Transcript: Episode 0018

“On Human Race: IQ”

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00:00:28 – 00:00:41:	Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast. I am Corey J. Moller and I'm

00:00:41 – 00:00:49:	Woe. Today's episode is part four of our series on race and why it matters to us as a Christian

00:00:49 – 00:00:54:	Church, why it matters in the world, why it's something that's real that has consequences

00:00:54 – 00:01:00:	that we can't ignore and the Satan is ignoring. Today's episode is specifically focusing entirely

00:01:00 – 00:01:06:	on IQ. We're going to do this in two parts like many of our episodes. The first half of this

00:01:06 – 00:01:13:	episode roughly is going to talk about what IQ is, what it is roughly that it's measuring, how it

00:01:13 – 00:01:18:	works when you have people of different IQs that are markedly different. What does that mean?

00:01:18 – 00:01:23:	What does it mean when there's a significant difference between two individual men as far as

00:01:23 – 00:01:28:	they're measured IQ? We're going to give some personal examples. We're going to say some things

00:01:28 – 00:01:32:	are very ghost. I'm going to tell you what my IQ is, which is really offensive because that's

00:01:32 – 00:01:39:	like talking about how much money you make. Nobody does it. It's not socially acceptable. The reason

00:01:39 – 00:01:45:	that we're doing it in this episode is not to flex. It's not to brag or to say, hey, we're really

00:01:45 – 00:01:52:	smart. You should listen to us. It's to give you a fixed point in space to relate your own experience,

00:01:52 – 00:01:58:	to our experience, and to help to illustrate how different people's experiences are in their lives

00:01:58 – 00:02:02:	because while we may be smarter than most of the people who are listening and we'll talk about

00:02:02 – 00:02:08:	the statistics involved in that, there are people to whom you are significantly more intelligent.

00:02:09 – 00:02:16:	Any listener of this podcast is to the same degree more intelligent than entire populations

00:02:17 – 00:02:22:	in the world. That's why we're talking about it because when you're dealing with

00:02:23 – 00:02:27:	your everyday life, your everyday experience, most people run into your average because that's how

00:02:27 – 00:02:33:	averages work. Most people are just normal. Outliers are precisely at that. There aren't that many of

00:02:33 – 00:02:40:	them because that's how God situated things. God doesn't want a world full of geniuses. If he did,

00:02:40 – 00:02:46:	that's what he would have made. Instead, he wants a world full of normal people with outliers at either

00:02:46 – 00:02:52:	end and their consequences at both ends. We're going to talk about how that interrelation works,

00:02:52 – 00:02:56:	and then the second half, we're going to talk about the other end about when someone is significantly

00:02:56 – 00:03:03:	less intelligent than what we consider average. What are the consequences for the church? We've

00:03:03 – 00:03:08:	talked a little bit in past episodes about consequences of race on society. This one is specifically

00:03:08 – 00:03:13:	going to be focused on sharing the faith. We're going to say this once up front and we're going to

00:03:13 – 00:03:19:	say probably a dozen times throughout this particular episode. Intellect has nothing to do with

00:03:19 – 00:03:26:	faith. Intellect has nothing to do with salvation. When we say one person has an IQ and another

00:03:26 – 00:03:31:	person has a low IQ, it has nothing to do with a person with a low IQ's ability to be saved.

00:03:33 – 00:03:37:	We'll talk about why that is and why it matters, but if at any point you think in your head or

00:03:37 – 00:03:43:	later on you, you're someone describing what we have said and you conclude, oh, those guys think

00:03:43 – 00:03:47:	you have to be smart to be saved. That's a flat out lie. We don't believe it. We're never going to

00:03:47 – 00:03:53:	say it. Frankly, the opposite is true. You are far more blessed if you are literally clinically

00:03:53 – 00:03:58:	retarded and you have faithful teachers and faithful pastors and faithful parents who explain

00:03:58 – 00:04:03:	things in the simplest kindest way and you just believe them. If you're retarded and you believe

00:04:03 – 00:04:09:	what you're told and your teacher, your pastor, and your parent is faithful, that's ideal. That is

00:04:09 – 00:04:15:	the faith of a child. That's childlike faith. It's the smart people, the screw things up. It's the

00:04:15 – 00:04:20:	smart people who invent the heresies that trick the average people because they make things complicated

00:04:20 – 00:04:25:	when they don't need to be. None of this has to do with whether Jesus died for you. None of this

00:04:25 – 00:04:29:	has to do with whether you're human. None of this has to do with whether or not you can have saving

00:04:30 – 00:04:34:	faith completely excluded from this conversation. The reason we're talking about IQ

00:04:34 – 00:04:40:	is that it does pertain to the sustaining of the church. How is theology propagated across

00:04:40 – 00:04:46:	generations and across time? That is a question that requires intelligence, so that'll be the second

00:04:46 – 00:04:51:	half of this. To begin with, we're going to be talking a little bit about some statistics,

00:04:51 – 00:04:56:	some numbers. We can ask you to visualize some things, but they're also going to be a number of

00:04:56 – 00:05:01:	charts and graphs that will be embedded in the show notes for this episode. I'd encourage you

00:05:01 – 00:05:06:	to read those. It's not homework, but it's just something to help understand what it is we're

00:05:06 – 00:05:11:	specifically talking about. A lot of this is going to set around the bell curve and what that means,

00:05:11 – 00:05:16:	so I think that's probably where we'll kick this off. To start off with the bell curve,

00:05:17 – 00:05:22:	we'll add an image of this in the show notes for anyone who cannot immediately picture

00:05:22 – 00:05:28:	what this is. If you did any sort of statistics or anything in that general field of math in

00:05:28 – 00:05:33:	school, you will know exactly what the bell curve is, exactly out of picture it, but the bell curve,

00:05:33 – 00:05:38:	what it actually is, is the normal distribution, the standard distribution, whichever one you want to

00:05:38 – 00:05:48:	call it. If you take a population and map a particular attribute of that population, mathematically,

00:05:48 – 00:05:54:	you're going to find essentially the standard distribution when it comes to IQ for European

00:05:54 – 00:06:00:	populations. It happens to be 100 is the average, the standard deviation is 15 or 16 depending

00:06:01 – 00:06:07:	on a number of factors the test used and the population being tested. But essentially how it

00:06:07 – 00:06:17:	breaks down is within one standard deviation plus or minus, not both, you have 34% of the population

00:06:17 – 00:06:22:	within that one standard deviation up or 34% within one standard deviation down. So of course,

00:06:22 – 00:06:30:	that's 68, which gives us the general rule, which is known as the 68 95 99.7 rule, which is that

00:06:31 – 00:06:38:	within one standard deviation plus or minus, you find 68% of the population within two standard

