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April 14, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: Colorado Christians Brace for Government-Backed Kidnapping
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My name is Paul Harrell.
This is the Millstone Report.
As always, we can't do the program without you watching, so we are very appreciative of that fact.
Man, God is good.
All the time, God is good.
We've got a great show for you today.
We're going to talk about this MS-13 gang member that's been deported.
To El Salvador.
We're going to talk about that.
Matter of fact, the president of El Salvador was just in an Oval Office meeting with the media, and it was quite the spectacle.
We'll bring you that, you know, I guess spoiler alert.
The president of El Salvador not interested in returning this MS-13 El Salvadorian citizen back to the United States.
That's pretty interesting.
Also, some more fallout from the Douglas Murray-Joe Rogan debate.
We'll get into that.
J.D. Hall over at Insight to Insight, I think, has a very good piece that really just summarizes, much better than I articulated on Friday, just this whole gatekeeper mentality about controlling narratives and the fact that thanks to the Internet,
people are doing their own research.
They're going to source documents.
People are losing control.
It was the mainstream media for forever, and now it's the credentialed class.
It's very upset that their credentials and all of their titles and all of their schooling doesn't matter to people anymore.
I'll say it again.
It just doesn't matter as much anymore as it used to when you had a doctor behind your name or in front of your name or a Ph.D.
after your name or you worked for this storied institution and you spoke on behalf of them.
Americans don't care about that as much as we used to because the elites of the world, the elites of our country, have been exposed as being wrong.
Hating the people in many instances and really just on a daily basis actively deceiving us.
And that's why people are done and are moving on and the credential class doesn't like it.
So we'll briefly cover that as well.
Also, we missed this on Friday.
Whoopi Goldberg is in the news saying the Ten Commandments don't say anything about abortion.
Conveniently forgetting the number six commandment, thou shalt not kill.
So we have that.
But we're going to start.
We're going to start.
This afternoon with this.
So I guess this coming weekend, so on Friday we have Good Friday.
On Sunday we have Easter Sunday or Resurrection Sunday.
And many people refer to the week leading up to that as Holy Week.
And everybody is very anticipatory of celebrating, recognizing the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And I am...
100% here for it.
Now, I will remind you that in my opinion, and this is not really my opinion, but this is kind of like a general Christian doctrine, we celebrate the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ every single Sunday.
When we go to church, every single Sunday.
So, essentially, while a lot of people are going to put more of an emphasis on this coming Sunday, which I don't personally have a problem with, there are actually 52 holidays a year.
52 holy days, if you will, a year, every year.
So, every Sunday, the idea, He is risen, He is risen indeed.
We celebrate that all throughout the year.
But there's a special emphasis on it from a cultural standpoint, kind of a rare holdout, a derivative of the Christian country that has been under attack for so long.
And so that's where we're going to start.
We're going to start right here with President Donald Trump and his declaration recognizing Christ's glorious, quote, glorious resurrection.
Megan Basham.
Thank you, Lord, for this recognition of your finishing work on the cross by our nation's leaders.
Father, let these statements sink deep into their hearts.
So that they may experience your salvation and uphold your moral law.
Donald Trump writing on Truth Social, This Holy Week, Christians around the world remember the crucifixion of God's only begotten Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and on Easter Sunday we celebrate His glorious resurrection and proclaim, as Christians have done for nearly 2,000
years, He is risen.
Through the pain and sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, we saw God's boundless love and devotion to all humanity, and in that moment of his resurrection, history was changed.
With the promise of everlasting life.
As we approach this joyous Easter Sunday, I want to wish Christians everywhere a happy and very blessed holiday.
America is a nation of believers.
We need God.
We want God.
And with his help, we will make our nation stronger, safer, greater, more prosperous, and more united than ever.
Thank you and happy Easter.
Now this, obviously, is a far cry.
Elections have consequences, at least for, you know, At the bare surface level, they have consequences in words and proclamations from the highest office in the land.
The Center for Baptist Leadership's William Wolfe reminds us that last year, American Christians were intentionally disrespected by Joe Biden declaring a transgender day of visibility on Easter.
Do you remember that?
We covered that on the program here, how just absolutely ridiculous and a middle finger to the country it was.
Once again highlighting the disdain, the anti-Christian bias that has consumed the left, where they don't even want to, they don't even pretend anymore.
Because we can have a conversation about how politicians will pander to Christians, but the Democrats completely giving up on that.
They don't even attempt to do that.
As a matter of fact, it's not even neutral.
It's openly hostile, and that was on display last year when on Easter Sunday.
They announced a Transgender Day of Visibility.
William Wolfe says, however, this year we are getting a Holy Week celebration from Trump, thankful for the White House Faith Office leading like this.
