Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 712 | How My Politics Have Changed Over the Past Two Years | Q&A

Episode Date: November 23, 2022

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Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort.

We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. How crunchy am I? Do I have any liberal opinions? How do you get over the fear of flying? How do you share Christ as a high school teacher?

We are answering all of these questions and more on today's episode of Relatable. Also, before we get into it, make sure that you check out our beautiful Christmas shirts that we have on sale for you right now, 30% off for Black Friday. We will link them in the description of this episode, both on YouTube and on the listening side. Check it out. Get it for a friend. I love the design. I can't wait to be wearing mine. So just click on the link and it'll send you there. And for Black Friday, you've got that 30% off. All right. This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. So go to Good Ranchers.com slash Allie. That's good ranchers.com slash All right, guys, lots of interesting questions that you sent me on Instagram that I'm going to try to answer as quickly as possible to get as many answers in as I can. As you guys know, I'm very verbose. And so sometimes it's hard for me to answer these questions quickly because I just kind of answer them stream of consciousness.

So I'll try to answer a variety as well, some serious, some fun. So let's see. Someone says, this is interesting. I've never been asked this before. I am scared to fly. Describe a beautiful flight. Okay, girl, I'm scared to fly too. I don't like flying.

I fly a lot. And I've flown a lot in my life. And I don't like flying. I get nervous every time we take off. I get nervous during turdness. and I look around to see how other people are reacting and how the flight attendants are reacting. And let me tell you. So, okay, this is not what you asked for. It's the opposite of what you ask for, but it's going to help. Just wait. I have been through some really scary flights.

Let me tell you about a couple of scary flights. And I promise I'm going to bring this back to comforting you. So I remember I was flying to, like, Lubbock, Texas on this tiny flight. I was in the back of the bus. This was several years ago. And it was so turbulent. It was really rainy. it was thundering outside. It was not a good experience. I mean, it was like all over the place. I was really, really nervous. And we were fine. I was on a flight once to New York City. And I think I was coming from L.A. So long flight, it was like, I think it was a red eye. And that always kind of freaks me out anyway. And we were taking off. And on our takeoff, we like dropped. I mean, so much so that everyone felt it. everyone kind of bounce, everyone freaked out and we're like, this is it. And we were fine.

There was a time that I was flying to D.C. And we started to land. And right before the wheels hit the runway, we zoomed back up into the air. Also very freaky. But we were fine. There was another time that I was flying to, I don't remember Ohio, somewhere out there. And we were about to get on the runway and the wheels almost hit the ground and we flew back into the air and we had to go around and around and around and around and around and we were not communicated to about why what was happening was there a threat on the ground or the wheels not working if so how are we going to land and then they tried to do it again they tried to do it I think it was two more times maybe one more time but two more times I believe they tried to land and they go back up into the air

I'm like, how many more times can we do this? We ended up, it was that it was foggy and there wasn't enough visibility and so they couldn't land. And so we had to go to another airport in another state and get fuel and then go back to where we were supposed to land. And we were fine. So I say all this to say, I've been through a lot of turbulence. I've run through a lot of unknowns. I've been through a lot of nerve-wracking times on planes. And every time, it has been totally.

fine every time I have landed. So I try to remember that. Whenever I am nervous on planes, I try to remember about the times when turbulence was worse than this, when the flight attendants looked more anxious than this, when things seemed even more unsure and more unknown than this. And I remember that, okay, all of those times, things were fine and this isn't as bad as that. So you asked for a beautiful flight. I gave you my bad flights to, so you can have something to anchor you and remind you when you're in the air that there are different kinds of things that happen all the time on flights and it's totally fine. Statistically, you are, you have really, really, really, really, really good chances of having a smooth and safe flight totally normal landing.

