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Feb. 18, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: What Has Conservatism CONSERVED? Is GEN Z Turning to CHRIST?
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Thank you.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show. welcome to the show.
Thanks so much for being with us.
My name is Paul Harrell.
This is the Millstone Report.
As always, we can't do the program without you watching, listening every single day.
We really do appreciate it.
We've got a great show for you.
We've got a lot to talk about.
We've got an announcement to make later as well.
I hope I remember to do it.
The show is becoming so fluid, and there's just so much to talk about.
It's wild.
But I do want to talk about today, and we're going to get to this later, what has conservatism conserved?
Where we are today, what has conservatism conserved?
I want to kind of compare that to what may be happening, what some people say is happening.
We've got two different sources here saying that there's a great hope on the horizon when it comes to Generation Z. You know, and as somebody who's barely a millennial, and millennials were blamed for everything, you know, and I certainly...
I have done my fair share of blaming my own generation for the state of things.
Obviously, then you've got to put boomers in that conversation as well.
But there was a lot of eye-rolling.
Oh, man, millennials.
Oh, good grief.
Could it get any worse?
Well, you know, there's now at least, I found, you know, there's probably more.
But recently, it just kind of came across my desk, two different sources saying that the Generation Z is maybe what some people are calling the revival generation.
First of all, which is a very interesting idea, a lot of them are done with even entertaining the idea of atheism.
That used to be the big thing, right?
We were debating...
Christians were debating atheists over the very existence of God, and a lot of people have abandoned that.
You don't even see that anymore.
You have the New Age movement that people are coming out of.
So a spirituality is assumed.
It's just, well, who is the one true God, right?
Who is the one true God?
And that's happening because evil is more and more brazen, showing its face.
But yeah, so the question is Gen Z. I've got this piece here over at stream.com.
Somebody I've never heard of before.
Somebody by the name of Bunny Pounds has written this piece.
We're going to throw it up on the screen here and go through it.
Because like many of you, sometimes I am tempted to black pill.
Tempted to say, of course right now there's so many great things going on.
Maybe that was more of a temptation last year.
I've affectionately referred to myself as a black pill bulimic, so sometimes you may take it, oh, all hope is lost, but you've got to regurgitate that despair up, okay?
We don't need to despair.
We need to have hope because Jesus Christ is reigning in heaven, right?
God is on the throne.
All right, so this was an interesting piece.
It caught my eye yesterday.
I think it was linked over at the Liberty Daily is where I first saw this.
Why Gen Z could be the revival generation.
Now, for many different people, revival, the word revival has different meanings.
We'll get into that here in a moment.
But she writes, a powerful and unexpected movement has been taking place among young people.
Bible sales are on the rise.
We saw this before the election.
That was interesting.
Young men are returning to church.
And by the way, that to me is the most encouraging statistic of 2024. When we heard that young men were going to church for the first time, according to some polls, first time in a long time, young men are going to church more than young women.
And I'll just tell you what that means to me.
That tends to mean that there is revolution in the air.
That means to me that if you've got the younger generation of men that are now flocking back to church, what that means is there's going to be a great change societally because you can't help it at that point.
Assuming what men are hearing in those churches is the gospel, the true gospel.
So, Bible sales are on the rise.
Young men returning to church.
Generation Z is showing a renewed interest in maintaining stable homes and traditional values.
This cultural shift, she writes, is not merely a trend.
It is a revival, she says, that has the potential to reshape society in ways that will make the powerful take notice.
It is not about political parties.
Yet its impact will be felt across the political and cultural landscape as young people finding hope and identity in Christ step up as the next generation of leaders.
So let's go ahead and talk about this definition of revival, or at least my definition of revival.
Because I do think there is a cultural shift.
Other people call it like a vibe shift, that sort of thing.
But I would say...
At least me personally, my definition of revival is going to result in more people going to church.
Of course, in the previous paragraph, we have this.
Young men are going to church.
So, I think that's just an important aspect of it.
You remember that so-called Asbury revival in Kentucky a couple of years ago?
ago it was right after uh that uh satanic singer went to the grammys and performed this overt satanic ceremony or whatever on stage and then there was this asbury revival and fox news was there and everything else and but if you actually there was a follow-up article written uh by
I think it was Samuel, say, who went and checked in a year later to the area churches, asking these churches, hey, has your attendance gone up?
As a result of this revival, did people actively worshiping the Lord together, communally, collectively, did that increase?
