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 --> 00:00:42.400 Mahler. And I'm Wo. 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:47.760 Today's episode is part four of our series on race and why 00:00:47.760 --> 00:00:50.880 it matters to us as a Christian church, why it matters in 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:55.040 the world, why it's something that's real that has consequences that we 00:00:55.040 --> 00:00:58.000 can't ignore and that Satan isn't ignoring. 00:00:58.080 --> 00:01:01.760 Today's episode is specifically focusing entirely on IQ. 00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:04.160 Uh we're gonna do this in two parts like many of our 00:01:04.160 --> 00:01:08.880 episodes. The first half of this episode roughly is going to talk 00:01:08.880 --> 00:01:13.120 about what IQ is, what it is roughly that it's measuring, how 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:15.920 it works when you have you know people of of different IQs 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:17.280 that are markedly different. 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:18.080 What does that mean? 00:01:18.240 --> 00:01:22.560 what does it mean when there's a significant difference between two individual 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.760 men as far as their measured IQ? 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:28.400 And we're gonna give some personal examples that we're gonna say some 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:29.200 things are very gauche. 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:32.240 I'm gonna tell you what my IQ is, which is really offensive 00:01:32.320 --> 00:01:34.800 because that's like talking about how much money you make. 00:01:34.800 --> 00:01:36.000 Nobody does it. 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.800 It's just it's not socially acceptable. 00:01:38.800 --> 00:01:41.760 The reason that we're doing it in this episode is not to 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:45.600 flex, it's not to brag or to say, hey, we're really smart, 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:47.200 you should listen to us. 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:51.520 It's to give you a fixed point and space to relate your 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:55.680 own experience to our experience and to help to illustrate how different 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:58.480 people people's experiences are in their lives. 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:01.440 Because while we may be smarter than most of the people who 00:02:01.440 --> 00:02:05.040 are listening, and we'll talk about the statistics involved in that, there 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:09.040 are people to whom you are significantly more intelligent. 00:02:09.040 --> 00:02:12.880 Any listener of this of this episode this podcast is to the 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:18.160 same degree more intelligent than entire populations in the world. 00:02:18.160 --> 00:02:20.240 And that's why we're talking about it. 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:25.600 Because when you're dealing with your everyday life, your everyday experience, most 00:02:25.600 --> 00:02:28.880 people you run into are average, because that's how averages work. 00:02:28.880 --> 00:02:30.640 Most people are just normal. 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:34.640 Outliers are precisely uh that there aren't that many of them because 00:02:34.640 --> 00:02:36.640 that's how God situated things. 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:39.520 God doesn't want a world full of geniuses. 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:41.600 If he did, that's what he would have made. 00:02:41.600 --> 00:02:46.160 Instead, he wants a world full of normal people with outliers at 00:02:46.160 --> 00:02:49.200 either end and their consequences at both ends. 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:51.280 So we're going to talk about how that interrelation works. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.640 And then the second half we're going to talk about the other 00:02:54.640 --> 00:02:59.120 end about when someone is significantly less intelligent than what we consider 00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:02.800 average. What are the consequences for the church? 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:06.080 We've talked a little bit in past episodes about consequences of race 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:07.040 on society. 00:03:07.040 --> 00:03:11.200 This one is specifically going to be focused on sharing the faith. 00:03:11.200 --> 00:03:13.440 Now we're going to say this once up front, and we're going 00:03:13.440 --> 00:03:17.440 to say it probably a dozen times throughout this particular episode. 00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:20.640 Intellect has nothing to do with faith. 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:23.680 Intellect has nothing to do with salvation. 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:27.040 When we say one person has an IQ and another person has 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:29.680 a low IQ, it has nothing to do with a person with 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:32.720 a low IQ's ability to be saved. 00:03:32.720 --> 00:03:35.440 We'll talk about why that is and why it matters, but if 00:03:35.440 --> 00:03:38.080 at any point you think in your head or later on you 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:42.880 hear someone describing what we have said and you conclude, oh, those 00:03:42.880 --> 00:03:45.360 guys think you have to be smart to be saved. 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:46.560 It's a flat out lie. 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:47.360 We don't believe it. 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:48.800 We're never gonna say it. 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:50.640 Frankly, the opposite is true. 00:03:50.640 --> 00:03:54.560 You are far more blessed if you are literally clinically retarded and 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:58.720 you have faithful teachers and faithful pastors and faithful parents who explain 00:03:58.720 --> 00:04:02.000 things in the simplest, kindest way and you just believe them. 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:05.040 If you're retarded and you believe what you're told and your teacher, 00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:09.200 your pastor, and your parent is faithful, that's ideal. 00:04:09.200 --> 00:04:12.400 That is the faith of a child, that's childlike faith. 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:14.880 It's the smart people that screw things up. 00:04:14.880 --> 00:04:18.400 It's the smart people who invent the heresies that trick the average 00:04:18.400 --> 00:04:22.000 people, because they make things complicated when they don't need to be. 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:25.040 So none of this has to do with whether Jesus died for 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:27.760 you, none of this has to do with whether you're human, none 00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:29.440 of this has to do with whether or not you can have 00:04:29.440 --> 00:04:30.400 saving faith. 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:32.480 Completely excluded from this conversation. 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:35.680 The reason we're talking about IQ is that it does pertain to 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:37.920 the sustaining of the church. 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:42.800 How is theology propagated across generations and across time? 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.680 That is a question that requires intelligence. 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:47.840 So that'll be the second half of this. 00:04:47.840 --> 00:04:50.640 To begin with, we're gonna be talking a little bit about some 00:04:50.640 --> 00:04:52.640 statistics, uh, some numbers, uh 00:04:53.760 --> 00:04:56.320 visualize some things, but there are also gonna be uh a number 00:04:56.320 --> 00:04:59.440 of charts uh uh and graphs that will be embedded in the 00:04:59.440 --> 00:05:01.280 show notes for this this episode. 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:02.640 I'd encourage you to read those. 00:05:02.640 --> 00:05:06.000 It's not homework, but it's just something to help understand what it 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:07.920 is we're specifically talking about. 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:10.720 A lot of this is going to center around the bell curve 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:11.440 and what that means. 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:14.320 So I think that's probably where we'll we'll kick this off. 00:05:14.400 --> 00:05:18.240 So to start off with the the bell curve, we'll add uh 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:21.120 an image of this in the show notes for anyone who cannot 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:23.360 immediately picture what this is. 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:27.360 If you did any sort of statistics or anything in that general 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:30.480 field of math in school, you will know exactly what the bell 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:32.480 curve is, exactly how to picture it. 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:36.240 But the bell curve, what it actually is, is the normal distribution, 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:39.200 the standard distribution, whichever one you want to call it. 00:05:39.200 --> 00:05:46.160 So if you take a population and map a particular attribute of 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:52.000 that population mathematically, you're going to find essentially the standard distribution when 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.040 it comes to IQ for European populations. 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:57.520 It happens to be 100 is the average. 00:05:57.520 --> 00:06:01.840 The standard deviation is 15 or 16, depending on a number of 00:06:01.840 --> 00:06:06.080 factors, the test used and the population being tested. 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:11.520 But essentially how it breaks down is within one standard deviation, plus 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:17.440 or minus, not both, you have thirty-four percent of the population within 00:06:17.440 --> 00:06:21.120 that one standard deviation up or thirty four percent within one standard 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:22.080 deviation down. 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:25.920 So of course that's sixty eight, which gives us the general rule, 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:28.880 which is known as the sixty eight, ninety five, ninety-nine point seven 00:06:28.880 --> 00:06:34.640 rule, which is that within one standard deviation plus or minus, you 00:06:34.640 --> 00:06:37.040 find sixty-eight percent of the population. 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:41.280 Within two standard deviations plus or minus, you find ninety-five percent of 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:45.920 the population, and within three standard deviations, plus or minus, you find 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:49.120 ninety-nine point seven percent of the population. 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:53.520 And so when it comes to IQ, to give a more concrete 00:06:53.520 --> 00:06:58.560 example of that, you are going to have within 00:07:00.320 --> 00:07:03.600 100 IQ and 145 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:09.280 the overwhelming majority of those who are above normal. 00:07:09.280 --> 00:07:13.920 And then, of course, 45 points down from 100, you're going to 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:19.120 find the overwhelming majority of those who are below normal intelligence. 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:24.640 And then above four standard deviations, you're only going to have 0.1% 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:26.720 of the population. 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:31.040 So of course 15 times 4, 60, so that's above 160. 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:34.720 So those with an IQ of one hundred and sixty are an 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:38.480 extreme outlier, because that's point one percent of the population. 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:42.720 We can talk more about the actual numbers here of what one 00:07:42.880 --> 00:07:45.760 in X would be for certain IQs, but 00:07:46.640 --> 00:07:50.720 that's the general overview of what a standard distribution is. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:56.400 It just gives you the various percentages, the likelihood, the probability of 00:07:56.400 --> 00:08:00.560 a given trait at a certain level in a given population. 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:01.120 And 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:04.160 that's what the visualization of the bell curve represents. 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:07.200 If you have the X at the bottom, which for IQ in 00:08:07.200 --> 00:08:11.680 this example is the actual measure of IQ, it's basically what is 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:17.440 the likelihood that a a person with that particular score is going 00:08:17.440 --> 00:08:18.800 to exist in a population. 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:21.120 So the reason that the bell curve is fat in the middle, 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.080 as a Corey just described, that's where most of the people are. 00:08:24.080 --> 00:08:27.040 That's where almost everyone that you meet is going to be somewhere 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:27.840 in that center. 00:08:27.840 --> 00:08:30.480 And the closer you get to the center, the more likely it 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:34.160 is that that will be the the ability of someone. 00:08:34.160 --> 00:08:38.880 So the vertical, the y-axis and the bell curve is the the 00:08:38.880 --> 00:08:41.920 thickness of the population that are at that point. 00:08:41.920 --> 00:08:45.120 And so you can sort of easily visually see almost everybody is 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:45.520 in the middle. 00:08:45.520 --> 00:08:46.880 And that that's all it means. 00:08:46.880 --> 00:08:49.600 And as as you mentioned, it applies to numerous properties. 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:56.160 properties. The intelligence to height, uh weight, uh sh if it were 00:08:56.160 --> 00:08:59.680 not for the modern diet, uh that would be there there is 00:08:59.680 --> 00:09:01.600 a human norm for weight. 00:09:01.760 --> 00:09:05.040 It's kind of blown now because the weight The Western diet is 00:09:05.040 --> 00:09:09.520 so completely polluted by poison that those numbers are completely insane. 00:09:09.520 --> 00:09:15.040 Uh everyone is basically morbidly obese, well above average, uh horrifyingly so. 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:17.360 Um we need to get back to normal there. 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:20.080 Like that's normal is a real thing. 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:23.920 The IQ average for a European population is about a hundred. 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:27.280 And that's not going to change because environment doesn't really move it 00:09:27.280 --> 00:09:27.920 too much. 00:09:28.160 --> 00:09:30.240 As I mentioned, we're not going to prove to you that IQ 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:32.320 is valid. 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:39.040 Uh the the reason that IQ is an important subject is that 00:09:39.520 --> 00:09:44.320 it captures the aptitude of a person to deal with certain things 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:45.440 in life. 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:49.440 If you've heard discussion of IQ in the past, you probably heard 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:50.560 attacks against it. 00:09:50.560 --> 00:09:55.040 You probably heard that, well, it's biased culturally or it's biased racially 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:56.640 or this, that, or the other thing. 00:09:56.640 --> 00:09:58.000 It can't be valid. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:02.160 What they're telling you is the exact opposite of what you need 00:10:02.160 --> 00:10:04.000 to l understand about it. 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:10.800 IQ is basically the only useful useful, measurable, predictive instrument that has 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:12.480 ever been produced in psychology. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:15.600 In the last hundred and fifty years, the only tool that actually 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:17.200 has value is IQ. 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:21.120 So the fact that in the current year, it is roundly rejected 00:10:21.680 --> 00:10:23.200 as being racist. 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.360 If you have any sense and you're still listening to us at 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:27.680 this point, that should make your ears perk up. 00:10:27.680 --> 00:10:30.560 And if they're saying it's racist as bad, that tells you that 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:33.440 it probably actually means something that matters. 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:36.960 Now again, when we talk about it, we're not talking about it 00:10:37.280 --> 00:10:40.480 matters because the value of a person correlates to their score. 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:43.520 And to be explicit, Corey and I don't think that everyone should 00:10:43.520 --> 00:10:44.080 be tested. 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:47.120 We don't think that this is like some it's not a number 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:50.560 that's sitting above your head like you're a video game character. 00:10:50.560 --> 00:10:55.360 It is a description of an inherent property in a person, regardless 00:10:55.360 --> 00:11:01.360 of their education, regardless of their training or their experiences, it's their 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:06.640 inherent aptitude to deal with certain classes of problems in life. 00:11:06.640 --> 00:11:07.680 That's all. 00:11:07.680 --> 00:11:12.000 And there are some variables that can affect it apart from genetics, 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:19.840 uh, diet and environmental pollution can have some deleterious effect, but those 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:21.920 only work in the negative fashion. 00:11:21.920 --> 00:11:25.360 So if someone is malnourished or if someone is say exposed to 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:29.840 lead, they will have their IQ diminished as they're growing. 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:31.760 And that's a terrible thing. 00:11:31.760 --> 00:11:34.560 And it's important for us to try to prevent that because we 00:11:34.560 --> 00:11:37.520 want everyone to be as good as they are, as they can 00:11:37.520 --> 00:11:43.280 be. However, there's not a normalization if you eliminate those factors where 00:11:43.280 --> 00:11:45.920 they will just magically pop to 100. 00:11:45.920 --> 00:11:49.520 Because when we think about IQ, we think of on 100 being 00:11:49.520 --> 00:11:53.440 the average, you know, one IQ, the human IQ, is 100. 00:11:53.680 --> 00:11:54.880 That's not the case. 00:11:54.880 --> 00:11:58.240 Different races have different average IQs. 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:02.160 And Asian and European IQs cluster right around a hundred. 00:12:02.160 --> 00:12:04.960 Uh some of the Asian countries are a little bit higher. 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.360 Uh in some cases, particularly China. 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:11.200 Uh it's now been just demonstrated that that's mostly from cheating and 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:13.360 not from actual inherent ability. 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:17.040 But there's certainly plenty of of smart Chinese and in other Asians. 00:12:17.680 --> 00:12:21.120 When you get into what is today called the global south, which 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:23.440 is something we've talked about in the past, we've talked about the 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:27.840 places where when European missionaries began to go in the fifteen hundreds, 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:31.200 they found demon worshippers in the Americas and in Africa. 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:36.000 Those are the places that have catastrophically lower IQs. 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:41.040 And five centuries of exposure to the West hasn't changed that because 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:47.200 fixing someone's diet doesn't change the inherent nature of the person. 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:50.400 So there's a racial element to this that's inescapable. 00:12:50.400 --> 00:12:51.920 And that's why it's part of the series. 00:12:51.920 --> 00:12:55.840 It's not just about well, if you if you're taught well or 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:00.320 if you're fed right, then you're gonna be hypothetically average, you're gonna 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:00.800 be a hundred. 00:13:01.040 --> 00:13:02.480 That absolutely doesn't happen. 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:07.760 You will become the average for your race, absent deleterious effects that 00:13:07.760 --> 00:13:11.760 are reducing reducing it, but otherwise you're going to average to the 00:13:11.760 --> 00:13:15.120 norm. you're going to end up where your population group is. 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:19.600 And that's why when we're looking at differences in in people groups, 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:24.480 it's something that's important because there are societal and indeed there spiritual 00:13:24.560 --> 00:13:28.000 and not there are theological implications to it that must be dealt 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:29.040 with as well. 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:33.200 The best way to describe the interaction of nature and nurture when 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:34.960 it comes to entire Intelligence. 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:38.640 And this plays out as well in things like height and athletic 00:13:38.640 --> 00:13:42.160 ability and all sorts of other areas, but we're talking about intelligence 00:13:42.160 --> 00:13:47.920 today. Nature, which is to say genetics, sets the range. 00:13:47.920 --> 00:13:54.320 You will fall somewhere within this particular range, and then nurture determines 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:56.240 where you fall in the range. 