00:06:38 – 00:06:44:	deviations plus or minus, you find 95% of the population. And within three standard deviations plus

00:06:44 – 00:06:53:	or minus, you find 99.7% of the population. And so when it comes to IQ, to give a more concrete

00:06:53 – 00:07:06:	example of that, you're going to have within 100 IQ and 145, the overwhelming majority of those

00:07:06 – 00:07:14:	who are above normal. And then of course, 45 points down from 100, you're going to find the

00:07:14 – 00:07:21:	overwhelming majority of those who are below normal intelligence. And then above four standard

00:07:21 – 00:07:29:	deviations, you're only going to have 0.1% of the population. So of course, 15 times 460. So

00:07:29 – 00:07:37:	that's above 160. So those within IQ of 160 are an extreme outlier because that's 0.1% of the

00:07:37 – 00:07:44:	population. We can talk more about the actual numbers here of what one in X would be for certain

00:07:44 – 00:07:51:	IQs. But that's the general overview of what a standard distribution is. It just gives you

00:07:52 – 00:07:59:	the various percentages, the likelihood, the probability of a given trait at a certain level

00:07:59 – 00:08:04:	in a given population. And that's what the visualization of the bell curve represents. If you

00:08:04 – 00:08:11:	have the X at the bottom, which for IQ in this example is the actual measure of IQ, it's basically

00:08:11 – 00:08:18:	what is the likelihood that a person with that particular score is going to exist in a population.

00:08:18 – 00:08:22:	So the reason that the bell curve is fat in the middle is, according just described,

00:08:22 – 00:08:26:	that's where most of the people are. That's where almost everyone that you meet is going to be

00:08:26 – 00:08:31:	somewhere in that center. And the closer you get to the center, the more likely it is that that

00:08:31 – 00:08:39:	will be the ability of someone. So the vertical, the y-axis in the bell curve is the thickness of

00:08:39 – 00:08:45:	the population that are at that point. And so you can sort of easily visually see almost everybody's

00:08:45 – 00:08:49:	in the middle. And that's all it means. And as you mentioned, it applies to numerous properties.

00:08:51 – 00:08:59:	The intelligence to height, weight, if it were not for the modern diet, that would be there

00:08:59 – 00:09:06:	is a human norm for weight. It's kind of blown now because the Western diet is so completely polluted

00:09:06 – 00:09:12:	by poison that those numbers are completely insane. Everyone is basically morbidly obese,

00:09:12 – 00:09:18:	well above average, horrifyingly so. And we need to get back to normal there. Like that's normal

00:09:18 – 00:09:25:	is a real thing. The IQ average for a European population is about 100. And that's not going to change

00:09:25 – 00:09:29:	because environment doesn't really move it too much. As I mentioned, we're not going to prove to

00:09:29 – 00:09:41:	you that IQ is valid. The reason that IQ is an important subject is that it captures the aptitude

00:09:41 – 00:09:48:	of a person to deal with certain things in life. If you've heard discussion of IQ in the past,

00:09:48 – 00:09:53:	you probably heard attacks against it. You've probably heard that, well, it's biased culturally

00:09:53 – 00:09:59:	or it's biased racially or this, that or the other thing. It can be valid. What they're telling you

00:09:59 – 00:10:07:	is the exact opposite of what you need to understand about it. IQ is basically the only useful,

00:10:07 – 00:10:13:	measurable predictive instrument that has ever been produced in psychology. In the last 150 years,

00:10:13 – 00:10:19:	the only tool that actually has value is IQ. So the fact that in the current year,

00:10:19 – 00:10:25:	it is roundly rejected as being racist. If you have any sense and you're still listening to us

00:10:25 – 00:10:29:	at this point, that should make your ears perk up. And if they're saying it's racist as bad,

00:10:29 – 00:10:34:	that tells you that it probably actually means something that matters. Now again,

00:10:34 – 00:10:38:	when we talk about it, we're not talking about it, it matters because the value of a person

00:10:38 – 00:10:43:	correlates to their score. And to be explicit, Cory and I don't think that everyone should be tested.

00:10:43 – 00:10:48:	We don't think that this is like some, it's not a number that's sitting above your head like

00:10:48 – 00:10:55:	you're a video game character. It is a description of an inherent property in a person. Regardless

00:10:55 – 00:11:02:	of their education, regardless of their training or their experiences, it's their inherent aptitude

00:11:02 – 00:11:09:	to deal with certain classes of problems in life. That's all. And there are some variables

00:11:09 – 00:11:16:	that can affect it apart from genetics, diet and environmental pollution can have some

00:11:16 – 00:11:23:	deleterious effect. But those only work in the negative fashion. So if someone is malnourished,

00:11:23 – 00:11:30:	or if someone is exposed to lead, they will have their IQ diminished as they're growing. And

00:11:30 – 00:11:35:	that's a terrible thing. And it's important for us to try to prevent that because we want everyone

00:11:35 – 00:11:42:	to be as good as they are as they can be. However, there's not a normalization if you eliminate those

00:11:42 – 00:11:48:	factors where they will just magically pop to 100. Because when we think about IQ, we think of

00:11:48 – 00:11:55:	on 100 being the average, you know, one IQ, the human IQ is 100. That's not the case. Different

00:11:55 – 00:12:02:	races have different average IQs. And Asian and European IQs cluster right around 100. Some

00:12:02 – 00:12:08:	of the Asian countries are a little bit higher. In some cases, particularly China, it's now been

00:12:08 – 00:12:13:	just demonstrated that that's mostly from cheating and from actual inheritability. But there's

00:12:13 – 00:12:19:	certainly plenty of smart Chinese and in other Asians. When you get into what is today called

00:12:19 – 00:12:23:	the global south, which is something we've talked about in the past, we've talked about the places

00:12:24 – 00:12:29:	when European missionaries began to go in the 1500s, they found demon worshippers in the

00:12:29 – 00:12:36:	Americas and in Africa. Those are the places that have catastrophically lower IQs. And five

00:12:36 – 00:12:43:	centuries of exposure to the West hasn't changed that because fixing someone's diet doesn't

00:12:44 – 00:12:50:	change the inherent nature of the person. So there's a racial element to this that's inescapable.

00:12:50 – 00:12:55:	And that's why it's part of the series. It's not just about, well, if you if you're

00:12:55 – 00:13:00:	taught well or if you're fed right, then you're going to be hypothetically average, you're going to

00:13:00 – 00:13:05:	be 100. That absolutely doesn't happen. You will become the average for your race absent,

00:13:06 – 00:13:12:	deleterious effects, they're reducing it. But otherwise, you're going to average to the norm. You're

00:13:12 – 00:13:17:	going to end up where your population group is. And that's why when we're looking at differences

00:13:17 – 00:13:24:	in people groups, it's something that's important because there are societal and indeed they're

00:13:24 – 00:13:28:	spiritual and not their theological implications to it that must be dealt with as well.