It's actually statistically more dangerous for us to drive than it is to fly. Of course, there are beautiful flights. You can look out the window. You can see the formation of the cloud. sunrise, sunset. That's always nice. I'm not a window seat gal, but if you are a window seat person, it comforts you to kind of like look outside, then I understand that. Try to get yourself a window seat. And it really can be a good time to just say, wow, God created all of this. He's sovereign over all of this. That's really amazing. So, and that's just my reminder to you is that God is completely and totally in control, completely and totally in control, and that there is nothing that can surpass or transcend his care for you. Remember that every single head on your, every single hair,

and he has also counted all of the heads that you have, hopefully it's just one, but every single hair on your head is numbered. And you are more valuable to him than the lilies of the field, which he dresses in splendor. And so understand that he is with you, he cares about you more than you care about yourself, and that actually the time that you were going to die has already been ordained. It was ordained before you were even born. And a plane ride can't change that. And so just go forward in the comfort that he has you and that every single day of your life

was already planned before any of them came to be. All right. Next question is somewhat of a theological one. And that question is, who is my favorite saint? Saint Joseph, St. Paul, St. Augustine. Mine is probably St. Ignatius. Now, my sweet friend, my sweet Catholic friend, thank you for asking this question. I love my Catholic friends and my Catholic listeners, but as you probably know by now, I am very Protestant.

And the Protestant belief is that we as Christians as the body of Christ are all saints. Whereas the Roman Catholic Church believes that saints have to be canonized by the Pope or a prominent bishop in order to be recognized as saints. It's kind of a different status or a different category than the rest of the church. That's not what Protestants believe. And we base our belief that all who are in Christ are saints on scripture. there are several references, especially in the epistles, from Paul to the churches in Ephesus, in Corinth, for example, that address Christians as saints. For example, Ephesians 1-1, Paul and Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God to the saints who are in Ephesus

and are faithful in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 219. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. Romans 1, similar greeting to all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints. To all those who are in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints, grace to you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Also, Romans 16, 2, that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the the saints, Ephesians 412 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry for the building up of the body of Christ. Ephesians 5.3. But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be

named among you as is proper among the saints. Here in context, Paul is addressing Christians. There are several other references to this. Acts 932, Acts 913, Acts 2610, Philippians 421. and I know I'm kind of going all over the place within the New Testament when I am looking at who the saints are, but we as the body of Christ, we are saints. When you look at the Greek word for saint, which is hagios, I hope that I'm pronouncing that correctly, that simply means consecrated to God, holy, sacred, and pious. And what we know about Christians is that we are all called to be consecrated by God. We are all called to be holy as God is holy.

We are all sacred because we are set apart. 1 Corinthians 1-2. To the Church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy. Those are the same words, or they come from the same word, haggios, as saints. And so Christians are all saints. While I do say St. Augustine, because people understand, you know, what I'm talking about or who I'm talking. about when I say St. Augustine, I don't have a favorite saint in the sense that I don't believe that they are in a different category at all than the rest of Christians. If you just mean,

do I have a favorite Christian? I don't know the answer to that quite yet, but that is a difference. There are many important differences between Protestant theology and Catholic theology, but that is one of them. There is no path to becoming a saint beyond by grace through faith, as Ephesians tells us, being saved by Christ. Then you become a saint. Isn't that incredible that God makes us holy and consecrated in that way by his blood, not by any effort by the way that we put in, but completely by his grace through faith? That's really incredible.

Hey, this is Steve Deast. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort. We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos.

If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this Steve Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. Let's see. How did I first get into politics? This is a question that I've answered quite a few times. So if you're new here, great. It'll be the first time that you hear it. If you are, have been here for a while, you've probably heard the story. I'll try to give the quick version. So I've always kind of been interested in the culture and theology and politics to an extent. I would not call myself super, super political in high school or even really in college, although I was more aware of it because I voted for. for the first time in college. But I really started getting interested in politics, like in elections, and I guess you would call it the culture wars, probably 2014, 2015. I studied communication studies in college.