No, not at all.
Anyway, just something to think about.
But she writes, In a recent interview with 27-year-old Alyssa Brown,
she shares her story of getting involved with Christians engaged, being willing to run for office as a young person, and becoming the youngest lawmaker in Arkansas state history when she defeated an incumbent who had been in county government for three decades.
She not only knocked on doors to ask for votes, she prayed with residents one by one asking God to work in their lives.
What an encouraging story that is on getting the young people involved in politics, getting young Christians involved in politics.
Here in a minute we're going to ask the question, has conservatism conserved anything?
And I think the answer to that is no.
But I think the reason for that is because we have been hiding our light under a bushel.
In that, you're not supposed to talk about religion and politics.
Have you ever heard that?
You're not supposed to talk about religion and politics.
It's impolite.
And that's saying something.
If you're in the South and somebody accuses you, like I am, of being impolite, you don't ever want to be impolite, right?
Okay, this is a big deal, right?
We say yes, ma'am, and no, sir, down here, for those of you that don't know.
You're not supposed to talk about religion and politics.
It's taboo.
And this idea is actually, thankfully, going by the wayside.
Because the fact of the matter is, if you talk politics, you should be required to talk religion.
Specifically, what does the Bible say about these issues?
That's where we get our guide for these policies.
And I do want to remind you that You know, woke evangelical leaders like Russell Moore, who have been warning of Christian nationalism on the right, which is essentially taking the Bible and what it says and using that as our guide to craft public policy, is the greatest danger in the world.
And now we know that these left-wing woke evangelicals, while they were warning about right-wing Christians getting involved in government, We're themselves taking money through various means from USAID. The government was paying them, and they were essentially embodying a left-wing version of Christian nationalism, while we on the right are scratching the couch for pennies.
The whole thing is just...
I still can't get over it, quite frankly.
I still can't get over it.
So here we go.
The shift is upon us, she says.
For decades, Western culture has drifted further from the biblical principles that once anchored it.
Postmodernism, secularism, radical individualism.
Radical individualism.
I used to be a big fan of that.
have led many to believe that faith is outdated, that traditional values are oppressive, and that personal fulfillment comes only through self-exploration.
Despite the increasing secularization of society, young people are searching for something deeper.
They are now realizing that the promises of modern culture, wealth, status, self-indulgence, are ultimately unfulfilling.
Amid economic instability, social unrest and personal struggles, Generation Z is yearning for something real and eternal.
This longing for truth and stability is driving a revival, she says.
Young people are opening their Bibles again, attending church, seeking God in ways that defy the expectations of mainstream culture.
Confined to one region or denomination, it's happening everywhere, from college campuses to workplaces, from small towns to major cities.
More importantly, it is happening organically.
There is no central figurehead, no political agenda, no orchestrated events or efforts to manufacture revival.
It is a movement of the Holy Spirit, she writes, stirring hearts and awakening a generation to the truth of Jesus Christ.
All of us who are investing time and resources into Generation Z have our part to play, but ultimately God will get the glory.
She goes on, But young people are increasingly recognizing the importance of stable homes, marriage, and the biblical model for family life.
Unite US, starting with a worship experience at Auburn University in the fall of 2023, nearly 200 people were baptized, she writes, in one night, and the movement has since spread to other campuses.
Again, my question, I'm just pointing out, great, 200 people were baptized, so surely the roles spread across different churches.
Increased by 200 people.
That, to me, needs to be the goal here.
It's follow-up.
Actual discipleship and making people church members.
As I say every Friday, right?
Before we sign off, go to church.
If you don't go to church, find a church that preaches the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ and the call to worship him and his ability to save sinners.
He is mighty to save.
This generation has seen the brokenness caused by fatherlessness, divorce, moral relativism, and they desire something better for their own futures.
I'll add feminism.
This generation has seen the rotten fruits of feminism.
This generation has seen what happens when our society worships women.
And that is exactly what our society does.
Make no mistake, at least according to me.
When you give one class of people the ability to murder without the government being able to do anything about it, those people are obviously in charge of society.
As I've said many times, if aliens are looking down, if you believe in space aliens, if you believe in that sort of thing, if they're looking down trying to figure out who's in charge, the section of the population that can murder and get away with it...
Is obviously the one in charge.
Oh, and by the way, I always love to say this because I can't help it, but you look at mainline Christian denominations and how they allow women to be...
