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#132 - Wes Huff Confronts Fox News for Twisting His Words · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Wes Huff just called out Fox News for misreporting something about something
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  that he said regarding Joe Rogan and him recently now attending church regularly.
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  So on May 26th, that was just two days ago, Wes Huff put out this tweet and
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  he says to Fox News, he calls them out, you know, the handle,
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  he gives the Fox News handle.
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  Hey, Fox News, your article on this attributes things to me that I did not say
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  and also conflates statements to me that were actually said by my colleagues at Apologetics Canada.
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  I'd encourage you to do a little bit better in your reporting with actually
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  getting who said what correct.
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  So, and we're going to look at the Fox News article.
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  Either way, I tweeted this out and retweeted this and said, either way, praise God.
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  You know, I'm glad Wes Huff because he is, you know, he wants to set the record
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  straight of who's saying what he doesn't want.
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  He doesn't want to dilute or conflate anything or just just add confusion to it.
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  He wants to make it crystal clear where things stand.
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  You know, we know back in December, Wes Huff had a sit down with Joe Rogan.
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  And it was, it was, it was the, it was the introduction for the next level of
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  Wes Huff because it put him on the map.
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  Now he is the guy that is, I would say he is carrying the torch for Christianity
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  in a lot of ways, you know, in a lot of ways because he's brought the conversation mainstream.
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  But now we know that they got a relationship, relationship, him and Joe have
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  a good relationship, it sounds like.
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  And he's probably they're probably messaging each other back and forth,
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  you know, still staying in communication.
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  And either way, that had a huge impact on the trajectory of Joe Rogan.
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  He brought him on there and things were brought to Joe's attention.
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  And what they talked about discussed that this isn't just this isn't just fantasy anymore.
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  I think it's becoming realer and realer to Joe and that the the stories of the
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  Bible, people sometimes get up in arms when you call them stories, which they're stories.
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  They're historical accounts also, but they're stories. They're stories of what really happened.
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  And to Joe, I think he's just had, his mind has been flooded with so many new ideas.
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  He's always looking for what's new, what's out there. He wants things to be true.
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  And if he's wanting something crazy to be true, this is the direction you go.
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  If you're going to Jesus, if you're going to Christ, the church,
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  you know, and the church is a whole, you know, that is a loaded term.
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  That's a loaded term because that is what can drive people away more than anything.
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  Because so many people get turned off by the church, by people,
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  you know, I would say throw out the church, throw out the.
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  And look at Christ. Look at Christ. Look at Jesus.
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  Fix your eyes solely on Jesus. Don't look to the right or the left.
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  Don't look at other people and people that are out there that are saying things
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  about Jesus because everybody's going to let you down.
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  Everybody's going to have a scandal. Everybody's going to do something stupid
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  eventually, and everybody's going to let you down always. They will.
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  The people you love most will let you down and hurt you the most.
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  It will happen. So it's like, know that it's not just, it's that people are fallible.
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  People are, you know, they're not perfect. And this brings to my attention that
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  everybody is always saying, I can't get on board with the Bible because people are fallible.
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  There is a difference between just regular people in the church today and the
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  scriptures. They were wholly written, the word of God that, and it does take
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  faith to agree with that. you know?
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  And I don't want to get into this whole circular arguing of the Bible says,
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  the Bible says it's the word of God. So it's the word of God.
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  No, but it does take an element of faith. And if you just look at the Bible
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  for what it is, you will come to that conclusion.
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  That's what I would say about that. Now we're going to skip over to,
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  I want to look at the actual article itself.
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  So Wes said that the Fox News misattributed to him something that he did not
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  say, but it's the organization that he is with, Apologetics Canada.
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  They have a podcast as well. They do a lot of good work. They actually go out in the field.
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  They go overseas to the Holy Land and the travels of Paul, they go through a
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  lot of different places and look at archaeology and all that.
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  There's a lot there and they are bringing the Bible to life.
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  So there's a lot of good stuff there.
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  But Wes, he is a part of that. That is his organization.
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  So maybe somebody in that organization said something and kind of floated out
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  there and he didn't, he didn't want it. He wanted to set the record straight. So.
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  I'm cool with that. I mean, I think everybody would be cool with that.
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  All right, so let's skip over that.
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  All right, so this is the actual article from Fox. Joe Rogan starts going to
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  church as faith resurgence gains momentum, Christian apologist claims.
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  Now this apologist, whenever people talk about this, because this is becoming,
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  everybody's talking about it.
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  So these churchy terms, this Christianese that people use are gonna start coming
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  into just the regular everyday person and the cool people are talking about it.
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  So these are like apologetics is just a way of saying defending the faith.
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  This is some, this is just a fancy term.
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  It's come from the Greek of apologia to defend the faith, to make a defense. It's a courtroom term.
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  You're making a defense for your argument. And that's just now apologetics are apology.
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  Like we, we think of apology. I apologize for something, you know,
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  but in that when they're using it, which is like, maybe we should change the term.
