:41.440 --> 00:01:45.040 Uh we demonstrated it, I think, sufficiently that as we looked at 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:49.120 the feedback, it was overwhelmingly positive from uh pretty much everyone who 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.440 listened either agreed and said, Wow, I I had not heard those 00:01:53.440 --> 00:01:57.440 things before, or they said, Well, yeah, okay, I knew that, but 00:01:57.440 --> 00:02:00.880 I don't see why it matters and the most negative feedback that 00:02:00.880 --> 00:02:04.240 we found found was from people saying just I don't understand any 00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:04.720 of that at all. 00:02:04.720 --> 00:02:05.680 It didn't make any sense. 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:06.560 I'm I'm confused. 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:09.120 That seemed stupid which is very 00:02:10.160 --> 00:02:14.400 heartwarming to me because that is not a moral condemnation, which for 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.040 all three of those groups I think that if you listened to 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:21.600 episode one on race and you did not find yourself filled with 00:02:21.600 --> 00:02:23.040 moral indignation. 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:27.360 I'm gonna tell you right now, that means that you are a 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:29.040 political pariah today. 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:33.120 You are a right wing extremist, because only the very most extremist 00:02:33.440 --> 00:02:37.760 racist people on the planet believe that race is biological and that 00:02:37.760 --> 00:02:39.920 it's not a sociological construct. 00:02:39.920 --> 00:02:43.600 So we weren't trying to trick anyone anyone, we were just telling 00:02:43.600 --> 00:02:44.240 the truth. 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.600 But the fact that everyone basically agreed with us makes you all 00:02:47.600 --> 00:02:48.880 extremists too. 00:02:48.880 --> 00:02:52.720 And I say that not tongue in cheek, but to point out 00:02:52.720 --> 00:02:57.920 the fact that when people are called extremists, it's a a conversation 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:02.640 short circuiting act of malice, to to call someone racist or all 00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:03.760 these other things. 00:03:03.760 --> 00:03:08.960 It's done to prevent any of these conversations from being taking place. 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.760 And this episode and the subsequent episodes are really the the conversations 00:03:13.920 --> 00:03:17.520 that that no one in the world wants to have because they 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:21.440 have implications for how we work in the church, how we work 00:03:21.440 --> 00:03:24.240 in our communities, and how we govern our nations. 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.040 And that is why we're discussing this to begin with, because as 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:30.880 Christian men, we believe that all three of those are vital for 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:32.480 for any man. 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:33.120 Uh 00:03:34.320 --> 00:03:37.360 to begin with, we're going to talk about 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:39.280 some statistics. 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:41.280 We're not going to get too into the weeds because again, you 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:44.320 know, numbers and a pomp cast is a a recipe for madness. 00:03:44.320 --> 00:03:45.920 No one wants to hear a bunch of numbers. 00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:48.240 We're gonna have a lot of charts and graphs that will be 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:50.400 included in the show notes for this episode. 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:53.280 And once again, we would encourage you to look at those. 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.640 Uh but we're gonna give kind of a brief overview of just 00:03:56.640 --> 00:03:58.880 a few of them to hopefully give you a sense of the 00:03:58.880 --> 00:04:05.200 scope, because when we talk about biological race having real world ramifications 00:04:05.600 --> 00:04:10.720 In human behavior, we're not talking about a 5% or a 10% 00:04:10.880 --> 00:04:13.200 difference. You could chalk that up to anything. 00:04:13.200 --> 00:04:18.080 We're talking about differences of 500 and 1,000 and 2,000%. 00:04:18.080 --> 00:04:20.160 Those are far too great to be ignored. 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.760 And so in today's episode, we're going to discuss the specifics that 00:04:23.760 --> 00:04:26.320 are downstream from race. 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:30.080 Now, just to bridge last week's episode, where we talked about race 00:04:30.080 --> 00:04:33.920 being biological, because it is, it's not something that man invented, it's 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:35.840 something that God created. 00:04:35.840 --> 00:04:41.040 To begin with showing you how that is connected to human behavior, 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:45.200 in contradistinction to the claims that many make that there's a tabula 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:50.560 raza man, that when you were born you are either morally neutral 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:54.000 or you are an empty vessel, or maybe you have original sin, 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.160 but everyone has an equal degree of original sin and therefore an 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.960 equal propensity for sin. 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:03.920 Those are theological questions, but 00:05:04.880 --> 00:05:07.280 science has something to say about it. 00:05:07.280 --> 00:05:10.800 Not that science has anything to say about morality, but that when 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:14.560 you look at the facts in the universe in creation and they 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:20.480 don't match with a moral theory that isn't actually explicit in scripture, 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:24.000 it's somewhat inferred, it's necessary to take another look at how you're 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.920 reading scripture because if creation is doing one thing and your reading 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:32.560 of scripture is doing something different, maybe you need to re-resynthesize those 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:33.680 two things. 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:37.200 So the first brief study I'm gonna talk about here to give 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:40.320 you a sense of where we're bridging this is a a twin 00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:44.480 study. And now twin studies are very valuable when you're looking at 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:50.160 human behavior because they allow you to isolate nature from nurture. 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:52.640 I think we've probably all heard those terms before. 00:05:52.640 --> 00:05:55.200 And some people want to say it's all one thing and it's 00:05:55.200 --> 00:05:58.000 all another, that it's completely deterministic. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.960 The on the nurture side, they want you to think that if 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:07.760 a Midwestern European couple adopts an African child from 6,000 miles away 00:06:07.760 --> 00:06:12.480 and raises that child speaking English, attending church, that that child will 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:17.200 behave identically to how any of their own children would have behaved. 00:06:17.200 --> 00:06:21.760 And what twin studies show, if they show anything, and they they 00:06:21.760 --> 00:06:26.480 always do, is that you can account for all of these other 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:32.240 variables to the point that the only possible variable remaining is genetic. 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:34.880 And so again, race is genetic. 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:37.840 When we talk about a race, we're talking about a gene pool 00:06:37.840 --> 00:06:40.640 that is held in common with a people group. 00:06:40.640 --> 00:06:44.400 So your family, if you're a father with a wife and you 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:48.160 have three kids, that's a gene pool of five people. 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.200 All the genes your kids have came from you and your wife. 00:06:51.200 --> 00:06:53.920 When you go up a level to your parents and your grandparents 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:58.160 and great grandparents, eventually it moves from just family into 00:06:59.440 --> 00:07:02.960 maybe ethnicity and then into something that we would typically describe as 00:07:02.960 --> 00:07:06.160 race. You know, or maybe race is English or 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:10.800 European, if you go one even go even further up. 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:15.120 But as you come back down those concentric circles towards the center, 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.560 the genes that are present will manifest in certain ways. 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:22.560 And so what they found in twin studies with young twins, uh 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:25.680 one of the studies we I found they had eighty-five sets of 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:29.840 young twins and they found that the children, if they were identical 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:34.320 twins, if one of those twins committed a crime as a juvenile, 00:07:34.320 --> 00:07:38.320 there was a ninety-one percent chance that the other twin would commit 00:07:38.320 --> 00:07:39.520 a crime as well. 00:07:39.520 --> 00:07:43.600 Now that's important because you're talking about the same family, you're talking 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:47.040 about brothers or sisters, but it would be two of each because 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:48.080 they're identical. 00:07:48.080 --> 00:07:50.960 So they have one hundred percent of their genes in common, and 00:07:50.960 --> 00:07:56.480 you find a ninety one percent overlap in criminality if criminality occurs. 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:59.840 Now that doesn't tell you anything by itself because well maybe that's 00:07:59.760 --> 00:08:01.680 just the family that they were in. 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:05.360 The reason the twin studies are valuable is that they're also fraternal 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:09.680 twins, and when they looked at a set of identical twins and 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:14.240 compared them to fraternal twins, they found that the correlation of juvenile 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.720 delinquency, of criminality as a child. 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:18.880 So, you know, we're talking about crimes being committed. 00:08:18.880 --> 00:08:22.080 We call juvenile delinquency lately, but we're talking about criminals. 00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:23.600 They're just young criminals. 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:27.920 If they're identical, there is a ninety one percent correlation in one 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:33.040 child committing a crime and his brother or sister committing similar crimes. 00:08:33.040 --> 00:08:36.480 For fraternal twins, it goes down to seventy three percent. 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:41.120 Now that difference between ninety-one and seventy-three is basically your indication of 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:45.600 how much genes we'll have in the acts of criminality. 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:47.920 And the remaining seventy-three percent. 00:08:47.920 --> 00:08:53.600 Some of that will also potentially implicate criminal behavior being genetic and 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:57.120 not merely social, but you can't infer from a twin study. 00:08:57.200 --> 00:08:58.560 I wanna repeat that. 00:08:58.560 --> 00:09:03.040 Ninety-one percent if it's twins, they're identical, seventy-three percent if you're talking 00:09:03.040 --> 00:09:03.840 about fraternal. 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:09.680 So about a 20% reduction, 18% reduction in the frequency. 00:09:09.680 --> 00:09:14.320 The reason that's important is that it proves conclusively that there is 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:21.360 a small but significant factor of genes causing crime, causing an individual 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:22.720 to commit a crime. 00:09:22.800 --> 00:09:26.400 This is tough for Christians because crime is sin generally. 00:09:26.400 --> 00:09:27.440 Not all crimes are sin. 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:29.680 We've talked about that in the past, but we're talking about, you 00:09:29.680 --> 00:09:31.120 know, vandalism, violence. 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:34.240 We're talking about things that no one is gonna argue these are 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:39.040 sins. Genes are a factor in someone committing sins. 00:09:39.040 --> 00:09:42.560 Now, as Christians, that's that's a tough pill to swallow if you've 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:47.040 never heard this stuff before because we're told that well, you know, 00:09:47.040 --> 00:09:50.320 you have a nature to sin and then when you have a 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:53.760 sanctified and redeemed nature in baptism, and as you grow in the 00:09:53.760 --> 00:09:58.720 faith, that will be replaced not completely, but to a large degree 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:00.880 by your desire to obey God. 00:10:00.880 --> 00:10:03.840 And then there's the struggle between your desire to sin and your 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:06.000 desire to obey God. 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.960 Not paying any attention to religion, what you find is that the 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:14.320 genes themselves are causing or they're responsible for some of the sin. 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:17.440 And I think that's an important place to start because it shows 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:23.680 that everything that we said last week about race being biological, this 00:10:23.680 --> 00:10:24.960 stuff is downstream. 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:29.120 There are aspects of human behavior that are downstream from your genes 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:33.440 and therefore must necessarily be downstream from your race. 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:38.400 When it comes to twin studies, another interesting thing is that these 00:10:38.400 --> 00:10:43.200 effects hold even if the twins are adopted. 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:46.720 Which is to say you can see the effect of genetics even 00:10:46.880 --> 00:10:50.800 when you have a totally different set of circumstances with regard to 00:10:50.880 --> 00:10:56.640 environment, so you can disentangle the issue of nurture versus nature, you 00:10:56.640 --> 00:11:02.160 can demonstrate conclusively that it is a matter of nature because twins 00:11:02.160 --> 00:11:06.320 raised in different families because they were adopted at birth still end 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:10.320 up displaying these sorts of similarities. 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:10.640 And 00:11:11.920 --> 00:11:16.720 for genetics, we have we now have conclusive proof that there are 00:11:16.800 --> 00:11:22.560 a number of genes that correlate very strongly with criminal behavior, certain 00:11:22.560 --> 00:11:24.240 types of criminal behavior. 00:11:24.800 --> 00:11:26.000 There are a few different ones. 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:28.320 They regulate various things. 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:32.560 Part of it would be regulation of certain areas in the frontal 00:11:32.560 --> 00:11:36.640 lobe, the frontal lobe being the largest of the four major lobes 00:11:36.640 --> 00:11:37.440 in the brain of a mammal. 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.120 That would be frontal, parietal, temporal occipital. 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.040 The frontal lobe is where your higher functions are. 00:11:45.040 --> 00:11:51.200 That's what's going to control your self-control, your willpower, various things like 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:57.520 that. Some of these genes that are predictors of criminality are expressed 00:11:57.520 --> 00:11:59.840 in the frontal lobe. 