Transcript: Episode 0016

“On Human Race: Behavior and Society”

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00:00:16 – 00:00:44:	Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast, I am Corey J. Moller, and I'm Woe.

00:00:44 – 00:00:51:	Today's episode is our second part of our discussion on the subject of race as a biological

00:00:51 – 00:00:55:	thing that has real-world consequences.

00:00:55 – 00:00:59:	Before we get into it, I'd like to know that this is one of the episodes that if you

00:00:59 – 00:01:03:	do listen with children, you probably don't want to listen to this one with them.

00:01:03 – 00:01:10:	We're going to get into some details in some specifics of crimes that are sensitive.

00:01:10 – 00:01:12:	It's stuff that most people don't want to hear.

00:01:12 – 00:01:14:	I guess that's kind of a trigger warning to everyone.

00:01:14 – 00:01:20:	We're not going to be too graphic, but as we talk about crime and as we talk about real

00:01:20 – 00:01:25:	consequences of things, it's important at some point that we as Christians and as

00:01:25 – 00:01:31:	honest people stop sugarcoding some of these issues so that we can speak frankly.

00:01:31 – 00:01:36:	Today's episode will have a little bit more of that contact than usual.

00:01:36 – 00:01:41:	In the previous episode, we established the biological reality of race.

00:01:41 – 00:01:42:	We demonstrated it.

00:01:42 – 00:01:47:	I think sufficiently that as we looked at the feedback, it was overwhelmingly positive

00:01:47 – 00:01:53:	from pretty much everyone who listened, either agreed and said, wow, I had not heard

00:01:53 – 00:01:58:	those things before, or they said, well, yeah, okay, I knew that, but I don't see why

00:01:58 – 00:01:59:	it matters.

00:01:59 – 00:02:04:	The most negative feedback that we found was from people saying, I don't understand

00:02:04 – 00:02:05:	any of that at all.

00:02:05 – 00:02:06:	It didn't make any sense.

00:02:06 – 00:02:07:	I'm confused.

00:02:07 – 00:02:14:	That seemed stupid, which is very heartwarming to me because that is not a moral condemnation,

00:02:14 – 00:02:18:	which for all three of those groups, I think that if you listened to episode one on race

00:02:18 – 00:02:24:	and you did not find yourself filled with moral indignation, I'm going to tell you right

00:02:24 – 00:02:25:	now.

00:02:25 – 00:02:29:	That means that you are a political pariah today.

00:02:29 – 00:02:34:	You are a right-wing extremist because only the very most extremist racist people on

00:02:34 – 00:02:41:	the planet believe the race is biological and that it's not a sociological construct.

00:02:41 – 00:02:43:	We weren't trying to trick anyone.

00:02:43 – 00:02:47:	We were just telling the truth, but the fact that everyone basically agreed with us makes

00:02:47 – 00:02:49:	you all extremist too.

00:02:49 – 00:02:56:	I say that not tongue-in-cheap, but to point out the fact that when people are called extremist,

00:02:56 – 00:03:02:	it's a conversation short-circuiting act of malice to call someone racist or all these

00:03:02 – 00:03:03:	other things.

00:03:03 – 00:03:09:	It's done to prevent any of these conversations from being taking place.

00:03:09 – 00:03:15:	This episode and the subsequent episodes are really the conversations that no one in

00:03:15 – 00:03:21:	the world wants to have because they have implications for how we work in the church,

00:03:21 – 00:03:24:	how we work in our communities, and how we govern our nations.

00:03:24 – 00:03:27:	That is why we're discussing this to begin with because it's Christian men.

00:03:27 – 00:03:34:	We believe that all three of those are vital for any man.

00:03:34 – 00:03:39:	To begin with, we're going to talk about some statistics.

00:03:39 – 00:03:42:	We're not going to get two under the weeds because, again, you know, numbers in a podcast

00:03:42 – 00:03:44:	is a recipe for madness.

00:03:44 – 00:03:46:	No one wants to hear a bunch of numbers.

00:03:46 – 00:03:49:	We're going to have a lot of charts and graphs that will be included in the show notes

00:03:49 – 00:03:54:	for this episode, and once again, we would encourage you to look at those.

00:03:54 – 00:03:58:	We're going to give kind of a brief overview of just a few of them, to hopefully give you

00:03:58 – 00:04:05:	a sense of the scope because when we talk about biological race having real-world ramifications

00:04:05 – 00:04:11:	in human behavior, we're not talking about a 5% or a 10% difference.

00:04:11 – 00:04:13:	You could chalk that up to anything.

00:04:13 – 00:04:18:	We're talking about differences of 500 and 1,000 in 2,000%.

00:04:18 – 00:04:22:	Those are far too great to be ignored, and so in today's episode we're going to discuss

00:04:22 – 00:04:26:	the specifics that are downstream from race.

00:04:26 – 00:04:32:	Now just a bridge last week episode we talked about race being biological because it is,

00:04:32 – 00:04:36:	it's not something that man invented, it's something that God created.

00:04:36 – 00:04:42:	To begin with showing you how that is connected to human behavior, in contradiction to the

00:04:42 – 00:04:49:	claims that many make that there's a tabula rasa man, that when you were born, you are

00:04:49 – 00:04:54:	either morally neutral or you are an empty vessel or maybe you have original sin, but

00:04:54 – 00:05:01:	everyone has an equal degree of original sin and therefore an equal propensity for sin.

00:05:01 – 00:05:08:	Those are theological questions, but science has something to say about it, not that science

00:05:08 – 00:05:13:	has anything to say about morality, but that when you look at the facts in the universe

00:05:13 – 00:05:20:	in creation and they don't match with a moral theory that isn't actually explicit in Scripture

00:05:20 – 00:05:24:	yet somewhat inferred, it's necessary to take another look at how you're reading Scripture

00:05:24 – 00:05:29:	because if creation is doing one thing and your reading of Scripture is doing something

00:05:29 – 00:05:34:	different, maybe you need to re-synthesize those two things.

00:05:34 – 00:05:38:	So the first brief study I'm going to talk about here to give you a sense of where we're

00:05:38 – 00:05:44:	bridging this is a twin study. I know twin studies are very valuable when you're looking at human

00:05:44 – 00:05:51:	behavior because they allow you to isolate nature from nurture. I think we've all heard those

00:05:51 – 00:05:56:	terms before and some people want to say it's all one thing and it's all another, that it's

00:05:56 – 00:06:02:	completely deterministic. On the nurture side, they want you to think that if a Midwestern

00:06:03 – 00:06:09:	European couple adopts an African child from 6,000 miles away and raises that child speaking

00:06:09 – 00:06:15:	English attending church, that that child will behave identically to any of their own children

00:06:15 – 00:06:23:	would have behaved. And what twin studies show if they show anything and they always do is that

00:06:24 – 00:06:29:	you can account for all of these other variables to the point that the only possible

00:06:29 – 00:06:36:	variable remaining is genetic. And so again, race is genetic. When we talk about a race, we're talking

00:06:36 – 00:06:42:	about a gene pool that is held in common with a people group. So your family, if you're a father

00:06:42 – 00:06:49:	with a wife and you have three kids, that's a gene pool of five people. All the genes your kids

00:06:49 – 00:06:53:	have came from you and your wife. When you go up a level to your parents and your grandparents

00:06:54 – 00:07:00:	and grandparents, eventually it moves from just family into maybe ethnicity and then into

00:07:00 – 00:07:06:	something that we would typically describe as race. You know, or maybe race is English or

00:07:07 – 00:07:13:	European, if you don't want to go even further up. But as you come back down, those concentric

00:07:13 – 00:07:19:	circles towards the center, the genes that are present will manifest in certain ways. And so

00:07:19 – 00:07:25:	what they found in twin studies with young twins, one of the studies I found they had 85 sets

00:07:25 – 00:07:31:	of young twins and they found that the children, if they were identical twins, if one of those

00:07:31 – 00:07:38:	twins committed a crime as a juvenile, there was a 91% chance that the other twin would commit a

00:07:38 – 00:07:43:	crime as well. Now, that's important because you're talking about the same family, you're talking

00:07:44 – 00:07:48:	about brothers or sisters, but it would be two of each because they're identical. So they have

00:07:48 – 00:07:56:	100% of their genes in common and you find a 91% overlap in criminality if criminality occurs.

00:07:56 – 00:08:00:	Now, that doesn't tell anything by itself because well, maybe that's just the family that they were

00:08:00 – 00:08:06:	in. The reason the twin studies are valuable is that they're also fraternal twins and when they

00:08:06 – 00:08:12:	looked at a set of identical twins and compared them to fraternal twins, they found that the

00:08:12 – 00:08:17:	correlation of juvenile delinquency of criminality is a child. So, you know, we're talking about

00:08:17 – 00:08:22:	crimes being committed. We call juvenile delinquency lately, but we're talking about criminals.

00:08:22 – 00:08:28:	They're just young criminals. If they're identical, there was a 91% correlation in one child

00:08:28 – 00:08:34:	committing a crime and his brother or sister committing similar crimes. For fraternal twins,

00:08:34 – 00:08:41:	it goes down to 73%. Now, that difference between 91 and 73 is basically your indication of how much

00:08:41 – 00:08:50:	genes will have in the acts of criminality and the remaining 73%. Some of that will also potentially

00:08:50 – 00:08:55:	implicate criminal behavior being genetic and not merely social, but you can't refer from a

00:08:55 – 00:09:03:	twin study. I want to repeat that 91% if it's twins, they were identical, 73% if you're talking

00:09:03 – 00:09:10:	about fraternal. So about a 20% reduction, 18% reduction in the frequency. The reason that's

00:09:10 – 00:09:17:	important is that it proves conclusively that there is a small but significant factor of genes

00:09:18 – 00:09:24:	causing crime, causing an individual to commit a crime. This is tough for Christians because

00:09:24 – 00:09:29:	crime is sin generally. Not all crimes are sin. We've talked about that in the past, but we're talking

00:09:29 – 00:09:33:	about, you know, vandalism, violence. We're talking about things that no one is going to argue. These

00:09:33 – 00:09:41:	are sins. Genes are a factor in someone committing sins. Now, as Christians, that's a tough pill to

00:09:41 – 00:09:47:	swallow if you've never heard this stuff before because we're told that, well, you know, you have a

00:09:47 – 00:09:53:	nature to sin. And then when you have a sanctified and redeemed nature and baptism, and as you grow

00:09:53 – 00:10:00:	in the faith, that will be replaced, not completely, but to a large degree by your desire to obey God.

00:10:00 – 00:10:04:	And then there's the struggle between your desire to sin and your desire to obey God.

00:10:06 – 00:10:11:	Not paying any attention to religion, what you find is that the genes themselves are causing

00:10:11 – 00:10:16:	or they're responsible for some of the sin. And I think that's an important place to start

00:10:16 – 00:10:22:	because it shows that everything that we said last week about race, being biological,

00:10:23 – 00:10:28:	this stuff is downstream. There are aspects of human behavior that are downstream from your

00:10:28 – 00:10:35:	genes and therefore must necessarily be downstream from your race. When it comes to twin studies,

00:10:36 – 00:10:42:	another interesting thing is that these effects hold even if the twins are adopted,

00:10:43 – 00:10:49:	which is to say you can see the effect of genetics, even when you have a totally different set of

00:10:49 – 00:10:56:	circumstances with regard to environment. So you can disentangle the issue of nurture versus nature,

00:10:56 – 00:11:03:	you can demonstrate conclusively that it is a matter of nature because twins raised in different

00:11:03 – 00:11:08:	families because they were adopted at birth still end up displaying these sorts of similarities.

