Ep. 1511 - Baptists Throw Trump a Curveball

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Michael Knowles
Delivered President Trump has a new ad out. The ad is typical Trump nasty, insulting and extremely funny.

Also, like so much of the Trump movement, the ad reveals a profound truth about politics. This ad is a highlight reel of President Joe Biden's soaring oratory and rhetoric.

Joe Biden
We hold these truths to be self evident.

All men and women created by go you know the thing?

America is a nation that can be defined in a single word.

I was in the foothills of the himalayas with Xi Jinping.

She knows so long, doesn't deny her freedom can never be secured. We'll never forget lying around.

And that's him lying.

Michael Knowles
How could you forget?

Joe Biden
It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who register to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so. End of quote. Repeat the line. Give it to me strategy to mobilize true and international pressure.

Michael Knowles
That hasn't been mobilized in so long.

Trump 2024 make America great again it's a funny ad and it's going viral because everyone knows it's funny. What people fail to appreciate consciously, though, is how profound it is.

It is profound. I'm not being gratuitously complimentary to the ad. The whole Trump movement reveals these profound truths about our political order. And because it's so funny, a lot of people miss it. The fact that makes this ad so brutal is that politics requires one skill.

Talking. That's it. Politics is a relatively easy job. Plumbers, for instance, need lots of skills. They need technical knowledge. They need dexterity with various tools. They need physical strength, and on and on. If you're a politician, all you need to be able to do is talk.

You just need to persuade people. And Joe Biden can't do that anymore.

He can't do the most basic job requirement.

And Trump can do it extremely well. Even if you hate Trump, you have to admit it. That's why he fills stadiums. That's why he gets more laughs than stand up comedians, including with this ad, which is a perfect representation of the Trump movement. Funny, nasty, superficially kind of dumb, ultimately incisive. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

Welcome back to the show. There's a horrific story that you've probably seen something about. This happened a few days ago, and I really want to get to it before the week closes out. A woman has murdered a poor little three year old boy and then smirked about it in court. And it's making the rounds, but it reveals real questions. It brings up real questions about our justice system, which we're all talking about these days. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to expressvpn.com. knowles. So I have accepted my role as a suburban father, and I have purchased a minivan, and I'm really excited because that means I get to pack up the whole family, take them on the road. But, you know, work never leaves you. So I got to make sure of one thing.

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But translated, I guess the best english translation of that is the word faggotry, which is probably going to be bleeped on social media platforms, but you can google frocciagine. According to reports, the Holy Father has said there is an heir of frochiagine in the Vatican.

This was during a closed door meeting with roughly 200 priests at the Silesian Pontifical University in Rome, according to Italy's Ansa news agency. So the Holy Father has gotten in trouble for saying this because just a few weeks ago he said this word for the first time. According to reports, he said while he was discouraging homosexual seminarians, he said there's already too much frocine in the seminaries. And then there was a big uproar from the lgbt LMNOP community because this is pride month, one of the lgbt months of the secular liturgical year. And so there was an official statement from the Vatican apologizing for the Holy Father using this word. And then a few weeks later, he uses it again. He says there's an error of afrociagina in the Vatican which show me the lie. Like I said the first time, show me the lie. In fact, it reminds me of a line from Pope Paul VI.

St. Paul VI, I suppose, who was pope during the close of the Second Vatican Council. And there's a very famous line from him. He said, the smoke of Satan has entered the church of God. This was a warning about corruption. There's corruption in all sorts of ages in the Vatican.

But he said, here we've seen through some crack, the smoke of Satan has entered the Vatican. And now Pope Francis gives us an updated version some 50 years later where he says there is an air of faggotry in the Vatican.

It shows you a little less poetic language, but that's true of all of our rhetoric these days. I suppose putting aside for a moment what this means for the Vatican or for the Catholic Church, question is, what is wrong with frocciagine? What is wrong with frocciagine that even the Holy Father, who many have viewed as being open to some of the lgbt activists, Pope Francis has just written the foreword for a book by probably the most prominently pro lgbt priest, a jesuit by the name of Father James Martin.