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:02.560 And the reason that is important should be clear. 00:12:02.560 --> 00:12:07.760 It is important because the frontal lobe directly correlates with your higher 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:12.560 functions, with your control of self, with your willpower, with how you 00:12:12.560 --> 00:12:15.360 actually interact with the world and respond to the world. 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:19.280 And so if you have genes that are influencing how this structure 00:12:19.280 --> 00:12:24.400 develops, how things are expressed in that structure, it is a very 00:12:24.400 --> 00:12:27.840 real difference from one person to the next if you have differences 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:30.720 in that part of the brain, and that part of the structure 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:31.840 of the brain. 00:12:33.040 --> 00:12:36.320 And one example would be one of the genes that deals with 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:43.360 MAOI, which influences dopamine and serotonin, neurotransmitters, that have to do with 00:12:43.680 --> 00:12:48.800 risk and reward and incentive for behavior without getting too deep into 00:12:48.800 --> 00:12:49.760 the neuroscience here. 00:12:49.760 --> 00:12:51.360 That's not our our point here. 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.840 The point is that there are genes. 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:55.680 We have conclusively proven this. 00:12:55.680 --> 00:12:56.800 This is a fact. 00:12:56.800 --> 00:12:57.920 We know this. 00:12:57.920 --> 00:13:03.440 There are genes that code for certain differences in human beings that 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:08.720 lead to different outcomes that lead to different behaviors, and these correlate 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:10.080 with race. 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:14.240 When it comes to the African populations, you are going to have 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:18.880 expressions of these genes that lead to lower levels of self-control and 00:13:18.880 --> 00:13:21.040 higher levels of violence. 00:13:21.040 --> 00:13:23.840 And that bears out in crime data. 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.960 It is not because the police are biased. 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:30.000 In fact, if you look at the statistics today, the police are 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.720 more likely to shoot you if you were white. 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:37.840 But that aside, it is not a difference in policing, it is 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:43.040 not bias against individuals, it is that those who have certain genetic 00:13:43.040 --> 00:13:47.360 predispositions are going to be more likely to commit certain kinds of 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:52.080 crime and therefore have encounters with the police and respond to the 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:54.080 police in a certain way. 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:57.680 Because of course if you have the genes that code for less 00:13:57.680 --> 00:14:01.840 self control, are you more likely to remain calm when confronted by 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:04.240 an officer who is telling you to put your hands up? 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:05.440 No, of course not. 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:08.480 And if you don't remain calm, are you more likely to get 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:10.560 shot? Yes, of course you are. 00:14:10.560 --> 00:14:12.720 Does that mean that police don't make mistakes? 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:14.960 Of course not, we aren't saying that. 00:14:15.280 --> 00:14:19.200 But if you have a population that is more prone to certain 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:23.200 kinds of crime that lead to certain kinds of confrontations with law 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:27.360 enforcement, you are going to see an increase in certain kinds of 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:28.000 outcomes. 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:29.280 And 00:14:29.280 --> 00:14:33.120 the reason that we are specifically talking about this is again, these 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:34.080 are moral issues. 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:35.920 We're talking about sin. 00:14:35.920 --> 00:14:40.400 And as Christians when you talk about sin, there are certain things 00:14:40.400 --> 00:14:46.000 that are in play that are important for reconciling us to God. 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:51.120 And as you know, especially as Lutherans, we focus on that reconciliation, 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:54.960 on repentance, on turning away from acting in evil ways And when 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:59.280 we see evil in the world, our desire is naturally and correctly 00:14:59.280 --> 00:15:03.360 to want those who are sinning to repent, to turn away from 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:05.520 their evil ways. 00:15:05.520 --> 00:15:08.720 These discussions become completely derailed in the 00:15:09.680 --> 00:15:16.480 21st century in particular, specifically because if you exclude the possibility that 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:19.920 race can have anything to do with any of these questions, then 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:24.640 then obviously you're left with, well, the police are unfair or society 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.200 is structurally unequal. 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:29.680 You know, you've heard all these things before, and it turns out, 00:15:29.680 --> 00:15:34.400 unsurprisingly, or maybe surprisingly to some of you, they're all Marxist talking 00:15:34.400 --> 00:15:38.400 points. The denial of race is a Marxist talking point. 00:15:38.400 --> 00:15:43.840 The accusation that the police are racist is a Marxist talking point. 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:50.000 The idea that race that society itself is unequally structured in ways 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:55.120 that disadvantage minorities is a Marxist talking point. 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:58.320 All those words I just used, they're used by Marxists. 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:03.840 But the linchpin is your willingness to deny that race can possibly 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:05.120 even be a variable. 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.400 Now, Cory and I are not claiming that race is the only 00:16:08.400 --> 00:16:12.240 variable and I I forgot to mention my intro, there's something that 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.040 I want to make really clear as you're listening to this, regardless 00:16:15.040 --> 00:16:18.240 of what you think about what you're saying, there's a fallacy that's 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:22.560 uh kind of an informal fallacy, but it's very popularly said, particularly 00:16:22.560 --> 00:16:23.440 online lately. 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:27.440 Uh it's NAXALT, N-A-X-A-L-T. 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:30.960 And that's that's an acronym that stands for not all X are 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:32.160 like that. 00:16:32.160 --> 00:16:36.800 So in other words, if we say to you that an African 00:16:36.800 --> 00:16:41.600 in America is more likely to commit a murder than a European 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:43.600 in America. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:47.360 The instinctive response from someone who has been shaped by this world 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:50.720 is to shout an axalt, to say not all accelerate that, not 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:51.920 all Africans are like that. 00:16:51.920 --> 00:16:54.640 I know a black guy, he's never killed anyone. 00:16:54.640 --> 00:16:58.160 It's a fallacy because the fact that you know a guy doesn't 00:16:58.080 --> 00:16:59.760 disprove the trend. 00:16:59.760 --> 00:17:03.520 The fact that the numbers bear out the trend proves that something 00:17:03.520 --> 00:17:05.280 is going on. 00:17:05.280 --> 00:17:09.440 And it is entirely it's an entirely fair question to ask, are 00:17:09.600 --> 00:17:12.080 the police being unfair to one group? 00:17:12.080 --> 00:17:13.120 That's a fair question. 00:17:13.120 --> 00:17:14.640 We're not saying that's not a fair question. 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:18.640 We're saying that the conclusions that are reached in many cases are 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:21.440 false. As Corey said, I'm a white man. 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:24.240 I'm far more likely to be killed by police than a black 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:26.000 man who behaves in the same way as me. 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:30.960 Now, I behave in a very law-abiding, boring way, so I'm unlikely 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:34.640 to be confronted by a cop, but in the event of any 00:17:34.800 --> 00:17:39.120 police confrontation, I'm more likely to be killed because there's not a 00:17:39.120 --> 00:17:41.520 social stigma to a cop shooting a white guy. 00:17:41.520 --> 00:17:44.720 There's no one who's gonna riot on my behalf if I end 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.760 up dead, whether the cop was right or not, no one's gonna 00:17:47.760 --> 00:17:50.240 care except my family and a few friends. 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:52.880 Everyone else seems like, well, you know, whatever, he got shot, he 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:54.160 probably deserved it. 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:58.320 The opposite is true whenever it's a non white who is involved 00:17:58.320 --> 00:18:02.880 in a physical confrontation with the police, with any authorities. 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:07.600 It always is automatically assumed that they were singled out for some 00:18:07.600 --> 00:18:09.120 completely unfair reason. 00:18:09.520 --> 00:18:13.840 Now, as I just said, it's not an unfair question, but it 00:18:13.840 --> 00:18:17.520 is an unfair accusation because it's usually not the case. 00:18:17.520 --> 00:18:23.520 Even in in places where you find that there is disproportionate use 00:18:23.520 --> 00:18:29.680 of violence against African Americans versus white Americans, you still have to 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:34.640 ask yourself, what was the individual doing in all of those cases? 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:36.800 If a cop tells me to put my hands on my head 00:18:36.800 --> 00:18:38.960 and get down on my knees, I'm just gonna do it because 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:40.720 I don't want to get beat and I don't want to get 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:44.960 shot. As we all see over and over again in police videos, 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:48.720 that is often not the reaction from African Americans. 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.480 Increasingly, as this sort of rhetoric has taken hold in the world 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:55.520 and they're being told the cops are out to get you, you're 00:18:55.520 --> 00:18:56.400 a victim. 00:18:56.400 --> 00:19:00.400 Well, when a cop pulls someone over who's African American, he may 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:04.480 already be primed by that rhetoric to think I'm being victimized. 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:06.800 I'm the victim of a crime right here, and it's a cop 00:19:06.800 --> 00:19:08.080 who's committing the crime. 00:19:08.080 --> 00:19:11.840 So there's a natural instinct, even on top of the genetic factors 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:14.960 to think maybe I should fight back, maybe I'm fighting for justice 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:16.720 if I wrestle this cop. 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:18.960 Who's more likely to get shot at that point? 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:22.080 Me who gets out on my hands and knees or get get 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:23.920 down on my knees with my hands on my head? 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:27.280 Or the guy who fights the cop and reaches for his gun. 00:19:27.280 --> 00:19:29.680 I think any honest person will tell you, the guy who fights 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:32.080 the cop is more likely to get hurt. 00:19:32.080 --> 00:19:35.200 Now if it is Africans who are more likely to fight the 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:38.080 cop, then yes it is Africans who are more likely to get 00:19:38.080 --> 00:19:38.800 hurt by cops. 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:43.200 It does not follow that the cops are more likely to hurt 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:48.240 Africans. What follows, potentially, and I think the data bears this out, 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:50.560 is that cops are more likely to hurt Africans who try to 00:19:50.560 --> 00:19:54.480 kill them in the pursuit of a lawful arrest. 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:58.560 You can't tease any single factor out of any of this. 00:19:58.560 --> 00:20:02.080 And all we're trying to do with this discussion is to make 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:07.040 the biology of race and the factors that are a fundamental element 00:20:07.040 --> 00:20:11.520 of the human experience that come from our race, they're a factor 00:20:11.520 --> 00:20:13.360 in these societal concerns. 00:20:13.360 --> 00:20:18.800 Because when George Floyd passed a fake $20 bill while he was 00:20:18.800 --> 00:20:21.600 high on a level of fentanyl that was going to kill him, 00:20:21.600 --> 00:20:24.400 whether or not the cops showed up. 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:27.440 Someone called the cops because he was committing a felony. 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:28.640 He was arrested. 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:30.800 He refused to be put in the car. 00:20:30.800 --> 00:20:33.600 Despite them having pulled him out of a car, he said, I'm 00:20:33.600 --> 00:20:37.120 claustrophobic, I can't be put in a vehicle, I can't breathe. 00:20:37.120 --> 00:20:40.640 Now the video that most people see begins at that point with 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:43.920 the guy in handcuffs saying, I can't breathe, I can't breathe. 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:46.640 If you pay attention, he was saying he couldn't breathe when he 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:48.960 was being put in the back of the vehicle while he was 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:49.840 still upright. 00:20:49.840 --> 00:20:53.040 But the v the video usually doesn't start there because that doesn't 00:20:53.040 --> 00:20:57.200 it doesn't tell the story that we were all told to believe 00:20:57.360 --> 00:21:01.840 was which was that the cops murdered a man who was peacefully 00:21:01.840 --> 00:21:04.960 being arrested. 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:10.320 If you bring Givens to that scene That deny the possibility that 00:21:10.320 --> 00:21:13.600 maybe a population group is more likely to behave in a certain 00:21:13.600 --> 00:21:16.480 way, of course you're going to think, well, the cops wouldn't have 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:18.480 done that to me and they did it to him, so the 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:19.680 cops were bad. 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:23.360 Well, what we're telling you is that the cops probably wouldn't do 00:21:23.360 --> 00:21:25.840 that to you because you wouldn't fight them. 00:21:25.840 --> 00:21:28.560 And the fact that whites are still more likely to be injured 00:21:28.560 --> 00:21:32.480 or killed by cops in arrests is not about the fighting. 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:34.960 It's about, again, the fact that a cop is gonna go to 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:40.320 much further lengths typically to not use a gun when there's an 00:21:40.320 --> 00:21:43.920 African American involved because they don't want to be they want to 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:45.120 have their house burned down. 00:21:45.120 --> 00:21:47.280 They don't want to go to prison for the rest of their 00:21:47.280 --> 00:21:52.880 life, like Derek Chauvin is facing, for a lawful arrest. 