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E171: Unmasking America’s Food Crisis w/Dr Anthony Jay

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The Dark Side of Food Subsidies and Health

This chapter explores how government subsidies for crops like corn, soy, and wheat affect the food and drug industries. It highlights the health risks associated with these heavily subsidized products and discusses the potential influence of political leadership changes on food regulations.

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Speaker 1
I'm
Speaker 2
so curious what you think the Christian strategy should be when it comes to the GOP compromise. I heard recently Ryan Anderson say that Christian conservatives have become the cheap date of the Republican party. He buy us a couple drinks and, you know, we'll go home with you. And it does put us in this really difficult position because you've got Trump and Vance who are less rabidly pro-abortion than Kamala. Of course, she was the most, she is the most rabidly pro-abortion politician, I would say, in the United States. But they're saying things that are completely nonsensical. Oh, let's compromise at 16 weeks. Everyone will be happy. Follow your heart. Totally incoherent. Not really, truly pro-life when it comes to that agenda. As you said, the GOP took out strong pro-life language from their platform. So do we just keep voting for Republicans until we get to the point to where we're just saying, well, at least it's not 40 weeks that they're for. It's just 38.
Speaker 1
Yeah.
Speaker 2
Like, is it good enough for them to just be a little bit to the right of liberals? Are we rewarding them by continuing to vote for them? Or is it just the only option we have? Yeah,
Speaker 1
I. We are in this position because we've abdicated for so long. And at some point, believers and conservatives are going to have to be willing to put a line in the sand. G.K. Chesterton had this great line from 100 years ago in the Illustrated London News. He said, the business of progressives is to keep on making mistakes. The business of conservatives is to prevent the mistakes being corrected. And unfortunately, we kind of continue to see that today. It's almost like the conservative movement as we know it today, just imbibes whatever the radical ideas were of Democrats 10 years later. And so now, you know, conservative Republicans today look like Democrats 10 years ago. At some point, we're going to have to be as unyielding in our principles as the left has always been. You and I know that a moderate pro-choice Democrat would never even get the time of day anywhere close to the White House. Even if they supported first trimester abortions, but maybe not second and third trimester, they would never, the Democrat base that they rely on to get elected would not vote for them.
Speaker 2
Even RFK.
Speaker 1
Yep. Yeah, that's right. And so it's very frustrating because I understand the importance of Trump getting elected because I kind of don't want parents thrown into prison and sidewalk counselors. And I kind of want personnel's policy. I kind of want Christians near Trump influencing him when he is hopefully elected this November. Like that's all really important. But like at some point, evangelicals in particular, the largest but the weakest voting block in the country, remember that, the largest voting block, but the poorest to show up at the polls. The largest and weakest voting block in the country is at some point going to have to start being vocal and Trump actually needs to fear losing the evangelical vote because of his compromise on marriage and the unborn. And if evangelicals, and this is why my ministry is so focused on the church, if evangelicals aren't willing to be that vocal and loud and create that fear, that the next Trump or the next JD Vance or whoever it is, is actually like, I better get in line with what evangelicals want or I'm not going to get elected. It's like, oh, for Christians and conservatives who are as unyielding unapologetic about their biblical Judeo-Christian principles as the radical left is for whatever new, you know, demonic idea they have is. And so, so at one time, we kind of need an immediate win right now because of all the evil that's coming down the pike. I want, I want to create the political viability, the political viable option of being able to fight for the next four years and protect pro-lifers and the unborn and continue to have a robust pro-life movement. But we need to not be so quick to hand our vote over. Yeah,
Speaker 2
I think that's a really good way to put it. You know, I was thinking about your story and just how the Holy Spirit is so interesting, how he works for the lives of believers. You were talking about, you started preaching at these big churches in 2020, and you kind of realized over the past few years how much work needs to be done within the church. And I would say it was 2020 for me, that I also realized that. And it was really George Floyd and all that. And I saw Christians and professing Christians mimicking this social, racial, justice, BLM nonsense that has no founding in Scripture when it comes to the definition of biblical justice. And I really saw that it was mostly evangelical women, these, I would say even white evangelical women who are parodying these talking points. And I've seen a lot of that group, although many of them kind of came to their senses and realized, okay, yeah, that's probably not okay. That's insane. But it's a lot of those same women who will say something as nonsensical as, well, I'm politically pro-choice. I'm personally pro-life. But look, I want a woman to be able to get a DNC after a miscarriage. They've been very propagandized into believing that
Speaker 1
any
Speaker 2
restriction on abortion, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, all that stuff, they will not say that restrictions are good. They'll say, well, I'm holistically pro-life or I'm womb to tomb pro-life, which really just means that they're for like liberal immigration law. They're against the death penalty, but they're for abortion. That's right. Which is incoherent. So tell me your thoughts on that and how we approach that group.
Speaker 1