00:11:10 – 00:11:20:	And for genetics, we now have conclusive proof that there are a number of genes that correlate

00:11:20 – 00:11:25:	very strongly with criminal behavior, certain types of criminal behavior. There are a few different

00:11:25 – 00:11:32:	ones they regulate various things. Part of it would be regulation of certain areas in the frontal

00:11:32 – 00:11:37:	lobe, the frontal lobe being the largest of the four major lobes in the brain of a mammal,

00:11:37 – 00:11:44:	that would be frontal parietal temporal occipital. The frontal lobe is where your higher functions are.

00:11:45 – 00:11:51:	That's what's going to control your self-control, your willpower, various things like that.

00:11:52 – 00:11:58:	Some of these genes that are predictors of criminality are expressed in the frontal lobe.

00:11:59 – 00:12:05:	And the reason that is important should be clear. It is important because the frontal lobe directly

00:12:05 – 00:12:11:	correlates with your higher functions, with your control of self, with your willpower,

00:12:12 – 00:12:17:	with how you actually interact with the world and respond to the world. And so if you have genes

00:12:17 – 00:12:22:	that are influencing how this structure develops, how things are expressed in that structure,

00:12:23 – 00:12:29:	it is a very real difference from one person to the next if you have differences in that part

00:12:29 – 00:12:31:	of the brain and that part of the structure of the brain.

00:12:33 – 00:12:39:	And one example would be one of the genes that deals with M-A-O-I, which influences dopamine

00:12:39 – 00:12:47:	and serotonin, neurotransmitters that have to do with risk and reward and incentive for behavior

00:12:47 – 00:12:51:	without getting too deep into the neuroscience here. That's not our point here.

00:12:51 – 00:12:57:	The point is that there are genes we have conclusively provenness. This is a fact we know this.

00:12:58 – 00:13:04:	There are genes that code for certain differences in human beings that lead to different outcomes,

00:13:04 – 00:13:09:	that lead to different behaviors, and these correlate with race.

00:13:10 – 00:13:16:	When it comes to the African populations, you are going to have expressions of these genes

00:13:16 – 00:13:20:	that lead to lower levels of self-control and higher levels of violence.

00:13:21 – 00:13:26:	And that bears out in crime data. It is not because the police are biased.

00:13:27 – 00:13:31:	In fact, if you look at the statistics today, the police are more likely to shoot you if you are white.

00:13:31 – 00:13:39:	But that aside, it is not a difference in policing. It is not bias against individuals.

00:13:40 – 00:13:46:	It is that those who have certain genetic predispositions are going to be more likely to commit

00:13:46 – 00:13:52:	certain kinds of crime and therefore have encounters with the police and respond to the police

00:13:52 – 00:13:58:	in a certain way. Because of course, if you have the genes that code for less self-control,

00:13:58 – 00:14:03:	are you more likely to remain calm when confronted by an officer who is telling you to put your

00:14:03 – 00:14:08:	hands up? No, of course not. And if you don't remain calm, are you more likely to get shot?

00:14:08 – 00:14:13:	Yes, of course you are. Does that mean that police don't make mistakes? Of course not, we aren't

00:14:13 – 00:14:20:	saying that. But if you have a population that is more prone to certain kinds of crime,

00:14:20 – 00:14:26:	that lead to certain kinds of confrontations with law enforcement, you are going to see an increase

00:14:26 – 00:14:32:	in certain kinds of outcomes. And the reason that we are specifically talking about this is, again,

00:14:32 – 00:14:38:	these are moral issues. We're talking about sin. And as Christians, when you talk about sin,

00:14:39 – 00:14:46:	there are certain things that are in play that are important for reconciling us to God. And as,

00:14:46 – 00:14:52:	you know, especially as Lutherans, we focus on that reconciliation on repentance, on turning away

00:14:52 – 00:14:59:	from acting in evil ways. And when we see evil in the world, our desire is naturally and correctly

00:14:59 – 00:15:06:	to want those who are sinning to repent, to turn away from their evil ways. These discussions

00:15:06 – 00:15:15:	become completely derailed in the 21st century in particular, specifically because if you exclude

00:15:15 – 00:15:20:	the possibility that race can have anything to do with any of these questions, then obviously

00:15:20 – 00:15:27:	you're left with, well, the police run fair or society is structurally unequal. You know,

00:15:27 – 00:15:32:	you've heard all these things before and it turns out unsurprisingly or maybe surprisingly to some

00:15:32 – 00:15:38:	of you, they're all Marxist talking points. The denial of race is a Marxist talking point. The

00:15:38 – 00:15:46:	accusation that the police are racist is a Marxist talking point. The idea that race that society

00:15:46 – 00:15:54:	itself is unequally structured in ways that disadvantage minorities is a Marxist talking point.

00:15:55 – 00:16:02:	All those words I just used, they're used by Marxists. But the linchpin is your willingness to deny

00:16:02 – 00:16:08:	the race can possibly even be a variable. Now, Kory and I are not claiming that race is the only

00:16:08 – 00:16:13:	variable. And I forgot to mention my intro. There's something that I want to make really clear as you're

00:16:13 – 00:16:18:	listening to this, regardless of what you think about what you're saying. There's a fallacy that's

00:16:18 – 00:16:24:	kind of an informal fallacy, but it's very popularly said, particularly online lately, that's Naxalt,

00:16:24 – 00:16:33:	N-A-X-A-L-T. And that's an acronym that stands for not all X are like that. So in other words,

00:16:33 – 00:16:41:	if we say to you that an African in America is more likely to commit a murder than a European in

00:16:41 – 00:16:48:	America, the instinctive response from someone who has been shaped by this world is to shout Naxalt

00:16:48 – 00:16:53:	to say not all X are like that, not all Africans are like that. I know a black guy. He's never killed

00:16:53 – 00:17:00:	anyone. It's a fallacy because the fact that you know a guy doesn't disprove the trend. The fact

00:17:00 – 00:17:06:	that the numbers bear out the trend proves that something is going on. And it is entirely it's an

00:17:06 – 00:17:13:	entirely fair question to ask, are the police being unfair to one group? That's a fair question.

00:17:13 – 00:17:17:	We're not saying that's not a fair question. We're saying that the conclusions that are reached

00:17:17 – 00:17:22:	in many cases are false. It's Corey said, I'm a white man. I'm far more likely to be killed by

00:17:22 – 00:17:28:	police than a black man who behaves in the same way as me. Now I behave in a very law-biting,

00:17:28 – 00:17:36:	boring way. So I'm unlikely to be confronted by a cop, but in the event of any police confrontation,

00:17:36 – 00:17:41:	I'm more likely to be killed because there's not a social stigma to a cop shooting a white guy.

00:17:41 – 00:17:46:	There's no one who's going to riot on my behalf. If I end up dead, whether the cop was right or not,

00:17:46 – 00:17:51:	no one's going to care except my family and a few friends. Everyone else seemed like, well,

00:17:51 – 00:17:56:	you know, whatever. He got shot. He probably deserved it. The opposite is true whenever it's a

00:17:56 – 00:18:02:	non-white who is involved in a physical confrontation with the police with any authorities.

00:18:02 – 00:18:09:	It always is automatically assumed that they were singled out for some completely unfair reason.

00:18:09 – 00:18:15:	Now, as I just said, it's not an unfair question, but it is an unfair accusation because it's

00:18:15 – 00:18:24:	usually not the case, even in places where you find that there is disproportionate use of violence

00:18:24 – 00:18:30:	against African Americans versus white Americans. You still have to ask yourself,

00:18:31 – 00:18:36:	what was the individual doing in all of those cases? If a cop tells me to put my hands on my head

00:18:36 – 00:18:40:	and get down my knees, I'm just going to do it because I don't want to get beat and I don't want

00:18:40 – 00:18:46:	to get shot. As we all see over and over again in police videos, that is often not the reaction

00:18:46 – 00:18:52:	from African Americans, increasingly as this sort of rhetoric has taken hold in the world

00:18:52 – 00:18:57:	and they're being told, the cops are out to get you. You're a victim. We'll in a cop

00:18:57 – 00:19:03:	pulls someone over who's African American. He may already be primed by that rhetoric to think

00:19:03 – 00:19:07:	I'm being victimized. I'm the victim of a crime right here and it's a cop who's committing the

00:19:07 – 00:19:13:	crime. So there's a natural instinct even on top of the genetic factors to think maybe I should

00:19:13 – 00:19:18:	fight back. Maybe I'm fighting for justice if I wrestle this cop. Who's more likely to get shot

00:19:18 – 00:19:23:	at that point, me who gets out of my hands and knees or get out my knees with my hands on my head

00:19:23 – 00:19:29:	or the guy who fights the cop and reaches for his gun. Any honest person will tell you the guy

00:19:29 – 00:19:34:	who fights the cop is more likely to get hurt. Now, if it is Africans who are more likely to fight

00:19:34 – 00:19:41:	the cop, then yes, it is Africans who are more likely to get hurt by cops. It does not follow

00:19:41 – 00:19:47:	that the cops are more likely to hurt Africans. What follows potentially, and I think the

00:19:47 – 00:19:52:	data bears us out is that cops are more likely to hurt Africans who try to kill them in the pursuit

00:19:52 – 00:19:59:	of ill-awful arrest. You can't tease any single factor out of any of this. And all we're trying to do

00:19:59 – 00:20:07:	with this discussion is to make the biology of race and the factors that are a fundamental element

00:20:07 – 00:20:13:	of the human experience that come from our race. There are a factor in these societal concerns

00:20:13 – 00:20:20:	because when George Floyd passed fake $20 bill while he was high on a level of fatten all that

00:20:20 – 00:20:26:	was going to kill him, whether or not the cops showed up, someone called the cops because he

00:20:26 – 00:20:31:	was committing a felony. He was arrested. He refused to be put in the car. Despite them having

00:20:31 – 00:20:36:	pulled him out of a car, he said, I'm claustrophobic. I can't be put in a vehicle. I can't breathe.

00:20:37 – 00:20:42:	Now, the video that most people see begins at that point with the guy in handcuffs saying,

00:20:42 – 00:20:46:	I can't breathe, I can't breathe. If you pay attention, he was saying he couldn't breathe

00:20:46 – 00:20:51:	when he was being put in the back of the vehicle while he was still upright. But the video usually

00:20:51 – 00:20:57:	doesn't start there because it doesn't tell the story that we were all told to believe,

00:20:57 – 00:21:02:	which was that the cops murdered a man who was peacefully being arrested.