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.880 It's perfectly sensible that they would take more care and be less 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:01.600 likely to escalate violence even when the violence is justified by the 00:22:01.840 --> 00:22:05.760 force use of force guidelines that their own police departments have in 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:08.320 play. Because if you do it to a white guy, you're not 00:22:08.320 --> 00:22:09.920 gonna get in as much trouble. 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:10.960 That's a factor. 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:14.400 And it's a factor that gets ignored when these conversations are being 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:17.680 had, but when it comes from the church and when it comes 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:23.200 from places like the new large catechism with annotations, they say things 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:25.920 like the cops are being mean to minorities. 00:22:26.080 --> 00:22:31.040 They're being mean to African Americans at a higher degree of frequency 00:22:31.040 --> 00:22:32.160 than to whites. 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:33.360 That's not fair. 00:22:33.360 --> 00:22:35.120 They're being racist. 00:22:35.120 --> 00:22:38.880 If race is a factor, then there's other things going on and 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:42.160 as an honest person, you must look at those other factors before 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:43.440 making any decision. 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:46.720 You may look at all of the data honestly and still conclude, 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:48.240 yeah, the cops are racist. 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:51.760 And there are cases where the cops do bad things. 00:22:51.760 --> 00:22:54.560 Cops are human beings and some of them are dirty. 00:22:54.560 --> 00:22:58.560 That doesn't mean that all police are automatically bad, just as it 00:22:58.560 --> 00:23:01.680 doesn't mean all police are automatically good, or that all suspects are 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:04.320 automatically guilty and deserve to be killed. 00:23:04.560 --> 00:23:06.480 The other side doesn't hold either. 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:11.200 All suspects are not automatically innocent and they're not automatically not fighting 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:14.880 back and deserving a level of force in some case might get 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:16.000 someone killed. 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:19.680 When you look at all the facts, you must conclude that you 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:23.360 haven't done your due diligence to have an opinion until you've looked 00:23:23.360 --> 00:23:29.040 at race as a factor, specifically because race has behavioral manifestations that 00:23:29.040 --> 00:23:30.880 as a Christian you say, well, that's sin. 00:23:31.040 --> 00:23:34.560 And if you're a someone who's just a statistician, you're gonna say, 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.360 Oh, well, those are crime statistics. 00:23:37.360 --> 00:23:39.760 When you're dealing with the reality, you have to look at all 00:23:39.760 --> 00:23:42.240 the variables, and race is always a variable. 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:46.560 And in these cases, it's frequently the most important variable. 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:51.120 So let's look at crime for one particular city just as an 00:23:51.120 --> 00:23:54.320 example. These data are from 2010. 00:23:54.320 --> 00:23:56.720 You will find if you start looking for this that is increasingly 00:23:56.800 --> 00:24:01.200 increasingly difficult to find data from the last handful of years because 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:06.240 these reports, produced by the government, incidentally, are very embarrassing to the 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:08.720 government because they do not match the narrative. 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:13.760 Now there are actually problems with these data, but unfortunately for those 00:24:13.760 --> 00:24:16.640 who would try to say that is systemic racism or something to 00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:21.600 that effect, the data are actually biased against whites and in favor 00:24:21.600 --> 00:24:22.320 of others. 00:24:22.320 --> 00:24:26.400 Because for instance, the FBI has long in some of the reports 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:30.560 held Hispanic to be a victim category but not a perpetrator category, 00:24:30.560 --> 00:24:34.160 and so they're lumped in with whites, which obviously raises the white 00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:37.200 crime rate, as you will see very shortly here when I read 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:39.040 this table of data. 00:24:39.040 --> 00:24:43.280 But anyway, these are data from Chicago in twenty ten. 00:24:43.280 --> 00:24:48.000 I'm going to give you the multiple of the white crime rate 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:52.080 with regard to the Hispanic and black populations. 00:24:52.080 --> 00:24:54.960 So to say that another way to make sure that it's entirely 00:24:54.960 --> 00:25:00.560 clear, if per a given number of the population, a thousand, a 00:25:00.560 --> 00:25:02.160 million, whatever. 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:04.720 Whites commit one crime of this variety. 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:08.480 I am going to give you the multiple for the Hispanic population 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:10.880 and the black population. 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:13.280 We'll start with narcotics. 00:25:13.280 --> 00:25:18.240 Arrests for narcotics Hispanic two point five, that's two point five times 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:23.760 as likely as whites to be arrested for narcotics blacks eleven point 00:25:23.760 --> 00:25:31.520 five. Auto theft Hispanics four point five blacks nineteen point nine sexual 00:25:31.520 --> 00:25:38.560 assault Hispanics four point nine Blacks ten point four Robbery Hispanics three 00:25:38.560 --> 00:25:45.520 point nine blacks twenty seven point three Murder Hispanics six point seven 00:25:45.760 --> 00:25:48.000 blacks twenty three point eight. 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:51.440 And again that is to say that it is twenty three point 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:57.440 eight times as likely that the arrestee is black it for these 00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:01.520 data, Chicago twenty ten for murder. 00:26:01.520 --> 00:26:06.000 As can be seen, there is a very clear racial component to 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:10.880 violent crime, and this plays out across every city in the US. 00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:14.080 We could show you data for any large city, they're all the 00:26:14.080 --> 00:26:16.880 same. And it's not just the US, because of course there are 00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:19.520 those who will try to say, well, the US has this history 00:26:19.520 --> 00:26:21.680 of X, Y, and Z, and so of course this happens to 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:24.160 minorities. No. 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:26.160 It is the same in London. 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:27.680 It is the same in Paris. 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:30.240 It is the same in pick any major city. 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:34.080 Pick a major city in South Africa, it plays out everywhere the 00:26:34.080 --> 00:26:36.160 same way. 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:41.440 Race is a determining factor for crime rate. 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:44.320 The data are very clear, they are irrefutable. 00:26:44.320 --> 00:26:44.960 We know this. 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:48.560 And now of course there are those who will say, Well, how 00:26:48.560 --> 00:26:50.880 do we know that it's race? 00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:54.560 Maybe it's poverty, that's the one that is often brought up, or 00:26:54.560 --> 00:26:56.720 unemployment, or education. 00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:59.280 These are the three big ones that usually come up, and we're 00:26:59.280 --> 00:27:01.200 told if they only had 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:07.200 more opportunity, if they had jobs, if they'd been educated, if we 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:11.200 had welfare, wealth transfers, then we wouldn't have the crime rate. 00:27:11.360 --> 00:27:13.120 And it's fair to ask that. 00:27:13.120 --> 00:27:15.120 It is in fact good to ask that. 00:27:15.120 --> 00:27:17.600 You should ask that question. 00:27:17.600 --> 00:27:19.120 But it doesn't work. 00:27:19.120 --> 00:27:21.200 Here is the correlation. 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:25.040 Now, if you've taken statistics, you will understand how this works. 00:27:25.040 --> 00:27:29.360 If you haven't taken statistics, a number that is closer to one 00:27:29.360 --> 00:27:31.120 is a higher correlation. 00:27:31.120 --> 00:27:35.520 A higher correlation very strongly implies there is a causal relationship. 00:27:35.520 --> 00:27:39.760 And yes, of course, someone is currently screaming that correlation doesn't mean 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:44.560 causation. Well, it winks at it and usually it does mean it. 00:27:44.560 --> 00:27:47.760 And in this case it does, because the it's the sole explanatory 00:27:47.760 --> 00:27:51.600 factor. But for instance, we'll start with poverty. 00:27:51.600 --> 00:27:58.000 If you map poverty onto violent crimes per 100,000 population for a 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:03.920 large city, the correlation is.36, that is a weak correlation. 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:07.280 You are looking for a strong correlation, looking for something 0.7 to 00:28:07.360 --> 00:28:09.200 0.9 range. 00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:14.080 So let's look at the percentage of those who did not complete 00:28:14.080 --> 00:28:15.120 high school. 00:28:15.120 --> 00:28:19.520 Increasing percentage didn't complete high school, does it correlate with an increasing 00:28:19.760 --> 00:28:21.680 violent crime rate? 00:28:22.080 --> 00:28:23.280 three seven. 00:28:23.280 --> 00:28:26.080 Not much stronger than poverty. 00:28:26.080 --> 00:28:27.760 Let's look at unemployment. 00:28:27.760 --> 00:28:29.600 For unemployment, if you have an increasing unemployment 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:34.160 rate, does that lead to an increase in violent crime rate? 00:28:34.560 --> 00:28:38.240 three five, even less of a predicting factor, even less of a 00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:42.400 correlation than poverty and education level or lack of education in this 00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:46.160 case. Now let's look at the percentage of the population that is 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:49.920 black or Hispanic.81. 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:52.480 That is a very high correlation. 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:56.480 That is an explanatory factor, and we see this again playing out 00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:58.960 in every major city across the world. 00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:02.720 This is not uniquely American, it is not unique to big cities 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:05.200 here, it is not unique to a region. 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:07.280 This is simply a trend that holds 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:10.000 across the world. 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:11.920 And so as Christians we have to deal with this. 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:14.880 We don't simply get to ignore it, shove it under the rug, 00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:16.560 hand wave it away. 00:29:16.560 --> 00:29:20.320 Because that would be a betrayal of our brothers and sisters, to 00:29:20.320 --> 00:29:21.360 whom we owe a duty. 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:26.480 We owe a duty of care to those who are entrusted to 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:27.760 our care. 00:29:27.760 --> 00:29:31.120 And that requires us to look at the world not through rose 00:29:31.120 --> 00:29:35.920 tinted glasses, but with open eyes, to see the reality of what 00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:41.760 is represented in these data, and then to act appropriately with regard 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:45.680 to these data to achieve proper moral ends. 00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:51.680 I have some similar data from the 2021 collection from the FBI, 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:52.960 so it's nationwide. 00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.240 And it it it bears out exactly pretty much identical to what 00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:59.200 you find wherever there are African populations. 00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:01.600 Uh there are a couple other points I want to tease out 00:30:01.600 --> 00:30:02.480 from that. 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:05.600 We all know that men are more violent than women. 00:30:05.600 --> 00:30:07.680 That's it's our nature. 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.600 A man has on average fifteen times more testosterone than a woman, 00:30:11.600 --> 00:30:12.640 regardless of race. 00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:16.880 I don't know how how it adjusts for race, but more testosterone 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:20.240 typically correlates to higher degrees of aggression. 00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:23.200 Now that doesn't say anything about self-control. 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:26.160 It just means that men are more likely to behave in a 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:28.160 violent way than women are. 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:32.240 And we see that in the FBI crime statistics for whites. 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:36.400 In the US in 2021, a white man was five times more 00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:38.800 likely than a white woman to kill someone. 00:30:38.800 --> 00:30:42.400 So you're you know five that's five times greater when you're looking 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:44.080 at men versus women. 00:30:44.080 --> 00:30:48.720 What's interesting is when you compare white men to black women, then 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.400 you find that black women are one point seven times more likely 00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:55.200 than white men to commit murders. 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:55.520 So 00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:58.080 that's that's tremendous. 00:30:58.080 --> 00:31:00.000 That's a huge increase. 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:00.640 Where 00:31:01.520 --> 00:31:07.920 the population of women among Africans is more homicidally violent than white 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:12.720 men, you're never going to hear anyone tell you that because because 00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:14.080 of the implications. 00:31:14.080 --> 00:31:18.720 What does it mean as a society if there is this preponderance 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:21.280 for violence and for brutal violence. 00:31:21.280 --> 00:31:24.400 We're not just talking about fistfights or arguments. 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:29.360 We're talking about dead bodies being attributed to individuals. 00:31:29.360 --> 00:31:33.920 The nationwide average was, as Corey said, 18 times more likely for 00:31:34.800 --> 00:31:38.000 a black man to kill than a white man. 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:42.240 And one really startling statistic that emerges is that the I have 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.280 this race, this data broken down also by age. 00:31:45.280 --> 00:31:51.440 So that 18% or sorry, the 18 times is specific to everyone 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:53.840 between the ages of 18 and 64. 00:31:53.840 --> 00:31:58.000 So basically peak physical condition for men, you know, from from their 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:01.280 adolescent years until you start to get too old to really do 00:32:01.280 --> 00:32:02.480 too much violence. 