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Popular podcast calls evangelicals “cancer” · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good morning, and welcome to Dinnison Forms, DailyArticle Podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Thursday, February 12th, 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Connor Jones, co-host of the Culture Brief Podcast here at Dinnison Form, filling in for Chris Elkins, and narrating today's DailyArticle, authored by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Dinnison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jennifer Welch was an Oklahoma City based interior designer and reality show actress before launching a podcast in 2022 titled, I've had it, her podcast now has one and a half million subscribers on YouTube and four and a half million followers across social media.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She has interviewed former president Barack Obama.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, then Vice President Kamala Harris and New York City mayor Zoran Mamdoni, among others.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She's known for her profane rant against conservatives, and claims the 2024 assassination attempt on President Trump was quote, totally staged, and she has now turned her eyeer on Evangelicals.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bonnie Christian reports in the free press that Welch recently called us, quote, the worst people in our country.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Instead in May, I detest with every molecule in my being evangelical Christianity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it is a dumb factory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welch claims that quote, evangelical Christianity is the biggest racket on the planet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And she repeatedly uses the epithet cancer to describe us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She also said, quote, until we start dealing with this horrific cancer, that is white evangelical Christianity in this country, we're going to continue to have these problems.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Christian notes that, quote, score and heaped on Evangelicals is not new, into quote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She sites Yale University Legal Scholars, Steven L. Carter, who wrote in 1994 that secular, progressive saw Evangelicals is, quote, wide-eyed zealots, into quote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Political scientists, Ryan Berge, explains, people on the left side of the political spectrum need an enemy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They need to personify what the other side is, and because white evangelicals are so prominent in America, they have become the totem for all the liberal iron against conservatives in America.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As corrosive to the common good as Welch's rhetoric is, it is also a signal of something even more systemic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A trend, we must recognize clearly, so we can respond redentively.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My wife and I watched a television show this week in which one of the female characters develops a romantic relationship with another woman.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The other characters respond with the light that their colleague has finally found someone and hoped that their relationship lasts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I was reminded again of the LGBTQ strategy that has been developed and followed over recent decades.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Normalize on biblical immorality, legalize it, stigmatize those who disagree, and criminalize such disagreement.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, the apparent chronological staging of this strategy is deceptive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Those who follow it will continue their efforts to normalize such immorality until they convince us that it is not immoral.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Many will continue their work to legalize their immorality as with the current efforts to protect and legalize pedophilia, and they will continue stigmatizing those who disagree until there is no one left to disagree, all the while criminalizing such opposition in the service of the first three stages.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jennifer Welch's profane diatribes against evangelicals are obviously in the service of the stigmatizing stage.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If Dr. Burgess Wright, we should not assume that there will not be others, or that criminalization of evangelicals who defend biblical morality is not in our future.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Numerous efforts have already mounted to threaten our religious liberty, as the so-called equality act that passed the House twice demonstrates.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Christianity today reports that across Western Europe, Christians report discrimination and bullying, and in some instances, even loss of employment for expressing faith-based opinions in their workplaces.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Some have even faced repercussions for views they express in private conversations, or posted on private social media accounts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, such persecution does not begin to rise to the opposition believers face in North Korea, China, Cuba, and parts of the Muslim world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But when Evangelicals are so blatantly stigmatized on one of the most popular podcasts in America, we should take note of where things are and where they may be going.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At this point, you might be discouraged by what you've heard.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My purpose, however, is just the opposite.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus assured his followers in Matthew 511, blessed are you when others reveal you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our Lord warned us that we would be persecuted, just as he was persecuted, which makes sense, those who saw him as a threat would see his followers as a threat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If they opposed him for proclaiming truth, they would oppose his followers for doing the same as seen in Acts 5 17 through 40.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A simple way out of this, of course, is to be silent about our faith as we hide our beliefs from those who would oppose them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, an anonymous Christian is a contradiction in terms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If a Christian is a Christ imitator, like we read about in 1 Corinthians 111 or 1 John 26, then we cannot imitate our Lord and be anything but vocal and courageous in speaking his word and advancing his kingdom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For more on this concept, read Acts 4 and 19 through 20.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As a result, the more we are stigmatized for our faith, the more we can know that we are being appropriately public with our biblical beliefs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the more we can know that Satan himself is using those willing to be used as he fights
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In this sense, it is an odd compliment when someone like Jennifer Welch casigates us so profanely and hatefully.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our response should be to expect such attacks, then to redeem them for God's glory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's how the Bible teaches us to respond to those who oppose our faith.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Number 1.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 614 says to forgive others their trespasses.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We should choose to pardon rather than to punish, and the knowledge that we have been forgiven much as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: See Luke 747 for more on that concept.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Number two, Matthew 544 commands us to pray for those who persecute you, recognizing that the more they reject biblical truth, the more they need it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Number three, Luke 627 says to love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We should seek tangible ways to meet their needs so as to earn the right to share Christ with them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Number four, Joshua 19 says to be strong and courageous, and like we read in Acts 429, Ask God to help us continue to speak your word with all boldness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In all things, we must remember that we are not culture warriors for whom people like Jennifer Welch are our enemies, but cultural missionaries for whom they are our mission field.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The good news is that God's Spirit can fill us with the same Agape Love that God's Sun has for us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then, we can love like Jesus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Who do you know who needs such love today?