And the Daily Signal writing, William Wolfe co-writing with a guy by the name of Kevin Roberts, this headline, now that Trump is president, he can remind America that Christ is king.
And they write, It's easy to overlook, but attentive visitors to George and Martha Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon will notice a small stone above their graves etched with these words from John chapter 11, I am the resurrection and the life.
He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
Though subtle, this piece of history reminds us of the distinct importance that America's Founding Fathers placed on Christianity, particularly our Lord's passion and resurrection.
As Christians around the country reflect on that same story this Easter, we should resolve to transform our gratitude for the political freedoms that our Founding Fathers fought for, the spiritual freedom that Christ died for into action.
Specifically, we should call on our political leaders to use the tools of statecraft at their disposal to support and defend Christian communities around the world that are facing persecution.
So they remind us here that under both President Barack Obama and Joe Biden, so for the last 12 of 16 years, the United States government consistently and aggressively prioritized advancing LGBTQ ideology and other progressive social issues ahead of religious
freedom.
At home, the Biden administration weaponized government against Christians.
In 2022, the administration infamously sent a SWAT team of roughly 25 people to the home of Mark Hawk, a Catholic father of seven.
We interviewed him, by the way.
A Catholic father of seven because he was falsely accused of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Interances, or FACE Act, which Democrats routinely use to target pro-lifers.
In 2023, whistleblower Kyle Serafin exposed Biden's FBI for targeting traditional Catholics as domestic terrorists.
And finally, we can't forget that in 2024, the Biden administration chose to declare March 21st...
Easter Sunday is Transgender Day of Visibility.
Abroad, without the U.S. leading effort to defend minority Christian communities and Christian civil rights around the world, persecutions got much worse.
Last year alone, Open Doors reported that almost 4,500 Christians were murdered for their faith, more than 7,600 churches and Christian properties were attacked, and more than 200,000 Christians were forced to flee their homes or go into hiding because of their faith.
So it's an ongoing problem.
In February, militias rounded up 70 Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, took them to a church, and beheaded them.
In March, Islamic terrorists in Syria slaughtered more than 800 people in their homes because they were Christian.
Earlier this month, Democrats and
It's a big deal what's going on in Colorado.
And just last week, a Christian school teacher in Ireland, Enoch Burke, saw his bank account seized in a saga that has seen him spend more than 500 days in jail simply for refusing to comply with the speech codes of radical gender ideology.
So over the next four years, they write, Donald Trump has the opportunity to put a stop to this madness, to help return Christianity to its proper pride of place in our politics, both internationally and domestically, and pave the way for a national celebration
of the 2000th anniversary of the resurrection of our Lord and Savior of Jesus Christ in 2033.
All reform must start at home.
Trump is off to a good start, they write.
Already pardoned the 23 pro-lifers.
They pardoned.
They got a pardon after the Biden administration arrested him with his personal police force, the FBI.
We even have Senator Mike Lee and Representative Chip Roy out of Texas.
They have a bill to just repeal the FACE Act entirely so it can never be used again to persecute Christians who protest outside of abortion clinics.
They write that he should also order his Department of Justice to take swift action against states like Colorado that are rapidly taking away the rights of Christian parents to raise their kids according to the values of their faith.
Then it talks about some of the other things that you could do abroad as well, which I totally support.
But specifically talking about here domestically, Politico has this story, which they're absolutely...
You know, they're absolutely talking about, they're saying this is like a handmaiden's tale situation.
It's quite humorous, their sky is falling mentality.
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Politico runs this headline, State Tells Employees to Report on One Another for Anti-Christian Bias.
So this is the leftist.
Reporting of this very sensible idea and goal that the Trump administration has to, first of all, admit that anti-Christian bias is a real thing, and we're going to try to combat it and stop it.
But one official anonymously said, it's very handmaid's tale.
Handmaid's tale.
But here's the story from Robbie Gramer and Nahal Tusi.
The Trump administration has ordered the State Department employees to report on any instances of co-workers displaying anti-Christian bias as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.
The department, according to a copy of an internal cable obtained by Politico, will work with an administration-wide task force The cable was sent out to embassies around the world under Secretary of State Marco Rubio's name,
and the instructions were also released in a department-wide notice.
So the left is obviously seething from this.
It's like, it's obvious that...
Under the Joe Biden administration, anti-Christian bias was rampant.
The idea that the new administration admits this fact, but is also at least attempting to root out this type of discrimination is a very, very welcome sign.
Now, I told you we're going to talk Colorado, and parents in Colorado, churches in Colorado, are actually speaking out against this.
There is this new bill that essentially would...
It's full of projection.
The most outrageous thing to me that it does is it calls it child abuse.
