Terrorism in America, the Presidential Elections, and the Importance of Solid Christian Intellectualism

Terrorist attacks New York Minnesota affected presidential elections stage for the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire valves like always 866-34-TRUTH that's 866-34-TRUTH your again is Dr. Michael Brown suspect often. Honey is in fact in police custody was taken in Linden, New Jersey after he was apparently shot by police were told that he's on his way to the hospital.

The bomber in New York connected to other attempted bombings now known to be a radical Muslim and the stab her in Minnesota referring to Allah as he stabs others Isis claiming credit how to respond to this and what impact does it have on the presidential elections while you're listening to the right show. We've got some insights we got some thoughts for you. This is Michael Brown. Welcome to the line of fire this Monday as we start off our week.

Thankfully the injuries were not more severe.

Thankfully without talking about all kinds of fatalities yes serious injuries. Yes, the trauma of terrorist attacks fully understood not minimizing that. But I'm glad I'm glad that things were not worse that were not morning today, the loss of more laws, but how how do we respond to this 866-34-TRUTH 87884 of us tell you how I don't believe we should respond. I don't believe that we want to make this into a battle of words, there are real issues here. Radical Islam Israel were dealing with people we are dealing with lives and Joey grab clip number three this is Press Secretary West press secretary Josh Earnest talking about Isis and he is on MSNBC's morning Joe broadcast listen to how he phrases things. We also can't given the narrative victory of suggesting that every Muslim is responsible for this kind of terrorism.

We can't say we can't get into this narrative that ISA wants to build up the nights. It is at war with Islam that is false, that is not true, and we can't with some of this rhetoric we can allow that kind of narrative victory to be given to them. We need to push back against that.

So we can't give Isis a narrative victory. We cannot give Isis a narrative victory by saying that this is a war with Islam. Number one it's it's only the most close minded Americans that think that this is a war with all Muslims.

The thing that every Muslim is a terrorist and every Muslim in our country is a David, is there some Americans who feel like that, but not not the overwhelming majority in all of us to talk about radical Islam and war with radicals make a distinction between Isis Taliban and Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, make a distinction between these groups, and a fairly nominal Muslims live next door for 40 years and is is afraid that he's gotta get attacked by Americans who think he's Isis we make a distinction there to make this into a battle of narratives while III like what what would then Shapiro said in the daily wire he is talking about why terrorist attacks boost trump and hurt Hillary.

I think his points are well taken.

II felt the same way. Before reading his column but he makes the point that that narratives don't blow up people that that when the media reports things in a certain way when the White House diminishes the nature of the attack as is been Shapiro says the people in New York were hit by flying pieces of narrative and Americans would prefer president listen hi to become a major terrorist attack occurs in American soil.

Why not just say you're at war with radical Islam.

Is it time then profiling radical Muslims in America. Is it high time do that or is that a violation of our constitutional principles. What you think. It's the light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown to the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown worked with trying to be so politically corrected our country. This is a good get better so Donald Trump is speaking on Fox news Fox and friends about the terrorist attacks in rejecting the White House claim that winning the war with Isis. I wonder right now to Americans in general think that Donald Trump would be a a stronger, more decisive leader than Hillary Clinton that he would do a better job of fighting terror. If you would do a better job of combating radical Islam that he's not trying to tiptoe through things and be so politically correct that hey heat he's not afraid to say radical Islam confront things head on or what Americans think you don't want someone like him. He's a hothead he's too divisive what he says insights further animosity towards America. You don't know what is going to pull the trigger. We may not like Hillary Clinton that much, but at least she's experience is been around she's knocking to do something rash. We need someone who's got more diplomatic experience, like Hillary Clinton when he lands on this 866-34-TRUTH for 87884.

The three reasons for the article I mentioned a moment on the daily Barbara been Shapiro three reasons why he says the terrorist attacks boost trump it hurt Hillary. First, the media said that that after news of the terrace. We broke the media immediately left on the most important issue Donald Trump calling in a bombing half an hour after the bombings I was being sarcastic not did you follow the CNN coverage this this was really distressing. Hillary Clinton is interviewed on a plane at night and she's asked about the she immediately references the bombings in her first sentence she references the bombings plural then they quote Donald Trump who reference a bomb and was it right for him to speak about a bomb is a jumping to conclusions you don't know me could just been some other explosion, for some other reason.

After after all. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said look at it with you know these are intentional acts, but we have no way to connected to terrorism right now is denying it as as things were getting more and more clear that these were absolutely terrorist related and it ends up being all smug Conroe hobby 20-year-old naturalized citizen from ask Gannett Afghanistan, a shootout with police is now captured and tied in with the bomb here in New York and New Jersey of soul, Hillary Clinton says it then your questions whether bomb should've been said, this is exact word but you have to be careful before you say anything or she had just she had just used the word bombings plural and and CNN played. This is actually Jake Tapper.

Was he unaware of what she said this over the cliff.

They gave in point of fact.

They play Donald Trump's reference to bomb and a Hillary Clinton critiquing that when left out that she had use the same word initially so I mean that the the weakness of the media here in the bias of the media here. You gotta be kidding and and and then the second reason why terrorist attacks boost trump in the two been Shapiro is is that the way the Democrats handle things again.

Mayor de Blasio not wanting to say it was a terrorist attack in Josh Earnest referring to is as a narrative battle in prison Obama being slow to weigh in on things and then as far as immigration Trump's entire case has been that we cannot import people. We can't identify so could we have known more could we have known more about this man. If we had stricter immigration policies. 866-34-TRUTH 784. Let me take a look over at my twitter feed to see. I asked this question in low literacy as this question three hours ago so we got our first 230 something votes over twitter dear agree with Trump that we need to start profiling radical Muslims in America that so people feel free to explain supposed subsequently with their with their explanation of what you what you think these folks and again these are twitter followers.

So the great majority would be strong conservatives. The great majority would be Christian faith. All right, demographically, much more male than female in twitter Facebook. I've got a little higher percentage of female than male twitter which is smaller, it's only 22 have thousand that we got much much higher percentage of men. Our largest single group, demographically between 25 and 34-year-old by the way same on Facebook just for your information.

Do you agree with Hunter. We need to start profiling radical Muslims in America obviously questions what you mean by radical must identify radical Muslims find we can ask those questions based on that question, a 10% were not sure. 17% said no.

73% said yes is that that a violation or constitutional principles or is that just good security good security.

I at 8663 freight 7884 go to phone shortly. I had a call from an African-American policeman a few weeks back and he explained the difference between wrong profiling and in good policing. He said, for example, if you are in a certain neighborhood right. Maybe it's an all-black neighborhood and a white guy comes driving in at 230 in the morning gets out of his car runs up into her apartment runs back out with a little package in his pocket gets back in his car.

What you thinking drug deal. Drug deal so you are now profiling.

You're saying okay is good, profiling good policing. It's unlikely to have this white guy in this neighborhood at this hour, running in and out of this apartment building which is known for drug dealing.

And now he's got a little package in his hand to check this guy out and if his story check or you do it all yeah I work at this in such a place and I have to get in early and open the door and and and my friend Charlie. He lives in apartment 3C in here is a key he gave me so I can get a hopeless I can open up our building okay story checks out. However, if you then start to mistreat that person.

If you then start to just walk in trust is present is the color of the skin.