00:32:02.560 --> 00:32:04.480 18 times more likely. 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:08.720 However, again, the average for white men is about five. 00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:13.200 The average for black males between the age of five and fourteen 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:15.360 is also five. 00:32:15.360 --> 00:32:20.320 A five to fourteen year old African boy is more likely to 00:32:20.320 --> 00:32:26.160 murder you than any white man, regardless of circumstance, that's that's tremendous. 00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:29.520 When you consider the the physical disparity and the 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:32.720 what would cause a five year old to fourteen year old, and 00:32:32.800 --> 00:32:36.080 obvious obviously that probably slews more towards the what we call the 00:32:36.080 --> 00:32:37.040 teenage years. 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:38.800 It it's probably mostly over ten. 00:32:38.800 --> 00:32:40.320 I don't have that broken down. 00:32:40.320 --> 00:32:42.960 But the fact that that degree of violence would be found among 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:47.840 kids who are so small that yet they can still cause a 00:32:47.840 --> 00:32:51.520 death, obviously, that's probably mostly talking about weapons. 00:32:51.520 --> 00:32:55.520 Uh usually it's going to be uh firearms, sometimes it's gonna be 00:32:55.520 --> 00:33:00.560 knives. That's something that has societal implications. 00:33:00.560 --> 00:33:04.560 And it goes beyond simply, wow, we have a sin problem, or 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:07.680 wow, we have economic problems. 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:11.280 These statistics bear out over and over again. 00:33:11.280 --> 00:33:13.440 And Corey said this, but he didn't explicit. 00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:18.080 When we're talking about worldwide, we're talking about Africans behaving with this 00:33:18.080 --> 00:33:20.800 degree of violence wherever they live. 00:33:20.800 --> 00:33:23.280 It doesn't matter if they live in the US or if they 00:33:23.280 --> 00:33:26.480 live somewhere in Africa or if they've imp been imported to somewhere 00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:29.120 in Europe recently as happened many, many times. 00:33:29.280 --> 00:33:32.960 There are millions and millions of Africans living in Europe today who 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:35.600 aren't living there at the turn of the century. 00:33:35.600 --> 00:33:41.360 That's artificial, and it's causing violent crime to go through the roof 00:33:41.360 --> 00:33:44.960 in places that never had any crime before. 00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:49.840 And we're talking about sin, but as Corey said, we're also talking 00:33:49.840 --> 00:33:53.680 about care for your neighbor and care for your own brother according 00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:54.880 to the flesh. 00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:57.200 An African is not my brother. 00:33:57.200 --> 00:34:00.320 He may be my brother according to Christ, but he is not 00:34:00.320 --> 00:34:02.240 my brother according to the flesh. 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:05.600 That's not an insult to him, it is not demigrating him as 00:34:05.600 --> 00:34:08.400 a man or to say he is less than, it is to 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:10.800 say he's not physically my brother. 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:12.800 I have a duty to my brother. 00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:14.480 Scripture makes that clear. 00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:18.000 And a failure for us to look to our own, to make 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:22.800 sure that they are cared for has moral implications too. 00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:27.680 I have a study here from the National Institutes of Health just 00:34:27.680 --> 00:34:32.560 to flesh out the the issue of testosterone level and criminality, because 00:34:32.560 --> 00:34:33.840 there is a correlation there. 00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:37.120 We are not going to deny that men commit more crime, and 00:34:37.120 --> 00:34:42.080 there is some correlation with testosterone level, because of course testosterone if 00:34:42.080 --> 00:34:45.280 it's high enough is going to lead to certain kinds of impulsivity, 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:48.160 as any male who has gone through puberty is well aware. 00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:52.480 Between the ages of twelve and fifteen, black males actually have lower 00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:55.200 testosterone than white males. 00:34:55.200 --> 00:35:02.240 However, black male testosterone rapidly increases around that age, and then from 00:35:02.240 --> 00:35:06.640 the ages about twenty to thirty-nine, blacks have a higher level of 00:35:06.640 --> 00:35:08.400 testosterone than whites. 00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:12.560 This is just comparing men because obviously women have testosterone as well, 00:35:12.560 --> 00:35:16.880 and there are hormonal considerations for women and criminality as well, but 00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:19.440 we're focusing on men right now. 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:25.200 However, testosterone level for blacks drops off precipitously after that after that 00:35:25.200 --> 00:35:28.400 age and falls much more rapidly than for whites. 00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:31.120 And one of the effects that we see of this is actually 00:35:31.120 --> 00:35:34.480 not a this is not a criminal matter, it's not criminality, but 00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:39.760 we see health consequences of this because testosterone level correlates inversely, in 00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:42.880 later life at any rate, with prostate cancer. 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:47.120 And so we see much higher rates of prostate cancer in blacks 00:35:47.120 --> 00:35:48.240 than in whites. 00:35:48.240 --> 00:35:53.200 So for instance, between 2015 and 2019, the incidence of prostate cancer 00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:57.760 in black men was one hundred seventy six and some change per 00:35:57.760 --> 00:35:58.880 one hundred thousand. 00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:02.640 It was only one hundred four for whites, and that's purely a 00:36:02.640 --> 00:36:07.600 matter of genetics, a matter of testosterone level, particularly when you're over 00:36:07.600 --> 00:36:09.680 the age of forty. 00:36:09.680 --> 00:36:15.440 And so this is again an instance of genetics influencing and to 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:18.560 some degree indeed determining behavior. 00:36:18.560 --> 00:36:21.920 Because yes, we we're not saying that you don't have free will. 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:26.000 We're not saying that human beings cannot choose not to commit a 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:27.840 crime. That's not what we're saying. 00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:35.040 We are saying there are certain impulses, certain incentives inherent to certain 00:36:35.040 --> 00:36:37.040 genetic groups. 00:36:37.040 --> 00:36:40.640 You are going to be more prone to certain behaviors if you 00:36:40.640 --> 00:36:43.280 have a certain genetic foundation. 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:45.840 And of course we all know this. 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:49.600 And as Christians we have to affirm this, because for instance, if 00:36:49.600 --> 00:36:55.120 you are genetically male, you are in fact programmed to like women 00:36:55.680 --> 00:37:01.280 If you are genetically female, you are programmed to like men. 00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:06.080 Worth noting actually just as a sort of aside that the CDC 00:37:06.080 --> 00:37:10.240 hasn't quite updated their charts yet and prostate cancer is listed as 00:37:10.240 --> 00:37:12.400 exclusively a male issue. 00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:15.520 Denying the Yeah, I know they they they're someone will get in 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:19.120 someone listening to the podcast, someone's going to get in trouble for 00:37:19.120 --> 00:37:22.000 that because it does say male on the charts. 00:37:22.160 --> 00:37:24.720 Only men who can get that because of course only men have 00:37:24.720 --> 00:37:25.600 a prostate. 00:37:26.240 --> 00:37:29.920 To be explicit, those that programming for a man to like a 00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:34.400 woman and woman to like a band, that's not societally assigned, that's 00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:37.120 not culturally conformed, that's from God. 00:37:37.120 --> 00:37:39.040 God made that desire. 00:37:39.040 --> 00:37:41.360 Yes. It is purely biology. 00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:47.680 There the fact that there is a corruption through culture of impulses 00:37:47.680 --> 00:37:52.880 and of perceived desires does not change that God made us a 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:54.000 certain way. 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:58.240 And although that can be corrupted over time in genes and it 00:37:58.240 --> 00:38:00.720 can be corrupted societally and culturally. 00:38:00.720 --> 00:38:03.280 It doesn't change the fact that when we talk about how God 00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:07.840 made us, that is only to his glory and wherever there's detriment 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.480 is ascribed to sin and to the fall. 00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:14.640 But we cannot we cannot exclude those factors just because they make 00:38:14.640 --> 00:38:15.840 us uncomfortable. 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:16.000 And 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:18.480 it's worth emphasizing that here. 00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:22.400 Insofar as anything is good in human nature, because of course human 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:23.920 nature created by God 00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:28.640 Corrupted by the fall, corrupted by original sin. 00:38:28.640 --> 00:38:31.920 Our nature is not original sin, our nature was not replaced by 00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:32.880 original sin. 00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:35.760 That would be a heresy because that would be to say that 00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:38.480 Satan created our original nature. 00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:38.880 No. 00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:42.640 Original sin corrupts our nature. 00:38:42.640 --> 00:38:47.040 Insofar as anything good remains in human nature, that is from God. 00:38:47.040 --> 00:38:49.920 So the fact that men are attracted to women, that is from 00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:52.960 God. The fact that women are attracted to men, that is from 00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:59.120 God. The fact that certain populations have a genetic predisposition to criminality 00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:01.360 is not from God. 00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:06.640 That is a corruption of their nature, due to original sin and 00:39:06.640 --> 00:39:12.000 due to generational worship of demons, there are real consequences in the 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:16.880 real world in the flesh for those who worship demons. 00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:21.920 And these accrue over time, we clearly see, from history and from 00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:28.320 nature. It is not consequence free if your ancestors, for six thousand 00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:32.480 years, give or take, worshipped demons. 00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:37.840 God blesses those who obey, he just as certainly curses those who 00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:41.200 rebel. And that is what we are dealing with here. 00:39:41.200 --> 00:39:43.680 We see these issues in certain populations 00:39:44.560 --> 00:39:48.560 because their ancestors worshipped demons. 00:39:48.560 --> 00:39:54.320 And they worshipped particularly heinous demons in particularly heinous ways, for a 00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:55.840 very long time. 00:39:56.240 --> 00:40:01.360 Now, I am not saying that Europeans did not have pagan ancestors, 00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:05.040 because we did have a period of paganism in our own lines, 00:40:05.040 --> 00:40:06.400 in our own history. 00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:10.240 It's difficult to pin down exactly when it started, we know very 00:40:10.240 --> 00:40:13.360 well when it ended because we have that history written down by 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:17.520 the Christians who went and converted the pagans back to Christianity, because 00:40:17.520 --> 00:40:19.920 of course they were originally Christian. 00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:24.160 When Japheth stepped off the ark, he stepped off the ark, a 00:40:24.160 --> 00:40:27.920 Christian. He moved to Europe, a Christian. 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:30.320 He taught his sons Christianity. 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:32.160 They taught their sons Christianity. 00:40:32.160 --> 00:40:35.120 At some point the demons came in, it broke down, they started 00:40:35.120 --> 00:40:37.520 worshiping demons, they became pagans. 00:40:37.520 --> 00:40:41.600 They did not become as bad as many other pagans. 00:40:41.600 --> 00:40:45.520 Child sacrifice was not as common in Europe. 00:40:45.520 --> 00:40:48.320 They did not engage in cannibalism. 00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:52.400 They didn't share their wives, they didn't have communal wives, and you 00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:57.680 can read even pagan Roman authors who commended the Germans, as they 00:40:57.680 --> 00:41:01.840 called them, it was the Germanic tribes at the time for their 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:04.800 morality with regard to sexual ethics. 00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:06.880 And that's from a pagan source. 00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:11.120 So this is not something that is just made up out of 00:41:11.120 --> 00:41:11.840 the ether. 00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:16.240 We know this, we have documentation for this, the degree to which 00:41:16.240 --> 00:41:20.080 you fall to demon worship and the depth of the depravity and 00:41:20.080 --> 00:41:25.120 the evil in which your ancestors engaged can vary across populations. 00:41:25.120 --> 00:41:31.120 The Canaanites, in scripture, singled out for being particularly wicked, so wicked 00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:36.320 that God told the Israelites to destroy them utterly. 00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:40.640 The pagans in the New World, when the Spanish conquistadors and others 00:41:40.640 --> 00:41:47.520 found them, were so wicked, so depraved, that it was incomprehensible to 00:41:47.520 --> 00:41:51.520 the Christian conquerors just how wicked these people were, what they were 00:41:51.520 --> 00:41:55.600 doing, the evil acts in which they were engaging. 00:41:55.600 --> 00:41:59.120 That was not the case with what was found by Christian missionaries 00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:02.160 when they moved north, into European territory. 00:42:02.160 --> 00:42:05.120 Yes, the European pagans were worshipping demons. 00:42:05.120 --> 00:42:06.880 Yes, they had fallen away from God. 00:42:07.120 --> 00:42:09.120 No, they had not fallen as far. 00:42:09.120 --> 00:42:10.160 Would they have? 00:42:10.160 --> 00:42:12.720 Almost certainly over time, yes. 00:42:12.720 --> 00:42:14.160 But they had not yet. 00:42:14.160 --> 00:42:17.280 And so there are real consequences for this, and that is what 00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:18.560 we see playing out. 00:42:18.560 --> 00:42:20.880 That is what these data represents. 00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:26.080 These data reflect the consequence of moving away from God. 00:42:26.480 --> 00:42:29.840 The comments you just made are something that was the basically the 00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:33.520 second hour of our episode a while ago on election. 