If a teacher somehow warps your child's mind into thinking that they were born in the wrong body and then they start using different pronouns and the parent doesn't use the pronouns, rejects the indoctrination, rejects the wickedness,
embraces what the Bible says about men and women.
Then the state is now going to accuse the parents of child abuse when we all know that transing kids and calling it health care is the real child abuse.
So the left in this instance is doubling down.
They're doubling down.
At the state level, these leftist states, these blue states, are going to double down because they perceive that their movement is under attack.
And it absolutely is.
It's under attack from the people who voted for Trump and voted against this craziness.
We voted against the woke sex religion that has been taking over every aspect of our society, every major corporation, BlackRock, the whole like.
We voted against this nonsense.
Because it is evil on its face.
And so these blue states are doubling down, if you will.
They are doubling down on these failed ideas, these rejected ideas and policies.
And what does it mean for the Christian minority in states like Colorado?
Many people are thinking about moving.
Many people are thinking about staying and fighting.
I know one thing.
The Christians in Colorado right now are in deep prayer.
I know that much.
William Wolf writes for the website Standing for Freedom, Hell is empty and all the devils are in Denver.
In an attack on parental rights and God's created order, a bill working its way through Colorado legislature would make misgendering and deadnaming confused children a form of child abuse.
That could result in parents losing custody of their children to the state.
Now, let's call that what it is.
That's called kidnapping.
Losing custody, in this case, would straight up be kidnapping for refusing, essentially committing a Colorado, basically committing blasphemy against the state of Colorado.
The question, again, is not whether or not you have blasphemy laws, ladies and gentlemen.
It's which blasphemy laws are you going to have?
In this case, Colorado is attempting to create a new blasphemy law, and if you blaspheme their woke sex religion, they are threatening to come and take your children from you.
William Wolfe writes that in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ariel's ominous declaration that hell is empty and all the devils are here is meant to serve as a powerful reminder that evil isn't confined to the underworld but can also be found in our fellow men.
of humans just as readily as in the depths of Hades.
Yes, demons are real, and sometimes they wear the mask of a Colorado legislator.
Wokeness, far from being put away, is digging in its heels across America's blue states, with each vying to outdo the others in dismantling
Colorado, once a bastion of rugged individualism, now seems determined to snatch the crown of the most godless state in America from the communist paradise that we currently call California.
For any astute observer, William Wolfe writes, this is no surprise.
The current political agenda of Colorado leftists is simply part of the course trajectory as we hurdle towards this inescapable event horizon, the cultural and sexual revolution.
You hear me folks talk about the slippery slope.
That's what he's describing.
The brakes have been cut.
Reverse is not an option.
Because once you start down the slippery slope, greased to the gills by the philosophical framework of critical theory, queer theory, Cultural Marxism and intersectionality, empowering the government to kidnap kids from loving parents who won't affirm their transgender delusion is,
well, just a speed bump on the way to our androgynous utopia of state-enforced transsexuality.
Sorry, parents, progress waits for no man or woman or whatever.
Case in point, the bill, Colorado, HB 251312.
It's a proposed legislation which has passed the Colorado House, and it now moves to the Colorado Senate.
This article was written on Friday, so I'm assuming over the weekend they haven't done anything, although I know they held an emergency meeting a few weeks ago or last week on a Sunday.
You talk about they did it, they held it on a Sunday to pass this bill, which is absolutely egregious.
But what does this bill do in Colorado?
What are Christians in Colorado, what do they need to be aware of?
Well, it redefines parental oversight.
The bill classifies a parent's refusal to affirm a child's self-declared gender identity as coercive control, which is considered a form of child abuse.
This could trigger state intervention, including investigations by child welfare services, which we've heard the horror stories, what happens when they get activated, they can make, without any evidence of a crime, they can make a parent's life, a family's life, a living hell.
It also mandates transgender affirmation in institutions.
If passed, schools, healthcare providers, and counselors must affirm a child's gender identity.
Any failure to do so would violate the law.
Religious institutions, including churches and Christian schools, would be required to adopt policies aligning with gender identity affirmation or be punished.
It also coerces speech, and a throwback to what really propelled Jordan Peterson onto the national stage when he refused to be compelled to use certain words at his university in Canada.
This is that resurrected in the state of Colorado.
The bill effectively restricts speech by compelling the use of speech, the use of pronouns, or penalizing language that does not align with a person's declared gender identity.
today.
Publicly questioning or denying someone self-professed gender identity would be deemed discriminatory under the bill.
And then lastly, number four, the bill gives the state final authority over children.
The state gains increased power to override parental consent.
This provision positions the state, William Wolfe writes, as the ultimate arbiter of a child's identity, sidelining family and faith-based values.
This isn't a protections bill.