Now your racially profile so look if you if you find Israel if you find El Al they profile everybody that's that's why their security is so good it's based on profiling that they they look for certain people in the aisle always boggles my mind over and I know our folks are working on a flight all the time. I appreciate art or transit security TSA appreciate folks try to do their job and and serious about it. I appreciate that absolute you and maybe they have certain reasons protocols but I will place I always wonder you're here, you got some 89-year-old woman in a wheelchair and consider wheelchair.

She can go through security of the checker are extra carefully like that was probably not the person to check out carefully, but again, they must other protocols and reasons, but it just so happens if the color of my skin is is more Arab my look more Arab my accent.

Maybe my garb and I'm find Israel on you to get question more than somebody else who's clearly nativeborn Israeli units fought in the in the IDF and and they got the and what they do is they ask everybody questions and they ask you in such a way that they put you on edge immediately you feel as if you're guilty immediately and immediately her on the defensive, and they're looking for but they just are there trained and they got a put a sticker with their that identifies them as anything yet. I believe things can be traced back to defendant what happened with this passenger this or that youth. There's a high level responsibility and I remember years back.

Now, by God's grace with with radical weight loss and greater health. I don't need you to breathe and she tasted have severe sleep apnea would have to travel with the CPAP machine, breathe machine and use it at home and there are some flights overseas fight strike I could use it if I was in business class or something. I just put blanket over my head.

Put this know this thing on my nose and help me breathe better and sleep better and so I or or wherever I was flying mythos can use it. I'd like to put in checked luggage visit was fragile. Sorry. Carry with me on the plane and they would let me do it once, going to Charlie from Israel home this we just we don't feel good about us about your you plug it in us and yet we don't feel good about us. It is fragilis of gonorrhea and a reference for you. I rated wrapped it with all this you know this special material to cover it.

So I feel secure about it that they would not let me take on how to go to check luggage, that's what will you do. It's that they know that every single day there people and kill and destroy the but the question is how can we do this, what without hurting other people and we we know with the police that you may have a higher rate of crime say with black Americans and then another part of population within other black Americans get wrongly profile and their rights are now infringed on it and they're hurting how you do this without hurting all Muslims in America. These are questions to ask but do we need to authorize more gas course 866-34-TRUTH come back home I light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the minor fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown. They have declared war on yes that is Gen. Michael Flynn interviewed on Fox and friends, and he's talking obviously about radical Muslims.

What about racial profiling profiling of radical Muslims.

Good thing bad thing and how does this affect the presidential elections 866-34-TRUTH about to go to your calls. But here's part of the challenge of profiling radical Muslims. Here are some New Jersey residents there talking about smart Russ Tommy again naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan lived in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and the suspect in the recent bombings New York New Jersey could number nine coming about once a week or so somebody is always a nurse very early. That's scary out of the ordinary.

You never know. One more clip again someone else talking about this man could number 10. I will post this later) is for like this, member services is one of yes. So how do we protect our American way of life, liberty, freedom we protect that also protecting American people. Others living in our country. How do you know who the radicals are is it that obvious.

How do you find the right person profile and then not hurt the wrong person and at what cost do we do this profile.

These are important questions to ask.

866343 start with Rev. Jackson in Vauxhall, New Jersey. Thank you for calling the line of fire your excellent credit. You will probably go but perhaps equipping the wall so everybody learns a little, but I trust him. Be a good job you do get a good job.

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When we got home 100% company in the country but you cannot how the college got it rapidly, all the stuff I don't do a custom job.that's all looking for. Got back I think is lancer. I appreciated 866-248-7884. Let's go to Nancy in Queens New York. Thanks for calling the line of fire. Dr. Brown how you doing well. Thank you. I would calling because I you know I feel that we should learn to call a spade a spade, so to speak and stop it you know trying to pretend like you know everything is Kumbaya and bivalve tropic historic you know, you kind of remind you, Harry Truman, and I quickly around the Harry Truman I was born right after he left office, but I was listening to the American heroes channel the other day and happy Truman Brett physically threatened somebody that criticized his daughter with the man that ended World War II got it all right hey Nancy I appreciate you went by the widget. Didn't I meet you last week in New York.

No, I'll cattle out a way that certain none of that's fine. There is another Nancy from the RMS okay God bless you and thank you for weighing it. Yeah Joe did you ever hear the Truman incident. I I had never heard of that. That's interesting, but I could leave it 8663 for 87884 in Jersey City. No, no, that's good because I do know how to pronounce that name either. All right, Fredericksburg, Virginia. Let's go to John.

Thank you sir for calling line fire on the man I'm doing well thank you. Here we all really blessed doubt. But you know this thing I will pray about profiling. There is sample answer to that and we been talking about it. If you see something, say something dinner. We can't turn a blind eye to something that we see going on in questionable and unthinkably day that that's going to be the greatest thing that we can do. Yes, I do think Donald Trump would be better president than Hillary got it. I hate John, thank you for weighing in see something, say something in the questions are what if you think you see something you really don't woman comes to nothing. Well, what if it leads to the wrong person being investigated. We can save it if there's nothing there no smoke no fire right.

Anyway, these questions would have to ask and discuss. Let's go to Robert in Elizabeth New Jersey. Thank you for calling the line of fire work correctly. The guideline refused Moravia Creek, not Greek about a month ago when I was 100�. I stopped and rested for a little while. The strata victory and then the police showed up the and ethically? 00 president what's the date today with the president running against, and one other trick question and because I answered that the wrong way they could look looking Nancy called the Linden paramedic, then the have you taken to the hospital and I could number not want to go to the hospital now. None of the against my will need escorted me to the ambulance and made me go to the hospital so they thought you were.

You are faint, something, something like that known all non-out because the II would I was in full control of my faculty and I even said 100� or four weeks ago with the hundred degree and I said I'm I'm groggy from the heat with what with the problem know, but I'm singing a song they thought that you were impaired.

Somehow, because you can answer these basic questions because I would like don't like, I could answer every one of them that fit with all the trick question will what I'm saying Dr. is that they wanted to take me yeah off the sprinkler something I don't know what it was but you want you with the information you want the racially profile the right you weren't in other words it and I got a break so I'm sorry Roderick I can't get the rest of the discussion. It's not like I'm just basing this on your accent. I'm assuming that you not say in Asian American. I'm assuming you're not a Middle Eastern American. I'm assuming you're not a black America without running it that I apologize that your Caucasian American and that the reason that they insist you to the hospital just as they thought that you were impaired. That was the this profile anyway so run friends, make sure to check out our special resource offer extended last elitist articles, videos right for you, waiting for you and asked dark brown ASA around the Lord. It's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and diligent Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 66343 here again is Dr. Michael Brown and so now that I think or the West is against is fighting against the Muslim religion so that again. White House press secretary Josh Earnest talking with Chris Cuomo on CNN Monday morning we played clipper earlier from MSNBC's morning Joe program and again time of the narrative that we can play into a contrast that with the words of Gen. Michael Flynn, his military advisor to Donald Trump speak on Fox and friends. Number five. This is not about Islamic phobia. This is not about racism. This is about securing our nation in a time where we have a vastly different enemy that we are facing. We have to be very serious about this and for anybody to kill themselves about what is that these guys believe and how they believe in what they're doing globally, globally, and Mrs. is in many many countries right now we can beat them but we have to we have to decide that this is an enemy first were manicures of all sorts of names and also to name-calling you name the enemy identify the enemy in combat the enemy. The enemy is not Islam in general. The enemy is not all Muslims the enemy is radical Islam and its varied forms, many of which are hostile to one another member. Everything produces after its own kind when you have something that is radical and violent like this it will turn radical and violent against itself, and when Pres. Obama has refused to name it.