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:59.360 And so if you are malnourished as a child, you're going to 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:04.960 fall further down that range that was set by nature, set by 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:06.240 your genetics. 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:06.800 And so 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:10.880 the biggest factor is genetics. 00:14:10.880 --> 00:14:16.560 Overwhelmingly the biggest factor in intelligence is is your genetics, is your 00:14:16.560 --> 00:14:19.840 descent, is who you are physically. 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:23.360 There is some effect from your environment. 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:27.200 So you can, as was just stated, wind up less intelligent than 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:31.120 you could potentially have been due to environmental factors. 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:34.880 If you grew up when there was lead in the gasoline, you 00:14:34.880 --> 00:14:38.400 are probably a handful of IQ points lower than you would have 00:14:38.400 --> 00:14:41.600 been had there not been lead in the gasoline. 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:44.160 That's just the reality of the situation. 00:14:44.160 --> 00:14:50.320 We have an entire generation whose IQs were mildly suppressed because of 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:51.280 environmental factors. 00:14:51.280 --> 00:14:53.040 And of course we have that happening today as well. 00:14:53.040 --> 00:14:56.560 We don't even know the full extent yet of the impact of 00:14:56.560 --> 00:14:58.560 microplastics and things like that. 00:14:58.560 --> 00:15:02.800 Certainly not beneficial, although those seem primarily to make your hormones go 00:15:02.800 --> 00:15:07.760 wonky, but hormones also do influence intelligence and development, so 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:10.640 it's all interconnected. 00:15:10.640 --> 00:15:14.000 We're not trying to turn this into an episode on environmentalism, but 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:16.720 it is related to this issue. 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:22.960 And so when we speak of IQs across different populations, it helps 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.400 to look at just a general map because it plays out very 00:15:26.400 --> 00:15:29.200 obviously. This is again one of those cases where you can see 00:15:29.280 --> 00:15:32.720 the sons of Shem, the sons of Japheth, and the Sons of 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:37.680 Ham. and the sons of Ham, by and large, are less intelligent. 00:15:37.680 --> 00:15:41.600 So for instance, if we look at one of the better countries 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:48.000 in Africa, Libya, the average IQ is about eighty or eighty one. 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:51.600 If we look at some of the less good countries in Africa, 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:56.880 say for instance Sierra Leone, the average IQ is about 45. 00:15:56.880 --> 00:15:59.840 Liberia also about 45. 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:02.320 Now, if we were to go to say Europe, we could look 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:07.200 at the Nordic countries, Norway is ninety seven, Sweden is also about 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:11.360 ninety seven, Finland's a little higher one hundred one hundred and one, 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:13.680 etc. We see this play out. 00:16:13.680 --> 00:16:20.320 There is a general pattern based on blood relationship because intelligence is 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:23.360 genetic. If your parents 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:30.400 were both extremely unintelligent, very, very low odds you are going to 00:16:30.400 --> 00:16:31.680 be a genius. 00:16:31.680 --> 00:16:34.000 Could it conceivably happen? 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:36.160 Sure, once in a billion people. 00:16:37.280 --> 00:16:41.680 But that once in a billion outlier is not what determines the 00:16:41.680 --> 00:16:46.160 reality of the situation, not what determines how you manage policy, and 00:16:46.160 --> 00:16:50.640 not what determines how you proceed with things in the church. 00:16:50.640 --> 00:16:54.560 Because you have to deal with the average population that comprises your 00:16:54.560 --> 00:16:56.800 church body, that comprises your nation. 00:16:56.800 --> 00:16:59.520 You cannot rely on these extreme outliers. 00:16:59.520 --> 00:17:01.920 Well, there's a potential that we could have this one and no, 00:17:01.920 --> 00:17:05.520 you can't say just because there's a one in a billion we 00:17:05.520 --> 00:17:06.720 rely on that. 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:10.560 Because if you rely on that, you're not going to get anywhere, 00:17:10.560 --> 00:17:11.920 everything's going to collapse around you. 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:14.400 That's you're you're basically betting like a gambler would. 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:17.760 Well, there's a one in a billion chance that I will instantly 00:17:17.760 --> 00:17:20.720 become a billionaire if I just keep pulling this lever. 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:22.800 That's not a good way to run your society. 00:17:22.800 --> 00:17:25.280 It's not a good way to spend your free time either, but 00:17:25.280 --> 00:17:26.880 that's a separate issue. 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:27.120 Just 00:17:27.120 --> 00:17:30.800 to give a couple practical examples of how it actually manifests, 'cause 00:17:30.800 --> 00:17:34.320 then again, most most of you listening probably don't know your IQ 00:17:34.560 --> 00:17:37.760 and you know may if if you were tested, it's probably because 00:17:37.760 --> 00:17:41.280 you were an outlier to some degree in your childhood as you 00:17:41.280 --> 00:17:43.920 were growing up and so maybe got cat tested. 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:47.040 Uh depending on your age, uh that testing may have actually been 00:17:47.040 --> 00:17:48.720 part of a government program. 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:52.560 Uh there was a there was a program that was nationwide specifically 00:17:52.560 --> 00:17:54.560 going after high intelligence people. 00:17:54.560 --> 00:17:57.280 I turns out in park to look for psychic abilities. 00:17:57.280 --> 00:18:00.560 It was it was a DARPA program that uh 4chan has been 00:18:00.560 --> 00:18:01.200 chasing down. 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:04.480 And I was when when I saw some of the threads that 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:06.960 that popped up online I realized that I had been in those 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:09.920 rooms, I had I had worn the headphones, I had uh been 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:13.840 served the little paper cups of the orange juice and done all 00:18:13.840 --> 00:18:17.280 those things that I'd forgotten my entire life until I came up. 00:18:17.280 --> 00:18:21.600 So that testing wasn't simply, oh, let's try to find uh gifted 00:18:21.600 --> 00:18:23.360 and intelligent kids. 00:18:23.360 --> 00:18:26.400 It was you know, they were looking to potentially weaponize part of 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:27.200 the population. 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:28.720 But that's just an aside. 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:30.960 If you have been tested, it's probably because you're a bit of 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:34.480 an outlier or seem like you might be Probably not too many 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.440 people who would have been tested because they might be retarded or 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:41.120 listening. When we say retarded, it's not meant as an insult. 00:18:41.520 --> 00:18:46.320 That's literally a it's it's a psychological category that's valid. 00:18:46.320 --> 00:18:47.200 Retardation means 00:18:48.320 --> 00:18:49.840 slowed down, held back. 00:18:50.080 --> 00:18:53.040 when something is retarded, it is slowed. 00:18:53.040 --> 00:18:57.680 It's something you say that's too slow or too retard, they're synonyms. 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:01.840 So it's why slow is sometimes used as a synonym for less 00:19:01.840 --> 00:19:05.840 intelligent. We don't say that to be demeaning. 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:07.040 It's simply a fact. 00:19:07.040 --> 00:19:08.000 Some people are slow. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:09.600 Some people are retarded. 00:19:09.600 --> 00:19:13.440 Um probably not many of them listening to Stone Choir because we 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:14.800 wouldn't make much sense. 00:19:14.800 --> 00:19:17.280 And the re reason that we wouldn't make much sense is that 00:19:17.280 --> 00:19:20.160 both Corey and I are outliers. 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:24.960 We are literally off the charts that are used to show IQ. 00:19:25.120 --> 00:19:28.720 Because if you're showing a population group and you show someone who's 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:33.120 so rare that they virtually never occur in the population, you make 00:19:33.120 --> 00:19:36.720 the chart worthless by including such extreme outliers. 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:37.600 So So 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:44.160 as I said up front, we're not saying we're better at being 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:47.840 human beings, but I think that one of the difficulties we have 00:19:47.840 --> 00:19:52.480 when we're discussing any inherent property of a person is that everyone 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:55.680 has these out egalitarian priors to say, oh, you think you're better 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:56.640 than me. 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:59.520 My IQ, when I was tested when I was about eight or 00:19:59.520 --> 00:20:01.760 nine years old, was 162. 00:20:01.760 --> 00:20:07.280 It gives me an intellectual functioning range of between 157 and 167. 00:20:07.280 --> 00:20:11.520 Ted's Kaczynski's IQ happened to be 167, so I'm in the same 00:20:11.520 --> 00:20:12.960 bulk park as him. 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:16.320 And I thank God that I didn't have his upbringing because uh 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:18.400 uh some of the torment that he went through as a t 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:21.040 child and then the torture that he went through when he went 00:20:21.040 --> 00:20:23.360 to Harvard is what fundamentally broke him. 00:20:23.360 --> 00:20:26.560 Uh who knows what he would have been capable of doing good 00:20:26.560 --> 00:20:30.480 things if not for the fact that he was horribly abused by 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:32.960 a malevolent world. 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:36.480 But I think that it's interesting when, you know, a lot of 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:41.840 people today talk about Kaczynski's writings when he had gone off and 00:20:41.840 --> 00:20:43.680 done horrible criminal things. 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:46.320 And when you read some of the things that he wrote about 00:20:46.320 --> 00:20:49.680 modern society, they seem prophetic. 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:52.800 And I think that's one of the tricks when we're talking about 00:20:52.800 --> 00:20:55.840 intelligence and one of the points that we hope to get across 00:20:55.840 --> 00:21:00.160 here is that when you're talking about an intellectual functioning range, you 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:01.920 know, I'd said 162. 00:21:02.320 --> 00:21:03.680 what does that even mean? 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:08.400 Statistically, it means that about one in every fifty six thousand people 00:21:08.560 --> 00:21:11.600 has has the mental abilities that I have. 00:21:11.600 --> 00:21:15.600 So that's kind of impossible to visualize, but think how many people 00:21:15.600 --> 00:21:16.880 have you met in your life? 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:19.200 Have you met 56,000 people? 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:20.000 Probably not. 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:23.120 I think probably very few people have met that many people. 00:21:23.120 --> 00:21:23.680 So So 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:28.320 completely at random, I might be the smartest person you've ever talked 00:21:28.320 --> 00:21:32.480 to. Now, in reality, there's always selection bias in whom we're exposed 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:33.360 to in our lives. 00:21:33.360 --> 00:21:36.000 So, you know, if you've gone to universities or you have a 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:41.440 profession that deals with more intelligent people, that entire group is inherently 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:44.080 biased towards the smarter end of the pool. 00:21:44.080 --> 00:21:47.440 So you know, I'm not claiming I'm the smartest person you've ever 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:49.120 heard. Corey's smarter than me. 00:21:49.120 --> 00:21:51.280 I can tell that just by talking to him that he's smarter 00:21:51.280 --> 00:21:51.920 than me. 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:53.360 Maybe you can tell by listening. 00:21:53.360 --> 00:21:54.080 I don't know. 00:21:54.080 --> 00:21:55.120 It doesn't matter. 00:21:55.120 --> 00:21:59.200 Because the point is that there are ranges of comprehensibility. 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:03.040 And I think that's one of the most important things to understand 00:22:03.040 --> 00:22:06.080 about IQ in the real world. 00:22:06.080 --> 00:22:09.680 When someone has an IQ of a hundred, when they're a normal 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:16.400 European descent, the relative performance to someone, one standard deviation, right? 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:21.360 Someone who has an IQ of 115, basically what that means functionally 00:22:21.520 --> 00:22:25.840 is that if the 115 guy is just kind of loafing, he's 00:22:25.840 --> 00:22:26.640 doing something. 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:28.560 He's not really working too hard at it. 00:22:28.560 --> 00:22:31.360 He's just kind of doing his job at an easy pace. 00:22:31.360 --> 00:22:35.440 The man with a 100 IQ can probably do most of that 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:39.200 same job if he works his butt off, if he focuses, if 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:42.800 he tries really hard, if he pours everything into it, he can 00:22:42.800 --> 00:22:46.880 probably more or less perform up to the level of a man 00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:51.440 who's 115, where the man at 115 is just not really trying 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:52.480 very hard. 00:22:52.800 --> 00:22:57.360 Beyond that kind of one standard deviation range of you know 10 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:03.120 to say 15 points, but really maybe 10, you can still understand 00:23:03.120 --> 00:23:06.080 what the man is doing, but you can't do it yourself. 00:23:06.080 --> 00:23:11.440 And I think that's where our experiences in life come into play. 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:13.840 You've probably all met someone who can do stuff that you just 00:23:13.840 --> 00:23:14.320 can't do. 00:23:14.320 --> 00:23:16.880 You can't understand how they did that. 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:17.600 You know, they 00:23:18.800 --> 00:23:23.040 when someone is intelligent enough, they will be able to do things 00:23:23.040 --> 00:23:26.880 that just kind of seem like magic to you. 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:30.480 So that second standard deviation above the first is where that kind 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:31.600 of tapers off. 00:23:31.600 --> 00:23:36.960 There's kind of a there's a a graying experience where you can't 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:39.200 do what the guy is doing, but if he explains it to 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:40.800 you well, you can understand it. 00:23:40.800 --> 00:23:42.720 He can explain it to you like, yeah, I kind of get 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:44.880 that, but I can never do it myself. 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:49.360 When you get beyond about 25 points or 30 points, you just 00:23:49.360 --> 00:23:50.080 don't know. 00:23:50.080 --> 00:23:55.600 You just can't understand what it's like being the other person because 00:23:55.920 --> 00:24:00.880 their abilities and their experience are so much different than your own 00:24:01.040 --> 00:24:04.640 that it kind of seems like if going up, if someone's more 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:06.960 intelligent, it seems like magic. 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:10.080 And later on we're going to talk about going in the the 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:12.000 less intelligent direction. 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:14.560 You just can't understand why they don't they don't get it. 00:24:14.560 --> 00:24:16.960 And that's part of why it's important to talk about this and 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:18.240 talk about specifics. 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:21.120 And that's why I'm talking about the specifics of my own experience 00:24:21.360 --> 00:24:25.040 because I said my IQ was 162 when I was eight or 00:24:25.040 --> 00:24:27.680 nine. If you know anything about IQ, you know it goes down 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:28.400 over time. 00:24:28.400 --> 00:24:31.200 I have had a couple things happen that have certainly diminished that 00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:32.480 to some degree. 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:38.560 It doesn't really matter because I I know as myself that 20 00:24:38.560 --> 00:24:42.000 years ago I could absolutely run around circles around myself in some 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:43.200 regards today. 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:48.240 However, I have also spent 20 years performing at a level and 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:53.520 learning and experiencing and developing patterns that give me abilities that I 00:24:53.520 --> 00:24:56.080 didn't have 20 years ago because I lacked the experience. 00:24:56.080 --> 00:25:00.320 I had the raw horsepower, but I didn't have the experience under 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:02.640 my belt of using it effectively. 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:07.520 So I would absolutely put my abilities in most regards up against 00:25:07.520 --> 00:25:10.960 myself when I was much younger, even though I know that the 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:13.360 raw number has probably diminished. 00:25:13.360 --> 00:25:13.600 That's 00:25:13.600 --> 00:25:17.280 actually a good point that you made there is to emphasize that 00:25:17.520 --> 00:25:21.680 intelligence if you want to look at it in a way that 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:27.840 is comprehensible to basically everyone, intelligence is horsepower. 00:25:27.840 --> 00:25:33.680 So So if you have a vehicle that has a particularly great 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:36.720 amount of horsepower, and yes, I know that somewhere there will be 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:40.400 someone who's a gearhead screaming at me for how simple I'm making 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:43.200 this, but the point is to make it simple. 00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:47.600 The amount of horsepower is going to determine how much that vehicle 00:25:47.600 --> 00:25:48.960 can do. 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:52.480 Now, you could have the most powerful tractor in the world, if 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:56.720 it's sitting there, it's not any more valuable than a lump of 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:00.640 rock. It's not doing anything, but it has the potential to do 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:04.880 it. It's in the use that you see the real potential of 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:06.000 that horsepower. 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:08.080 And it's the same thing with intelligence. 00:26:08.080 --> 00:26:12.640 You can have very highly intelligent men who do not apply themselves 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:16.000 and do nothing with it and never accomplish anything. 00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:21.040 But that potential is still there, and that person can do things 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:26.320 that there is no amount of time, effort, money, resources you could 00:26:26.320 --> 00:26:30.560 pour into someone of average intelligence to enable him to do what 00:26:30.560 --> 00:26:32.320 that other man could do. 00:26:32.320 --> 00:26:36.800 There is absolutely no amount of resources that would make a person 00:26:36.800 --> 00:26:40.400 with a IQ of 100, an average man, be able to do 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:45.360 what someone with an IQ of 180 could do almost without effort. 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:50.000 And that is simply the reality of the situation. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:53.600 To bring that back to a vehicle, if you are trying to 00:26:53.600 --> 00:26:58.320 tow something picture anything very heavy, a very large boat, whatever it 00:26:58.320 --> 00:27:01.440 happens to be, you're not going to tow that with a Volkswagen 00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:03.280 Beetle. You're just not. 00:27:03.280 --> 00:27:04.000 You can't. 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:04.720 It can't do it. 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:06.800 It doesn't have the horsepower. 00:27:06.800 --> 00:27:11.200 A very powerful tractor, very far powerful piece of farm equipment, can 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:13.040 do that very easily. 00:27:13.040 --> 00:27:14.080 That's the difference. 00:27:15.280 --> 00:27:20.720 This is a very real hard limitation in human biology. 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:23.760 And that's what's important to understand here. 00:27:23.760 --> 00:27:27.760 There are men who can do things that other men cannot do 00:27:27.600 --> 00:27:30.320 do and we'll get into that more in the second half because 00:27:30.320 --> 00:27:32.400 that's why it's important for the church. 