It's a calculated assault on free speech, Christian ethics, and parental rights, and it demands a response.
The bill's a masterclass in overreach.
By elevating subjective feelings over objective truth, the bill seeks to outlaw dissent and force compliance with a worldview that denies the created order.
The process was as troubling as the content.
Democrats used Rule 16 to stifle debate so they couldn't hear from the Republican detractors of the bill.
They introduced the bill with minimal notice, which left opponents scrambling to respond.
And most telling, as I just mentioned, was the decision to force a House vote on a Sunday, a sacred day for Christians, a holy day for Christians.
This wasn't mere scheduling.
It was a deliberate signal of contempt for the faith community in a rush to ram through the bill.
Such tactics betray a deeper aim, not dialogue, but dominance.
Here is a state representative from Colorado by the name of Jarvis Caldwell.
And this is how he responded when this bill was forced through the House in Colorado.
Hello, everybody.
It's Jarvis Caldwell here from Colorado House District 20. I want to fill you in on what happened today on the floor of the House of Representatives.
When we were going into debate, starting the debate on House Bill 1312...
The Democrat majority invoked Rule 16. Rule 16 is calling the question and it ends debate immediately and then goes directly into a vote.
And I believe they did this to silence us because they know how much negative attention this has been getting nationwide.
And so what they did was they silenced us and did not let us represent our constituents and talk about the issues that we have with this bill.
If you recall, House Bill 1312 says that if your child is confused about their gender, Gender identity and you don't affirm that confusion, that delusion.
Then you are guilty of child abuse and you can lose custody of your children.
Now here's what I wanted to say from the floor of the House of Representatives that I was robbed of saying in silence.
I wanted to say it is not me.
It is not my constituents.
It is not the people from my side of the aisle who are pushing this gender identity crap on the kids of Colorado.
They are.
And what they want to do with this bill is say that if they confuse your children And you don't affirm that confusion.
They will take your child from you.
That bill passed the House of Representatives on party lines today.
It's now going to the Senate.
So you need to reach out to your Senators.
You need to reach out to the Governor of Colorado and let them know that you're not okay with this.
I appreciate all the support over the last few days and we're gonna keep fighting for you.
Thank you.
Okay, so the article goes on.
If enacted, HB 251312 would have sweeping consequences.
It would empower the state to dictate what parents teach their children about identity and morality, effectively sidelighting them.
Christian schools and churches could be coerced into adopting policies that violate their beliefs or face extinction.
Counselors who are biblical counselors or, you know, rooted in biblical ethics, he writes, could lose their livelihoods.
Normal Coloradans.
Would have to weigh whether speaking the truth is worth the punishment.
Daniel chapter 3 comes to mind.
As with every political effort led by the gender mob, this bill isn't about inclusion.
It's about control.
Control of language, belief, the next generation.
Remember the LGBTQIA plus movement.
This is probably the best point that William Wolfe makes in the article.
He says, remember, the LGBTQIA plus movement doesn't, can't reproduce naturally.
So the way they produce offspring is by corrupting your children.
different.
He's exactly right about this, and we've talked about this a lot, but we need to reiterate.
When I said at the beginning of the segment they feel like their movement is under attack, it absolutely is.
People are pushing back.
We see that just generally with the re-election of Donald Trump.
They know they have a demographic problem.
And if they can't proselytize children and corrupt children and put children on a path to hell in schools because parents will push back, then they must criminalize raising Christian children.
This is an attempt to criminalize raising Christian children.
this is an attempt to make it illegal for you to instruct your kids and raise them in the fear and admonition of the Lord
That's what they're trying to do in the state of Colorado, just so we're clear.
He writes, And she said this.
It's coercion telling a kid that God got it wrong.
And I think it's one of the most abusive things I've ever heard.
All your friends were created perfectly and beautifully, except for you.
Something's wrong with you.
He didn't do it right with you.
The world got it wrong with you.
Coercion is lying to your children.
There's nothing beautiful about that.
And you're definitely not going to lie to mine.
You talk about the dangers of gender-affirming care, the
dangers.
Damage to children, not FDA approved, no systematic reviews telling you you should do it, and then you're going to have the audacity to tell the state they should be able to take the children away?
No. Try it.
Keep trying it.
The state is mandating parental rights.
I have heard group after group come testify against all of our bills on this side of the audience, or on this side of the aisle, saying that the state knows better for your children.
No, they don't.
They don't tuck my kids in at night.
They don't listen to the stories of heartbreak.
They don't know their medical history.
They don't know the battles they're fighting.
They don't know if they're depressed or suicidal.
They have no idea what's going on in the heads of my children.
I have birthed five children.
I will protect them fiercely to the nth degree.
And no law will ever take that away from me, and no law will ever take that away from my constituents in Douglas County.
