Tuesday, August 6th | 2024 Paris Olympics Scandal

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Welcome to the gripe vine. We give out this phone number every single day, 2525825028, so you guys can text us your support, your kind words. Got a text from a gentleman named Yosef. So I didn't know this, but he was listening at the, while he was texting me, he was listening to the episode where we were complaining about the end pieces of bread being disrespectful. So I got this text from Yosef.

Shout out to Yosef in North Carolina. This is the text. No context. Okay. Please.

It's the bread of life, no matter middle or end. Please. Many who listen to you are hungry right now. Another text. Be grateful. Never complain. Please be grateful. Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. Please. Another yet another text.

Disrespect is not being, disrespect is not being thankful to father God for any food on your plate. He sends me a bread emoji, any dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. So for some context, we record these episodes like two or three weeks before they air, especially this past week because dr Shaw was, was traveling.

So I had no clue when I read this, I was like, what is this? So I just said, Hey, thanks for texting the Cleveland today's show. Would you mind clarifying your comments so we can mention them on the show? He says, yes.

Exclamation Margaret. Like he's, he means it. Be thankful for each and every single morsel. Don't be spoiled or complained in the name of our Lord Jesus. Many who listen to you are food insecure.

Please do not complain about food, please. So I said, are you referencing a specific instance on the show? He says with a bunch of exclamation marks. Yes. Right now, complaining about being disrespected by being served the end loaf of bread. I said, Oh, got you.

That makes sense. Listen here, Yosef. These is all jokes over here, man. Ain't nobody disrespectful for food. Ain't nobody disrespect.

These are all just jokes. I appreciate you writing into the show and I will say I was going to go off on, on Mr. Yosef here on the show, but then he showed me some, he did show some respect. He said, may God, the father bless you in the name of Jesus, by the grace and power of the Holy spirit.

You are. I said, okay, understood. Thank you Yosef. He said, you are most welcome. I dearly thank you.

I have listened to the wonderful show since day one. Now, you know, if you showed me respect at the end, man, so I'm not going, I'm not going to go off on you, but rest assured these is all just jokes over here, man. Ain't nobody disrespectful for the end pieces of bread. Ain't nobody, uh, ungrateful for bread and prove it to you, man. I got an end piece of bread right here. I'm going to eat it for you. Here's, here's what I left it out all night. I shouldn't have did that.

It's hard as a brick. Listen to this. Oh my goodness. That's like a crouton, but Yosef, you thought enough to write into my show to rebuke me publicly. So I'm gonna eat this end piece of bread for you. Ryan, you want to, you got anything you want to say to Yosef? Uh, man, thank you for writing in.

Oh, I heard that crunch. That was disgusting. Thank you for writing in. And you are absolutely right.

We should be thankful for everything that we receive. And, uh, John's absolutely right. We were just kidding.

It was just a joke. But we appreciate you caring enough about the show to write in. I mean, that's, that's a, thank you for listening.

Thank you for listening since day one. I really don't appreciate it right now. Cause this is kind of gross. I'm not going to lie. I'm kind of ungrateful for this. It might've been okay.

Had you not left it out all night that, that I was going to respond to you yesterday when you sent the text in, but we just got, and I got this end piece out, man. It's hard. Oh my goodness. Anyway, Hey Yosef, don't take life too seriously, man. We just joking over here.

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You can visit us online at Clearview todayshow.com or if you have any questions or suggestions for new topics, send us a text to 252-582-5028. That's right. And we're here once again in the Clearview today's studio with Dr. Abbadon Shah, who's a PhD in New Testament textual criticism, professor at Carolina University, author, full time pastor, and the host of today's show. Dr. Shah, we've got a lesson on being grateful for the bread of life that's in our midst. Uh-oh, grateful and faithful. Please don't tell me what's going on. Well, so we got a text from a gentleman named Yosef in the Winston-Salem area who wants us to know, please, it's the bread of life, no matter middle or end. Please, many who listen to you are hungry right now. Be grateful, never complain. Please be grateful, please.

Disrespect is not being thankful to Father God Almighty for any food on your plate. Bread emoji, any. And then the text stops. Uh-oh. Well. This is in reference to our conversation about the end pieces of the love of bread. Oh, gotcha. I'm starting to think like where would we talk about this? He wrote into the show and it was while he was listening to that episode. So he's referencing this.