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  I don't know. But like, it's been that way for, you know, you could say for
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  2000 years. So maybe we're just sticking with it kind of thing. I don't know.
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  All right. So let's kind of, let's get down a little bit. All right.
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  According to Christian apologist, Wesley Huff, who appeared on the Joe Rogan
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  experience in January, the world famous podcast host has been attending church
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  consistently since on their air, deep dive into Christianity and the Bible.
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  Huff said, Joe Rogan and I have had on and off communication since then.
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  I can tell you for a fact that he is attending a church and that has been a consistent thing.
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  And so things are happening.
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  The public speaker serves as the central candidate director for Apologetics
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  Canada and made the claim during a recent, recent appearance on the know what
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  you believe with Michael Horton podcast.
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  Wes has been all over the map. He's been on everything. I mean,
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  if you, I don't can't think of a huge podcast except mine, maybe that you want
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  to come on Wes, I'd be willing to take you, I guess,
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  I guess, but, but he's been on everything out there. Everything.
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  So in podcasts, that is the news now. That's where the kids are growing up with podcasts.
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  This is what they're going to know. And it's going to morph into something even crazier.
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  You know it is, especially when AI takes over these influencers that are on podcasts.
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  And you put them out there and they kind of speak for you.
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  We're going to have to figure out who's the organic version of Joe Rogan out
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  there and who's the organic version of that.
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  That'll come a time. But either way, he's going on everything and it's becoming,
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  it's front and center with everyone.
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  And he's been attributed of saying this, that Wes, not Wes, Wes is attributed
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  of saying this, that Joe is going to church now.
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  Praise God. That is awesome. I'm so glad he's going to church.
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  And Joe has a background in Christianity.
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  He came and his early career, he had, it looks like he had a bad taste in his
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  mouth because there's scandals in the church.
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  Like I said, it's going to happen. That's what's happened because people.
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  You don't, once you take on Christ, you don't immediately become perfect.
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  You don't immediately become translated into heaven, you know, a holy angel.
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  You're still, we are, we are pieces of crap covered by Christ's righteousness.
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  That's what it is, you know? And even within the church, there are people that
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  aren't true Christians. So you got to always keep that in mind,
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  that people really aren't following Christ.
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  They have nefarious other desires of what they're doing.
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  You know, they're just using it as a front, you know, within the,
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  within the church, Jesus said there will all, there will be wheat and there
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  will be tears and they're going to grow up together.
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  And at the end of the age, God's going to sort it out. God's going to,
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  you know, he knows who are his, but he's not going to risk messing up the wheat
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  to just pull out the tears right now.
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  All right. Huff added that he is very encouraged by his ongoing conversation with Rogan.
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  I'm so glad that they are staying in communication because Joe Rogan,
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  having a guy like Wes Huff, a person that he can run to that has biblical knowledge,
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  real biblical knowledge, and is able to just communicate it clearly and is not
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  going to just try to hide himself when things aren't,
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  When there are issues in the Bible that are tough to explain.
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  Wes is going to, he's going to attack it all.
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  He's going to talk about it all. He's not going to hide anything.
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  He's a very inquisitive individual. He said, I think for the better,
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  for the better in that he's communicating with me and other people in his life
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  who are influences that can speak into,
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  you know, these issues of reliability and trustworthiness and verse similitude
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  of something that, something like the pages of scripture and where he should
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  and shouldn't be looking for information in regards to that.
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  Huff also pointed out, pointed to a broader resurgent interest in Christianity.
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  Earlier this year, Ascensions, the rosary and a year's podly cast briefly outlook.
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  Rogan's own show on the Apple podcast charts.
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  It says, shortly after that dip in the rankings, Rogan invited Huff onto the
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  podcast, one of the most popular in the world.
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  It says, Huff went on to say that he has observed a growing number of young
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  people seeking Christian faith.
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  He referenced a recent message from a bookstore where teens have been coming
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  and asking for the Bible, reportedly saying, all my friends are reading this thing.
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  And then lastly, it said, we had someone who reached out to us recently at Apologetics
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  Canada, who is probably the last brick and mortar Christian bookstore that I've ever heard of.
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  But they said, we have people walking through our books, our doors,
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  asking young people, teenagers saying, I want a Bible.
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  All my friends are reading this thing. Huff continued.
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  So there's so much there. I'm glad Fox News brought this.
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  You know, Fox News does a lot of good, you know, that might not be the coolest
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  thing to say, but they do a lot of good.
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  I think for the majority, they are the most fair and balanced of the news organizations out there.
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  And to them to talk about this and about Joe's coming into the church and starting
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  to attend and just kind of sniffing around. That's great.
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  It's also good that Wes wanted to clear the air and say, I did not say things.
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  You're misrepresenting what I said, but either way, it's, this is a good thing.
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  This is a very good thing.
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  What is happening because the shift has happened. The culture shift has happened
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  and Christianity is becoming, it's becoming front and center.
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  You know, there's going to be good. There's going to be bad based on that,
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  but either way, it's good.
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  So if you'd like to continue this conversation, hit this link.
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  Thank you for jumping in and have a great day.