Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1132 | 'Veggie Tales' vs. JD Vance: Is 'America First' Biblical?

Episode Date: January 30, 2025

In today's jam-packed episode, we go over the heartbreaking and horrifying crash from last night involving an American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter. Our new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says an investigation is underway, and our hearts go out to the families of those who perished in the crash. We also cover some theological takes from social media over what loving your neighbor actually means after JD Vance did an interview with Sean Hannity. We get into immigration controversy among Christians after a strange article from Christianity Today, and President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law, the first law he signed as president. We also give our best breakup advice after a viral "Bachelor" breakup, and are new moms actually entitled and selfish for asking for gifts from their registry? Buy Allie's new book, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": https://a.co/d/4COtBxy --- Timecodes: (01:13) American Airlines jet crash (09:48) Trump signs Laken Riley Act (16:51) Christianity Today immigration propaganda (24:03) America First controversy (30:24) JD Vance and the “order of loves” argument (40:27) Bernie Sanders “Are you supportive of these onesies?”   (43:13) Bachelor breakup advice (01:00:22) Are new moms entitled?  ---   Today's Sponsors: Seven Weeks - Experience the best coffee while supporting the pro-life movement with Seven Weeks Coffee; use code ALLIE at https://www.sevenweekscoffee.com to save up to 25% and help save lives. Masa Chips — Go to MasaChips.com and use promo code ALLIEB for a discount on your first time order of seed oil free tortilla chips! A’del — Try A'del's hand-crafted, artisan, small-batch cosmetics and use promo code ALLIE 25% off your first time purchase at AdelNaturalCosmetics.com Range Leather — highest quality leather, age-old techniques and all backed up with a “forever guarantee." Go to rangeleather.com and use coupon code "ALLIE" to receive 15% off your first order. --- Related Episodes: Ep 1131 | My Doctor Bullied Me Over Vaccines. RFK Will End the Intimidation https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1131-my-doctor-bullied-me-over-vaccines-rfk-will/id1359249098?i=1000686866442 ---   Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

We've got an exciting announcement about Share the Arrow's 2025 at the very end of this episode. But first, we've got so much to discuss. We will be talking about the crash that occurred in D.C. last night. We will also be talking about a debate on Christian doctrine that was sparked by comments by Vice President J.D. Vance. We will also be drawing some life lessons from a bachelor contestant Rachel Kirk Connell's public breakup. debating this entire crazy chaotic discussion on X over whether new young moms are entitled when it comes to baby showers. We've got so, so much on today's episode of Relatable. It's brought to by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to good ranchers.com slash Alley. That's good ranchers.com slash Alley. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Thursday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. We've got a very exciting announcement that I will tell you at the end. of this episode, but first we've got to get to this terrifying and heartbreaking story of the crash that occurred last night at DCA Airport that is one of the two. D.C. airports, also known as Reagan

International, I just flew in and out of there last week. It is a very busy airport, as you can imagine, especially right now. And unfortunately, an American Airlines jet that was flying in from Wichita, Kansas crashed with a Black Hawk military helicopter. And we are still learning how exactly that happened. We'll give you as much information as we can. But most of all, gosh, I am just praying for the families, for the friends, for the loved ones of everyone who died in these aircraft. As far as we understand right now, there were no survivors.

There were literally passengers that they found. underneath the icy surface of the Potomac still strapped in to their seats. And they were so close to the ground, they were about to land. They had probably already texted their loved ones waiting there to pick them up at the airport that they were about to land. We have some footage of the crash. It's not graphic. However, it is disturbing, just understanding the fear, the terror that was felt by all of these individuals.

probably if they saw this coming just moments before their demise. Here's Sot 1. I think people were just hoping against hope that there were survivors, but just watching it, it doesn't look like that is a possibility. So here's what we know right now. 27 bodies from the American Airlines passenger jet and one from the military helicopter have been recovered. Fatalities have been confirmed, though the authorities have not yet released the number of fatalities officially. It's believed that there were 60 passengers on the jet plus the flight crew, so 64 people in total. The American Airlines plane was traveling, as I said, from Wichita to D.C. It was also carrying members of the U.S. figure skating community along with two Russian figure skaters.

A U.S. Army spokesperson also confirmed that the helicopter had flown out of Fort Belvoir, an army base in northern Virginia, was not carrying what they call VIPs, and that just means like high-ranking military personnel. That does not mean that these people, these soldiers who died, were not very important because, of course, they were, but that's just the terminology that is typically used and the reporting of these kinds of events. According to radio traffic, air traffic control at the airport advised that helicopter of the plane's approach and asked the helicopter pilots to confirm that they had the plane in sight, which is standard procedure. And you can hear the pilot say, yes, we have an in sight,

but of course there's some confusion because it looks from what we can see that they ran directly into this plane who looked like it was landing very normally and doesn't look like anything was going wrong with the jet. It just looks like the pilot. It just looks like the pilot. of the Black Hawk didn't see the plane. Maybe he was looking at another plane. We don't, we don't really know how this could have possibly accidentally happened or why they were even running perpendicular to each other. Our new defense secretary Pete Hedgeseth put out a video that said the collision took place while the helicopter was participating in a quote routine annual training of night flights on a standard corridor for a continuity of government mission. So here is Hedgeset's video that contains some more

revelatory information. It was an annual proficiency training flight. And when we look at the crew, and we're not all, not all can have been notified. So we're going to withhold ranks and names at this point. We do know on our side who was involved. It was a fairly experienced crew. And it was doing a required annual night evaluation. They did have night vision goggles. The 12th Aviation Battalion, as of now, is granted a 48-hour operational pause on contingency missions as what happened is reviewed. And a senior-level aviation team, an investigative team from our Aviation Safety Center, was deployed last night. It already is in Washington, D.C. to investigate what's going on.