We are parents.
We protect our children.
And you keep coming up here and saying, we over-regulate this and that.
You're coming after our rights.
And we're not going to stand for it.
They're coming after your rights, but they're coming after your children.
Your children are the prize.
Your posterity is what the war is about.
They want...
Your kids.
William Wolfe's piece goes on.
Again, StandingForFreedom.com.
Pastor Chase Davis, who leads a Boulder area congregation, has also stepped into the fray.
He submitted written testimony against the bill warning that, quote, HB 251312 codifies hostility toward Christian beliefs by treating basic biblical convictions as discrimination.
To recognize that men and women are distinct, to refuse to affirm gender confusion, and to speak truthfully about a person's sex are not acts of hatred, but of faithfulness to God.
HB 2513-12 is an affront to truth, to family, and to religious liberty.
It seeks to replace God's authority with state-mandated falsehoods.
It criminalizes Christian convictions, and it makes it illegal to live and speak according to biblical truth.
Now, that right there, that is a stark statement.
This bill makes it illegal to live and speak according to biblical truth.
What will the people of Colorado do?
William Wolfe writes, additionally, there are 16 pastors.
Again, this was written on Friday.
Sixteen pastors from small to mid-sized churches sent a letter to large churches in Colorado imploring them to use their reach and resources to help defeat this bill, charging them that the hour demands your voice, bold and unapologetic.
Use your platforms to defend parents, protect our institutions, and resist this tide.
Silence is no longer neutral.
It is surrender.
I'll just say from a practical standpoint, If people decide to flee Colorado to other states that aren't coming for your children, those people are most likely going to be Christians.
Those people are likely going to be populating churches.
They're going to most likely be people that go to church every day.
So if you lose this battle and individual families are put to the test, there's got to be pastors that realize that Their congregations are going to shrink as well.
Also, and then that of course also means you will also shrink in cultural relevance, just in terms of people being sent out in their general profession six days of seven, you know,
to be a warrior for Christ, to share the gospel and everybody in their sphere of influence.
So it's a big deal.
William Wolfe says their clarity and courage are vital, but they need an army behind them.
This bill tests whether Colorado's Christians will bow or fight for their convictions.
Pastors and churches must lead this charge.
Too often, believers have shied away from cultural conflicts, hoping they'll just pass by.
But Scripture commands us to contend for the faith, Jude 1-3, and to stand firm, Ephesians 6-13.
Pastors need to preach with boldness, equipping their people about this bill's conflict with God's design.
They must echo Peter's resolve.
We must obey God rather than men, Acts 5.29.
Silence now means ceding ground to a state that demands conformity over conscience.
This is a defining moment.
Christians must take decisive action.
We are called to be salt and light, Matthew 5.13-16, preserving truth and exposing error.
While it might appear to be an uphill battle, every Christian in Colorado must believe that God has placed them in the state for such a time as this.
This is not a time for silence or half measures, but to stand valiantly in defense of the children, truth, and religious freedom.
If we let the state redefine reality and claim our children, we fail as God's servants, but we have hope.
The one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4.4 Colorado may be flirting with godlessness, but the church anchored in truth can turn the tide.
The devils are in Denver, but with a united Christian effort and through the power of prayer and the Holy Spirit, we can cast them out.
This is a pastor.
Next up we have Pastor Matt Patrick, who spoke out at his church recently.
He has a church in Boulder.
And this is what he said.
And so right now, for every Christian sitting in this church and every Christian in the state of Colorado, I'd like to tell you that a moment has come.
God has given us a moment where we get to fear him rightly and stand with God.
Because currently, whether you know this or not, Our state leaders are preparing to pass several pieces of legislation that are absolutely wicked and abhorrent and actually mock God and His Word.
I understand.
I know Scripture, and I understand that we are to submit to those over us.
But if those over us mock our God and call us to sin, we are not to obey them.
Not for a second.
So, I'm going to be specific.
There's several bills.
There's House Bill 25-13-12, Senate Bill 183, House Bill 1309, and Senate Bill 129.
Let me explain them, in case you would think I'm just being hyperbolic.
House Bill 25-13-12 redefines misgendering as child abuse and discrimination.
Stripping parents of their right of authority and exposing businesses, schools, and even churches to legal peril for misgendering somebody.
State Bill 183 forces taxpayers to fund abortion, defying the sanctity of life and the reality that you were knit together in your mother's womb by God himself.
House Bill 1309.
Mandates gender-affirming care in all health plans.
State Bill 129 expands access to out-of-state telehealth apportion pills.
So our state wants to become so wicked that states where you cannot get apportion pills, you can by phone call a doctor here and we will mail them to you so you can kill a child in the womb wherever you may live.