Why would even the Holy Father keep using this term? And what's wrong with it? Well, the thing that's wrong with it is that it's decadent and it's self indulgent, and it's kind of like the difference between being feminine and being effeminate. When a woman acts like a woman, she's feminine. When a man acts like a woman, he's effeminate. Feminine has a good connotation. Effeminate has a bad connotation because men aren't supposed to act like women.

So it's disordered. It's contrary to nature. And when things are disordered, that has political effects. It has effects on the soul. It has effects, but it has effects on the body politic, too. It's just kind of wrong.

I was going back through Dante, as I frequently do, and I was just last night listening to a lecture about the circle of the sodomites, because famously, Dante puts his own teacher, brunetto Latini, into the circle of the sodomites. It's really weird because there's no source outside of Dante's poem that suggests that his teacher was little light in the loafers.

So maybe he was. Maybe Dante knows something about his teacher that the public didn't know. But it seems like he's talking about something more here.

And what he's talking about is that his teacher, brunetto Latini, seeks eternal life, but not the real kind of eternal life, through faith in heaven, to behold the beatific vision, to enjoy God forever. He seeks a terrestrial eternal life. He seeks eternal life through literature. He seeks eternal life through his poetry and his books that he publishes and fame. And he seeks.

He gives up the eternal for the merely political, for the merely human.

It's an indulgence. It's something that's decadent.

Frochiagini is what it is. That's what's wrong. And that's especially a problem when we're talking about the church. So when Pope Francis says the church has too much frociagine, in it. We gotta get rid of some of the frociaginae. He's not just expressing a point of view that's kind of old fashioned or bigoted or whatever. He's getting down to something essential to Frochiagini and something essential to the church, which is the church is supposed to have its eyes on the order, the proper order of the universe. And it's supposed to have its eyes beyond the world, beyond the trifles of this world in the world to come. That's what it's supposed to be looking at. And when we indulge in things that are decadent and whatever, when we indulge in pride, forget about the weird sex stuff, even just think about pride itself. What is pride? It's just excessive love of one's own excellence. When you're just focused on yourself, then you're missing out on what you could become.

And when you focus on just the things of this world, when you're totally self satisfied, you're missing out on the life of the world to come. That's what he's talking about. He's using a funny word to do it, just like Trump. He's talking about something profound, but he's using funny words to do it.

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Michael Knowles
Now, speaking of religion, really dumb story. I just want to touch on it briefly. The New York Post, the Washington Examiner a ton of outlets have reported this newly deciphered manuscript is oldest written record of Jesus childhood. Extraordinary. I saw this headline, I said, I bet this is a bunch of nonsense. And I was immediately proven right. A newly deciphered manuscript dating back more than 1600 years has been identified as the earliest known account of Jesus Christ's childhood. The manuscript, written on papyrus in either the fourth or fifth century, had been stored at a library in Hamburg, Germany, for decades and was long believed to be an insignificant document. So just reading the first line, I knew the whole story was bogus, because they say this document is 1600 years old. I said, well, actually, the earliest account of our Lord's childhood is the gospel of St. Luke. And the Gospel of St. Luke was written sometime around the year of our Lord 60, not 100, 6263. Hundred 60, 60.

Within about 30 years of the crucifixion and the resurrection. Even the lib scholars who want to deny the reality of the gospel accounts, even they will say, yeah, the gospel according to St. Luke was, let's say, was written in ad 80 or 90.

Really?

If you read it in light of the Book of acts, it was much more likely written around ad 59 to 61. 62. But regardless, okay, say it's 80 or 90, whatever. That's still way earlier than this supposed manuscript.

So what they're talking about, it gets even sillier. They're talking about the infancy gospel of Thomas. This is a heretical, gnostic text that was written 100 years after the actual earliest account of our Lord's childhood, and maybe even long, maybe at least a century, maybe 150 years. And it's a text that the early christian writers, the church fathers, the bishops, knew about, and they rejected immediately as being heretical and apocryphal.

And so then I see the Washington examiner. They write a newly translated manuscript has now been confirmed to have been the oldest one about Jesus Christ's childhood. That's just not true.