Yeah. The redefinition of pro-life has been, has been a war that's been waging for probably over a decade now. Yeah. And it's been, it's been progressives who call themselves Christians and full blown anti-god, atheist, materialist progressives who have seeked to influence people like David Platt, Matt Chandler, Russell Moore, LeCray, Jackie Hill Perry, TD Jakes, shall I continue, to celebrate their cheerleading of this new definition of pro-life, because it allows the progressives to sneak in their progressive priorities and masquerade it with the term that they know they can use to get Christians on board with the social justice trainer. What is that term? Pro-life. What are the two ways that progressives know that they can influence believers and win the hearts and minds of Christians who are not like Chesterton, they're not like C.S. Lewis, they're not like Metaxas, they're not like you, they haven't thought deeply about these ideas. You either call it a gospel centered issue, or you call it a pro-life issue. And then you know that the Christians become very easy to maneuver and manipulate, because oh, it's about the gospel, it's a great commission, or it's about the babies pro-life. You're pro-life, right Christian? Oh, I'm pro-life, pro-proof. Well, then you got to support open borders. You got to take the jab because you don't want people to die. Love your neighbor. And so they sneak in all of this crap, Allie. And so what they've done is they've redefined pro-life from the protection of life in the womb to the allegedly quality of life outside the womb. So rather than saying, let's not slaughter children in the womb, it's's well, you know, you, you, you got to grant mass amnesty because those are image bearers. And so that's a life issue. And so they've completely redefined what pro life means. And this has even been pushed by people like Russell Moore, but who used to be at the ERLC, which is a political arm of the largest Protestant denomination in the country, the Southern Baptists. And now he's the editor in chief of Christianity Today, for goodness sake, Billy Graham's flagship Christian publication. A lot of these people, including LaCray and others, and Phil Vischer, Mr. Bob Potato, Veggie Tales creator, have done a lot to influence believers to accept this new redefinition of pro-life. And so he who fights everywhere fights nowhere.
Speaker 2
So
Speaker 1
if now to be pro-life means that I've got to do all this other stuff, that allegedly improves quality of life outside the womb, then how the heck am I supposed to ever end the killing of babies in the womb? Right. And secure protection of life in the womb. So it's very important for us to be clear and push back on what pro life actually means. And so I have lost a lot of friends and I've watched a lot of people capitulate over the last few years because they've accepted this new redefinition. And so then you get articles in the gospel coalition by Thabiti Anawali or whatever African name he changed for himself a decade ago, where he says, evangelical pastors, please tell us to vote for Hillary. That was the name of an article at the Gospel Coalition, which is Tim Keller's brainchild. He co-founded the Gospel Coalition. And I've watched people I know, or people that I used to respect from afar, say, well, I gotta vote for Hillary, or I've gotta vote for Biden, because they have a more comprehensive ethic of life, womb to tomb kind of stuff. So how do we reach those people? I mean, this is why clear moral teaching from the pulpit is so dang important. I think most of the issues we're facing in America today, Ali, are result from a lack of moral teaching from the pulpit. There's this incredible story that Megan Basham says, tells in her new book, Shepherds for Sale, how evangelical ministers traded the truth for leftist agenda. And it's about Kristen, what was her name? She went to Tim Keller's church, right? Who's with CNN or something like that, one of the left wing. And, but she used to attend Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. And a couple years ago, after after she's completely walked away from from Christ and no longer even claims to be a Christian, she wrote this thing, I just retweeted on my Twitter because I was like, this is crazy to read. And she said, for the years that I was there under Pastor Tim Keller's preaching, I never heard anything about what he believed or his denomination believed about male headship, about marriage, about gender and sexuality, or about abortion. I mean, she was in a Kathy Keller Bible study, I think. And she said, I never even heard any of this stuff. That's what I mean, I mean, that's a lack of moral teaching from the pulpit. Then she said, but I guess most of those things were pretty standard Orthodox beliefs in the Presbyterian Church. But I never even knew it because Tim Keller never said it from the pulpit. There was no clear moral teaching. That's a little vignette of what I mean is that the business of conservatives is to is to prevent the mistakes being corrected. Yeah. And that kind of abdication from the shepherds of the church and of America is why we're in this current predicament.
Speaker 2
Yeah. Okay. You brought up Matt Chandler a couple of times and he was the first I mean, I definitely not the first because I grew up going to gospel preaching church and I went to Christian school kindergarten through 12th grade. And so I knew the gospel and I knew a lot of my Bible, but his preaching of the gospel was so different and so compelling and so effective for me when I was in college. And actually his, how he has talked about abortion over the years, I don't know if he still does it. He used to. Excuse me. Every. Eight years ago, nine years ago. Every January he used to talk vividly about abortion and what abortion was. And so why do you bring him up in this conversation?
Speaker 1
Well, it was Matt Chandler, I believe, who said, uh, I would always hire a black six before a white seven. Yeah.
Speaker 2
Anglo. It was it was it was Anglo. I think. But
Speaker 1
then he said, but I would never hire a black six before a white eight because I don't want to be accused of tokenism. Yeah.
Speaker 2
That was at the MLK 50 conference. I think in 2018 or 19.
Speaker 1
Good. Very. you're right. Correct. Thank you for that refresher. But then someone responded to him on social media and said, no, you are OK with tokenism as long as it's narrow enough that you might escape being criticized of tokenism. And so that's critical race theory. Obviously, what he's saying is like it from a one to 10 in terms of how qualified you are for a job, he'd rather have a less qualified black person than a slightly more qualified white person. Why? Because critical race theory in Frankfurt School and all this trash.

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