I'd like to focus a bit more on House Bill 25, 13, 12, though, because that's the most pressing one right now.
It's passed the House, and the Senate could soon follow.
And in case you're wondering, it passed the House on a 7-4 vote.
Seven Democrats voted for it, four Republicans voted against it.
It was along party lines.
What does it do?
Well, it mandates transgender affirmation.
In institutions, And if passed, schools, health care providers, and counselors must affirm a child's gender identity that they choose.
They must do it or it will be against the law.
And any failure to do so, there will be ramifications.
So a few other things that it does.
It choruses speech.
The bill effectively restricts free speech by...
So this is a much, you know, like four more minutes long.
He eventually says it would be easier to not get up here and talk about political things.
The pastor goes on, but we are the church who must stand for truth, and when the truth of God is being defied, we must call it out.
Then we have another pastor.
This is somebody by the name of Sean Cole, pastor of Emanuel Baptist in Colorado.
He's also a professor at Colorado Christian University.
This was him addressing this on Sunday as well.
And so House Bill 25-13-12 is the most radical transgender bill that our state has ever seen and the most radical transgender bill in the nation.
It takes away parental rights.
It hampers freedom of speech.
And it also hampers biblical Christianity.
And it also may impact a lot of our public schools and public school teachers.
And so I've seen over the years two attitudes that Coloradoans have had in regarding how to address politics.
The first is, I don't want to get involved.
I want to be silent.
I don't get involved in politics.
I don't vote.
I don't petition.
I just want to keep quiet.
I want to be winsome.
I want to be a good neighbor.
I'm just going to keep my mouth shut.
That's one attitude I see among Coloradoans.
Here's the other attitude I see.
Colorado's a lost cause.
We're too liberal of a state.
And people, we should start just thinking about moving to Wyoming and moving to Nebraska and moving out of Colorado.
It's too far gone.
It's too liberal.
And here's my answer to both of those.
Do you believe that God is absolutely sovereign over all things?
Do you believe that?
And number two, this Sunday is Easter Sunday.
Do you believe there's an empty tomb?
As long as the tomb is empty and Jesus is on His throne, there is hope for Colorado.
This is a biblical battle, and it's a spiritual battle.
First, it's a biblical battle over the definition of marriage.
A definition over what is a man and what is a woman.
It's a biblical issue where we as Christians have got to stand on the truth of God's word.
Number two, it's a spiritual issue.
Because this type of tyranny is from the pit of hell.
And it's a spiritual battle for the soul.
For the soul.
Of our future.
So what kind of future do we want in Colorado?
Many of you, if not most of you, are native Coloradans.
You were born here.
My wife's a native.
My boys were born here.
I've lived here almost 40 years.
And I'm just going to say one thing to the devil.
This is God's state.
Not His.
And we're not going to give an inch.
And if they continue this totalitarian efforts at our Capitol, and they continue to assault our religious freedoms, they are going to awaken a sleeping giant the likes they've never seen before across Colorado.
Because I'm in the fight, and I pray you're in the fight as well.
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So in keeping with this Monday, before Easter Sunday, there's been a lot.
I mean, it's really kind of interesting.
It's been actually really good.
My ex-feed kind of being flooded with...
Different religious content, different content, though, that is all kind of doing the same thing, which is making much of Christ and his resurrection.
Obviously, the stuff with Colorado is certainly timely as well.
The Christian resistance to this tyranny that's going on in Colorado, the organization of the resistance is really good, and much of it is being spearheaded by William Wolfe and the Center for Baptist Leadership, And
it talks about people who quit Jesus.
Kind of an odd subject that you would think about in leading up to Resurrection Sunday.
The real reason people quit Jesus and it's not about truth or logic.
So this is what sparked my interest because all of my life, atheism was the main thing promoted as that it was the more scientific thing or the more logical thing.
This is a result of what happened in the 20s when many people...
Clergy included, sacrifice, biblical inerrancy for a seat at the cultural table, and we're seeing that now with LGBTQRSTL.
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Issues as well.
The real question, the real reason people quit Jesus, it's not about logic, it's not about truth.
Michael Cleary writing, behind the intellectual posturing and philosophical smokescreen is a far more sinister motivation.
He writes, almost every instance I know of in which someone left the Christian faith was a case of self-sabotage, and I've seen it...
He writes, He goes on,
John, people are complicated.
In any big shift in one's life, there's often a gap between the stated reason and the actual reason.
When someone abandons Christianity, the stated reasons can vary, but the real reason is almost always a love of sin.
Let me say that again.
The real reason is almost always a love of sin.
I once talked to somebody who abandoned Christianity.