Clergy members, women to preach, then they allow gay people to preach, and they allow gay marriage and open, you know, all that stuff.
How are you going to tell a woman she can't be a pastor if the society has said she can murder and not be prosecuted for it?
I mean, that'd be kind of dumb, right?
And be like, well, are you serious?
I've already granted this special status of feminism.
And then, of course, we see that the whole thing is reversed when...
You know, feminism depends on the patriarchy existing, and then the whole trans ideology undoes the whole thing.
It's like, okay, well, that was the fine print, right?
It was never about feminism and fighting the patriarchy.
It was about destroying the image of God in human beings, just destroying male and female altogether, creating some sort of weird male-female hybrid amalgamation, robbing people of their agency.
That's what evil loves to do.
But anyway, so I would add feminism.
And not just fatherlessness, although that's a huge problem, but feminism.
She goes on, this shift is deeply threatening to those who have built their power on a secular post-Christian society.
In that, she's exactly right.
It is very threatening to see this emergence.
It's threatening to any statist government that when you have more people believing in a higher power, more people saying, I'm going to do what the Lord says is revealed in his word versus just what the government says or what Beyonce says or what some LeBron James says.
Did LeBron James go to ditty parties?
Is that confirmed?
Did that happen?
A generation that is grounded in faith, values, and strong families in a generation that cannot be easily manipulated, she writes.
That's exactly right.
As young Christians rise as leaders, they will challenge the prevailing ideologies that seek to erode biblical truth and morality.
This is why this revival will not only shape churches, but also impact politics, culture, and every sphere of society.
To be clear, this is not about aligning Christianity with a particular political party.
I agree, but we need to look at the party as the vehicle used by Christians.
The vehicle that we have chosen to use.
Not that the vehicle drives us.
It is about young believers standing up for truth, righteousness, and biblical justice.
When young people find their identity in Christ, they will naturally advocate for policies and movements that align with biblical principles, justice for the unborn, protection of religious liberty, defense of the family, care for the poor vulnerable through the power of the body of Christ.
She writes, It's very important, though, that the church doesn't change, because many churches have changed to try to appeal to younger people, and it just ends in some sort of disaster where there's really no there there, in my opinion.
But as young believers experience the transformative power of the gospel, they are reclaiming biblical faith as the source of strength and purpose.
They're no longer content with superficial spirituality.
They desire deep discipleship and genuine community.
This hunger for authentic life change will lead to a renewed focus on evangelism, missions, and serving those in need.
You know, the best way to evangelize is to plant biblical churches, by the way.
That is, in my opinion, the chief way to evangelize.
It's to plant biblical churches.
Because within that church, if everything's doing right, they're doing things that reach the lost.
The church must be ready to disciple.
Anyway, this is a great piece.
Check it out.
It's a moment of great hope.
She says, God is raising up a generation that is not ashamed.
So this is somebody's testimony.
This is somebody named Bunny Pounds, who's the president and founder of Christians Engaged, a ministry advocating the body.
And I don't know anything about that ministry.
I don't know anything.
I've never heard, but I thought this was interesting.
It seems right.
It seems consistent.
I found another source.
Tom Rainer has five reasons why.
Number one reason echoes what we just heard.
Greater receptivity to the gospel by Generation Z. Those young adults and teenagers born between 1997 and 2012 comprised the group commonly known as Gen Z. Our research at Church Answers, as well as work done by Ryan Burge and others, at least implies that Generation Z is more receptive to the gospel.
I cannot overstate how great this opportunity is.
Over a year ago, we introduced the HOPE initiative to help churches move from being inwardly focused to being outwardly focused.
Over 1,500 congregations thus far embraced the 30-day challenge.
Many of the churches reached young adults and older teens for the first time in years.
Now, so, that's the good news.
And he also says that we've got 15,000 churches in America who will no longer be able to pay a full-time pastor in the next 365 days.
We also have the term bivocational pastor begins to disappear because pastors are having to work more than two jobs.
We also have the fact that the median time a church will have between pastors will be longer than 18 months, so when they lose a pastor...
They're going to be without one for longer.
And then number five, about 15,000 churches are predicted to close this year.
Many of these churches held on tenaciously, but the number of congregants facing imminent closure has grown.
So in spite of all of that, that's what I'm saying is, with this idea, this concept of people saying there's going to be a revival in Gen Z, I think it must lead to people realizing that church is an integral part of life, one day out of seven, at least.
And this is where we worship the Lord collectively, and I think that's an important thing to talk about.