It's not newly found. We've known about this for 18 centuries. It's not the earliest manuscript of our Lord's childhood. It's not newly deciphered or any that's been translated many, many moons ago.

I am just simply begging journalists to learn even one thing about Christianity before attempting to write about it. Do you remember? It was either the New York Times or the Washington Post. It was one of those really, really mainstream establishment papers some years ago, five or ten years ago, wrote about the tomb where christians supposedly believe that Jesus Christ is buried.

Did you catch that? Did you catch the error in the reporting. I said, and this is the place where they believe that crazy christians believe that Jesus is entombed.

If you are a Christian, the most basic fact you believe is that our Lord is not buried or entombed anywhere on earth because of the resurrection.

The central fact of the gospels, they don't know it, that none of these people know anything about it, but they write with such certainty, and it's going to this happens every few years. They discover some stupid heretical, apocryphal gnostic text that everyone knew is bogus. In the beginning, they say, oh, here we go, we've disproved Christianity again. I don't think so. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to preborn.com knowles this month marks two years since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Did you know the number of abortions have increased since then? New estimates show that more than 1 million babies were killed by abortion in 2023, the highest number of abortions since 2012. The overturning of Roe v. Wade has unfortunately made the abortion pill more readily available. Now accounting for up to 64% of all abortions, Preborn is the largest pro life organization in the country. They provide free ultrasounds to mothers with unplanned pregnancies to introduce them to the precious life growing inside them. When a mother meets her baby on ultrasound and hears his heartbeat, she is twice as likely to choose life. Every day, Preborn rescues 200 babies. One ultrasound costs only $28. Could be the difference between life and death. Please join the fight. By sponsoring an ultrasound, you can sponsor Preborn's entire network for a day for $5,000. Whatever gift you give will go toward saving lives. All gifts are taxed deductible. Go to preborn.com knowles to donate today. I personally support this organization.

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I want to channel my inner Donald Trump when he was talking to Kanye West. I want to say thank you, southern Baptists. Very cool, extremely based. This is great stuff. Shows a great deal of perspicacity and ready bioethical insight. Politico reports the Southern Baptist Convention this is the nation's largest and most politically powerful protestant denomination, voted to oppose in vitro fertilization. Why?

The resolution was passed by 11,000 almost so called messengers to the SBC.

They write that IVF quote, most often participates in the destruction of embryonic human life. They've called on Southern Baptists to adopt and, quote, only utilize reproductive technologies that affirm the unconditional value and right to life of every human being. The resolution is non binding. Look, we're talking about Protestants, Protestantism, a religious movement that is founded on being nonbinding. So still, it's pretty binding for being non binding.

It impels nearly 13 million southern Baptists across 45,000 churches to condemn IVF. Really?

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Michael Knowles
Because the problem with IVF is, as they mentioned, in practice, it almost always results in the killing or perpetual freezing and eventual killing of a lot of babies, in fact, more babies even than are born as a result of it. There are other and deeper problems with IVF as well, which is that even if IVF didn't lead to the mass killing of babies, as it does, what it does do is invert the natural order by insisting that parents, that adults have a right to a child. And this is a really big problem. We don't have a right to a child. The only person who can be said legitimately to have rights in the process of procreation is the child who has a right to his natural mother and father to be the product of the specific conjugal act of his mother and father. Mother and father bound together in marriage. The child can claim a right to that. Parents don't get to claim a right to a child. You don't get to claim a right to a child, in part because a child is a person. And this is one of the great evils of the IVF industry. And you see this especially in the surrogacy industry, which is just a branch of the IVF industry, which is that it treats children, human beings, as commodities to be bought and sold in an open market, not only to be bought and sold, to be created and bought and sold on the open market through commerce. And that is extraordinarily degrading and contrary to human dignity.

That's a problem. So the Catholics have long held this.

Until yesterday, the protestant groups hadn't really weighed in. And so republican politicians now face a big problem, because republican politicians, up to and including the republican nominee for president, have come out recently in support of IVF. And I said, this is a big mistake.

