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God Given Rights · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day when you're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Tuesday morning, twenty
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seventh day of February. I'm West Thanks for joining me. There is an
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ongoing battle. I've never been one of the people who has gotten too caught
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up in the oh, there's an attack on Christmas. I've heard that in
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the past, and I don't fully dispute it. It's just not been the
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hill that I've ever decided that I need to fight a battle and dial on.
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It's I don't dispute someone's ability or right to feel that way. Okay,
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if you want to feel like Christmas is under attack, you certainly are
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allowed to do that. I have felt that the church in general has been
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under attack for a few reasons, and I feel like when people say,
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oh, they want to make sure that we don't have our beliefs so that
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we'll believe them. And I think that's certainly part of what's at play.
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I've told you on this show and on the radio many many times that I
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believe the thing that is the motivator behind attacking the church is there's a few
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things at play, but I think at its most basic is that I think
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that if you are someone who is part of a political party that believes that
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social programs should be run by the government, should be run at a national
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level, that taxes should be brought in from citizens and distributed out to other
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citizens after going through, of course, a channel of people who are going
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to take a little piece of it as it goes along the way. And
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I'm not necessarily talking about a bribe. I'm just talking about going through bureaucrats.
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I'm talking about you bring in the tax money, Okay, to bring
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in the tax money, there are you know, irs people, there are
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people that work for our government to bring in tax money. All right,
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that's one chunk that's getting made out of the tax money. Right. And
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then you got if you say, well, we're going to give money to
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this environmental cause, and we're going to send money over to this particular to
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parks, well it's not going to go straight to parks. It's going to
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go to somebody who is part of the parks department that's going to you know,
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have a salary. That's then going to it's going to get filtered down
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through a series of people. And if you're one of those people that believes
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that social programs for food, like the SNAP program, or any sort of
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medical care, Affordable Care Act, any sort of social program that is in
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place that involves one citizen having their money taken by the government and given to
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another citizen. Okay, if that's part of what your plan is, that's
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part of what your strategy is. And I do think it's a strategy.
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I know there's folks on the left say no, no, no, we're
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just trying to help people, and that's great. Helping people is amazing.
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Okay. It's one of the core components of my faith, one of the
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core components of who I am as a free individual. I believe it's one
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of the great privileges that we are robbed from by our government because we cannot,
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in many cases give money to the causes that we want to support,
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because it's taken from us, and it's given to other causes. It's taken
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from us. And I guess buying airline tickets for people that came into the
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country illegally and they kick off a person who's paid for a ticket to make
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room for someone who needs to be phoned somewhere else. It's a weird world
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that we're living in. Yeah, I haven't seen that story. Check that
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out. So if that's the basis for you running things, hey, we're
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going to help you. We're going to be a government aid for you.
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Once you get to a point where you need assistance, then you're able to
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leverage that with potential voters, and you're able to leverage that with folks to
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say, look, if you want to keep these programs, you're going to
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need to vote for us. We're here to take care of you. Michelle
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Obama did an interview recently where she talked about how you know the government,
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what government does. Government's role is to provide these things for people. That
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was never the intention for government here. That was never the intention at all
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by our founders. In fact, they wanted as little government as possible,
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as little as possible. They came from an oppressive system probably looks a lot
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like I don't know maybe what we're dealing with now. They came from that
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and they said, we want the most freedoms imaginable. Okay, that's what
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we want. We want freedom. We want to come here and be able
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to live our lives. That was the American idea. That was the American
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dream. That was the real American dream. Everybody says, oh, American
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dream is to buy property. Now, the American dream was to have the
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freedom to live however you wanted to live, as long as you didn't hurt
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somebody else. Right, that was the essence of all of it. So
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when we got to a point where as a country, our founders decided we're
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going to separate from the motherland and we're going to establish the fact that we
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want to lay out the ground rules for where these freedoms come from. And
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they made it pretty clear they come from God. And when you establish the
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fact that we're born with these rights, when you're born with them and they're
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given to you by your creator, then there's no one on earth who can
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take them away from you. That was the goal, right, we want
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to establish that we're born with certain rights and a government that we're going to
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put into place has no authority to take those rights away. And it wasn't
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just by the time we got to the Constitution. It's pretty clear there.
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But it started with a certain letter sent to England to say we're done.
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Straight from the Declaration of Independence, we hold these truths to be self evident,
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that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator
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with certain uninalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the
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pursuit of happiness. I always hear people that say, well, we're entitled
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to happiness, which of course would be basically a forced equal outcome for everybody,
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which some are trying to do that. But that's not what was promised.
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Right there, they laid it out. This is what we are laying
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out for you. There's also some stuff in the Constitution about ourselves and our
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posterity, which would be the unborn. But that's another debate for another topic.