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:35.760 Because there are things that must be done in the church that 00:27:35.760 --> 00:27:39.440 cannot be done by men who are two or three or four 00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:43.200 standard deviations below what is the European normal. 00:27:43.760 --> 00:27:47.520 And that's the reason that we're giving some specifics here now is 00:27:47.520 --> 00:27:52.480 that for me to say what my IQ is out loud, the 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.080 egalitarian response to that is typically, oh, you think you're smart, you 00:27:56.080 --> 00:27:57.360 think you're better than me. 00:27:57.360 --> 00:27:59.760 Well, let me give you another example. 00:27:59.760 --> 00:28:04.880 If on the standard distribution God had given me height instead of 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:07.680 intelligence, I'd be about six ten. 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:10.640 Think about this, how many men have you met in your life 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:12.160 who were six ten? 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:13.760 I I've never met any. 00:28:13.760 --> 00:28:16.480 I've been to a couple pro basketball games where I saw some 00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:19.040 of them, and a couple guys are a bit taller than that. 00:28:19.760 --> 00:28:22.480 I have no idea what it's like being that tall. 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:24.080 I am perfectly average. 00:28:24.080 --> 00:28:27.600 Physically, I like God put all of my points in my brain. 00:28:27.600 --> 00:28:30.320 Physically, there's nothing remotely remarkable about me. 00:28:30.320 --> 00:28:33.360 Which in some ways is luxurious because I fit everywhere and everything 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:34.400 fits me. 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:35.920 I never hit my head in anything. 00:28:36.080 --> 00:28:37.360 It is quite nice. 00:28:37.360 --> 00:28:38.960 Yeah. Well, you're taller than me. 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:41.040 Yeah, like you're I I technically I'm a male. 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:41.920 Marginally. Yeah. 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:42.480 Yep. Yeah. 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:46.000 Yeah, w we're both we're both near the center of the bell 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:47.120 curve. And 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:51.040 so the reason I'm bringing that up is that to say I 00:28:51.040 --> 00:28:53.520 have no idea what it's like to be six ten. 00:28:53.520 --> 00:28:57.360 Yeah, when you watch basketball ball players walking around, a lot of 00:28:57.360 --> 00:28:58.720 times you'll see them ducking. 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:01.440 They're kind of they have their heads bent down and they could 00:29:01.600 --> 00:29:03.440 they have kind of a weird posture. 00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:07.360 That's because they've spent their entire lives hitting their heads on doors 00:29:07.360 --> 00:29:08.480 and ceilings. 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:11.040 I've never hit my head on anything. 00:29:11.040 --> 00:29:12.400 I don't hit my head on things. 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:13.360 I'm happy for that. 00:29:13.360 --> 00:29:16.640 I don't have to worry about ducking unless there's a really weird 00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:21.920 situation. The guy who's six eight, six ten, seven foot, seven four, 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:23.680 he has to worry about that. 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:26.560 I have no idea what life is like as him. 00:29:26.560 --> 00:29:29.200 I've never had to struggle with leg room. 00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:31.520 I've never had to struggle with beds. 00:29:31.520 --> 00:29:36.800 Like it's nice being normal because the world accommodates you. 00:29:36.800 --> 00:29:41.440 It's just, it's it's built around the the center of the bell 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:43.600 curve. that's how it works. 00:29:43.600 --> 00:29:48.080 It's actually one of the problems that uh the military was facing 00:29:48.080 --> 00:29:50.960 in uh the the Korean and around the Korean War when they 00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:54.880 were building hardware, they were trying to figure out how to they 00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:55.920 did a ton of measurements. 00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:59.760 They measured tens of thousands of aviators to figure out what was 00:29:59.760 --> 00:30:04.000 the average man so that they could build cockpits to suit the 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:04.800 average man. 00:30:04.800 --> 00:30:06.880 And what they found though, there there was no such thing. 00:30:07.040 --> 00:30:10.880 Men would have longer and shorter arms, longer and shorter legs, taller 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:12.400 and shorter torsos. 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:15.920 And so while some aspects might cluster in the center, when you 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:19.040 start looking at the details of matter in a cockpit, they would 00:30:19.040 --> 00:30:20.560 all cluster independently. 00:30:20.560 --> 00:30:24.320 Some guys might have average bodies, except long arms. 00:30:24.320 --> 00:30:28.800 And so that was the advent of adjustable seats and things, which 00:30:28.800 --> 00:30:32.320 then moved on into vehicles and today like everything's adjustable. 00:30:32.320 --> 00:30:33.200 It was because of that. 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.120 It was because although people tend to cluster at the center, there's 00:30:37.120 --> 00:30:38.720 still variability. 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:39.200 So So 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:42.960 you have no idea what it's like to have an IQ of 00:30:43.040 --> 00:30:44.960 160, because it's so rare. 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:47.040 It basically doesn't ever happen. 00:30:47.040 --> 00:30:48.560 There are guys who are smarter than me. 00:30:48.560 --> 00:30:50.880 There are a few guys who are a lot smarter than me. 00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:55.200 But the further you get from where I am, for example, the 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:58.640 more exponentially rare it becomes to the point that it virtually never 00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:03.120 happens. If you look at two standard deviations above where I am, 00:31:03.120 --> 00:31:04.560 there's basically no one. 00:31:04.560 --> 00:31:06.800 Like there might be one or two guys on the planet at 00:31:06.800 --> 00:31:10.000 any given point, on average. 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:11.360 Height works the same way. 00:31:11.360 --> 00:31:13.680 Like, think about if you were six ten. 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:16.240 You could tell if someone was seven foot tall because he'd be 00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:17.360 two inches taller than you. 00:31:17.360 --> 00:31:19.840 Like I can tell when someone's two inches taller than me very 00:31:19.840 --> 00:31:23.040 easily. From down here, a guy who's six ten and a guy 00:31:23.040 --> 00:31:24.880 who's seven foot, they look the same. 00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:26.240 I can't tell from down here. 00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:28.320 It's all just way over my head. 00:31:28.320 --> 00:31:32.240 But they're six ten, they're seven footers, seven four, there's you know, 00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:34.800 I think Matumbo is like seven seven. 00:31:34.800 --> 00:31:38.400 Um I saw a hilarious picture just this last week of uh 00:31:38.560 --> 00:31:42.720 Shaquille O'Neal who was seven one in uh some sort of museum 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:47.920 with an a life size picture of Robert Wadlow, who is in 00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:51.360 the Guinness Book of R World Records, is the tallest man ever 00:31:51.360 --> 00:31:53.760 recorded. He was eight foot eleven. 00:31:53.760 --> 00:31:57.440 And so when Shaquille stands next to Robert Wadlow, he looks like 00:31:57.440 --> 00:31:58.480 a little kid. 00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:01.200 I would look like a little kid kid standing next to Shaquille 00:32:01.360 --> 00:32:06.400 O'Neal. When we're talking about large differences in the distance and how 00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:08.720 commonly things happen, that's what it looks like. 00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:10.400 It looks really weird. 00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:11.040 So 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.360 let me let me give you an example from my life of 00:32:15.360 --> 00:32:18.880 something that happens to me all the time. 00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:22.000 When I was in high school, I was in a German class. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:24.640 Uh it was kind of a blow-off class because our teacher was 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:27.040 insane. So I never learned a lick of German. 00:32:27.040 --> 00:32:29.760 I don't know any German to this day, despite taking several years 00:32:29.840 --> 00:32:31.360 from this crazy lady. 00:32:31.360 --> 00:32:33.760 Basically, we just kind of screwed around. 00:32:33.760 --> 00:32:36.560 Um I was sitting there one day not really paying attention. 00:32:36.560 --> 00:32:38.160 The teacher wasn't even around. 00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:40.720 There's a guy who's a a friend of mine named Dave, big 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:43.600 Dave. He was a really big guy, sweetest guy in the world, 00:32:43.600 --> 00:32:44.480 very friendly. 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:45.920 Everybody liked him. 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:47.360 He was sitting over in the corner. 00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:49.680 I could overhear what he was talking about, but I wasn't really 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:50.480 paying attention. 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:53.440 So it's kinda out of the corner of my ear, he was 00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:55.040 speaking to some other people. 00:32:55.040 --> 00:32:57.440 Now I knew Dave well enough to kind of know his musical 00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:59.280 tastes and a little bit about him. 00:32:59.280 --> 00:33:03.120 And I overheard him talking about the oboe. 00:33:03.120 --> 00:33:08.800 Now, what came out of my mouth next was something that I 00:33:08.800 --> 00:33:12.400 didn't even understand what had happened until after I did it. 00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:15.920 I heard him talking about the oboe just out of the corner 00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:16.720 of my ear. 00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:18.160 You know, you I wasn't paying attention. 00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:19.200 I wasn't focusing on it. 00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:20.560 I wasn't thinking about it. 00:33:20.560 --> 00:33:24.240 As soon as he said oboe, I laughed out loud and looked 00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:28.880 up and said, Ha, you like Cory you like Carrie Johnson. 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:32.480 And Dave looked at me like I had pierced his soul. 00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:35.200 I the I will never forget the look on his face when 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:36.000 I said that. 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:37.600 And I didn't even realize what I'd said. 00:33:37.600 --> 00:33:39.360 Like I just heard him talking about the oboe. 00:33:39.360 --> 00:33:41.120 I said you like Carrie Johnson. 00:33:41.120 --> 00:33:44.960 And And I then realized that I had outed like the girl 00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:47.120 he was probably madly in love with. 00:33:47.120 --> 00:33:49.520 What had happened was that I was in band. 00:33:49.520 --> 00:33:52.240 I played the sacks, Carrie played the oboe. 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.160 I knew Dave's taste in music. 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:58.640 I knew that this guy has no nexus to classical music or 00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:02.240 anything. The only possible reason that Dave is talking about a double 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:04.720 reed instrument is he has a crush on a girl who plays 00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:07.440 a double reed instrument and her name was Carrie. 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:08.080 And so 00:34:09.120 --> 00:34:12.240 I I give that as an example because that's what my brain 00:34:12.240 --> 00:34:14.240 is doing in the background all the time. 00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:17.680 Like sometimes my brain is like it's a separate thing. 00:34:17.680 --> 00:34:22.080 Like it's processing on its own, and I'm not supervising it. 00:34:22.080 --> 00:34:25.520 And so in the blink of an eye, I put two and 00:34:25.520 --> 00:34:28.400 two together without any conscious thought whatsoever. 00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:30.880 I perceived a secret. 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:34.960 Dave's deepest, most intimate secret, and I outed it without thinking. 00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:36.480 Like it was a it was a cruel thing to do. 00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:38.640 And I felt I still feel bad about it, 'cause like I 00:34:38.640 --> 00:34:40.160 I clearly shocked him. 00:34:40.160 --> 00:34:42.400 I don't know if I heard him, but like it was wasn't 00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:45.360 something he wanted me to say in class And so like it 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:46.480 was it was a jerk move. 00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:47.200 I was a teenager. 00:34:47.200 --> 00:34:48.960 I was a I was a dork. 00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:49.280 But 00:34:50.160 --> 00:34:52.320 that is what my brain is doing all the time. 00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:57.920 It's connecting like lightning, disparate points of data in ways that no 00:34:57.920 --> 00:34:59.040 one else can see. 00:34:59.040 --> 00:35:00.800 No one else would have ever guessed. 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:02.320 I mean, for me, it wasn't even a guess. 00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:02.960 I knew it. 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:06.320 I knew with absolute certainty that Dave liked Carrie. 00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:08.880 And I was a jerk, and so I said it out loud. 00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:10.880 My brain does that all the time. 00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:14.560 That's the kind of horsepower that God gave me. 00:35:14.560 --> 00:35:18.320 And more and more I'm trying to use that for beneficial things 00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:21.280 instead of just being mean to people. 00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:24.240 But most people, like at most, you you may have, you know, 00:35:24.240 --> 00:35:27.360 one of those bolts of lightning once in your life, once in 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:28.400 a great while. 00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:32.640 The more often that happens, the more intelligent you are. 00:35:32.640 --> 00:35:38.960 That sort of pattern recognition to pluck tiny, infinitesimally small signals from 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:42.720 whatever's around you and make conclusions that are spot on. 00:35:42.720 --> 00:35:45.680 You have the tiniest bit of data and you reach an absolute 00:35:45.680 --> 00:35:49.920 conclusion and you don't miss, that's a level of intelligence that's alien 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:50.480 to most people. 00:35:50.720 --> 00:35:53.840 And so I describe that not to brag or to like it. 00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:54.720 It's not about me. 00:35:54.720 --> 00:35:56.800 It's just trying to give an example of 00:35:58.080 --> 00:36:02.000 at a certain level of intelligence, things just get weird into a 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:05.600 normal person sitting in that classroom, like Dave, I don't know what 00:36:05.600 --> 00:36:06.000 he thought. 00:36:06.240 --> 00:36:08.480 he probably thought like I was psychic or something. 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:11.200 It wasn't it wasn't some divine revelation. 00:36:11.200 --> 00:36:12.560 I didn't read his mind. 00:36:12.560 --> 00:36:13.600 I just figured it out. 00:36:13.600 --> 00:36:15.600 It was it was kind of what Sherlock Holmes did. 00:36:15.600 --> 00:36:19.200 It was inductive reasoning and it was free and it was instant. 00:36:19.200 --> 00:36:24.080 And that sort of pattern recognition is the hallmark of general intelligence, 00:36:24.080 --> 00:36:27.120 which is fundamentally what the IQ test measures. 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:27.600 So 00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:32.720 maybe useful to give a general definition of what genius is here. 00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:38.240 Genius is typically 150, that's what it's regarded as 150 IQ. 00:36:38.240 --> 00:36:41.680 Yes, that's not an even number of standard deviations up from normal, 00:36:41.680 --> 00:36:45.360 but Normal, but it is half again as intelligent as the average 00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:46.320 man, as it were. 00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:51.840 Although notably, IQ is not a linear measurement because someone with an 00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:55.840 IQ of one fifty is not merely fifty percent more intelligent than 00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:59.520 someone with an IQ of 100, but that's that gets complicated. 00:36:59.520 --> 00:37:03.840 But anyway, for genius, it is the ability to draw sound conclusions 00:37:04.160 --> 00:37:08.000 from seemingly insufficient information. 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:11.840 And the reason, as just stated, why someone with an IQ that 00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:17.280 high can do that is because the information isn't insufficient. 00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:20.400 Someone with a lower IQ will look at the set of information 00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:24.080 and go, I can't draw a conclusion from this. 00:37:24.080 --> 00:37:27.280 But someone with a high enough IQ will realize all of the 00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:31.840 information you need to draw a sound conclusion is actually there. 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:34.320 Now of course the the ultimate example is God. 00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:39.040 God can draw a sound conclusion from any information, but he has 00:37:39.040 --> 00:37:44.800 given different abilities to different men, and those with greater intelligence can 00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:49.360 draw accurate sound conclusions from less information. 00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:52.960 As you go up the scale, you need less information to figure 00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:56.640 out what is actually happening with the set of data you've been 00:37:56.640 --> 00:38:00.800 given. And so just to give some hard numbers again to give 00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.880 a firmer idea of what is going on here. 00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:09.280 Someone with an IQ of 150, and in case someone wants to 00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:11.920 reproduce this to verify what I'm saying is accurate, I'm just using 00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:15.120 the normal distribution function in numbers. 00:38:15.120 --> 00:38:19.360 It's probably roughly the same in Excel, maybe off by 0.1% or 00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:24.560 something. But anyway, for 150 IQ, for a white population, which is 00:38:24.560 --> 00:38:28.880 to say 100 average, average and mean are the same thing for 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:31.040 those who slept through math class. 00:38:31.040 --> 00:38:34.400 A one hundred fifty IQ is one in two thousand three hundred 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:35.920 and thirty one. 00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:38.480 Not super rare. 00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:42.720 However, to give you an idea of how the rarity scales, an 00:38:42.720 --> 00:38:46.800 IQ of one hundred and sixty is one in thirty-one thousand five 00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:48.160 hundred and seventy-four. 00:38:48.160 --> 00:38:50.880 Then we'll we'll jump up a little bit. 00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:55.120 An IQ of one hundred and eighty, one in twenty million, seven 00:38:55.120 --> 00:38:58.560 hundred and forty one thousand, and the change doesn't really matter at 00:38:58.560 --> 00:38:59.440 this point. 00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:02.560 And we'll we'll cap it off with an IQ of two hundred, 00:39:02.560 --> 00:39:03.600 let's say. 00:39:03.600 --> 00:39:09.600 That's one in seventy six point four billion. 00:39:09.600 --> 00:39:12.080 That's for a white population. 00:39:12.080 --> 00:39:14.880 Average one hundred, standard deviation fifteen. 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:17.200 So you can see how that rarity increases. 00:39:17.200 --> 00:39:19.840 This is not a linear matter. 00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:22.880 But now to compare it, and this will be very important for 00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:25.680 the second half of this, to go back to one fifty, for 00:39:25.680 --> 00:39:27.520 an African population. 00:39:27.520 --> 00:39:29.520 An African population is 00:39:30.720 --> 00:39:37.440 a standard, an average of seventy with a standard deviation of thirteen. 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:40.240 It varies a little bit from one country to the next, but 00:39:40.240 --> 00:39:43.360 that's close enough to for the whole continent. 00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:44.560 One in 00:39:45.520 --> 00:39:50.080 two billion six hundred and forty four million for an IQ of 00:39:50.080 --> 00:39:55.360 one hundred and fifty versus for the European population one in two 00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:58.240 thousand three hundred. 