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There's a Broad Spectrum of Ignorance · 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. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show, Tuesday morning, nineteenth
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day of September. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me. Yes, the
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Christmas stuffs and stores. I saw some of that yesterday. Actually, I
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think I noticed some of it over the weekend. I just didn't pay attention
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to it. But I didn't notice some yesterday. But it's there. It's
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to be expected. I know some people who kick up a stink. I
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the Christmas stuffs out and it's not even October yet. It's okay. Stores
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are just trying to make their money. They're trying to, you know,
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get in the black That's what they're trying to do. That's what you know
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Black Friday. That's the whole essence of it, right. They're trying to
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get to that point where they're trying to get into it sooner rather than later,
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or at least getting to the best possible starting point for like a Black
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Friday they can get to. That's what they want to do. That's fair.
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It's called the free market. Do what they want to do. You
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can be mad and you can stay home and you can not shop. That's
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your part in the free market if that's what you want. But let them
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put up their decorations whenever they're ready. Let him put out the product,
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let him start trying to sell it sooner rather than later. The sooner we
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buy our stuff for Christmas, the sooner than you don't have to get in
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the stores during the Christmas rush if you don't want to. That's just the
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reality. Okay, So here is what I want to talk about today,
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because I guess a couple of weekends ago, and I know this past weekend,
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I guess it was touched on again. I didn't. I think he
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did a follow up sermon on it. Now. I haven't watched the entirety
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of the sermon. I'm not going to. I don't want to spend too
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much time, specifically on what I can perceive from the news coverage of this
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as complete ignorance on the part of someone. And ignorance is the best word
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for it, I think, because we have to understand that, especially living
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in the Deep South. I don't know about the rest of the country.
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I know in the Deep South, when you call someone ignorant, you're calling
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them stupid, right, that's just sort of slang. That's very colloquial for
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us. Someone is ignorant, they're stupid. What in reality, calling someone
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ignorant is really more just saying they're uninformed. They're uneducated, they don't know
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better. Okay, and that's probably the best way to describe. This Guy's
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name is Rick Morrow. He's the pastor of the Beulah Baptist Church in Richland,
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Missouri, and he was doing a sermon. I don't know what the
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full message of the sermon was. I don't know exactly. I just know
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that at some point he decided to go off. Maybe this was the whole
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sermon, I don't know, but I know at some point he decided he
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felt it was in his best interest to address his congregation and talk about autism
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and how it is caused by demonic powers, and that if parents would just
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cast the demon out of their children, it would cure them of autism.
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Now, this goes back to September the sixth was when the sermon happened.
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Now a week later, I guess this past weekend on the thirteenth, he
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spoke about it again. We'll get to that in just a minute, but
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what he said was, if it's not demonic. Then we have to say
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God made them that way. That's the only other explanation. Either the devil
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has attacked them, He's brought this infirmity upon them, He's got them where
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he wants them, and or God just doesn't like them very much and he
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made them that way. Well, my God doesn't make junk. God doesn't
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make mess ups. And he talked about how lots of kids who are autistic
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have been cured by a minister that he knows who just praised for them.
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He said he had to pray and their brain was rewired and they were fixed.
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So it was posted to the Facebook profile of the Buell Baptist Church,
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hundreds of thousands of views and comments talking about what happened, asking for his
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resignation. He was also on the school board in this particular town. He
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was asked to resign from that as well. It's been taken down from the
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Facebook page, and there's a obviously a lot of people have concerns about this.
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So let's start with his ignorance about autism. Okay, he's seeing autism
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as some sort of infirmity that has been brought upon people by the devil.
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That's the way he's describing it. Okay, Now, maybe he hasn't been
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made aware that the overall perception of autism asd as it's now referred and it's
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now referred to more of a spectrum rather than as you know, you have
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aspergers, or you have autism or you know whatever. Now it's perceived as
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this spectrum, and there is a certainly a broad range of conditions of symptoms
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that people display when they have autism or on the spectrum as it's actually referred
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to now. So I guess to him, everybody, it's all one giant
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thing. It's no longer you know that you've heard the term high functioning autism.
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I don't even know if that term is really used very much anymore,
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but that is certainly a way to sort of help explain stage one maybe of
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autism, where people have certain social anxieties, maybe they're very gifted at certain
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things, they have a very strong focus on certain things. You might be
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very gifted in one or two subjects at school, maybe even a lot of
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subjects. There's you know, talk about people like you know, Da Vinci
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possibly having been autistic, or Einstein or some of the great minds of all
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time, Elon Musk has said that he is on the spectrum. So that's
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the first thing to understand is there are various stages and it's a spectrum.
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Okay, this is not something that if your perception of autism is what you've
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gathered from one or two people that you have seen that certainly maybe have a
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more severe case of it, more severe symptoms. It's probably the better way
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to say it than a severe case of it, but more severe symptoms to
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go with it. Really struggle with loud noises, really struggle with most noises.