00:13:29 – 00:13:35:	The best way to describe the interaction of nature and nurture when it comes to intelligence.

00:13:35 – 00:13:39:	And this plays out as well in things like height and athletic ability and all sorts of other

00:13:39 – 00:13:45:	areas. But we're talking about intelligence today. Nature, which is to say genetics,

00:13:46 – 00:13:54:	sets the range. You will fall somewhere within this particular range and then nurture determines

00:13:54 – 00:13:59:	where you fall in the range. And so if you are malnourished as a child, you're going to fall

00:14:00 – 00:14:08:	further down that range that was set by nature, set by your genetics. And so the biggest

00:14:08 – 00:14:16:	factor is genetics. Overwhelmingly, the biggest factor in intelligence is your genetics, is your

00:14:16 – 00:14:24:	descent, is who you are physically. There is some effect from your environment. So you can, as was

00:14:24 – 00:14:30:	just stated, wind up less intelligent than you could potentially have been due to environmental

00:14:30 – 00:14:36:	factors. If you grew up when there was lead in the gasoline, you are probably a handful of IQ

00:14:37 – 00:14:43:	points lower than you would have been had there not been lead in the gasoline. That's just the

00:14:43 – 00:14:50:	reality of the situation. We have an entire generation whose IQs were mildly suppressed because

00:14:50 – 00:14:53:	of environmental factors. And of course, we have that happening today as well. We don't even know

00:14:53 – 00:15:00:	the full extent yet of the impact of microplastics and things like that. Certainly not beneficial,

00:15:00 – 00:15:05:	although those seem primarily to make your hormones go wonky, but hormones also do influence

00:15:05 – 00:15:11:	intelligence and development. So it's all interconnected. We're not trying to turn this into

00:15:11 – 00:15:18:	an episode on environmentalism, but it is related to this issue. And so when we speak of

00:15:19 – 00:15:26:	IQs across different populations, it helps to look at just a general map because it plays out

00:15:26 – 00:15:31:	very obviously. This is again one of those cases where you can see the sons of Sham, the sons of

00:15:31 – 00:15:36:	Japheth and the sons of Ham. And the sons of Ham by and large are less intelligent.

00:15:37 – 00:15:45:	So for instance, if we look at one of the better countries in Africa, Libya, the average IQ is

00:15:45 – 00:15:52:	about 80 or 81. If we look at some of the less good countries in Africa, say for instance Sierra

00:15:52 – 00:16:02:	Leone, the average IQ is about 45. Liberia also about 45. Now if we were to go to say Europe,

00:16:02 – 00:16:09:	we could look at the Nordic countries. Norway is 97. Sweden is also about 97. Finland's a little

00:16:09 – 00:16:18:	higher, 101, etc. We see this play out. There is a general pattern based on blood relationship

00:16:18 – 00:16:26:	because intelligence is genetic. If your parents were both extremely unintelligent,

00:16:27 – 00:16:35:	very very low odds, you are going to be a genius. Could it conceivably happen? Sure, once in a

00:16:35 – 00:16:42:	billion people. But that once in a billion outlier is not what determines the reality of the situation,

00:16:42 – 00:16:49:	not what determines how you manage policy and not what determines how you proceed with things

00:16:49 – 00:16:54:	in the church. Because you have to deal with the average population that comprises your church

00:16:54 – 00:17:00:	body, that comprises your nation. You cannot rely on these extreme outliers. Well, there's a

00:17:00 – 00:17:04:	potential that we could have this one. No, you can't say just because there's a one in a billion,

00:17:05 – 00:17:10:	we rely on that. Because if you rely on that, you're not going to get anywhere. Everything's going

00:17:10 – 00:17:15:	to collapse around you. That's you're basically betting like a gambler would. Well, there's a one

00:17:15 – 00:17:19:	in a billion chance that I will instantly become a billionaire if I just keep pulling this lever.

00:17:20 – 00:17:24:	That's not a good way to run your society. It's not a good way to spend your free time either,

00:17:24 – 00:17:30:	but that's a separate issue. Just to give a couple practical examples of how it actually manifests,

00:17:30 – 00:17:37:	because again, most of you listening probably don't know your IQ. If you were tested, it's probably

00:17:37 – 00:17:42:	because you were an outlier to some degree in your childhood as you were growing up. And so

00:17:42 – 00:17:47:	maybe you got tested to pay on your age. That testing may have actually been part of a government

00:17:47 – 00:17:54:	program. There was a program that was nationwide specifically going after high intelligence people.

00:17:54 – 00:18:00:	It turns out in part to look for psychic abilities. It was it was a DARPA program that forechan has

00:18:00 – 00:18:06:	been chasing down. And I was, when I saw some of the threads that popped up online, I realized I

00:18:06 – 00:18:11:	had been in those rooms. I had I had worn the headphones. I had been served the little paper cups

00:18:11 – 00:18:17:	of the orange juice and done all those things I'd forgotten my entire life until I came up. So

00:18:18 – 00:18:24:	that testing wasn't simply, oh, let's try to find gifted and intelligent kids. It was, you know,

00:18:24 – 00:18:28:	they were looking to potentially weaponize part of the population, but that's just an aside. If

00:18:28 – 00:18:32:	you have been tested, it's probably because you're a bit of an outlier or seem like you might be

00:18:33 – 00:18:38:	probably not too many people who had been tested because they might be retarded or listening.

00:18:38 – 00:18:44:	When we say retarded, it's not meant as an insult. That's literally a, it's a psychological

00:18:44 – 00:18:51:	category that's valid. Retardation means slow down, hell back. When something is retarded,

00:18:51 – 00:18:57:	it is slowed. It's something, you say, that's too slow or too retarded. They're synonyms.

00:18:57 – 00:19:04:	So it's why slow is sometimes used as a synonym for less intelligent. We don't say that to be

00:19:04 – 00:19:09:	demeaning. It's simply a fact. Some people are slow. Some people are retarded.

00:19:10 – 00:19:14:	Probably not many of them listening to Stone Quire because we wouldn't make much sense.