00:21:03 – 00:21:12:	If you bring givens to that scene that deny the possibility that maybe a population group is

00:21:12 – 00:21:16:	more likely to behave in a certain way, of course you're going to think, well, the cops wouldn't

00:21:16 – 00:21:21:	have done that to me and they did it to him so the cops were bad. Well, what we're telling you

00:21:21 – 00:21:26:	is that the cops probably wouldn't do that to you because you wouldn't fight them. And the fact

00:21:26 – 00:21:32:	that whites are still more likely to be injured or killed by cops and arrests is not about the

00:21:32 – 00:21:37:	fighting. It's about again, the fact that a cop is going to go too much further lengths typically

00:21:37 – 00:21:43:	to not use a gun when there's an African-American involved because they don't want to be,

00:21:43 – 00:21:47:	they don't have their house burned down. They don't want to go to prison for the rest of their

00:21:47 – 00:21:54:	life like Derek Chauvin is facing for a lawful arrest. It's perfectly sensible that they would take

00:21:55 – 00:22:02:	more care and be less likely to escalate violence even when the violence is justified by the force

00:22:02 – 00:22:07:	use of force guidelines that their own police departments haven't played because if you do

00:22:07 – 00:22:11:	it to a white guy, you're not going to get in as much trouble. That's a factor. And as a factor,

00:22:11 – 00:22:17:	it gets ignored when these conversations are being had. But when it comes from the church and when

00:22:17 – 00:22:24:	it comes from places like the new large catechism with annotations, they say things like the cops are

00:22:24 – 00:22:31:	being mean to minorities or being mean to African-Americans at a higher degree of frequency

00:22:31 – 00:22:37:	than to whites. That's not fair. They're being racist. If race is a factor, then there's other

00:22:37 – 00:22:42:	things going on. And as an honest person, you must look at those other factors before making any

00:22:42 – 00:22:48:	decision, you may look at all of the data honestly and still conclude, yeah, the cops are racist.

00:22:48 – 00:22:53:	And there are cases where the cops do bad things. Cops are human beings and some of them are dirty.

00:22:54 – 00:22:59:	That doesn't mean that all police are automatically bad. Just doesn't mean all police are

00:22:59 – 00:23:03:	automatically good or that all suspects are automatically guilty and deserve to be killed.

00:23:04 – 00:23:09:	The other side doesn't hold either. All suspects are not automatically innocent and they're not

00:23:09 – 00:23:15:	automatically not fighting back and deserving a level of force in some case might get someone

00:23:15 – 00:23:20:	killed. When you look at all the facts, you must conclude that you haven't done your due

00:23:20 – 00:23:26:	jail diligence to have an opinion until you've looked at races a factor specifically because race

00:23:26 – 00:23:32:	has behavioral manifestations that as a Christian, you say, well, that's sin. And if you're a

00:23:32 – 00:23:36:	someone who's just a statistician, you're going to say, oh, well, those are crime statistics.

00:23:37 – 00:23:41:	When you're dealing with the reality, you have to look at all the variables and races,

00:23:41 – 00:23:46:	always a variable. And in these cases, it's frequently the most important variable.

00:23:46 – 00:23:51:	So let's look at crime for one particular city, just as an example.

00:23:52 – 00:23:57:	These data are from 2010. You will find if you start looking for this that is increasingly

00:23:57 – 00:24:02:	difficult to find data from the last handful of years because these reports produced by the

00:24:02 – 00:24:07:	government, incidentally, are very embarrassing to the government because they do not match the

00:24:07 – 00:24:14:	narrative. Now, there are actually problems with these data, but unfortunately for those who would

00:24:14 – 00:24:19:	try to say that is systemic racism or something to that effect, the data are actually biased

00:24:19 – 00:24:26:	against whites and in favor of others because for instance, the FBI has long and some of the

00:24:26 – 00:24:31:	reports held Hispanic to be a victim category, but not a perpetrator category. And so they're

00:24:31 – 00:24:36:	lumped in with whites, which obviously raises the white crime rate as you will see very shortly

00:24:36 – 00:24:42:	here when I read this table of data. But anyway, these are data from Chicago in 2010.

00:24:43 – 00:24:50:	I'm going to give you the multiple of the white crime rate with regard to the Hispanic and

00:24:50 – 00:24:55:	Black populations. So to say that another way to make sure that it's entirely clear,

00:24:56 – 00:25:01:	if per a given number of the population, a thousand, a million, whatever,

00:25:02 – 00:25:07:	whites commit one crime of this variety, I am going to give you the multiple for the Hispanic

00:25:07 – 00:25:14:	population and the Black population. We'll start with narcotics, arrests for narcotics,

00:25:15 – 00:25:24:	Hispanic 2.5, that's 2.5 times as likely as whites to be arrested for narcotics, blacks 11.5.

00:25:25 – 00:25:35:	Auto theft, Hispanics 4.5, blacks 19.9. Sexual assault, Hispanics 4.9, blacks 10.4.

00:25:36 – 00:25:48:	Robbery, Hispanics 3.9, blacks 27.3. Murder, Hispanics 6.7, blacks 23.8. And again,

00:25:48 – 00:25:58:	that is to say that it is 23.8 times as likely that the arrestee is black. It for these data,

00:25:58 – 00:26:06:	Chicago 2010 for murder. As can be seen, there is a very clear racial component to violent crime.

00:26:07 – 00:26:12:	And this plays out across every city in the US. We could show you data for any large city.

00:26:13 – 00:26:17:	They're all the same. And it's not just the US because of course, there are those who will try

00:26:17 – 00:26:22:	to say, well, the US has this history of X, Y and Z. And so of course, this happens to minorities.

00:26:22 – 00:26:30:	No, it is the same in London. It is the same in Paris. It is the same in pick any major city,

00:26:30 – 00:26:37:	pick a major city in South Africa. It plays out everywhere the same way. Race is a determining

00:26:37 – 00:26:44:	factor for crime rate. The data are very clear. They are irrefutable. We know this.

00:26:45 – 00:26:52:	And of course, there are those who will say, well, how do we know that it's race? Maybe it's

00:26:52 – 00:26:57:	poverty. That's the one that is often brought up or unemployment or education. These are the

00:26:57 – 00:27:04:	three big ones that usually come up. And we're told if they only had more opportunity, if they had

00:27:04 – 00:27:09:	jobs, if they had been educated, if we had welfare, wealth transfers, then we wouldn't have the

00:27:09 – 00:27:16:	crime rate. And it's fair to ask that. It is in fact good to ask that. You should ask that

00:27:16 – 00:27:23:	question, but it doesn't work. Here is the correlation. Now, if you've taken statistics, you will

00:27:23 – 00:27:29:	understand how this works. If you haven't taken statistics, a number that is closer to one is a

00:27:29 – 00:27:35:	higher correlation. A higher correlation very strongly implies there is a causal relationship.

00:27:35 – 00:27:40:	And yes, of course, someone is currently screaming that correlation doesn't mean causation.

00:27:41 – 00:27:47:	Well, it winks at it and usually it does mean it. In this case, it does because it's the sole

00:27:47 – 00:27:55:	explanatory factor. But for instance, we'll start with poverty. If you map poverty onto violent

00:27:55 – 00:28:03:	crimes per 100,000 population for a large city, the correlation is 0.36. That is a weak correlation.

00:28:04 – 00:28:08:	You are looking for a strong correlation, looking for something 0.7 to 0.9 range.

00:28:08 – 00:28:15:	So let's look at the percentage of those who did not complete high school. Increasing

00:28:15 – 00:28:20:	percentage didn't complete high school does it correlate with an increasing violent crime rate.

00:28:21 – 00:28:28:	0.37. Not much stronger than poverty. Let's look at unemployment. For unemployment, if you have

00:28:28 – 00:28:35:	an increasing unemployment rate, does that lead to an increase in violent crime rate? 0.35.

00:28:35 – 00:28:41:	Even less of a predicting factor, even less of a correlation than poverty and education level,

00:28:41 – 00:28:46:	or lack of education in this case. Now let's look at the percentage of the population that is

00:28:46 – 00:28:55:	black or Hispanic. 0.81. That is a very high correlation. That is an explanatory factor. And we see

00:28:55 – 00:29:01:	this again playing out in every major city across the world. This is not uniquely American. It is

00:29:01 – 00:29:07:	not unique to big cities here. It is not unique to a region. This is simply a trend that holds

00:29:08 – 00:29:13:	across the world. And so as Christians, we have to deal with this. We don't simply get to ignore

00:29:13 – 00:29:19:	it, shove it under the rug, hand wave it away, because that would be a betrayal of our brothers

00:29:19 – 00:29:26:	and sisters, to whom we owe a duty. We owe a duty of care to those who are entrusted to our care.

00:29:27 – 00:29:33:	And that requires us to look at the world, not through rose tinted glasses, but with open eyes,

00:29:33 – 00:29:40:	to see the reality of what is represented in these data and then to act appropriately

00:29:41 – 00:29:44:	with regard to these data to achieve proper moral ends.

00:29:46 – 00:29:53:	I have some similar data from the 2021 collection from the FBI, so it's nationwide. It bears

00:29:54 – 00:29:58:	out exactly pretty much identical to what you find wherever there are African populations.

00:29:59 – 00:30:04:	There are a couple other points I want to tease out from that. We all know that men are more

00:30:04 – 00:30:11:	violent than women. It's our nature. A man has on average 15 times more testosterone than a woman

00:30:11 – 00:30:18:	regardless of race. I don't know how it adjusts for race, but more testosterone typically correlates

00:30:18 – 00:30:23:	to higher degrees of aggression. Now that doesn't say anything about self-control. It just means

00:30:23 – 00:30:29:	that men are more likely to behave in a violent way than women are. And we see that in the FBI

00:30:29 – 00:30:37:	crime statistics for whites. In the US in 2021, a white man was five times more likely than a

00:30:37 – 00:30:43:	white woman to kill someone. So that's five times greater when you're looking at men versus women.

00:30:44 – 00:30:50:	What's interesting is when you compare white men to black women, then you find that black women

00:30:50 – 00:30:58:	are 1.7 times more likely than white men to commit murders. So that's tremendous. That's a huge

00:30:58 – 00:31:08:	increase where the population of women among Africans is more homicidally violent than white men.

00:31:09 – 00:31:14:	You're never going to hear anyone tell you that because of the implications. What does it

00:31:14 – 00:31:21:	mean as a society if there is this preponderance for violence and for brutal violence? We're not

00:31:21 – 00:31:27:	just talking about fist fights or arguments. We're talking about dead bodies being attributed to

00:31:27 – 00:31:36:	individuals. The nationwide average was, as Cory said, 18 times more likely for a black man to

00:31:36 – 00:31:42:	kill than a white man. And one really startling statistic that emerges is that I have this

00:31:42 – 00:31:51:	race, this data broken down also by age. So that 18 percent, sorry, the 18 times is specific to

00:31:51 – 00:31:56:	everyone between the ages of 18 and 64. So basically peak physical condition for men,

00:31:56 – 00:32:01:	you know, from from their adolescent years until you start to get too old to really do too much

00:32:01 – 00:32:09:	violence, 18 times more likely. However, again, the average for white men is about five. The average

00:32:09 – 00:32:19:	for black males between the age of five and 14 is also five. Five to 14-year-old African boy

00:32:19 – 00:32:25:	is more likely to murder you than any white man, regardless of circumstance. That's that's

00:32:25 – 00:32:31:	tremendous. When you consider the physical disparity in the, what would cause a five-year-old to

00:32:31 – 00:32:37:	14-year-old? Obviously, that probably slews more towards what we call the teenage years. It's

00:32:37 – 00:32:41:	probably mostly over 10. I don't have that broken down. But the fact that that degree of violence

00:32:41 – 00:32:48:	would be found among kids who are so small that yet they can still cause a death. Obviously,

00:32:48 – 00:32:54:	that's probably mostly talking about weapons. Usually it's going to be firearms. Sometimes it's

00:32:54 – 00:33:02:	going to be knives. That's something that has societal implications. And it goes beyond simply

00:33:02 – 00:33:09:	while we have a sin problem or while we have economic problems. These statistics bear out

00:33:10 – 00:33:14:	over and over again. And Corey said this, we didn't make it explicit. When we're talking about

00:33:14 – 00:33:20:	worldwide, we're talking about Africans behaving with this degree of violence wherever they live.

