When you make people happy, it's pleasing and it is pleasing to God.

I don't know if it would be as much of a like action movie trailer as, you know, sometimes I think about how there are a handful of people.

I don't know the percentage in the human population, but it's small people who have died on the table during surgery or had these near death experiences or what I should say are actually like death experiences where they actually flatlined.

They were medically injured.

dead, and they had an experience that they then were revived and able to report back.

I think a lot about how none of those people ever say Jesus or God was there in some sort of description of the way that we would probably think about it in regards of how the Bible describes it.

But everyone describes a sense of calm, belonging, peace, joy, bliss, an absence of fear and conflict and strife.

just like going back to the fundamentals the more free throws you shoot the better you get at them and i think you know over the years look around us look at this beautiful studio look at this beautiful community look at this absolutely sick version of christianity that we are allowed to practice today at least this you know for now we're allowed to practice even though we are absolutely under attack but i think it's just gotten better and better don't you

Don't do drugs, bottom line.

The whole reason we got back to this is because I'm trying to suggest that maybe if you don't take the Bible literally, it starts to make more sense, and it actually could be more useful.

And, um, I was just wanting to have you look at, uh...

And I know it's hard to use the word literally because people throw it around as a word that doesn't mean anything, but evangelicals use the word literally as literal, as in you take the Bible literally.

So anyway, like for instance, I just want you to l- be literal and, um, and then simultaneously try to make sense of this.

Like, okay, for instance, God made day and night, light and darkness on the first day, but he didn't make the sun, moon, or stars until the fourth day.

God also seemed to think that the moon was a light source and not a rock caught in a gravitational pull that the sun was shining on for 28 days at a time, and he didn't seem to know that there is no visible moon for three n- nights out of every month.

Yes.

Carl is a personal friend, and I do believe the media got that one wrong, and that's all I'll say about that.

All right.

We don't have to talk about it, but I mean, this whole thing has been a really good kind of nudge, I guess, to remind me to always keep in mind that, you know, these belief systems are, these are ideologies, and they don't serve us well as identities.

So, like, when we're identifying with our beliefs, then when confronted with facts, we'll reject them.

So it's important not to identify with your beliefs, but to remember that these beliefs are, these are ideologies.

These are aspirations.

But when you identify as the thing, if you identify as, uh, an evangelical or as a Republican or any of these things, if you identify with it, then your mind, as it seeks to keep you stable, your brain, even though it's a functioning brain, when confronted with truth, your brain will reject truth when it's looking you right in the eyes just simply because if, if you're identifying with your beliefs, your brain just will keep you from the destabilization that would come from having to process truth.

Good.