00:39:58.240 --> 00:40:01.600 You can probably see how this is a problem, how there's a 00:40:01.600 --> 00:40:03.360 very big difference here. 00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:08.160 And that continues, of course, throughout the entirety of the IQ scale 00:40:08.160 --> 00:40:09.040 of the distribution. 00:40:09.040 --> 00:40:14.320 So if we looked at 180, we actually can't look at 180. 00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:18.800 And the reason we can't look at 180 is because that number 00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:21.760 is so infinitesimal that it is zero. 00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:24.800 There are no Africans at that level. 00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:30.400 Because the cutoff, where it basically becomes you've got one hundred percent 00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:34.560 of the area under the distribution as far as you've gone out, 00:40:34.560 --> 00:40:36.480 is one seventy-four. 00:40:36.640 --> 00:40:40.000 And that's an absurd number because it's one in what is that, 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:45.200 thousand, million, billion, trillion, one in one quadrillion. 00:40:45.200 --> 00:40:48.240 There are not that many people on the planet, and there may 00:40:48.240 --> 00:40:49.440 never be that many people. 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:53.440 God may come back before there have been that many human beings. 00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:55.440 And so you have to keep in mind 00:40:56.880 --> 00:41:02.000 just how few people there are at that end of the spectrum, 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:05.280 but also you have to keep in mind just how few people 00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:09.520 there are in an African population who are only say two standard 00:41:09.520 --> 00:41:13.600 deviations up from what would be average for Europeans. 00:41:13.600 --> 00:41:17.520 So if we went from 100 to 130, two standard deviations for 00:41:17.520 --> 00:41:22.400 a European population, not for an African, because again, different average, different 00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:24.560 standard deviation. 00:41:24.560 --> 00:41:28.080 For Africans with an IQ of one hundred and thirty, you're talking 00:41:28.080 --> 00:41:33.440 one in five hundred and ten thousand versus one in forty four 00:41:33.680 --> 00:41:36.560 for a European population. 00:41:36.560 --> 00:41:40.640 You have to think about how this plays out plays out in 00:41:40.640 --> 00:41:43.520 your civilization, how this plays out in 00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:46.160 how do you run your government? 00:41:46.160 --> 00:41:47.680 How do you run your church? 00:41:47.680 --> 00:41:49.280 Where do you find your theologians? 00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:50.720 Where do you find your leaders? 00:41:50.720 --> 00:41:52.640 Where do you find your mathematicians? 00:41:52.640 --> 00:41:54.960 Because this is not just a matter of the church. 00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:57.520 This is a matter of everything. 00:41:57.520 --> 00:42:03.600 Because intelligence does have direct applicability to almost all areas of human 00:42:03.600 --> 00:42:08.880 endeavor. Yes, there are some things that intelligence only plays a tangential 00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:14.080 or a marginal role, but even those areas, for instance, where it 00:42:14.080 --> 00:42:18.640 is purely brute force, well, those jobs are a lot easier today 00:42:18.800 --> 00:42:23.920 because intelligent men have made the hardware used today to do them. 00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:27.920 It's a lot easier to dig a ditch if you have a 00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:30.880 backhoe and various things like that than if all you have is 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:33.120 a shovel. 00:42:33.600 --> 00:42:37.040 the big machinery, the heavy machinery, was not thought up by a 00:42:37.040 --> 00:42:39.200 man with an IQ of eighty five. 00:42:39.200 --> 00:42:41.840 I w I won't give a a number for what IQ you 00:42:41.840 --> 00:42:44.400 need to make something like that, but assume it's at least two 00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:47.760 or three standard deviations above normal. 00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:53.040 And so these are real considerations that lead to real consequences, and 00:42:53.040 --> 00:42:56.480 they are not something that we can simply ignore. 00:42:56.480 --> 00:43:01.040 But to go back to the point that Woe was making about 00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:06.400 higher intelligence versus average, if you're talking to someone of average intelligence 00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:09.520 or what it's like to have the the higher intelligence 00:43:11.120 --> 00:43:16.480 There are certain proofs of the existence of God that are extremely 00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:20.800 convincing. In fact, I would say that if you can understand them, 00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:24.640 which is the point here, they're absolutely convincing. 00:43:25.040 --> 00:43:29.840 And so, for instance, there are formulations of the ontological argument that 00:43:30.160 --> 00:43:35.280 are 100% convincing they are definitive God exists. 00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:38.800 However, someone of average or lower than average intelligence 00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:43.280 probably cannot understand them. 00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:47.200 And there is likely no amount of explanation that is going to 00:43:47.200 --> 00:43:51.280 make them sufficiently clear to make them compelling for someone of average 00:43:52.160 --> 00:43:56.160 or lower than average intelligence. 00:43:56.160 --> 00:44:00.080 And so there's a natural consequence that flows from that. 00:44:00.080 --> 00:44:06.320 How do you reach someone with lower than average intelligence, with this 00:44:06.640 --> 00:44:10.640 information. In some cases, you can't, so you're going to have to 00:44:10.640 --> 00:44:14.640 devise a different path to reach these people. 00:44:14.640 --> 00:44:20.640 But I cannot explain Gettel's incompleteness theorem to an average man. 00:44:20.640 --> 00:44:21.600 I can't. 00:44:21.600 --> 00:44:24.640 There's no way I could possibly do it. 00:44:24.640 --> 00:44:28.480 I can't explain his version of the ontological argument to an average 00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:30.880 man. There's no way I can do it. 00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:35.760 And so we're not saying that exceptionally high intelligence is some sort 00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:36.720 of magic bullet. 00:44:36.720 --> 00:44:39.040 It's not we're not actually wizards. 00:44:39.040 --> 00:44:41.200 There are things we cannot do. 00:44:41.200 --> 00:44:43.920 There's nothing, of course, God cannot do, because God, of course, is 00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:48.880 infinite. There's a vast difference between simply being an outlier and being 00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:53.840 infinite. But no matter how high your intelligence is, as a As 00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:57.680 a man, there will be things you cannot do. 00:44:57.680 --> 00:45:02.960 And as Woe said, once you get outside, say three, four, and 00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:10.320 particularly five, standard deviations difference, the person at the upper end is 00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:13.680 not going to be able to explain certain things to the person 00:45:13.680 --> 00:45:15.680 at the lower end of that gap. 00:45:15.680 --> 00:45:18.800 No matter how hard he tries, no matter how much time he 00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:24.560 spends. And this plays out in society, it plays out in our 00:45:24.560 --> 00:45:27.520 government, it plays out in our schools, and it does in fact 00:45:27.600 --> 00:45:29.200 play out in the church. 00:45:29.600 --> 00:45:32.400 Before we get into the details on a church, I just like 00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:37.440 to give a couple of r other small examples of relatability. 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:40.080 You know, we're talking about kind of the high end of of 00:45:40.080 --> 00:45:44.960 human performance, but outliers are outliers because God doesn't want that many 00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:46.000 of them around. 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:51.120 The sweet spot for intelligence is really about kind of 125 to 00:45:51.200 --> 00:45:53.440 130, maybe 135. 00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:57.840 The reason for that is that a man who's in that range 00:45:57.840 --> 00:46:00.240 is relatable to basically everybody. 00:46:00.240 --> 00:46:04.320 Yeah, if you have an IQ of 125, you can relate to 00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:06.080 the common man completely. 00:46:06.080 --> 00:46:08.960 You can he can understand what you're talking about. 00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:12.320 You're not going to be thinking things that push him too far. 00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:14.000 You can be a great leader. 00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:17.120 And if if you have that sort of IQ, you're probably you 00:46:17.120 --> 00:46:20.560 know a leader in your congregation, you're probably at a more senior 00:46:20.560 --> 00:46:24.480 position in your employer, uh certainly if you're old enough to have 00:46:24.720 --> 00:46:26.320 to have risen up the ranks. 00:46:26.560 --> 00:46:30.640 Men who are equipped in such a fashion by God typically rise 00:46:30.640 --> 00:46:32.160 to the top. 00:46:32.160 --> 00:46:34.560 Now, where that is could be anywhere. 00:46:34.560 --> 00:46:37.040 There are a lot of guys who've never graduated from college who, 00:46:37.040 --> 00:46:40.960 you know, or they're machinists or something, who are that smart. 00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:46.240 The reason that it's important that there are those guys is that 00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:51.360 they're the ones who really move things forward on a day-to-day basis. 00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:55.040 There aren't enough really weird guys to go around, but there are 00:46:55.040 --> 00:46:58.960 plenty of guys who can keep things moving, who understand things well 00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:03.840 enough to keep these systems in operation. 00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:08.080 The flip side of the frequencies, as Corey mentioned a minute ago, 00:47:08.080 --> 00:47:12.240 IQ of 130 for white man is about one in 44. 00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:15.520 Means if you have 100 people, two of them roughly have about 00:47:15.520 --> 00:47:17.600 an IQ in the in that range. 00:47:17.600 --> 00:47:18.480 That means that 00:47:19.520 --> 00:47:22.960 if you spend most of your time in rooms with fewer than 00:47:23.120 --> 00:47:27.360 44 people, that guy's probably used to being the smartest guy in 00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:28.000 the room. 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:31.200 Now, obviously, there's selection bias in our social lives. 00:47:31.200 --> 00:47:34.320 You know, if if you're working at a company where you are 00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:38.320 that intelligent and it matters for your job, you're probably surrounded by 00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:41.760 people who have similarly higher degrees of intelligence. 00:47:41.760 --> 00:47:44.720 So even if you're not always the smartest guy in the room, 00:47:44.720 --> 00:47:47.920 most of the time when it's a random collection of people, you 00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:49.440 probably are. 00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:49.760 And 00:47:50.720 --> 00:47:54.880 this is what I I would call the midwit trap. 00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:59.920 Midwit's not a hundred midwit's one thirty, because the guys who are 00:47:59.920 --> 00:48:02.800 in the range of about one thirty are used to being the 00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:08.000 smartest guys in the room, which is a very extremely dangerous experience 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:10.640 for anyone to have, regardless of their intelligence. 00:48:10.640 --> 00:48:14.800 If you get used to being right more often than the people 00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:18.560 around you, you start to trust your own judgment and you trust 00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:21.440 disbelieving what other people say. 00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:26.000 It's not bad per se, but if it if you become blinded 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:29.040 to the fact that there are dudes out there who are exponentially 00:48:29.040 --> 00:48:32.400 smarter than you, you're gonna go after them when they disagree with 00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:34.800 you. And that's my experience all the time. 00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:38.160 I can guarantee you, every single person who's listening, I have been 00:48:38.160 --> 00:48:40.640 called retarded far more times than you have. 00:48:40.640 --> 00:48:44.400 I get called stupid and retarded every day on the internet for 00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:49.200 saying things that are actually intelligent observations. 00:48:49.200 --> 00:48:51.600 I don't get called retarded by average men. 00:48:51.600 --> 00:48:55.920 I get called retarded by smart men because they're probably somewhere in 00:48:55.920 --> 00:48:56.720 that range. 00:48:56.720 --> 00:48:58.160 They're used to being right. 00:48:58.160 --> 00:49:00.800 They're used to being the smartest guy in the room and when 00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:04.480 they hear saying someone saying something they can't understand. 00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:08.000 Their only experience in life is if someone says things that they 00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:10.400 don't understand, that person must be dumb. 00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:12.080 They must just be a dimwit. 00:49:12.080 --> 00:49:14.320 How could you disagree with me and say this weird stuff that 00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:17.200 doesn't make any sense to me unless you're dumb? 00:49:17.200 --> 00:49:22.080 Because they can't see that there are pages and pages beyond where 00:49:22.080 --> 00:49:25.040 they are in the book of performance. 00:49:25.040 --> 00:49:29.040 And so as a As a society, not maybe not so much 00:49:29.040 --> 00:49:32.240 in church, but like I don't think that we need the smartest 00:49:32.240 --> 00:49:33.280 guys in charge of church. 00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:37.280 I think we need the most faithful guys in charge of church. 00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:41.840 However, you need to be intelligent enough to know that when someone 00:49:41.920 --> 00:49:45.200 smart is playing tricks, you can stomp on them. 00:49:45.200 --> 00:49:50.000 And simultaneously, you need to be intelligent enough to know that when 00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:52.880 someone is smart is saying something you don't understand 00:49:53.760 --> 00:49:55.520 Maybe they're right. 00:49:55.840 --> 00:49:59.840 the judgment for a Christian is not, is this guy smarter than 00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:02.960 me? It's is he being faithful to scripture? 00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:06.080 But when you have a line of men who are used to 00:50:06.080 --> 00:50:10.000 being smarter than, you know, pastors, probably smarter than most of the 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:12.000 people in most of their congregations. 00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:14.480 We should hope that that would be the case, you know, particularly 00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:17.440 in the Lutheran church, these guys are expected to learn Koine Greek 00:50:17.520 --> 00:50:21.040 and to learn Hebrew, those are not easy languages. 00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:25.280 Greek in particular has some complexities that go far beyond what is 00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:28.480 found in a superficial understanding of English. 00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:31.280 Some of those remnants are still there, but unless you're really good 00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:36.000 at understanding the mechanisms of language in general, it's probably gonna be 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:38.480 challenging to pick up some of the new concepts that are just 00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:42.240 a part of older languages like Greek and in Latin. 00:50:42.240 --> 00:50:44.560 And that's because men used to be smarter. 00:50:44.560 --> 00:50:48.800 You know, the the IQs that are outstanding today wouldn't have been 00:50:48.800 --> 00:50:51.440 as outstanding five hundred years ago. 00:50:51.440 --> 00:50:53.920 I we we know for a fact that even in the Victorian 00:50:54.080 --> 00:50:57.360 era, men had at least a standard deviation higher. 00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:00.800 And you can see that just in letters from farm boys. 00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:04.240 you see letters from the Civil War and a lot of them 00:51:04.240 --> 00:51:08.880 are eloquent to the point that even modern readers who are intelligent 00:51:09.120 --> 00:51:12.800 have trouble kind of understanding what they say easily when it's just 00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.280 a love letter to their their girl back home. 00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:20.000 So there's a diminishing overall as a society, as a as a 00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:23.120 race of people in the direction of getting stupider. 00:51:23.120 --> 00:51:25.280 And I don't know if that's reversible. 00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:29.440 So when we say that whites on average are two standard deviations 00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:34.560 separated from the average African, it's not maligning them, it's an observation 00:51:34.560 --> 00:51:39.440 of a demonstrable, provable fact that correlates strictly with race. 00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:42.560 You cannot move an African somewhere else in the country and magically 00:51:42.560 --> 00:51:44.000 make them smarter. 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:48.320 Just like someone European moving somewhere is to Africa isn't going to 00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:49.040 make them dumber. 00:51:49.040 --> 00:51:51.200 It's they're just they're still going to be European. 00:51:51.200 --> 00:51:54.720 We are what what God makes us and some of the factors 00:51:54.720 --> 00:51:58.000 that God builds into us are things like IQ. 00:51:58.000 --> 00:51:59.360 Just like they're things like height. 00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:02.400 There are tribes in Africa that are extraordinarily s tall. 00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:06.000 And there's some tribes that are pygmies, like they're they're tiny people. 00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:09.760 You know, if if an alien came from another planet and looked 00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:12.560 at them, probably wouldn't conclude they were the same species. 00:52:12.560 --> 00:52:15.040 And it's not denying anybody's humanity. 00:52:15.040 --> 00:52:18.240 I'll just if you look at the physical characteristics of things and 00:52:18.240 --> 00:52:21.120 you separate them and say, well, all these people are seven feet 00:52:21.120 --> 00:52:24.720 tall and all these people are three feet tall, I'm not sure 00:52:24.720 --> 00:52:27.200 I would call both of those groups the same kind of people. 00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:30.960 As humans and as Christians, we're like browbeat and saying, oh, they're 00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:31.520 exactly the same. 00:52:31.520 --> 00:52:32.320 They're interchangeable. 00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:35.600 Well, the seven footers are seven feet tall because that's in their 00:52:35.600 --> 00:52:37.680 genes. And the same with the pygmies. 00:52:37.680 --> 00:52:41.920 And the same with the intelligence, the diminishing of intelligence in Africa 00:52:42.160 --> 00:52:43.600 and also in South America. 00:52:43.600 --> 00:52:46.160 Uh we're gonna one of the embeds is gonna be a map 00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:47.600 in Central America. 00:52:47.600 --> 00:52:50.160 The IQs are every bit as in the toilet as they are 00:52:50.160 --> 00:52:51.200 in Africa. 00:52:51.200 --> 00:52:54.960 And personally, I believe as I've said in past episodes, that is 00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:58.160 a function of their four thousand years of communion with demons. 00:52:58.160 --> 00:52:59.200 Maybe it's something else. 00:52:59.200 --> 00:53:02.080 I think that's the most Christian explanation for it. 00:53:02.080 --> 00:53:04.560 It's certainly not attacking them as human beings. 00:53:04.560 --> 00:53:07.040 It's saying, hey man, we need God. 00:53:07.040 --> 00:53:09.120 We need God in our lives constantly. 00:53:09.120 --> 00:53:12.320 And when you commune with demons with for thousands of years, that's 00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:16.320 gonna have consequences that are passed on from father to son, especially 00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:20.720 when you're talking about cannibalism and human sacrifice and the most unspeakable, 00:53:20.720 --> 00:53:25.200 unthinkable acts of evil are corrosive on everything, not just on the 00:53:25.200 --> 00:53:30.800 soul, not just on your lifestyle, but literally corrosive on the body. 00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:32.160 So maybe I'm wrong. 00:53:32.160 --> 00:53:36.160 Maybe it's not demons that cause them to be functionally retarded, but 00:53:36.160 --> 00:53:40.720 whatever it is, different people groups in different places have different qualities 00:53:40.720 --> 00:53:44.560 that are measurable, they're observable, and they're consequential. 00:53:44.560 --> 00:53:47.680 Uh one of the uh one of the embeds that we're gonna 00:53:47.680 --> 00:53:50.320 have is gonna be something maybe you've heard this term before a 00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:51.200 green text. 00:53:51.200 --> 00:53:54.000 Uh it's from uh 4chan, I think probably poll. 00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:56.640 Uh there's some spicy language in it, and I'm not gonna censor 00:53:56.640 --> 00:53:58.160 it. You can read it and deal with it. 00:53:58.160 --> 00:54:03.440 It's the internet It's an anonymous post from someone who did research 00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:07.600 as a grad student on IQ in prisons. 