But all of that being said, what has conservatism conserved?
This is the question.
What has conservatism conserved?
Now, let's bring the political arm in this.
People losing their minds.
We talked about this briefly yesterday.
People losing their minds.
Sorry, I fixed my Twitter here.
It wasn't set.
When Donald Trump said, he who saves his country does not violate any law.
This is a mindset.
When things become just absolutely so wicked over time, and this is the mindset you get.
People thought this was a troll.
People don't like it.
I am to the point now, though, because everybody's like, but the Constitution, and I'm over here like, but the Constitution of what?
The Constitution of this country has not mattered in a very, very, very long time.
Unless what's written in the Constitution somehow serves the deep state, the intel oligarchs, the Constitution hasn't mattered for a very, very, very long time.
And we talked about this yesterday.
See my comments on that.
You know, people reacting to this.
This is some un-American monarchy nonsense.
Then, you know, R. McIntyre's like, what about Abraham Lincoln?
Come on.
I mean, he didn't care about the Constitution.
He didn't.
C.J. Engel, don't take anyone seriously who is outraged at Trump's tweeting about his executive power yet is a fan of FDR, the New Deal, the managerial revolution that eradicated the old constitutional limits on the executive branch.
The present regime was built on systemic power or on a systemic power grab.
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So don't take anyone seriously who is outraged at Trump's tweeting about his executive power, yet is a fan of FDR, the New Deal, and the managerial revolution.
He's exactly right.
It all was a power grab.
That's what people don't understand.
There just has never been an actual...
If you've got the authority to expand executive authority, then you have the authority to eliminate those agencies as well.
And we talked about yesterday about the non-delegation clause and about the agencies that were created by Congress are unconstitutional because they actually created little mini legislative bodies where they create rules without laws being passed.
If you don't follow them, you go to jail or you pay a fine, which is the same thing as a law.
But here it is.
William Wolfe, what has conservatism conserved?
What did your conservatism do that was so cool?
This was in response to somebody, you know, in the wake of Donald Trump tweeting this.
You don't break any laws if you're doing it to save your country.
Somebody writing, I miss conservatism.
It was pretty cool.
So what was pretty cool about it?
Did conservatism conserve marriage?
No.
Why?
Well, see my previous point.
One of the reasons why is because you're not supposed to talk about religion and politics.
Boy, we really messed that one up.
It didn't conserve the sanctity of life.
Trump overturned Roe.
That's true.
Did conservatives say it didn't conserve the nation?
Actually, it's your Wall Street Journal NRO team that helped flood the country with millions of illegals.
Yeah, go back when Bernie Sanders, the socialist Bernie Sanders, would throw in a little bit of an honest quip here and there before he bowed down to the Democratic Party's non-democratic elections.
He said that open borders was a Koch brothers policy.
You can look it up.
It resurfaced a couple of weeks ago.
I don't know if we played it on the show.
I can't remember.
But anyway, it's a right-wing policy to have open borders.
What he said, the left wants new voters, which they were working on getting by washing everybody with free stuff, giving everybody free stuff.
Santa Claus is, by the way, Russ Limbaugh died four years ago yesterday.
Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Because he was the guy that was...
The left's policies are essentially, hey, I'm Santa Claus.
What do you want?
Here it is.
First free stuff.
Free stuff for everybody.
But yeah, flood the country with illegals.
The Democrats want a new impoverished permanent class, underclass.
And then the right, the big business wants, if you believe in the dichotomy there, they wanted cheap labor.
I mean, both parties have vastly contributed to this country being overrun by third world barbarian hordes.
That's a fact.
What about conservatism?
What has conservatism conserved?
He writes, it didn't win at the ballot box, letting Democrats take the White House for 20 of the last 32 years.
It didn't conserve our men and women in uniform, but sent them to die in a sandbox in Afghanistan and Iraq over 20 years with nothing to show for it.
It's crazy.
Half of my life.
I'm 40 years old.
Half of my life has been about...
In terms of what's going on around me.
Dead soldiers in the Middle East.
And now you've got Trump, who's trying to make peace, and then you've got Lindsey Graham trying to start World War III, whether it's in Ukraine or whether it's in Israel and Iran, now encouraging Trump's going to make a decision about whether he's going to attack Iran's oil fields.
It's still pushing, pushing, pushing.
When proxy wars and this nonsense, I mean, essentially it's been...