00:33:20 – 00:33:25:	It doesn't matter if they live in the US or if they live somewhere in Africa or if they've been

00:33:25 – 00:33:30:	imported to somewhere in Europe recently has happened many, many times. There are millions and

00:33:30 – 00:33:34:	millions of Africans living in Europe today who aren't living there at the turn of the century.

00:33:35 – 00:33:42:	That's artificial. And it's causing violent crime to go through the roof in places that never

00:33:42 – 00:33:49:	had any crime before. And we're talking about sin. But as Corey said, we're also talking about

00:33:50 – 00:33:54:	care for your neighbor and care for your own brother according to the flesh.

00:33:54 – 00:34:00:	An African is not my brother. He may be my brother according to Christ, but he is not my brother

00:34:00 – 00:34:06:	according to the flesh. That's not an insult to him. It is not demigrating him as a man or to say

00:34:06 – 00:34:12:	he is less than it is to say he's not physically my brother. I have a duty to my brother.

00:34:12 – 00:34:18:	Scripture makes that clear. And a failure for us to look to our own to make sure that they are

00:34:18 – 00:34:27:	cared for has moral implications too. I have a study here from the National Institutes of Health

00:34:27 – 00:34:33:	just to flesh out the issue of testosterone level and criminality because there is a correlation

00:34:33 – 00:34:38:	there. We are not going to deny that men commit more crime. And there is some correlation with

00:34:38 – 00:34:43:	testosterone level because of course testosterone if it's high enough is going to lead to certain

00:34:43 – 00:34:49:	kinds of impulsivity as any male who has gone through puberty is well aware. Between the ages

00:34:49 – 00:34:55:	of 12 and 15 black males actually have lower testosterone than white males. However,

00:34:57 – 00:35:04:	black male testosterone rapidly increases around that age and then from the ages about 20 to 39,

00:35:05 – 00:35:10:	blacks have a higher level of testosterone than whites. This is just comparing men because

00:35:10 – 00:35:15:	obviously women have testosterone as well. And there are hormonal considerations for women

00:35:15 – 00:35:21:	and criminality as well. But we're focusing on men right now. However, testosterone level

00:35:21 – 00:35:27:	for blacks drops off precipitously after that age and falls much more rapidly than for whites.

00:35:28 – 00:35:33:	And one of the effects that we see of this is actually not a this not a criminal matters not

00:35:33 – 00:35:38:	criminality. But we see health consequences of this because testosterone level correlates

00:35:38 – 00:35:45:	inversely in later life at any rate with prostate cancer. And so we see much higher rates

00:35:45 – 00:35:51:	of prostate cancer in blacks than in whites. So for instance, between 2015 and 2019,

00:35:51 – 00:36:00:	the incidence of prostate cancer in black men was 176 and some change per 100,000. It was only 104

00:36:00 – 00:36:06:	for whites. And that's purely a matter of genetics, a matter of testosterone level,

00:36:06 – 00:36:13:	particularly when you're over the age of 40. And so this is again, in instance of genetics

00:36:13 – 00:36:20:	influencing and to some degree, indeed determining behavior. Because yes, we we're not saying that

00:36:20 – 00:36:26:	you don't have free will. We're not saying that human beings cannot choose not to commit a crime.

00:36:26 – 00:36:33:	That's not what we're saying. We are saying there are certain impulses, certain incentives

00:36:33 – 00:36:40:	inherent to certain genetic groups. You are going to be more prone to certain behaviors

00:36:40 – 00:36:46:	if you have a certain genetic foundation. And of course, we all know this. And as Christians,

00:36:46 – 00:36:53:	we have to affirm this because for instance, if you are genetically male, you are in fact programmed

00:36:53 – 00:37:02:	to like women. If you are genetically female, you are programmed to like men. Worth noting actually

00:37:02 – 00:37:09:	just as a sort of a side that the CDC hasn't quite updated their charts yet. And prostate cancers

00:37:09 – 00:37:16:	list it as exclusively a male issue denying me. I know they they're someone will get someone

00:37:16 – 00:37:21:	listening to the podcast. Someone's going to get in trouble for that because it does say male

00:37:21 – 00:37:25:	on the charts, only men who can get that because of course only men have a prostate.

00:37:26 – 00:37:31:	To be explicit, those that programming for a man to like a woman and woman to like a man,

00:37:31 – 00:37:38:	that's not societally assigned. That's not culturally conformed. That's from God. God knows that

00:37:38 – 00:37:43:	desire. Yes, it is purely biology. There the fact that there is a corruption

00:37:45 – 00:37:53:	through culture of impulses and of perceived desires does not change. The God made us a certain

00:37:53 – 00:37:59:	way. And although that can be corrupted over time in genes and it can be corrupted societally

00:37:59 – 00:38:03:	and culturally, it doesn't change the fact that when we talk about how God made us,

00:38:04 – 00:38:10:	that is only to his glory. And wherever there is detriment is a scribe to sin and to the fall.

00:38:10 – 00:38:15:	But we cannot exclude those factors just because they make us uncomfortable.

00:38:15 – 00:38:21:	And it's worth emphasizing that here. Insofar as anything is good in human nature because of

00:38:21 – 00:38:28:	course human nature created by God, corrupted by the fall corrupted by original sin,

00:38:28 – 00:38:33:	our nature is not original sin. Our nature was not replaced by original sin. That would be a

00:38:33 – 00:38:41:	heresy because that would be to say that Satan created our original nature. No. Original sin corrupts

00:38:41 – 00:38:47:	our nature. Insofar as anything good remains in human nature that is from God. So the fact that

00:38:47 – 00:38:52:	men are attracted to women, that is from God, the fact that women are attracted to men,

00:38:52 – 00:38:58:	that is from God, the fact that certain populations have a genetic predisposition to criminality

00:38:59 – 00:39:08:	is not from God. That is a corruption of their nature due to original sin and due to generational

00:39:08 – 00:39:16:	worship of demons. There are real consequences in the real world in the flesh for those who worship

00:39:16 – 00:39:22:	demons. And these accrue over time we clearly see from history and from nature.

00:39:23 – 00:39:31:	It is not consequence-free if your ancestors for 6,000 years give or take worshiped demons.

00:39:32 – 00:39:38:	God blesses those who obey. He just as certainly curses those who rebel.

00:39:38 – 00:39:44:	And that is what we are dealing with here. We see these issues in certain populations

00:39:44 – 00:39:51:	because their ancestors worshiped demons. And they worshiped particularly heinous demons in

00:39:51 – 00:40:00:	particularly heinous ways for a very long time. Now I am not saying that Europeans did not have pagan

00:40:00 – 00:40:06:	ancestors because we did have a period of paganism in our own lines and our own history. It's

00:40:06 – 00:40:12:	difficult to pin down exactly when it started. We know very well when it ended because we have

00:40:12 – 00:40:17:	that history written down by the Christians who went and converted the pagans back to Christianity

00:40:17 – 00:40:22:	because of course they were originally Christian. When Japhith stepped off the ark,

00:40:22 – 00:40:29:	he stepped off the ark, a Christian. He moved to Europe, a Christian. He taught his sons,

00:40:29 – 00:40:34:	Christianity. They taught their sons Christianity. At some point the demons came in. It broke down.

00:40:34 – 00:40:40:	They started worshiping demons. They became pagans. They did not become as bad as many other pagans.

00:40:41 – 00:40:49:	Child sacrifice was not as common in Europe. They did not engage in cannibalism. They didn't

00:40:49 – 00:40:55:	share their wives. They didn't have communal wives. And you can read even pagan Roman authors

00:40:55 – 00:41:01:	who commended the Germans as they called them. There was the Germanic tribes at the time for

00:41:01 – 00:41:08:	their morality with regard to sexual ethics. And that's from a pagan source. So this is not

00:41:08 – 00:41:14:	something that is just made up out of the ether. We know this. We have documentation for this.

00:41:15 – 00:41:20:	The degree to which you fall to demon worship and the depth of the depravity and the evil in which

00:41:20 – 00:41:28:	your ancestors engaged can vary across populations. The Canaanites, in scripture, singled out for being

00:41:28 – 00:41:34:	particularly wicked. So wicked that God told the Israelites to destroy them utterly.

00:41:35 – 00:41:43:	The pagans in the new world when the Spanish conquistadors and others found them were so wicked,

00:41:43 – 00:41:50:	so depraved that it was incomprehensible to the Christian conquerors just how wicked these people

00:41:50 – 00:41:57:	were, what they were doing, the evil acts in which they were engaging. That was not the case

00:41:57 – 00:42:02:	with what was found by Christian missionaries when they moved north into European territory.

00:42:02 – 00:42:07:	Yes, the European pagans were worshiping demons. Yes, they had fallen away from God. No,

00:42:07 – 00:42:14:	they had not fallen as far. Would they have almost certainly over time, yes. But they had not yet.

00:42:14 – 00:42:19:	And so there are real consequences for this. And that is what we see playing out. That is what

00:42:19 – 00:42:25:	these data reflect. These data reflect the consequence of moving away from God.

00:42:26 – 00:42:32:	The comments you just made are something that was basically the second hour of our episode a

00:42:32 – 00:42:36:	while ago on election. If you haven't listened to that yet, or if you haven't listened to while,

00:42:36 – 00:42:43:	it's worth going back and relisting to it because we make the case there, which is being reiterated

00:42:43 – 00:42:51:	here that when we say that there are substantial biological differences that have moral consequences

00:42:51 – 00:42:58:	in population groups, in racial groups, it is not a judgment against those groups because we

00:42:58 – 00:43:04:	don't like them or because they look different. It is in fact rooted in the history of those groups.

00:43:04 – 00:43:10:	As Corey said, and as you can hear in the election episode, when they came off the arc,

00:43:10 – 00:43:15:	there was no evidence when Christians finally got to the to the New World and got into the

00:43:15 – 00:43:23:	center of Africa between about 15 and 16 1700 AD. There was no evidence that anything other than

00:43:23 – 00:43:30:	absolute demon worship had ever existed in those places. They had an extra 2,000 years nearly

00:43:30 – 00:43:34:	on top of the Europeans of communing with those demons and the consequences

00:43:35 – 00:43:40:	exist to this day. One of the maps that we will include in the show notes is a so-called

00:43:40 – 00:43:47:	diversity versus homicide rate map. It's two maps broken down by county of the United States.