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Because as the founders are talking about the unborn US and the other unborn,
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you could certainly make a case. I don't know that you could make
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a case they were talking of about folks that were being aborted because they never
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crossed their mind that people would be doing that. But anyway, I don't
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guess it crossed their mind. I don't know how be far back does that
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practice go in America. I wonder when the first ones were. Anyway,
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I am off on a tangent, but that's okay. Back to it.
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So the Founders said you can't take them away from us because you didn't give
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them to us, and that was the law of the land. Most of
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the I don't know many people in America, even the ones who maybe because
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I thought, no God, they believe that. They're probably looking at this
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going yeah, but if that means the government can't take away my right to
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protect myself, the government can't take away my rights, will go along with
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that. Sure, that's fine. We want the freedoms, we want the
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ability to live our lives and do what we want to do as long as
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we're not hurting somebody else. All of this is now, I think part
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of what we're seeing another attack on faith in general, or organized religion,
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or just basic beliefs in general. As politico and let's see if I can
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get her name right. I want to make sure I get her name right,
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Heidi Persabila, I think is how her name is pronounced. Don't read
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a lot of her stuff, don't listen to a lot of the interviews she
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was on MSNBC, And this is what she had to say about how these
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Christian nationalists, stressed distinguish not just Christians, but Christian nationalists have this false
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belief about where rights come from. The one thing that unites all of them,
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because there's many different groups orbiting Trump. But the thing that unites them
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as Christian nationalists, not Christians by the way, because Christian nationalists is very
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different, is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all humans
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beings, don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress,
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they don't come from the Supreme Court. They come from God. Okay,
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And again we've established where that thought comes from. It comes right from the
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founding of the country. The very first official document of the United States.
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They weren't United States yets, but it was the first document that led to
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it. Right, So we've established where this thought comes from, Where this
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idea comes from. You can go back to the Magna Carta and others if
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you want to, you know, dive really back into things John Locke and
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others. There's a lot of stuff that all culminated coming into this idea that
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became what is America. But anyway, so this isn't a crazy Christian nationalist
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idea that's come from nowhere. This goes back to the very beginning of this
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country. And that just shows someone who either doesn't understand how the country was
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found, It doesn't understand the origins of the country. Maybe hasn't studied it.
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I don't know. I don't know what her background is on that,
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or she's just choosing to ignore that, or she's intentionally and understand what I'm
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saying here. If it's ignorance, you can go well, if it's ignorance,
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she should just read up on it. I think a lot of people
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are very critical of her on social media, x and others attacking her for
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it. If it's ignorance, if she doesn't understand where this idea comes from.
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But if it's more notorious than that, if she's coming at this by
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saying it's just Christian nationalists, they've come up with this, but she knows
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deep down where it really came from, then that's a whole different level of
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raised the eyebrow and look at her, right, you're saying, well,
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what is your motivation here? And in this case, it certainly sounds like
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And I didn't listen to the full interview. It was MSNBC, and I
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I heard enough of it to get a feel for what she's talking about.
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She's attacking Trump supporters, that's what she's doing. She's saying, if you
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support Trump, he's tapping into these Christian nationalists and this idea that the constitution
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our American government does not give them the rights that they have. Think about
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how dangerous it is and why the founders put it in there. If the
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government gives you your rights, then the government can take away your rights.
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That's the whole point. And I understand if you want to make this case
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that, well, I'm not a Christian, so how can I understand and
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comprehend this basic thing? At its core? You can look at it like
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this back to those original early Americans, right that maybe if they agreed with
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you, they probably weren't a lot of them. Some of them, you
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know, maybe were deists or other things. But the point is if they're
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not looking at this through this Christian lens, but you're looking at this like,
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you know, maybe your idea of God is something else, maybe you
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don't believe in God, but can you not get behind the idea that it's
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dangerous that the government can think that it has the right to take away some
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of your basic your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
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your ability to pursue happiness doesn't guarantee you happiness, it guarantees your right
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to pursue it. I've talked about this before, and I'll just I'll say
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it plain and simple, okay, for those who maybe haven't heard me say
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it. I am a Christian. I do believe that God gave us the
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ability to make mistakes, to do the wrong thing, to sin. That's
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the word we say at church, right. God gave us the ability to
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do that. He wants us to make the right decisions. He wants us
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to choose Him over those things. He wants us to do the right thing,
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but he doesn't restrict us from being able to make those mistakes and do
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the wrong thing. That's the basic baseline I guess for all of it.
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I don't believe that someone should be able to step in and stop me from
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making a bad decision just because they don't like what my decision is. However,
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I acknowledge there are things that I do that are wrong. I make
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mistakes. I try not to make mistakes. I choose God over bad decisions.