Even more than 20 years with the Afghanistan War, if you take the first Gulf War, most of my life has revolved around sending our soldiers, our young men, overseas to die while the border is left completely open.
And you want to talk about a government that hates its own people.
There may be nothing.
If you want to talk about destruction or you want to talk about war, we are far more justified.
Just making it rain bombs on Mexico and the southern border than we are on some of these other places.
After what they've done to this country, after the human trafficking, the drugs, the murder of our own citizens via fentanyl, right?
I mean, if it were up to me, I would put landmines on the border.
I mean, I would work on the border wall, but in the meantime, I would militarize it.
That would fix this problem really quick.
Also authorized Tier 1 military assets to engage the cartels, which I think is coming.
It didn't conserve the fiscal state of America, but helped run up unsustainable national debt.
This is true.
And then they print the money, they give it to USAID, which essentially is now we know the supply line, the supply chain, to fund all of this.
All of these things that are working against American interests in the name of American interests.
Like, you know, you had that one grant going to Chile.
And I didn't realize this, but the people of Chile don't want LGBTQ, Rainbow, RSTL, any would-you-like-to-buy-a-Val.
They don't want that propaganda in their schools, but they had to take it, or if they wanted the USAID money.
If they wanted more USAID money, they had to start indoctrinating their kids.
With the woke sex religion that has been created.
And this is crazy, right?
Not only are we degenerate, not only is our taxpayer dollars promoting this wickedness, this evil, hey, transing kids is health care, it's good for them.
We also are doing it for other, we're also forcing it on other people.
We're literally exporting it.
Exporting the rainbow.
You want America's help.
You better reject what the Bible says about how we should live.
Think about how disgusting that is.
And there are still so many people that think America internationally is on the moral high ground.
Certainly the left does against the right.
They think they have the moral high ground secured and yet they've built their house on sinking sand.
William Wolfe goes on, should I keep going because I can on home prices, job opportunities, upward mobility, birth rates, offshoring, the opioids crisis, etc.?
Tell me, Casey Maddox, what exactly is so cool about your conservatism that you miss?
It's something to think about.
It certainly is.
Okay, now speaking of this, and I said we're going to get into feminism because we are.
So, lips of TikTok pointing out that Grand Rapids, Michigan is not going to help the police.
The local police force is not going to help with Trump's mass deportations.
The policy that the city manager put in place is a very important one.
Our city police force is not in the business of enforcing immigration law.
And our city police force is in the business of...
Keeping our city safe and dealing with crimes in our city's boundaries.
That's their job.
And you've heard our police chief say this.
It's a very clear position and it's a very clear policy.
The last thing I'll say is that this is something that I think is probably keeping all of us up at night.
This is a terrible, terrible moment for our country, in my opinion.
And it grieves me.
So, Steve Dace, from Steve Dace Show, who's from Michigan, he says, when I was growing up in western Michigan, per capita had more Bible-believing churches than any area in the country.
One of the reddest populous areas in the country.
Now it's a symbol for a state that's become a scubble-a-hole.
And so there was some back and forth on this, because I thought that was interesting, somebody from Michigan commenting on what's happening in Michigan, where you have this guy who is just embracing, he's either a leftist or buying into the false presupposition of the left, whatever.
And so this guy, Ed, says, where did these people come from?
He says, I've lived my entire life in suburban Boston.
I'm old now, but growing up, I never knew people like this.
I mean, like, what happened?
How did we get leaders like this?
You know, we're all talking about generations.
This guy doesn't look like a millennial at all.
He's certainly not Gen Z. It's people like this.
These men without any chests.
Where did these people come from?
So Dace responded, and I thought this was fascinating.
He says two things happened to the American suburbs.
First and foremost, the papacy of Rick Warren and Bill Hybels dominated the mega mausoleums in the suburbs.
Most of those people attend and made them, particularly the men, charming soft.
Also, Karen's moved in in droves.
But let's talk about these are two things.
The men becoming soft leads.
To Karen's running the show.
And this is the truth.
Behind this guy is probably some woman he fears.
How dare you support Donald Trump?
This is your fault!
This is your fault!
This is your fault, Mr. Man, Mr. Patriarchy, Mr. White Man.
So, that brings me to this.
Let's talk about Rick Warren.
In light of this idea that Rick Warren dominated the mega mausoleums in the suburbs up in Michigan, and also this happened in the South, this happens in a lot of places, and it's led to feminization exploding in church.