00:19:14 – 00:19:20:	And the reason that we wouldn't make much sense is that both Cory and I are outliers. We are

00:19:21 – 00:19:27:	literally off the charts that are used to show IQ because if you're showing a population group

00:19:27 – 00:19:32:	and you show someone who's so rare that they virtually never occur in the population,

00:19:32 – 00:19:39:	you make the chart worthless by including such extreme outliers. So as I said upfront,

00:19:39 – 00:19:47:	we're not saying we're better at being human beings, but I think that one of the difficulties

00:19:47 – 00:19:53:	we have when we're discussing any inherent property of a person is that everyone has these

00:19:53 – 00:19:59:	egalitarian priors to say, oh, you think you're better than me. My IQ, when I was tested, when I was

00:19:59 – 00:20:05:	about eight or nine years old, was 162. That gives me an intellectual functioning range of between 157

00:20:05 – 00:20:13:	and 167. Ted Kaczynski's IQ happened to be 167. So I'm in the same bulk part as him. And I thank

00:20:13 – 00:20:18:	God that I didn't have his upbringing because some of the torment that he went through is it's

00:20:18 – 00:20:22:	touch-child and then the torture that he went through and he went to Harvard is what fundamentally

00:20:22 – 00:20:28:	broke him, who knows what he would have been capable of doing good things if not for the fact that

00:20:28 – 00:20:36:	he was horribly abused by a malevolent world. But I think that it's interesting when a lot of people

00:20:36 – 00:20:43:	today talk about Kaczynski's writings when he had gone off and done horrible criminal things.

00:20:43 – 00:20:48:	And when you read some of the things that he wrote about modern society, they seem prophetic.

00:20:49 – 00:20:54:	And I think that's one of the tricks when we're talking about intelligence and one of the

00:20:54 – 00:20:58:	points that we hope to get across here is that when you're talking about an intellectual

00:20:58 – 00:21:06:	functioning range, I'd said 162. What does that even mean? Statistically, it means that about one

00:21:06 – 00:21:14:	and every 56,000 people has the mental abilities that I have. So that's kind of impossible to visualize,

00:21:14 – 00:21:20:	but how many people have you met in your life? Have you met 56,000 people? Probably not. I think

00:21:20 – 00:21:27:	probably very few people have met that many people. So completely a random, I might be the smartest

00:21:27 – 00:21:32:	person you've ever talked to. Now in reality, there's always selection bias in whom we're exposed to

00:21:32 – 00:21:37:	in our lives. So, you know, if you've gone to universities or you have a profession that deals

00:21:37 – 00:21:43:	with more intelligent people, that entire group is inherently biased towards the smarter end of the

00:21:43 – 00:21:48:	pool. So, you know, I'm not claiming I'm the smartest person you've ever heard. Cory smarter than

00:21:48 – 00:21:53:	me. I can tell that just by talking to him that he's smarter than me. Maybe you can tell by listening,

00:21:53 – 00:21:59:	I don't know. It doesn't matter because the point is that there are ranges of comprehensibility.

00:21:59 – 00:22:05:	And I think that's one of the most important things to understand about IQ in the real world.

00:22:06 – 00:22:12:	When someone has an IQ of 100, when they're a normal European descent, the relative

00:22:13 – 00:22:18:	performance to someone, one standard deviation array, someone who has an IQ of 115,

00:22:19 – 00:22:25:	basically what that means functionally is that if the 115 guy is just kind of loafing,

00:22:25 – 00:22:30:	he's doing something. He's not really working too hard at it. He's just kind of doing his job at

00:22:30 – 00:22:38:	an easy pace. The man with a 100 IQ can probably do most of that same job if he works as butt off,

00:22:38 – 00:22:43:	if he focuses, if he tries really hard, if he pours everything into it, he can probably more or

00:22:43 – 00:22:51:	less perform up to the level of a man who's 115, where the man at 115 is just not really trying

00:22:51 – 00:22:58:	very hard. Beyond that kind of one standard deviation range of 10 to say 15 points,

00:22:58 – 00:23:05:	but really maybe 10, you can still understand what the man is doing, but you can't do it yourself.

00:23:06 – 00:23:12:	And I think that's where our experiences in life come into play. You probably all met someone

00:23:12 – 00:23:19:	who can do stuff that you just can't do. You can't understand how they did that. When someone

00:23:19 – 00:23:25:	isn't intelligent enough, they will be able to do things that just kind of seem like magic to you.

00:23:27 – 00:23:31:	So that second standard deviation above the first is where that kind of tapers off. There's kind of

00:23:32 – 00:23:39:	there's a graying experience where you can't do what the guy is doing, but if he explains it to

00:23:39 – 00:23:43:	you well, you can understand it. He can explain it to you like, yeah, I kind of get that, but I can never

00:23:43 – 00:23:50:	do it myself. When you get beyond about 25 points or 30 points, you just don't know. You just

00:23:50 – 00:23:58:	can't understand what it's like being the other person because their abilities and their experience

00:23:58 – 00:24:04:	are so much different than your own that it kind of seems like if going up, if someone's more

00:24:04 – 00:24:09:	intelligent, it seems like magic. And later on, we're going to talk about going in the

00:24:10 – 00:24:15:	less intelligent direction. You just can't understand why they don't get it. And that's part

00:24:15 – 00:24:19:	why it's important to talk about this and talk about specifics. That's why I'm talking about

00:24:19 – 00:24:26:	the specifics of my own experience because I said my IQ is 162 when I was 8 or 9. If you know

00:24:26 – 00:24:29:	anything about IQ, you know, it goes down over time. I have had a couple things happen that

00:24:29 – 00:24:37:	have certainly diminished that to some degree. It doesn't really matter because I know as myself

00:24:37 – 00:24:43:	that 20 years ago, I could absolutely run around circles around myself in some regards today.

00:24:43 – 00:24:50:	However, I have also spent 20 years performing at a level in learning and experiencing and developing

00:24:50 – 00:24:56:	patterns that give me abilities that I didn't have 20 years ago because I lacked the experience.

00:24:56 – 00:25:02:	I had the raw horsepower, but I didn't have the experience out of my belt of using it effectively.

00:25:02 – 00:25:09:	So I would absolutely put my abilities in most regards up against myself when I was much younger,

00:25:09 – 00:25:14:	even though I know the raw number has probably diminished. It's actually a good point that you

00:25:14 – 00:25:21:	made there is to emphasize that intelligence, if you want to look at it in a way that is

00:25:21 – 00:25:31:	comprehensible to basically everyone, intelligence is horsepower. So if you have a vehicle that has

00:25:31 – 00:25:37:	a particularly great amount of horsepower, and yes, I know that somewhere there will be someone

00:25:37 – 00:25:42:	who's a gear head screaming at me for how simple I'm making this, but the point is to make it simple.

00:25:43 – 00:25:48:	The amount of horsepower is going to determine how much that vehicle can do.