00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:36.240 If you haven't listened to that yet, or if you haven't listened 00:42:36.240 --> 00:42:38.720 to a while, it's it's worth going back and re-listening to it 00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:43.600 because we make the case there, which is being re reiterated here, 00:42:43.600 --> 00:42:45.600 that when we say that there are 00:42:46.640 --> 00:42:53.680 substantial biological differences that have moral consequences in population groups, in racial 00:42:53.680 --> 00:42:58.640 groups, it is not a judgment against those groups because we don't 00:42:58.560 --> 00:43:01.120 like them or because they look different. 00:43:01.120 --> 00:43:04.800 It is in fact rooted in the history of those groups. 00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:07.200 As Corey said and as as you can hear in the election 00:43:07.200 --> 00:43:11.680 episode, when they came off the ark, there was no evidence when 00:43:11.680 --> 00:43:14.960 Christians finally got to the to the New World and got into 00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:19.840 the center of Africa between about fifteen and sixteen seventeen hundred AD. 00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:24.880 There was no evidence that anything other than absolute demon worship had 00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:27.280 ever existed in those places. 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:30.720 They had an extra two thousand years nearly on top of the 00:43:30.720 --> 00:43:35.680 Europeans of communing with those demons, and the consequences exist to this 00:43:35.680 --> 00:43:39.120 day. One of the maps that we will include in the show 00:43:39.120 --> 00:43:43.920 notes is a so-called diversity versus homicide rate map. 00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:48.080 And it's two maps broken down by county of the United States. 00:43:48.080 --> 00:43:52.080 It shows county by county color coding demographics. 00:43:52.080 --> 00:43:56.080 So are the counties more than eighty-five percent white or do they 00:43:56.080 --> 00:44:01.200 have more than twenty percent African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino or 00:44:01.200 --> 00:44:03.040 Native American populations? 00:44:03.200 --> 00:44:06.720 And then right beneath it is a homicide rate chart. 00:44:06.720 --> 00:44:10.160 You can look at both of those maps that are color-coded differently, 00:44:10.160 --> 00:44:14.160 and you can clearly see from the maps where the Africans and 00:44:14.160 --> 00:44:17.920 where the Indians live by the homicide rates. 00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:21.760 Now that's exactly what Corey was just intimating with those comments. 00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:26.720 The fact that the Indians for 4,000 years communed with demons has 00:44:26.960 --> 00:44:32.160 consequences. And the Marxists want you to believe it's poverty. 00:44:32.160 --> 00:44:34.320 It's structural racism. 00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:37.600 That they are, they were put on reservations and we were mean 00:44:37.600 --> 00:44:40.480 to them and that makes them more likely to kill themselves and 00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:43.120 to kill other people. 00:44:43.120 --> 00:44:44.320 That's a theory. 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:47.200 It's a theory worth examining, and it's a theory that's been examined 00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:49.760 and it doesn't fall it doesn't hold water. 00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:54.080 It falls apart completely when you look at these other factors. 00:44:54.080 --> 00:44:55.840 The same is true with Africans. 00:44:55.840 --> 00:45:00.080 There's a huge belt in the South primarily where most African Americans 00:45:00.080 --> 00:45:01.360 live to this day. 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:06.400 The only exceptions, fascinatingly, where you don't see where you see large 00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:11.360 African American populations elsewhere in this country are cities. 00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:15.520 They're the once formerly great cities primarily of the Midwest. 00:45:15.520 --> 00:45:18.640 If you go back to the turn of the the twentieth century, 00:45:18.640 --> 00:45:24.080 so 1900, and you look at depictions, either pictures or just descriptions 00:45:24.080 --> 00:45:27.760 of life in Baltimore, in Chicago, in St. 00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:35.360 Louis, in Cleveland, these places had art and refinement and peace and 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:40.240 beauty that rivaled any European city of the same day. 00:45:40.240 --> 00:45:44.880 Why? Because they had been created and built by Europeans in the 00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:47.760 fashion of their culture. 00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:53.360 That changed after the Great Migration, which is a complete euphemism. 00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:58.560 There was a deliberate movement of African Americans from the South into 00:45:58.560 --> 00:46:03.680 these cities, and it was principally pushed by industrialists, not all of 00:46:03.680 --> 00:46:06.880 them in those cities, but what they wanted was cheaper labor. 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:11.440 If they could because the the native populations, the white populations in 00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:15.440 those cities were getting to be more expensive than the capitalists wanted 00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:15.920 to pay them. 00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:17.040 So what'd they do? 00:46:17.040 --> 00:46:20.960 They started a program of busing African American men up because they 00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:23.520 would work for a whole lot less because they had they had 00:46:23.520 --> 00:46:25.520 been living in absolute poverty. 00:46:25.520 --> 00:46:28.400 And we will talk in the IQ episode in a couple weeks 00:46:28.640 --> 00:46:32.080 about why there are poverty di differences among population groups. 00:46:32.080 --> 00:46:35.360 We're not really gonna get into that today, but again, where we 00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:39.440 are told by Marxists that, oh, that's society being mean, that's you 00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:42.240 being racist, that's someone discriminating. 00:46:42.240 --> 00:46:45.440 When you look at the data, it almost always comes down to 00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:48.240 IQ. That's a subject for another day. 00:46:48.240 --> 00:46:53.280 But the fact of the so-called great migration moving these populations of 00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:58.800 African Americans into these northern cities ceded their destruction. 00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:00.080 When I say St. 00:47:00.080 --> 00:47:04.240 Louis or Chicago or Baltimore today, almost no one is going to 00:47:04.240 --> 00:47:07.520 picture the sort of idyllic places that you can see if you 00:47:07.520 --> 00:47:10.480 look at, you know, the World Fair, you know, a century ago 00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:12.640 when it was happening in some of those places. 00:47:12.640 --> 00:47:13.760 What changed? 00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:15.520 Demographics changed. 00:47:15.520 --> 00:47:16.960 It wasn't politics. 00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:21.360 It was that the demographic mix shifted from being almost entirely white 00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:26.320 cities to being cities with very large African American populations. 00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:29.680 And that has real world consequences. 00:47:29.680 --> 00:47:33.040 It's something that if we're honest with ourselves, we have to at 00:47:33.040 --> 00:47:36.080 least acknowledge that change something. 00:47:36.080 --> 00:47:39.200 And we're not going to get into prescriptions for what we do 00:47:39.200 --> 00:47:41.520 about it today, but I think that if you're going to be 00:47:41.520 --> 00:47:44.720 honest with yourself, you have to confront the fact that when you 00:47:44.720 --> 00:47:47.680 look at a map of violence and you look at a map 00:47:47.680 --> 00:47:52.080 of race and they're the same picture, you can't, if you're honest 00:47:52.080 --> 00:47:55.600 with yourself, just chalk that up to, well, they must have been 00:47:55.600 --> 00:47:57.200 disadvantaged somehow. 00:47:57.200 --> 00:47:58.480 Where did you get that? 00:47:58.480 --> 00:47:59.680 You didn't get it from data. 00:47:59.680 --> 00:48:02.160 You got it from someone telling you that to make you feel 00:48:02.160 --> 00:48:04.880 better, to make you feel like all these people are exactly the 00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:08.000 same and I'm not gonna look too closely because I might not 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:09.040 like what I find 00:48:09.680 --> 00:48:11.600 So let's talk about another crime. 00:48:11.600 --> 00:48:14.480 We did say that this might be an episode you might not 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:18.640 want to listen to with your children, so let's talk about rape. 00:48:18.640 --> 00:48:20.800 Again, I'm going to give data 00:48:21.680 --> 00:48:22.000 for 00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:25.280 multiples of the white rate. 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:29.440 These data are for California in twenty thirteen. 00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:32.880 Forcible rape, California, twenty thirteen. 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:36.160 The white rate, of course, again, we're going with one because that 00:48:36.160 --> 00:48:39.600 is the standard by which we are comparing the others, the Hispanic 00:48:39.600 --> 00:48:46.960 rate two point two five, the black rate six point three six. 00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:51.040 Now that only tells part of the story, and the reason that 00:48:51.040 --> 00:48:54.240 only tells part of the story is because you have to know 00:48:54.240 --> 00:48:57.840 the percentages of the population in order to know how meaningful those 00:48:57.840 --> 00:48:59.360 numbers are. 00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:03.920 This is a game that many will play, particularly on the left, 00:49:03.920 --> 00:49:05.840 when talking about violent crime. 00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:09.040 They'll use absolute numbers instead of per capita. 00:49:09.040 --> 00:49:12.560 And if you use absolute numbers, if you're talking about a population 00:49:12.560 --> 00:49:13.680 that is ninety percent 00:49:14.640 --> 00:49:19.040 of the total, well obviously the absolute numbers are almost certainly going 00:49:19.040 --> 00:49:21.520 to be higher than those of the remaining ten percent. 00:49:21.520 --> 00:49:23.920 And so you have to talk about per capita. 00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:28.080 You have to talk about relative percentages, relative numbers. 00:49:28.080 --> 00:49:34.720 In twenty thirteen, the racial makeup of California thirty nine percent white, 00:49:34.720 --> 00:49:41.280 thirty eight percent and some change Hispanic, five point seven.7% black. 00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:44.160 Now, back to those numbers. 00:49:44.160 --> 00:49:50.000 If five point seven percent of the population is black, and they 00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:55.440 commit six point three six times as many forcible rapes as whites, 00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:58.240 the actual multiple is a hundred and ten. 00:49:58.240 --> 00:50:01.440 It's a little over that's hundred and little over a hundred and 00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:04.560 ten. I can't do that math in my head exactly. 00:50:04.640 --> 00:50:07.520 That is an immense increase. 00:50:07.520 --> 00:50:10.640 That is astronomical. 00:50:10.640 --> 00:50:14.480 How much higher of a rate of forcible rape you have attributed 00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:17.280 to the black population than the white. 00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:20.480 And it is worth noting that if you look at the FBI 00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:25.280 data, white on black rape does not happen. 00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:28.480 It is a zero in the tables. 00:50:28.720 --> 00:50:33.360 Basically all of the interracial rape in the US is black on 00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:37.680 white. There's some Hispanic on white as well, but less of that. 00:50:37.680 --> 00:50:41.040 It is almost all black on white. 00:50:41.040 --> 00:50:44.880 And so when Christians pretend that these That these things don't matter. 00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:48.640 What you're saying to every woman who has been forcibly raped is 00:50:48.640 --> 00:50:50.000 you don't matter. 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:51.520 I don't see race. 00:50:51.520 --> 00:50:53.280 I don't consider these things. 00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:55.680 You're telling her she doesn't matter. 00:50:55.680 --> 00:50:57.360 And that's why these things matter. 00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:00.640 That's why we are discussing these issues. 00:51:00.640 --> 00:51:02.560 That's why it is important. 00:51:02.560 --> 00:51:05.920 Because you have to recognize the reality if you are going to 00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:10.080 set appropriate policies to protect your people. 00:51:10.080 --> 00:51:13.600 And if you don't, you are telling them you do not care 00:51:13.600 --> 00:51:17.600 about them, and that is not Christian in the slightest. 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:22.000 We now have generations of men who have been derelict in their 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:26.080 duty, who have not protected women from these sexual predators. 00:51:26.080 --> 00:51:27.440 They have done nothing about it. 00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:30.800 They have made the situation infinitely worse. 00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:34.960 And they have shouted down anyone who dares to even read the 00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:36.400 table of data. 00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:38.960 And this is from the California Department of Justice. 00:51:39.200 --> 00:51:40.880 is published by the government. 00:51:40.880 --> 00:51:44.320 These are probably biased against what we are saying. 00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:48.480 So the reality of the situation, it's probably far worse. 00:51:48.560 --> 00:51:48.720 And 00:51:48.720 --> 00:51:52.240 when we talk about this subject and we talk about it in 00:51:52.240 --> 00:51:56.960 the United States context, we're talking about it in terms of crime. 00:51:56.960 --> 00:51:59.520 So we have a concept of rape. 00:51:59.520 --> 00:52:05.760 It's obviously a an evil, violent, horrific invasion of another person. 00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:09.120 It's one of the worst things you can possibly do to another 00:52:09.120 --> 00:52:10.080 human being. 00:52:10.080 --> 00:52:14.240 That is what we as Christians believe and understand. 00:52:14.240 --> 00:52:19.680 However, if you talk to someone who has spent time in Africa 00:52:19.680 --> 00:52:24.640 living among Africans as themselves, and they're honest with you, they will 00:52:24.640 --> 00:52:29.520 tell you that in Africa they do not typically have any concept 00:52:29.520 --> 00:52:30.960 of rape. 00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:33.760 What I mean by that is that when a boy or a 00:52:33.760 --> 00:52:40.160 man reaches sexual maturity and he is filled with desire, he will 00:52:40.160 --> 00:52:44.960 see a woman or a girl, it may be a relative. 00:52:44.960 --> 00:52:47.600 He will go over, he will bend her over, and he will 00:52:47.600 --> 00:52:49.040 have sex with her. 00:52:49.040 --> 00:52:51.360 And that's perfectly normal. 00:52:51.360 --> 00:52:54.240 Now, to us, that's absolutely shocking, and we say, Oh, well, that 00:52:54.560 --> 00:52:55.200 can't be. 00:52:55.200 --> 00:52:58.000 And you might come up with a hundred conclusions and a hundred 00:52:58.080 --> 00:53:01.680 excuses and say, oh, well, that's just cultural. 00:53:01.680 --> 00:53:07.120 Well, when we see the similar behavior in other countries, which is 00:53:07.120 --> 00:53:11.120 exactly what we see when these people move to Europe today, when 00:53:11.120 --> 00:53:14.800 you have someone taken from Africa today and they move to Europe, 00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:17.840 or some of the Middle Easterners who are very similar, move to 00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:23.120 Europe, the rate of rape in those places has skyrocketed. 00:53:23.120 --> 00:53:27.440 And many of them, when they're charged and they're interviewed, they will 00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:29.680 flat out, they'll be confused. 