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Key People Cancelled
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| You say it leaves no stone unturned. | |
| What are you saying in this introduction in the cancel culture? | |
| Well, it means that none of us can avoid this. | |
| And, you know, I heard Senator Ryan the other day give a very good speech, and he said there's more of us than them. | |
| They can't arrest us all, and they can't. | |
| But they'll pick out key people. | |
| They will get very high-profile people to start with. | |
| I mean, they went after the President of the United States and canceled him. | |
| Everybody in the country knows Mike Lindell. | |
| They went after him. | |
| In Christian circles, you were at kind of the same level. | |
| They went after you. | |
| But they're not satisfied with that. | |
| If you go to the school board and you speak up and the school board is left-leaning, as many are, they want you to go away. | |
| They'll hassle you until you just take your kids out of public school because you're so, you don't want your six-year-old being told that if he wants to be a girl, he can be. | |
| Now, that isn't happening very often yet, but it's happening. | |
| It's literally happening. | |
| And so what they do is they get Christian people to either homeschool or go to private school. | |
| They get them out of the way because they're in trouble. | |
| Churches, they're closing down. | |
| There was a pastor, I write about it in the book, and his name is in the book. | |
| There's no reason for me to say it now. | |
| He went through his Twitter account, and you know how you get things on your Twitter account that were conservative. | |
| And apparently, I don't do this, but apparently you can hit like. | |
| I didn't know they kept track of that, but someone who didn't like him went through and saw that he liked a whole bunch of stuff that she thought was wrong politically. | |
| Let me put it that way. | |
| He didn't even do anything wrong. | |
| She made such a big deal in his area. | |
| He's got a very large church, and the large church has a lot of satellites, and some of the satellites were in schools. | |
| The school board actually said that they couldn't use those schools anymore because they didn't like what he had just liked. | |
| I mean, it wasn't even like he made a speech. | |
| You know what I'm saying? | |
| I mean, there's some things you can see that people, and he wasn't trying to do anything. | |
| He wasn't trying not to do it. | |
| He was living his life. | |
| Boy, if they go after someone like him, all of us are vulnerable. | |
| And then everybody becomes afraid. | |
| Well, I'm going to inadvertently say something, and then they're going to come after me, and I'm going to lose my job. | |
| I'll lose my reputation or whatever. | |
| And so everybody self-censors, which I think is really what is the big problem. | |
| We all keep our views to ourselves. | |
| We keep our views in the four walls of the church. | |
| We're not out in the public square. | |
| And one of the things I talk about in the book is the word ecclesia. | |
| It's a Greek word. | |
| It means marketplace. | |
| The church has adopted that. | |
| We say ecclesiastical denominations and so forth. | |
| But it means marketplace. | |
| And in the scripture that says, on this rock I will build my church, the word is ecclesia. | |
| They actually used a secular term that everybody knew back in that day. | |
| And the church has withdrawn from that. | |
| We've withdrawn from media, from academia. | |
| And, you know, even when I was in university in the 70s, there were several, I guess you'd call them evangelical professors that I knew personally. | |
| And I was known as an evangelical student, and I was aware that they were always very nervous about their tenure. | |
| They kept an eye on them, you know what I'm saying? | |
| They make it a point where they, nowadays, won't even hire someone like that, period. | |
| And so, in some ways, we've had no alternative. | |
| We still have freedom in America. | |
| You don't have to be on Twitter. | |
| There's other things, and there's other apps that you can use to communicate. | |
| And we need to support those. | |
| When people are coming up with alternatives, we need to support each other. | |
| Our side does not support each other. | |
| The other side, there's everything from A to Z. | |
| They don't all agree, but they stick together. | |
| Now, that's an oversimplification. | |
| I'm saying for effect. | |
| But by and large, they stick together like we don't. | |
| It's like, well, that ministry is getting attacked. | |
| I'm not getting attacked. | |
| I'm going to be quiet. | |
| I'm not going to stand up for them. | |