00:54:07.600 --> 00:54:10.560 And one of the first things in this green text post is 00:54:10.560 --> 00:54:13.360 something you may have seen, particularly on Twitter lately. 00:54:13.600 --> 00:54:16.800 The question that he was asking, one of the many questions that 00:54:16.800 --> 00:54:21.680 he was asking in this study of prisoners was: How would you 00:54:21.680 --> 00:54:26.080 have felt yesterday evening if you hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch? 00:54:26.080 --> 00:54:29.200 Now you've probably seen people maybe recently joking, how would you feel 00:54:29.200 --> 00:54:30.480 if you hadn't eaten breakfast? 00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:33.040 That's specifically what this is talking about. 00:54:33.440 --> 00:54:36.720 The reason that that question is so important is that what was 00:54:36.720 --> 00:54:40.480 found in that study was that if someone has an IQ below 00:54:41.040 --> 00:54:45.680 about 90, now these numbers are ranges, they're not absolutes. 00:54:45.680 --> 00:54:51.040 They're measuring how frequently a given degree of performance appears in the 00:54:51.040 --> 00:54:54.640 population. What they found in San Quentin, there were a lot of 00:54:54.640 --> 00:54:57.680 guys with lower IQs, not really surprising. 00:54:57.680 --> 00:55:01.600 You know, there racial aspects to that and they're also just aspects 00:55:01.600 --> 00:55:04.720 that criminality may tend to tend to be the only option for 00:55:04.720 --> 00:55:08.000 someone who isn't given viable options for employment. 00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:11.440 So as Corey's saying, like there's societal implications to this that are 00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:14.240 also, by the way, Christian implications. 00:55:14.240 --> 00:55:18.080 Anyway, what they found was when you when you ask that question, 00:55:18.080 --> 00:55:21.600 how would you have felt yesterday evening if you hadn't eaten breakfast 00:55:21.600 --> 00:55:22.560 or lunch? 00:55:22.560 --> 00:55:25.920 If someone has an IQ below about 90, they just break down. 00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:30.480 They can't process the question because it's a conditional hypothetical. 00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:33.520 The hypothetical is how would you have felt? 00:55:33.520 --> 00:55:37.600 You know, and then the conditional is had you eaten breakfast or 00:55:37.600 --> 00:55:42.240 not. So those two elements combined cause most l if you had 00:55:42.240 --> 00:55:45.760 Nike below ninety, the responses were things like, What do you mean? 00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:48.880 I did eat at breakfast, and lunch and then the questioner would 00:55:48.880 --> 00:55:52.160 say, Yes, but if you had not, how would you have felt? 00:55:52.160 --> 00:55:55.520 To which they would s respond, you know, in more vulgar language 00:55:55.600 --> 00:55:58.000 probably. Why are you saying that I didn't eat breakfast? 00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:00.080 I just told you that I do it did. 00:56:00.240 --> 00:56:03.200 This is something that also played out in uh episode four of 00:56:03.200 --> 00:56:04.080 The Wire. 00:56:04.080 --> 00:56:07.520 Uh it's if you haven't seen it, it's it's a profane violent 00:56:07.600 --> 00:56:10.560 uh series on HBO, so I'm not sure I'm recommending it, but 00:56:10.560 --> 00:56:11.200 I enjoyed it. 00:56:11.200 --> 00:56:14.080 I've actually I probably watched it three or four times. 00:56:14.080 --> 00:56:18.160 There's uh in ep in season four, they were the cops were 00:56:18.160 --> 00:56:21.920 doing a program similar to this in the schools where they're trying 00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:26.000 to find how do they intervene young enough in the students' lives 00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:29.920 to be able to keep them up to divert them from criminality? 00:56:29.920 --> 00:56:33.440 And they had a student who was like 16 in a room, 00:56:33.440 --> 00:56:36.240 and one of the psychologists and one of the cops was asking 00:56:36.240 --> 00:56:38.640 him questions very similar to this. 00:56:38.640 --> 00:56:42.000 And he became violently angry at the questions. 00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:43.680 Just like in the green text. 00:56:43.680 --> 00:56:46.160 What he said is you know he's cursing a lot. 00:56:46.400 --> 00:56:48.560 I think we'll we'll embed the clip and again you know it's 00:56:48.560 --> 00:56:49.440 content warningly. 00:56:49.680 --> 00:56:52.240 it's vulgar, but it's realistic. 00:56:52.240 --> 00:56:55.680 When the when the questioner asked him how would you have felt 00:56:55.680 --> 00:56:59.280 about this situation, he got violently angry and said, Why are you 00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:01.120 messing with my mind, man? 00:57:01.120 --> 00:57:02.080 Why are you doing this? 00:57:02.080 --> 00:57:03.520 Get out of my head. 00:57:03.520 --> 00:57:08.160 The reason for that response was that it was breaking his mind, 00:57:08.160 --> 00:57:13.440 being confronted with a hypothetical like this, with a conditional. 00:57:13.600 --> 00:57:14.720 It hurt. 00:57:14.720 --> 00:57:18.880 It hurt his brain to be subjected to that sort of question 00:57:19.040 --> 00:57:22.560 because he didn't have the capacity to process it. 00:57:22.560 --> 00:57:25.600 And it wasn't, as Corey was saying earlier, it's not the case 00:57:25.600 --> 00:57:30.000 that someone below about ninety IQ, you can teach them how to 00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:31.120 think about those things. 00:57:31.120 --> 00:57:33.040 It's literally too complicated. 00:57:33.040 --> 00:57:37.600 Just like calculus is literally too complicated for some people to understand. 00:57:37.600 --> 00:57:38.400 It's hard. 00:57:38.560 --> 00:57:40.480 Calculus is a hard thing. 00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:43.680 For some people, it's much easier than others, but it's not just 00:57:43.680 --> 00:57:47.040 sort of a trivial task like tying your shoes. 00:57:47.040 --> 00:57:50.480 Tying your shoes is something if someone is profoundly retarded, they probably 00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:51.280 can't even do that. 00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:54.320 They probably have velcro on their shoes today because they can't tie 00:57:54.320 --> 00:57:57.760 them. that's the outer limit of their performance. 00:57:57.760 --> 00:57:59.920 So their societal and their 00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:06.800 doctrinal implications to someone that can't even understand a hypothetical question, which 00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:10.080 is why this is a Christian matter, because when you look at 00:58:10.080 --> 00:58:13.520 the Christian faith, you find that there are a lot of hypotheticals 00:58:13.520 --> 00:58:14.400 like this. 00:58:14.560 --> 00:58:19.360 To emphasize the issue of cri Criminality and intelligence. 00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:23.600 As an attorney, I know a lot of other attorneys, unsurprisingly. 00:58:23.600 --> 00:58:27.360 Many of them, many of my friends from law school and other 00:58:27.360 --> 00:58:29.840 colleagues, went into criminal law. 00:58:29.840 --> 00:58:33.120 That was one of the the common career paths out of my 00:58:33.120 --> 00:58:35.360 particular law school. 00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:39.040 And so I have talked to many of them what it's like 00:58:39.040 --> 00:58:44.080 dealing with either the client or the accused, depending which side of 00:58:44.080 --> 00:58:47.520 the courtroom you're sitting. 00:58:47.520 --> 00:58:54.080 And many of these people simply cannot understand why what they did 00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:56.720 is wrong. 00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:02.800 You will ask them, How would you feel if someone did this 00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:05.840 to you and they cannot process it? 00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:08.320 Because that's a hypothetical. 00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:11.440 And so all they can say is, Well, it didn't happen to 00:59:11.440 --> 00:59:13.600 me. If they can even manage that. 00:59:13.600 --> 00:59:16.000 Some of them simply cannot understand it whatsoever. 00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:16.880 There's no response. 00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:19.440 They'll get they will get angry at you. 00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:24.240 But they cannot understand why you shouldn't do whatever horrible thing it 00:59:24.240 --> 00:59:25.440 is they've done 00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:30.640 on an empathetic level, because they don't have that empathy, because they 00:59:30.640 --> 00:59:35.120 cannot understand, well, what if you had been the victim? 00:59:35.120 --> 00:59:38.880 And I also did psychology in undergrad, and I did study IQ 00:59:39.040 --> 00:59:43.360 and things like that, related subjects, but that is the real problem 00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:51.200 here. You cannot empathize with other people if you cannot understand hypotheticals 00:59:51.200 --> 00:59:52.480 to some degree. 00:59:52.480 --> 00:59:56.480 And so there is a lower bound for human empathy. 00:59:56.480 --> 01:00:00.480 That doesn't mean that everyone with a low IQ is an amoral 01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:07.440 monster. There are plenty of very unintelligent people who are still decent 01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:11.440 members of society, but it is because they have been channeled into 01:00:11.440 --> 01:00:13.680 a proper place for them. 01:00:13.680 --> 01:00:15.120 That's the biggest thing. 01:00:15.120 --> 01:00:19.760 If you have someone who is particularly subnormal, that person can be 01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:24.800 a productive member of society and function at a lower level, yes, 01:00:24.800 --> 01:00:26.640 but still function. 01:00:26.640 --> 01:00:30.800 If he is channeled properly, if he's given a task that is 01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:35.440 suited to his abilities, if you just turn him loose in society, 01:00:35.440 --> 01:00:38.960 things are going to go poorly for him and possibly also for 01:00:38.960 --> 01:00:41.280 others. It's going to depend on whether or not he happens He 01:00:41.280 --> 01:00:45.440 happens to have a violent disposition, and we talked about that in 01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:47.520 a previous episode. 01:00:47.520 --> 01:00:52.720 So if you allow individuals to flood your society who have low 01:00:52.720 --> 01:00:56.800 intelligence and a tendency toward violence. 01:00:56.800 --> 01:00:59.360 Well, what are you doing to everyone else in your society? 01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:02.320 What are you doing particularly to the most vulnerable members of your 01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:07.440 society? And that's why this matters from a societal level, and we'll 01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:10.320 we'll be getting into the Christian level, we just touched on it 01:01:10.320 --> 01:01:13.520 on a surface level right there, saying Christianity involves a lot of 01:01:13.520 --> 01:01:17.200 hypotheticals, because it most certainly does. 01:01:17.200 --> 01:01:20.320 But on the side of whether or not your civilization, whether or 01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:26.480 not your society will be able to function at all, you have 01:01:26.480 --> 01:01:30.000 to deal with these matters, you have to deal with this reality. 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:33.360 You have to know what to do with those who are particularly 01:01:33.360 --> 01:01:36.320 subnormal when it comes to intelligence. 01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:40.320 Because they're not going to just be turned free in society and 01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:44.160 function as a man would with an IQ of 100 to 115. 01:01:44.160 --> 01:01:47.600 If you turn a man loose who has an IQ of 115, 01:01:47.600 --> 01:01:50.320 he'll probably find his way in society just fine. 01:01:50.320 --> 01:01:52.240 He'll manage to do something. 01:01:52.560 --> 01:01:57.440 If you do that to someone with an IQ of seventy, he's 01:01:57.440 --> 01:01:59.520 not going to manage just fine. 01:01:59.520 --> 01:02:03.280 He's going to wind up homeless or a criminal, most likely. 01:02:03.280 --> 01:02:05.600 Those are the paths that are open to him. 01:02:05.600 --> 01:02:08.960 And it is not compassionate and it is not Christian 01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:13.600 to fail to recognize this or to ignore it in the name 01:02:13.600 --> 01:02:16.800 of equality or egalitarianism. 01:02:16.800 --> 01:02:20.240 You have to deal with reality as it is, not as you 01:02:20.240 --> 01:02:21.600 would prefer it were. 01:02:21.680 --> 01:02:25.200 And for anyone who's listening who knows a little bit about psychology, 01:02:25.200 --> 01:02:28.800 when you hear Corey describing a lack of empathy, you probably thought, 01:02:28.800 --> 01:02:33.120 ah, that's sociopathy, or maybe psychopathy. 01:02:33.120 --> 01:02:34.560 It isn't really. 01:02:34.560 --> 01:02:38.480 When you're talking about sociopathy and you're talking about someone who is 01:02:38.480 --> 01:02:41.200 incapable of empathy, that 01:02:42.080 --> 01:02:45.920 includes the expectation that if something weren't wrong with them, they would 01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:46.960 be able to. 01:02:46.960 --> 01:02:49.360 We're talking about an entire population 01:02:50.640 --> 01:02:53.280 that lacks the mental capacity. 01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:54.880 It's not emotional. 01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:57.680 It's not that they are unfeeling. 01:02:57.680 --> 01:02:58.320 It's that 01:02:59.280 --> 01:03:03.920 they're intellectually disconnected from what's right in front of them. 01:03:04.240 --> 01:03:08.720 And if you've been exposed to some of the horrible violent videos 01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:12.400 on the internet recently, they're they're happening all the time, but we 01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:13.440 see them more and more. 01:03:13.440 --> 01:03:16.240 Uh now that Elon has taken over, they're not getting censored like 01:03:16.240 --> 01:03:21.040 they used to, which is important because these are actually happening. 01:03:21.040 --> 01:03:27.280 There is a nonstop stream in the United States of African Americans 01:03:27.280 --> 01:03:31.040 committing horror Horrifically violent crimes. 01:03:31.040 --> 01:03:32.800 And it seems to be sociopathic. 01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:35.520 It seems like they have no empathy whatsoever. 01:03:35.520 --> 01:03:38.640 They will grab something and they will hit a man and knock 01:03:38.640 --> 01:03:39.200 him down. 01:03:39.200 --> 01:03:42.640 And once they knock him down, he's unconscious, they continue wailing on 01:03:42.640 --> 01:03:44.000 his skull. 01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:46.960 Like they're they're trying to completely destroy him. 01:03:46.960 --> 01:03:50.400 And that's an that's a very common reaction. 01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:53.760 I know that a lot of people follow me for whatever they 01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:55.760 find valuable in the takes I have on Twitter. 01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:58.560 I try to keep that stuff off my timeline just because it's 01:03:58.560 --> 01:04:00.560 so upsetting and depressing. 01:04:00.560 --> 01:04:05.920 But when I hear these guys saying they're just like us, it's 01:04:05.920 --> 01:04:09.040 all I can do to restrain myself from just sending them a 01:04:09.040 --> 01:04:12.560 flood of nightmarish violent videos like that. 01:04:12.560 --> 01:04:13.760 Because they're everywhere. 01:04:13.760 --> 01:04:15.280 And it's always black people. 01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:18.720 You never ever see white people doing this to anyone else. 01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:21.360 You see it all the time with black people. 01:04:21.360 --> 01:04:22.560 They don't care who they're doing it to. 01:04:22.800 --> 01:04:25.440 it's a lot of times it's black on white violence, but it 01:04:25.440 --> 01:04:26.400 doesn't matter. 01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:32.000 They get set off and they engage in behavior that seems animalistic. 01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:36.720 It it's it's utterly detached from anything that we would consider morality. 01:04:36.720 --> 01:04:39.280 You see them doing it and you're like, just stop Nam. 01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:40.800 Like even if you want to hit the guy, even if you 01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:42.400 want to hurt him, he's down. 01:04:42.400 --> 01:04:45.280 Why would you continue caving his skull in? 01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:49.840 And yet it's perfectly normal for the entire population to do that 01:04:49.840 --> 01:04:51.200 when they get angry. 01:04:51.200 --> 01:04:55.120 Now, as Corey said, it doesn't mean every single individual, but it 01:04:55.120 --> 01:04:59.280 happens often enough that if you have general intelligence and you can 01:04:59.280 --> 01:05:03.360 detect patterns, you cannot help but detect that pattern, which was was 01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:04.880 a subject of the previous episode. 01:05:05.040 --> 01:05:07.600 we don't need to talk about too much more, but I do 01:05:07.600 --> 01:05:08.480 want to highlight something. 01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:12.720 You know, we were talking a few minutes ago about the average 01:05:13.040 --> 01:05:18.640 African African population, which is distinct from the African American population. 01:05:18.640 --> 01:05:21.200 You may notice that I typically go out of my way to 01:05:21.200 --> 01:05:22.800 say African American. 01:05:22.800 --> 01:05:27.040 The reason for that is that one, it precludes those who say, 01:05:27.040 --> 01:05:30.160 oh, it's just skin tone, which is something everybody wants to say 01:05:30.160 --> 01:05:35.360 now. The more that race becomes an issue in Christianity, the more 01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:38.640 pastors who are afraid to speak truthfully will say, oh, it's skin 01:05:38.640 --> 01:05:39.760 tone. It's just color. 01:05:39.840 --> 01:05:41.680 There it's all superficiality. 01:05:41.680 --> 01:05:42.720 We're all the same underneath. 01:05:42.720 --> 01:05:44.880 We all bleed red. 01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:48.320 Nonsense. I I'm not gonna curse here, but you can just imagine 01:05:48.320 --> 01:05:51.520 a stream of expletives of me from me directed at that sort 01:05:51.520 --> 01:05:52.080 of lie. 01:05:52.080 --> 01:05:55.040 That is That is a vile wicked lie to say it's just 01:05:55.040 --> 01:05:56.080 skin color. 01:05:56.080 --> 01:06:00.320 If it were only skin color, then African Americans would not have 01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:02.960 IQs of 85 on average. 01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:07.920 So that's one standard deviation above Africans and one standard devi deviation 01:06:07.920 --> 01:06:09.760 below Americans. 01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:11.280 Why is that? 01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:14.560 The reason, and you know, there's been a lot of study that's 01:06:14.560 --> 01:06:18.560 gone into this, one of the problems with studies today is that 01:06:18.560 --> 01:06:24.480 because this subject is so politicized, many of them are getting censored, 01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:27.040 or they're simply not getting done at all. 01:06:27.040 --> 01:06:32.560 Because anyone who's in the business of securing federal funding or grants 01:06:32.560 --> 01:06:35.920 for their research, they know how to milk the system. 01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:39.280 And they know that if they produce a result that says that 01:06:39.280 --> 01:06:43.360 African Americans do anything worse than anybody else, not only are they 01:06:43.360 --> 01:06:45.680 not going to get funded, but they're going to get blackballed and 01:06:45.680 --> 01:06:46.800 they're never going to work again. 01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:50.000 No one's going to give them money for anything because that's crime 01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:54.960 think. The reason I call them African Americans is that that's what 01:06:54.960 --> 01:06:55.600 they are. 01:06:55.600 --> 01:07:00.640 They're Africans in America, but they're also part American. 01:07:00.640 --> 01:07:03.040 Now I've said before that American is a race. 01:07:03.040 --> 01:07:05.280 American is a white race. 01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:07.840 American is synonymous with white. 01:07:07.840 --> 01:07:12.560 African Americans on average are about 25% white. 01:07:12.640 --> 01:07:17.760 Whenever you do genetic studies on a population of African Americans, you'll 01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:21.360 find that they're they're a quarter white on average. 01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:24.640 Some are much less, some are much more. 01:07:24.640 --> 01:07:29.360 It sort of gets averaged out in the wash because visually 01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:36.640 African DNA, the physical characteristics that go along with that are dominant. 01:07:36.640 --> 01:07:40.160 So if you have African DNA, you're not going to have, for 01:07:40.160 --> 01:07:42.080 example, light colored eyes. 01:07:42.080 --> 01:07:43.120 It's very rare. 01:07:43.120 --> 01:07:46.960 You do see it very rarely, but light-colored eyes only come from 01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:49.120 northwestern Europe. 01:07:49.120 --> 01:07:51.120 They don't really come from anywhere else. 01:07:51.120 --> 01:07:53.840 And it's a recessive gene, which is why it's the only place 01:07:53.840 --> 01:07:54.560 you see it. 01:07:54.560 --> 01:07:57.680 Those genes are being wiped out by the admixture with other groups 01:07:57.680 --> 01:07:59.040 that do not have them. 01:07:59.040 --> 01:08:03.920 So if someone is three quarters African and one quarter American, they're 01:08:03.920 --> 01:08:08.560 going to have predominantly African characteristics. 01:08:08.560 --> 01:08:12.640 And because Africa is such a huge continent, there are many light-skinned 01:08:12.640 --> 01:08:18.480 Africans. There are Africans who have less noticeably African facial features than 01:08:18.480 --> 01:08:21.920 others. And that's not just and that's not because they necessarily have 01:08:21.920 --> 01:08:26.640 admixture in Africa, which means mixing with with another foreign alien population 01:08:27.120 --> 01:08:27.920 of DNA. 01:08:27.920 --> 01:08:29.680 And something means that there's variety. 01:08:29.680 --> 01:08:30.720 God likes variety. 01:08:30.720 --> 01:08:31.600 He likes different shapes. 01:08:31.600 --> 01:08:32.960 He likes different sizes. 01:08:32.960 --> 01:08:34.000 He likes different looks. 