00:53:29.680 --> 00:53:32.880 They'll say, I didn't know it was against the rules. 00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:36.960 Because in their mind they have a sexual urge, they see someone 00:53:36.960 --> 00:53:41.040 with whom they can satisfy that urge, and they just do it. 00:53:41.040 --> 00:53:45.600 There's no notion of criminality baked into the system. 00:53:45.600 --> 00:53:50.400 Now, you can argue potentially with those who were coming from Africa, 00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:52.400 oh, that's entirely cultural. 00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:55.360 But the missionaries will tell you it's an incredible uphill battle to 00:53:55.360 --> 00:53:59.040 try to convince these people to stop raping their own family members. 00:53:59.040 --> 00:54:00.000 Because that's what it is. 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:03.920 It's incest and it's rape, and they don't see anything wrong with 00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:06.800 it. And we wonder why they were still living in the Stone 00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:09.200 Age when we found them. 00:54:09.200 --> 00:54:14.640 The fact that you see similar rates of violence of a sexual 00:54:14.640 --> 00:54:19.040 nature in the United States by populations that in some cases left 00:54:19.040 --> 00:54:21.360 Africa three and four hundred years ago 00:54:22.240 --> 00:54:24.000 were telling you that there's a genetic 00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:30.000 basis for what we describe as criminality and amorality. 00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:32.160 And that's an extremely hard thing for people to hear. 00:54:32.160 --> 00:54:35.440 And I'm sure that there are many who will flatly reject even 00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:38.800 the possibility that that could be true, that there could be a 00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:46.240 genetic basis for something as evil as rape or murder, you're 00:54:46.160 --> 00:54:49.760 not going to find an alternative explanation because there's no other factor 00:54:49.840 --> 00:54:54.320 factor in any of this that remotely correlates to the behavior that 00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:55.280 we see. 00:54:55.280 --> 00:54:59.680 And as Corey was saying, when we bring these people from a 00:54:59.680 --> 00:55:04.160 foreign land into our own lands, you know, they're they're Ethiopians being 00:55:04.560 --> 00:55:07.040 shipped to Columbus, Ohio all the time. 00:55:07.040 --> 00:55:08.960 It's happening all over the country. 00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:13.520 And then they act like Africans in Columbus. 00:55:13.520 --> 00:55:15.520 Can we even get mad at them? 00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:22.080 That's it's such a disconnect between our expectations and our requirements for 00:55:22.080 --> 00:55:26.560 being a human being who's civilized and what they're exp used to 00:55:26.720 --> 00:55:30.880 and what they find to be acceptable, you can't simply read them 00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:34.160 the Bible and hope that you're going to fix these problems. 00:55:34.160 --> 00:55:37.840 I I hate to say that because I know that that's it's 00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:40.080 something that as Christians we we can't deal with. 00:55:40.080 --> 00:55:42.640 Well I told them about Jesus, and they said they believe in 00:55:42.640 --> 00:55:46.240 Jesus, but there's still more violence, and there's still more of all 00:55:46.240 --> 00:55:48.000 these other crimes. 00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:52.320 It's not that God cannot turn a man's heart. 00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:56.720 It's that when you have someone who's been so horrifically broken by 00:55:56.720 --> 00:56:02.400 four thousand years of communion with demons that has literally baked some 00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:05.680 of that additional evil into their genes. 00:56:05.680 --> 00:56:10.240 We today are being subjected to the consequences of things that happened 00:56:10.240 --> 00:56:11.760 thousands of years ago. 00:56:11.760 --> 00:56:15.600 And when a Marxist will tell you there's no genetic basis for 00:56:15.600 --> 00:56:17.120 race, it doesn't even exist. 00:56:17.120 --> 00:56:19.920 There's no genetic basis for behavior, that's nonsense. 00:56:19.920 --> 00:56:20.960 It's all learned. 00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:22.880 It's all cultural. 00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:25.920 If you believe that, then you're left defenseless. 00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:29.280 Because when someone says, hey, I'm gonna ship a bunch of Ugandans 00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:32.400 to live next door to you, if you don't love them, you're 00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:33.200 not a Christian. 00:56:33.200 --> 00:56:36.240 Jesus would love them, Jesus would let them live in move in 00:56:36.240 --> 00:56:38.080 next door. 00:56:38.080 --> 00:56:42.240 As Christians who are honest, we must deal with the facts. 00:56:42.240 --> 00:56:45.760 We must deal with scripture, and we must also deal with the 00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:47.280 human beings in front of us. 00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:50.160 And if the human being in front of you is one hundred 00:56:50.160 --> 00:56:54.000 and twenty times more likely to rape your sister or your wife 00:56:54.080 --> 00:56:58.400 or your mother or your children, you must be cognizant of that. 00:56:58.400 --> 00:56:59.680 You can't ignore it. 00:56:59.680 --> 00:57:02.000 You can't pretend it's socioeconomic factors. 00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:03.680 You have to deal with it. 00:57:03.680 --> 00:57:06.480 And you must deal with the fact that even though not all 00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:10.800 Africans are rapists, there are so many more who rape and murder 00:57:10.960 --> 00:57:14.160 that it is a societal plague in our own lands and in 00:57:14.160 --> 00:57:16.240 every land where they go. 00:57:16.240 --> 00:57:21.280 One of the other homicide rate charts that we have is specifically 00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:21.600 about 00:57:22.560 --> 00:57:25.760 uh this is just homicides per hundred thousand. 00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:29.360 It's broken down by country, and it one of the beautiful things 00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:31.680 about this chart is one of the only ones I've ever seen. 00:57:31.680 --> 00:57:36.400 It has the United States, but it separates United States Africans from 00:57:36.640 --> 00:57:38.480 white United States. 00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:43.360 So you're separating the European stock Americans from the African Americans. 00:57:43.360 --> 00:57:46.800 And what you find on this chart is that the rate of 00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:51.040 white homicide is comparable to some of the most boring places in 00:57:51.040 --> 00:57:56.640 Europe. White White American homicide rates are comparable to Belgium, while African 00:57:56.720 --> 00:58:01.840 American homicide rates are right between Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria. 00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:04.720 And Rwanda is just a bit further to the south, and when 00:58:04.720 --> 00:58:09.120 you have Botswana, uh just a little bit better than African Americans. 00:58:09.120 --> 00:58:11.360 That's the correlation we're talking about. 00:58:11.360 --> 00:58:16.080 Wherever an African is on the planet, he's going to have African 00:58:16.080 --> 00:58:20.400 problems. That is not to say that they must be punished or 00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:24.000 they must be treated unjustly or they must be called names. 00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:26.800 It is to say that when you're dealing with a population of 00:58:26.800 --> 00:58:30.320 Africans, not an individual, maybe the guy that you know your black 00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:32.160 friend is the best buck guy in the world. 00:58:32.160 --> 00:58:34.160 We're not talking about an individual. 00:58:34.160 --> 00:58:38.240 We're talking about a group, and that's permissible for Christians to do. 00:58:38.240 --> 00:58:42.160 When the Holy Spirit said that all Cretans are liars, he wasn't 00:58:42.080 --> 00:58:43.760 lying and he wasn't being racist. 00:58:44.080 --> 00:58:47.920 The Holy Spirit was telling the truth by generalizing about a group 00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:48.640 of people. 00:58:48.640 --> 00:58:50.880 It is wisdom to do so. 00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:54.400 And it is not hateful to say, look, this group of people 00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:57.520 is going to behave in a certain way like Let's deal with 00:58:57.520 --> 00:59:01.040 them as they are rather than making excuses for it. 00:59:01.040 --> 00:59:05.040 And rather than subjecting ourselves to things that will harm us and 00:59:05.040 --> 00:59:07.600 harm our neighbors and our brothers. 00:59:07.600 --> 00:59:10.640 That is the moral argument for even talking about this. 00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:12.320 You can reach your own conclusions. 00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:13.360 You can look at this data. 00:59:13.360 --> 00:59:16.480 We're not trying to dictate to you policy prescriptions. 00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:19.040 We're not saying, look at all this data, now we need to 00:59:19.040 --> 00:59:19.600 do this. 00:59:19.600 --> 00:59:22.000 We have our opinions about that and maybe we'll share them at 00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:25.520 some point point, but all I'm imploring you to do today is 00:59:25.520 --> 00:59:29.040 to look at reality and not lie about it. 00:59:29.040 --> 00:59:32.560 Not say that, well, these people are just like me because of 00:59:32.560 --> 00:59:36.560 whatever. They're not just like you and that's not hateful. 00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:40.800 If someone is different than you, maybe it's to their advantage, maybe 00:59:40.800 --> 00:59:42.320 it's to your advantage. 00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:45.840 It's not even about seeking advantage, it's just about looking at what 00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:46.880 you're dealing with. 00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:50.800 When you're dealing with an African population anywhere on Earth, you're dealing 00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:56.240 with astronomically higher rates of violence, both physical and sexual. 00:59:56.240 --> 00:59:59.360 You're dealing with someone who's going to do things that as Christians 00:59:59.440 --> 01:00:02.640 we call sin and as a society we call crime. 01:00:02.640 --> 01:00:07.120 And if we can't be honest about that, there's no possibility to 01:00:07.120 --> 01:00:11.840 even have sane discussions about what we do as a government, what 01:00:11.840 --> 01:00:15.120 we do as a society, what we do civilly. 01:00:15.120 --> 01:00:16.960 And as a church, what do you do? 01:00:16.960 --> 01:00:19.120 What do you do when you have a population that you know 01:00:19.120 --> 01:00:22.240 is more likely to rape and murder your your neighbors? 01:00:22.240 --> 01:00:23.680 Do they need more ministry? 01:00:23.680 --> 01:00:25.760 Yes. Do they need more supervision? 01:00:25.760 --> 01:00:28.240 Yes. Do they need to be watched? 01:00:28.240 --> 01:00:32.080 Yes. Because for the same reason that you would watch a tiger 01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:35.520 versus a goat, you need to watch someone who's more likely to 01:00:35.520 --> 01:00:38.080 do harm than someone who's less likely to do harm. 01:00:38.080 --> 01:00:39.920 That's not hateful. 01:00:39.920 --> 01:00:42.320 How you do that can be hateful. 01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:43.360 It can be mean. 01:00:43.360 --> 01:00:44.720 It can be malicious. 01:00:44.720 --> 01:00:47.520 We would never advocate that because it's not what we think. 01:00:47.520 --> 01:00:51.280 But we think that protecting our own, our brothers according to the 01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:55.040 flesh, as Paul advocated in his own epistles. 01:00:55.040 --> 01:00:57.760 That is something that a Christian has a duty to do. 01:00:57.760 --> 01:00:59.200 This isn't optional. 01:00:59.200 --> 01:01:02.480 What you do with the information should be informed by God, but 01:01:02.480 --> 01:01:05.840 it cannot be to ignore the facts and to ignore the implications 01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:06.800 of these things. 01:01:06.800 --> 01:01:06.960 And 01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:13.200 additional proof of this disparate behavior with regard to the races when 01:01:13.200 --> 01:01:19.120 it comes to sexual morals and behavior also plays out in STI 01:01:19.120 --> 01:01:21.200 data. And you can see this from the CDC. 01:01:21.200 --> 01:01:23.680 I have the data from 2020 pulled up here. 01:01:23.680 --> 01:01:27.200 And the rate of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia, the three of the 01:01:27.200 --> 01:01:31.520 big ones they monitor, are astronomical in the black population compared to 01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:37.280 the white population multiples of the rate in the white population amongst 01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:41.120 blacks. And I'll add these into the show notes. 01:01:41.120 --> 01:01:45.600 But you see very real consequences in addition to the fact that 01:01:45.600 --> 01:01:51.280 you have these crimes being committed, you see other follow-on consequences, because 01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:57.200 of course, STIs are a follow-on from sexual sins, and that is 01:01:57.200 --> 01:02:01.840 spread bisex, and it continues to get worse as long as that 01:02:01.840 --> 01:02:04.320 sexual sin is not brought under control. 01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:09.280 And so we have these things spreading like wildfire through our population. 01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:11.040 But if you put it on a map, you can see there 01:02:11.040 --> 01:02:12.880 is a racial component. 01:02:12.880 --> 01:02:17.920 It is spreading much more frequently, much more deeply, much more widespread 01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:21.680 in areas with African populations. 01:02:21.680 --> 01:02:26.400 Because they are behaving the same as they would behave in Africa. 01:02:26.400 --> 01:02:29.200 Because there's no such thing as magic soil. 01:02:29.200 --> 01:02:33.840 You do not become Japanese because you live in Japan for a 01:02:33.840 --> 01:02:39.840 while. There are Europeans who were born in Japan, who speak Japanese, 01:02:39.840 --> 01:02:42.160 who lived for decades in Japan. 01:02:42.160 --> 01:02:44.400 They're still European. 01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:48.480 Because what you are was created by God, and God did that 01:02:48.480 --> 01:02:53.040 through genetics, and so you are the result of your parents coming 01:02:53.040 --> 01:02:56.720 together, they're the result of their parents coming together, so on and 01:02:56.720 --> 01:02:59.520 so forth, back to Adam and Eve. 01:02:59.920 --> 01:03:04.560 You do not become something different simply because you moved somewhere else 01:03:04.560 --> 01:03:05.520 for a while. 01:03:05.520 --> 01:03:09.680 And so you are going to see these populations behaving in certain 01:03:09.680 --> 01:03:13.280 ways in accord with the fact that they are part of that 01:03:13.520 --> 01:03:19.360 population. Yes, you are going to have some cultural, some societal influence, 01:03:19.360 --> 01:03:22.480 but it is primarily nature. 01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:26.000 The best way to think about it, the difference between nature and 01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:29.840 nurture, and this will again come up multiple times in the IQ 01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:34.640 episode, nature sets the boundaries. 01:03:34.640 --> 01:03:37.760 So if you think of it as a spectrum, nature sets the 01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:43.120 possibilities. Nurture determines where on that line you ultimately fall. 01:03:43.120 --> 01:03:47.760 And so in the case of intelligence, you could be plus or 01:03:47.760 --> 01:03:50.400 minus a standard deviation, say. 01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:54.240 Your nutrition, your upbringing, your education, all of these things are going 01:03:54.240 --> 01:03:59.520 to determine Where you fall within that range, it is the same 01:03:59.520 --> 01:04:04.480 for these sorts of behaviors we're discussing here for criminality, for self-control. 01:04:04.480 --> 01:04:07.760 Because I have said self-control a number of times this episode, because 01:04:07.760 --> 01:04:11.760 it is a very big contributor to this. 01:04:11.760 --> 01:04:18.800 Children who have self-control, willpower are more likely to succeed in the 01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:20.240 future in their lives. 