we anticipate that the investigation will quickly be able to determine whether the aircraft was in the corridor and at the right altitude at the time of the incident as i mentioned next of kin notifications are ongoing it's a tragedy a horrible loss of life for those 64 souls on that civilian airliner and of course the three soldiers in that black hawk man i mean what an event for this administration to be, I don't want to say dealing with, but that's what it is, to have to be working through so early on in this presidency secretary of transportation, Sean Duffy, was just sworn in, I believe, the day before yesterday, and already he is working through the first commercial crash in 16 years. I believe the last one was 2009. And I saw a statistic out there that I think is important for us to remember. Of course, our primary concerns, the friends and the family of all of the victims, but I know that there are a lot of you out there who travel and you fly and you have a lot of fear and anxiety about that. I completely understand. We fly a lot too and I have

some of those same thoughts. But I saw on X, someone say that there has only been one commercial crash since 2009 and since then there have been 150 million commercial flea. There have been 150 million commercial flights. So the odds are really good. The chances are really good for you. And commercial flying is in general extremely safe. So I just want to comfort you with that statistic. And also the reminder, this quote that I think of all the time. And it's actually, you guys will know, it's slipping in my mind who actually said this quote, but that we are immortal until God calls us home. You will not go a second early or a second late. Every single day of your life was already written for you before any of them came to be. That's Psalm 139. And so we can go for it in confidence

doing the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God, knowing that God works all things together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose. And even the bad and the evil that we see in the world works together to carry off this grand plan of redemption that is always going off without a hitch. So let us pray for the community in Wichita. It's a small town, tight-knit community. Let's pray for these friends and this family. Let's also pray that we get answers and that any solutions that need to be implemented are implemented. Let me go ahead and pause and tell you about our first sponsor for the day before we get into everything else that we have to talk about today. And it's a whole lot. And that is

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And Lake and Riley would still be alive. She would be completing nursing school. She would continue to be sharing the gospel with her friends and showing the love of Christ to people around her. But instead, one of the best people in the country was killed by one of the worst people who shouldn't have been here in the first place. And so the first law that he has signed as the 47th president was in her honor. Trump said that this bill is something that brought both Republicans and Democrats together.

As he rightly said, that's not easy to do. Lakin did it. Lakin did it. We will never forget Lakin Hope Riley. And I just want to cry already. And I will definitely cry as we play this clip of Lakin's mother speaking on her behalf and in honor of this bill signed into law. here's a two. He said he would secure our borders and that he would never forget about Lakin. And he hasn't. He's a man of his word. We'll trust that he will fight for the American people.

Most importantly, I want to thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because without his sacrifices, Lakin's story would have ended on that horrific day that she was taken from us. But because of him, we can continue living knowing that we will see Lakin again. There's no amount of change that will ever bring back our precious leg and our hope moving forward is that her life saves lives. We're so thankful of that her passion for helping others and her legacy for doing good in the name of Jesus Christ will carry on. Thank you. A standing ovation right there. Very well deserved. And that is a strong mom who is able to hold it together to be able to give glory to God. And you can just see the pain still in her voice. I mean, that pain will really never go away, but the fact that she still has

hope in Christ and even sees the work of redemption happening right now is really just amazing and bolsters my faith. And also just the compassion of President Trump right there. You can see him as he extends his hand out to her as she's trying to not cry and give her speech. She did a great job, but he also did a great job. And so just remember this. Remember Lakin, remember Lakin's mom as you are bombarded continually with the toxic empathy propaganda that only tells you the sad story of the mom of three who has been sent back to Honduras because she's here illegally. I've seen a lot of people say, why do those people need to go? And while it is primarily violent criminals right now, criminals who are a national security threat, who are also illegal aliens that are being deported,

as Tom Homan, the Borders are, has said, no one who is here illegally is off the table for deportation. So it is absolutely possible that moms, that dads, that others who are, you know, working and who are part of communities could be deported. And as he said very simply, it's not okay to be here illegally. And so you were hearing these heart-rending stories. And if you've read toxic empathy, you know that that is the strategy. That's how I open every chapter. I give you the story from the left-wing perspective so that by the end of the story,

you feel exactly what the left-wing narrative wants you to feel. That either it's on immigration, why should these people be deported? we should let everyone stay who wants to be here, who is fleeing a hard life somewhere else, whether it's on the transgender issue. Wow, if this person is truly liberated by identifying as someone else, how does it hurt me? Whether it's on the abortion issue, oh my goodness, this mother had to go through so much and giving birth to this child. Maybe we shouldn't have any pro-life laws.

And then I give you the other perspective. I tell you the story from the true victim's perspective to show you that toxic empathy blinds you to both reality and morality. It has you focus on one purported victim, on one particular victim, who in many cases is not really a victim, but is just portrayed as that by the media or left-wing activist. And it blinds you to the people on the other side of the moral equation with abortion, for example. They show you the quote-unquote victim of the mother, but they never tell you about the story of the true victim. What happens to the child inside the womb? when that woman exercises her right to, quote, bodily autonomy.