But of course, you know, weeks have passed. We've recorded this a while ago. So I'm like, what, what have we done?

As we were going over VBS stuff, everybody's like, yeah, like VBS was great. And you did this really well. And I really like this.

And I was reading this text like, what the, I understand, I understand where Joseph, I guess it's coming from. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, how do you respond to it? Uh, John, I said, this is all jokes over here, man. You ain't got to take a, ain't nobody ungrateful for no bread over here. And to show it, I ate an end piece of bread.

He had actually left out all night. I didn't even mean to as hard as a brick, but I ate it in respect for you. He bit into the end piece of bread and it crunched in a way that bread shouldn't. Here's the thing.

Joseph didn't realize he was close to getting ridiculed. He was real, real close to getting ridiculed over here, but he actually ended well. He said, you are most welcome. I dearly thank you. P S I've listened to this wonderful show since day one. I said, you know what? I'm going to show you some respect. He's a listener. He's a fan.

So we'll show respect. But these is all just jokes. That's all it is, man.

That's all it is. You know, it's not a joke as people are a real upset about what's going on across the pond over there. People are that people ain't joking around. Every time you feel like we're of course talking about the Olympics.

Every time you feel like it can't get any worse, it does. That's kind of the whole thing. Cause there is like, they're pressing this whole thing off as a, it's just a joke. It's just a joke. I thought Christians were funny.

I thought y'all had a sense of humor, but it's not, it's not a joke and it's not funny. And in case you miss it or haven't kept up with the news, of course, in the opening ceremony of the Olympics, there was a really just terrible display mocking Christianity and mocking the last supper. And people have gone online, have said all kinds of things about this wasn't actually this. And you know, we as Christians should respond in love.

And I think a lot of people are just unsure of how to respond. Yeah. I mean, I, you know, we were traveling that Friday and so I sort of missed half the commotion of what was happening until I turned on Facebook that evening and began to read all kinds of comments on the opening ceremony. And, and, and then they had this parallel image of people sitting on a, you know, on a table.

And I mean, one glance and you go, oh, that's like the last supper. Yeah. Right.

And so they were mocking that by, you know, transgender people. And there was also a child included in that. That bothered me. Yeah.

That bothered me very much. But they, they let all this out and it was like a fashion show kind of happening in front of them. But the way they were sitting, it was clearly to, to, to sort of parody the last supper, especially the painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Right. And that was what was crazy about it. It wasn't just that you took inspiration from the last supper.

It's that every single person here is as dressed as offensively as possible on purpose to mock religious imagery. Yeah. Right. And that was the intent. It wasn't, it wasn't, and it was kind of crazy too because everyone's like, oh, it's not even that. It's like this feast of Dionysius and all this stuff and it's like, okay, let's say that's true. Why? Also, even if that's true, those feasts were so horrible that they were banned.

Yeah. It's like, even if it's not, which it is mocking Christianity, even if it's not, not by Christians, it was not banned by Christians. It was banned by the Romans because it was so just hedonistic and terrible, but it's like, I'm going to, we're going to reference the feast of Bacchanalia, the feast of Dionysius all this stuff. And it's like, but why? This is the Olympics. Number one, what does this have to do with the Olympics to begin with? Nothing.

Number two, why would you reference something that the majority of people have never heard of? Don't know anything about it. It's not, it's not. Right.

Yeah. I mean, I study Greek culture, whether it's classical or, or, um, Koine or Byzantine period. I mean, I'm constantly studying that.

Of course I just, just in case there are some pedantic people out there, I know I distinguish that by linguistic categories, but of course there's, there's different ways to categorize. We're just talking, but you know, that has nothing to do with Bacchanalia. And, and somebody decided, you know, you always have that one person who's read one more book than the others or watched a couple of YouTube videos and they began to post this picture done by this Dutch artist Jan van Billiards.

Okay. And his painting is sitting in France at this museum, uh, you know, kind of a very obscure type painting, but they made it look like, Oh wait, you don't know this? You are so ignorant. It's like, no, no, we're not ignorant.