Radical Islam and Hillary Clinton has refused to me they may at a certain point under the words but say why they're not going to use the words to be a self-defeating strategy.

At the same time we must make clear that there are many peaceloving patriotic Americans here in America they would tend to be more nominal.

To be honest and the more radically devoted would be the more likely to be dangerous. So what we do do we monitor messages in mosques well if if there were churches.

Let's just say that there were Baptist churches, Methodist churches, Pentecostal churches pick the group, whatever, and they had a stream in their midst that was calling for the violent overthrow the government and the killing of all people of a certain ethnicity, some horrific like that.

And in order to find out who they were. The government's gonna monitor anyone that might fit that description which case the gonna monitor messages. In some places that are perfectly fine with Effie or prof. I wouldn't mind the government listening to every radio broadcast.

I gave I would line the government listening to a sermon I preached with my government reading every article, Eric is having nothing to hide and if they were dealing with things in a fair and it way they sell. Occasionally good guys. That's what I would hope they would say right on the other hand the other hand, what if you've got overzealous gallery government.

What if you got government overreach does not happen all the time and then what right do they have to to be listening to what were doing in that respect as the government ottoman is an individual walking through service to these the questions we have to face again if you talk to a policeman. It's okay in this neck of the woods.

We have gang violence and its many Hispanic as many men age 16 to 21 and when there's just been a gang gang rate for a gang shootout or something like that and we we basically have an idea of the players and we happen to see Hispanic man 1980s. He's got he's driving away recklessly and he Skype me notice some blood on his face will pull that kid over okay, that's one thing but then what happens when your law-abiding 18-year-old Hispanic gets pulled over once a month for no good reason. Those are the challenges that are always faced and and that's were ultimately you do your best to act righteously but yet to decide, okay. What's more priority for the law to protect citizens protective liberties. That's why these things need to be discussed will be right back going straight to your call 866487884 for plan by the Expo line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown talking about tax thankful that injuries were not more severe thankful with the fatalities despite the very real trauma in the very real injuries in the very real upheaval and pain that this brings how to respond to this and this affect the presidential elections since Michael Brown your voice of moral sanity and spiritual clarity number to call 866-34-TRUTH 7884. Let's go back to the phone Scott in Fairfax, Virginia. Thanks for calling the line of fire.

Thank you Michael, I just want let you know I've not heard or so before day I was driving down the road through the channels and I heard your topic and just in the last 25 minutes or so I thought, I'm not exactly sure what Michael's conclusion will be, nor what the conclusions of the people who call in, but I just want to let you know I'm grateful for the manner by which your conducting conversation. I think that weekly relax. Of nuance and listening to one another and I just want let you know I appreciate how you doing it yet will thank you and then welcome to the broadcast. If you go to the website. The line of fire.org you'll find archives of overpass broadcasting.

Just click on the digital library on any subject of interest to find abundance of materials, articles, videos, radio shows, but Scott, I appreciate your nuance call about the spirit of nuance because look, there are things that we dogmatically hold to black-and-white right and wrong hills that we die on. But there's so many issues were we just get caught up in a partisan political spirit.

We talk past each other. We don't talk constructively, and I don't even know that in the course of a broadcast to come to clear conclusions as much as have more to think about because these are complex issues that they really are and if it was a simple pushbutton solution. We will push the button quite a while ago and and what I found.

Scott is is when we talk about issues ration racially divisive issues when we start airing them out. We learn from each other because we each live in different worlds and have different perspectives and filling one of his blind spots. That's a key thing if will listen to each other with open hearts and minds and then think honestly and think critically think prayerfully will come to solid conclusions.

Think you work yet. Thank you Scott.

I appreciated 8663 freight 7884 we go to Sandra in Manhattan.

Thanks for calling your brother doing well. I know the radical Muslim American people that a radical. I was riding on the number total training going downtown and the guy was radical and he looked American and he was going on rages with the conductor and everybody on the train Empire made me show a common amount any carbonated I you know that radical as opposed to just weirdo or crazy guy know he was talking crazy talking crazy, but you can tell he would like Carolyn, the conductor and you call me back combing you on it but I write so so we we agree, though, we agree that you got weirdos and crazies because and by the way, I of course you have.

You have nativeborn Americans who are radical extremists.

They may be radical white supremacist. They may be radical, radical black supremacist. They may be radical whoever whatever and the other dangerous and you, whoever they are. We need to be on the lookout for them for sure that the question is how do we how do we know were looking for. You know what when the police right right right you will and I read all week and it looked like a motor yeah she'll tell right there I I have friends of mine that when they go to Mexico. Everyone thinks their Mexican when they go that the Middle East everyone thinks their Arab when it they have sent that certain skin color yet. So the question is at an end. The issue is that we need to to look for the right things in which everybody understands. The question is not just look for somebody dressed a certain way or you just look for someone with a certain accent.

There has to be more than that. And if you remember this, you're in Manhattan.

In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that that there was a Sikh and Indian Sikh who was killed because people were outraged with Muslims and and thought it was a Muslim, notices of religion seeks to look like Muslims that they were turban, they they have a full beard.

Muslims will will will only not have the were commonly not have the mustache is very commonly but but they don't look the same seeks don't cut their hair and their Indians. And if you see an Indian Muslim intelligence been in the Muslim and Indian Sikh easily but people thought all as well as bad guys mother and kill them so it would gotta be very careful that we don't inflame things and thank you, thank you for the call.

Look Nancy and I were talking about about Donald Trump today and she wanted to go on record. She want to go on record source and honey a coach on the year that when I have said look, I've been a strong critic of Donald Trump or Linda campaign and said if you Wendy that the Republican nomination, then reevaluate consistently can vote for Hillary Clinton. But will he had other alternatives I felt that there are other alternatives forbidden Donald Trump but II felt that he's listening to godly counsel in their they're having a positive, different people having a positive impact on his life and he seems to be listening while I still have grave concerns about his character and what you actually do if elected, and Nancy said to meet your game to positive your grant to positive. He's dangerous he sees a narcissist and an old dude.

He needs to do to be elected and just raising these concerns that she's not it sent a fan of Hillary Clinton either. So I I understand that there are concerns that was with candidate trumps rhetoric. It incites all types of hatred against different people that it is not nuanced because of which innocent people can get caught in the crossfire and in America can only provoke one's enemies obviously understand that side of things, but to me it's very important that people are rightly identified for who they are and find I want go back to the phones.

I got a clip from Donald Trump really quick. I just want to play these and contrast them for you so you are now officially appraised of appraised apprised you are officially informed of Nancy's viewpoint that she want you to hear 866-34-TRUTH we go. No, we don't go to Dennis articulate, let's let's go right now to those clips want to contrast these and this for what will listen. Donald Trump first get on with the Fox and friends, and then will will listen to to Hillary Clinton so this is this is all today will start with number seven Donald Trump first to evil people that want to destroy this country and the way we coddle them the way were afraid to say anything, but were afraid to say what the problem is who they are and they don't want to say radical Islam that I want to talk about radical Islamic terrorism. Obama won't even say the words data will Hillary Clinton's using words clearly, we think, I really like getting tough which I have to get that much water over there and would have to find out you know our police are amazing our local police.