01:04:20.240 --> 01:04:22.960 And you can test this very early on. 01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:26.320 You can set a piece of candy out and tell a child, 01:04:26.320 --> 01:04:29.040 and they've done these studies, they ha we have the results, they're 01:04:29.040 --> 01:04:29.920 very solid. 01:04:29.920 --> 01:04:31.200 You tell the child 01:04:32.160 --> 01:04:35.760 If that candy is there, when I get back, I will give 01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:38.000 you two candies. 01:04:38.320 --> 01:04:42.720 White children and Asian children, much depending on which part of Asia, 01:04:42.720 --> 01:04:45.440 but much more likely to wait. 01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:49.120 To wait for that second piece of candy, because obviously that is 01:04:49.120 --> 01:04:52.000 the rational choice if your goal is more candy, which it is 01:04:52.000 --> 01:04:53.440 for children. 01:04:53.440 --> 01:04:56.240 But you can do that only if you have the willpower to 01:04:56.240 --> 01:04:57.840 do so. 01:04:57.840 --> 01:05:00.400 AFRICINCE Eat the piece of CANDY. 01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:03.680 Because it is a matter of genetics, it is a matter of 01:05:03.680 --> 01:05:07.360 whether or not you have the foundation for the sort of willpower 01:05:07.360 --> 01:05:11.360 necessary to think into the future, I would rather have the greater 01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:14.720 reward then than the lesser reward now. 01:05:14.720 --> 01:05:19.120 And that is what plays out in the sex crimes and various 01:05:19.120 --> 01:05:23.280 other things because if you are of the mindset, part of this 01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:25.440 is time preference is what I'm talking about really. 01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:29.760 If you are of the mindset that, well, I really want this 01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:32.560 item, this piece of candy, so I'm going to go and steal 01:05:32.560 --> 01:05:34.480 it because I want it now. 01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:38.640 There's no delayed gratification, there's no thinking through of well, I could 01:05:38.800 --> 01:05:42.240 work for it, earn it, pay for it, and have it. 01:05:42.240 --> 01:05:45.040 No it's I want it so I'm going to take it. 01:05:45.040 --> 01:05:47.520 And that's what happens with rape. 01:05:47.520 --> 01:05:50.720 I want it, so I'm going to take it. 01:05:50.720 --> 01:05:54.240 That is why you get these crimes. 01:05:54.240 --> 01:05:56.960 And so we have to deal with the fact that we have 01:05:56.960 --> 01:06:02.080 populations in our countries now who think like this, who behave like 01:06:02.080 --> 01:06:06.000 this. You have to address the issues as you find them, not 01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:09.680 as you would prefer they could be or were. 01:06:09.680 --> 01:06:11.840 We aren't dealing in an ideal world. 01:06:11.840 --> 01:06:14.800 That's not what happens in reality. 01:06:14.800 --> 01:06:18.960 In the kingdom of the left hand of Christ, we are dealing 01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:23.360 with reality, and we have to deal with it as we find 01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:29.120 it. Certain populations are prone to certain behaviors, and so it is 01:06:29.520 --> 01:06:33.040 incumbent on the state to react in a certain way. 01:06:33.040 --> 01:06:37.840 It is incumbent on Christians to recognize these things, and to behave 01:06:37.840 --> 01:06:39.040 in a certain way. 01:06:39.040 --> 01:06:42.080 You may have to do things to protect your female family members 01:06:42.080 --> 01:06:45.520 more depending on where you live, depending on what they're doing in 01:06:45.520 --> 01:06:46.800 their daily lives. 01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:50.160 There's certain steps you will have to take because it is your 01:06:50.160 --> 01:06:53.520 duty to protect those entrusted to your care. 01:06:53.520 --> 01:06:58.080 It may be that you will support or oppose certain political policies, 01:06:58.080 --> 01:07:02.160 because they have a likelihood of harming your neighbor or helping your 01:07:02.160 --> 01:07:06.800 neighbor. These are moral questions, these are not matters of indifference. 01:07:06.800 --> 01:07:12.000 These are real questions that Christians have to answer in a Christian 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:16.240 way. And the first step in doing that is to recognize that 01:07:16.240 --> 01:07:17.920 they exist. 01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:21.280 Then you look at the data, then you can make a decision. 01:07:21.680 --> 01:07:28.160 One of the ironies of the situation is that as Marxism advances 01:07:28.160 --> 01:07:32.800 in our society and gains complete control over how people speak and 01:07:32.800 --> 01:07:37.520 think, you're beginning to see more innocuous versions of what we're saying 01:07:37.520 --> 01:07:41.840 being said out loud in headlines that we typically will just scoff 01:07:41.840 --> 01:07:43.600 at as being insane. 01:07:43.840 --> 01:07:47.440 I saw re recently that there was a a cheating scandal, I 01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:48.800 think, at one of the uh 01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:53.440 one of the United States military academies. 01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:57.840 And the accusation that came as a result of the cheating scandal 01:07:57.840 --> 01:08:02.560 was that anti-cheating rules are racist because as they have increased the 01:08:02.560 --> 01:08:06.640 so called diversity quotas to lower the standards of who may be 01:08:06.640 --> 01:08:11.520 let into our elite institutions for the military, more and more non 01:08:11.520 --> 01:08:16.160 whites are entering those places where they were not academically qualified, but 01:08:16.160 --> 01:08:19.760 they are statistically qualified in order to meet quotas. 01:08:19.760 --> 01:08:25.280 Those population groups in turn cheat at such significantly higher rates that 01:08:25.280 --> 01:08:30.320 it creates huge scandals and then the headline is saying that cheating 01:08:30.320 --> 01:08:33.040 is cheating is racist. 01:08:33.040 --> 01:08:35.040 And like I said, we laugh at that when we hear it 01:08:35.120 --> 01:08:37.040 and we think, well, that's just absurd. 01:08:37.040 --> 01:08:39.440 I think that they're telling the truth. 01:08:39.440 --> 01:08:42.160 Not about the accusation of racism. 01:08:42.160 --> 01:08:46.400 They're telling the truth about the fact that at some point we 01:08:46.400 --> 01:08:52.080 must admit that it's unreasonable to expect someone who's not white to 01:08:52.080 --> 01:08:55.680 behave in ways that we consider normal. 01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:57.760 And I think that's the hurdle that a lot of us have 01:08:57.760 --> 01:09:02.080 to get over is what we think of as normal is rooted 01:09:02.080 --> 01:09:03.440 in our own experience. 01:09:03.440 --> 01:09:06.720 And I don't just mean your personal lived experience. 01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:10.400 I mean everything that you can comprehend as a human being. 01:09:10.400 --> 01:09:14.320 When I gave that horrible description earlier of what happens with in 01:09:14.320 --> 01:09:20.480 Africa with Africans behaving against their own family members, that's unthinkable to 01:09:20.480 --> 01:09:24.160 you. Anyone who's listening to my voice right now, it would never 01:09:24.160 --> 01:09:26.320 even occur to you to do anything like that. 01:09:26.320 --> 01:09:27.760 You can't comprehend it. 01:09:27.760 --> 01:09:30.480 And yet for them, it's completely normal. 01:09:30.480 --> 01:09:33.520 So when there's a massive cheating scandal at one of the major 01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:39.120 universities and it turns out that all the cheaters are black, the 01:09:39.120 --> 01:09:42.480 Marxists will say, well saying the cheating is wrong is racist. 01:09:42.480 --> 01:09:47.040 And everyone else will just make excuses for this woke stupidity. 01:09:47.040 --> 01:09:51.120 I think that we should as Christians look at the question, which 01:09:51.120 --> 01:09:53.840 we are raising, and we obviously have our answer, but you may 01:09:53.840 --> 01:09:55.360 not accept our answer. 01:09:55.360 --> 01:09:59.520 You should at least ask the question of yourself, why is it 01:09:59.520 --> 01:10:04.640 that a African American in one of the military academies would feel 01:10:04.640 --> 01:10:07.840 free to cheat and think that that was okay? 01:10:07.840 --> 01:10:10.800 Why is it so widespread that it's the norm there? 01:10:10.800 --> 01:10:12.240 And it's not just cheating. 01:10:12.240 --> 01:10:16.480 You have things like timely timeliness is a is racist. 01:10:16.480 --> 01:10:19.280 To say that someone should show up on time or that certain 01:10:19.280 --> 01:10:23.200 things should happen at certain times, you've probably seen headlines where that 01:10:23.200 --> 01:10:25.040 is declared to be racist. 01:10:25.040 --> 01:10:26.160 And we just laugh at it. 01:10:26.160 --> 01:10:29.440 You're like, well like Cory and I start recording this at two 01:10:29.680 --> 01:10:32.320 thirty every day unless something goes wrong. 01:10:32.320 --> 01:10:34.960 Just it sort of automatically fell into that pattern. 01:10:35.920 --> 01:10:40.160 For us, there's no concept of race being involved in timeliness. 01:10:40.160 --> 01:10:41.120 It's just how we are. 01:10:41.120 --> 01:10:45.120 It's precision and it's predictability, and it's something that we appreciate, and 01:10:45.120 --> 01:10:49.280 it's something that our society is built around. 01:10:49.280 --> 01:10:49.600 If 01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:54.400 we'll talk about this more in the IQ episode, but the notion 01:10:54.400 --> 01:10:58.320 of time doesn't really exist for Africans in the same way, if 01:10:58.320 --> 01:10:59.120 at all. 01:10:59.120 --> 01:11:02.800 So when you hear you see a headline that says timeliness is 01:11:02.800 --> 01:11:05.760 racist, they're not wrong. 01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:10.240 They're wrong is again about the accusation of of committing some sin, 01:11:10.640 --> 01:11:13.600 which you know we'll we'll do a racism episode because that's that's 01:11:13.520 --> 01:11:17.520 nonsense. But the idea that something wrong with expecting a black person 01:11:17.520 --> 01:11:21.840 to show up on time, what they're s they're saying the quiet 01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:22.800 part out loud there. 01:11:22.800 --> 01:11:26.480 They're saying that black people can't understand why showing up on time 01:11:26.480 --> 01:11:27.440 would even be a thing. 01:11:27.440 --> 01:11:29.680 The thing doesn't begin until they show up. 01:11:29.680 --> 01:11:31.200 So why does it matter when they show up? 01:11:31.200 --> 01:11:34.080 They were doing something else, and now they're doing this. 01:11:34.080 --> 01:11:38.080 And these differences, once you strip away the cultural and all the 01:11:38.080 --> 01:11:43.040 other baggage, the only explanations that are left are genetic and they're 01:11:43.040 --> 01:11:48.000 genetic writ large at the racial level, at the major category level. 01:11:48.000 --> 01:11:53.280 There are lots of different ethnicities within Africa that all have variations 01:11:53.440 --> 01:11:54.960 on similar themes. 01:11:54.960 --> 01:11:58.480 There's some populations that have much higher IQs than others, but they're 01:11:58.480 --> 01:12:01.760 all at least a standard deviation below the white IQ in the 01:12:01.760 --> 01:12:03.360 United States. 01:12:03.360 --> 01:12:06.720 There's a reason for that, and it's not nutrition. 01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:09.440 And it's not that they don't have good schools. 01:12:09.440 --> 01:12:13.040 You know, when we talk we talked about schooling a few times, 01:12:13.040 --> 01:12:18.800 if someone is fundamentally not capable of living up to your standards, 01:12:18.800 --> 01:12:22.320 at what point do you as a Christian realize that it's cruel 01:12:22.320 --> 01:12:24.800 to try to make someone live up to your standards? 01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:27.680 Now, when the Marxists say that, they're saying we need to lower 01:12:27.680 --> 01:12:29.600 standards. We're not saying that at all. 01:12:29.600 --> 01:12:33.600 We're saying that the idea of holding someone accountable to a standard 01:12:34.560 --> 01:12:40.240 of morality and of behavior to which they are constitutionally incapable of 01:12:40.240 --> 01:12:43.760 living up to it, you have to look at that seriously and 01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:46.880 you have to ask some hard questions that haven't been asked in 01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:47.760 a long time. 01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:50.560 Because if they can't do it, and it's not a question of 01:12:50.560 --> 01:12:56.000 teaching, if they absolutely cannot do it because of how they were 01:12:56.000 --> 01:12:58.960 born, because of the race that they were born, that's that's the 01:12:58.960 --> 01:13:00.320 proposition that we're making. 01:13:00.320 --> 01:13:02.320 And some of you're going to reject it outright and find it 01:13:02.320 --> 01:13:05.200 hateful. Others, when you look at the data, you're going to have 01:13:05.200 --> 01:13:08.160 a hard time disagreeing with us. 01:13:08.160 --> 01:13:12.720 But if we're right, if we're telling the truth about genetic variations 01:13:12.720 --> 01:13:19.040 in behavior, in attitudes, and frankly in morality, as a society and 01:13:19.040 --> 01:13:23.760 as a church, those differences must be a factor in how we 01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:24.960 deal with these people groups. 01:13:25.200 --> 01:13:28.160 We can't treat them like they're just like us if they going 01:13:28.160 --> 01:13:31.280 to behave in ways that are so alien that we can't even 01:13:31.280 --> 01:13:33.200 wrap our minds around it. 01:13:33.200 --> 01:13:34.480 And so what do we do? 01:13:34.480 --> 01:13:38.720 What have we then been doing for the past few uh generations? 01:13:38.720 --> 01:13:42.560 We've been pretending that the differences don't exist and then as there's 01:13:42.560 --> 01:13:47.200 been more and more integration and we've been told that segregation was 01:13:47.200 --> 01:13:50.880 evil and integration is good, and then we see that the effects 01:13:50.880 --> 01:13:57.280 of integration are greater degrees of criminality and injury and harm. 01:13:57.280 --> 01:14:00.560 The only moral question that can come from that is what do 01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:01.760 we do now? 01:14:01.760 --> 01:14:05.920 If you admit that race is biological and that there are certain 01:14:05.920 --> 01:14:12.480 behaviors and certain propensities that are biological, then looking at someone and 01:14:12.480 --> 01:14:16.800 being able to determine with a certain degree of probability that they're 01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:19.680 going That they're going that they belong to a group that does 01:14:19.680 --> 01:14:22.560 something. You can't tell by looking at an individual what they're going 01:14:22.560 --> 01:14:24.960 to do, but you can tell by looking at them that they 01:14:24.960 --> 01:14:27.520 belong to a group that's more likely to do this thing. 01:14:27.520 --> 01:14:30.800 So if that group is deadly to your own group 01:14:31.760 --> 01:14:34.400 You need to acknowledge first that there are two groups, and that 01:14:34.400 --> 01:14:37.840 one is more dangerous than the other, and two, that there are 01:14:37.840 --> 01:14:42.560 societal and legal implications to that, and simply say one race the 01:14:42.560 --> 01:14:47.760 human race and Jesus died for us all doesn't fix the real 01:14:47.760 --> 01:14:50.640 danger and the real harm that's happening in the in the real 01:14:50.640 --> 01:14:52.800 world by us ignoring these differences. 01:14:52.800 --> 01:14:53.040 Aaron Powell 01:14:53.120 --> 01:14:57.360 And we do already recognize some of this in our legal system. 01:14:57.360 --> 01:15:01.360 Anyone with any sort of legal training is going to immediately recognize 01:15:01.680 --> 01:15:05.120 well of course we have different standards for different things. 01:15:05.120 --> 01:15:07.680 There are the different standards of proof, certain things have to be 01:15:08.320 --> 01:15:12.560 proved. To a higher degree, typically criminal matters are a higher degree 01:15:12.560 --> 01:15:13.440 than civil matters. 01:15:13.440 --> 01:15:15.360 Civil matters are usually fifty-one percent. 01:15:15.360 --> 01:15:17.840 It's just more likely than not. 01:15:17.840 --> 01:15:20.720 The murder is not actually the highest one. 01:15:20.720 --> 01:15:23.280 Many people will answer that one wrong think murder will have to 01:15:23.280 --> 01:15:24.240 be the highest proof. 01:15:24.240 --> 01:15:29.200 It's not the intent for murder is malice aforethought, which there's no 01:15:29.200 --> 01:15:32.000 point in getting into the technicalities of that, but the highest one 01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:34.960 is specific intent, which is you had the intent to do the 01:15:34.960 --> 01:15:38.160 thing you did and caused the outcome you caused. 