Sermons are basically written on how they're going to be perceived by women and their 21st century evolved sensibilities.
So Rick Warren comes out and apologizes.
He deleted a tweet that we covered yesterday.
Last week we covered the tweet.
Rick Warren had a picture of Jesus on the cross being flanked on either side by the two thieves.
Rick Warren said that this is a perfect analogy of Jesus' politics.
He was on the middle cross and he's also, and I'm paraphrasing here, he's in the middle on political issues.
Which is just crazy.
It's like, okay, so Jesus is in the middle on transing kids?
Jesus is in the middle on abortion?
It was a dumb tweet.
It was a stupid tweet.
And Rick Warren was widely mocked, as he should have been, for something so ridiculous.
So he's now apologized.
I apologize, he says.
I wrote poorly.
I don't believe Jesus was a centrist.
He stands far above it all.
My kingdom is none of this world.
Jesus demands our total allegiance as the center of our lives.
And this is, I'm sorry, I think this is a cop-out too.
I think this is a cop-out too.
This is, oh, don't worry about any of this stuff going on.
It's all heavenly.
It's all heavenly.
But it just completely negates the fact that, well, Jesus is Lord of heaven and earth.
And what goes on here?
This is all about...
We're going to spiritualize everything away to the point where we don't have to care anything about what's going on to our fellow countrymen, to our fellow neighbors around us.
Some guy named Kyle McMullen said, this is how the apology should read, but it doesn't.
It should say, I apologize.
I blatantly twisted scripture to virtue signal to the demonic left while underhandedly jabbing at young pastors who are endeavoring to be courageous and faithful to the word of God.
What I wrote was not merely poor wording.
It was biblically incorrect, misleading, divisive, and confusing for the body of Christ.
Jesus is not in the middle between the modern left and right.
He actually hates the things that have defined the modern political left.
No person professing to be a Christian can follow Jesus and support and vote for the modern Democratic Party in America.
Any professing Christian who did vote Democrat in the last election needs to repent of that.
What I wrote was egregious.
I knew better.
I make no excuses for my actions.
I simply repent of them now and ask for the forgiveness of every person who saw my post.
So that's one guy says that's what your apology should read, Rick Warren.
And that brings us to this segment, because this is all going to tie together.
Trust me, folks.
So it's now time for I'm Already Against Women Clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
And let us confess our faith today in the words of the Sparkle Creed.
I believe in the non-binary God.
And now it's time for I'm Already Against Women Clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
All right, once again, protestia with the great coverage on this.
Here is a PCUSA impastor that's saying Eve actually made the good choice when she took the apple and ate it.
As a feminist theologian, one of the things that gives me joy is reinterpreting texts that have been used to hurt and control people.
Despite two millennia of misogynistic interpretations of Genesis and Eve, there have always been other ways to read this story.
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate.
She also gave some to her husband, who was with her.
And he ate.
When we say that we need to trust women to make the critically important decisions about whether they're going to continue a pregnancy, it's rooted in a reinterpreted understanding of the story of the Garden of Eden that recognizes and affirms the moral agency and wisdom that Eve chose in the garden.
Literally, do these people just wake up every day, their feet hit the floor, and they say, I can make the Bible say whatever I want.
In order to come to this conclusion, I can't imagine you just not having that overt sense of entitlement and authority, and I'll just make the Bible say whatever I want it to say.
Eve taking the fruit was about her agency, and we need to be grateful.
What a satanic thing, by the way, because there are people that think Satanists, right?
Satanists think Satan was the good guy because Satan made this world the way it is, because now we have free will and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And so she's ascribing those similar motives.
Isn't it a good thing that Eve ate the fruit?
The story of Eve is the story of why humanity is able to distinguish between right and wrong, and it marks this moral agency.
Because of Eve, we're able to now distinguish what is right and wrong, never mind the fact that the Lord said, hey, eat of everything, that's good.
Don't eat of that tree, that's bad.
That was right and wrong.
The Word of God, literally the words of God, told Adam and Eve what was right and wrong.
And if that hadn't happened, I mean, it would mess up the whole, it would mess up everything.
So she's wrong about that.
Obviously she's wrong about this whole thing.
As part of what it means to moral agency, this knowledge, as part of what it means to be like God.
Imago Dei.
So that is totally just, that's literally mimicking what Satan told Eve.
Yeah, he told you not to eat the fruit because you'll be like God.
She's agreeing with Satan here.
I want to be clear here.