I grant to Republicans that this is a bioethically complex issue that most people haven't given much thought to. And so I grant, if you run on, we're going to get rid of IVF campaign in 2024. That might hurt you in the polls, and it's probably not politically prudent. So I'm not saying you got to run on that. I just said, if I were advising President Trump or any number of republican politicians, I would say, hey, just play it cool on IVF. You don't need to campaign against it very actively. But recognize this is bioethically insupportable. It's contrary to the pro life principles that you all say that you believe in. Just shut up about it for a while. It's going to take people some time to come to grips with the moral, really immoral realities of IVF. But in the meantime, don't embrace it. It's an immoral thing. You're going to look foolish in the long run if you do that. And the southern Baptists 100% affirmed that view yesterday. So back when it was just Catholics who opposed IVF, I guess the republican politicians thought, whatever, it doesn't matter.

First of all, the Catholics are split. Half of them are liberal and kind of apostates. Half of them are conservative. But this is America. It's a protestant country. We don't need to worry about that. We'll take the hit. Now, however, this completely changes the political calculation for republican politicians on IVF. The largest and most powerful protestant denomination in the country has unequivocally condemned the practice of IVF.

This could affect many millions of voters. 13 million people are going to hear this from the pulpit now.

Republican politicians. You know, in this case, I really hate to say I told you so because I think it was an unforced error from republican politicians. Maybe just play it cool on the IVF thing.

Not saying you need to give a lecture on the precise reasons that the practice is immoral and contrary to human dignity. But certainly don't affirm it, because now the Catholics and the largest group of Protestants in the country very clearly say this is not morally acceptable. That is some top tier podcasting, isn't it? But you know what goes great with the mellifluous conversation? A Mayflower cigar.

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Now, speaking of children, really disturbing story, most disturbing story of the past several weeks.

A woman, a woman, Bianca something or other, allegedly murdered a three year old boy and tried to murder his mother in Ohio.

The woman was then brought to court, and while you just I'm a father of a three year old child. It is really horrifying whenever one can imagine oneself in a news story, to say nothing of the sadness we feel for the actual people involved here, but it really brings it home. This is about as horrific a crime as you could possibly imagine. She gets dragged to court and she smirks while her crimes are being read to her.

Code section 2903.11 a. One and or endangering children in violation of oh, Harvey. Vice code section 20 919.22 b. Two count four alleges that honor. About June 3, 2024, the defendant did knowingly. Cause she turns to the camera, raises her eyebrows, smirks in a way that looks date of birth, 1029 2021. My name is Jared Wood, father of the deceased, husband of Margot.

Your honor, that day, one week ago, she took everything from us.

There's nothing that could ever replace my son or anything that my wife and I, even our other kids, are going through.

It's horrendous, Bonnie said. $5 million cash surety or property gps. No contact with any surviving victim or victim's family.

Okay, now you see, your heart just breaks for this father, the woman who allegedly, I guess I have to say, allegedly murdered this boy. She stops smirking when she finds out that her bail is set at $5 million. The story deepens, though. She called police in February, and she said she murdered someone in California and wanted to kill and eat their flesh. She had, at that time, three warrants out for assault. She was not arrested. Then four days before she killed this little boy, allegedly, she was arrested and the judge just let her go.

They recommended a mental health check because she's obviously nuts. She's facing severe psychological problems, if not spiritual problems, and judge just released her without a hearing.

What does society do with a person like this? A lot of people today, even conservative religious people, they say they oppose the death penalty. What is a society supposed to do with a person like this? We'll get to that question of justice in just a second. 1st, though. Parents, listen up. I know how busy life can get. That is where bent key, the Daily Wire's new kids entertainment app, comes into play. Bentkey offers premium shows like Chipchilla and more, season one and two already streaming, plus hits like Supertato and Gus, plus us. We are bringing back the magic of Saturday morning cartoons with fresh episodes every week, your kids will get to experience the same excitement you did growing up. Bent Key is not about keeping the kids occupied.