They know a lot of these people are afraid to do anything about it because they don't want to be accused of of profiling and they don't want to be accused of all sorts of things you know in Israel they profile unbelievable topics, but as you get to that. But Israel is not an believable job in the profile profile.

They see somebody that suspicious they will profile it will take that Pres. up. Check out do we have a choice what's going but do we really have a choice when trying to beat so politically correct in our country only to get worse at what I said is yet but stop him from coming into the country yes and tweets from Pres. Obama sees me, a tweet from Donald Trump of the leadership of Obama and Clinton American some experience more tax at home and victories abroad. Time to change the playbook right on the Time to put a Hillary Clinton clip I'll do that immediately. When we come back, but I agree that we need to be more careful with you comes in the country. In fact, Sen. Ted Cruz's call for axing the refugee program following the weekend attacks in a statement linked he link the attacks to the country admitting refugees, saying that Congress must stop allowing anyone from countries that are hotbeds of terrorism is that we can overcome our enemies by pretending they don't exist and undermining our first line of defenders at the same time. At the same time there are obviously legitimate refugees, people in need who are no more terrorist you are. I am that are the perfect people in that sense that America should say yet this is made of, find refuge in the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 8663 here again is Dr. Michael Brown so much on broadcast� Listen to Hillary Clinton, Joe, go ahead and play that clip as she tells us not to be distracted, but Donald trumps rhetoric. We know that a lot of the rhetoric we've heard from Donald Trump has been seized on by terrorists in particular Isys because they are looking to make this into a war against Islam, rather than a war against jihadists, violent terrorist people who number in the maybe tens of thousands not tens of millions they want to use that to recruits more fighters to their cause by turning it into a religious conflict. That's why I've been very clear were going after the bad guys and were going get them, but were not going to go after entire religion and give Isys exactly what it's wanting in order for them to enhance their position. Isys is at war with Islam eyesight.

I totally disagree with accountability. Isys is at war with Islam, killing more Muslims than anybody ever was more Muslims than than any others that they that they kill okay so let's let this be realistic here and in understand Isys not try to get the West have war with Islam in general I Isys is at war with us. That's reality they're trying to provoke hatred for Muslims everywhere there there trying to take us down and take down Western values and take down the things that they hate about our culture. Some of it. So what does our culture is not good either.

By the way that's that's the issue and and attack those to stand with Israel attack Israel, though those are the issues at hand and I don't hear Donald Trump saying it's a war with Muslims but with radical Islam. Yet he could be more nuanced at times, but I think what he saying here we we understand the points. Not all Muslims as radical Muslims how to identify them to the questions 8663 Fortune let's go over to Michelle in Charlotte North Carolina. Thanks for calling the line of fire. Yeah, where my business owner and an older couple probably right, and no more, and not where you will hear me. I how our conversation went. They need to critically think that my blend and that no starch at pastry a lot of no such thing as sharia laminate. You know not out of the liner and questioned them on.

I doubt we because I felt like character.

Caroline, you and I'm so concerned about Col. American good judgment about. I agree with you, to be careful. You were trying to know which part killing and people who don't agree with you that agreement and yet people you know that you eat it since information and Michelle, that's the problem.

Getting people to actually listen and process the information that is the big challenge. Can we get people to sit down long enough to watch a video to read an article, an end to just say okay what it what do Muslims believe what's in the crawl which taught Mycroft and the conclusion would be that the Muslim friends that most of these people have would be quite nominal a just like a Christian that goes to church on Christmas and Easter, and for baptism or communion service and they think that's what it means to follow Jesus diving read a page of the New Testament in their lives. That's how it is with nominal Muslims thrifts.

Okay, here's what these radical Muslims believe here's what Mohammed taught. Here's how they interpreted. Here's how they live. And then when you see someone it's part of a mosque. It's a very serious mosque and they have never people from certain countries and the leaders have certain known viewpoints and you watch that more carefully. It's this would be common sense. Thank you for calling it can be frustrating. I understand we do our best to educate right on the air every day, five days a week. We go to a Roth EN Boston, Massachusetts. Thanks for calling the line of fire. I time and I let out, thank you. Think about how we know today.

Mom rather with the American model. Another company I was born in Lebanon, you build up 55 I love my country. I will you have to be radicalized to hurt America, we see what happened with that guy in the Lord actually you American old by the families, and people like that happening all me all back much better.

I went to Mark the they come out more and condemned her and it actually turned the people overclock something going on in the month, then I'm okay on the right track to make people Muslim. Now we know now we can lock them up. But now we don't know what you talk about the Quran and the Quran to think about hurt America. We have no idea what Rossi you just think that we should be.

If we have a question about which preacher taught in a mosque to think that we should monitor that with the sermons you say you think we have the right to do that.

Not all the Wicca and that without hiding if you want to do that.

I coldly got rid of the cockpit played the public picking you will be because the amount you have not, that you feel comfortable with the help the country to but the doctor cocked God that I write to continue to file a mock optional day and another book comes out anything that's going on.

I just and right.

But Dave will love the little you let me just jump in. Obviously some folks to speak out some Muslim leaders but you can always use as a litmus test when these attacks happen in the local mosque did that leave immediately get up and repudiate an Serta cutoff off especially from Lebanon.

All that exact philosophical rather time to talk again another day.

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By the way, there was a brand-new believer he'd been in mental institutions. A good part of his life. He was now out and he was coming to church. I was part of on Long Island in the early 80s and is a sweet guy had some real problems.

Though now is just a total babe in the Lord taking his first steps and the president of the national evangelical. The national Association's Association of Evangelicals came and spoke a member thinking is great message but my vocabulary was a little too sophisticated for the average congregant a little too theological, but he made ample reference to Evangelicals is young man show man afterwards was telling friends that I love the message was a great message rethinking was little high level of and truly understood. He said I just don't know what a lemon Jell-O is simply me is a lemon Jell-O without while I mean you're in a mental institution. I guess you don't hear well dismayed of the word limit shall severe approximately 11 Jell-O and Pacific health evangelical mystic Jell-O saw get that clarified today stay with the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown thank you much for joining us today on the line of fire is around your voice of sanity clarity sitting in the studio with two very special guests, Dr. Richard land of Southern Baptist fame graduate of Oxford University.

The president of Southern Evangelical seminary leading Christian thinker, author, radio host, and Eric Christison, he of multi-hats, but today will focus on his head as director of special events because of the upcoming apologetics conference that wonderful large edifying, exciting, informative, annual apologetics conference. It's just me, an event, an event not to be missed. It's coming up just a few weeks we'll talk about that document.

Eric welcome back to light a fire. Thank you. Anywhere you great great to have you guys sold just before we we talk about the role of Christians. Christian intellectuals and society where we fit in apologetics.

All that lets us talk presidential politics for a minute document you've never been shy to get your opinion and you have recently since a very strong things in favor of Donald Trump LOL actually answered very strong things in this favor of Hillary Clinton. Okay, go ahead. Yeah, now I am let you know. It isn't just in the just be as transparent as possible.