It is the same with immigration. The media does not want you to focus on Lake and Riley or Molly Tibbitt or Kate Steinley or the young woman in Texas outside of Houston, the 12-year-old who was raped and murdered by illegal immigrants, the young woman in Dallas, who was the victim of a home burglary when she came home from dinner one night and she had four illegal aliens from Venezuela, beat her over the head with their guns, steal from her, left her there. Thankfully, she is, okay, they don't want you to know about the apartment complexes that were taken over by Trinde, Aragua, and Aurora, Colorado, and those that are victimized

there, they don't want you to think about that. They are going to shine a spotlight only on the people that look vulnerable that are being deported to pull on your heartstrings to exploit your Christian compassion to get you to be against deportation. And when they do that, I want you to think of Lakin. And it's not just Lakin that I want you to think of. I want you to think of the biblical principles of nations and borders. And if you want more explanation on that, again, I really encourage you to just at least read the immigration chapter of toxic empathy. You can get it on Audible. You can get it on Amazon. It's really easy to get. It's really quick. But you will be fully equipped for all of the propaganda that you are getting, even when it comes

from Christianity Today. They've got an article out this week, which is not surprising at all. Christianity today is overwhelmingly progressive, especially under the direction of, I don't even remember his name. What's his name? Russell Moore. Trump's first week sends shutters through immigrant churches and ministries. This is something that we're seeing a lot, that ICE shouldn't be going to schools,

they shouldn't be going to churches. I even got a message from one of you saying, I'm for deportations, but they shouldn't be going to schools or churches, except for there are times when illegal aliens who know that they are facing deportation will use churches and schools as a shield because there was a previous law under the previous administration that prohibited ICE

from entering places of worship and schools. And so they were used as basically sanctuaries or shields for illegal aliens to be able to avoid deportation. And that's not okay. You shouldn't be able to hide behind. children and churches to break the law. So Christianity today shared several stories. They did exactly. They did the thing. They did the formula of toxic empathy that I talked about in my book, shared several stories of immigrants and ministries that are being affected by President Trump's

recent immigration policies. They portray them as cruel. The article begins by describing a Nicaraguan couple who came to the U.S. under Biden's parole program, a program that was launched to provide a legal pathway for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the U.S. and work for two years under a sponsor. But now it's time for them to go. But they choose this particular story, again, to portray all immigrants that are being deported as just honest, hardworking people who want to stay, which some of them are hardworking people who want to stay. But again, if we are a nation that has sovereignty and has borders, then we have a right and responsibility to enforce our immigration law. Every single country on Earth does as well.

The Center for Immigration Studies, however, reports that the program that I just referenced that Christianity today is saying is so great was created to solve the influx of illegal aliens coming across the border from those countries. Instead of apprehension and detention, the Biden administration created a program that allowed parolees from each country, roughly 386,000 from February 23 to April 24 to just stay here legally. And so Trump's administration has no responsibility to keep that program in place. The article says that thousands of screening appointments for asylum seekers were abruptly deleted Biden-era parole programs, which allowed migrants from certain countries to come to the United States for a limited period and work were

order to close. All refugee resettlement was halted. Indefinitely ICE gained expanded powers to deport undocumented immigrants without legal proceedings. Christianity today says the events of the last seven days are not merely a return to 2017 Trump policies. Multiple ministry leaders told CT there are next level in unprecedented. Justice school districts from California, Kentucky to New York, are emailing staff about what to do if ICE Asians show up on campus. Pastors at immigrant churches or briefing parishioners on their legal rights during encounters with immigration enforcement. Except this is not next level and unprecedented because under Barack Obama, 3.5 million illegal aliens were deported. 3.5 million. Now, that was over the course of eight years, whereas Trump has only

had four years in office. And while Trump was in office, he deported around a million. And so actually, like he was not even on pace to catch up with Obama, even if he had had eight years in a row. During Obama's eight years, 3.5 million illegal aliens were deported. He was nicknamed deporter in chief. And so I don't remember any outrage about that. Like, do you remember your friends crying about that? Do you know the names, the stories of any of the people that were deported under Barack Obama? Of course you don't. This is all about Trump, guys. Understand that, that they are outraged, the people in your life, the media, Christianity today, they are outraged not because of the deportations, but because this is Donald Trump.

Over a million people were also deported under Biden. Do you know any of their names? Do you know any of their stories? Do you think that was done in some like super compassionate, nice way and that Trump is doing something totally different? Like you also understand that under the Biden administration, there were tens of thousands, unaccompanied, unaccounted for minors. somewhere in the United States, actually not tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, as we have talked about before. And so I always hear Trump is the only one separating parents from children. That is simply not true. Those cages that you heard about in Trump's last administration, those were built by the Obama administration. As we also talked about in the immigration chapter of my book,

Democrats were totally on board with all of the things that Trump is doing now for years and years and years. It really wasn't until Trump ran for office on this anti-illegal immigration platform in 2016 the Democrats changed their tune. Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama. They were very at least rhetorically adamant that they were opposed to illegal immigration and pro-deportation. This has only changed because it is now the anti-Republican, anti-Trump thing to do. And most people in your life who are talking about this have not given a split second of thought to the immigration issue. They have no idea what the underlying facts are. They don't know the statistics. They haven't even thought about what a nation's sovereignty means. They haven't even

thought about what it means to be a citizen and to have rights and to have a society that is well ordered. They haven't thought about any of those things. They let the social media algorithm and Christianity today dictate their outrage, and that is it. Stephen Miller, who is part of the Trump administration, has a great response to all of this craziness. Here's SOTSix. I think the framing of the question is wrong. If there's a law enforcement activity that's taking place in a school, then that would be for the protection and defense of a child. As you know, there's a epidemic of child trafficking and labor trafficking in this country. When federal law enforcement officers are turned away from a school, it is the act of turning them

way that endangers the lives and safety of children. We've seen, as you know, half a million children trafficked over a four-year period of the United States. This administration is going to investigate every instance of child trafficking, labor trafficking, sex trafficking, child smuggling, and all the attendant crimes involved in that. And our message to everyone of the country is to cooperate fully with immigration and customs enforcement so that we can end the scourge of child trafficking and child abuse that has been endemic these last four years. Yep. And that's the other side of the toxic empathy propaganda that you are seeing. It is actually the enforcement of immigration law that best protects children.