I can't remember which came first, but I was asking him why, and at first it was, well, no, at first, I can't remember if it was because he didn't believe the Bible in terms of the historical evidence,
you know, that you can rely on the text and rely on the historical accounts, and I kind of pushed in, and eventually I think the answer I got was, well, it was Trump.
And it was the fact that all of these so-called Christians voted for Trump, and that's why.
So he really, actually, it was about the fact that he didn't want to be a Christian because so many Christians had voted for a political candidate he disagreed with.
Anyway, it was fascinating.
Anyway, often they tell a story that makes them look like the hero.
I've got the moral high ground.
As though they are courageous seekers of a noble quest for truth.
Some of them whack scientific, saying things like, the claims of Christianity don't fit the evidence.
I must go where the evidence leads.
Some take a more philosophical approach, saying things like, I cannot accept that a good God would allow evil.
This makes Christianity untenable.
The apostate tells himself that he's bravely casting aside the shackles of tradition in order to embrace free-thinking rationality.
It's all a ruse.
Don't buy it.
Regardless of what they say, there's almost always a deeper reason.
I've known many people who rejected Christianity because they wanted to affirm a friend's LGBTQ sins, or wanted to be LGBTQ themselves, or didn't want to repent of adultery, or wanted to keep sleeping with their boyfriends.
I used to be friends with Rhett and Link, the famous YouTubers who publicly abandoned Christ at the same time.
We used to work together on staff with Crew.
For several years, they emceed with Crew Winter Conference where I was the worship leader.
I was thrilled when they moved to Los Angeles because I thought they would make a difference reaching California for Christ.
It turns out that California reached them instead.
In a recent interview recounting their initial deconversion, Rhett mentioned how he searched for respected voices that would affirm the claims of Christianity.
That was a small tell, but it confirmed what I'd always suspected.
They were enshrined.
His faith required secular authenticity from respective sources to be believed.
Very much like what we heard, by the way, just kind of a same side note, what we heard in that Douglas Murray, Dave Smith, Joe Rogan debate.
It was all about, well, we want it to be from an acceptable source that society says it's acceptable.
Like, we want CNN to affirm it.
If you're waiting around on CNN to tell you that Jesus Christ is king, you're going to be waiting around for a long time.
In other words, the stated reason for his deconversion was an intellectual and philosophical pursuit of truth.
I sense the real reason is being embarrassed about what Christians believe.
Luke 9.26 says, So this is a great piece, and it goes on, and Michael Clary does a great job, but it raises an interesting point.
In my mind, I immediately went, when you talk about philosophy, there's plenty of secular philosophers out there who at one time or another have tried to get out from under this idea that God is real,
the God of the Bible is real, God exists, by saying that because you go to these other areas of the world, remote areas of the world, one of the one things that...
People have in common is that there will be some sort of religion amongst people, and different people groups totally connected.
And at one point or another, the late R.C. Sproul talked about this, and he talked about the fact that at one point or another, every major philosopher that, you know, young...
Malleable freshmen will learn about in some sort of philosophy one-on-one course.
At one point, they said that the reason you see these religions in different remote areas is that there's a psychological need to invent religion, to invent God or gods, in order to deal with the stresses of life.
Matter of fact, I have the clip right here.
Let's take a listen.
At one point or another, They came to the conclusion that the reason why people believe in God is fundamentally driven by some psychological need.
That is, psychological need is the mother of all religion.
And I was interested particularly in 19th century philosophical thought.
So this is a 16-minute video, but if you kind of skip ahead here to the, I think I marked it, the 1155 mark, we hear this from the late R.C. Sproul.
But that's another story.
But I'm saying, I'm granting at the outset that we do have a psychological motive to invent God.
But what I'm pleading for in this brief message this evening is to understand two things: that just because man has the ability to invent God does not mean that that's how the idea of God came about.
It's also more than possible That the reason why the world is incurably religious is because there is a God who has so clearly and manifestly demonstrated His existence to mankind that knowledge of Him is virtually inescapable.
That's another alternative explanation.
But more important to the point right now is that we have to say to our atheist friends,"Hold the phone a minute." I'm willing to grant to you that I have a vested interest in believing in God.
Are you willing to grant to me that there are also powerful psychological motives that many people have to deny the existence of God?
And of course...
The answer is absolutely, and it kind of goes back to that Clary article about the love of sin, psychological desire.
You don't want God to be real, because if he were real, that would have vast implications on your life and your moral compass.
By the way, the idea that any primitive culture or something would invent the God of the Bible.
They might invent these other systems of religion where you can actually work to get to heaven, but nobody would actually invent the God of the Bible who dwells in unapproachable light and the idea of sin,
the idea of needing to be forgiven.
Anyway, the point is, it's incredible that, yes, I think most Christians would say, yeah.