It's just, you just, one of you is a little smarter than the other. So you found this and get, wait, wait, wait, wait, put this painting picture in and say, y'all are so stupid. That's not the last supper. That's this.

And anybody with a brain would know that guys. All these Christians up in art. No, it's not.

And by the way, some of the organizers at least were truthful in this said, yes, but we do parody the last supper all the time. We, you know, people do that all the time. And so that's when it's like, okay, they're admitting it. So stop, stop. Right.

Why would you lie? Stop defending after they've admitted it. And not only that, but it's like, it's like it's been painted as this is just this guy's creative vision. It's like, okay, but this is the Olympics. It's tantamount to the super bowl where like no one person just calls the shots. Hundreds of rehearsals and hundreds of people had to look at this sign off on it and say, yeah, this is fine. This is not one person. I mean, maybe there was, but, but it seems to me that one person would be like, Hey guys, this is kind of offensive. And it's the Olympics where people are watching from all over the world with their families. I mean, there's little kids, which we've already said there was a child that was part of this display.

Yeah. That to me was very abusive. You can see that that was terrible that kids were not only subjected to watching this, but they're involved in this mockery.

I mean, they're kind of forced to go along with this. The person who was admitting, I guess you're talking about is Phillip Catrine, who is, or Catherine, he sings his song new, which means naked. And what he's saying is if you are naked, you cannot hide weapons on you. You know? So there's no wars.

How simple that that is. I mean, I think about the, the blue paint faced, uh, face painted guys who were also naked. Oh wait. Yeah.

They fought really well. Yeah. They conquered these guys. And that's, that's the thing is like, man, they're so perverted and it's so twisted and it's so it's, I think it's, it's getting to the point now where we're wrapped up in this, uh, illusion of inclusivity and, and, um, I guess just, just that inclusivity and welcoming. But I think the world is now starting to see you guys are a bunch of perverts. Yeah. You guys, you're just perverts.

And for some reason you've been allowed this platform and there is that French thing. Okay. Which is being provocative, push the envelope and they tried it with Islam a few times and really had their butt whooped, you know, had bombings and shootings and stabbings and they're like, okay, we're going to stop there. Yeah. Christians. Yeah.

They're not going to bomb anybody. So let's just beat on them and like really prove a point, like how provocative we are. It's like for me to walk into a school yard, you know, the grown man that I am and slap, um, uh, a five year old around and saying, see, see how provocative I am. Yeah.

He didn't do anything. I guess it's fine. Yeah. You're a bully. That's what people will say. They'll call the police on me and say, you're a bully. You're beating up on a five year old. What's wrong with you? Yeah.

That's what they ended up doing. And to me it was not provocative. It was not edgy. It was just flat out dumb. It's disrespectful. Yes.

Dumb and disrespectful. And, and even if it's a French thing to do, right, people are saying like, Oh, that's what they do in French. And that's the, by the way, that's not true because thousands of French people came out in the streets of Paris and said, we don't agree with what these people just did.

Right. So I would like to say even the French have far more morals than these people have represented them to be. I think twisted lust has really broken through to a point where it's like nothing is safe, nothing is sacred, nothing is off limits. And it's not even that everything is permissible. It's that you got to pick your targets so carefully. And so like, like you said, no one in their right minds would ever have thought of doing this with the prophet Muhammad.

It would not have been done because they know I can't get away with that. Why is it that they can get away with it with Christians? Why are Christians such an easy target?

Yeah. Well, nowadays it's become such at one time Christians would have fought back. Now it's such that immediately we're told that, Hey, Hey, peace loving. We're peace loving people. I mean, look at church history.

We were always the ones who were peace loving or Jesus told us to turn the other cheek and what would Jesus do? Or the ones that was my, my, not my favorite, but my favorite worst one was who will he invite, but the same people to sit on the table with them. Right.

Stop, stop, stop, stop. I've been seeing a lot of that on Facebook. Those, um, you know, tax collectors and prostitutes who came to Jesus and he hung out with them. They were not mocking him. Right. They were so glad that he would come to them and spend time with them and share the gospel with them and love on them and pray with them and bring gospel or bring salvation to them. They were not like mocking him and throwing eggs at him and making fun of him and slapping him around.