Okay, Selena Gomez. Phil Vischer, in the midst of all of this, you'll remember he's the guy that created veggie tales, okay? He and I have gone back and forth many times on things, and we don't quite see eye to I, believe it or not. So he posted a picture, an old picture of the Ku Klux Klan. Okay? and they're carrying a banner that says America First and Phil Vischer says if you share a slogan with these folks or a tattoo with a mass shooter targeting immigrants, I don't even know what he is referencing there. It might be time to rethink some things. And yes, the responses to this post sort of prove my point. Every America First movement in the last 100 years has been tinged with cruelty. Okay, do you apply that same

rule to yourself, Phil Vischer. Because at the time of George Floyd's death and the time of the riots, you were repeating many of the mantras that Black Lives Matter was repeating. Like Black Lives Matter. Now, are you an avowed Marxist? Do you believe all of the communistic anti-fatherhood principles of Black Lives Matter? Do you share all of their values? You probably would say that you don't, but you would probably say something like, yeah, but I believe that Black Lives Matter, so it's okay for me to say that. Not everyone who is saying, I would say 99.9% of people who say America first have nothing in common with anyone, with any kind of cruel or racialized intentions. What we simply mean is that the American government should put the interests and the well-being of the American people first. And if you do not agree with that, tell me what interest in well-being the American government should put first.

Should everyone's interests and well-being in the entire world be on the same level of priority to the American government? Are you saying the American government should care about the well-being and the safety and the interests of people who live in Sri Lanka just as much as they care about the well-being and the safety and the prosperity of the people who live in Kentucky? Like, is that your position? Because that is the America first position that the American-first position that the American- government should care most about the American people. I know that's crazy, right? That's so radical and so racist. I happen to believe that the government of France should put the interests of the French people first. I happen to believe that the government in China should put the interest in the well-being of the people in China first. I believe that every country should put the interest and the well-being

of their people first, even at the expense of the well-being and the interest of other people. Of course, the ideal is to be compassionate to everyone and to help people out as we can. But just as you put the needs of your family first, so a government should put the needs of its own people first. This is really not that hard. I mean, it's an analogy that I have given many times that you've probably heard many times just because you have walls and doors and locks and a fence and an alarm system to protect your family does not mean that you hate your neighbor. It doesn't mean that you want bad things for them. Just because you wouldn't let a stranger barge into your home and sleep in your children's bed doesn't mean that you hate

everyone. You don't hate people in other neighborhoods. You don't hate the person next door. You don't hate someone who lives in another part of the state just because you don't want them to come into your house and eat the food that was bought for your children. You just love your children. You children more. You love your children differently. You understand that God has given you those children to steward and you will seek their interest, their safety, even if that makes someone else mad. Like even if someone else comes along to your house and says, well, you know, I don't have a house or I don't have a house that looks like this and I don't have enough food at my home. Now, you might want to help them and you should help them and compassion could compel you to help

them. But you would not allow that person into your home and to give them all of the things that are reserved for your children. That doesn't make you a good neighbor that makes you a cruel parent. Because there is this thing called the ordering of loves that J.D. Vance understands, but also Thomas Aquinas understood, also Augustine understood, also C.S. Lewis understood. Also, the church has understood for a very long time that there are different forms of love. There is love of one's country. There is love of one's children. There is love of a stranger to which Christians are even compelled. There is love to your neighbor. There are different kinds of loves. And how we order our affections actually matter. So in the context of that, in the context of well-ordered

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and your neighbor first and your community and fellow citizens before you care about the rest of the world. And he says that the left has inverted that. I think that he's right. You can tell me what you think. Here's top three. But there's this old school, and I think it's a very Christian concept, by the way, that you love your family and then you love your neighbor and then you your community and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country and then after that you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world a lot of the far left has completely inverted that they seem to hate the citizens of their own country and care more about people outside their own borders that is no way to run a society and i think the profound difference that donald trump brings

to the leadership of this country is the simple concept america first thank god we now have an American president who's looking after the citizens of his own country. Yep, absolutely right. But not everyone agrees with him. We've got some lefties on X who are upset. Benjamin Blake Speed Watkins. He is a, I don't know, a philosopher. His ex profile says, LOL, this isn't in the New Testament. Love thy neighbor isn't limited to those next door. It's a commandment to care for the well-being of others, regardless of who they are, a call to be selfless. American Christianity has become a right-wing accessory rather than a a serious ethic, except that he didn't say that we should not love other people. He didn't say

that we shouldn't love people who don't look like us. He didn't say that we shouldn't love people from other countries. He's talking about an ordering of loves. David Pierce, writer of the abolitionist project, which aims to use genetic engineering to abolish suffering in all sentient life. Yeah, super interested in his Christian worldview. He says Jesus's teaching on love is radically inclusive, love your neighbor as yourself. Indeed, the whole point of the parable of the Good Samaritan is to undermine the idea of prioritizing love based on closeness. Mass deportations are unchristian J.D. Vance should reconsider. That is not at all. The Good Samaritan story is not undermining the idea that you should love your family the most or differently than other people.

It might be conveying the message that we should love and serve people regardless of what they look like. And I don't think any Christian is disagreeing with that. Philip Goff, philosopher and author, nowhere in the New Testament do we find this idea. Team Trump are rewriting Christianity and others are actually saying this is pagan and tribal. This is not a Christian idea, except it is a Christian idea. Again, when you look at this ordering. of loves, which has been a part of Christian history and Christian doctrine and biblical understanding for a long time, we can go all the way back to, for example, Thomas Aquinas. He says there is an

order in charity, and God is the principle of that order. God is to be loved out of charity before all others. The other beings that are to be loved out of charity are, so to speak, lined up in their proper places, subordinate to God. We are to love God more than we love ourselves. What we love in ourselves is from God and is lovable only on account of God. He goes on to say, we rightly love one neighbor more than another, our parents, for instance, or our children. In this, we violate no law, so long as we do not withhold requisite love from any neighbor. The dearest objects of charity among neighbors are those who are closest to us by some tie, relationship, common country, and so on. The tie that is strongest of all is the tie of blood. Hence, it is not

that we should love our kindred more than others. And then he goes on to explain this. I encourage you to look up Thomas Aquinas' thoughts on well-ordered loves. And C.S. Lewis also writes about this in a couple places. He writes about it in some of his letters. He writes about it in the four loves. Really good book I recommend you reading. He also writes about it in the abolition of man.