Donald Trump is my 18th choice of 17 people running in the Democrat in the Republican primaries is my last choice. But in a general election with Hillary Clinton. To me this is a classic case of at the very least, the lesser evil versus the greater evil and you know Donald Trump is a flog person or the more flog characters to actually be nominated for president, but compared to Hillary Clinton. He is eligible for sainthood. Somebody asked regular daily civil document what under what circumstances would you vote for Hillary Clinton. Is that what I might consider it. If you're running against Lucifer of antichrist, or the false prophet. Other than that I don't see any sort of dental jive over Hillary Clinton. I think Donald Trump will do some things we like you do a lot of things we don't like Hillary Clinton will do nothing we like, and she will she will be our sworn enemy if she will she will be the sworn enemy of people. Traditional things what you think of Pres. Obama's comments that the only reason election looks to be closest because Americans are sexist and doesn't want to elect a woman I just typical elitism on part of Obama. Obama's latest Hillary is the latest you heard it coming right out of her mouth when she said you know half of Trump's voters are these this basket of deplorable's machine. She usually wanted disagrees with her.

Basically, of being a xenophobe or a bigot are racist or sexist.

This is the old Democratic playbook and Obama and Hillary are practitioners of it. You know the only reason they they use the same thing when he ran for president didn't vote for him you were a racist life.

Actually, the only thing I liked about it was it was an African-American. I was the only bonus building on the plus side was it was an African-American. I thought it said something very good about us as a country, it will if an African-American look, I've said many times, Mrs. Thatcher, Wanda immigrate to the United States when when she was in her prime. I would've been one of you helping to change the Constitution so that Margaret Thatcher to Ben Perez of the United States. I have no problem with alone present. I did have a problem with this woman got it exactly in the same thing with with Americans that didn't endorse Barack Obama. The problem is not African-American.

The problem is this African-American just just like their people at the like Donald Trump as I can.

He's a man of his. His white is Donald Trump. So yeah and I have an article I just wrote today will come out later today or tomorrow about recent comments by the president, where he also said over the weekend. African-Americans need to vote for him because it's a person to vote for Hillary Clinton� Personal insults. Once again we divide over sex and race was that's not the issue here, but that's clearly ski playbook yeah if you read if you want to understand a Barack Obama anyone understand Hillary Clinton the understand first brother elitists and secondly there running the just rules radicals will take you longest on a very long book, but is that dedicated to but is dedicated Lucifer to see how ago the first rebel who was at least rewarded with his own kingdom. Lucifer Belinsky says you divide and conquer. You divide your enemies any any means justifies the, you know it is it's an amoral book, but I Hillary Clinton became an acolyte of aliskiren. She was in high school Road or Master's thesis at Wellesley on Belinsky and Obama taught rules radicals as a community organizer in Chicago, somebody other than that they're playing it on the ski playbook. Divide and conquer did not unite but divide and for the for the layman listener. It's a familiar with certain political and or societal terms.

How would you define elitist someone who looks down on people who are the bedrock of the country you don't wind abolish any of these are people who cling to their guns and their Bibles, and out the people who live mostly on the coasts and look look down on middle America think they were ignorant think that we if we disagree with them in their Utopian and socialist ideas. Then of course we have to has to be racist. It has to be bigotry like Martin Castro, the head of the US civil rights commission who just wrote a a report in which he said religious liberty is will have no will have no cachet whatsoever until he quit being a mask for bigotry against homosexuals, and transgender people, and anyone who's you know that the people ever his convictions about like to we have a problem with gay marriage that that has to be bigotry is just it's it's some elitists are people who largely and I can say this because I went to Princeton largely people who went through I really prime schools often went to prep schools before that, you know, I thought Don from an excellent point. Universal concern about gun control and Hillary on turn in her purse restrict you to go unarmed you know is easy for her to say we need out outlaw the guns she she has had a sick and armed security detail for 30 years.

You know what danger she they live in gated communities often their wealthy you know Obama says that he believes in public schools, children went to school as a cost $50,000 a year at least. Jimmy Carter send his kids to the schools in Washington DC sent Amy to the public schools wash and I don't think it was very good parent for doing that but he certainly was not hypocritical when Al Gore was nominated for president's daughter got up and said my parents believe in public schools. We we've always read devotionals. Al Gore never went to public school. To be born, and went to public school in the course kids are went to the pub.

School is over than about public schools. George W. Bush's children went to the public high school in Austin but not Al Gore short the doors are elitists. It's an image is really not so sure, there's an attitude thing when George W. Bush was born into the establishment. But he's not elitist appreciates and he understands and he respects average common folk who pay their taxes obey the law serve their country.

The policeman the firemen who make this country work right so let's let's just play off of that for one moment asked this question when we read the Gospels for me when we read the writings of Paul.

Obviously there's depth, there's millions then the simplicity of message and and God hides the things from the wise reveals them to to the little children in the preaching. The cross is foolishness to those who perish middle speak for the wisdom of this world.

We understand that but is there any way that we have become so obscurantist in our thinking so overly simplistic in our thinking that that we give the world ample grounds to attack us because many times were not thinking Christians are. I think that sometimes true, but I think mocha mostly that's a stereotype is a caricature.

For instance, I grew up in a denomination that believes that the Bible is the inerrant and infallible word of God.

It was mostly from the in the denomination Pirates of the Baptist, but when I would seminary a Southern Baptist seminary, I found that my view of Scripture was being caricatured as a dip the dictation theory and that I want to speak as a as a quote conservative representative in one of our seminaries in a debate, and afterwards I have some of the students accost me in a civil document you not really a fundamentalist and they say could you you'll blame the dictation theory is a limitation on mobbing ones of the member churches since I was three years old.

I've never met anyone who believes in the dictation theory of inspiration, meaning that that God she's had God to get every word, as Christ wrote them. As I've heard about them from liberals brother met one minute later I said you know I said I believe in Trying theology and in your hand on theology and Pauline theology. They just don't disagree with each other right so there each that the light is shining/horizons.

I found I found over and over and over again we come to the questions about the veracity of Scripture, or whether Jesus is the son of God, or the resurrection or any of these important questions. It is not a question of scholarship and is not a question of intellect. It's a question of heart and whether or not you're willing to submit your will to God.

Are you want to play your own God and you want to practice what I call Dalmatian theology, the Bible is inspired in spots in your inspired spot to spot and is it always interesting. The parts that we think are inspired of the parcel. We agree with yeah and in the parts that don't cost us rights but pointer finger at someone else right we come back. I want Eric to talk about the upcoming apologetics conference and let's talk about the role Christians, lecturers and apologetics in America today looking like that the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown.

Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown I am sitting with land presidents and finest positive schools in the entire world average of had the privilege of teaching our friends, the teacher I've had grads from our ministry school have gone there and every single one, thrilled with every class and every professor without fail, and sitting with Erica Stinson, among other things, he is the director special event.

So Eric give our listeners details in the upcoming apologetics conference there's still time for folks to get in there is both them alive is the October 13 to the 15th here in Charlotte at Calvary church and it's also can be streamed for the first time ever working to live streaming of the main slimming stage evening presentations anywhere in the world.

