re: Paganism in America on the rise (Tucker Podcast)

"The justification now is that it is the will of the mother that determines the humanity of the child. So we have abortion laws in this country where a child of the same gestation, two children of the same gestational age in two different states, one has to be saved if born prematurely. All the medical technology, all the medical expertise that can be brought to bear to save that child's life must be brought to bear. Same gestational age. Child born in another state can be killed with impunity. The only thing that determines the humanity of this person is the desire of the mother to have the child or not have the child. And that is also quintessentially pagan, because in a pagan society, what determines right, what is morally correct is based on the. Is based on a power dynamic. Those who have power do what they want to, those who have no power. And that is their right. That is their God given right to enslave or kill or rape or abuse anyone who they have power over. And that's the dynamic we see returning now. It may start with a rational or secular justification, as we saw with abortion, but as we're seeing now in places like Canada with euthanasia, it quickly moves into a power dynamic where people who are inconvenient are simply being killed."

"When the founders said life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they understood happiness in a very specific way, which was the cultivation and the acquisition of virtue. You are free to not to do as you want to,whatever you want to. You're free to do as you ought. "

"I think a lot of christian leaders in America have accepted this false notion that winsomenessand being nice is the way to win people over to the faith and not sort of speaking clearly about moral truth. And I think it's a great mistake because, of course, the loving thing to do to anyone, if you love someone, you tell the truth, right? You have to tell them the truth if you love them, because you don't want them to persist in a lie that harms them and damages them. So when it comes to an issue like transgenderism, the loving thing for christian leaders to do is not to pretend that this is normal or healthy, but it's to tell the truth about transgender ideology, to save people who may be ensnared in it from getting involved in it, and to help people who are ensnared to get out."