00:43:48 – 00:43:55:	It shows county by county color coding demographics. So are the counties more than 85 percent white

00:43:55 – 00:44:02:	or do they have more than 20 percent African-American, Asian, Hispanic, or Latino or Native American

00:44:02 – 00:44:08:	populations? And then right beneath it is a homicide rate chart. You can look at both of those maps

00:44:08 – 00:44:13:	that are color coded differently and you can clearly see from the maps where the Africans

00:44:13 – 00:44:20:	and where the Indians live by the homicide rates. Now that's exactly what Corey was just

00:44:20 – 00:44:25:	intimating with those comments. The fact that the Indians for 4,000 years communed with demons

00:44:26 – 00:44:34:	has consequences and the Marxists want you to believe it's poverty. It's structural racism

00:44:34 – 00:44:39:	that they are, they were put on reservations and we were mean to them and that makes them more

00:44:39 – 00:44:45:	likely to kill themselves and to kill other people. That's a theory. It's a theory worth

00:44:45 – 00:44:49:	examining and it's a theory that's been examined and it doesn't fall, it doesn't hold water.

00:44:49 – 00:44:55:	It falls apart completely when you look at these other factors. The same is true with Africans.

00:44:55 – 00:45:01:	There's a huge belt in the South primarily where most African-Americans live to this day.

00:45:01 – 00:45:07:	The only exceptions, fascinatingly, where you don't see, where you see large African-American

00:45:07 – 00:45:13:	populations elsewhere in this country are cities. They're the once formerly great cities

00:45:13 – 00:45:20:	primarily of the Midwest. If you go back to the turn of the 20th century, so 1900,

00:45:20 – 00:45:25:	and you look at depictions, either pictures or just descriptions of life in Baltimore,

00:45:25 – 00:45:36:	in Chicago, in St. Louis, in Cleveland, these places had art and refinement and peace and beauty

00:45:36 – 00:45:43:	that rivaled any European city of the same day. Why? Because they had been created and built by

00:45:43 – 00:45:50:	Europeans in the fashion of their culture. That changed after the Great Migration,

00:45:51 – 00:45:58:	which is a complete euphemism. There was a deliberate movement of African-Americans from the South

00:45:58 – 00:46:04:	into these cities and it was principally pushed by industrialists, not all of them in those cities,

00:46:04 – 00:46:11:	but what they wanted was cheaper labor because the native populations, the white populations,

00:46:11 – 00:46:16:	in those cities were getting to be more expensive than the capitalist wanted to pay them. So what

00:46:16 – 00:46:21:	they do, they started a program of busing African-American men up because they would work for a

00:46:21 – 00:46:27:	whole lot less because they had been living in absolute poverty. We will talk in the IQ episode

00:46:27 – 00:46:32:	in a couple of weeks about why there are poverty differences among population groups. We're not

00:46:32 – 00:46:37:	really going to get into that today, but again, where we are told by Marxist that, oh, that's

00:46:37 – 00:46:43:	society being mean. That's you being racist. That's someone discriminating. When you look at the

00:46:43 – 00:46:49:	data, it almost always comes down to IQ. That's a subject for another day. But the fact of the

00:46:49 – 00:46:56:	so-called Great Migration moving these populations of African-Americans into these northern cities

00:46:57 – 00:47:03:	seated their destruction. When I say St. Louis or Chicago or Baltimore today, almost no one is

00:47:03 – 00:47:09:	going to picture the sort of idyllic places that you can see if you look at the world fair

00:47:09 – 00:47:15:	a century ago when it was happening in some of those places. What changed? Demographics changed.

00:47:15 – 00:47:21:	It wasn't politics. It was that the demographic mix shifted from being almost entirely white

00:47:21 – 00:47:30:	cities to being cities with very large African-American populations. That has real-world consequences.

00:47:30 – 00:47:34:	It's something that if we're honest with ourselves, we have to at least acknowledge that change

00:47:34 – 00:47:40:	something. We're not going to get into prescriptions for what we do about it today, but I think that

00:47:40 – 00:47:45:	if you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to confront the fact that when you look at a

00:47:45 – 00:47:51:	map of violence and you look at a map of race and they're the same picture, you can't, if you're

00:47:51 – 00:47:57:	honest with yourself, just chalk that up to, well, they must have been disadvantaged somehow.

00:47:57 – 00:48:01:	Where did you get that? You didn't get it from data. You got it from someone telling you that

00:48:01 – 00:48:05:	to make you feel better, to make you feel like all these people are exactly the same and I'm not

00:48:05 – 00:48:11:	going to look too closely because I might not like what I find. Let's talk about another crime.

00:48:11 – 00:48:15:	We did say that this might be an episode you might not want to listen to with your children,

00:48:15 – 00:48:21:	so let's talk about rape. Again, I'm going to give data for

00:48:23 – 00:48:28:	multiples of the white rate. These data are for California in 2013.

00:48:29 – 00:48:36:	Forcible rape, California, 2013. The white rate, of course, again, we're going with one because

00:48:36 – 00:48:42:	that is the standard by which we are comparing the others, the Hispanic rate, 2.25, the Black

00:48:42 – 00:48:51:	rate, 6.36. Now, that only tells part of the story and the reason that only tells part of the

00:48:51 – 00:48:57:	story is because you have to know the percentages of the population in order to know how meaningful

00:48:57 – 00:49:05:	those numbers are. This is a game that many will play particularly on the left when talking about

00:49:05 – 00:49:11:	violent crime. They'll use absolute numbers instead of per capita. And if you use absolute numbers,

00:49:11 – 00:49:17:	if you're talking about a population that is 90% of the total, well, obviously the absolute

00:49:17 – 00:49:22:	numbers are almost certainly going to be higher than those of the remaining 10%. And so you have to

00:49:22 – 00:49:27:	talk about per capita. You have to talk about relative percentages, relative numbers.

00:49:28 – 00:49:40:	In 2013, the racial makeup of California, 39% white, 38% and some change Hispanic, 5.7% Black.

00:49:41 – 00:49:52:	Now, back to those numbers. If 5.7% of the population is Black, and they commit 6.36 times

00:49:52 – 00:50:02:	as many forcible rapes as whites, the actual multiple is 110. It's a little over 110. I can't

00:50:02 – 00:50:11:	do that math in my head exactly. That is an immense increase. That is astronomical. How much higher of a

00:50:11 – 00:50:18:	rate of forcible rape, you have attributed to the Black population than the White. And it is worth

00:50:18 – 00:50:26:	noting that if you look at the FBI data, white on black rape does not happen. It is a zero in the

00:50:26 – 00:50:35:	tables. Basically, all of the interracial rape in the US is black on white. There's some Hispanic

00:50:35 – 00:50:43:	on white as well, but less of that. It is almost all black on white. And so when Christians pretend

00:50:43 – 00:50:48:	that these things don't matter, what you're saying to every woman who has been forcibly raped is

00:50:48 – 00:50:54:	you don't matter. I don't see race. I don't consider these things. You're telling her she doesn't

00:50:54 – 00:51:01:	matter. And that's why these things matter. That's why we are discussing these issues. That's why

00:51:01 – 00:51:07:	it is important. Because you have to recognize the reality if you are going to set appropriate

00:51:07 – 00:51:14:	policies to protect your people. And if you don't, you are telling them you do not care about them.

00:51:14 – 00:51:21:	And that is not Christian in the slightest. We now have generations of men who have been derelict

00:51:21 – 00:51:26:	in their duty, who have not protected women from these sexual predators. They have done nothing

00:51:26 – 00:51:33:	about it. They have made the situation infinitely worse. And they have shouted down anyone who dares to

00:51:33 – 00:51:39:	even read the table of data. And this is from the California Department of Justice. This is

00:51:39 – 00:51:45:	published by the government. These are probably biased against what we are saying. So the reality of

00:51:45 – 00:51:52:	the situation, it's probably far worse. And when we talk about this subject and we talk about it

00:51:52 – 00:51:59:	in the United States context, we're talking about it in terms of crime. So we have a concept of rape.

00:51:59 – 00:52:06:	It's obviously an evil, violent, horrific invasion of another person. It's one of the worst

00:52:06 – 00:52:13:	things you can possibly do to another human being. That is what we as Christians believe and understand.

00:52:14 – 00:52:22:	However, if you talk to someone who has spent time in Africa living among Africans as themselves

00:52:22 – 00:52:28:	in their honest with you, they will tell you that in Africa, they do not typically have any

00:52:28 – 00:52:36:	concept of rape. What I mean by that is that when a boy or a man reaches sexual maturity and he

00:52:37 – 00:52:46:	is filled with desire, he will see a woman or a girl. It may be a relative. He will go over,

00:52:46 – 00:52:50:	he will bend her over and he will have sex with her. And that's perfectly normal.

00:52:51 – 00:52:55:	Now to us, that's absolutely shocking. And we say, oh, well, that can be. And you might come

00:52:55 – 00:53:00:	up with a hundred conclusions and a hundred excuses and say, oh, well, that's just cultural.

00:53:01 – 00:53:08:	Well, when we see the similar behavior in other countries, which is exactly what we see,

00:53:08 – 00:53:13:	when these people move to Europe today, when you have someone taken from Africa today,

00:53:13 – 00:53:17:	and they move to Europe or some of the Middle Easterners who are very similar, move to Europe,

00:53:19 – 00:53:26:	the rate of rape in those places has skyrocketed. And many of them, when they're charged and they're

00:53:26 – 00:53:31:	interviewed, they will flat out, they'll be confused. We'll say, I didn't know it was against the

00:53:31 – 00:53:38:	rules because in their mind, they have a sexual urge. They see someone with whom they can satisfy

00:53:38 – 00:53:45:	that urge and they just do it. There's no notion of criminality baked into the system.

00:53:45 – 00:53:52:	Now, you can argue potentially with those who are coming from Africa, oh, that's entirely cultural.

00:53:52 – 00:53:56:	But the missionaries will tell you it's an incredible uphill battle to try to convince these

00:53:56 – 00:54:01:	people to stop raping their own family members because that's what it is. It's incest in its rape

00:54:01 – 00:54:06:	and they don't see anything wrong with it. And we wonder why they were still living in the

00:54:06 – 00:54:14:	stone age when we found them. The fact that you see similar rates of violence of a sexual

00:54:14 – 00:54:20:	nature in the United States by populations that in some cases left Africa three and 400 years ago,

00:54:22 – 00:54:30:	we're telling you that there's a genetic basis for what we describe as criminality and amorality.

00:54:30 – 00:54:33:	And that's an extremely hard thing for people to hear. And I'm sure that there are many who will

00:54:34 – 00:54:40:	flatly reject even the possibility that that could be true. There could be a genetic basis

00:54:40 – 00:54:48:	for something as evil as rape or murder. You're not going to find an alternative explanation

00:54:48 – 00:54:54:	because there's no other factor in any of this that remotely correlates to the behavior that we see.

00:54:55 – 00:55:02:	And as Corey was saying, when we bring these people from a foreign land into our own lands,

00:55:02 – 00:55:07:	you know, they're Ethiopians being shipped to Columbus, Ohio all the time. It's happening all

00:55:07 – 00:55:15:	over the country. And then they act like Africans in Columbus. Can we even get mad at them?