I delivered the commencement speech. And when I delivered the commencement speech, I just remember this almost out-of-body experience where I thought to myself, I want to do this, this. Whatever this feeling is, I want that for the rest of my life. this is what I feel called to do. And that is basically give speeches or speak in front of people. My parents can tell you I have always been that way. I've loved communicating. I've loved talking. Got me in trouble a lot growing up in class because I couldn't stop talking until I decided while I might as well try to make a living doing that. I went into PR and social media after

college and I didn't know how I was going to try to satisfy that like scratch that itch that I had to speak in front of people. But in the two, 2015, 2016 election, I kind of just found an opening. I was driving from Atlanta to Athens, Georgia, and I just had a light bulb go off. And I called my mom and I said, I think that I should try to tell young people why they need to vote in the election. Young Christians, why they need to vote in the election? I lived in Athens, Georgia at the time with my husband. And I was like, well, I've got this audience right here. I lived right off of Sorority Row on Millage Avenue. And I was like, well, maybe I can just go to these sororities and ask them if they would let me come into their chapter meetings

and talk to them about why they need to vote in the presidential primary at the time because it was 2015. And I just wanted to do it for free. Like I really saw them as them giving me a gift of an audience and giving me a gift of their time. So I gave a presentation. I made it on Prezie in my spare time because I was still working full time. And I would go to these chapter meetings and just deliver a nonpartisan presentation. It was pretty nonpartisan anyway about why they should vote and like what issues are at stake. And I just loved it.

I felt so energized. Again, had that feeling that this is what I'm supposed to be doing. And then that kind of just evolved over time. I started speaking to other organizations, again, for free in my spare time, in addition to my full-time job. I started a blog called the Conservative Millennial. And then we moved in 2017. and through a bunch of different connections that have to do with like my friend Mary Ashley,

who was doing traffic for a local radio station, getting connected to him, who connected me to someone else, who connected me to someone else, who connected me to someone else at what was called The Blaze at the time. And I started doing videos for them. I actually like ran their social media for a little bit. And I started trying to do that full time. And then I started getting calls from Fox News to be on their shows. I kept on writing. I kept on speaking places. I put a lot of time and effort into this craft without getting paid for a while. And I kept working a full-time job while I was doing that so I could really pursue this. So it was a lot of hearing no. It was a lot of not, my family believed in me absolutely. But other than that, I don't think many people thought that

it was anything other than a hobby. And then just continuing to put myself out there in a way that most people simply aren't willing to, putting myself out there for free in a way that a lot of people aren't willing to for a long time. And now I guess it's been seven years. I started this podcast in 2018. And it's just grown. Thank the Lord for that. And there's been a lot of people that have helped me, that have supported me along the way that have helped me get here. And I'm just thankful for the grace of God and the generosity, the help of other people who have, yeah, allowed me to have this platform. So it's been really fun. I don't know what I would be doing if I weren't doing this. I sometimes think, okay, when the like apocalypse comes or like when America, when things like

totally completely hit the fan, like, what's going to be my role in that? Okay. So I can't sew. I can cook okay. I don't have any, like I can't. Like, I can't. I can't farm. I keep telling myself that I'm going to learn how to can and jar and preserve. Can't do any of that. I just watch the videos and I convince myself that I'm going to be a prepper and I never take any steps to do that. So I guess I'm just going to have to continue doing this. I'm going to be down in my bunker and I won't be speaking to anyone, but I will still be hosting a podcast because that's all the skills that I have. That's all that I'm good for. Maybe I can be a midwife or something like that. Yeah, but I've thought about that a lot.

I don't have anything else to offer. There's nothing else I can do. I just talk a lot and some of you guys enjoy it. Do I read a lot? What books have you read listen to this year? So I don't read as much as I used to and I don't read as much as I wish that I did. I do love reading. When people ask me this question, I do love reading.

So one book that I read recently, I mean, I do read a lot of different kinds of books. One book that I read recently was that book that everyone's talking about. She did a big press tour. Jeanette McCurdy, I'm glad my mom died. And it's not a Christian book. For sure, not a Christian book. You don't draw like Christian lessons from it. It's a really interesting book, though. I read it in like two days because it was just, it was really well written and it was really easy to read. And so I'm not recommending it to you as like a book that you're going to base your theology off of. but I thought it was a really interesting description of like what child stardom could look like and her very complex relationship with her mother whom she loved and was unhealthily attached to, but who was also very abusive and manipulative and really like drove her into like eating disorders.

But that's a book that I read recently that maybe you wouldn't think that I would typically read. Maybe you just think that I read like theology books and C.S. Lewis, which I do love or history books, which I also do love. I love an easy read sometimes. And I do think it's interesting to see how, you know, the non-Christian world deals with problems of loss and purpose seeking. And so that was something that I read recently. Okay, next question.