01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:35.120 It's what he gave us. 01:08:35.120 --> 01:08:38.320 We don't get to complain about it or insult it. 01:08:38.320 --> 01:08:43.120 So African Americans have IQs on average of 85. 01:08:43.120 --> 01:08:47.760 A big, a huge overwhelming percentage of that is because they're 25% 01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:49.440 European DNA. 01:08:49.440 --> 01:08:53.360 Now, mathematically that would imply that they have, you know, a grandparent 01:08:53.360 --> 01:08:54.240 who is white. 01:08:54.240 --> 01:08:55.440 But that's never the case. 01:08:55.440 --> 01:08:56.800 It's almost never the case. 01:08:56.800 --> 01:08:59.120 What has happened is that they have a number of you know 01:08:59.200 --> 01:09:01.680 great great grandparents or great great great grandparents. 01:09:01.680 --> 01:09:04.640 And so they're all those little bits and pieces, you know, 100, 01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:08.320 hundred and fifty years ago, there was a family secret or is 01:09:08.400 --> 01:09:11.360 just lost to time 'cause, you know, there's no there's no living 01:09:11.360 --> 01:09:13.200 connection to those people. 01:09:13.200 --> 01:09:16.000 The DNA is passed on, the genes are passed on. 01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:20.480 And so a major factor in why African American IQs are higher 01:09:20.640 --> 01:09:23.520 is because they have European DNA. 01:09:23.520 --> 01:09:27.840 Now, 85 is important because as we just mentioned, it's below the 01:09:27.840 --> 01:09:33.360 threshold of about 90 for being able to understand conditional hypotheticals. 01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:36.000 If you've ever I think I said this last week, if you've 01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:40.800 ever served on a jury, the the rules for for a jury, 01:09:40.800 --> 01:09:44.720 the instructions that they're given are filled with cut conditional hypotheticals. 01:09:44.720 --> 01:09:45.920 They're complicated. 01:09:46.240 --> 01:09:47.840 they're they're based on reason. 01:09:47.840 --> 01:09:49.280 They're based on logic. 01:09:49.280 --> 01:09:52.800 You have if X, then Y, if not X, then Z. 01:09:52.800 --> 01:09:56.640 And you have to be able to process that correctly. 01:09:56.640 --> 01:10:01.440 It's just assumed by our society that anyone in the jury room 01:10:01.440 --> 01:10:03.840 is able to understand hypotheticals. 01:10:03.840 --> 01:10:06.880 The average African American can't do it. 01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:10.560 And I think one of the biggest problems that the confusion that 01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:14.800 arises that we're not saying these people are not human, we're not 01:10:14.800 --> 01:10:16.080 saying that they're bad. 01:10:16.080 --> 01:10:19.760 We're saying that they lack a capacity for something that we just 01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:20.960 assume they have. 01:10:20.960 --> 01:10:24.560 Now imagine if me is someone who's four standard deviations separated from 01:10:24.560 --> 01:10:27.520 the normal man, if I just expected you to be able to 01:10:27.520 --> 01:10:28.880 do everything that I can do. 01:10:28.880 --> 01:10:31.680 I can jump to conclusions so quickly and no one even knows 01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:32.640 what happened. 01:10:32.640 --> 01:10:35.120 I I can remember a time when I was working in a 01:10:35.120 --> 01:10:38.320 a company And we were sitting around, we were discussing a number 01:10:38.320 --> 01:10:41.760 of issues, and they handed out a piece of paper that had 01:10:41.760 --> 01:10:43.200 one of the issues on it. 01:10:43.200 --> 01:10:46.320 And I scanned it in 10 seconds and I said out loud, 01:10:46.320 --> 01:10:47.840 Well, this is a no-brainer. 01:10:47.840 --> 01:10:49.680 And one of the guys in the room, his name was Dave. 01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:51.280 He's a very smart guy. 01:10:51.280 --> 01:10:52.560 He was actually hurt. 01:10:52.560 --> 01:10:54.320 He was shocked and offended that I said that. 01:10:54.320 --> 01:10:56.480 And he's like, whoa, hold on. 01:10:56.480 --> 01:10:58.080 We need to talk about this first. 01:10:58.080 --> 01:11:01.200 I don't even if you got it, everyone else needs to understand. 01:11:01.200 --> 01:11:04.240 And so we spent like five or ten minutes going over the 01:11:04.240 --> 01:11:07.760 thing in detail and they were yammering back and forth. 01:11:07.760 --> 01:11:11.280 And eventually they reached the conclusion that I reached in ten seconds. 01:11:11.280 --> 01:11:14.480 That's my experience pretty much all the time. 01:11:14.480 --> 01:11:16.720 I look, I know, I move on. 01:11:16.720 --> 01:11:19.840 If I were to hold you to that standard, it would be 01:11:19.840 --> 01:11:22.640 vicious, it would be cruel, it would be insane, and it would 01:11:22.640 --> 01:11:24.560 just be utterly unfair. 01:11:24.560 --> 01:11:27.680 That's not the gift that you were given. 01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:29.440 And I can't just say, oh you're stupid. 01:11:29.440 --> 01:11:30.800 Why don't you understand? 01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:32.480 No, I don't think that. 01:11:32.480 --> 01:11:37.040 I I'm I try to be charitable, but I know some people 01:11:37.040 --> 01:11:37.760 take more time. 01:11:37.760 --> 01:11:39.600 Now in in that case I was in a room with a 01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:42.240 bunch of really smart people like the average IQ of that room 01:11:42.240 --> 01:11:45.120 was probably a hundred and thirty plus. 01:11:45.120 --> 01:11:46.800 And so I just wasn't thinking. 01:11:46.800 --> 01:11:49.040 I was just relaxed and saying, well this is this is easy. 01:11:49.040 --> 01:11:49.920 This is an easy one. 01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:50.800 Like I wanted to move on. 01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:52.560 I wanted to get out of there and go home. 01:11:52.560 --> 01:11:54.880 And yet it took five minutes for everyone else to st to 01:11:55.200 --> 01:11:56.240 struggle through it. 01:11:56.240 --> 01:11:57.360 And they did struggle. 01:11:57.360 --> 01:11:59.440 I I can remember that specific problem. 01:11:59.920 --> 01:12:03.600 they had a hard time processing what I got like a lightning 01:12:03.600 --> 01:12:05.360 bolt. And so 01:12:06.320 --> 01:12:10.480 the reason that I I've given these examples to try to contrast 01:12:10.480 --> 01:12:15.040 my experience with your experience is that your experience does not mirror 01:12:15.040 --> 01:12:17.440 the African American experience. 01:12:17.440 --> 01:12:22.400 They don't process on average that quickly of the of the 40 01:12:22.400 --> 01:12:26.880 and a half million African Americans in this country, six and a 01:12:26.880 --> 01:12:31.120 half million of them, 13 to 16 percent high have IQs of 01:12:31.280 --> 01:12:32.400 100 and above. 01:12:32.400 --> 01:12:35.680 So all So almost all of them are below a hundred. 01:12:35.680 --> 01:12:39.200 When you get to eighty five, it's nearly half. 01:12:39.200 --> 01:12:42.320 Nineteen point nine million have IQs below eighty five, which you know 01:12:42.400 --> 01:12:43.920 is what we says about half. 01:12:43.920 --> 01:12:47.200 What that implies is that although they have verbal ability, they can 01:12:47.840 --> 01:12:49.040 talk to you. 01:12:49.040 --> 01:12:52.080 They can like they seem like normal, decent human beings, and I'm 01:12:52.000 --> 01:12:52.960 not saying they're not. 01:12:52.960 --> 01:12:56.240 I'm not saying they're not normal, decent human beings. 01:12:56.240 --> 01:12:59.360 What I'm saying is that your normal experience experience of being able 01:12:59.360 --> 01:13:02.720 to process things is different than theirs. 01:13:02.720 --> 01:13:05.360 And I'm trying to suggest to you that it is cruel and 01:13:05.360 --> 01:13:10.080 it is unusual and it is impermissible for us as Christians to 01:13:10.240 --> 01:13:14.400 impose on a group of people an expectation to which they can't 01:13:14.400 --> 01:13:17.840 live. And frankly, we we see this all the time in society 01:13:17.840 --> 01:13:19.840 today. And a lot of times it's called wokeism. 01:13:19.840 --> 01:13:21.920 You'll say IQ tests are racist. 01:13:21.920 --> 01:13:25.600 They'll say expecting people to show up on time is racist. 01:13:25.600 --> 01:13:29.840 Expecting people to do math is racist, expecting people to to do 01:13:29.840 --> 01:13:33.120 math correctly, to say that three to the second power can either 01:13:33.120 --> 01:13:36.320 be six or it can be nine, depending on your your cultural 01:13:36.320 --> 01:13:42.880 expectations. We as normal whites, we see that and say that's insane, 01:13:42.880 --> 01:13:45.120 that's it's woke, it's crazy. 01:13:45.440 --> 01:13:49.440 They're calling things racist that are in fact racist, not in the 01:13:49.440 --> 01:13:52.320 sense that they're hateful, but in the sense that they are based 01:13:52.320 --> 01:13:53.280 on race. 01:13:53.280 --> 01:13:57.040 And when someone has an IQ of eighty-five and they can't understand 01:13:57.040 --> 01:14:01.200 hypotheticals, and you tell them to do things like consider the future, 01:14:01.200 --> 01:14:05.600 which by the way is a hypothetical, It's not fair. 01:14:05.600 --> 01:14:08.880 You're trying to expect them to do something that they're not able 01:14:08.880 --> 01:14:09.600 to do. 01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:12.960 It's like trying to expect someone with Down syndrome to tie his 01:14:12.960 --> 01:14:14.080 shoes correctly. 01:14:14.080 --> 01:14:15.440 He can't do it. 01:14:15.440 --> 01:14:17.920 Rather than insulting and calling names and 01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:23.200 degrading, or the opposite of saying, no, you can do it. 01:14:23.200 --> 01:14:23.680 You're just fine. 01:14:23.680 --> 01:14:24.400 You're just like me. 01:14:24.400 --> 01:14:26.000 You can process that's just fine. 01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:27.440 Well, that's not true. 01:14:27.440 --> 01:14:32.160 If someone is incapable of understanding something you're capable of understanding, it 01:14:32.160 --> 01:14:35.520 is not kind to lie to them, to gaslight them, to say 01:14:35.600 --> 01:14:37.120 you're just like me, you can get this. 01:14:37.120 --> 01:14:38.640 Well, they'll never get it. 01:14:38.640 --> 01:14:41.600 And we see a lot of anger from this population in part 01:14:41.600 --> 01:14:44.880 because the They're being tasked with something impossible. 01:14:44.880 --> 01:14:49.840 And it is on us who understand better than them what's going 01:14:49.840 --> 01:14:53.440 on. And what we see in society is the exact opposite. 01:14:53.440 --> 01:14:57.840 This demonic world that Satan is ruling is telling our churches, it's 01:14:57.760 --> 01:15:01.600 telling our pastors, it's telling our laity, no, you're all completely the 01:15:01.600 --> 01:15:04.480 same, you all have the same ideas, the same hearts, the same 01:15:04.480 --> 01:15:06.560 souls, you're all completely interchangeable. 01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:08.320 They can do exactly what you can do. 01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:11.600 If you believe that, then of course I'm a I'm a monster 01:15:11.600 --> 01:15:12.480 for saying this. 01:15:12.480 --> 01:15:15.680 I am the only evil thing in the world who's saying these 01:15:15.680 --> 01:15:18.080 people can't do exactly what you can do. 01:15:18.080 --> 01:15:21.440 What I'm telling you, in contradistinction to that, is that in fact 01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:25.920 a subset of those people, a sizable subsect, can't do it. 01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:29.760 And no amount of yelling at them or encouraging them or lying 01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:33.040 to them is going to change the fact that they can't be 01:15:33.040 --> 01:15:36.160 taught to do something that they're not capable of. 01:15:36.400 --> 01:15:42.560 Back when the LCMS was a more serious church body, we produced 01:15:42.560 --> 01:15:46.640 a pamphlet called Helping the Retarded to Know God. 01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:50.000 It was published in, I think it was nineteen sixty nine. 01:15:50.000 --> 01:15:54.560 And today, to modern sensibilities, to some ears, that's going to sound 01:15:54.560 --> 01:15:59.200 atrocious or at least perhaps silly, but it's not. 01:15:59.200 --> 01:16:05.200 And it is of a kind with very early on, Lutherans became 01:16:05.200 --> 01:16:11.440 very concerned with how do we reach the handicapped, and there are 01:16:11.440 --> 01:16:15.440 a lot of different handicaps that will play into this issue. 01:16:15.440 --> 01:16:20.640 For instance, Scripture's very clear faith comes from hearing. 01:16:20.640 --> 01:16:23.280 Well how do we reach the deaf? 01:16:23.280 --> 01:16:26.640 They can't hear the word of God and so And so Lutherans 01:16:26.640 --> 01:16:29.680 set up schools for the deaf because we wanted to teach them 01:16:29.840 --> 01:16:32.560 so that they would be able to receive the Word of God 01:16:32.560 --> 01:16:33.840 in another way. 01:16:33.840 --> 01:16:36.400 Because they can still read as long as they're not both blind 01:16:36.400 --> 01:16:37.280 and deaf. 01:16:37.280 --> 01:16:39.520 And then of course if they're blind and deaf, well that's why 01:16:39.520 --> 01:16:42.640 we have Braille and other things like that. 01:16:42.640 --> 01:16:46.400 But for those who are mentally retarded, this is a very real 01:16:46.400 --> 01:16:52.720 concern. Because as was stated, much of the Christian faith is phrased, 01:16:52.720 --> 01:16:55.440 is worded in hypotheticals. 01:16:55.440 --> 01:17:00.240 If you believe in Jesus Christ, if you have faith, those are 01:17:00.240 --> 01:17:01.760 both hypothetical statements. 01:17:01.760 --> 01:17:03.120 Those are conditional. 01:17:03.120 --> 01:17:04.000 If then 01:17:05.040 --> 01:17:09.360 if you believe in Jesus Christ, if you have faith in Jesus 01:17:09.360 --> 01:17:14.640 Christ, then you will spend eternity in paradise. 01:17:14.640 --> 01:17:19.280 Almost none of that statement is comprehensible to someone with an IQ 01:17:19.760 --> 01:17:21.680 below eighty or so. 01:17:21.680 --> 01:17:24.720 Because you have made it conditional. 01:17:24.720 --> 01:17:26.480 If this, then that. 01:17:26.480 --> 01:17:29.600 It's a hypothetical, because it has to do with the future. 01:17:29.600 --> 01:17:32.640 It has to do with if you do this condition, then that 01:17:32.640 --> 01:17:34.880 thing will happen. 01:17:34.880 --> 01:17:39.440 It has to do with eternity, because you're speaking about eternal life 01:17:39.440 --> 01:17:40.480 in paradise. 01:17:40.480 --> 01:17:44.000 It has to do with paradise, which is a hypothetical. 01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:48.480 All All of these are things that are not comprehensible to someone 01:17:48.480 --> 01:17:52.080 who has an IQ below 80, perhaps below 85, but at least 01:17:52.080 --> 01:17:54.000 below 80. 01:17:54.000 --> 01:17:57.680 How do you reach that man with the faith? 01:17:57.680 --> 01:17:59.840 How do you teach him the faith? 01:17:59.840 --> 01:18:02.880 How do you ensure that he has faith and continues to grow 01:18:02.880 --> 01:18:03.920 in the faith? 01:18:03.920 --> 01:18:07.120 These are real problems for the church, and these are things that 01:18:07.120 --> 01:18:10.480 are simply swept under the rug and ignored by those who want 01:18:10.480 --> 01:18:14.400 to say no we're all equal every Everyone has the same capabilities 01:18:14.480 --> 01:18:17.120 and if you just try hard you'll be able to achieve it. 01:18:17.120 --> 01:18:19.280 And that's not the case. 01:18:19.280 --> 01:18:23.840 As stated earlier, there are certain things that no matter how hard 01:18:23.840 --> 01:18:28.000 you try, no matter how well you understand them, you will never 01:18:28.000 --> 01:18:33.360 be able to instruct someone below a certain level of intelligence. 01:18:33.360 --> 01:18:35.360 And that is the case with the faith. 01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:39.120 There are certain things about the faith that someone with an IQ 01:18:39.120 --> 01:18:43.680 of eighty five or lower will never be able to understand. 01:18:43.680 --> 01:18:47.600 You are not going to give him a dogmatics textbook and explain 01:18:47.600 --> 01:18:52.720 to him the communication of attributes between the divine nature and the 01:18:52.720 --> 01:18:57.040 human nature, you will never be able to explain that to him. 01:18:57.040 --> 01:18:59.840 That's not to say this person cannot be a Christian, as we've 01:18:59.920 --> 01:19:05.840 stated multiple times, those who are not very intelligent can make excellent 01:19:05.840 --> 01:19:12.800 Christians if they have faithful pastors and faithful congregations who recognize how 01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:14.560 you reach that person. 01:19:14.560 --> 01:19:18.160 If you treat him as if he were just any other man 01:19:18.160 --> 01:19:22.880 with a standard IQ 100 to 115, if you treat him like 01:19:22.880 --> 01:19:25.920 that, you may very well damn him. 01:19:25.920 --> 01:19:28.880 Because he is not going to get the faith in the way 01:19:28.880 --> 01:19:32.000 that he needs to hear it, in a way that is understandable 01:19:32.000 --> 01:19:33.520 to him. 01:19:33.520 --> 01:19:37.040 Yes, certainly if he's at least in the service and hears the 01:19:37.040 --> 01:19:39.840 word, we trust that God's word does not return to him void 01:19:39.840 --> 01:19:43.280 as he promises in scripture. 01:19:43.280 --> 01:19:47.520 But you should be able and you should be attempting to reach 01:19:47.520 --> 01:19:50.960 these men where they are. 01:19:50.960 --> 01:19:51.280 God 01:19:52.480 --> 01:19:55.440 at the very least permitted them to be that way. 01:19:55.440 --> 01:19:58.640 Yes, some of this is of course a consequence of the fall, 01:19:58.640 --> 01:20:02.880 so to say God simply made you that way is accurate but 01:20:02.880 --> 01:20:04.720 not entirely. 01:20:04.720 --> 01:20:09.360 Because obviously through the corruption of original sin, we see these defects 01:20:09.360 --> 01:20:12.800 creeping into human nature over time. 01:20:12.800 --> 01:20:15.440 But you have to take that into account. 01:20:15.440 --> 01:20:18.560 Because if you treat him as a normal man, you are actually 01:20:18.560 --> 01:20:22.160 doing him a disservice and you are being disloyal to God. 01:20:22.160 --> 01:20:24.320 You are not doing what you have been called to do as 01:20:24.320 --> 01:20:25.360 a Christian. 01:20:25.360 --> 01:20:29.760 It's the same thing as if you had a particularly slow child. 01:20:29.760 --> 01:20:32.560 If you have a mentally retarded child, you do not put the 01:20:33.040 --> 01:20:36.560 same burdens on him, you do not set the same expectations for 01:20:36.560 --> 01:20:39.440 him that you would for a child who is average. 01:20:39.440 --> 01:20:41.040 That would be cruel. 01:20:41.040 --> 01:20:43.520 And as a parent you should understand that. 01:20:43.520 --> 01:20:46.240 But it's the same thing in the church. 01:20:46.480 --> 01:20:50.240 Because the pastor is supposed to care for the sheep. 01:20:50.240 --> 01:20:54.240 If you have a sheep with a broken limb, you don't just 01:20:54.800 --> 01:20:58.240 wander off, have all the sheep follow you and then, well, the 01:20:58.240 --> 01:21:00.880 one with the broken limb, he'll eventually waddle over and make it. 01:21:00.880 --> 01:21:03.760 No. You have to bind up the limb, you have to heal 01:21:03.760 --> 01:21:06.720 that, you have to carry him if necessary. 01:21:06.720 --> 01:21:11.520 You have to account for the capabilities of the people in your 01:21:11.520 --> 01:21:16.640 congregation and that is not being done today because it goes against 01:21:17.280 --> 01:21:23.440 our public civic religion, which is just again it's the slogan of 01:21:23.440 --> 01:21:29.120 the French Revolution with particular emphasis on egalitarianism, on equality. 01:21:29.680 --> 01:21:29.840 And 01:21:29.840 --> 01:21:33.040 as Corey reiterated from the beginning, and I want to say one 01:21:33.040 --> 01:21:36.240 more time, we're not saying that these people cannot be Christian. 01:21:36.240 --> 01:21:40.080 African Americans have for a long period of time, ever since they 01:21:40.080 --> 01:21:43.920 were brought here as slaves and their slave masters, forced them to 01:21:43.920 --> 01:21:46.320 be Christian and taught them the Christian faith. 01:21:46.320 --> 01:21:48.800 Many of them have been faithful Christians. 01:21:48.800 --> 01:21:52.400 That was God blessing them even in the face of adversity. 01:21:52.400 --> 01:21:55.520 This has nothing to do with receiving the faith. 01:21:55.520 --> 01:22:00.240 However, this has everything to do with propagating the faith. 01:22:00.240 --> 01:22:04.560 Because one of the requirements for pastors is to be apt to 01:22:04.560 --> 01:22:07.600 teach. Who is capable of teaching? 01:22:07.600 --> 01:22:10.240 He who has mastered a subject. 01:22:10.240 --> 01:22:13.040 It's not enough to simply regurgitate. 01:22:13.040 --> 01:22:15.840 It's not enough to know a few things. 01:22:15.840 --> 01:22:20.000 To be a teacher is to have mastered the subject area sufficiently 01:22:20.000 --> 01:22:25.120 that whatever question arises, whatever error arises, perhaps there's no question, but 01:22:25.120 --> 01:22:28.000 there's a problem that you need to address, cause someone says something 01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:32.160 out of left field, only a pastor who is apt to teach 01:22:32.160 --> 01:22:34.160 is equipped to do that. 01:22:34.160 --> 01:22:38.240 Now when two thirds of the African American population has an IQ 01:22:38.400 --> 01:22:43.040 at or below ninety, meaning that they cannot typically handle and by 01:22:43.040 --> 01:22:48.880 typically, I mean 90% five percent of the time, handle hypothetical conditionals. 01:22:48.880 --> 01:22:52.720 Are they going to be able to propagate the Christian faith among 01:22:52.720 --> 01:22:57.440 themselves? The reason this is a pressing issue for our church, particularly 01:22:57.760 --> 01:23:02.000 the Missouri Synod, is that it is the stated goal of President 01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:04.400 Matt Harrison and the entire St. 01:23:04.400 --> 01:23:08.400 Louis seminary staff, and probably many in Fort Wayne as well. 01:23:09.120 --> 01:23:14.320 It's the general view of the Missouri Synod that while for the 01:23:14.320 --> 01:23:18.080 last hundred years the Missouri Synod has radically embraced 01:23:19.360 --> 01:23:25.360 using contraception to prevent God from giving us the blessing of children 01:23:25.360 --> 01:23:26.320 in marriage. 01:23:26.320 --> 01:23:28.400 We've we completely capitulated that. 01:23:28.480 --> 01:23:31.440 100 years ago, it was illegal and the church condemned it. 01:23:31.440 --> 01:23:34.880 And then I think the anklins jumped ship first, and we immediately 01:23:34.880 --> 01:23:38.880 followed. And today if you speak out against any form of contraception, 01:23:38.880 --> 01:23:41.760 as a pastor, you may well get run out of your congregation. 01:23:41.760 --> 01:23:45.040 You're circum certainly gonna lose people because a lot of the people 01:23:45.040 --> 01:23:48.880 in your congregation are are practicing it to some degree. 01:23:48.880 --> 01:23:53.360 If you want to be married and you want to have sex, 01:23:53.360 --> 01:23:56.800 God will sometimes give you children as He sees fit. 01:23:56.800 --> 01:23:59.520 You don't get to decide I want the sex, I don't want 01:23:59.520 --> 01:24:00.160 the babies. 01:24:00.160 --> 01:24:02.000 It's a package deal. 01:24:02.000 --> 01:24:04.000 If you want neither, don't get married. 