That's $125 and it's a chock full program it's actually packed. Yes, we had somebody there last week I was showing somebody. The flyer enables fell over who is most likely the farmhouse really takes me three months to listen to all the CDs after the conference so we could to get everything your three-phase noise like a three ring circus yes but 100 presentations credit every every year we do that we do that on purpose, and we also it's accessible for the layperson. Without a doubt, but it is something that stretches you. We don't want to be, don't ever want to hear somebody say you got a one or two events of the national conference than you for what you can hear we always want to be able to offer more. Who were some of the speakers we have, of course, the doctor land in our inner cofounder Dr. Norman Geisler I Gary have amassed her former professors Richard how Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell, Hugh Ross, the astrophysicist Jay Sekulow oh will be here for the first time we strolls back his own inherent a few years gingerly on the air with me to talk with us as well. Yes, it works a lot that's been about three or four years since he's been in the conference refrigerator Jay Warner Wallace. How can cancel the I am.

And then obviously several of our SES professors and the graduates rights of the dates again October 13, 14th and 15th with the 13th being for women only okay Thursday night right. Thursday I have to date. Having today and Friday or Saturday is coed and and where folks comfort for these conferences really come from.

We already have 10 countries that have signed up. Typically 10 to 15 different countries will come each year and north of 40 states represented physically in the course of the streaming were hoping that we open up even more tremendous, tremendous yeah and and I I never get around to maybe 1/50 of what I plan because I talk to this one and then in over here and then over this quick time. I don't have any user to have a mailing where Abdallah listen to it on on on the Revere office watch all yeah yeah even just walk around this at the table ostrich onto representative for ministry. Next they were engaged in the resources of SES.edu go to find out more so have a lot of homeschoolers whose parents, bring them under one of my one of my favorite memories of Lester's commerce as we had one of our professor speaking of the problem of evil, and I looked out on the front row. There was a father with two daughters, Mary, 15 and 13 that all three taking serious note, you yeah and you let let's just talk about that for a moment the importance of your average believer, by which I mean someone who is not a specialist in this subject with that subject I specialized in Jewish objections to Jesus salsa specialized in increasing evolution and evolution of Christmas philosophy. Okay, most of us aren't specialized in a particular and advanced level I'm I'm very poor in science. I give a great several minute presentation on why there must be a creator and the moment you probe me I have but I'm done because I'm that some I feel but I know that there's John Lennox and I know that this William Ln., Craig it is you, Rossman, and that's good enough for me. That's a strength to me just in my daily walk with God and my confidence in you witness if I don't have the answer say with this website. This guy Dan Sheehan right here offers describe new book out on the privileged planet is improbable and improbable planet, you know, and it is just you know it's there you go to it and it just, you know, just hammers.

Evolution is it takes so much more faith to believe in evolution, like John Sanford, the geneticist who came and spoke last year as an industry where the string shows through research that genetic entropy that it of genetic entropy is true, then at Darwinian evolution is impossible to find the first already getting the gene pool is going down is like the second law of thermodynamics is the law of entropy. The gene pool is is it is going down not up were not evolving upward were of all the downward numbers are more stupid people. There are more people who have handicaps and who have challenges physically and mentally.

Every generation is going down not up.

Now if that's true in his science shows that it is true in the human genital then you can't evolve the way Dara said we have all is not possible right we we be going from super genius to in the end that's right back to work were going back to to fish back to amoeba which is counter all and up amoebas them will know there is little incentive live automated but is it it's it's exactly the opposite of what of what Darwin argued, so even if someone goes to the conference. There they can absorb everything still leave encouraged because while that guy. He's brilliant. He studied here he's and he answered my questions.

So if I get it with more questions. I will have to get a look into them and think of her house, and how important it is to college students. Yes they go they go through a Christian high school and in the not challenge the public school they go to Duke UNC Chapel Hill and they get you atheists and agnostics in class that are challenging their belief in the Bible is critically important that they know there are answers and they know where to go to get answers yet and I did a debate with Prof. Bart Berman. We did Ohio State a few years ago.

Does the Bible provide an adequate answer to the problem of suffering a packed house, live streams, great event afterwards. An older Christian couple came up to me, probably closer to my age and they said if you had only been here when our daughter was in school she probably still be in the faith, probably exaggerated statement and then obviously other strong Christians around adjusted know about them, but they were saying if someone was compassionate and inarticulate and educated address these issues head-on. She wouldn't have gone to the crisis, she went through is really critical it is. It is absolutely and were not doing an adequate job of preparing or artfulness. What we put together we have a dual core dual credit for three courses for courses that we did to me is like is like inoculating them against going to college and being a drifter being attacked and taken away from the faith.

The first course the 3R course of introduction apologetics wrong � they can take for high school credit and for electrically anonymous and we have one on that I do on the ethical issues of the day like you know what is a human being. Why is abortion wrong is euthanasia wrong and then I have 1/3 will give 1/3 went on world religions is what Buddhism blazed his wife or hawk is what Islam believes his life wrong. Then we have a course on Christian doctrine. What does the Christian faith belief by subject matter. What is the Bible say about the Bible was the Bible say about man was the Bible say about God was about to say about sin was the Bible say about ultimate destiny and and and so easy to minicourse in Christian doctrine and theology. So if they take those those for courses in high school that my Glock UNC Chapel Hill there at least somewhat inoculated against like Byron yeah, and they're good to have a lot more depth of information to address the talking points. You can find them. Or maybe your homeschool you just heard that SCS.edu to find out more and find out about the apologetics conference coming in less than a month. It's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 86634 through here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

This is good news. This is good news. I went after Princeton diversity. The alma mater of Dr. Richard land use sitting in studio with presidents of evangelical seminaries also graduate of Oxford University and I went after Princeton because they put out guidelines and want to get rid of the word man no man up man-hours and things like that since it would be persevere a person of any person hours was the self went after them yet that it is one of Princeton is at Princeton and freshman's have fresh individuals instead.

So they have apparently tone things down a little bit yeah, but the guy their new guy comes with a list of terms and phrases to avoid or raise your voice such as man and wife forefathers is for four people. Whatever around her.

She therefore found for individuals of but the whole issue and I got a new video if you want to find out Oregon gender fluid enters the Oxford English dictionary through the Oxford Prince to cover for document this whole sad now on college campuses have safe spaces where you can go and you won't be offended, and there won't be micro aggressions. It's a micro-aggression, sir, if I say to you, let's contemplate golf because you might be poor and are unable to play golf. If I say to female faculty member sent beautiful new Dragon now.

It's sexist. I'm not recognize your talents and gifts Southern Evangelical seminary is the set with a safe spaces. Now we are decidedly a dangerous place. In fact I'm I'm toying with the idea of starting a new blog, and I wanted my hashtag ever my mind. You handled them to be safe space invader with that SCS were training safe space invaders. This is what this what college education incident and graduate education supposed to be about a place we can discuss openly ideas and you can have debate and intercourse and you can that you you don't go to college, to be safe and when we get to anything that is coddled and in one of the reasons if they don't have any arguments that they felt know how to argue if they don't have a monopoly on the compensation of the dialogue their lost but is also dividing us dividers and dividers in the body is and this is dangerous in any society, but is fatal in American society.

Why is the only thing that we have in common is our common assent to a corpus of ideas that are that are laid out in the Declaration of Independence. We don't have our ethnicity put us together. We don't have in many cases a shared history puts together two thirds of Americans can trace their ancestry back through Ellis Island. I am a person who can trace my back to colonial days.