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People have verbal tics. We all do. I do. Everybody does. When you hear Corinne Jean Pierre say, well, let me be very clear. We've been very clear. We've been very clear. You know, you are about to hear the most ambiguous, prevaricating, vague statement you've ever heard in your lifetime to finish up the question of this horrific crime. What is society to do with the people who commit the most horrific crimes? We live in a time now where the libs say, let the criminals off the hook, punish the innocent people, lock up the innocent people, and let the guiltiest people run roughshod over the country. They've got a complete inversion of the order of justice. But the conservatives, too, very often go squishy on this, and they say, oh, no, we oppose the death penalty. We oppose harsh punishments. We know, really. So let's turn to someone who knows what he's talking about. That would be St. Thomas Aquinas, who is right. You know. You want to know anything? You want to know what to eat for breakfast on Tuesday? Just open up Thomas Aquinas. He's going to have an answer for you.

Aquinas writes, according to the judgment of the present life, the death punishment is inflicted not for every mortal sin, but only for such as inflict an irreparable harm, or again, for such as contain some horrible deformity.

Aquinas is writing that it is permissible to kill a criminal if this is necessary for the welfare of the whole community. So now some people argue, even Catholics will say that the death penalty is not acceptable. But of course, St. Paul defends the death penalty. The great doctors of the church have defended the death penalty consistently for 2000 years. In fact, popes who are beatified have carried out the death penalty. So obviously there's a place for the death penalty.

But Thomas Aquinas here says that punishment is like medicine.

Medicine for the whole community, for the common good, medicine, one hopes in some way to give some consolation to the victims and medicine for the perpetrators.

This woman, if this woman will not be held in prison forever, assuming she can't be rehabilitated. Probably she can't. If she can't be held in prison forever, then in order to protect society from her, and in order even to protect her from doing worse, you got to inflict the maximum punishment that's otherwise. And there's always going to be imperfections in the justice system because this is a fallen world.

But otherwise, think of the harm you're doing. The fact that we go so soft on crime. The fact that that judge who, who saw her four days before she inflicted this crime wouldn't do his job.

Now a three year old boy is gone, and the family will never get over it. I mean, you know, time heals wounds to some degree, but you never.

It's never the same.

That's a grave injustice. And it's unjust to her. It's a reminder of an old line from Doctor Johnson. I've said it before. I'll say it again.

Depend upon it, sir. When a man is to be hanged in a fortnight, he concentrates his mind wonderfully. That there is actually not just a retributive aspect to capital punishment, and not even just a deterrent aspect to capital punishment, but there is a rehabilitative aspect to capital punishment. The great Father George Ruttler has written a good essay on this in Crisis magazine. Hanging concentrates the mind, and it can be a mercy even to the guilty. You might have forgotten that Father's Day is around the corner. And as such, you might have no idea what to get him. Don't worry. I've got you covered. Treat him to a box of Mayflower cigars right now. Use promo code, dad. Tenayflowercigars.com. get 10% off your order. You must be 21 years or older to order some exclusions. Apply now, with no further ado, back to the show. Okay, so what do we do? What do we do? Especially when you want to talk about protecting kids when no one seems to be doing that and everyone seems to be targeting kids these days.

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Jared Wood
Are you sure these people want us?

Bianca
I know they do.

Margot
You can call me mama.

Bianca
It's hard to feel like I'm the only one who sees these things.

70% of the kids in the system are there because of neglect.

The other 30% are put through hell.

We need your help.

Margot
Can you imagine how he is on their own?

Bianca
We can't just look away.

Margot
The state ain't no family.

Jared Wood
Are you sure these people want us?

Bianca
I know they do.

Margot
You can call me mama.

Bianca
Oh lord, no.

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If we can't wrap our arms around the most vulnerable, then what are we at?

Michael Knowles
No.

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And the children can't take the noise anymore.

This is something that we must do.

Bianca
22 families want to adopt. Whole town wants kids know that's about right.

What's happening with possum trot could mean a huge change for the system.

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We want the ones that nobody else wants.

Bianca
Who hurt you, baby?

Margot
I'm not giving up on you. You can't give up on me either.

Michael Knowles
What we gonna do?

Margot
Everybody's falling apart.

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I'm doing the best I can.

Bianca
A real world hits hard.

Michael Knowles
I don't wanna be here.

Bianca
I can't give him back.

Margot
We gotta work on this together.

We your people now.

And love never gives up.