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You might see people that have to shut out sounds around them. And
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I don't know what his experience is with people with autism, but I know
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that this is someone who is speaking about it as if he understands autism,
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and he clearly does not. He doesn't understand ASD doesn't understand the spectrum.
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He's trying to just I think, shoot from the hip, from the pulpit.
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I don't know exactly what his goal was here. Perhaps maybe he could
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say that, you know, he believes that people that have more severe cases
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it could be lessened or healed. But I think more people that I know
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and encounter in a daily life, my daily life that are on the spectrum,
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they're doing just fine. I know that there are some cases where people
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are not able to live day to day on their own. They're going to
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need some assistance in life, but there's a lot of people that have what
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at one time, maybe it still is, I don't know, but was
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referred to as high functioning autism. When you talk about an Elon Musk or
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a Jerry Seinfeld who has said that he believes he is on the spectrum,
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I think they're doing just fine, and I think maybe it may be part
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of what drives them towards success. It gives them focus, it helps them
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in a lot of ways. So I don't know what this guy is talking
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about specifically here. However, what it does is it caused this major backlash
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towards the religious community. I saw comments from people saying this is why the
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church or this is why Christianity is awful, this is why it's terrible because
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of things like this and what before. I don't want to get away from
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talking about this guy, because he did eventually go back I guess this past
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weekend and said he wanted to clarify that he thinks autism is junk and not
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the children affected by it by saying I have been told that autism is a
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blessing from God. I've been told I'm the evil one. But you know
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what, if I was to stand up here and say cancer as junk,
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people would agree. If I were to stand up here and say addiction as
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junk, people would agree. But autism isn't cancer, Autism isn't addiction.
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Okay, That's that's where the ignorance comes in. Is this is someone who
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just doesn't understand it. Oh, but I want to go back to the
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comments that were made by someone that I saw a post that they basically said,
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this is the problem with the church. And I think it's interesting the
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areas where we decide to sort of pick and choose who we allow to represent
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certain groups. And I'm gonna pick on the left here because they like to
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say when someone takes a gun into a crowded area and shoots, that's all
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gun owners, that's the that's the tragedy of guns. All guns lead to
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that all guns or the problem. They don't want to pinpoint it on the
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individual who made the decision to do it. Even when someone drives a car
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into a crowd of people. They find a way to turn What was his
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political affiliation? Was he an a right person? Was the what was the
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situation that made him do that? They look for the big picture on who
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they can lump them in with, rather than step back and say, here's
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someone an individual who did something that was very wrong. So here is a
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minister who did something that's very wrong, largely based on his ignorance of what
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he's talking about. He just doesn't understand. He could spend some time,
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I don't know, maybe researching autism before he decides to talk about it,
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and I don't know, I don't know what his history is. So I
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really can't come from a place of judgment other than to say he was ignorant
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and he was wrong. What he said was wrong. He doesn't represent churches
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across the country. He doesn't represent Christianity, He doesn't represent my faith.
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He doesn't represent what I believe about people that are on the spectrum any more
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than a person who breaks out a rifle and shoots at a crowd of people
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represents what I think about guns or what I think that all guns are bad.
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Remember when Pat Robertson with seven hundred club, he used to talk about
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hurricanes. When hurricanes would hit New Orleans, he would say things like,
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well, this is their punic God is punishing the people of New Orleans for
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Marty Gras and all the debauchery that happens there. I don't know what his
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exact words were, but I'm paraphrasing. I just like saying debauchery. I
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think that's a fun word to say in that particular context. But he was
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basically saying that New Orleans was being punished with hurricanes, as if hurricanes didn't
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happen and then all of a sudden they just started happening to punish people,
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And people would say, oh my god, what complete ignorance this is for
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someone to say that hurricanes are some sort of punishment towards people for doing something
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that you know, maybe society maybe thought might be wrong. There's a lot
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of pretty debaucherous behavior that happens in New Orleans. You know, not everybody
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there, but there's a lot of it that happens there. Used to be
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more so I think, I don't know. I've only been once. I
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saw some things. I saw some things I can't unsee right, So,
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but that doesn't represent what I feel about the hurricanes. They're hurricanes. They're
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a natural phenomena that happens and has happened for millions of years. This isn't
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new. It didn't just suddenly start happening to New Orleans as some sort of
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a plague on New Orleans because you know, some ladies flashed at people when
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they threw beads at them, anymore than her. Hurricanes are a punishment on
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I don't know, Florida. We just heard this recently, right, it's
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a punishment on Florida. I've heard everything from it's a punishment on Florida for
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not doing more to protect the environment, because that's a new religion. By
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the way, hurricanes are punishing people of Florida for not doing more. They're
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punishing people of Florida for voting for Rhonda Santis for their governor. There's a
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lot of for being more conservative. There's a lot of punishment that folks on
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the left seem to think is okay. They couldn't buy it when Pat Robertson
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said it about New Orleans, but they buy it when it matches whatever it
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is that they want to say. Does that make any sense? I don't
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think that that doesn't make any sense at all, does it. It's also
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coming from a place of ignorance. See, hurricanes have been around for a
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long time, a long time, longer than we've even recorded them. They've
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they've existed for a very very long time. At least science tells us that
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if we're going to follow science, oh, you gotta find all the science
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we have to. So what is it about taking just one person that we
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don't like in making them the scapegoat for it? What is it about the
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one person that says something and then we blame and then we turn around and
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by we I'm talking about these people on the left that decided that Pat Robertson
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was wrong, he was downright evil. But the people who are saying it
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about the state of Florida and hurricanes and climate change, well they know what's
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up, right, They've got it figured out. When are we going to
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start realizing that climate extremism is a offshoot of the climate religion. The climate
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change religion has its extremists that say the world is going to end in ten
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years, in fifteen years, and twenty years, whatever it is, the
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world is going to end. We're all going to die. Does that sound
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like what some religious extremists, especially I know there's still people that do it,
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but there used to be people that would do it and make headlines.