Where are you or how crunchy are you? Where are you at your, where are you at on your crunchy journey? Love you. Love you too. Let's see. I am crunch. In my mind than I am in real life. Does that make sense? I aspire to be crunchier than I am? I don't know. Like, what do I even say? Because if I say anything, I will get, there's controversy. That's what I don't like about some, some in the crunchy community. I mean, I follow plenty of crunchy people because they're typically skeptical of major corporations and the government like I am. So there's like a big part of conservatism that is like this. but I also find ironically that they can be like extremely legalistic and judgmental

themselves if you are not as crunchy as them or if you don't do the same things that they do or if you're not on the same path to crunchiness as them. Plus I feel like the rules are always changing in the crunchy world or like you get someone that you follow that you really trust that's like and I'm just totally making this up. Like you know you really shouldn't brush your teeth. Our ancestors didn't brush their teeth. teeth and, you know, they didn't struggle with obesity. And so you really shouldn't brush your teeth either because it's harmful. And then you'll have another crunchy influencer that you follow that it's like,

well, did you know that we're actually supposed to brush our teeth 15 times a day in goat's milk and witch hazel? And so it's just really hard to know who to trust. Everyone seems to have their, you know, have their research and their reasons for why they do what they do or do. Or do. don't do. So I really try not to stress about it. I don't need another like source of anxiety or stress in my life. I some of it I think is common sense and pretty intuitive that all right, maybe it's not great that children's medicines have artificial flavors and dyes and sugar in them since we know that that's not good for the immune system. So if your child is sick, like maybe we should be doing other things to try to boost their immune system rather than giving the medication that

actually suppresses their immune response to, say, a cold. Okay, I could see how vegetables and how local farming and things like that are all good rather than just eating artificial food all the time. I could see how looking at the ingredients in your makeup and in your hair products is good. Thinking about the origin of the things that you buy, I could see how that's good. but I also will not pretend that I live a completely like non-toxic lifestyle. Now, I have cleaning products that are natural. Naturally, it's clean. And so, again, I try Adele Natural Cosmetics.

They've got natural ingredients and that's great. But I've got some hair products that I know aren't natural. You think my purple shampoo? You think that just comes from, I don't know, the breath of blueberries? No, I know that it's got some kind of dye in there. That is probably not good for me. I do use natural deodorant. I think it works.

Maybe my friends would tell you otherwise, and I just don't know. And so I feel like, you know, there are some things that I try on. There are some things that I don't try on. I care more about it when it comes to my kids. Of course, I don't think about it as much for myself, but you love your kids more than you love yourself. And so you do kind of, you're more aware of that kind of. of stuff with them. I have recently tried to stop consuming seed oils. And like when I say try,

I really mean like I try to try. Does that make sense? Like when I'm at the grocery store, I will look at the ingredients and I'll try not to get something with seed oils in it. But am I trying when I go to Chick-fil-A and I order a chicken cool wrap that I'm sure has soybean oil in it? No, I'm not really trying. And so when I say try, you know, take that with a grain of salt. Does that make sense to you? Does that make sense where I am on my crunchy journey? I wish I were crunchier.

There are times when I'm like one day I'm going to be crunchy, but I'm just not there. at the end of the day, I just don't want to stress myself out with it. Anyway, but kudos to all of y'all who are like very crunchy and you do take the time to do that. I totally, totally respect that. Do I have a non-conservative political opinion like one thing you agree with libs on? Hmm, good question. So I don't know that I have a liberal opinion. I have changed in some ways within.

my conservatism over the past few years. Like in some ways, I think that I've become more, I've moved on, I've moved to the right on some issues, especially social issues for sure. But like, I agree with what liberals used to think about things that apparently a lot of them don't think anymore. I am a lot more anti-interventionist and anti-war, or at least unnecessary, what I think or unjust wars than I was before. I used to kind of have this mentality that, well, you know, America does need to be involved

in all of these conflicts because we've got to be the one to maintain the peace. And I do think that that is true probably in some ways. But I also, I feel like the whole Ukraine thing and how we have continued to dole out billions of dollars to protect the border of Ukraine as we are doing nothing almost to protect our own borders, even as we are suffering with inflation here and the spending. is making that worse. I have started to be skeptical of many of the choices, the foreign policy choices that America has made over its history, whereas I have just kind of assumed that America must have always been in the right when they have intervened. And I think sometimes they are.