00:55:15 – 00:55:23:	That's it's such a disconnect between our expectations and our requirements for being a human being

00:55:23 – 00:55:30:	who's civilized and what they're used to and what they find to be acceptable. You can't simply

00:55:30 – 00:55:36:	read them the Bible in hope that you're going to fix these problems. I hate to say that because I

00:55:36 – 00:55:41:	know that that's it's something there's Christians we can't deal with. Well, I told them about Jesus

00:55:41 – 00:55:46:	and they said they believe in Jesus, but they're still more violence and there's still more of all

00:55:46 – 00:55:54:	these other crimes. It's not that God cannot turn a man's heart. It's that when you have someone

00:55:54 – 00:56:02:	who's been so horrifically broken by 4,000 years of communion with demons that is literally baked

00:56:02 – 00:56:09:	some of that additional evil into their genes, we today are being subjected to the consequences

00:56:09 – 00:56:14:	of things that happened thousands of years ago. And when a Marxist will tell you, there's no

00:56:14 – 00:56:20:	genetic basis for race. It doesn't even exist. There's no genetic basis for behavior. That's nonsense.

00:56:20 – 00:56:26:	It's all learned. It's all cultural. If you believe that, then you're left defenseless because when

00:56:26 – 00:56:31:	someone says, Hey, I'm going to ship a bunch of you gondons to live next door to you. If you don't

00:56:31 – 00:56:36:	love them, you're not a Christian, Jesus would love them. Jesus would let them live in move in

00:56:36 – 00:56:43:	next door. As Christians who are honest, we must deal with the facts. We must deal with scripture

00:56:43 – 00:56:49:	and we must also deal with the human beings in front of us. And if the human being in front of

00:56:49 – 00:56:55:	you is 120 times more likely to rape your sister or your wife or your mother or your children,

00:56:56 – 00:57:02:	you must be cognizant of that. You can't ignore it. You can't pretend it's socioeconomic factors.

00:57:02 – 00:57:07:	You have to deal with it. And you must deal with the fact that even though not all Africans are

00:57:07 – 00:57:14:	rapists, there are so many more who rape and murder that it is a societal plague in our own lands.

00:57:14 – 00:57:21:	And in every land where they go, one of the other homicide rate charts that we have is specifically

00:57:21 – 00:57:29:	about this is just homicides per 100,000. It's broken down by country. And one of the beautiful

00:57:29 – 00:57:33:	things about this chart is one of the only ones I've ever seen. It has the United States,

00:57:33 – 00:57:39:	but it separates United States Africans from white United States. So you're separating the

00:57:39 – 00:57:46:	European stock Americans from the African Americans. And what you find on this chart is the rate

00:57:46 – 00:57:53:	of white homicide is comparable to some of the most boring places in Europe. White American

00:57:53 – 00:57:59:	homicide rates are comparable to Belgium, while African American homicide rates are right between

00:57:59 – 00:58:04:	equatorial Guinea and Nigeria. And Rwanda is just a bit further to the south. And when he

00:58:04 – 00:58:10:	at Botswana, just a little bit better than African Americans. That's the correlation we're talking

00:58:10 – 00:58:17:	about. Wherever an African is on the planet, he's going to have African problems. That is not to

00:58:17 – 00:58:24:	say that they must be punished or they must be treated unjustly or they must be called names.

00:58:24 – 00:58:29:	It is to say that when you're dealing with a population of Africans, not an individual, maybe the

00:58:29 – 00:58:33:	guy that you know, your black friend is the best but guy in the world, we're not talking about an

00:58:33 – 00:58:37:	individual. We're talking about a group and that's permissible for Christians to do.

00:58:38 – 00:58:44:	When the Holy Spirit said that all Koreans are liars, he wasn't lying. He wasn't being racist.

00:58:44 – 00:58:50:	The Holy Spirit was telling the truth by generalizing about a group of people. It is wisdom to do so.

00:58:51 – 00:58:56:	And it is not a full to say, look, this group of people is going to behave in a certain way. Let's

00:58:56 – 00:59:03:	deal with them as they are rather than making excuses for it. And rather than subjecting ourselves

00:59:03 – 00:59:09:	to things that will harm us and harm our neighbors and our brothers. That is the moral argument for

00:59:09 – 00:59:13:	even talking about this. You can reach your own conclusions. You can look at this data. We're not

00:59:13 – 00:59:18:	trying to dictate to you policy prescriptions. We're not saying, look at all this data now we need

00:59:18 – 00:59:23:	to do this. We have our opinions about that and maybe we'll share them at some point. But all I'm

00:59:23 – 00:59:30:	imploring you to do today is to look at reality and not lie about it. Not say that, well, these

00:59:30 – 00:59:36:	people are just like me because of whatever. They're not just like you and that's not hateful.

00:59:36 – 00:59:41:	If someone is different than you, maybe it's to their advantage, maybe it's to your advantage.

00:59:42 – 00:59:46:	It's not even about seeking advantage. It's just about looking at what you're dealing with.

00:59:46 – 00:59:51:	When you're dealing with an African population anywhere on earth, you're dealing with

00:59:51 – 00:59:57:	astronomically higher rates of violence, both physical and sexual. You're dealing with someone

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who's going to do things at his Christians. We call sin and as a society, we call crime.

01:00:02 – 01:00:08:	And if we can't be honest about that, there's no possibility to even have sane

01:00:08 – 01:00:14:	discussions about what we do as a government, what we do as a society, what we do civilly.

01:00:15 – 01:00:19:	And as a church, what do you do? What do you do when you have a population that you know is more

01:00:19 – 01:00:24:	likely to rape and murder your neighbors? Do they need more ministry? Yes. Do they need more

01:00:24 – 01:00:31:	supervision? Yes. Do they need to be watched? Yes. Because for the same reason that you would watch

01:00:31 – 01:00:36:	a tiger versus a goat, you need to watch someone who's more likely to do harm than someone who's

01:00:36 – 01:00:43:	less likely to do harm. That's not hateful. How you do that can be hateful. It can be mean. It can

01:00:43 – 01:00:48:	be malicious. We would never advocate that because it's not what we think. But we think that

01:00:48 – 01:00:54:	protecting our own, our brothers according to the flesh, as Paul advocated in his own epistles.

01:00:55 – 01:01:00:	That is something that a Christian has a duty to do. This is an optional. What you do with the

01:01:00 – 01:01:05:	information should be informed by God. But it cannot be to ignore the facts and to ignore the

01:01:05 – 01:01:11:	implications of these things. An additional proof of this disparate behavior with regard to the races

01:01:13 – 01:01:20:	when it comes to sexual morals and behavior also plays out in STI data. And you can see this from

01:01:20 – 01:01:25:	the CDC. I have the data from 2020 pulled up here. And the rate of syphilis, gonorrhea, and

01:01:25 – 01:01:31:	chlamydia, the three of the big ones they monitor are astronomical in the black population compared

01:01:31 – 01:01:38:	to the white population multiples of the rate in the white population amongst blacks. And I'll

01:01:38 – 01:01:45:	add these into the show notes. But you see very real consequences in addition to the fact that you

01:01:46 – 01:01:51:	have these crimes being committed, you see other follow on consequences because of course

01:01:53 – 01:02:00:	STIs are a follow on from sexual sins. And that is spread by sexual sin. And it continues to get

01:02:00 – 01:02:06:	worse as long as that sexual sin is not brought under control. And so we have these things

01:02:06 – 01:02:11:	spreading like wildfire through our population. But if you put it on a map, you can see there is

01:02:11 – 01:02:17:	a racial component. It is spreading much more frequently, much more deeply, much more widespread

01:02:17 – 01:02:25:	in areas with African populations because they are behaving the same as they would behave in Africa

01:02:26 – 01:02:30:	because there's no such thing as magic soil. You do not become

01:02:31 – 01:02:38:	Japanese because you live in Japan for a while. There are Europeans who were born in Japan,

01:02:38 – 01:02:45:	who speak Japanese, who lived for decades in Japan. They're still European. Because what you

01:02:45 – 01:02:52:	are was created by God and God did that through genetics. And so you are the result of your

01:02:52 – 01:02:57:	parents coming together. They're the result of their parents coming together, so on and so forth

01:02:57 – 01:03:04:	back to Adam and Eve. You do not become something different simply because you moved somewhere

01:03:04 – 01:03:10:	else for a while. And so you are going to see these populations behaving in certain ways

01:03:10 – 01:03:16:	in accord with the fact that they are part of that population. Yes, you are going to have some

01:03:16 – 01:03:23:	cultural, some societal influence, but it is primarily nature. The best way to think about it,

01:03:24 – 01:03:29:	the difference between nature and nurture. And this will again come up multiple times in the IQ

01:03:29 – 01:03:37:	episode. Nature sets the boundaries. So if you think of it as a spectrum, nature sets the

01:03:37 – 01:03:44:	possibilities. Nurture determines where on that line you ultimately fall. And so in the case of

01:03:44 – 01:03:52:	intelligence, you could be plus or minus a standard deviation, say, your nutrition, your upbringing,

01:03:52 – 01:03:57:	your education, all of these things are going to determine where you fall within that range.

01:03:58 – 01:04:04:	It is the same for these sorts of behaviors we're discussing here for criminality for self-control

01:04:04 – 01:04:10:	because I have said self-control a number of times this episode because it is a very big contributor

01:04:10 – 01:04:19:	to this. Children who have self-control will power are more likely to succeed in the future in

01:04:19 – 01:04:26:	their lives. And you can test this very early on. You can set a piece of candy out and tell a child

01:04:26 – 01:04:30:	and they've done these studies. We have the results. They're very solid. You tell the child,

01:04:32 – 01:04:39:	if that candy is there, when I get back, I will give you two candies. White children and Asian

01:04:39 – 01:04:46:	children, much depending on which part of Asia, but much more likely to wait, to wait for that second

01:04:46 – 01:04:51:	piece of candy because obviously that is the rational choice if your goal is more candy, which

01:04:51 – 01:04:56:	it is for children. But you can do that only if you have the willpower to do so.

01:04:58 – 01:05:04:	Africans eat the piece of candy because it is a matter of genetics. It is a matter of whether or

01:05:04 – 01:05:09:	not you have the foundation for the sort of willpower necessary to think into the future.

01:05:10 – 01:05:16:	I would rather have the greater reward then than the lesser reward now. And that is what plays out

01:05:16 – 01:05:23:	in the sex crimes and various other things because if you are of the mindset, part of this is time

01:05:23 – 01:05:29:	preferences, what I'm talking about really, if you are of the mindset that well, I really want

01:05:29 – 01:05:33:	this item, this piece of candy. So I'm going to go and steal it because I want it now.

01:05:34 – 01:05:40:	There's no delayed gratification. There's no thinking through of well, I could work for it,

01:05:40 – 01:05:46:	earn it, pay for it, and have it. No, it's I want it. So I'm going to take it. And that's what happens

01:05:46 – 01:05:52:	with rape. I want it. So I'm going to take it. That is why you get these crimes.