And he's like, well, I'm just going to be here. Guys. Go ahead. I know. Okay. You hit me once. Go on.

Do it again. That's all it is. No.

Yeah. It was very different spirit because they knew, like when we say amazing grace that saved a wretch like me, there was an understanding that these are the wretches of society and Jesus was willing to be with them a hundred percent. None of these people at the Olympic games would ever say, look at me, I'm a wretch and I need Jesus.

And thank goodness he's here for me. No, this is shaking your fist in the face of Jesus in the face of salvation. And Jesus did not go and have dinner with those people.

He didn't. That's not in, that's not in the Bible. It's not in scripture.

Right. Zacchaeus is sitting on a tree and, uh, because he cannot see Jesus and Jesus comes up to him and, and says, come down, I'm going to your house. And he sits down and he, Zacchaeus is not only feeding them and, and throwing a party for them, but then he also says, here's what I'm going to do with Jesus. I'm going to take my money that I have held back, give it to the poor. And from whom I have defrauded, uh, you know, I'm giving them double portion. And what is Jesus' response?

Today, salvation has come to your house. Right. What a different spirit. So when people do what they do, they have an alternative motive, which is, I just want to sound very loving and, and just, just, just be Contra.

I'm going to be Contra. Yeah. Okay. Well you can be, just don't, please don't claim that that's biblical. Right.

100%. You've said this before, Dr. Shawn, it's kind of changed the way that I think about things that I've helped others think about things, especially students, cause they're, you know, teenagers are grown, growing up in a world that is shoving tolerance at them. I mean, it's teaching them like, if you really want to be a Christ follower, you have to tolerate and love and accept everybody, which is not true, by the way. Right. You can't be more merciful than Jesus. That's right. You can't, you can't, uh, you can't out love Jesus. That's right.

So if Jesus calls something a sin and Jesus tells you to, to, uh, stand up against those who are mocking, then you, you can't try to one up Jesus and say that he would do something that he never would. That's right. That's right. I mean, he, he loved people and he loved them enough to become sin for them.

Yeah. Fully God became fully men, took our sins upon himself and died. I remember you told me a story one time and maybe you can kind of clarify if I get some of the, some of this wrong, but you told me there were street performers or there were people, they were homosexuals and they would dress up sort of like what we saw at the Olympic ceremony and they would harass you on the street for money and stuff like that. And, um, you said that at one point it was like, if you just tolerate them and ignore them, they'll go away.

And it didn't happen. They kept coming back from more and more and more and more until people had to just eventually give them money to leave them alone or whatever. But do you see that happening sort of in the United States or in the West where this has been tolerated and this has been allowed and now it's to the point where, well, you don't have to, you can't just tolerate, you have to accept me. And now it's to the point where it's like, okay, we accept you, whatever. And now it's like, okay, now you have to celebrate this. You have to be part of this lifestyle because this is the new moral standard.

Yeah, we are headed there, but we, if not, we're already there. Here's what happens with this whole homosexual, transgender, all the sexual deviation, deviant movement that is happening in the West. It had been coming for a long time.

It has really taken on a new force momentum speed in the past couple of decades. After a while, this lifestyle is, at times it's ridiculed. Then it is accepted. Then it is almost victimized.

It's victimized. But then it's also then celebrated. It's celebrated.

It's endorsed. But then it becomes sacred. It becomes sacred. And you feel like that's our next step.

That's where we're headed. In Hinduism, right? Or in some of those religions in the East, especially in India, that lifestyle is almost sacred. Like when a child is born, some of those transgenders will come and they will pick up a child and not in Christian homes, of course, or Muslim homes, they won't allow that.

But Hindu homes, they will come in and they will whisper in the child's ear and they will pretend to spit or whatever. What they're doing is like, I'm taking all the bad vibes off of you. They're taking all the bad vibes off. They'll do that.

And that's taking the bad vibes off. Like they are the carriers of all the evil. And so what you do is when you have a child, they'll come in and they'll pick up the child and they'll hold the child and they will dance or whatever. And then you give them money. Money not to just leave you alone, but money to say, thank you for doing this for us.