This Pastrix, this false teacher, is preaching that Satan was right from a pulpit.
Rhetorical millstone for this lady.
Leading children, leading her congregation on a path to hell.
Reinterpreting Eve's action as the origin of one of humanity's deepest connections with the divine.
Helps us recognize the importance of respecting and supporting the moral agency of women.
So because she ate from the tree, we have to give women moral agency and allow them to murder their babies.
That's what she's saying.
She also is saying that Eve needs credit for initiating a deep connection with the Lord because the eating of the apple gave us a better connection with the Lord.
What a lie.
From the pit of hell.
Complete lie.
Objectively, it did the opposite.
It literally severed the connection from the Creator.
God cannot be in the presence of sin.
As a matter of fact, God cursed the earth after the sin.
Adam and Eve were thrown out of the garden after the sin.
This is not a complicated thing.
And yet, she's twisting it because...
She is, I mean, you know, because she's a lady pastor.
I don't know what to tell you.
This has been I'm Already Against Women Clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
Yeah, so in keeping with what has conservatism conserved here, we go to this.
Oh my goodness.
I cannot believe this is happening, but they are so incensed.
There's a new bill in Ohio where Democrat lawmakers have proposed a new law that bans men from emitting their gametes without the intent to conceive.
Listen to this.
Warning, though, if you have kids, maybe turn this off.
Sponsored by Democratic state representatives Anita Somani and OBGYN from Dublin.
And Tristan Rader of Lakewood.
The whole entire point of this bill is to call out the hypocrisy, particularly the state legislature, when they bring forward bills to regulate women's bodies.
Now, there are exceptions to the proposed law, which include sperm donation, contraception, and members of the LGBTQ community.
Men face a maximum $10,000 fine.
So, literally, our enemies are stupid, but sin makes people stupid.
That's something to...
Keep in mind that sin makes people stupid.
Right?
It's just the truth.
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Support a lot of these companies that are owned by BlackRock and Vanguard, which are companies that are working against the American people in so many instances.
More on feminism.
Even on the right, how these things creep in.
They creep in.
A guy by the name of Aaron M. Wren, who's a great follow.
If you haven't ever followed him.
But he kind of took issue with this tweet from Megyn Kelly.
Look, I like Megyn Kelly.
I like what Megyn Kelly offers in the conservative sphere.
But here's just one point of disagreement.
She writes, Ladies, it is possible to make your own money, have your own car, pay for your own swanky New York City apartment, etc., and find a man who loves you, wants to have and raise kids with you, and wants to be with you and only you.
The only thing stopping you?
Your decision to settle for less.
Now, that seems great.
That seems amazing, powerful.
Somebody did point out, though, how many people, percentage-wise, men and women are wealthy enough to afford a swanky New York City apartment?
I do think that's something to think about.
But Aaron M. Wren, who shares insights to help you navigate faith, family, cities, politics, society, economics, he says the notion that people don't have to make trade-offs, I think he's right.
Because fundamentally, folks, life just doesn't work that way.
That's not how it works.
And Aaron M. Wren is exactly right.
Josh Dawes recently said he was on a plane.
And he was reading something called, this is my next book, by the way, The Church Impotent, The Feminization of Christianity.
And it's a guy by the name of Leon Pottles.
Because Christianity is now seen as part of the sphere of life proper to women, rather to men, it sometimes attracts men whose own masculinity is somewhat doubtful.
Ooh, that hurts.
By this, I do not mean homosexuals, although there's a certain type of homosexual that is included.
Rather, religion is seen as a safe field, a refuge from the challenges of life, you know, on the gridiron where men have their elbows out and people are jockeying for position.
It's a safe place from the challenges of life and therefore attracts men who are fearful of making the break with the secure world of childhood dominated by women.
Again, that's Leon J. Pottles in his book, The Church Impotent, The Feminization of Christianity.
Again, I want this book next, and I'm going to read it.
Maybe we can get Pottles on the program.
I would really like to talk about that.
Oh yeah, this was another quote that I thought was really, really good.
The clergy were seen as exempt from masculine trials and agonies.
They were part of the safe world of women.
As one layman put it, life is a football game with the men fighting it out on the gridiron while the minister is up in the grandstand explaining it to the ladies, explaining how everything's, what's going on.
And the idea is this did not used to be the case.
This did not used to be so.
The reason I wanted to put this on the show, I saw this on Friday, and that's the reason I bookmarked it.