I'm a minority of a very small minority marathons grandparents near Russia that will you normally might by father's family came to Virginia in 1636.

My most family in the Boston 1650, lost but I'm I'm a minority, but receipt yeah like I discovers I live in England when the English disagreement everything they have their Englishness to hold them together when the French disagreement. Everything have the French national and what is Americanness if you don't have the common as allegiance to a set of ideals laid out in the decoration we had nothing to keep us cohere together and I believe that this this insane political correctness in this micro aggressions that could lead to the dissolution of our country. Yeah, I guess we should give a trigger warning that that what would you be saying the rest of the broadcast may not be politically correct survival, not for all that I hope I can certainly vouch for this in the table were not reported to Greg is maybe politically correct.

I'm going to demand an apology that it's not there is no will go there right this the affiliates and I was thinking about the two easily threes misunderstood all right. Eric real quick. The dates in the apologetics conference October 13, 14th and 15th here in Charlotte North Carolina and the 13th is for women only women only entity would give you more details on the other side of the brain is a great women apologists tremendous SCS.edu. It's an annual event's premier event nationally people come literally from around the world, especially if you live within an hour to three going to miss it for it's the light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown about defense of the faith Christian advanced study intellectualism isn't the, the Bible enough Jesus.

The Holy Spirit is not enough for me. Why do I need all these intellectual stuff.

What I need to know the creation evolution philosophy. I cannot. I love Jesus. He loves me. God said it, I believe it, that settles it.

What's perhaps lacking in that mindset will fertilize very selfish motives. It might work for you, but all of us are called to be evangelists and I had a conversation with the Rabbi wants to hear what he said okay I understand you believe that you believe Jesus to go to heaven but do you have to psych it to the sources of the innocent look the price of respecting your faith is to deny my faith. The price is too high.

My faith has a great commission and so were all called to go out and to share the gospel and to make disciples and to be salt and light in order to do that you have to be conversant with the issues in the culture and be ready to defend the faith. Peter says be always ready to defend the faith give a reasonable explanation apology a hope that lies within you and do it with a sweet spirit, but to do it right and so you know if ignorance is not a spiritual virtue, and I would argue that if are going to be in the Lord's will know more today than we did yesterday and got no more tomorrow than we did.

There always should be progress forward spiritually and intellectually in the Christian faith.

I came to faith in the church that on the one hand was help me to really get grounded in loving the Lord and being a person of the word and person of prayer and a soul winner in all of that, on the other hand, it was extremely narrow in its thinking and a favorite verse of some of the folks we came to ministry was asked for 13 of the King James that the apostles were ignorant and unlearned men said, have you noticed there ignorant and learned men and if was good enough for them it's good enough for us so so somehow ignorance becomes a virtue. Well my response that would be that the apostle Paul was an apostle born out of due time, and he was many things were ignorant and and nonintellectual he was and was one of the most impressive intellectual of the first century.

He was equally conversant in three worlds in the Greek thought world being raised in Tarsus.

He was a Pharisee. You know, the Pharisees were not alerted men and any Wistar Pharisee.

He was like Doug the star pupil of Gamaliel and he was a Roman citizen saves conversant in the Roman world as well and NEP made allusions to classical Greek poetry in the New Testament so he was anything but an unloaded man and the apostle John, who was raised in Galilee, which was sort of Hicksville coming at me like appellation and is a member made fun of for the accident, etc. but by the end of his life in the last decade the first century. He has absorbed Greek philosophy and the Greek worldview, which was certainly not his native worldview to the place where he could write the prologue of the gospel of John and of the Holy Spirit's inspiration and you can say you people have this philosophy that says that that there's a perfect chair out there just beyond our ability to grasp it and that perfect year of which all other chairs are imperfect representations is called the is in the long gospel he said you're right there is a lot of us of the perfect realities just beyond your reality and is Jesus Christ. So he took Greek philosophy completely reformulated and present of the gospel in terms that Greek can understand. That's a pretty heady intellectual exercise for a Galilean fisherman yeah and then you have a Daniel who excelled in learning the Babylonian literature and things that Moses.

Moses was extremely educated man you don't see the educated and spiritual absolutely is more difficult. It's more difficult. And the reason is is that since were following as sinful men and women, people who are bright people who have facility with academic things have the great temptation to worship their own minds. Knowledge puffs up and and to become more impressed with their own minds of the audibly. You know my mother always taught me any gift you have Richard as a gift from God to God's gift in your use it for his purposes. Yes Eddie say you love somebody challenge anyone to say that their love of someone that they know nothing about being a date with your your spouse or your girlfriend or boyfriend and every time you try to open her mouth to tell you something about themselves. You tell the just be quiet.

All I want do is love you in learning about God's call theology so you do need to learn more about his got legitimize it and go back to what I said before, it's not found that most the time when you cut through all the stuff people who refuse to believe the Bible is not an intellectual problem.

It's not it's not a conceptual problem is not a cognitive problem, it's a will problem. Yes, it's a will problem it is like was a king's name is you said I don't believe in God and I hated yes exercise at all. I don't believe in God but I hated yet that some of the new atheists that's with the character is the original God, but I hated when you get close enough to him to slap in the face of leaves there. I remember in in college taking biblical archaeology class secular college and there was another student. Zealous Christian said we were witnessing to the professor woman and she looked at us and said I'm not yet ready to get off the throne of my heart. Circulation understands Galilee's youngest absolutely radio this man. One of things when I talked to Carl Henry about this and are still alive and he said all he said. You're so right. He said my whole life said, people assume that this is a question of cognition is not a question of volition and ego even when it comes to the Bible's enough. Which, of course, ultimately if there's only one book you could read it and read the Bible. We understand that but you and I and and Eric we weave.

We studied Scripture for different for decades and ended on the one hand, it's simple, it speaks to us. We get alone with God. Take out the word in time of need time of loss in God's word speaks to us, but when you read through the whole Bible.

There are a lot of questions that come up a lot of issues that come up. If you turn your mind off, you're not going to stammer God communicated current. So at this apologetics conference again. October 13-15, a Southern evangelical seminary go to SES.edu and it it's for everything you get. It's a superlow pride.

I will how you mastering all the speakers and honestly will you know we we we did donations help subsidize it. We try to keep it affordable spill comes with pretty pourable but you know if some is a challenge. Yeah, but the rosters always there people coming from around the country. Locally, that that the 13th for women only but let's talk about that because often you might think of equipping women dealing with issues in the Holman marriage and family and female apologists will women need to be apologist just as much as men they live in this world as well. So Eric, what can happen on the 13th was born out of for years we've been doing with women apologetics conference is sort of on their own and indelible others issues. This is twofold's women during apologetics just standard classical apologetics in this apologetics to women are about gender issues of femininity. What is masculinity or about gender roles, and so defending traditional values along those lines. So it's a little bit of all of that and a couple years. Erica months ago. If you remember Christianity today did a cover story and women, apologetics, and on that serve give us the.

The idea of merging it into the met national conferences is reached it's it's probably been doing for years. It looks like it's ready for prime time. So were making it the first day the apologetics conference and features are on the women in that article actually is one of our PhD students and I shall be there course, all of our existing students and graduates who have been there for years on talk at all these issues and you know it's first of all, women are different than men think that's a sexist rate as by Xenophon, my homophobic Islamic public statement is actually true.