00:25:49 – 00:25:53:	Now, you could have the most powerful tractor in the world. If it's sitting there,

00:25:54 – 00:25:59:	it's not any more valuable than a lump of rock. It's not doing anything, but it has the potential

00:25:59 – 00:26:06:	to do it. It's in the use that you see the real potential of that horsepower, and it's the same

00:26:06 – 00:26:12:	thing with intelligence. You can have very highly intelligent men who do not apply themselves and do

00:26:12 – 00:26:19:	nothing with it and never accomplish anything. But that potential is still there, and that person

00:26:19 – 00:26:26:	can do things that there is no amount of time, effort, money, resources. You could pour into

00:26:26 – 00:26:32:	someone of average intelligence to enable him to do what that other man could do. There is

00:26:32 – 00:26:39:	absolutely no amount of resources that would make a person with an IQ of 100, an average man,

00:26:39 – 00:26:44:	be able to do what some with an IQ of 180 could do, almost without effort.

00:26:45 – 00:26:51:	And that is simply the reality of the situation. To bring that back to a vehicle,

00:26:52 – 00:26:58:	if you are trying to tow something, picture anything very heavy, a very large boat, whatever it

00:26:58 – 00:27:04:	happens to be, you're not going to tow that with a Volkswagen Beetle. You're just not. You can't.

00:27:04 – 00:27:10:	It can't do it. It doesn't have the horsepower. A very powerful tractor, very powerful piece of

00:27:10 – 00:27:18:	farm equipment can do that very easily. That's the difference. This is a very real hard limitation

00:27:18 – 00:27:25:	in human biology. And that's what's important to understand here. There are men who can do things

00:27:25 – 00:27:30:	that other men cannot do, and we'll get into that more in the second half because that's why it's

00:27:30 – 00:27:36:	important for the church, because there are things that must be done in the church that cannot

00:27:36 – 00:27:42:	be done by men who are two or three or four standard deviations below it is the European normal.

00:27:43 – 00:27:50:	And that's the reason that we're giving some specifics here now is that for me to say what my IQ

00:27:50 – 00:27:56:	is out loud, the egalitarian response of that is typically, oh, you think you're smart, you think

00:27:56 – 00:28:02:	you're better than me. Well, let me give you another example. If on the standard distribution,

00:28:02 – 00:28:09:	God had given me height instead of intelligence, I'd be about 6'10. Think about this. How many men

00:28:09 – 00:28:15:	have you met in your life who were 6'10? I've never met any. I've been to a couple proboscable

00:28:15 – 00:28:21:	games where I saw some of them and a couple guys are a bit taller than that. I have no idea what

00:28:21 – 00:28:26:	it's like being that tall. I am perfectly average. Physically, I, like, God put all of my points

00:28:26 – 00:28:31:	in my brain. Physically, there's nothing remotely remarkable about me, which in some ways is

00:28:31 – 00:28:36:	luxurious, because I fit everywhere and everything fits me. I never hit my head. It is quite nice.

00:28:37 – 00:28:41:	Yeah, well, you're taller than me, you know, like you're not technically. I'm a male,

00:28:41 – 00:28:49:	largely. Yeah. Yeah, we're both near the center of the bell curve. And so the reason I'm bringing

00:28:49 – 00:28:55:	that up is that to say, I have no idea what it's like to be 6'10. You know, when you watch basketball

00:28:55 – 00:28:59:	players walking around, a lot of times you'll see them ducking. They're kind of, they have their

00:28:59 – 00:29:05:	heads bent down and they have kind of a weird posture. That's because they've spent their entire

00:29:05 – 00:29:11:	lives hitting their heads on doors and ceilings. I've never hit my head on anything. I don't hit

00:29:11 – 00:29:16:	my head on things. I'm happy for that. I don't have to worry about ducking unless there's a really

00:29:16 – 00:29:24:	weird situation. The guy who's 6'8", 6'10", 7'7", 7'4", he has to worry about that. I have no idea

00:29:24 – 00:29:30:	what life is like as him. I've never had to struggle with legroom. I've never had to struggle with

00:29:30 – 00:29:39:	beds. Like, it's nice being normal because the world accommodates you. It's just, it's built around

00:29:39 – 00:29:45:	the center of the bell curve. That's how it works. It's actually one of the problems that

00:29:46 – 00:29:52:	the military was facing around the Korean War when they were building hardware. They were

00:29:52 – 00:29:57:	trying to figure out how to, they did a ton of measures. They measured tens of thousands

00:29:57 – 00:30:04:	of aviators to figure out what was the average man so they could build cockpits to suit the

00:30:04 – 00:30:08:	average man. And what they found, there was no such thing. Men would have longer and shorter

00:30:08 – 00:30:14:	arms, longer and shorter legs, taller and shorter torsos. And so while some aspects might cluster

00:30:14 – 00:30:19:	in the center, when you start looking at the details that matter in a cockpit, they would all

00:30:19 – 00:30:25:	cluster independently. Some guys might have averaged bodies except long arms. And so that was the

00:30:25 – 00:30:31:	advent of adjustable seats and things which then moved on into vehicles and today, like everything's

00:30:31 – 00:30:36:	adjustable. It was because of that. It was because although people tend to cluster at the center,

00:30:36 – 00:30:43:	there's still variability. So you have no idea what it's like to have an IQ of 160,

00:30:43 – 00:30:48:	because it's so rare it basically doesn't ever happen. They're guys who are smart with me.

00:30:48 – 00:30:53:	They're a few guys who are a lot smarter with me. But the further you get from where I am,

00:30:53 – 00:30:59:	for example, the more exponentially rare becomes to the point that virtually never happens.

00:30:59 – 00:31:04:	If you look at two standard deviations above where I am, there's basically no one like there

00:31:04 – 00:31:08:	might be one or two guys on the planet at any given point on average.

00:31:10 – 00:31:15:	Height works the same way. Like think about if you were 610, you could tell if someone was 7-foot

00:31:15 – 00:31:19:	tall because he'd be two inches taller than you. Like I can tell when someone's two inches taller

00:31:19 – 00:31:24:	than me very easily. From down here, a guy who's 610 and a guy who's 7-foot, they look the same.

00:31:24 – 00:31:30:	I can't tell from down here. It's all just way over my head. But they're 610, they're 7-footers,

00:31:30 – 00:31:38:	7-4. I think Matumbos is like 7-7. I saw a hilarious picture just this last week of

00:31:38 – 00:31:47:	Shaquille O'Neil, who is 7-1 in some sort of museum with a life-size picture of Robert Wadlow,

00:31:47 – 00:31:53:	who is in the Guinness Book of World Records, is the tallest man ever recorded. He was 8-foot 11.

00:31:53 – 00:31:57:	And so when Shaquille stands next to Robert Wadlow, he looks like a little kid.

00:31:58 – 00:32:03:	I would look like a little kid standing next to Shaquille O'Neil. When we're talking about large

00:32:03 – 00:32:09:	differences in the distance and how commonly things happen, that's what it looks like. It looks

00:32:09 – 00:32:17:	really weird. So let me give you an example from my life of something that happens to me all the time.