I have started to ask myself, why do I assume that America has always been in the right when it comes to foreign conflicts? And so I am more skeptical about that. I'm a lot more, not completely isolationist, but more isolationist. Maybe it's preservationist or maybe it's nationalist than I was than I was previously. And I do think that I have started to question this like unconditional allegiance to to the idea. This is going to sound controversial, but please let me explain that America is the greatest country in the world. I do think. think that America is founded on the greatest principles and the greatest ideas and ideals in all of human history that created for a period of time the greatest country that ever lived.

But it is very difficult for me to look at how our country handles COVID, how our government lied to us, ruined people's lives, how we have now just completely fallen into the depths of corruption and depravity and still believe that at our core, we are a supreme nation. Now, I still might say that we're the best country in the world because I look at the other countries and I'm like, are they any better? I mean, some countries did better with COVID than we did. They actually followed the science better than we did. Some countries aren't giving in to all of the woke stuff the way that we are.

maybe some countries don't have quite as much corruption as we do. But when you look at all of these things together, are there countries that you would rather live in? Not really. So maybe we are the best country in the world still, but it's just a low bar. I don't feel the same just like unconditional defense of America's choices here and abroad as I used to, maybe a few years ago.

And I've started looking more skeptically at a lot of the people, who haven't are by their name. A lot of the people who call themselves conservatives. I find myself more frustrated with weak, wimpy, limp conservatives than I do with the Democrats. At least they fight for what they want. Democrats claim to be fighters and really, or Republicans claim to be fighters and really are just like weak on a lot of things. And are warhawks who care more, I guess, about what we're doing abroad than helping. American citizens. So I don't know if that's agreeing with liberals, but it is kind of how my

politics have changed over the past few years. No question, but we're due in December with baby number four and her name is going to be Ali Beth. That is the sweetest thing ever. Congratulations on baby number four. And that means so much to me. I hope that one day you're able to come to one of my speaking events and I can meet her. That is so sweet. I love that kind of a message. I also love the messages that I get all the time, praise God, that you say that you didn't want to have kids or you were skeptical about having kids or you have, which you now realize were selfish reasons for having kids and us talking about the blessing of children and the call, I believe, of married couples who can have kids to have kids that you are

pregnant or that you just gave birth to your first child because of how God used conversations on here to change your heart. I mean, what an incredible blessing. I am often the first person that some of you tell that you are pregnant or also when you miscarry. And that's what makes relatable a family is that we go through that kind of stuff together. So anyway, thanks for letting me know that. Will you ever run for political office? Probably not. Probably not. I mean, I guess maybe one day, but I don't see that happening. Like while my kids are at home. I just don't know how I would do that. And to be perfectly honest, I mean, this is going to, I'm going to say this and this is going to play in my like campaign one day when I'm running for president.

But being in being an elected official seems really boring. It just seems so boring. And you just have to do so much boring stuff all the time. I like have an awesome life. And I love doing what I do. and I can say whatever I want and I have a ton of flexibility. And I'm not like beholden to anyone. That's great. I don't know why I would want to change that. The only thing that I could, the only elected position that I would want to do as president. So that's it.

If I can be president one day, maybe I'll run for president one day. Maybe in 20 years I'll run for president. But until then, I don't, I just don't see it. But I won't say no because you never know. I guess what God could call me to and my heart could change on that. Wisdom of what brands to buy from when it seems that everyone is on the woke train. I know that's really tough. We have to do the best that we can.

One of our sponsors is Public SQ. It's a C stands for Public Square. It's an app where you can look at like the companies and services that share your values in your area. You can list your business too. And so that's a great way to try to find businesses that align with your values. Look, I don't know that we can boycott everything. Some of you, again, more crunchy folk, maybe you do.

You boycott all of the companies that do not align with you and your principles, and that's awesome. I don't. There are a few that I will not go to anymore. I still have stuff. So if you ever see me wearing something from Target or wearing something from Lou Lemon, I do still have stuff from both of those places. But I try not to shop there.