Michael Knowles
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Really exciting stuff. And I'm excited too that we're partnering up with Angel Studios to get this movie into theaters because I believe the way that you really affect a culture and a political order is not just through glittering screens. I'm coming to you right now through a screen or through your Airpods or whatever you're listening to. But we are incarnate creatures. We got to be in the real world and we're the social animal and we got to be together. And it's not enough to just watch a little movie on a screen in your pod. You got to go out. It's good to go out with other people in a theater, enjoy things socially. This is part of the reason that I have a cigar company called Mayflower Cigars is, well, and I like cigars and they're excellent cigars. But two, because it encourages social activity and it's a physical object and you buy it in a store in the real world and it's part, and you get your whole body into it. Okay?

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Speaking of hope and entertaining spectacles, one last story before we get to the mailbag. This is over in the UK.

This conservative figure, Nigel Farage, he's responsible for the Brexit. He's a great, charming, cigar chomping right wing character. He has a huge fan base in America, but he was a european parliament figure, right? He goes to Europe, he says, were going to pull out of this stupid body. And they all laugh at him. Then he shows up, he says, whos laughing now? And he does the Brexit. Well, now hes got a party thats running in the UK elections to take over. The old conservative party in the UK is really, really squishy. Theyre probably to the left of our Democrats here in America. And he says people want a choice, not an echo. So im going to run. Its called the Reform UK Party.

This guy launches his party, 5 seconds later, it is out polling the Conservatives, the Tories in the UK.

This is really important and it has implications for America.

The Tory party, the modern UK conservative party, was formed in 1834. That's 150 years ago.

They might be blown away by, I'm sorry, that's more than 150 years ago. That's what, 190 years ago, by my math.

They could be blown away by Nigel Farage, this mouthy, british, cigar chomping politician. In a matter of weeks.

That can happen. Old political parties can go away.

Faraj is a kind of trumpian figure.

The GOP in America was founded in 1854. It's younger, actually, than the Tory party. That could be blown away in this election.

I don't mean blown away in the polls, I mean blown away out of existence.

And a new thing could come about led by this new kind of conservative, Nigel Farage, who's really an older kind of conservative, just as Trump is a new kind of conservative who's really an older kind of conservative. This could happen to the GOP, when the parties don't serve their base, they get blown away. Nothing in this life that is temporal is eternal. All these things can get blown away. That's the Trump movement. And the squishes in the Republican Party who wanted to pretend that Trump was just a, a tv fad that would go away. That's not true. Trump rose to the top of the party because he offered something to republican voters who had been neglected by their own party for a very, very long time.

That's the movement here. Both of them really are running on very similar issues, chief of which is immigration.

Wait to see that here as well. You don't like the republican establishment or if the republican establishments getting too solid and rigid, well then they're, they're not going to endure.

They, you saw the Brexit in 2016. Then you saw the election of Trump. Watch what the UK is doing now. You might be seeing the same thing here in America. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to tuvu.com knowles do you remember when social media was all about staying connected to loved ones, catching up with old friends, and sharing laughs at the people you care about? Today, social media feel more like navigating a maze of ads and irrelevant content just to find one meaningful post.

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Margot
Hello sir. Veronica here, a big fan of yours. I have two questions if that's okay. First, is there a chance that with time scientists will discover that the original translation of Bible was wrong and Jesus was not the son? Does the catholic church have a contingency plan for that? Secondly, I'm Katlin from Poland. My husband is Muslim from India. With God help, we are celebrating 10th wedding anniversary in August. We live in the UK. We have three children. My dream from childhood is to live in America. Is that a good decision to push my dream to move to the USA or I should give up and look for happiness in iranian England? Thank you so much.

Michael Knowles
Okay, really good questions to the first one. Is there a contingency plan held by the catholic church if the basic facts of the faith are ever disproven? No. Either it happened. St. Paul writes this, if the resurrection didn't happen, then we're a bunch of idiots and our faith is in vain. So, no, I'm quite confident, however, that despite the silly headlines from the New York Post and the Washington examiner, no, I don't think there's ever going to be some fedora wearing atheist saying, see, haha, we disproved it. No, I don't think it's going to happen. But good question. Second question.