00:32:19 – 00:32:24:	When I was in high school, I was in a German class. It was kind of a blow off class because our

00:32:24 – 00:32:28:	teacher was insane. So I never learned to like a German. I don't know any German at this day,

00:32:28 – 00:32:33:	despite taking several years from this crazy lady. Basically, we just kind of screwed around.

00:32:34 – 00:32:38:	I was sitting there one day, not really paying attention. The teacher wasn't even around.

00:32:38 – 00:32:42:	There was a guy who was a friend of mine named Dave. Big Dave, he was a really big guy,

00:32:42 – 00:32:47:	sweetest guy in the world, very friendly. Everybody liked him. He was sitting over in the corner.

00:32:47 – 00:32:51:	I could overhear what he was talking about, but I wasn't really paying attention. So it's kind of

00:32:51 – 00:32:56:	out of the corner of my ear. He was speaking to some other people. Now I knew Dave well enough to

00:32:56 – 00:33:01:	kind of know his musical tastes and a little bit about him. And I overheard him talking about the

00:33:01 – 00:33:10:	oboe. Now what came out of my mouth next was something that I didn't even understand what had

00:33:10 – 00:33:16:	happened until after I did it. I heard him talking about the oboe just out of the corner of my ear.

00:33:16 – 00:33:20:	You know, I wasn't paying attention. I wasn't focusing on. I wasn't thinking about it.

00:33:20 – 00:33:26:	As soon as he said oboe, I laughed out loud and looked up and said, hi, you like Corey, you like

00:33:26 – 00:33:34:	Carrie Johnson. And Dave looked at me like I had pierced his soul. I will never forget the look

00:33:34 – 00:33:38:	on his face when I said that. And I didn't even realize what I'd said. Like I just heard him

00:33:38 – 00:33:44:	talking about the oboe. I said, you like Carrie Johnson. And I then realized that I had outed like

00:33:44 – 00:33:49:	the girl he was probably madly in love with. What had happened was that I was in band.

00:33:49 – 00:33:55:	I played the sax. Carrie played the oboe. I knew Dave's taste in music. I knew that this guy

00:33:56 – 00:34:01:	has no nexus to classical music or anything. The only possible reason that Dave is talking

00:34:01 – 00:34:05:	about a double read instrument is he has a crush on a girl who plays a double read instrument.

00:34:05 – 00:34:12:	And her name was Carrie. And so I give that as an example because that's what my brain is doing

00:34:12 – 00:34:18:	in the background all the time. Like sometimes my brain is like it's a separate thing. Like it's

00:34:18 – 00:34:25:	processing on its own. And I'm not supervising it. And so in the blink of an eye, I put two and

00:34:25 – 00:34:32:	two together without any conscious thought whatsoever. I perceived a secret. Dave's deepest,

00:34:32 – 00:34:36:	most intimate secret. And I outed it without thinking. Like it was a it was a cruel thing to do.

00:34:36 – 00:34:40:	And I felt I still feel bad about it because like I clearly shocked him. I don't know if I heard

00:34:40 – 00:34:45:	him, but like he was wasn't something he wanted me to say in class. And so like it was it was a

00:34:45 – 00:34:51:	jerk move. I was a teenager. I was a that was a dork. But that is what my brain is doing all

00:34:51 – 00:34:59:	the time. It's connecting like lightning, disparate points of data in ways that no one else can see.

00:34:59 – 00:35:03:	No one else would have ever guessed. I mean, for me, it wasn't even a guess. I knew it. I knew with

00:35:03 – 00:35:08:	absolute certainty that Dave liked Carrie. And I was a jerk. And so I said it out loud.

00:35:09 – 00:35:14:	My brain does that all the time. That's the kind of horsepower that God gave me. And

00:35:15 – 00:35:21:	more and more, I'm trying to use that for beneficial things instead of just being mean to people.

00:35:21 – 00:35:26:	But most people like it most you you may have one of those bolts of lightning once in your life

00:35:26 – 00:35:33:	once in a great while. The more often that happens, the more intelligent you are. That sort of pattern

00:35:33 – 00:35:40:	recognition to pluck tiny infinitesimally small signals from whatever's around you and make

00:35:40 – 00:35:45:	conclusions that are spot on. You have the tiniest bit of data and you reach an absolute

00:35:45 – 00:35:51:	conclusion and you don't miss. That's a level of intelligence that's alien to most people. And so

00:35:51 – 00:35:55:	I described that not to brag or do that. I mean, it's not about me. It's just trying to give an

00:35:55 – 00:36:03:	example of had a certain level of intelligence things just get weird into a normal person sitting

00:36:03 – 00:36:07:	in that classroom. Like Dave, I don't know what he thought. He probably thought like I was psychic

00:36:07 – 00:36:13:	or something. It wasn't it wasn't some divine revelation. I didn't read his mind. I just figured

00:36:13 – 00:36:17:	it out. It was it was kind of what Sherlock Holmes did. It was inductive reasoning and it was

00:36:17 – 00:36:24:	free and it was instant. And that sort of pattern recognition is the hallmark of general intelligence

00:36:24 – 00:36:31:	which is fundamentally what the IQ test measures. So maybe useful to give a general definition of what

00:36:31 – 00:36:39:	genius is here. Genius is typically 150. That's what it's regarded as 150 IQ. Yes, that's not an

00:36:39 – 00:36:45:	even number of standard deviations up from normal. But it is half again as intelligent as the average

00:36:45 – 00:36:53:	man as it were. Although notably IQ is not a linear measurement because some with an IQ of 150

00:36:53 – 00:36:59:	is not merely 50% more intelligent than some with an IQ of 100. But that's that gets complicated.

00:36:59 – 00:37:05:	But anyway, for genius, it is the ability to draw sound conclusions from seemingly insufficient

00:37:05 – 00:37:13:	information. And the reason as just stated why someone with an IQ that high can do that is because

00:37:13 – 00:37:20:	the information isn't insufficient. Someone with a lower IQ will look at the set of information

00:37:20 – 00:37:27:	and go, I can't draw a conclusion from this. But someone with a high enough IQ will realize all

00:37:27 – 00:37:33:	of the information you need to draw a sound conclusion is actually there. Of course, the ultimate

00:37:33 – 00:37:39:	example is God. God can draw sound conclusion from any information. But he has given different

00:37:39 – 00:37:48:	abilities to different men. And those with greater intelligence can draw accurate sound conclusions

00:37:48 – 00:37:53:	from less information. As you go up the scale, you need less information to figure out what is

00:37:53 – 00:38:00:	actually happening with the set of data you've been given. And so just to give some hard numbers

00:38:00 – 00:38:08:	again to give a firmware idea of what is going on here. Someone with an IQ of 150 and in case someone

00:38:08 – 00:38:13:	wants to reproduce this to verify what I'm saying is accurate, I'm just using the normal distribution

00:38:13 – 00:38:19:	function in numbers. It's probably roughly the same in Excel, maybe off by 0.1% or something.