01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:06.560 If you want one or the other, you get married and you 01:24:06.560 --> 01:24:08.880 get both, according to God's good will. 01:24:08.880 --> 01:24:10.720 Contraception interrupts that. 01:24:10.720 --> 01:24:13.120 It says nope, I want part of it, I don't want all 01:24:13.120 --> 01:24:13.600 of it. 01:24:13.600 --> 01:24:17.680 It's really no different than fornication, where you say, you know what, 01:24:17.680 --> 01:24:20.560 I don't want the marriage, I just want the intimacy. 01:24:20.560 --> 01:24:23.200 I want the fun, I don't want the obligation. 01:24:23.200 --> 01:24:26.720 Contraception is just another variation on that same thing. 01:24:26.720 --> 01:24:29.280 And so the Missouri Senate embraced it radically. 01:24:29.280 --> 01:24:31.920 Most of our pastors have, you know, maybe one or two kids. 01:24:31.920 --> 01:24:33.680 A few have seven, eight, nine. 01:24:33.680 --> 01:24:37.200 You can tell who's practicing compar contraception and who isn't, whether they 01:24:37.200 --> 01:24:40.560 preach against it or not, when their entire family takes up at 01:24:40.560 --> 01:24:44.720 least a row, you know what they're practicing. 01:24:44.720 --> 01:24:47.360 And that is a testimony to their faith in God. 01:24:47.360 --> 01:24:50.560 And it's something that should be said publicly and explicitly. 01:24:50.560 --> 01:24:53.120 God blesses those who obey him. 01:24:53.120 --> 01:24:56.160 And we've talked in the past about how Protestants are allergic to 01:24:56.160 --> 01:24:59.040 being told, hey, if I obey God, good things will happen. 01:24:59.040 --> 01:25:02.400 Well, try to find a page of the Bible that doesn't say 01:25:02.400 --> 01:25:03.680 something to that effect. 01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:04.880 God promises that. 01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:09.040 He promises punishment to the wicked in this life, and he promises 01:25:09.040 --> 01:25:12.160 blessings to the faithful for being faithful. 01:25:12.160 --> 01:25:13.440 He also promises suffering. 01:25:13.440 --> 01:25:15.040 I'm not saying everything's gonna be great. 01:25:15.040 --> 01:25:17.600 You may do everything right and be barren. 01:25:17.600 --> 01:25:18.400 That happens too. 01:25:18.560 --> 01:25:23.520 If that's God's will, embrace that cross and use it for your 01:25:23.520 --> 01:25:25.680 own personal edification. 01:25:25.680 --> 01:25:27.680 But that's not the norm. 01:25:27.680 --> 01:25:31.120 Just as being exceptionally brilliant or retarded is not the norm. 01:25:31.120 --> 01:25:32.880 Most Most people get married. 01:25:32.880 --> 01:25:35.040 If they don't contracept, they have kids. 01:25:35.040 --> 01:25:36.320 They have a lot of kids. 01:25:36.320 --> 01:25:38.240 That's how God designed us. 01:25:38.240 --> 01:25:40.160 It's how he designed everything. 01:25:40.160 --> 01:25:45.360 The Missouri Senate embraced interrupting the creation of families. 01:25:45.360 --> 01:25:48.400 We then embraced sending all of our girls off to college as 01:25:48.400 --> 01:25:49.360 well as the boys. 01:25:49.360 --> 01:25:53.280 We then embraced those colleges ceasing to even be Christian colleges. 01:25:53.280 --> 01:25:58.320 So you have multiple effects of not having babies, destroying local congregations 01:25:58.720 --> 01:26:02.080 and local families by sending everyone away, and then destroying the faith 01:26:02.080 --> 01:26:05.760 of the children of that congregation by not properly catechizing them, and 01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:09.760 by that I don't mean catechesis before they're confirmed. 01:26:09.760 --> 01:26:13.920 I mean everything that they're taught If you're taught that that obedience 01:26:13.920 --> 01:26:17.440 to God and the participation in the church is just this optional 01:26:17.440 --> 01:26:20.000 thing, yes, of course they're going to fall away. 01:26:20.000 --> 01:26:22.880 And we see all of those things in massive numbers. 01:26:22.880 --> 01:26:26.880 The LCMS is actually getting older year over year. 01:26:27.200 --> 01:26:32.000 we're aging as a population faster than we're literally aging. 01:26:32.000 --> 01:26:35.680 That means that the apostasy of the younger generations is continuing to 01:26:35.680 --> 01:26:39.760 accelerate. So we're losing souls, not even to death. 01:26:39.760 --> 01:26:42.880 They're not being claimed by God in heaven because the boomers are 01:26:42.880 --> 01:26:46.960 dying. They're being claimed by Satan's world because they see no reason 01:26:46.960 --> 01:26:49.520 to come to church anymore, because why would they when their churches 01:26:49.520 --> 01:26:51.360 aren't about God in the first place. 01:26:51.360 --> 01:26:54.720 Sure they have the the sacraments and you know there's preaching, but 01:26:54.720 --> 01:26:57.760 it's not preaching against those things that the people need to hear. 01:26:57.760 --> 01:27:00.480 It's not telling them what they actually need. 01:27:00.480 --> 01:27:03.360 You need more than the forgiveness of sins. 01:27:03.360 --> 01:27:06.320 Lutheran heads explode when you say that, but it's the truth. 01:27:06.320 --> 01:27:08.880 The forgiveness of sins is the beginning of the Christian life. 01:27:08.880 --> 01:27:10.240 It's not the end. 01:27:10.240 --> 01:27:13.040 The cross is yes, the beginning and the end of your Christian 01:27:13.040 --> 01:27:16.800 life, but only because everything that flows from it is a blessing 01:27:16.800 --> 01:27:17.680 from God. 01:27:17.920 --> 01:27:21.440 Your justification is the first blessing from God, and then all the 01:27:21.440 --> 01:27:23.600 good works that He gives you for the rest of your life 01:27:23.760 --> 01:27:27.920 in view of the cross are also gifts from the same Father 01:27:27.920 --> 01:27:29.200 in heaven. 01:27:29.200 --> 01:27:32.800 We cannot ignore one and expect to keep the other. 01:27:32.800 --> 01:27:34.560 And that's what we're seeing in the numbers. 01:27:34.560 --> 01:27:36.240 It's what we're seeing in the pews. 01:27:36.240 --> 01:27:38.880 You look round and you see nothing but gray hair in most 01:27:38.880 --> 01:27:41.200 of our congregations. 01:27:41.200 --> 01:27:44.880 The reason this race thing matters is that Matt Harrison and the 01:27:44.880 --> 01:27:50.400 St. Louis Seminary, their plan for reversing this decline is to replace 01:27:50.400 --> 01:27:57.840 the European-American population of of Lutheranism with foreigners, with Africans, with Turks, 01:27:57.840 --> 01:28:00.640 with people from anywhere in the world except for us. 01:28:00.640 --> 01:28:03.520 One of the things that all those people have in common is 01:28:03.520 --> 01:28:08.080 substantially lower IQs to the point that they're beneath the threshold of 01:28:08.080 --> 01:28:12.000 being able to even comprehend the more complex parts of the faith, 01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:13.680 never mind propagating it. 01:28:13.680 --> 01:28:16.400 And this is why this is a gospel issue. 01:28:16.400 --> 01:28:20.640 It is one thing to teach an African American or anyone 01:28:21.520 --> 01:28:23.840 anyone to teach them the faith. 01:28:23.840 --> 01:28:27.520 Anyone can be taught the faith, no matter how low their IQ. 01:28:27.520 --> 01:28:30.240 IQ doesn't knock doesn't keep you from God. 01:28:30.240 --> 01:28:33.440 Babies, you know, they I don't they effectively have no IQ in 01:28:33.440 --> 01:28:34.480 the womb. 01:28:34.480 --> 01:28:36.400 They're all they can do is hear. 01:28:36.400 --> 01:28:39.440 They can't even think in any com in any way that we 01:28:39.440 --> 01:28:40.160 can understand. 01:28:40.160 --> 01:28:42.800 And yet they can receive faith by hearing. 01:28:42.800 --> 01:28:46.000 If you're a pregnant mother and you're sitting in church every Sunday, 01:28:46.000 --> 01:28:49.200 your baby's already a Christian because your baby is hearing the word 01:28:49.280 --> 01:28:51.120 of God through your belly. 01:28:51.120 --> 01:28:52.400 Faith comes by hearing. 01:28:52.400 --> 01:28:54.400 It doesn't come from understanding. 01:28:54.400 --> 01:28:57.360 We are not gating the faith on intellectual ascent. 01:28:57.600 --> 01:28:59.360 What we are saying is that 01:29:00.320 --> 01:29:04.240 comprehension is the only way that the faith can be propagated. 01:29:04.240 --> 01:29:09.040 And if the synod succeeds in deracinating our churches so we get 01:29:09.040 --> 01:29:11.760 rid of all the white Europeans who are out of fashion with 01:29:11.760 --> 01:29:13.840 the world, it's not cool anymore. 01:29:13.840 --> 01:29:18.080 We're ninety-six percent white as a denomination, and that is a matter 01:29:18.080 --> 01:29:21.600 of profound shame for the men in charge. 01:29:21.600 --> 01:29:22.880 They despise it. 01:29:22.880 --> 01:29:25.440 Whenever they talk about it, it's with venom 01:29:26.720 --> 01:29:30.400 Is that not how God made our denomination? 01:29:30.400 --> 01:29:31.680 Is it or isn't it? 01:29:31.680 --> 01:29:35.760 Did God make these ninety-six percent white population Lutheran? 01:29:35.760 --> 01:29:39.520 And the smattering is like half African American and half others? 01:29:39.520 --> 01:29:41.600 Great. I'm glad that they're here. 01:29:41.600 --> 01:29:44.160 As we talked about in the Shaking the Dust Off Your Feet 01:29:44.320 --> 01:29:48.320 episode, we have tried for over a century to reach out to 01:29:48.320 --> 01:29:50.160 the African American population. 01:29:50.160 --> 01:29:54.640 We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars on black colleges. 01:29:54.640 --> 01:29:55.520 They failed. 01:29:55.520 --> 01:29:56.720 They all failed. 01:29:56.720 --> 01:29:59.680 They worked a little bit for a time and then they died. 01:29:59.680 --> 01:30:03.840 They died because African Americans do not want to be Lutheran. 01:30:03.840 --> 01:30:06.640 And so these guys think, well, the solution is let's be less 01:30:06.640 --> 01:30:09.520 Lutheran. It's more important for us to get Jesus in front of 01:30:09.520 --> 01:30:12.960 these people than than to be Lutheran, which is a false dichotomy. 01:30:12.960 --> 01:30:15.520 Being Lutheran is putting Jesus in front of these people. 01:30:15.520 --> 01:30:18.080 Whoever these people are, I don't care what their race is or 01:30:18.080 --> 01:30:19.680 what country they're from. 01:30:19.680 --> 01:30:23.200 I care about the fact that the proper proclamation of the gospel, 01:30:23.200 --> 01:30:27.360 the proper proclamation, with all the gifts that we have been given 01:30:27.360 --> 01:30:32.720 in our doctrine, must come from someone who can properly express it. 01:30:32.720 --> 01:30:37.280 And if Matt Harrison and all of his flying monkeys succeed in 01:30:37.280 --> 01:30:39.840 replacing all the white men that they don't want to see in 01:30:39.840 --> 01:30:43.040 these positions anymore, they're going to be replaced by people who, by 01:30:42.880 --> 01:30:45.760 and large, are less capable. 01:30:45.760 --> 01:30:47.680 We're seeing this in every industry. 01:30:47.680 --> 01:30:49.120 In fact, in 01:30:50.000 --> 01:30:55.440 Harvard, in medical schools, in the military, in the airlines, they are 01:30:55.520 --> 01:31:02.800 systematically replacing whites specifically, replacing whites with other populations, with minority 01:31:02.800 --> 01:31:06.560 populations who are less intellectually apt. 01:31:06.560 --> 01:31:08.880 Uh one of the charts I'm gonna have is going to show 01:31:08.880 --> 01:31:09.920 the absolute numbers. 01:31:09.920 --> 01:31:13.760 We talked about percentages, but absolutes matter too. 01:31:13.760 --> 01:31:17.120 There are forty and a half million African Americans in this country. 01:31:17.120 --> 01:31:22.560 How many black people do you think have IQs above 115? 01:31:23.600 --> 01:31:25.840 The answer is 1.2 million. 01:31:25.840 --> 01:31:31.600 There are 1.2 million African Americans today who have IQs above 115. 01:31:31.600 --> 01:31:35.520 Now that's kind of the minimum threshold for being able to do 01:31:35.520 --> 01:31:39.280 anything useful in business is not nearly smart enough to be a 01:31:39.280 --> 01:31:42.720 scientist. It's not remotely smart enough to be a doctor, but that's 01:31:42.720 --> 01:31:46.720 the entire pool of all available African Americans for everything. 01:31:46.800 --> 01:31:48.320 1.2 million people. 01:31:48.320 --> 01:31:52.240 Now if they're smart and they're not Lutheran and you know maybe 01:31:52.240 --> 01:31:53.680 they're a Christian, what are they going to do? 01:31:53.680 --> 01:31:55.040 They're going to pursue wealth. 01:31:55.040 --> 01:31:57.200 They're going to pursue fame like everybody else. 01:31:57.200 --> 01:31:59.760 I don't fault them for that apartment from the fact that it's 01:31:59.680 --> 01:32:02.800 worldly. It's not a particular sin of that community. 01:32:02.800 --> 01:32:05.680 It's what our entire culture is built around. 01:32:05.840 --> 01:32:09.280 1.2 million people is all you have who are apt to teach 01:32:09.280 --> 01:32:11.680 anything remotely. 01:32:11.680 --> 01:32:15.440 That's the pool that the that the Missouri Senate wants to replace 01:32:15.440 --> 01:32:16.640 us with. 01:32:16.640 --> 01:32:19.840 We're talking about this because it's not gonna work. 01:32:19.840 --> 01:32:21.840 It is guaranteed to fail. 01:32:21.840 --> 01:32:24.240 It's mathematically guaranteed to fail. 01:32:24.240 --> 01:32:28.240 And the reason we're talking about something that's so controversial and upsetting, 01:32:28.240 --> 01:32:30.800 and we're telling you something that you can't see and you don't 01:32:30.720 --> 01:32:31.600 think is real 01:32:32.800 --> 01:32:35.360 is because it's one of the things that God has equipped Corey 01:32:35.360 --> 01:32:36.720 and I to be able to do. 01:32:36.720 --> 01:32:39.600 We can connect these dots that no one else can s even 01:32:39.920 --> 01:32:43.680 see. You may be able to connect two to add two plus 01:32:43.680 --> 01:32:48.320 two. I can add two plus two by inferring the existence of 01:32:48.320 --> 01:32:51.280 one of the twos from what's going on in the environment. 01:32:51.440 --> 01:32:54.160 And I can imagine that the other two is the only possible 01:32:54.160 --> 01:32:55.360 solution to the problem. 01:32:55.360 --> 01:32:58.080 I don't need either two to connect two plus two. 01:32:58.080 --> 01:32:59.920 You may need God to hand you both of them. 01:33:00.000 --> 01:33:02.640 You say, yeah, two plus two is four. 01:33:02.640 --> 01:33:06.880 The ability to comprehend these situations is something that's not given to 01:33:06.880 --> 01:33:07.520 every man. 01:33:07.520 --> 01:33:10.400 The reason that Corey and I started Stone Choir and the reason 01:33:10.400 --> 01:33:14.160 that we're talking about these issues that are upsetting and they're divisive 01:33:14.240 --> 01:33:19.040 and they make people uncomfortable is that if Matt Harrison and the 01:33:19.040 --> 01:33:22.320 Missouri Senate and all these other places, all these other churches, it's 01:33:22.320 --> 01:33:26.400 not just about Lutherans, but they're our chief problem, if these men 01:33:26.400 --> 01:33:30.480 succeed in driving the whites away from these positions and replacing them 01:33:30.480 --> 01:33:34.480 with African Americans, how many of that 1.2 million who are even 01:33:34.480 --> 01:33:37.760 remotely capable of doing these things are going to be in those 01:33:37.760 --> 01:33:40.000 positions? The answer is basically none. 01:33:40.000 --> 01:33:43.200 You're not going to be able to maintain the same same standards 01:33:43.200 --> 01:33:46.880 that we have and replace us with them. 01:33:46.880 --> 01:33:51.200 I'm saying us and them specifically, not because they're not Christians, not 01:33:51.200 --> 01:33:52.560 because they're not brothers in Christ. 01:33:52.560 --> 01:33:53.680 I do not deny that. 01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:56.000 I'm thankful to God for giving them faith. 01:33:56.000 --> 01:33:59.920 What I am resisting and what I am objecting to is the 01:33:59.920 --> 01:34:03.680 notion that we can be wholesale replaced just as we are in 01:34:03.680 --> 01:34:06.960 our countries, just as we are in our the pl the lands 01:34:06.960 --> 01:34:10.160 that we have, we're being replaced in our churches by those who 01:34:10.160 --> 01:34:12.160 tell you, oh, it's fine. 01:34:12.160 --> 01:34:15.040 They're Christians too, they're Lutherans too, is all gonna be exactly the 01:34:15.040 --> 01:34:19.120 same. Lutheranism will be dead in two generations if we go away, 01:34:19.120 --> 01:34:22.560 because there's not going to be anyone left who can even understand 01:34:22.560 --> 01:34:24.240 the book of Concord. 01:34:24.240 --> 01:34:25.600 It's just that simple. 01:34:25.600 --> 01:34:28.240 If you pick up the book of Concord and you start flipping 01:34:28.240 --> 01:34:30.160 through it, there's going to be stuff in there that you have 01:34:30.160 --> 01:34:32.400 a hard time understanding. 01:34:32.400 --> 01:34:34.240 Imagine if you're 01:34:35.440 --> 01:34:37.600 you know, a standard deviation lower. 01:34:37.600 --> 01:34:41.840 It's imagine if you don't have the ability to understand hypotheticals, you 01:34:41.840 --> 01:34:42.560 open that book. 01:34:42.560 --> 01:34:43.680 What are you going to see? 01:34:43.680 --> 01:34:45.360 You're not even going to be able to read it. 01:34:45.360 --> 01:34:47.040 And that's what our church is facing. 01:34:47.040 --> 01:34:48.480 And that's why we're talking about this. 01:34:48.480 --> 01:34:51.440 That's why race is something that matters in the church. 01:34:51.440 --> 01:34:55.040 Because yes, you can receive faith by hearing, that doesn't mean you 01:34:55.040 --> 01:34:56.480 can teach it to others. 01:34:56.480 --> 01:34:59.760 If you have a friend who's a Christian who has Down syndrome, 01:34:59.760 --> 01:35:02.800 you love him as a brother in Christ, but you don't ask 01:35:02.800 --> 01:35:04.800 him theological questions. 01:35:04.800 --> 01:35:05.840 That's wisdom. 01:35:05.840 --> 01:35:07.520 That's not cruelty. 01:35:07.760 --> 01:35:07.920 On 01:35:07.920 --> 01:35:10.880 the point of the the Book of Concord, the best example would 01:35:10.880 --> 01:35:15.600 probably be the Solid Declaration, which was written by men with IQs 01:35:15.680 --> 01:35:19.680 probably in the one hundred forties, one hundred fifties, addressing other men 01:35:19.680 --> 01:35:21.360 in a similar range. 01:35:21.360 --> 01:35:25.840 And as was mentioned earlier with the numbers, you're not going to 01:35:25.840 --> 01:35:32.880 get that if you replace Europeans with Africans, that population simply does 01:35:32.880 --> 01:35:35.360 not have those individuals in it. 01:35:35.360 --> 01:35:38.800 There are two populations that currently exist 01:35:39.680 --> 01:35:46.160 among humanity that have even the potential to maintain Christianity for any 01:35:46.160 --> 01:35:51.200 length of time, and that is Europeans, which includes Americans because Americans 01:35:51.200 --> 01:35:56.720 are of European descent, and East Asians Northeast Asians. 01:35:56.720 --> 01:36:04.000 However, across generations of effort, we have made very minimal, if any, 01:36:04.000 --> 01:36:05.520 inroads in Asia. 01:36:05.520 --> 01:36:07.520 Now, I know there are those who are going to mention, well, 01:36:07.520 --> 01:36:08.800 no, today there are millions 01:36:09.840 --> 01:36:13.840 of Christians in China and there are some Christians in Korea and 01:36:13.840 --> 01:36:15.440 some Christians in Japan. 01:36:15.440 --> 01:36:16.720 There are some. 01:36:16.720 --> 01:36:19.360 There's a lot of syncretism and other problems. 01:36:19.920 --> 01:36:25.040 But that small population over that period of time, because don't forget 01:36:25.120 --> 01:36:30.880 this has been centuries of effort, it's never been self-maintaining. 01:36:30.880 --> 01:36:33.200 It's never been self-sustaining. 01:36:33.200 --> 01:36:37.760 And the odds are that if it did not have Christian support 01:36:37.760 --> 01:36:41.680 from outside, it would be crushed by the government inside of a 01:36:41.680 --> 01:36:45.520 generation. Of course we see that happening in the West now as 01:36:45.520 --> 01:36:50.000 well. But the bottom line here, and the reason this matters, is 01:36:50.000 --> 01:36:55.760 that there is no church without white Christians. 01:36:55.760 --> 01:36:59.200 There is no church without Europeans. 01:36:59.200 --> 01:37:02.400 That doesn't mean that there wouldn't be a church for a time 01:37:02.720 --> 01:37:09.120 if all Europeans disappeared today in some strange version of the rapture, 01:37:09.120 --> 01:37:12.080 which is false, of course, but we'll get that at another time, 01:37:12.080 --> 01:37:16.320 but if we were all to disappear, the church would continue for 01:37:16.320 --> 01:37:19.120 a period of time. 01:37:19.120 --> 01:37:26.160 But inside of two, three, four generations at the most, the church 01:37:26.160 --> 01:37:27.920 would die. 01:37:27.920 --> 01:37:32.720 And every one in areas that to day have churches would return 01:37:32.720 --> 01:37:36.720 to animism, to syncretism, to paganism. 01:37:36.720 --> 01:37:38.400 And we've seen that happen. 01:37:38.400 --> 01:37:42.880 We've seen areas in Africa where Europeans have withdrawn. 01:37:42.880 --> 01:37:48.000 The areas were Christian, and they've gone right back into animism, almost 01:37:48.000 --> 01:37:53.360 immediately. And the reason that's going to happen is that you are 01:37:53.360 --> 01:37:58.320 always going to have men at the top who are intellectually gifted 01:37:58.320 --> 01:38:04.560 by God running things, answering the questions, being the administers, the administrators, 01:38:04.560 --> 01:38:12.160 etc. If you remove those men, well, something, someone else, 01:38:12.160 --> 01:38:15.920 with those capacities, with that ability, will take their place. 01:38:15.920 --> 01:38:17.840 And it's going to be demons. 01:38:17.840 --> 01:38:19.920 Because there's no one else to fill the role. 01:38:19.920 --> 01:38:23.040 And that's what we've seen happen all over the world. 01:38:23.040 --> 01:38:27.200 If you don't have the capable men at the helm, demons come 01:38:27.200 --> 01:38:29.280 in and say, well. 01:38:29.600 --> 01:38:34.960 Sure you're worshiping God, but shouldn't you also worship this saint? 01:38:34.960 --> 01:38:38.240 Shouldn't you also worship this tree? 01:38:38.240 --> 01:38:39.200 And over time 01:38:40.720 --> 01:38:44.640 you become a syncretist, and then eventually you lose the elements of 01:38:44.640 --> 01:38:48.160 Christianity entirely, and you're a pagan again. 01:38:48.160 --> 01:38:52.960 That is exactly what will happen without Europeans. 01:38:52.960 --> 01:38:58.800 And it may be that men with an IQ of 115, say, 01:38:58.800 --> 01:39:02.400 could sustain a church for a time, could keep it going. 01:39:02.400 --> 01:39:04.000 That's certainly the case. 01:39:04.000 --> 01:39:06.400 Neither one of us doubts that. 01:39:06.560 --> 01:39:10.320 But can those men answer new challenges? 01:39:10.320 --> 01:39:13.120 Could those men have written the Book of Concord? 01:39:13.120 --> 01:39:15.680 Could those men have produced the creeds? 01:39:15.680 --> 01:39:18.800 Could those men have answered any number of challenges in the history 01:39:18.800 --> 01:39:19.600 of the church? 01:39:19.600 --> 01:39:20.400 The answer is no 01:39:22.160 --> 01:39:27.520 because the intelligence behind those who are going to bring the challenges 01:39:27.520 --> 01:39:33.440 against Christianity, the diabolical intelligence, is going to be greater than those 01:39:33.440 --> 01:39:34.640 men can handle. 01:39:34.640 --> 01:39:37.200 They will not be able to contend with it. 01:39:37.200 --> 01:39:40.640 And so even if you have the materials on hand to address 01:39:40.640 --> 01:39:42.800 many of the issues in the history of the church, and we 01:39:42.800 --> 01:39:47.040 do, we certainly do, we have great writings, from many church fathers, 01:39:47.040 --> 01:39:50.400 we have the Book of Concord, we have great materials. 