01:15:38.160 --> 01:15:42.800 But we also have defenses for capacity. 01:15:42.800 --> 01:15:46.480 If you were intoxicated at the time, that may excuse you to 01:15:46.480 --> 01:15:50.720 some degree, if you were intoxicated unwillingly, that may excuse you to 01:15:50.720 --> 01:15:52.400 a very large degree, perhaps entirely. 01:15:52.400 --> 01:15:55.680 If someone drugged you, you're typically not responsible for whatever you did 01:15:55.680 --> 01:15:57.120 while drugged. 01:15:57.120 --> 01:16:01.280 Insofar as the drug was responsible for your behavior, of course. 01:16:01.280 --> 01:16:06.000 But we also have capacity defenses if you are mentally retarded in 01:16:06.000 --> 01:16:09.120 the technical sense of the term, not the derogatory, the pejorative sense, 01:16:09.120 --> 01:16:13.680 the technical sense, if you are mentally retarded, you are held to 01:16:13.680 --> 01:16:16.320 a different standard because you probably don't understand 01:16:17.200 --> 01:16:22.080 the duties that everyone else knows you have in a certain situation. 01:16:22.080 --> 01:16:26.240 And so it would not be morally appropriate to hold someone to 01:16:26.240 --> 01:16:30.160 this higher standard because you are saying you should have known to 01:16:30.160 --> 01:16:34.560 someone who entirely lacks the capacity to do that. 01:16:34.560 --> 01:16:38.000 You can't hold someone to a duty to do something that is 01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:42.160 impossible. That's immoral. 01:16:42.160 --> 01:16:42.800 Now 01:16:43.760 --> 01:16:47.200 of course I'm not making a theological point there, so for anyone 01:16:47.200 --> 01:16:50.160 who is thinking that God holding us to the standard of perfection 01:16:50.160 --> 01:16:55.280 is wrong, no, actually it's not, because Adam could have we inherit 01:16:55.280 --> 01:16:58.880 his original sin, which is another part that is theologically important for 01:16:58.880 --> 01:17:00.880 this. There were those who say how is it fair to hold 01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:04.080 someone responsible for effectively the sins of the parents? 01:17:04.080 --> 01:17:07.280 Well original sin is kind of a core of our religion, so 01:17:07.600 --> 01:17:11.440 if you have a problem with what we're saying about the consequences 01:17:11.440 --> 01:17:15.920 for future generations of the behavior of past generations, then you should 01:17:15.920 --> 01:17:19.440 probably go back and review original sin and how that works in 01:17:19.440 --> 01:17:21.920 the Christian religion, you've missed something. 01:17:21.920 --> 01:17:26.240 But when it comes to issues of capacity, we know that certain 01:17:26.240 --> 01:17:29.920 groups of people have to be held to a different standard. 01:17:29.920 --> 01:17:32.720 No, we don't permit them to cause crimes, we don't permit them 01:17:32.720 --> 01:17:36.640 to do things that are illegal, cause harm, etc. 01:17:36.880 --> 01:17:41.040 But we recognize that you have to take into account the abilities 01:17:41.040 --> 01:17:44.080 they bring to the table, the capacity they have to understand their 01:17:44.080 --> 01:17:47.920 duties. Duties, the things they should and should not do. 01:17:47.920 --> 01:17:50.720 And so you do treat them differently. 01:17:50.720 --> 01:17:56.960 Part of that, historically, has been treating them differently at the outset. 01:17:56.960 --> 01:18:01.440 So preventing the problem from occurring instead of addressing it once it 01:18:01.440 --> 01:18:05.360 occurs. To go back to the issue of rape. 01:18:05.360 --> 01:18:08.640 What is going to be better for a woman who was raped 01:18:08.720 --> 01:18:11.600 if you had prevented the rape or if you punished the rapist? 01:18:11.600 --> 01:18:14.880 I don't think that's a very hard call to make. 01:18:14.880 --> 01:18:17.440 I think most people can probably make that one. 01:18:17.440 --> 01:18:22.400 The same for someone who is severely mentally disabled, what's better? 01:18:22.400 --> 01:18:27.280 Carefully monitoring that person and controlling what he does or letting him 01:18:27.280 --> 01:18:29.840 run free and then injuring himself or others? 01:18:29.840 --> 01:18:33.440 Well of course you want to prevent him from injuring himself or 01:18:33.440 --> 01:18:36.000 others. And so there are certain things you have to do in 01:18:36.640 --> 01:18:42.000 society to take into account the abilities of different groups of people 01:18:42.000 --> 01:18:45.120 and of different individuals in society. 01:18:45.120 --> 01:18:48.000 We have not been doing that for decades now. 01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:52.400 We closed the asila, for instance, we basically let the mentally unwell 01:18:52.400 --> 01:18:54.080 roam the streets now. 01:18:54.080 --> 01:19:00.240 Usually this causes minor property damage and significant damage to those individuals 01:19:00.240 --> 01:19:04.720 themselves. Many of them wind up dying of overdoses in the streets. 01:19:04.720 --> 01:19:06.720 That's a very real moral problem. 01:19:06.720 --> 01:19:10.240 That is something we are not addressing as a society. 01:19:10.240 --> 01:19:14.720 This is akin to that, because you are dealing with something that 01:19:14.720 --> 01:19:15.920 has a biological basis 01:19:16.880 --> 01:19:20.080 in the individual and in groups of individuals. 01:19:20.080 --> 01:19:22.880 And you have to account for that in how you run your 01:19:22.880 --> 01:19:25.440 society, because it is a moral question. 01:19:25.440 --> 01:19:28.400 If you ignore it, what you are doing is immoral. 01:19:28.400 --> 01:19:32.960 Ignoring it is the actual sin here. 01:19:32.960 --> 01:19:37.360 So next week's episode, we're going to focus specifically on scripture. 01:19:37.520 --> 01:19:41.760 We're going to focus on the arguments that are used from scripture 01:19:41.760 --> 01:19:43.760 against many of the things that we've said. 01:19:43.760 --> 01:19:48.560 Um again, not directly addressing the facts because facts are truth and 01:19:48.560 --> 01:19:52.160 truth is from God, so you can't use set scripture against truth. 01:19:52.160 --> 01:19:56.000 But there are fract there are scriptural arguments that are often posed 01:19:56.000 --> 01:19:59.680 that just ignore everything we've said for the past two weeks and 01:19:59.680 --> 01:20:00.960 try to focus on other things. 01:20:00.960 --> 01:20:05.120 So we want to address those explicitly because we're Christians, we're Lutherans. 01:20:05.120 --> 01:20:09.520 We it's a scripture in is more important than what your lying 01:20:09.520 --> 01:20:10.400 eyes tell you. 01:20:10.400 --> 01:20:12.800 What we're trying to say is that your lying eyes aren't actually 01:20:12.800 --> 01:20:14.160 lying to you in this case. 01:20:14.160 --> 01:20:18.160 You can believe God and you can believe statistics and if you're 01:20:18.160 --> 01:20:21.200 looking at the right ones, you're going to reach a godly conclusion. 01:20:21.200 --> 01:20:24.400 So we're not we're gonna move on from the statistical stuff for 01:20:24.400 --> 01:20:28.640 the next week and we're gonna specifically focus on what does this 01:20:28.640 --> 01:20:30.400 have to do with us in the church? 01:20:30.400 --> 01:20:33.200 Because really that's the fundamental question that I think most of us 01:20:33.360 --> 01:20:34.240 ha have in mind. 01:20:34.240 --> 01:20:36.640 Like, if you assume for the sake of argument that we have 01:20:36.640 --> 01:20:39.680 told the truth for the past two weeks, where do we go 01:20:39.680 --> 01:20:40.320 from here? 01:20:40.320 --> 01:20:42.560 How do we make sure that we're dealing with people in a 01:20:42.560 --> 01:20:44.720 Christian way that also 01:20:46.240 --> 01:20:50.160 well in a Christian way, in a way that acknowledges scripture, in 01:20:50.160 --> 01:20:54.400 a way that acknowledges duty to brother and to neighbor, and all 01:20:54.400 --> 01:20:58.240 the various vocational aspects that are fundamental to the Christian life. 01:20:58.240 --> 01:21:02.240 So next week's episode we'll focus on that. 01:21:02.240 --> 01:21:05.760 And then the following week we're going to do one last statistical 01:21:05.760 --> 01:21:08.800 episode that's going to very specifically focus on IQ. 01:21:08.800 --> 01:21:10.880 It's one we've teased for a while. 01:21:10.960 --> 01:21:14.720 IQ is such a big part of this conversation that it needs 01:21:14.720 --> 01:21:16.320 to be its own its own episode. 01:21:16.320 --> 01:21:19.920 So we wanted to segregate that by itself so that it can 01:21:19.920 --> 01:21:20.800 stand alone. 01:21:20.800 --> 01:21:22.560 Um that's going to be in two parts. 01:21:22.560 --> 01:21:25.200 First, talking about kind of the higher end and what we see 01:21:25.440 --> 01:21:30.400 in in Western society and then what the implications are for those 01:21:30.400 --> 01:21:34.240 who have such diminished capacity as Corey just mentioned criminally. 01:21:34.800 --> 01:21:38.640 if the law says that someone is too retarded to be held 01:21:38.640 --> 01:21:42.640 accountable for their behavior, and we'll get into some of the reasons 01:21:42.640 --> 01:21:46.880 why that's not it may be morally questionable but it but it's 01:21:46.880 --> 01:21:49.520 legally there's a case to be made there. 01:21:49.680 --> 01:21:52.880 What do we do with Christians with people who cannot understand cause 01:21:52.880 --> 01:21:53.680 and effect? 01:21:53.680 --> 01:21:56.320 With people who cannot understand hypotheticals? 01:21:56.320 --> 01:22:01.520 How do you catechize someone who can't understand later versus now? 01:22:01.520 --> 01:22:04.480 These are very real and fundamental questions, and it's part of why 01:22:04.480 --> 01:22:05.840 we're talking about race. 01:22:05.840 --> 01:22:08.800 This is not about hating people and excluding. 01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:13.840 It's about saying these people exist, God died for them, Jesus Christ 01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:15.920 paid for all of their sins on the cross just like he 01:22:15.920 --> 01:22:17.280 paid for ours. 01:22:17.280 --> 01:22:20.560 Whether or not someone has more sins than others, Jesus paid for 01:22:20.560 --> 01:22:21.920 a hundred percent of them. 01:22:21.920 --> 01:22:23.920 We're not talking about who's better. 01:22:23.920 --> 01:22:27.520 We're talking about what are the needs in this life for different 01:22:27.520 --> 01:22:30.400 groups of people because the needs are not the same. 01:22:30.400 --> 01:22:33.920 The way you would explain the gospel to a man like Corey 01:22:33.920 --> 01:22:37.040 or myself, if we were not Christian, is very different than the 01:22:37.040 --> 01:22:40.240 way you would explain to someone who had the mental capacity of 01:22:40.240 --> 01:22:43.520 a five year old that should That should be obvious, but when 01:22:43.520 --> 01:22:47.840 we realize how it falls into race, it becomes a gospel issue. 01:22:47.840 --> 01:22:50.160 And that's ultimately why we're talking about this. 01:22:50.160 --> 01:22:54.240 We're talking about how we as Christians can behave in a Christian 01:22:54.240 --> 01:22:55.840 way with people who have 01:22:56.720 --> 01:23:00.880 capacities and needs and proclivities that are different from our own. 01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:04.720 We're not trying to say be unfair to these people or mistreat 01:23:04.720 --> 01:23:09.280 them. We're saying given the reality that we face, what is the 01:23:09.760 --> 01:23:12.240 most Christian path forward for all of us? 01:23:12.240 --> 01:23:14.800 And that is a conversation that will be rooted next week in 01:23:14.800 --> 01:23:18.800 scripture. And then we're ultimately going to end up dealing with how 01:23:18.800 --> 01:23:23.200 do you spread the gospel to people who have fundamentally different mental 01:23:23.280 --> 01:23:25.840 understanding and capabil capability in their own? 01:23:25.840 --> 01:23:27.840 So I hope that you'll stick with us for all this because 01:23:27.840 --> 01:23:29.840 this again, it's all a part of a piece. 01:23:29.840 --> 01:23:32.160 It began with Christian nationalism episode. 01:23:32.160 --> 01:23:36.320 It continued in the election episode and then these these multiple episodes 01:23:36.320 --> 01:23:38.560 are going to hopefully wrap it all up. 01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:41.200 I I hope that you find some value in this, even if 01:23:41.200 --> 01:23:43.840 it upsets you, and even if you're not sure about some of 01:23:43.840 --> 01:23:45.760 the things we're saying. 01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:49.360 We're approaching this in good faith and we're doing it in complete 01:23:49.360 --> 01:23:53.920 honesty. And we're doing it frankly because people who talk this way 01:23:54.160 --> 01:23:56.160 will be destroyed in the world. 01:23:56.160 --> 01:23:59.200 If you agreed with what we said last week, be careful about 01:23:59.200 --> 01:24:02.800 who you whom you tell that to because you could get fired 01:24:02.800 --> 01:24:04.720 for saying the things we said last week. 01:24:04.720 --> 01:24:07.360 And you could certainly get fired for the things we've said this 01:24:07.360 --> 01:24:10.800 week. And on the IQ episode, you'll never get hired again if 01:24:10.800 --> 01:24:12.320 you agree with any of what we say. 01:24:12.320 --> 01:24:17.120 Now either we're horrible, racist, hateful liars, or we're telling you something 01:24:17.120 --> 01:24:19.200 that most people are afraid of. 01:24:19.200 --> 01:24:22.560 You can figure that out for yourselves, but I appreciate the those 01:24:22.560 --> 01:24:25.760 who are sticking with us in listening to these things and at 01:24:25.760 --> 01:24:30.400 least asking the questions yourself, what do I do with this information? 01:24:30.640 --> 01:24:32.960 As I said at the be at the outside of this episode, 01:24:32.960 --> 01:24:34.800 some people are like, well, I don't see the point. 01:24:34.800 --> 01:24:36.320 Hopefully we're starting to make the point. 01:24:36.320 --> 01:24:41.040 This stuff about race and about biological differences isn't isn't about picking 01:24:41.040 --> 01:24:43.680 on people or pointing at people and calling names. 01:24:43.680 --> 01:24:46.880 It's about saying, as a Christian, what do I do in these 01:24:46.880 --> 01:24:51.920 circumstances when someone looks similar to me but is going to behave 01:24:51.920 --> 01:24:54.880 and have a capacity for very different things than I have to 01:24:54.880 --> 01:24:56.880 the point that I can understand them. 01:24:56.880 --> 01:24:57.840 What do I do? 01:24:57.840 --> 01:24:59.200 What does God want me to do? 01:24:59.200 --> 01:25:00.640 What does scripture say? 01:25:00.640 --> 01:25:04.080 And how can I proceed in good conscience and in accord with 01:25:04.400 --> 01:25:07.120 the vocations that God has given me where I live. 01:25:07.200 --> 01:25:11.520 Just to emphasize that, nothing that we are doing is done out 01:25:11.520 --> 01:25:13.760 of malice. 01:25:13.760 --> 01:25:18.320 Everything we are doing on this podcast is done in the interest 01:25:18.320 --> 01:25:23.440 of defending Scripture, when they come up the confessions, and the creation 01:25:23.440 --> 01:25:27.600 as the Creator made it, which is to say we are defending 01:25:27.600 --> 01:25:29.440 the Christian faith. 01:25:29.440 --> 01:25:32.560 We are doing it with regard to certain subjects that have fallen 01:25:32.640 --> 01:25:33.520 out of favor. 01:25:33.520 --> 01:25:36.160 These aren't things that would have been out of place, say one 01:25:36.160 --> 01:25:40.240 hundred, two hundred, three hundred, any number of years ago, except for 01:25:40.240 --> 01:25:43.840 the last maybe sixty or seventy. 01:25:43.840 --> 01:25:48.320 We are We are dealing with issues that are fundamental to reality, 01:25:48.320 --> 01:25:49.680 to the faith. 01:25:49.680 --> 01:25:52.400 And that's why we're addressing them. 01:25:52.400 --> 01:25:56.080 Because it is important for Christians to get these things right. 01:25:56.080 --> 01:26:01.520 Now, as was mentioned, if you bring these up in your place 01:26:01.520 --> 01:26:03.520 of work, you may be fired. 01:26:03.520 --> 01:26:07.920 If you bring them up in your church, you may be disciplined. 01:26:07.920 --> 01:26:12.000 But there will be times when you can discuss these with like-minded 01:26:12.000 --> 01:26:15.120 men, with those who are actually still open to the truth, because 01:26:15.120 --> 01:26:15.920 they do exist. 01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:18.880 We know that from we can see how many listens to this 01:26:18.880 --> 01:26:21.680 podcast, and we will discuss those numbers in some point in the 01:26:22.400 --> 01:26:28.240 future. But it is vitally important that Christians learn about the reality 01:26:28.240 --> 01:26:31.040 of the world and what Scripture actually says. 01:26:31.040 --> 01:26:34.560 Not what the world tells you Scripture says, not what Marxists tell 01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:38.960 you about the world, but the world as it is, and Scripture 01:26:38.960 --> 01:26:43.600 as God intends for you to read it, as God wrote it. 01:26:43.600 --> 01:26:45.440 That's why we're doing this. 01:26:45.440 --> 01:26:47.760 None of it is out of malice, none of it is out 01:26:47.760 --> 01:26:48.720 of ill will. 01:26:48.720 --> 01:26:53.200 It is only with the best of intentions, because as Christians, our 01:26:53.200 --> 01:26:59.040 first duty is to God, and God is goodness, beauty, and truth.