He says this. He says St. Augustine defines virtue as Ordo Amoramor. the ordinate condition of the affections in which every object is accorded that kind of degree of love, which is appropriate to it. Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought. When the age for reflective thought comes, the pupil who has been thus trained in ordinate affections, or just sentiments, will easily find the first principles in ethics, but to the corrupt man, they will never be visible at all, and he can make no progress in that science. Plato before him said the same.

The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things, which really are pleasant, likable, disgust, and hateful. And so he's really kind of going beyond the scope of what we're talking about when it comes to patriotism and putting your family and children and neighbors first. But again, going all the way back to Augustine and the rightly ordered affections, which first half. to come from God. Augustine says in city from God, or city of God. He says, we must, however, observe right order, even in our love for the very love by which we love that is worthy to be loved so that there may be in us that virtue which enables us to live well. Hence, it seems to me that a brief and true definition of virtue is rightly ordered love. 1st. Timothy 5.8 says, but if anyone does not

provide for his relatives and especially for members of his own household. He has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. So if you don't take care of your family, if you don't provide for them, you are worse than an enemy of God that is bound for hell. That's what the New Testament teaches. Jeremiah 297, most of us know Jeremiah 29.11, I know the plans I have for you, but as God is talking to the Israelites to have been exiled to Babylon, he says, but seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare, you will find your welfare. And while we are not ancient Israel, we are exiles in this world. And I believe the same principle stands that we are to seek the welfare

and the place in which God has providentially and purposely placed us. Again, does that mean we accept no immigrants? Does that mean we have to accept no refugees or no asylum seekers or that we shouldn't love people who don't look like us or that we should hate other countries by no means. But I think that we recognize that God is a God of order who has given us countries, borders, languages, cultures for us to thrive. Because we are made in his image, we are also people of order. We need a certain ordering of things. He has given us parents. He has given us families. He has given us structures. He has given us the ability to create societies and cultures and structures because we do not deal well with chaos. We don't deal well with

anarchy. We actually need organization. We need order in order to live and to function and to thrive. I mean, that is how anything good in civilization has been created by creating some kind of cohesive society with shared values that prioritizes those values and the interests of those people with shared values first. And obviously not every society has been created like that, but that is what makes Western civilization and America unique and so good. And so people just simply misunderstand J.D. Vance, or they don't misunderstand, they misconstrue him.

And people who claim to be Christians don't actually know anything about Christian doctrine. They don't know about the Bible. They don't know about Christian history. And an honest leftist will admit that they actually think that way too. They don't prioritize like the safety of a random child that they don't know over the safety of their child. Like most people don't actually function like that even if they say that they do. And the people who do function like that, like a lot of them are like single women in their

40s who voted and 50s and 60s who voted for Kamala Harris. That's misplaced mothering. They are channeling their natural nurturing instincts into a stranger because they never allowed that natural instinct to manifest in an actual biological or adopted or foster child. And so that natural instinct to mother actually channels itself into social justice causes, including into illegal immigrants. And it satisfies that innate longing to be a mom. And so there's just a lot going on here. And J.D. Vance is absolutely right. I think from a Christian perspective.

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Senator, I have no power over that organization. I'm not part of it. I resigned from the board. I was just a few months ago. You founded that. You certainly have power. You can make that. Are you supportive of this?

I've had nothing to do with leadership. Are you supportive of these onesies? I'm supportive of vaccines. Are you supportive of this clothing, which is militantly anti-vaccine? Okay. So the onesies say unvax, unafraid. And the other one says no vacs, no problem. And Bernie Sanders put pictures of these onesies up.

Are you supportive of the onesies? Are you supportive of the onesies? And in the back, behind RFK, who is holding it together and like, uh, Megyn Kelly is cracking up. She is laughing so hard. And I just love that. Are you supportive of the onesies? I think that could go on a hat too.

No, I want to get a onesie that says, are you supportive of this onesy? Not for me, but for a baby. And maybe I can, what did you say? Sorry, also can I just say military? Intantly anti-vax is such a funny thing to say about a onesie. Militantly? Wait, is that what Bernie said to how he described it? Yeah. Are you supportive of these onesies that are militantly anti-vax? Yeah. What would be like an adorably anti-vax or like a softly anti-vax versus militantly.

Militantly anti-vax. I like that idea for a onesie. Militantly anti-vax baby. Yeah, that's a good one. Oh my goodness. That was absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And if you didn't listen to or watch yesterday's episode, you can go do that. You can hear my thoughts about a little bit about just like the culture surrounding vaccines and also RFK Jr. All right. We've got, I've got some breakup advice to give to you all in light of a very public breakup that is going on right now. Now, this is not simply celebrity gossip. I mean, if you wanted just the celebrity gossip, you could go somewhere to get that. I'm going to give you a summary of something that's happening. But we're also going to explain why I care about this and the lessons that I think are important to draw from it. This is a Bachelor breakup between Matt James and Rachel Kirkconnell. So he was on season 25 of The Bachelor. He was the franchise's first ever Black Bachelor. He recently split with his longtime girlfriend, Rachel Kirkconnell, announcing the breakup with an Instagram. post prayer. Very strange. She broke her silence on a recent episode of Call Her Daddy, a show that we do not, cannot recommend. But it gives context for why we're talking about this because this is in the news. And this is just a guide to how not to date and how not to