And I say try because I'm like, has there ever been a time with Target? No. I haven't since I think April. Even if I have to, like if I'm somewhere and I forgot something and I have to door dash it to my hotel, I won't do Target. I have not shopped at Target, stepped foot in Target, ordered anything from Target in several months, since I found out that they were selling these, like packing underwear for people who say that they are the opposite gender, like a woman who says that she is a man or a girl who says that she's a boy so they can put fake stuff in their underwear to look like the opposite gender.

They're also selling chest compressing, boob compressing tops, which are harmful, by the way, for girls who want to look like boys. And I was just like, that's disgusting. I'm just not going to do it. And I was spending too much money there anyway. But I don't boycott every single company. I choose. And I think every little bit counts. I don't think that Target is like suffering because of my choice, although I did see that their profits are down.

by an insane amount, I'm pretty sure this year that they've had to cut a lot of things because of that. So it's not just me. It's others as well. And so maybe it is making a difference. And praise God for that. So I think you just have to use discernment and you have to make your own choices. And this is another one where I know it can seem like there's a lot of judgment, like, oh, you boycott more than I do. And so you're holier than me or whatever. But it's tough. So just make your choices. But we also can't live in total ignorance and apathetic. either. So I do think that there is some discernment to be had there. Are you ever going to have Glenn back on your show? I've had Glenn Beck on my show. And I don't know if you are a listener of this

podcast. And so I don't mean this to, you know, call you out because I appreciate you being a listener to this podcast. But whenever I get messages like this, it's like, would you ever or have you ever? It always seems like a little bit like, I don't know. So I would just say, say go back and search for something before asking me because it almost sounds like a little bit of like an accusation when people say that or when people say like, why haven't you ever had Candace Owens on your show? I'm like, well, I've had her on three times. So just like search the past episodes and it'll come up. All you have to do is search in like wherever you listen. Just do like relatable and Glenn Beck or like relatable Ali Stucky Candace Owens or Ben Shapiro or Donald Trump or

whatever and those will they should pop up or you can do it on youtube too and it'll probably pop up there that's just a little pro tip for later all right last question how to share jesus as a high school public high school public school teacher well first i just want to say i'm so thankful for christian teachers who are in public schools and i say that a lot and still sometimes i get messages saying like that um i have like demonized public school teachers which is not true at all I do have my stance on public school versus Christian school, secular education versus a Christian education. So if you've been listening to this podcast for any amount of time, you know where I land on that. And I have given very specific reasons about why I feel what I do.

That is not mean that I want all Christian teachers to go out of public school because you are light in the darkness. Unfortunately, you are kind of bound to the curriculum that you have to teach. You are kind of bound to the secular anti-God worldview of public education. It is anti-Christian by law. And so that is difficult, but that doesn't mean that you can't make a difference. One, through the kindness that you show to your students, you might be the only source of kindness and stability that some of these kids ever see or experience. You could be a refuge for them. And you can be a source of truth.

And by the way, if you are ever instructed to lie in your job, you are bound to something that's higher than your curriculum, that's higher than the school board, that's higher than your administration, that's higher than the teacher's unions, and that is to the law of God. And so while you may not be able to buck every policy that your school has, you are obligated to follow God's truth first and foremost. And so that means that if you are told that you have to teach that there is no God, if you have to teach that America has exclusively been a place of oppression and that white kids are oppressors because of their skin color, black and brown kids are oppressed because

of their skin color. If you have to teach that girls can be boys and boys can be girls, you are obligated not to do that. And I understand that there is risk that comes with that. There's a cost that comes with that. It's easier said than done absolutely, but that is the cost of being a Christian in an anti-Christian world. It simply is. And maybe you can organize with other teachers to take a stand against having to lie about these things.

Maybe you can rally other parents to make a difference. But at the end of the day, the least that we can do and have to do as Christians is not to lie in a culture that is so inundated with and characterized by lies. So you be a beacon of truth in every possible way that you can. and I promise God will use you to glorify him. And that's what we're all trying to do. All right, that's all I got time for today. I hope that was helpful and encouraging. I will see you guys back here soon.

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