00:38:20 – 00:38:28:	But anyway, for 150 IQ, for a white population which is to say 100 average, average in mean are

00:38:28 – 00:38:37:	the same thing for those who slept through math class. A 150 IQ is 1 in 2,331. Not super rare.

00:38:38 – 00:38:49:	However, to give you an idea of how the rarity scales an IQ of 160 is 1 in 31,574. Then we'll jump

00:38:49 – 00:38:58:	up a little bit. An IQ of 180, 1 in 20,741,000 and the change doesn't really matter at this point.

00:38:59 – 00:39:07:	And we'll cap it off with an IQ of 200, let's say. That's 1 in 76.4 billion.

00:39:09 – 00:39:16:	That's for a white population, average 100 standard deviation 15. So you can see how that rarity

00:39:16 – 00:39:22:	increases. This is not a linear matter. But now to compare it and this will be very important for

00:39:22 – 00:39:29:	the second half of this to go back to 150 for an African population. An African population is

00:39:30 – 00:39:39:	a standard average of 70 with a standard deviation of 13. It varies a little bit from one country

00:39:39 – 00:39:48:	to the next, but that's close enough to for the whole continent. 1 in 2 billion, 644 million

00:39:49 – 00:40:00:	for an IQ of 150 versus for the European population, 1 in 2,300. You can probably see how this is

00:40:00 – 00:40:05:	a problem, how there's a very big difference here. And that continues, of course, throughout the

00:40:05 – 00:40:13:	entirety of the IQ scale of the distribution. So if we looked at 180, we actually can't look at 180.

00:40:14 – 00:40:21:	And the reason we can't look at 180 is because that number is so infinitesimal that it is zero.

00:40:21 – 00:40:30:	There are no Africans at that level because the cutoff where it basically becomes, you've got 100%

00:40:30 – 00:40:38:	of the area under the distribution as far as you've gone out is 174. And that's an absurd number

00:40:38 – 00:40:42:	because it's one and what is that? Thousand million, billion, trillion, one in one quadrillion.

00:40:45 – 00:40:50:	There are not that many people on the planet and there may never be that many people. God may come

00:40:50 – 00:40:55:	back before there have been that many human beings. And so you have to keep in mind

00:40:55 – 00:41:04:	just how few people there are at that end of the spectrum, but also you have to keep in mind

00:41:04 – 00:41:10:	just how few people there are in an African population who are only say two standard deviations

00:41:10 – 00:41:17:	up from what would be average for Europeans. So if we went from 100 to 132 standard deviations

00:41:17 – 00:41:22:	for a European population, not for an African because again, different average, different standard

00:41:22 – 00:41:34:	deviation for Africans with an IQ of 130, you're talking one in 510,000 versus one in 44 for a European

00:41:34 – 00:41:43:	population. You have to think about how this plays out in your civilization, how this plays out in

00:41:44 – 00:41:49:	how do you run your government? How do you run your church? Where do you find your theologians?

00:41:49 – 00:41:53:	Where do you find your leaders? Where do you find your mathematicians? Because this is not just

00:41:53 – 00:41:59:	a matter of the church. This is a matter of everything because intelligence does have direct

00:41:59 – 00:42:07:	applicability to almost all areas of human endeavor. Yes, there are some things that intelligence

00:42:07 – 00:42:14:	only plays a tangential or a marginal role. But even those areas, for instance, where it is purely

00:42:14 – 00:42:21:	brute force, well, those jobs are a lot easier today because intelligent men have made the hard

00:42:21 – 00:42:29:	were used today to do them. It's a lot easier to dig a ditch if you have a backhoe and various

00:42:29 – 00:42:36:	things like that than if all you have is a shovel. The big machinery, the heavy machinery was not

00:42:36 – 00:42:42:	thought up by a man with an IQ of 85. I won't give a number for what IQ you need to make something

00:42:42 – 00:42:46:	like that, but assume it's at least two or three standard deviations above normal.

00:42:47 – 00:42:53:	And so these are real considerations that lead to real consequences and they are not something

00:42:53 – 00:43:03:	that we can simply ignore. But to go back to the point that what was making about higher intelligence

00:43:03 – 00:43:07:	versus average, if you're talking to someone of average intelligence or what it's like to have the

00:43:08 – 00:43:17:	higher intelligence, there are certain proofs of the existence of God that are extremely convincing.

00:43:17 – 00:43:23:	In fact, I would say that if you can understand them, which is the point here, they're absolutely

00:43:23 – 00:43:30:	convincing. And so, for instance, there are formulations of the ontological argument that are

00:43:30 – 00:43:38:	100% convincing they are definitive, God exists. However, someone of average or lower than

00:43:38 – 00:43:46:	average intelligence probably cannot understand them. And there is likely no amount of explanation

00:43:46 – 00:43:52:	that is going to make them sufficiently clear to make them compelling for someone of average

00:43:52 – 00:43:59:	or lower than average intelligence. And so, there's a natural consequence that flows from that.

00:44:00 – 00:44:07:	How do you reach someone with lower than average intelligence with this information?

00:44:08 – 00:44:13:	In some cases, you can't, so you're going to have to devise a different path to reach these people.

00:44:14 – 00:44:22:	But I cannot explain Gettel's incompleteness theorem to an average man. I can't. There's no way

00:44:22 – 00:44:28:	I could possibly do it. I can't explain his version of the ontological argument to an average man.

00:44:29 – 00:44:35:	There's no way I can do it. And so, we're not saying that exceptionally high intelligence is

00:44:35 – 00:44:41:	some sort of magic bullet. It's not, we're not actually wizards. There are things we cannot do.

00:44:41 – 00:44:45:	There's nothing, of course, God cannot do because God, of course, is infinite. There's a vast

00:44:45 – 00:44:52:	difference between simply being an outlier and being infinite. But no matter how high your

00:44:52 – 00:45:00:	intelligence is as a man, there will be things you cannot do. And as Wo said, once you get

00:45:00 – 00:45:08:	outside, say, three, four and particularly five standard deviations difference, the person at

00:45:08 – 00:45:14:	the upper end is not going to be able to explain certain things to the person at the lower end of

00:45:14 – 00:45:22:	that gap. No matter how hard he tries, no matter how much time he spends. And this plays out

00:45:22 – 00:45:27:	in society. It plays out in our government. It plays out in our schools. And it does in fact play

00:45:27 – 00:45:34:	out in the church. Before we get into the details on the church, I just like to give a couple of

00:45:34 – 00:45:40:	other small examples of relatability. You know, we're talking about kind of the high end of human

00:45:40 – 00:45:46:	performance, but outliers, or outliers because God doesn't want that many of them around. The sweet

00:45:46 – 00:45:55:	spot for intelligence is really about kind of 125 to 130, maybe 135. The reason for that is that

00:45:55 – 00:46:02:	a man who's in that range is relatable to basically everybody. If you have an IQ of 125,

00:46:03 – 00:46:09:	you can relate to the common man completely. You can take an understand what you're talking about.