break up as a believer. And I do think it's important to talk about. And again, this is all public. We're not speculating here. This is what happened. And there's also some interesting cultural moments in this. And you'll remember who Rachel Kirkconnell is in a second. So this happened in 2020. You remember the craziness of 2020. This is when he was filming the Bachelor, the first ever Black Bachelor. Then in January 2021, this is when the season began airing on television. And after it started airing, these quote unquote, racially insensitive photos from Rachel's past surfaced on social media. So in the photos, Rachel is seen attending an antebellum plantation themed college party in 2018. She was wearing

like one of those, you know, hoop skirts. And it was, I mean, I think I even know it might have been like, it might have been a convivium or something. I, I, I would. to school in South Carolina and you will not find any pictures of me wearing a hoop skirt or going to anything like antebellum themed. But I am familiar with some of these parties. She went to college in Georgia. And so she was at a formal where they were dressing up like this. And everyone said in light of all the craziness going on that that was racist, that that was white supremacist, even though they weren't celebrating slavery. It had nothing to do with race. Like the South isn't inherently racist. It's not inherently about slavery and not everything from that time is about that or is about you or is

about being offended. However, this caused this huge storm on social media. You had all of these people, other contestants coming out against her and saying this is so awful and everyone was having this like big long conversation. Like you'll remember Rachel Lindsay. She was another Rachel. She was a former bachelorette, the first black bachelorette. And she and Chris Harrison, like, had this back and forth. And Chris Harrison, who had been the host of The Bachelor for 20 or 20 plus years, kind of defended Rachel and said, well, that was a while ago. And then what happened to Chris Harrison? He was let go. And he was replaced by Emmanuel Ocho. And Emmanuel Ocho was the guy who was doing the little silly conversations about hard conversations with the black man,

which was basically just perpetuating all of the propaganda at the time. White people are privileged. White people carry inherent guilt. White people have an inherent responsibility to people with more melanin in their skin, perpetuating all kinds of false narratives about the police and systemic injustice at the time. He also a couple years ago after the overturning of Roe v. He had an honest conversation about abortion with a bunch of women with the hard conversations with the black man or whatever.

And it was completely lopsided. He claims to be a Christian. It was total pro-choice propaganda. So it doesn't really surprise me that he was chosen for this. He was also embroiled in a lot of drama recently with ESPN. I won't get into that right now. But he was chosen as Chris Harrison's replacement. And so poor Rachel, she got a bunch of flack.

for this. While the show was continuing to air in February 2021, Rachel then posted an apology to her Instagram, admitting that her ignorance was racist and that she was wrong. Okay, so she went through the struggle session and she came out on the other side and said, you know, the only way that I'm going to be able to rectify my reputation is to admit that she was being racist in 2018, which of course she wasn't. Like she's, you know, basically saying ignorance is an excuse, blah, blah, blah. So he chose Rachel. They were dating, not engaged at the end of filming the season. But then after all of this blew up in 2021, they apparently broke up. And James revealed this to Emmanuel Occo in after the final Rose special in March of 2021. He said, when Rachel spoke out

and publicly acknowledged that she would do better and she apologized is when I finally was able take a check on myself and see where I was at. And I wasn't okay because it was in that moment that he realized that the conversation that I had that Rachel might not understand what it means to be black in America. Then Rachel joined James and Akko on the after the final rose. And despite her apologies and her feelings for James, he made it clear that the relationship was over. So this is on TV. He says after all of this, this controversy, this racial controversy, again, after they had been together. Here's what this guy says to Rachel. So up five. When I questioned our relationship, it was on the context of you not fully understanding my blackness and what it means to be a

black man in America and what it would mean for our kids when I saw those things that were floating around the internet. And it broke my heart because this is the last conversation I thought we'd be at it. I had to take a step back for you to put in that work that you outlined that you needed to do. And that's something you got to do on your own. And that's why we can't be in a relationship. Oh my gosh. So you have to do the work because you wore a dress in 2018 and you went to some antebellant party in 2018, even though he knows her now and says that he loves her and loved her enough to like be on a path toward marriage after the bachelor after he saw some of these pictures instead of being like you know what i know you i love you you're with me you're obviously not racist he broke up

with her according to the interview and call her daddy because a lot of people around him were like friends family were like no you shouldn't be with her he broke up with her and said you have to do the work there's your sign girl he doesn't love you i mean that's that's a horrible thing to do in front of people you are in you are calling someone one of the worst things that you can call them and saying, I don't think I can raise kids with you because you might be racist still. I don't know. What are your thoughts? I remember watching this when it happened. I was watching it with a friend.

And I felt so uncomfortable because look at her face during that. She just has to take it. She's devastated. Because what else is she going to do? She can't fight back. So she's just accepting all of this. I would just say if someone embarrassed me like that on national television, I wouldn't date them for four years after that.

No. So, no, it's so embarrassing. Gives me the ick even watching it now. Yeah, absolutely. Poor thing. But she, I mean, she must have really loved him or she just felt like a lot of guilt because they rekindled their relationship, right? Only two months later in February 2024 last year, James told people that engagement was the goal. Well, if y'all are in your 20s, I don't know how old.

Do you know how old he is, Bree? I don't. 20s, 30s. I think that she's definitely in her 20s if she was in college in 2018, right? He's 33. She's 28. Okay, 33, 28. I've been dating for four years.