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I don't know. Twenty years ago, thirty years ago. I remember when
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I was in high school, there was talk someone said, oh my gosh,
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nineteen eighty eight, and that wasn't quite high school for me. That
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was middle school, I guess. But oh my gosh, nineteen eighty eight,
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that's forty years after Israel became a country again, and that's when the
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world is gonna end. There were people who believed that, and then when
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that didn't happen, they said, well, well we got to get to
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the year two thousand. Two thousand, for some reason became significant. I
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don't know what was significant about that, because it, you know, if
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we're really trying to I mean, I don't know, I don't know what
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made two thousand a significant number. But they said the world is gonna end
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in two thousand and people in all these crazy religious wackos are telling us we're
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all gonna die. It's where there's no way we're gonna be able to survive.
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That's what these people are thinking. They believe that. Look at these
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crazies and now here we are. And you know this has been going on
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for a while too, but it's really really kicked up a notch in the
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last couple of decades where it's, oh, my gosh, the climate is
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going to kill us all. That's not wasn't climate. At first. We
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were gonna have an ice age that would kill us all. And then it
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became it's gonna get so hot, global warming is gonna kill us all.
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We're supposed to have been dead many times over many times, and we had
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you know, just recently, I guess Jane Fonda said, if we've even
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got twelve years left in us, that's all. We got twelve years.
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And I know she's not an expert. She's no more an expert on climate
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change than Neil Degrass Tyson is on gender identity. I understand that doesn't mean
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that they don't chime in on it, though, do they. They like
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to jump in and talk about things that maybe they don't really know what they're
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talking about. But my point is, if climate change religion has extremists that
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say the world is going to end, we have to start acknowledging them the
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way that we acknowledge the religious people who say the world is going to end.
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There's an actual written doctrine for the religious people, though they can sit
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there and say, well, I've got some reference from the Bible that leads
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me to believe these things. At least they've got something they're basing it on.
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What are the climate change people basing on some weather information in some cases
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temperatures that were written down that were just made up by people. Remember the
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guy who lost track of writing down the temperatures at one point, so he
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just went back and just made some stuff up to make it match what he
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needed it to. Remember that guy, Yeah, that was a guy.
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That was a guy. So what are we basing it on on the extreme
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left when they talk about the climate change religion? Why can't we stop and
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say, wait a minute, maybe we need to stop looking at the extremists
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and focus on the people. They're actually trying to do some good, the
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religious people. People who aren't trying to fire and brimstone you into faith.
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They're trying to tell you, hey, the Christian faith can be a great
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thing. Here's why it's great. Here's what a relationship with Jesus is about.
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This is what it's like. This is what the positives are. This
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is what you gain from it, not trying to fire and brimstone you into
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scaring you to death, and then suddenly the day comes and the world doesn't
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end, and you think, what was that about. Maybe the same could
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be done for the extremists when it comes to climate Maybe we could talk about,
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hey, let's focus on some positives. Let's focus on trying to win
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people over. We're not trying to scare them to death. We're all gonna
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die in fifteen years. And then fifteen years comes and goes and it's really
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no different. We've gone up by point zero one degrees in that fifteen years,
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and people go, well, it's still a lot though. Boy,
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that is pooh. Think about how hot it is outside right now. Man,
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it is hot. It really isn't connected at all, is it.
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It's really not connected at all to the global scale that we're all going to
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die that you screamed about. It's a whole different thing, isn't it.
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So, whether it's the autism preacher coming at it from ignorance, or that
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people screaming the world's gonna end because of climate change, ignorance and all of
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the potential ignorance in between. There's a lot of potential ignorance out there.
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Israeli fashioned designer and it was worth about six thousand dollars and caught the eye
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even of a designer Galia Lahav. Sorry, I don't know how to say
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that, and they said she's gonna donate addresses to goodwill stores around the country
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based on that, and that's pretty good. It's a good story all around.
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Nice good for her spotting things, just spotting things that are worth something
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in thrift stores. So nice job there. All right. That'll do it
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