It's a good question because it really gets to the apparent conflict between faith and our scientistic age, what faith even means. Second question. Should you come to America?

Come to Tennessee. Yes, you should still come to America. Congratulations on your wedding anniversary. America is still the most powerful country in the world. You can still do pretty much whatever you want here, but you can't do whatever you want anywhere you want in America. So I rec, if you'd asked me 1020 years ago, I'd say, oh, you're from overseas. Well, go check out New York. Go to check out La or San Francisco or DC or whatever. Now I would say come check out Franklin, Tennessee.

That's where you're gonna live your best life. Next question.

Jared Wood
Hey Michael, longtime listener, first time caller, thank you so much for doing the show. I love to hear your thoughts and your thoughts on women in the workplace was very challenging to me, but in a good way. And I actually just quit my job.

My husband and I are expecting our first baby in about a month.

And I just wanted to know if you have any parenting advice and especially first time parenting advice.

My husband and I have a tradition of listening to the mailbag together every Friday, so we would love to know your thoughts. Thanks.

Michael Knowles
Sure. Well, congratulations. That's great news.

And I'm glad to hear that. My advice was challenging, but in a good way. Because you might have just said, you know, if I said, look, women generally enjoy being mothers and they're probably not going to enjoy working for Mister McGillicuddy at the widget factory all day and missing out on their kids childhood, they'll probably prefer raising their own kids. And to hear you say, well, yeah, initially I didn't want to hear that, but it was challenging in a good way in that I came to agree with you and quit my job because I realized I did agree with you. So I think there are a lot of women like that say no. I've been told my whole life by my feminist teacher aunt or something, that I have to have a job and it's the most important thing in the world. Look, some women want to have a job, marriage, motherhood, it's not for everybody, but for most people that probably is what they want.

And our culture is so deceptive because they tell you you're not allowed to desire, that you're not allowed to desire what you naturally desire. So the parenting advice for your first kid, just enjoy it, it'll be okay.

Keep up. You know, I know I'll get in trouble for this. I think the gender roles generally work.

Maybe your husband washes some dishes every once in a while. Maybe you change a light bulb every once in a while. I'm not saying these are not rigid rules because you're one flesh. And what's really animating both of you is love. It's not some rigid set of rules or something, it's love. So there's that.

But just enjoy it. It'll be okay. It'll be all right.

Here's a little bit of very tangible and practical advice.

There is an impulse that the man is going to feel when you're waking up ten times a night to feed that he's going to wake up and sit up with you for moral support.

You don't need his moral support. You need a functioning husband. The husband should not wake up with the wife when she's feeding the kid. I mean, if she needs some help putting the kid back in the crib or whatever, sure. But if it's just sitting up to say, I'm going to also be really tired with you? No, because the husband's going to be tired in other ways. Because especially if you quit your job, the husband's going to have to go out and he's going to have to work a lot more. And when you just need that nap or you're going to die, he's going to be the one with the kids. So don't think you both have to be doing the same thing at the same time. You don't. The baby, 90% of the time, doesn't want to deal with his dada. You know, he wants his mama, and that's good and that's normal.

But Dada is going to be doing his own thing. So for the dada, make sure you are doing your role to the absolute best degree you possibly can. And the same goes for mama. And have a good time. Next one.

Fam 307
Howdy, Michael. Yo, Fam 307 here and the chat proud member of the creme de la creme. I have, I guess I have something for you. So recently watched the movie dread, that documentary about that guy who built a homemade tank out of a dozer. And I guess just given that situation of what happened, you know, tread on them, who tread on you, I feel like we may have the same thing happen since, since democrats have been poking the bear for so long.

Do you think it's too far to left field to think that this election, given the severity of it, very well could be something that causes conservatives to snap? Should Joe Biden steal the election again?

But thanks. Love to hear your thoughts and appreciate all that you do.

Michael Knowles
Thank you so much. Good question.

Sounds more like this is less a, a tread post and more of a fed post.

If you're asking me, is it time to take up arms against the government, I don't think it is. But to your point, could this election, if they imprison our leaders and if they upend our political order, illegally, change the election rules, so on and so forth, could this cause conservatives to snap? Probably not, is my answer.