01:05:54 – 01:06:00:	And so we have to deal with the fact that we have populations in our countries now who think

01:06:00 – 01:06:06:	like this, who behave like this, you have to address the issues as you find them, not as you would

01:06:06 – 01:06:13:	prefer they could be or were. We aren't dealing in an ideal world. That's not what happens

01:06:13 – 01:06:19:	in reality. In the kingdom of the left hand of Christ, we are dealing with reality.

01:06:20 – 01:06:27:	And we have to deal with it as we find it. Certain populations are prone to certain behaviors.

01:06:28 – 01:06:34:	And so it is incumbent on the state to react in a certain way. It is incumbent on Christians

01:06:34 – 01:06:41:	to recognize these things and to behave in a certain way. You may have to do things to protect your

01:06:41 – 01:06:45:	female family members more depending on where you live, depending on what they're doing in their

01:06:45 – 01:06:51:	daily lives. There are certain steps you will have to take because it is your duty to protect those

01:06:51 – 01:06:57:	entrusted to your care. It may be that you will support or oppose certain political policies

01:06:58 – 01:07:02:	because they have a likelihood of harming your neighbor or helping your neighbor.

01:07:03 – 01:07:08:	These are moral questions. These are not matters of indifference. These are real questions

01:07:08 – 01:07:15:	that Christians have to answer in a Christian way. And the first step in doing that is to recognize

01:07:15 – 01:07:22:	that they exist. Then you look at the data, then you can make a decision. One of the ironies of

01:07:22 – 01:07:31:	the situation is that as Marxism advances in our society and gains complete control over how

01:07:31 – 01:07:37:	people speak and think, you're beginning to see more innocuous versions of what we're saying,

01:07:37 – 01:07:42:	being set out loud in headlines that we typically will just scoff at as being insane.

01:07:44 – 01:07:52:	I saw recently that there was a cheating scandal. I think one of the United States military

01:07:52 – 01:07:59:	academies and the accusation that came as a result of the cheating scandal was that anti-cheating rules

01:07:59 – 01:08:06:	are racist because as they have increased the so-called diversity quotas to lower the standards of

01:08:06 – 01:08:12:	who may be let into our elite institutions for the military, more and more non-whites are entering

01:08:12 – 01:08:17:	those places where they were not academically qualified, but they are statistically qualified in

01:08:17 – 01:08:24:	order to meet quotas. Those population groups in turn cheat at such significantly higher rates

01:08:25 – 01:08:32:	that it creates huge scandals. And then the headline is saying that cheating is racist.

01:08:33 – 01:08:37:	And like I said, we laugh at that when we hear it and we think, well, that's just absurd.

01:08:37 – 01:08:41:	I think that they're telling the truth, not about the accusation of racism.

01:08:42 – 01:08:48:	They're telling the truth about the fact that at some point we must admit that it's unreasonable

01:08:48 – 01:08:56:	to expect someone who's not white to behave in ways that we consider normal. And I think that's

01:08:56 – 01:09:02:	the hurdle that a lot of us have to get over is what we think of as normal is rooted in our own

01:09:02 – 01:09:08:	experience. And I don't just mean your personal lived experience. I mean, everything that you can

01:09:08 – 01:09:14:	comprehend is a human being. When I gave that horrible description earlier of what happens with

01:09:14 – 01:09:20:	in Africa, with Africans behaving against their own family members, that's unthinkable to you.

01:09:20 – 01:09:26:	Anyone who's listening to my voice right now would never even occur to you to do anything like

01:09:26 – 01:09:29:	that. You can't comprehend it. And yet for them, it's completely normal.

01:09:30 – 01:09:36:	So when there's a massive cheating scandal in one of the major universities, and it turns out

01:09:36 – 01:09:42:	that all the cheaters are black, the Marxists will say, well, saying the cheating is wrong is racist.

01:09:42 – 01:09:49:	And everyone else will just make excuses for this woke stupidity. I think that we should, as

01:09:49 – 01:09:53:	Christians, look at the question, which we are raising. And we obviously have our answer, but

01:09:53 – 01:09:57:	you may not accept our answer. You should at least ask the question of yourself.

01:09:58 – 01:10:02:	Why is it that an African-American in one of the

01:10:02 – 01:10:09:	military academies would feel free to cheat and think that was okay? Why is it so widespread that

01:10:09 – 01:10:16:	it's the norm there? And it's not just cheating. You have things like timeliness is racist,

01:10:16 – 01:10:21:	to say that someone should show up on time or that certain things should happen at certain times.

01:10:21 – 01:10:26:	You've probably seen headlines where that is declared to be racist. And we just laugh at it.

01:10:26 – 01:10:32:	You're like, well, like, Cory and I start recording this at 2.30 every day unless something goes wrong,

01:10:32 – 01:10:39:	just sort of automatically fell into that pattern. For us, there's no concept of race being involved

01:10:39 – 01:10:43:	in timeliness. It's just how we are. It's precision and its predictability. And it's something

01:10:43 – 01:10:47:	that we appreciate. And it's something that our society has built around.

01:10:50 – 01:10:56:	We'll talk about this more in the IQ episode, but the notion of time doesn't really exist for

01:10:56 – 01:11:02:	Africans in the same way, if at all. So when you hear you see a headline that says timeliness is

01:11:02 – 01:11:11:	racist, they're not wrong. Again, about the accusation of committing some sin, which we'll do a

01:11:11 – 01:11:16:	racism episode because that's nonsense. But the idea that's something wrong with expecting a

01:11:16 – 01:11:23:	black person to show up on time, what they're saying the quiet part out loud there. They're saying

01:11:23 – 01:11:28:	that black people can't understand why showing up on time would even be a thing. The thing doesn't

01:11:28 – 01:11:32:	begin until they show up. So why does it matter when they show up? They were doing something else.

01:11:32 – 01:11:38:	And now they're doing this. And these differences, once you strip away the cultural and all the other

01:11:38 – 01:11:45:	baggage, the only explanations that are left are genetic and they're genetic writ large at the

01:11:45 – 01:11:51:	racial level, at the major category level. There are lots of different ethnicities within Africa

01:11:51 – 01:11:57:	that all have variations on similar themes. There are some populations that have much higher IQs

01:11:57 – 01:12:02:	than others, but they're all at least a standard deviation below the white IQ in the United States.

01:12:02 – 01:12:09:	There's a reason for that. And it's not nutrition. And it's not that they don't have good schools.

01:12:09 – 01:12:17:	When we talked about schooling a few times, if someone is fundamentally not capable of living up

01:12:17 – 01:12:23:	to your standards, at what point do you as a Christian realize that it's cruel to try to make

01:12:23 – 01:12:27:	someone live up to your standards? Now, when the Marxists say that, they're saying we need to

01:12:27 – 01:12:33:	lower standards. We're not saying that at all. We're saying that the idea of holding someone accountable

01:12:33 – 01:12:40:	to a standard of morality and of behavior to which they are constitutionally incapable of living

01:12:40 – 01:12:46:	up to it, you have to look at that seriously and you have to ask some hard questions that haven't

01:12:46 – 01:12:51:	been asked in a long time because if they can't do it, and it's not a question of teaching, if they

01:12:51 – 01:12:58:	absolutely cannot do it because of how they were born, because of the race that they were born,

01:12:58 – 01:13:01:	that's the proposition that we're making. And some of you're going to reject it outright and

01:13:01 – 01:13:07:	find it hateful. Others, when you look at the data, you're going to have a hard time disagreeing

01:13:07 – 01:13:13:	with us. But if we're right, if we're telling the truth about genetic variations in behavior,

01:13:13 – 01:13:22:	in attitudes, and frankly in morality, as a society and as a church, those differences must be a

01:13:22 – 01:13:27:	factor in how we deal with these people groups. We can't treat them like they're just like us.

01:13:27 – 01:13:33:	If they're going to behave in ways that are so alien that we can't even wrap our minds around it.

01:13:33 – 01:13:39:	And so what do we do? What have we done? Been doing for the past few generations? We've been

01:13:39 – 01:13:44:	pretending that the differences don't exist. And then as there's been more and more integration,

01:13:44 – 01:13:50:	and we've been told that segregation was evil and integration is good. And then we see that the

01:13:50 – 01:13:55:	effects of integration are greater degrees of criminality and injury and harm.

01:13:57 – 01:14:03:	The only moral question that can come from that is what do we do now? If you admit that race is

01:14:03 – 01:14:09:	biological and that there are certain behaviors and certain propensities that are biological,

01:14:09 – 01:14:16:	then looking at someone and being able to determine with a certain degree of probability that they're

01:14:16 – 01:14:22:	going, that they belong to a group that does something. You can't tell by looking at an individual

01:14:22 – 01:14:25:	what they're going to do, but you can tell by looking at them that they belong to a group that's

01:14:25 – 01:14:32:	more like to do this thing. So if that group is deadly to your own group, you need to acknowledge

01:14:32 – 01:14:37:	first that there are two groups, and then one is more dangerous than the other. And two, that there

01:14:37 – 01:14:43:	are societal and legal implications to that. And simply saying one race, the human race, and Jesus

01:14:43 – 01:14:51:	died for us all, doesn't fix the real danger in the real harm that's happening in the real world

01:14:51 – 01:14:57:	by us ignoring these differences. And we do already recognize some of this in our legal system.

01:14:57 – 01:15:02:	Anyone with any sort of legal training is going to immediately recognize, well, of course,

01:15:02 – 01:15:07:	we have different standards for different things. There are the different standards of proof,

01:15:07 – 01:15:12:	certain things have to be proved to a higher degree. Typically, criminal matters are a higher degree

01:15:12 – 01:15:19:	than civil matters. Civil matters are usually 51%. It's just more likely than not. The murder is not

01:15:19 – 01:15:23:	actually the highest one. Many people will answer that one wrong. They think murder will have to be

01:15:23 – 01:15:29:	the highest proof. It's not the intent for murder is malice of fourth thought, which there's

01:15:29 – 01:15:32:	no point in getting into the technicalities of that. But the highest one is specific intent,

01:15:32 – 01:15:37:	which is you had the intent to do the thing you did and cause the outcome you caused.

01:15:38 – 01:15:45:	But we also have defenses for capacity. If you were intoxicated at the time, that makes

01:15:45 – 01:15:50:	excuse you to some degree. If you were intoxicated unwillingly, that makes excuse you to a very

01:15:50 – 01:15:55:	large degree, perhaps entirely. If someone drugged you, you're typically not responsible for whatever

01:15:55 – 01:16:00:	you did while drugged. Insofar as the drug was responsible for your behavior, of course.