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I do my best. We all come short, right, we're all
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sinners, we all come short. But my point is they're my mistakes to
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make okay. That's the first step. Part two is when you get into
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this that the founders were talking about, is it our government's job to step
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in and tell you what you can and can't do under certain circumstances. Absolutely,
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are you stealing from someone, are you going to kill someone? Have
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you killed someone? Are you trying to hurt someone? They have a right
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in those cases because we've given the government that authority. The government doesn't just
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step in and say, ah, we're in charge, we get to tell
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you what to do. That's not the way it's supposed to work. But
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they're there to protect our ability to have the freedoms that we believe are God
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given. So I'm not an advocate for, hey, we're going to step
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back as the United States of America founded with no restrictions on our ability to
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worship. I'm not going to step away from that. And I know some
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people who say, well, you know, God should be part of how
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we govern and rule, and certainly there are elements of Christian faith in it.
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Absolutely, But the people who say, well, there has to be
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that separation, and I understand that's the separation. The separation is we're free
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to make mistakes, our government. It's not their job to step in and
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say, hey, you shouldn't have that affair. You don't need to do
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that anymore. You need to stop now. If one person says, eh,
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you cheated on me, we're going to get a divorce, I'm gonna
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go to the courthouse and We're going to file the paperwork. That's when the
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government has an authority that we've given it. That's the difference. I don't
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understand what's not clear about the origins of this thought that God gave us these
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rights. The government did not give us these rights. Apparently even Michelle Obama
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thinks that the government gave these this rights or at least provides us with all
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of these things. But the origin of it isn't Trump supporters, The origin
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of it isn't Christian nationalists. The origin of it is the beginning of this
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country, the first document that set everything in motion. It all aid it
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out right there, and it was present as the Constitution was being written,
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the idea that God gave us these rights and no government can take them from
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us. And they want to break that down for a number of reasons,
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because if they can take our rights from us, they certainly have control and
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we can't even challenge it because they're the authority. And again another way for
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them to attack the church and say, why should the church be the one
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Are you as excited about the five dollars as Aunt Bee was when she won
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was kind of a big inconvenience, Wasn't It's five dollars really enough? I
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know a lot of people are saying it's not fair, but who am I
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to say what's fair when it comes Oh, and they still or standing by
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the fact that it was a coating problem and not a cyber attack. A
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that they never wear. In fact, eighty percent of respondents say that they
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wear the same things over and over, and it's not just about clothes not
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fitting right. Fifty percent said they didn't wear some of their clothes because they
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were buried under other clothes. Twenty percent said that they keep clothes for sentimental
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reasons even if they've never worn them. Sixty five percent said some of the
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clothes they've never worn still have the tags on them. Yikes. I know
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someone who would say that they wore shoes once and then just put them away
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somewhere and that was it. Now, you you know, I don't want
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know, that's what she did. She said, I would buy them,
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and then I would wear the shoes and put them away. And you know,
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maybe in a very rare circumstance where on a second time, if I
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probably not be able to keep them alive. Not much of a gardener,
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but still. Hey. There's a family in particular, the Coats family.
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They live in Nashville, Tennessee. I don't know if they deserve credit for
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this. They deserve some credit because their social media posts about it have gone
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viral, and I guess it's inspired other people to do the same thing.
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But they have found a unique way to make dinnertime special. They eat by
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candlelight, and they basically, I guess at some point they decided the husband,
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I guess, suggested we should eat by candlelight. And she says,
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this is the woman. Kaisa, I guess is her name. She says
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that they've been doing it for about a month. She says dinnertime is now
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significantly calmer. Does kids slow down and want to sit and talk around the
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table longer? And she says it makes dinner time feel special And I love
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that because it is so. She says. You might say that my kids
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so young young, this would never work. She said, our youngest just
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turned four and loves it. Whatever you teach them, it will become the
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norm. The kids ask every night to eat by candle light. Granted it
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doesn't always happen, but we make it a priority. I wish we would
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have started it sooner. I like this. I mean, we've got a
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you know, the butts glued to the seats, and Luke is the one
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to escape. We're not really sure how he does it so well, but
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he does so anyway. Dinner by candle I like the idea. We have
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a nice screened in porch deck or deck was hit by a tree back in
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twenty twenty, and when we rebuilt it, we put a roof on it
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and we screened it in and we eat dinner out there a lot in springtime
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and in the fall. That's our favorite, and sometimes in the summer even
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if it's not especially hot out there. And we really like that, and
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that's been a nice But the candlelight indoors, I think we may have to
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give that a shot. I like it. That'll do it for this Tuesday
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