He finally says after they've been dating for three years that engagement is the goal. Well, yeah, let's hope so. I mean, they also say that they are Christians. He definitely says that he's a Christian. If you're dating at that point in your life without moving in that direction, we've got a big problem. The couple dated for roughly four years, though they didn't live together due to James's religious beliefs. That's a quote. And actually, we heard in the Call Her Daddy podcast, the Rachel said they basically did live together. They had separate spaces. They had separate

apartments, but they basically did live together. So they were playing like they were married. And so, of course, they were very attached because we're not meant for that. We're not meant to live with someone before you get married. You're not meant to. You're supposed to reserve all of that, not for dating, not for engagement, but for marriage. You are supposed to save sex for that, and you are supposed to save the most intimate parts of your life for that because God cares for you. He cares for your body. He cares for your heart. He doesn't want you to play wife, to play mom, only to get your heart broken a few years later. He met for you to be in the sacred, holy, monogamous bonds of marriage for life because he cares for your heart and your soul and your mind

and your body. These things weren't meant to be given away to so many people and so flippantly. And so we've got the announcement of the breakup or I guess after most people found out that they broke up. He posted this on Instagram and this is just a great example of what you should not do if you have broken up with someone. So he posted a picture of them together, I guess, on The Bachelor. And he said this like a prayer. The caption was, Father God, give Rachel an eye. It's actually Rachel and me. Strength to mend our broken hearts. Give us a peace about this decision to end our relationship that transcends worldly understanding. Shower our friends and family with kindness and love and comfort to us and remind us that our joy comes from you.

Lord, there's nothing wrong with that prayer. Like I think that that could be a really beautiful sincere heartfelt prayer to pray to God, not to put on your Instagram. I think that is probably hurtful to the person that you've just broken up with. It's also strange. It seems very performative. It seems some, I think, Bree said earlier, like a Christian virtue signal, like kind of like a form of like posting a black square. And I think it goes against what we're also told to like make sure that we're praying in secret and that we're not trying to show our righteousness to others. This is just, it's very, it's very messy, but it's also just a bad example, I think, from beginning to end of how Christians should conduct ourselves in relationship. What do you think, Bree? What are some lessons that you draw from this?

Well, one of the things that irked me a little bit in her interview, she said, yes, the thing about, you know, she, they didn't live together because he didn't want to because he's very religious and she was okay with. that. I take that to me she's not and just kind of went along with it. She does have pronouns in her profile. Yeah. She does have pronouns in her profile and he doesn't. And she says, but at the same time, I'm a little confused because we're still traveling together, staying in the same hotel, half of his stuff is at my place. So they were living together essentially. And to me, it's just like four years is a long time to be sitting there waiting for a ring. And, and And that's not fair. She said when he broke up with her, she said at the end, he said, this is a quote from her,

he said that at the end of the day there were just qualities about me that he worries about having in a wife. He didn't realize for four years. Yeah. That that was the same worries that you had in the beginning? Yeah. That she was like secret, secretly pro slavery? Secret racist. Yeah.

I guess that didn't come up again until four years later. So. And also she talked about like his dishonesty in the beginning when they like broke up and he was hanging out with other women. And so again, I think the performative righteousness when she says that, you know, she was really confused because she wanted to live together. Apparently he didn't. But they're traveling together. She said we stayed in the same hotel. Half of his stuff is still, you know, like at my house in Georgia. We basically did live together. And so I mean, what example was. And so I mean, what example. was she sat for like a Christian man who is supposed to be this leader who refuses to give her like what her heart longs for, which is true intimacy and probably marriage. And he is just like kind of stringing her along and playing like husband and wife without actually making that commitment. And then at the end of it all posting a public prayer after he had already taken her through the public humiliation ritual of calling her a racist on TV. Yep. It's bad. And the reality is if she's not a Christian, maybe he witnessed to her

throughout their relationship, I don't know. It would almost be worse. It would almost be like, here's what the Bible says, but also like I'm going to give you, I'm going to take, you know, I don't know what they were doing physically. I'm not saying that, but we're going to pretend to be married. That's not a leadership. That's not a good example. And this breakup post, which he posted without telling her beforehand, apparently. is another example of like, okay, well, she's associating prayer now with this experience, which is also just sad to me. Yeah.

And obviously, like, there's always going to be a lot that we don't know. But I know a lot of you out there are going through breakups have gone through breakups. I had been through breakups. And they just, there's just no other way to say it. They just suck. And they're always sad and they're always bad. And they're never fun. But I do want to remind you.

that I can't promise you that God has like your future husband waiting around the corner. I don't think any of us are guaranteed that, but I do encourage you to look out for the red flags and listen when you have an inkling inside your head or your heart or your gut, however you want to describe it, that this is not right. When you feel this is not right, we can't always be driven by our emotions, but usually that is a conviction telling you not to say. settle. Do not settle because you are scared that you are never going to find someone better. It is better to be single and sad than married and regretful. Okay. So remember that. Remember that the Lord's ways are better. His timing is better. His plan is better. And you do not have to be a wife and mom in order to be a complete woman of God. Those things are beautiful. I have them. I love them. They're wonderful to aspire to. But you can be what God calls you to be. You can do what God calls you to do right. now in this stage of life, you can have fullness of joy and contentment and satisfaction right now even before or without that stage of your life. And by the way, if you're going to break up with someone, I say, do it honestly, do it honorably. And also, if you can't keep your hands off each other,

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Let me find it on my document that I just thought was ridiculous. So I used to follow this person. I don't really know who she is. But she posted this. It has 15,000 likes and loss of replies and responses on X. She says, I got invited to a baby shower. And on the invite, it said, please purchase gifts from the baby registry. I'm sorry, she said.