Nobody out there is going to say, I don't want my faith to be true.
Nobody out there is going to say that I don't have a psychological desire for my faith to be true.
But what he is saying is, okay, we'll grant that in this apologetics exercise, but if I have the psychological need for my faith, do you maybe have a psychological need for God not to be real?
Do you maybe have a psychological need?
Because if God is real, and specifically the God of the Bible is real, and Jesus Christ is real, and Jesus Christ sits at the right hand of the Father, and the tomb was in fact empty, maybe you have a psychological need to deny that because of what that would mean for your life.
Certainly something to think about as we approach this Easter.
This Resurrection Sunday.
But speaking of being psychologically confused, ladies and gentlemen, Whoopi Goldberg.
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Whoopi Goldberg talking about abortion.
So speaking of being confused or psychologically deranged, here's Whoopi Goldberg.
No one is obligated to have an abortion.
So you never have to have one.
And I hope no one ever has to have one.
But if you find yourself in a position where you have to, I want to make sure...
And I'm way past having kids.
I want to make sure, yes, way past.
I want to make sure that if you decide this is what you need to do, I'm going to get behind you.
Because I don't know your life.
And if you say this is what you need, that's what I'm going to do.
50 weeks, 75,000 weeks, whatever happening in weeks, it's nobody's business.
It's you, your doctor, and God.
That's who you have to be conversational to.
And it's not mentioned in the Big Ten, I'm just going to say.
In the Big Ten, it is not meant.
The commandments?
Yeah. You know, because I figured God was pretty clear.
Here's the stuff that'll make your life better on Earth.
Here's the thing.
Don't lie.
Because you don't want people lying to you.
They'll mess with somebody's wife.
Because you're going to be mad if they're messing with you.
Just, you know, common sense stuff.
They believe that.
Yes, well, here's the thing.
I think thou shalt not kill cannot be used as the block.
Okay, well, there it is.
I just love it.
Well, yeah, here's the thing on that.
I think thou shalt not kill.
Can't be a used here.
Okay, all right.
Wrap it up the show.
There it is.
Thank the Lord that his commandments are not dependent.
The validity of those commandments are not dependent on Whoopi Goldberg or the hens on the view.
Can I get an amen from the other side of the screen?
I can't even believe that they brought it up.
I can't believe that one of the co-hosts was like, well, evangelicals would say thou shalt not kill.
Okay, let me finish your thought.
We allow wars all the time.
Oh, this is what it was.
Crusades were about all these things.
We allow guns.
Yes, so there is some conversation to be had here.
So she's admitting that it is killing.
This is a big deal.
Whoopi admitting that it is killing because she's trying to say...
That because of wars and because Christians might be out there and they believe in a just war concept or they believe in guns to defend themselves where they may have to kill somebody to protect their family, that because of that she's arguing it's a hypocrisy.
So I told you, psychologically confused, right?
I mean, it is.
So there's a difference between killing and murder.
There's a difference between, and in the sixth commandment, and we're talking about thou shalt not kill, we're specifically talking about Cain and Abel-style murder.
We're not talking about, you know, justified killings or the idea that the state has been given the sword by God to punish the wicked, and that includes capital punishment.
But all of this is lost on people who, in this regard, are tragically blind and lost.
And on the wide path.
Incredible. Do we have time for one more?
I believe we do.
We don't have time for everything I wanted to get to today, but we do have time for this.
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.
Alright, so for this edition of I'm Already Against Women Clergy, you don't have to convince me.
Once again, protestia.
They're writing, you probably shouldn't attend a church that begins a sermon this way.
It's April, officially, and our text for today comes from Romans.
How many of you love Romans so much?
Raise your hand.
Oh, that's more than I got last time.
Last time we did something from Romans, literally like one person raised their hand.
Apparently, Romans is not fun.
People don't like it.
Especially in progressive church.
It's like hard to digest.
Paul is also a bit much.
Okay, he's a bit aggressive.
I would agree with that.
You probably shouldn't attend a church that begins a sermon that way.
Hello, boys and girls!
You know, people talk about how the church has been completely emasculated and just made effeminate.
And that's obviously true in straight-up progressive churches that affirm homosexuality, say that it's not a sin.
And it creeps into big Eva churches.
It creeps into mid-Eva churches.
But this is just...
This is like what awaits your future.
If you're on that slippery slope and you're in a church that is effeminate, overtly so, this is your future.
And Paul is a bit much when he talks about Romans 1 and how people traded the worship of the Creator for the fake, what the world has to offer.
They worship the creature instead of the creator.
That's right.
That's what I was trying to talk about.
But anyway, yeah, so that concludes this edition of my favorite segment on the show.
This has been I'm Already Against Women Clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
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