I don't often find, I mean, You know when you find somebody that says something that kind of perfectly encapsulates what you have thought in your head but you've never written it down or you've never been able to write down your thoughts but you just know that it's off?
It may be kind of what Megan Basham was talking about, how people think something's off but they can't put their finger on it.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
That quote right there.
And again, I don't know anything about this Leon Pottles guy, but it at least makes me want to read his book and find out what else he has to say about it.
Because that's pretty fascinating stuff right there.
So, a couple of announcements.
A couple of announcements.
Hang on one second.
Let me go full screen here.
Alright, a couple of announcements as we wrap things up for today.
Number one.
So...
I'm starting to substack.
I'm starting to substack.
There are no posts up yet.
I don't have graphics for it or anything like that.
But I'm going to have some bonus videos.
I'm going to have bonus articles.
I'm going to have...
Bonus content.
Also, there is a paywall involved.
This is a way for you to support what I'm doing here on the Millstone Report, what I'm doing on the Paul Harrell program when we've got plans for more interviews where we do a more in-studio setting.
That's what the Paul Harrell program is for.
And so, yeah, $15 a month or $120 a year gets you access.
The Substack is paultalkshow.substack.com right now.
That's what it is.
It may change later to something, you know.
Anyway, paultalkshow.substack.com.
Again, there are no posts up yet.
I don't have graphics for it.
I don't have any way to promote it.
I just wanted you to know that that's what's coming.
The first post should be out today.
And I already know what I'm going to talk about.
It's not necessarily political as much as it's just confession's good for the soul, bad for the reputation.
I have officially become an old man who...
I've become the cranky old man...
The cranky old men, you know, several throughout my childhood that, you know, ruined your day because they yelled at you.
I yelled at a kid riding his bike the other day down my street.
And then I found out I was wrong.
And I tracked him down in Apollo.
Anyway, I have more on that.
So it's going to be politics.
It's also just going to be living my life and trying to let you guys see what it's like.
Some behind-the-scenes studio stuff, that kind of thing.
PaulTalkShow.Substack.com.
Again, first post is out today.
And here's the deal.
Not only are you going to get the behind-the-scenes stuff.
I should have led with this.
But anybody who signs up for $15 a month or $120 for the whole year.
We're going to throw in a free copy of Left Wing Will and the Red Pill, this card game that I wrote.
The card game that lasts at the left's expense.
We've got a lot of inventory ready for you guys.
And this game, Left Wing Will and the Red Pill, comes with your subscription.
You support the Mailstone Report at paultalkshow.substack.com and you will get a complimentary copy.
I would say free, but it's not free because you're paying for it.
But anyway, a bonus, a little bonus gift.
Of Left Wing Will and the Red Pill when you sign up for those updates.
So I thought I'd give you guys, you know, let you know about that.
Oh yeah, number two, the second announcement is...
Unfortunately, there's a winter storm bearing down in my location.
I live in Arkansas, as I've told you guys.
And it's like, you know, two inches will destroy the infrastructure of a town in terms of people being able to get around.
I don't think I'm going to be able to get in the studio.
Tomorrow, I'm sure I won't.
We're supposed to get at least four inches, maybe six.
That's like snowmageddon around here, and I think it's a mixture of sleet as well.
So, just a programming note.
Tomorrow, I likely will not be on the program, will not be here, and so I apologize for that, so please forgive me.
I'll do my best.
The last thing we'll leave you with is this.
Mark Mitchell over at Rasmussen Reports reminding us that the D.C. searches, so these Google searches and these Google trends that everybody's been talking about, they're searching for things like shredders, defense attorneys, bleach bit, how to wipe your iPhone.
Also, people are putting their homes on the market like crazy in D.C. because Trump's cleaning house.
Mark Mitchell, the D.C. searches are extremely troubling when you think past the initial morbid curiosity.
If a single sailor leaks a ship's movement to an enemy, it could jeopardize the whole ship.
Our federal government was packed with enough would-be criminals that the entire search volume statistics of a 5 million person metro area were affected.
Our country is completely compromised.
This is true.
My name is Paul Harrell.
Unless I'm providentially hindered.
I think I'll be providentially hindered tomorrow.
I'll be back here Thursday delivering the news, let's hope.
Let's hope things don't refreeze.
Anyway, thank you so much for watching.
Can't do the show without you.
God bless.
Remember, paultalkshow.substack.com and we'll see you next time we're on.
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