01:39:50.400 --> 01:39:53.040 You one have to have men who can read them and understand 01:39:53.040 --> 01:39:56.640 them, and then teach them, and that requires a certain level of 01:39:56.640 --> 01:40:00.960 intelligence, but you also need men who are even more capable of 01:40:00.960 --> 01:40:05.120 that, who can answer the new challenges that face the church. 01:40:05.120 --> 01:40:08.000 And that is the problem we have today. 01:40:08.000 --> 01:40:13.120 We have that problem because we have many faithful pastors. 01:40:13.120 --> 01:40:17.760 The LCMS in particular has many great parish pastors out there who 01:40:17.760 --> 01:40:21.440 are doing their duty day in and day out working sixty hour 01:40:21.440 --> 01:40:26.080 weeks, keeping up with their parish, following up with shut ins and 01:40:26.080 --> 01:40:29.360 all of the things that they do day to day. 01:40:29.360 --> 01:40:34.000 But those are not the men who need to address the problems 01:40:34.000 --> 01:40:34.880 we face today. 01:40:34.880 --> 01:40:36.640 Those are not the men who have that task. 01:40:36.640 --> 01:40:38.640 God doesn't give the task to them. 01:40:39.120 --> 01:40:42.960 Other men, whom God is given the ability to do that, have 01:40:42.960 --> 01:40:47.040 to address those issues and then teach the pastors, and then the 01:40:47.040 --> 01:40:49.200 pastors teach the parishioners. 01:40:49.200 --> 01:40:52.800 That's the hierarchy, that is how it's supposed to work. 01:40:53.520 --> 01:40:58.800 And if you replace the white European population in the church with 01:40:58.800 --> 01:41:02.400 others, you will lose the ability to do that. 01:41:02.400 --> 01:41:06.000 You will first lose the ability to address novel issues, you will 01:41:06.000 --> 01:41:09.840 second lose the ability to address issues that have already been addressed 01:41:09.920 --> 01:41:13.600 because you will have lost the ability to understand the materials, and 01:41:13.600 --> 01:41:16.160 then you will lose the faith. 01:41:16.320 --> 01:41:19.760 That is why this issue matters, that is why we're fighting for 01:41:19.760 --> 01:41:24.320 it. Because if those who hate the heritage that God has given 01:41:24.320 --> 01:41:28.720 to the Western Church get their way, there will be no church 01:41:28.720 --> 01:41:31.040 on earth in a hundred years. 01:41:31.360 --> 01:41:34.240 I'm going to emphasize that again so that we're both on record 01:41:34.240 --> 01:41:36.320 saying exactly the same thing. 01:41:36.320 --> 01:41:38.800 Satan wants to destroy the church. 01:41:38.800 --> 01:41:40.960 He always has. 01:41:40.960 --> 01:41:46.080 Christianity will die without white people. 01:41:46.080 --> 01:41:49.440 It may not die out completely, but the spread will die. 01:41:49.440 --> 01:41:52.080 I know that there's some who will say, well, what about Ethiopia 01:41:52.080 --> 01:41:52.960 and Sudan? 01:41:52.960 --> 01:41:54.320 Yeah, what about 'em? 01:41:54.320 --> 01:41:56.960 They preserved a small remnant of Christianity. 01:41:56.960 --> 01:41:58.720 I haven't really looked into their doctrine. 01:41:58.720 --> 01:42:01.520 I'll assume for the sake of charity that they're actually Christian. 01:42:01.520 --> 01:42:03.120 I don't have any reason to believe they're not. 01:42:03.120 --> 01:42:05.440 I think they're a little weird, but fine. 01:42:05.440 --> 01:42:07.280 Who isn't weird at this point? 01:42:07.280 --> 01:42:09.280 They never evangelized anyone. 01:42:09.280 --> 01:42:12.400 They were in Africa, they never evangelized any Africans. 01:42:12.400 --> 01:42:14.880 It took white people to evangelize Africans. 01:42:14.880 --> 01:42:18.320 It takes white people to sustain Africans in the faith outside of 01:42:18.320 --> 01:42:23.120 Ethiopia. And by the way, those Ethio Ethiopians are descended from Solomon, 01:42:23.120 --> 01:42:25.200 at least those who have preserved the church there. 01:42:25.200 --> 01:42:28.560 So even that is a racial church and it's not African in 01:42:28.560 --> 01:42:30.880 the way that most people think. 01:42:30.880 --> 01:42:33.920 Satan wants you to believe that race is not real. 01:42:34.480 --> 01:42:37.520 He wants you to re believe that race does not exist, that 01:42:37.520 --> 01:42:39.040 we are all fungible. 01:42:39.040 --> 01:42:42.000 He wants you to believe that any man who tells you differently 01:42:42.000 --> 01:42:46.080 is evil and must be excommunicated and destroyed, which is something that 01:42:46.080 --> 01:42:50.400 both Corey and I are facing for saying precisely these things. 01:42:50.400 --> 01:42:54.240 The reason that we're talking about race at all is not because 01:42:54.240 --> 01:42:54.880 we care. 01:42:54.880 --> 01:42:56.320 It's not because we think it's interesting. 01:42:56.320 --> 01:42:57.600 We've said that repeatedly. 01:42:57.600 --> 01:42:59.760 The reason we're talking about IQ is not because we care or 01:42:59.760 --> 01:43:01.440 we think it's interesting. 01:43:01.440 --> 01:43:06.640 We're talking about these controversial, upsetting things that have probably upset and 01:43:06.640 --> 01:43:08.640 alienate some of you are listening right now. 01:43:08.640 --> 01:43:11.920 We're talking about them because as men who are so much smarter 01:43:11.920 --> 01:43:14.480 than you that you can't even understand what's going on in our 01:43:14.720 --> 01:43:20.080 heads. We're telling you with all the fervor that we can muster. 01:43:20.080 --> 01:43:24.560 If you continue to deny that race is real and that it 01:43:24.560 --> 01:43:27.840 matters and the white people have been the colonel that has that 01:43:27.840 --> 01:43:34.000 has kept Christendom alive for fifteen hundred years by our attributes. 01:43:34.000 --> 01:43:35.520 It's a gift from God. 01:43:35.520 --> 01:43:38.880 And to make clear, we're not saying, oh, we're great because of 01:43:38.880 --> 01:43:42.800 this. God God is great for giving us these gifts. 01:43:42.800 --> 01:43:46.240 God is great for making me as smart as I am. 01:43:46.240 --> 01:43:48.080 And I was a jerk most of my life. 01:43:48.080 --> 01:43:48.960 I wasted it. 01:43:48.960 --> 01:43:50.640 I use it on selfish things. 01:43:50.640 --> 01:43:52.960 I'm trying to change that now. 01:43:53.280 --> 01:43:56.000 A gift is only as good as how it's spent. 01:43:56.000 --> 01:43:59.600 And if it's despised, it's it's a gift that's wasted. 01:43:59.600 --> 01:44:02.480 We are not taking credit for the good things that whites have 01:44:02.480 --> 01:44:05.200 done. God gets the credit for the good works. 01:44:05.200 --> 01:44:07.920 However, no one else in human history has ever 01:44:08.800 --> 01:44:09.840 done it. 01:44:09.840 --> 01:44:16.640 And based solely on IQ aptitude, as Corey just mentioned, only 01:44:17.600 --> 01:44:22.240 white Europeans are capable of preserving the faith as we know it 01:44:22.240 --> 01:44:25.600 today. They're the Christian church will die. 01:44:25.600 --> 01:44:28.240 At this point all we can do is try to warn people 01:44:28.560 --> 01:44:32.560 that Satan is he's on the verge of winning. 01:44:32.560 --> 01:44:36.480 And the fact that our own churches are burning down men like 01:44:36.480 --> 01:44:42.000 us for the sake of destroying racism, in in their words, next 01:44:42.000 --> 01:44:45.120 week's episode is going to be about racism and what a fictional 01:44:45.520 --> 01:44:49.680 sin that is and why it's being weaponized against Christendom. 01:44:49.680 --> 01:44:52.640 The reason that these are issues is that Satan knows that all 01:44:52.640 --> 01:44:54.960 he has to do is take us off the table and it's 01:44:54.880 --> 01:44:59.760 over. Because whatever tiny remnant has existed in Ethiopia or India or 01:44:59.760 --> 01:45:04.320 all these other little gotcha exceptions that you redditors have, they're nothing. 01:45:04.320 --> 01:45:05.680 Not in the kingdom of God. 01:45:05.680 --> 01:45:07.040 They're important souls to God. 01:45:07.040 --> 01:45:08.400 I'm not minimizing that. 01:45:08.400 --> 01:45:11.200 They've never in the history of the Christian church done anything to 01:45:11.200 --> 01:45:12.240 spread the faith. 01:45:12.240 --> 01:45:16.480 That only happened after the apostles went out in Europe. 01:45:16.480 --> 01:45:19.760 It effectively happened virtually nowhere else that we've s that we know 01:45:19.760 --> 01:45:23.200 of, which means it didn't happen, because that's recorded history. 01:45:23.920 --> 01:45:27.600 This stuff matters because the church will die if we capitulate to 01:45:27.600 --> 01:45:28.480 the world. 01:45:28.480 --> 01:45:32.800 And I'll once again say if your morality is coming from the 01:45:32.800 --> 01:45:37.200 mainstream media and it's in perfect lockstep against the things that we're 01:45:37.200 --> 01:45:42.080 saying, and it's in lockstep with the vile statement that Matt Harrison 01:45:42.080 --> 01:45:43.280 put out last week. 01:45:43.280 --> 01:45:47.440 If that's your morality, it's identical to CNNs, if you think you're 01:45:47.440 --> 01:45:50.320 getting it from God, it may have mercy on your soul on 01:45:50.320 --> 01:45:53.360 judgment day because that's not where it came from. 01:45:53.360 --> 01:45:57.760 The fact that we are outnumbered and that we are despised doesn't 01:45:57.680 --> 01:45:58.480 mean we're right. 01:45:58.480 --> 01:46:00.880 There are plenty of people who are outnumbered and despised because they're 01:46:00.800 --> 01:46:03.520 awful. And that's an easy thing to sell to people who are 01:46:03.520 --> 01:46:08.400 suckers, especially if you're used to identifying who's correct by being in 01:46:08.400 --> 01:46:09.600 the majority. 01:46:09.600 --> 01:46:13.120 For Lutherans who are listening and Protestants in general, that's the claim 01:46:13.120 --> 01:46:14.080 that Rome has. 01:46:14.080 --> 01:46:15.840 They said we have over a billion souls. 01:46:16.240 --> 01:46:19.120 We must be the church because look at all the people who 01:46:19.120 --> 01:46:20.320 agree with us. 01:46:20.320 --> 01:46:22.480 Numbers don't matter. 01:46:22.480 --> 01:46:24.320 Opinions don't matter. 01:46:24.320 --> 01:46:26.480 Scripture matters. 01:46:26.480 --> 01:46:30.880 And scripture is not at odds with anything that either Corey and 01:46:30.880 --> 01:46:33.360 I have ever said on this podcast. 01:46:33.360 --> 01:46:37.120 The more that our adversaries listen to our episodes, the more they 01:46:37.120 --> 01:46:41.440 agree that we're doctrinally sound on everything except for the one or 01:46:41.440 --> 01:46:44.880 two things that they want to attack, and race is chief among 01:46:44.880 --> 01:46:46.880 them. Ask yourself why that is. 01:46:46.880 --> 01:46:49.360 How can the men who hate us and want to see us 01:46:49.360 --> 01:46:53.840 murdered admit that we are sound Christians, who are smarter than them, 01:46:53.840 --> 01:46:57.280 and who know the Christian faith better than them, how did we 01:46:57.280 --> 01:46:58.480 get this one thing wrong? 01:46:58.480 --> 01:47:00.880 How is it the only thing that we're getting wrong? 01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:03.040 Why are we the only ones talking about it? 01:47:03.040 --> 01:47:05.440 Because we will be destroyed for talking about it. 01:47:05.440 --> 01:47:08.240 And if you believe and you talk about it too, you'll also 01:47:08.240 --> 01:47:08.960 be destroyed. 01:47:08.960 --> 01:47:10.800 You'll be destroyed by the Missouri Synod. 01:47:10.800 --> 01:47:13.920 You'll be destroyed by your own church body, whatever it is, because 01:47:13.920 --> 01:47:17.600 Satan is holding the reins to all of them. 01:47:17.600 --> 01:47:21.600 He has CNN, he has the Purple Palace and Missouri Synod and 01:47:21.600 --> 01:47:22.400 St. Louis. 01:47:22.400 --> 01:47:24.400 He has most of your church bodies too. 01:47:24.400 --> 01:47:26.160 There's nowhere to hide. 01:47:26.160 --> 01:47:30.160 And we're talking about these things because what else can we do? 01:47:30.160 --> 01:47:31.520 All we can do is tell you the truth. 01:47:31.520 --> 01:47:35.840 And like I said, I've been called retarded and stupid for decades. 01:47:35.840 --> 01:47:36.640 I'm used to it. 01:47:36.640 --> 01:47:37.600 I don't mind it. 01:47:37.600 --> 01:47:40.400 I I feel bad when it happens for the person who's saying 01:47:40.400 --> 01:47:42.960 it because I know that I'm not gonna be able to reach 01:47:42.960 --> 01:47:45.520 them and I just pray that someday they'll believe me. 01:47:45.520 --> 01:47:48.080 But the days are running short for this. 01:47:48.080 --> 01:47:51.040 So if you believe me, if you hear me now and believe 01:47:51.040 --> 01:47:53.200 me later, it might be too late. 01:47:53.200 --> 01:47:57.280 The reason that we're talking about this uncomfortable subject is that if 01:47:57.280 --> 01:48:03.200 our churches capitulate, if they participate in the white replacement that's happening 01:48:03.200 --> 01:48:07.760 in every European country, that's being welcomed with open arms by virtually 01:48:07.760 --> 01:48:12.800 every denomination of Christianity today, if that succeeds, there will be no 01:48:12.800 --> 01:48:16.560 Christianity in the twenty second century, which means that there will be 01:48:16.560 --> 01:48:17.760 no twenty second century. 01:48:17.760 --> 01:48:19.120 The end the end is near. 01:48:19.120 --> 01:48:21.120 God is going to come and he's going to end all this 01:48:21.280 --> 01:48:23.920 because I don't see any other outcome. 01:48:23.920 --> 01:48:25.360 That's my personal opinion. 01:48:25.680 --> 01:48:28.560 But I think if you if you read the parts of scripture 01:48:28.560 --> 01:48:32.800 that talk about end times and you don't find these things playing 01:48:32.800 --> 01:48:36.640 out in ways that they have never played out before, I hope 01:48:36.640 --> 01:48:41.200 you'll just spend more time in the Word because our faithfulness is 01:48:41.200 --> 01:48:44.320 being tested and the things that God says about those who are 01:48:44.320 --> 01:48:47.440 faithful in the last days apply to you too. 01:48:47.840 --> 01:48:52.080 if you believe us, if you don't believe us, look at scripture, 01:48:52.080 --> 01:48:56.160 and you may find that you must mistrust your pastor as a 01:48:56.160 --> 01:48:58.720 result of that, which is a terrible thing. 01:48:58.720 --> 01:49:02.640 I don't want us to have to mistrust our pastors. 01:49:02.640 --> 01:49:07.280 The ideal case is a church where the people are sheep, they're 01:49:07.280 --> 01:49:12.160 believing, they're like children, and the teachers are shepherds who are faithful. 01:49:12.160 --> 01:49:14.640 That is the ideal circumstance for the church. 01:49:14.640 --> 01:49:16.000 We don't have that. 01:49:16.000 --> 01:49:19.840 We have some moderately clever sheep and we have some moderately dumb 01:49:19.840 --> 01:49:24.880 pastors and we have both of them embracing the lies of the 01:49:24.880 --> 01:49:29.200 world. This is very likely the final battle for the church, and 01:49:29.200 --> 01:49:32.720 that's why we're talking about it, even knowing the Missouri Senate right 01:49:32.720 --> 01:49:36.480 now is trying to dox me to hand me over to Antifa, 01:49:36.480 --> 01:49:41.440 where I will face physical jeopardy for saying these things, for speaking 01:49:41.440 --> 01:49:46.800 out against the CRT, the Marxism in the large cataclysm. 01:49:46.800 --> 01:49:51.280 Matt Harrison wants to see me physically destroyed and they've called the 01:49:51.280 --> 01:49:56.080 police and they have ton they've taken measures that are utterly demonic. 01:49:56.080 --> 01:50:00.320 If you think that that's good for the church, okay, I'm not 01:50:00.320 --> 01:50:02.240 gonna try to change your mind. 01:50:02.240 --> 01:50:05.440 But if you think that a reaction like that to someone simply 01:50:05.440 --> 01:50:08.480 talking about scripture, even if our ideas are weird, even if even 01:50:08.560 --> 01:50:12.160 if we're wrong, if you think that it's a natural reaction from 01:50:12.160 --> 01:50:19.440 a church body to seek the physical destruction of critics, you're wrong. 01:50:19.600 --> 01:50:21.680 It it's it's evil and it's demonic. 01:50:21.680 --> 01:50:24.800 What Matt Harrison is doing is evil and demonic. 01:50:24.800 --> 01:50:29.040 What the the presidents, the council of presidents, all the district presidents, 01:50:29.040 --> 01:50:32.320 all six vice presidents of the Missouri Senate Who all sign their 01:50:32.320 --> 01:50:36.320 names to his wicked email, his wicked statement last week, all of 01:50:36.320 --> 01:50:39.920 them are guilty of this evil because they're doing nothing to stop 01:50:39.920 --> 01:50:42.320 it. I have God on my side, so I'm not worried. 01:50:42.320 --> 01:50:44.960 Corey has God on his side, so he's not worried. 01:50:44.960 --> 01:50:47.840 We knew when we began this that we would be hated for 01:50:47.840 --> 01:50:49.520 saying these things. 01:50:49.520 --> 01:50:52.080 Why would we do that if we were lying? 01:50:52.080 --> 01:50:55.120 Do we think that we're scoring points with whom? 01:50:55.120 --> 01:50:58.880 If we're defying God and we're making the whole world hate us, 01:50:58.960 --> 01:50:59.040 w 01:51:00.160 --> 01:51:01.440 What's the upside? 01:51:01.440 --> 01:51:04.800 What's the upside to a man signing up for destruction and then 01:51:04.800 --> 01:51:07.600 damnation? Why would a man do that? 01:51:07.600 --> 01:51:10.800 You know, that's one of the principal arguments for those who say 01:51:10.800 --> 01:51:13.600 that the martyrs of the early church who would proclaim Christ 01:51:14.560 --> 01:51:17.760 even to the point of being executed for it, why would those 01:51:17.760 --> 01:51:20.560 men have lied for a lie? 01:51:20.960 --> 01:51:24.080 We're not martyrs, not in the same sense, and I I hope 01:51:24.160 --> 01:51:26.400 it doesn't come to that, but if if it does, if I 01:51:26.400 --> 01:51:29.680 get killed as a result of Stone Choir and you hear about 01:51:29.680 --> 01:51:33.200 that, 'cause you know the Missouri Synod will doxed me what happens, 01:51:33.360 --> 01:51:34.720 maybe think about that. 01:51:34.720 --> 01:51:37.600 Why would the world want me dead for saying these things? 01:51:37.600 --> 01:51:38.640 I hope it doesn't happen. 01:51:38.640 --> 01:51:39.440 It's in God's hands. 01:51:39.440 --> 01:51:40.400 So I'm not worried about it. 01:51:40.400 --> 01:51:42.080 I'm not trying to be dramatic. 01:51:42.080 --> 01:51:44.080 I'm just saying these are the stakes. 01:51:44.080 --> 01:51:45.440 They're the stakes for the church. 01:51:45.440 --> 01:51:47.120 It's not about us personally. 01:51:47.120 --> 01:51:51.760 It's about the fact that if we do not prevail in preserving 01:51:51.760 --> 01:51:55.840 true doctrine and the true faith. 01:51:55.840 --> 01:52:00.800 We're handing Christendom over to Satan, and there's not much Christendom left. 01:52:00.800 --> 01:52:04.160 So we're seeking the preservation of that which God has given to 01:52:04.160 --> 01:52:08.480 us. That includes our blood, it includes our faith, it includes our 01:52:08.480 --> 01:52:12.560 homelands, it includes every good gift from God. 01:52:12.560 --> 01:52:15.360 We have a duty to Him to preserve those things. 01:52:15.360 --> 01:52:18.880 And if the world hates us for it, we should welcome that. 01:52:18.880 --> 01:52:21.280 And if you're afraid to be hated by the world for the 01:52:21.280 --> 01:52:24.320 sake of telling the truth, you need to think about what God 01:52:24.320 --> 01:52:27.440 says about that, because all of these things are bound together. 01:52:27.440 --> 01:52:30.800 This is all the same argument, and it's all the same war. 01:52:30.800 --> 01:52:34.320 And in the end, we're going to all end up before the 01:52:34.320 --> 01:52:35.600 same judgment throne. 01:52:35.600 --> 01:52:37.680 We'll be standing side by side. 01:52:37.680 --> 01:52:41.040 And those who cried out Lord, Lord and did not serve him 01:52:41.200 --> 01:52:42.960 will be cast into fire. 01:52:42.960 --> 01:52:46.240 And those who said that they did nothing, but they were wrong. 01:52:46.240 --> 01:52:48.800 If they had faith, they'll be preserved. 01:52:48.800 --> 01:52:52.240 Those who are seeking the destruction of those who try to preserve 01:52:52.240 --> 01:52:55.360 the church, I'm thankful that God is the judge to sort those 01:52:55.360 --> 01:52:57.840 things out because I don't know I I don't think it no 01:52:58.000 --> 01:53:00.880 no man knows what what he could do at that point. 01:53:00.880 --> 01:53:02.000 God knows. 01:53:02.000 --> 01:53:04.640 And God is watching all of us. 01:53:04.640 --> 01:53:06.000 He's watching you. 01:53:06.000 --> 01:53:08.320 He knows what you're doing and he knows what you're thinking. 01:53:08.320 --> 01:53:10.720 He knows what I'm doing, he knows what I'm thinking, even while 01:53:10.720 --> 01:53:14.160 I'm pseudonymous, I know I'm not hiding from God. 01:53:14.160 --> 01:53:16.720 I might be hiding from the Missouri Synod who's trying to kill 01:53:16.720 --> 01:53:18.560 me, but I'm not hiding from God. 01:53:18.560 --> 01:53:21.600 There's no hiding from the Creator. 01:53:21.600 --> 01:53:24.560 What we do in these last days will determine how we are 01:53:24.560 --> 01:53:26.880 received in heaven. 01:53:26.960 --> 01:53:29.680 That's something that you should keep in your heart. 01:53:29.680 --> 01:53:34.320 Christ's blood covers your sins, but if you despise him, where does 01:53:34.320 --> 01:53:35.520 that cloak go? 01:53:35.520 --> 01:53:38.000 You can cast that cloak off. 01:53:38.000 --> 01:53:40.400 And there are many in this church who are casting off the 01:53:40.400 --> 01:53:44.560 cloak of Christ's righteousness for the sake of amity with the world. 01:53:44.560 --> 01:53:46.240 They want friendship with the world. 01:53:46.240 --> 01:53:48.080 They want to have good arguments. 01:53:48.080 --> 01:53:51.600 They want good articles in MSN and not bad ones. 01:53:51.600 --> 01:53:55.840 They want to be welcomed and loved and not criticized by people 01:53:55.840 --> 01:53:58.240 who hate Jesus Christ. 01:53:58.240 --> 01:54:00.720 I love Jesus because Jesus first loved me. 01:54:00.720 --> 01:54:02.960 God God first loved each of us. 01:54:02.960 --> 01:54:04.960 Our response should be love for him. 01:54:04.960 --> 01:54:08.480 And that should be a willingness to face even death for the 01:54:08.480 --> 01:54:15.200 truth. So if you would choose safety over truth, you may have 01:54:15.200 --> 01:54:19.840 a peaceful death, but your afterlife will be one where that's also 01:54:19.840 --> 01:54:24.880 judged. I I pray that everyone who's in the church today who's 01:54:24.880 --> 01:54:28.560 still remaining will remain faithful in these last days and I hope 01:54:28.560 --> 01:54:31.040 they're not well, I hope they're the last days, but if they're 01:54:30.960 --> 01:54:32.080 not, then that's up to God. 01:54:32.080 --> 01:54:35.920 So I don't my my days end when God ends them. 01:54:35.920 --> 01:54:39.360 I don't I don't care how it comes out. 01:54:39.600 --> 01:54:43.600 What we do matters because God has given us things to do. 01:54:43.600 --> 01:54:46.880 What we confess matters because God has told us the truth. 01:54:46.880 --> 01:54:50.880 And if we lie about what He's told us, that will be 01:54:50.880 --> 01:54:52.400 counted against us. 01:54:52.800 --> 01:54:52.960 And 01:54:52.960 --> 01:54:57.280 so we'll end with a short passage of scripture, just to bring 01:54:57.280 --> 01:55:01.040 it back to the Word of God and prove that this is 01:55:01.040 --> 01:55:05.520 not something new that we're saying, this is not surprising. 01:55:05.520 --> 01:55:07.920 God knew this from the beginning, of course. 01:55:07.920 --> 01:55:10.000 And so Genesis 9. 01:55:10.000 --> 01:55:13.840 Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be to his 01:55:13.840 --> 01:55:18.400 brothers. Blessed be the Lord the God of Shem, and let Canaan 01:55:18.400 --> 01:55:22.640 be his servant, may God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in 01:55:22.640 --> 01:55:27.760 the tents of Shem, and let Kanan be his servant. 01:55:27.760 --> 01:55:33.360 We are Japheth, and the tents of Shem Well that's the church.