Without passing any judgment on that prediction. I just think, no, I think it's going to take a lot.

Now, the fact that, look, it doesn't take a lot to make the libs violent. The libs are extremely violent and they're celebrated for their violence. But conservatives don't really get violent very much.

The nearest thing that they pretend we were violent over was the January 6 insurrection. And you'll remember, the only person who died in the political violence of that day was one of the right wingers, not a left winger. It's mostly just a horn hat guy being escorted through the Capitol by police, doing whatever he wants. Kind of funny Florida man smiling for a picture with Nancy Pelosi Slechter. So it wasn't really all that violent. The libs, on the other hand, are violent all the time. And antifa tries to kill me and other conservative speakers just for talking on college campuses.

Antifa threw an explosive at a wall because I was about to debate the question of transgenderism.

And of course, there was BLM, in which the leftists were encouraged to rape, kill, pillage and burn, murder dozens of people for eight months coast to coast. So they get violent. I just don't think we do that very often. And it's good that we're not eager for civil war because civil war involves shooting your cousins. And I don't really want to do that, but civil war can happen. We were talking about Dante earlier. I talk about Dante all the time. For Dante, civil war is politics. He's writing in the context of a civil war that has led him to be exiled from florence. And it's constant. It's a fact of political life, and it's a fact of a fallen world. So civil war does happen sometimes.

I think we're too quick to raise the prospect of civil war, but we don't really. I think we're actually a little rosy and Pollyanna about the fact that it actually can happen. And when it happens, it's really bad. So could it happen? Yeah, that's a fact of politics. Hope it doesn't. Next question.

Arun
Good morning, Michael. This is Arun. So currently, President Donald Trump is searching for a vice presidential running mate. My question for you is, should he avoid candidates who are white, asian, or indian?

Now, I hate the fact that I even have to ask this question. As you know, I famously despise racial politics. I would be equally fine with a government consisting entirely of white people and a government consisting entirely of black people. I would love to live under a triumvirate consisting of Byron Donald, Ben Carson, and Alan West.

I think the only thing that matters when selecting our government is to search for individuals who love America and who believe in our founding principles as enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans, including many republican voters, disagree with me. I'm active in Minnesota politics and in the Minnesota GOP. A lot of people would like to see more women, more minorities and such involved in republican politics. And this is not something I care about. This is not something that I think anyone should care about. Unfortunately, people care about this. Given that, do you think that for strategic reasons Donald Trump should avoid the so called preferred races of white, asian and indian when he is looking for a running mate? Thank you as always for your wisdom.

Michael Knowles
Good point. Really good point. And I agree with you about the triumvirate. You know, Byron and Ben Carson and Alan west or even Alan Keyes. Could you imagine Alan Keys? That would be a terrific government. I'm all for it.

But yeah, people care about racial identity.

I disagree, though. I think in as much as Trump is going to play identity politics, I think he should pick a white guy. I'm with you. I think there are plenty of black candidates who would be great. I'd be thrilled about. I think plenty. There are some hispanic candidates I would be thrilled about and all other sorts of races and everything. But.

So if he is going to play identity politics, I don't think tokenism plays very well on the right, you know. Haha. See, we have a black guy. See, ha ha. We're going to win you over liberals. No, you're not. You're not going to convince any liberals with that. They're just going to call the black guy and uncle Tom. So I don't think that works. If you're going to play identity politics, say, hey, white people are discriminated against in all manner of hiring and college admissions today. So, you know, I'm going to pick that white guy because I don't know, like most people are white in America. So if we're going to play the game, I guess, well, let me do that.

I think probably that wouldn't have a major effect either. But if it did, why not play it that way? Or you could just pick the guy that you think holistically is the best candidate. But no reason to believe that playing left wing racial identity politics is any better or more advantageous than playing any other kind of identity politics. Okay, the rest of the show continues. Now it's fake headline Friday. I need your help to identify the fake headline. Become a member. Use code Knowles Kwlas at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.

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Ep. 1511 - Baptists Throw Trump a Curveball

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