If you invite me to a party and then tell me where and how to buy a present, I'm not coming. And you're not getting a present. No one owes you a gift because you got pregnant, she says. And certainly no one owes you a specific gift if you're choosing because you got pregnant. No one owes you a gift because you choose to get married. either. If you have a wedding and are only inviting people with the anticipation of gifts, don't invite them. One last post to clear up confusion, then it's going on mute. Yes, including where you are registered for a baby shower is standard, but telling people to purchase

from that registry is not. She truly seems like a delight. And fun at parties. I'm going to ask her if she will send me her mail and address just so I can invite her to my next party. And I'll tell her exactly where I want her. Yeah, send a registry. Okay. So if you're invited to a baby shower and you are told that exact language, what is your thought? You're told, here's the registry, please purchase from this registry. What are you thinking?

I'm thinking that makes it so much easier for me. You know, unless it's someone I'm super close with. But even then, I would still get them something that they needed from the registry. and then maybe something that's like personal. I don't, I can't imagine any scenario in which I would be offended. Yeah. By them asking for what they probably need. My only thought is that she's misunderstanding.

She's saying it as, she's saying it as a directive, like purchase me a gift. And if, and you are purchased me a gift and purchase it from this registry. Like, don't show up empty handed. That's not what is meant. That's not how I read it. guarantee that's not what it's meant. It's like, hey, if you're going to purchase a gift, please purchase it from the registry. Yeah. But I saw all of these replies saying, I hate when people tell me to purchase from a registry. I get them, I get someone,

whatever I want to give them. I'm not going to necessarily purchase from the registry. That is so selfish. I'm just confused about that perspective in general, though. Me too. Because why? Because I think that makes the gift giving about You want to be seen as like ultra creative? Well, I don't want your watercolor wine glasses. I would maybe understand it if they were getting you something super expensive. If they wanted to outdo everyone else and they wanted to get you, you know, whatever, a car, I don't know, something crazy. Then sure, but still you don't need to be offended by what they're asking for.

It's a little different, I think, with baby registries and wedding registries maybe. I've seen some weird stuff on wedding registries that I'm like, I would not buy. that for you. No, but okay, I also think that when you're registering for a wedding, you're like thinking about all the guests that you have and you're trying to get like a wide range of things based on who you know is coming, based on like what people can afford. And so you're trying to get some like more affordable things and you're like, well, my, you know, my mom's friend is coming. Maybe I will register for this, you know, thing. Who knows? Maybe someone will get me like the mixer that I'm looking for. And I think some people,

when they look at the registry, they, like, might bulk at that or get offended. Like, I'm not buying, not saying that you're saying this, but like, I'm not buying that $400 mixer. And it's like, well, it's not for you, Stacey. That's for, like, Mrs. Archibald or whoever. Like, she's going to buy that. Yeah, that's true. And because I saw a lot of replies to this being like, I don't want to buy your, like, fancy branded stuff.

I'm just going to buy you, like, whatever onesies you want. I think that's silly, too. Yeah. It is silly. Because I highly doubt that it was only expensive stuff. Again, I think people really try hard to give a wide range. Like if you can only get me a box of wipes, that's great. I love a box of wipes.

But if you can't get me the doona, please, by all means, give me the doona. So I just think this mentality is so, so strange. I'm interested to see what people have to say in the comments. And if you are one of those people who doesn't like registries or doesn't purchase off of registries, what someone has taken the time to expressly tell you that they want, then I would like to know your mentality. I would please tell me your reasoning. I don't know.

I just thought that this was so grumpy, old woman shaking her fist at the clouds type vibe. Yeah. There's something else going on here for sure. Also, no one owes you a gift because you got pregnant. Yeah. No one's saying they do. Where did that come from?

Yeah. Don't go. Don't go to the, don't go. Don't go to party. You know, like, why it's called a shower. Like, you know that you're not taking a shower there. Like, you're showering someone with gifts. That is what the shower.

I want to know how in the world you got on this invite list and how this poor mom feels seeing your attitude. I mean, not only would you be uninvited. I think I would put out a restraining order. Like, this is crazy behavior. Crazy. Like, so mean for no reason. Like, here's your, imagine, like, you got this cheering. cute baby shower invitation with turtles on it and this is your reaction and you decide to post on

X how angry you are. That's, that's, I don't know, that's wild. That's just wild to me. All right. We really covered a spectrum of things today on today's episode of Relatable and we didn't even get into everything that we wanted to talk about. There's just always so much. We've got a really fun and meaningful interview that's coming out on Monday. Maybe you have followed on Instagram, a woman who is known by the moniker the blind mom. She makes a lot of really funny, informative, and entertaining videos. But she's a Christian. And I wanted to hear what her life is like as a blind mother.

And I wanted to hear more about her faith. And so it's a really encouraging conversation that you're going to love coming out on Monday. And oh my gosh, Bree, you almost let me forget this. You almost let me forget the share the arrows announcement. Wow. If y'all have made it this far, I could have done that instead of the whole debate. Okay, share the arrows. Share the arrows is happening on October 11th, 20, 25 in Dallas, Texas.

And I am so pumped about that. Here is a video making that announcement. September 28th, 2004, a day we've been praying for and working toward for months. The first ever share the arrows. A gathering of 4,000 women across North America. Eager to hear biblical truth? The evangelical church has swapped the biblical mandate of godly confrontation for godless, spineless compromise. To be challenged in their calling.

Start the day by assuming that your family's purpose is to be a blessing to others and not simply to receive blessings. and to experience peace in the midst of chaos. We shared laughs. I would tell 20-year-old Candace that your 20s are not the best decade of your life. Yeah, so true. We were equipped, but Christianity means nothing if truth is not real.

And we were called to courage. That's where our courage comes from. That's where the courage of the martyrs came from. And that power is sufficient for our confidence and our courage today. I never hosted an event before. So I didn't know what to expect, but it was obvious to everyone there. This was the beginning of a movement. Okay, if you are just watching that,

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reminding you for the next month tickets on sale february 28th i cannot wait all right that's all we got time for today see you back here on monday