01:16:01 – 01:16:07:	But we also have capacity defenses. If you are mentally retarded in the technical sense of the

01:16:07 – 01:16:11:	term, not the derogatory, the pejorative sense, the technical sense. If you are mentally retarded,

01:16:12 – 01:16:17:	you are held to a different standard because you probably don't understand the duties

01:16:18 – 01:16:25:	that everyone else knows you have in a certain situation. And so it would not be morally appropriate

01:16:25 – 01:16:30:	to hold someone to this higher standard because you are saying you should have known to someone

01:16:30 – 01:16:37:	who entirely lacks the capacity to do that. You can't hold someone to a duty to do something

01:16:37 – 01:16:46:	that is impossible. That's immoral. Now, of course, I'm not making a theological point there,

01:16:46 – 01:16:51:	so for anyone who is thinking that God holding us to the standard of perfection is wrong. No,

01:16:51 – 01:16:57:	actually, it's not because Adam could have. We inherit his original sin, which is another part

01:16:57 – 01:17:01:	that is theologically important for this. There were those who say, how is it fair to hold someone

01:17:01 – 01:17:06:	responsible for effectively the sins of the parents? Well, original sin is kind of a core of our

01:17:06 – 01:17:12:	religion. So if you have a problem with what we're saying about the consequences for future generations

01:17:12 – 01:17:18:	of the behavior of past generations, then you should probably go back and review original sin

01:17:18 – 01:17:23:	and how that works in the Christian religion. You've missed something. But when it comes to issues

01:17:23 – 01:17:30:	of capacity, we know that certain groups of people have to be held to a different standard. No,

01:17:30 – 01:17:35:	we don't permit them to cause crimes. We don't permit them to do things that are illegal, cause harm,

01:17:35 – 01:17:42:	etc. But we recognize that you have to take into account the abilities they bring to the table,

01:17:42 – 01:17:46:	the capacity they have to understand their duties, the things they should and should not do.

01:17:48 – 01:17:55:	And so you do treat them differently. Part of that historically has been treating them differently

01:17:55 – 01:18:01:	at the outset. So preventing the problem from occurring instead of addressing it once it occurs.

01:18:03 – 01:18:09:	To go back to the issue of rape, what is going to be better for a woman who is raped if you had

01:18:09 – 01:18:13:	prevented the rape or if you punished the rapist? I don't think that's a very hard

01:18:14 – 01:18:19:	call to make. I think most people can probably make that one. The same for someone who is

01:18:19 – 01:18:25:	severely mentally disabled, what's better? Carefully monitoring that person and controlling what he

01:18:25 – 01:18:31:	does or letting him run free and then injuring himself or others? Well, of course you want to

01:18:31 – 01:18:36:	prevent him from injuring himself or others. And so there are certain things you have to do in

01:18:36 – 01:18:43:	society to take into account the abilities of different groups of people and of different individuals

01:18:43 – 01:18:50:	in society. We have not been doing that for decades now. We closed the Asala, for instance. We

01:18:50 – 01:18:56:	basically let the mentally unwell roam the streets now. Usually this causes minor property damage

01:18:56 – 01:19:03:	and significant damage to those individuals themselves. Many of them wind up dying of overdoses in

01:19:03 – 01:19:09:	the streets. That's a very real moral problem. That is something we are not addressing as a society.

01:19:10 – 01:19:17:	This is akin to that because you are dealing with something that has a biological basis in the

01:19:17 – 01:19:22:	individual and in groups of individuals. And you have to account for that in how you run your

01:19:22 – 01:19:28:	society because it is a moral question. If you ignore it, what you are doing is immoral. Ignoring

01:19:28 – 01:19:37:	it is the actual sin here. Next week's episode we are going to focus specifically on scripture.

01:19:37 – 01:19:42:	We are going to focus on the arguments that are used from scripture against many of the things

01:19:42 – 01:19:48:	that we have said. Again, not directly addressing the facts because facts are truth and truth is

01:19:48 – 01:19:55:	from God. So you can't use scripture against truth. But there are structural arguments that are

01:19:55 – 01:20:00:	often posed that just ignore everything we have said for the past two weeks and try to focus on

01:20:00 – 01:20:05:	other things. So we want to address those explicitly because we are Christians. We are Lutherans.

01:20:05 – 01:20:11:	It is a scripture that is more important than what your lying eyes tell you. What we are trying to

01:20:11 – 01:20:15:	say is that your lying eyes aren't actually lying to you in this case. You can believe God and you can

01:20:15 – 01:20:20:	believe statistics. And if you are looking at the right ones, you are going to reach a godly

01:20:21 – 01:20:25:	conclusion. So we are going to move on from the statistical stuff for the next week and we are

01:20:25 – 01:20:31:	going to specifically focus on what does this have to do with us in the church because really that's

01:20:31 – 01:20:36:	the fundamental question that I think most of us have in mind. If you assume for the sake of argument

01:20:36 – 01:20:41:	that we have told the truth for the past two weeks, where do we go from here? How do we make sure

01:20:41 – 01:20:47:	that we are dealing with people in a Christian way that also will in a Christian way, in a way

01:20:47 – 01:20:54:	that acknowledges scripture, in a way that acknowledges duty to brother and to neighbor and all the

01:20:54 – 01:21:00:	various vocational aspects that are fundamental to the Christian life. So next week's episode will

01:21:00 – 01:21:06:	focus on that. And in the following week, we are going to do one last statistical episode that

01:21:06 – 01:21:12:	is going to very specifically focus on IQ. It is one we have teased for a while. IQ is such a big part

01:21:12 – 01:21:19:	of this conversation that it needs to be its own episode. So we wanted to segregate that by itself

01:21:19 – 01:21:24:	so that it can stand alone. That's going to be in two parts, first talking about kind of the higher

01:21:24 – 01:21:30:	end and what we see in Western society. And then what the implications are for those who have

01:21:30 – 01:21:37:	such diminished capacity, as Corey just mentioned, criminally, if the law says that someone is too

01:21:37 – 01:21:43:	retarded to be held accountable for their behavior. And we'll get into some of the reasons why that's

01:21:43 – 01:21:50:	not. It may be morally questionable, but it's legally there's a case to be made there. What do we

01:21:50 – 01:21:54:	do with Christians with people who cannot understand cause and effect with people who cannot

01:21:54 – 01:22:01:	understand hypotheticals? How do you cataclyce someone who can't understand later versus now?

01:22:01 – 01:22:05:	These are very real and fundamental questions. And it's part why we're talking about race.

01:22:05 – 01:22:12:	This is not about hating people and excluding. It's about saying these people exist. God

01:22:12 – 01:22:16:	died for them. Jesus cried, paid for all of their sins on the cross just like he paid for ours.

01:22:17 – 01:22:22:	Whether or not someone has more sins than others, Jesus paid for 100% of them. We're not talking

01:22:22 – 01:22:28:	about who's better. We're talking about what are the needs in this life for different groups of

01:22:28 – 01:22:33:	people because the needs are not the same. The way you would explain the gospel to a man like

01:22:33 – 01:22:38:	Coria myself if we were not Christian is very different than the way you would explain to someone

01:22:38 – 01:22:43:	who had the mental capacity of a five year old. That should be obvious, but when we

01:22:44 – 01:22:49:	realize how it falls into race, it becomes a gospel issue. And that's ultimately why we're talking

01:22:49 – 01:22:55:	about this. We're talking about how we as Christians can behave in a Christian way with people who

01:22:55 – 01:23:02:	have capacities and needs and proclivities that are different from our own. We're not trying to

01:23:02 – 01:23:08:	be unfair to these people or mistreat them. We're saying, given the reality that we face,

01:23:09 – 01:23:13:	what is the most Christian path forward for all of us? And that is a conversation that will be

01:23:13 – 01:23:17:	rooted next week in scripture. And then we're ultimately going to end up dealing with

01:23:18 – 01:23:23:	how do you spread the gospel to people who have fundamentally different mental understanding

01:23:23 – 01:23:28:	and capability in their own? So I hope that you'll stick with us for all this because this is

01:23:28 – 01:23:32:	again, it's all a part of the piece. It began with Christian nationalism episode. It continued

01:23:32 – 01:23:38:	in the election episode and then these multiple episodes are going to hopefully wrap it all up.

01:23:38 – 01:23:43:	I hope that you find some value in this, even if it upsets you and even if you're not sure about

01:23:43 – 01:23:49:	some of the things we're saying. We're approaching this in good faith and we're doing it in complete

01:23:49 – 01:23:56:	honesty. And we're doing it frankly because people who talk this way will be destroyed in the world.

01:23:56 – 01:24:00:	If you agreed with what we said last week, be careful about who you whom you tell that to because

01:24:01 – 01:24:06:	you could get fired for saying the things we said last week and you could certainly get fired

01:24:06 – 01:24:10:	for the things we said this week. And on the IQ episode, you'll never get hired again if you

01:24:10 – 01:24:16:	agree with any of what we say. Now, either we're horrible racist, hateful liars or we're telling you

01:24:16 – 01:24:22:	something that most people are afraid of. You can figure that out for yourselves, but I appreciate

01:24:22 – 01:24:27:	those who are sticking with us and listening to these things. And at least asking the questions

01:24:27 – 01:24:32:	yourself, what do I do with this information? As I said at the, at the outside of this episode,

01:24:32 – 01:24:36:	some people are like, well, I don't see the point. Hopefully we're starting to make the point.

01:24:36 – 01:24:41:	This stuff about race and about biological differences isn't about picking on people or

01:24:41 – 01:24:46:	pointing at people and calling names. It's about saying, as a Christian, what do I do in these

01:24:46 – 01:24:53:	circumstances when someone looks similar to me, but is going to behave and have a capacity for

01:24:53 – 01:24:58:	very different things than I have to the point that I can't understand them. What do I do? What does

01:24:58 – 01:25:04:	God want me to do? What does Scripture say? And how can I proceed in good conscience in an accord

01:25:04 – 01:25:10:	with the vocations that God has given me where I live? Just to emphasize that, nothing that we are

01:25:10 – 01:25:18:	doing is done out of malice. Everything we are doing on this podcast is done in the interest of

01:25:18 – 01:25:24:	defending Scripture when they come up the confessions and the creation as the creator made it,

01:25:25 – 01:25:32:	which is to say we are defending the Christian faith. We are doing it with regard to certain subjects

01:25:32 – 01:25:35:	that have fallen out of favor. These aren't things that would have been out of place, say,

01:25:36 – 01:25:42:	100, 200, 300, any number of years ago, except for the last maybe 60 or 70.

01:25:44 – 01:25:48:	We are dealing with issues that are fundamental to reality, to the faith.

01:25:49 – 01:25:55:	And that's why we're addressing them because it is important for Christians to get these things

01:25:55 – 01:26:03:	right. Now, as was mentioned, if you bring these up in your place of work, you may be fired.

01:26:03 – 01:26:06:	If you bring them up in your church, you may be disciplined.

01:26:08 – 01:26:11:	But there will be times when you can discuss these with like-minded men,

01:26:12 – 01:26:16:	with those who are actually still open to the truth because they do exist. We know that from

01:26:17 – 01:26:22:	we can see how many listens to this podcast and we will discuss those numbers in some point in the

01:26:22 – 01:26:29:	future. But it is vitally important that Christians learn about the reality of the world and what

01:26:29 – 01:26:34:	Scripture actually says. Not what the world tells you Scripture says, not what Marxists tell you

01:26:34 – 01:26:42:	about the world, but the world as it is and Scripture as God intends for you to read it as God

01:26:42 – 01:26:48:	wrote it. That's why we're doing this. None of it is out of malice. None of it is out of ill will.

01:26:48 – 01:26:55:	It is only with the best of intentions because as Christians, our first duty is to God and God

01:26:55 – 01:26:58:	is goodness, beauty, and truth.