Thank you for this service you've performed. For this sacred service. But in a different sort of garb, it's happening in the West now. Well, I mean, why else would transgender and people who are dressing in drag, why would they need to invoke religious imagery if we're not moving towards this becoming a sacred thing? Right now, it is to mock. It's clear they were mocking, right?

They're mocking. But one day that's going to become sacrosanct. Fear is how it works. And so what do you do?

You have to tell people, be safe, be careful. But at the same time, you have to speak out. If you don't speak out, evil keeps marching.

Right. I think, I mean, I hate to say this, but I feel like Muslims and transgender people, they are exhibiting the very reason that Christians are being mocked is because it's not because we don't mock Muhammad or we don't do these images of Muhammad out of respect for that. We're afraid. We're afraid of retaliation. Christians don't speak out against transgender, not because, well, I'm trying to understand their struggle. You're just scared. But with Christians, there's no need to be scared because there's not going to be a retaliation because we're too cowardly to say anything. Right.

And that's how it works. And again, we don't have to be hateful. God loves every single person. I don't care who you are, what you've done, what lifestyle you're in. Jesus loves you and gave his life for you. Come to him and be saved. And he will not only save you, he will not only forgive you of your sins, he will not only make you a child of God, give you eternal life, but he will also transform you. That's right.

And guess what? Not only does a person in that lifestyle needs transformation, I need a transformation. That good little boys and girls need transformation. That's right.

Churchgoing kids and people who love Jesus and vote conservative, you need transformation too. That's right. So we're not for a moment saying like, look at how terrible those people are and look at how better we, heck no. What I'm saying is we all need a change. That's right.

That's right. And we need to be conformed to the image of Christ. We need to be given the opportunity to become, have a relationship with the living God.

Amen. And it's time that we have left because I think a lot of our listeners and our viewers are wondering this, what does fighting back look like for Christians? Because we hear this whole like, Christians should be meek, mild, should be loving, and we should do all those things. And certainly we're not advocating, go out there and beat people up and mistreat people. However, there is an element where Christians need to fight back and we need to not operate from a position of fear or cowardice.

What does fighting back look like for the average Christian? Let me start with saying how we should respond. I would say respond with balance.

Balance is this. Balance is not saying, hey guys, guys, guys, now we should not be responding to them. Oh, to the contrary, you should be responding to them.

You should be responding to them. You should say that is wrong. That should not have happened. We don't appreciate that. We need to stop.

So that needs to happen. Because if you don't, evil does not know when to stop. Because it'll keep coming. This is the nature of evil.

It'll come coming. No obstruction. Like for example, in second Peter, it talks about Noah was a preacher of righteousness. Means he was a preacher. He was not just a builder of righteousness or a sitter of righteousness.

He was a preacher. Means he was talking to people and telling them in a sinful, crazy world, stop. God's going to destroy the world with a flood.

Stop. And if he's due, come to God, he will save you and you can be in this ark. And one day that ark represents the ark of God, Jesus, who's going to come. Maybe he didn't know the name Jesus, but he knew God was coming. The God's son, the seed of the woman was going to come, become the ark.

So come to him. But he was a preacher. In the same passage, it also talks about Lot. Lot was a righteous man.

And because of the world in which he lived, his soul was tormented. So when you say, hey guys, guys, this should not bother us because we know God has said we're going to go through persecution. Why do you have one sided views? Why not get the whole spectrum?

The whole spectrum is this. Yes, it doesn't bother me, but yes, it does bother me. It should torment my soul to see people do this to something as, you know, the Last Supper. Well, I don't need no painting. The painting is, the painting is nothing to me. Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance painting is not Bible, but it represents something.

So I need to say painting is painting, but there is something, some truth behind it. And the truth is the Last Supper is when Jesus explained what his body was going to do, be broken for you. What his blood was going to do, it would be shed for the remission of our sins.

So there's something very important here. I mean, you're talking about the cross. This is not just like some beatitude or something that we're mocking. You're mocking the atonement. So we don't appreciate that.

At the same time, we can be loving and share the gospel and say something to the effect of, hey, if you come to Christ, he loves you and he will change your life and he will give you blessings untold. Balance. That's right. 100%. Yeah, such a great reminder for us and all things respond in balance.

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