Men will be other scientific evidence look the scientific evidence the minimum or difference is overwhelming and as is the end of a eliminated diet. They deny it by being there big litigant signs my most famous classmate so far and I guess nobody can overtake him in the few years we have left with John Stossel and John you used to be very liberal, very liberal nares of libertarian and he said what got them started. Was he said the started reporting on the differences between men and women. He said got my wife and I bought it all the stuff we would let our sons public with warlike toys.

We chemo from the supermarket and they were they were sword fighting with cucumbers. Is this is a crock.

This is a hold of crock and he had a couple radical feminist that you should report of the differences even if their true should report on in and so here we we have brain scans right that show that if you give many women the same problem. The both solve it, but they'll solve it with different portions of their brain that that men and women that women tend to use both sides of their brain simultaneously and that men use the left side of their brain and the right side of their brain sequentially with the others right there and so you know that women or women or have a different perspective than than men, one that we need to hear one this going to give us insight that we don't have a life and they're certainly going to be able to reach women to a level that were not to be able to and then you have the cultural issue. The southernmost convention did a study about 20 years ago that found that about 1/3 of unreached American women had been so lied to and abused and taken advantage of by men.

They wouldn't believe anything a man said the gospel is really a woman's curriculum right back with Dr. Richard land and Eric is the synthesis evangelical seminary go to SES.edu still time to sign up next month apologetics conference October 13 50 13th women only file the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the minor fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown one of them a bit older than me. Most of them younger than respect to the older I get that happy judging older they get younger. They stay the same as coming in the students but as you watch over the years. Generations of grads going out planting churches teaching at schools, raising families going into all facets of the world and make a difference.

It's it's an extraordinarily gratifying thing that I'm blessed to be an adjunct professor at Southern evangelical seminary right in the greater Charlotte, North Carolina area and you to find a finer apologetics school anywhere and what I find sitting with Dr. Richard land with Eric Christensen from from SES. What I find is is that people really get challenged.

I made the that the folks in the gods of the classes they get stretch what I've taught classes folks are there to be stretched serious serious workload to throw themselves in, but they they all have enjoyed the process. They seem to grow and thrive and come out stronger, clearer headed, and more productive in the kingdom. So document if someone says okay look I understand I can uproot my family. I'm already doing ministry here. I live near Charlotte. And anyway, what can they do they can get degrees from rusting good thing finish a bachelor's degree in angular mastery than get a doctorate be redeemed in our PhD almost completely online. My son-in-law just finished a Master of arts in apologetics was a two-year degree. He finished three years working full-time at a bank in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. During the day streaming the classes at night he did. He didn't come on campus to class until they graduated. Now is going to the PhD program and have to come on campus like waiver once a year for a week for the PhD program and remote that went where were different a lot of schools is that of our students were taking courses online.

Over half of them are streaming the classes live which means my son-in-law Francis was that Ms. Dan turn on his computer, and Dr. Geisler got right into his then on online and he could ask Dr. Geisler questions I've been classy like that.

He has said he can hear the other students. The only thing that the that the kid is accusing him, which is probably good because he was in cut offs and flip because most of the time but you know it's it's it's interactive and we can we have students from nine countries around the world right now they're taking classes, streaming them live on you.

It really is. I think you ever going to fulfill the great commission is is through the Internet before it's all said and done, it's really revolutionizing education and wheat we have our average students, 35 years old and are in our program and our average student in our lay Institute, which is a nondegree program for people just won't learn more about apologetics is is about 45 and some of them get the bog start taking classes for non-everlasting credit missing. I think I want I want to a degree of this and we can convert it for them.

So I would encourage to you. Go to SES.edu. We keep it cheap, I mean we really sacrifice. Keep in shape. A bachelors course of course, is $715 not for our $750 for a three hour course for the Masters degree nights with over 1617. We get an infra-master for my Masters. It's $1000 a course not for our but of course for three hours was like $333 an hour and then that the pH. The demand is $1250 was for me is dirt cheap and we we subsidize it to keep it so that anyone who wants to do it can do it and I get letters I get emails and stuff the running part 11 guy. He had a family farm. He could not leave the farm he had a ministry, but his parents were elderly could not leave the farm and we were able to get the program to him and he got his mastery completely from his farmhouse really tremendous and and Eric.

Let's say someone's really interested in apologetics conference with the thick okay you people, you said from 40 states 10 countries registered and ready make it all 50 states will these days, but� Think okay identify their hotel go.

I don't know I can afford can they live stream. The conference yes that's that's all he did at this year because he added all of the hundreds of dollars to come into town with the flight and all that hundred $25 you get to stream all of the main session course and state so every hour you have a different speaker, Jay Warner Wallace Dr. land Richard how innovate down the line. Norm Geisler Jay Sekulow listed the obvious to the main stage will report the more well-known speakers you would be on the main stage so it's a lot cheaper to stream it and we know that we have one or two people coming from South Africa. Theirs were 200 that would like to come but can't God's will is that the person were trying to reach right we just got two minutes. Jay Sekulow would to get to be doing what Jay is really talking about the state of religious freedom and religious liberty in which a state, you know, in the mildly important yeah I mean you know you know Jerry you know he's some you have never met. Completed June wasn't a tiger for Jesus and James went out you know he's a great conversion story got saved in a better student in an illiberal bag to screw us again. It's almost not make me a Calvinist, and he went only locus data and he said as Democrats outplace I submit munication location. What happens about obvious outages as Messiah's house that you decided to go tell your mother, but the J askew. He's right on the cutting-edge of of religious freedom cases and the challenges to religious freedom in the attempt to weapon as our own government against us and you can be doing that and I'm to be doing something brand-new I want to do an open forum where people can write down questions and submit them in advance it and then I might take some from the floor anything they want to ask up front answered wonderful white silk friends go to SES.edu to find out more and and Dr. land very quickly. The last half hour. You mentioned four courses that you have now that that see high school students to take before going to college. Maybe their credit gathering figure for high school credit for elective credit in college okay and this will help ground them inoculates him against some of the challenges you can get, so that there then I can be easily picked off trends to get it with the objection. First, I heard that are ready and second, here's the response and most times when we give a response. People have a response to the response. It's a great idea. Grape are so necessary and your average parent a homeschool educator, private Christian school that I can be able to offer something like this kids in public school that I can get a grab his local church is like a habit. So winter they looked when they go to SES.edu, whether they look at were about to realize the website the current website is a banner at the top of the graphic banner course starts out the conference. But scroll through and you'll see of the dual enrollment come up on their inhibitive. They have trouble, just email us and so you know tellers howling from the dual enrollment program are so so and it can be used by public school students and private school students) in homeschoolers and for all those you think about my kid just started college. Kate not too late to get them into this or or when they have a break to say hey we got these classes, let's let's look at them together is as a family and as always, this can be a great great event so nested every day that goes by, you have what people need a good deal with is nominal. Always the others there's 345 presentations every year on comparing Islam and Christianity are identified in science issues.

You always yes I got be giving a talk on young earth old earth is always a fun topic and in and by the way, this is a safe place where you can talk about this without having your faith questions because we say our rule this young earth or old earth just can attack the other for not believing about it.

So it will be safe and that you challenge the safe in the faith right SES EDU Fenimore my bottom line. Today God calls us to love them with heart, soul, mind and strength. Although