00:46:09 – 00:46:14:	You're not going to be thinking things that push him too far. You can be a great leader. And if

00:46:14 – 00:46:19:	you have that sort of IQ, you're probably, you're probably a leader in your congregation. You're

00:46:19 – 00:46:25:	probably in a more senior position in your employer. Certainly, if you're old enough to have risen

00:46:25 – 00:46:33:	up the ranks, men who are equipped in such a fashion by God typically rise to the top. Now, where

00:46:33 – 00:46:37:	that is could be any where there are a lot of guys who've never graduated from college who,

00:46:37 – 00:46:40:	you know, are their machinists or something who are that smart.

00:46:40 – 00:46:48:	The reason that it's important that there are those guys is that they're the ones who really

00:46:48 – 00:46:54:	move things forward on a date of day basis. There aren't enough really weird guys to go around,

00:46:54 – 00:46:59:	but there are plenty of guys who can keep things moving, who understand things well enough to

00:47:00 – 00:47:08:	keep these systems in operation. The flip side of the frequencies, as Corey mentioned a minute ago,

00:47:08 – 00:47:14:	IQ of 130 for white man is about one in 44. It means if you have 100 people, two of them

00:47:14 – 00:47:21:	roughly have about an IQ in that range. That means that if you spend most of your time in rooms

00:47:21 – 00:47:27:	with fewer than 44 people, that guy's probably used to being the smartest guy in the room.

00:47:28 – 00:47:33:	Now, obviously, there's selection bias in our social lives. If you're working at a company

00:47:33 – 00:47:38:	where you are that intelligent and it matters for your job, you're probably surrounded by people

00:47:38 – 00:47:44:	who have similarly higher degrees of intelligence. So, even if you're not always the smartest guy

00:47:44 – 00:47:48:	in the room, most of the time when it's a random collection of people, you probably are.

00:47:49 – 00:47:59:	And this is what I would call the midwit trap. Midwits not 100. Midwits 130. Because the guys who

00:47:59 – 00:48:05:	in the range of about 130 are used to being the smartest guys in the room, which is a very

00:48:05 – 00:48:11:	extremely dangerous experience for anyone to have regardless of their intelligence. If you get used

00:48:11 – 00:48:17:	to being right more often than the people around you, you start to trust your own judgment and you

00:48:17 – 00:48:26:	trust disbelieving what other people say. It's not bad per se, but if you become blinded to the fact

00:48:26 – 00:48:31:	that there are dudes out there who are exponentially smarter than you, you're going to go after

00:48:31 – 00:48:36:	them when they disagree with you. And that's my experience all the time. I can guarantee you every

00:48:36 – 00:48:41:	single person who's listening, I have been called retarded far more times than you have. I get

00:48:41 – 00:48:47:	called stupid and retarded every day on the internet for saying things that are actually intelligent

00:48:47 – 00:48:53:	observations. I don't get called retarded by average men. I get called retarded by smart men

00:48:53 – 00:48:58:	because they're probably somewhere in that range. They're used to being right. They're used to

00:48:58 – 00:49:03:	being the smartest guy in the room. And when they hear saying someone saying something, they can't

00:49:03 – 00:49:09:	understand. Their only experience in life is if someone says things that they don't understand,

00:49:09 – 00:49:13:	that person must be dumb. They must just be a dimwit. How could you disagree with me and say

00:49:13 – 00:49:18:	this weird stuff that doesn't make any sense to me unless you're dumb? Because they can't see

00:49:18 – 00:49:25:	that there are pages and pages beyond where they are in the book of performance. And so

00:49:26 – 00:49:32:	as a society, not maybe not so much in church, but like I don't think that we need the smartest

00:49:32 – 00:49:37:	guys in charge of church. I think we need the most faithful guys in charge of church. However,

00:49:39 – 00:49:43:	you need to be intelligent enough to know that when someone's smart is playing tricks,

00:49:43 – 00:49:49:	you can stomp on them. And simultaneously, you need to be intelligent enough to know

00:49:49 – 00:49:54:	that when someone is smart is saying something you don't understand, maybe they're right,

00:49:55 – 00:50:01:	that the judgment for a Christian is not, is this guy smarter than me? Is he being faithful to

00:50:01 – 00:50:08:	scripture? But when you have a line of men who are used to being smarter than you pastors,

00:50:08 – 00:50:12:	probably smarter than most of the people and most of their congregations, we should hope that

00:50:12 – 00:50:16:	that would be the case, particularly in the Lutheran Church. These guys are expected to learn

00:50:16 – 00:50:23:	coin a Greek and to learn Hebrew. Those are not easy languages. Greek in particular has some

00:50:23 – 00:50:28:	complexities that go far beyond what is found in a superficial understanding of English. Some of

00:50:28 – 00:50:33:	those remnants are still there, but unless you're really good at understanding the mechanisms of

00:50:33 – 00:50:37:	language in general, it's probably going to be challenging to pick up some of the new concepts

00:50:38 – 00:50:43:	that are just a part of older languages like Greek and Latin. And that's because men used to

00:50:43 – 00:50:51:	be smarter. The IQs that are outstanding today wouldn't have been as outstanding 500 years ago.

00:50:51 – 00:50:57:	We know for a fact that even in the Victorian era, men had at least a standard deviation higher,

00:50:57 – 00:51:03:	and you can see that just in the letters from farmboys, you see letters from the Civil War,

00:51:03 – 00:51:09:	and a lot of them are eloquent to the point that even modern readers who are intelligent

00:51:09 – 00:51:13:	have trouble kind of understanding what they say easily when it's just a love letter to their

00:51:13 – 00:51:22:	girl back home. So there's a diminishing overall as a society, as a race of people in the direction

00:51:22 – 00:51:28:	of getting stupider, and I don't know if that's reversible. So when we say that whites on average

00:51:28 – 00:51:33:	or two standard deviation separated from the average African, it's not maligning them. It's an

00:51:33 – 00:51:40:	observation of a demonstrable, provable fact that correlates strictly with race. You cannot move

00:51:40 – 00:51:45:	an African somewhere else in the country and magically make them smarter. Just like someone

00:51:45 – 00:51:50:	European moving somewhere to Africa is again, make them dumber. They're just they're still going

00:51:50 – 00:51:56:	to be European. We are what will God makes us. And some of the factors that God builds into us are

00:51:56 – 00:52:01:	things like IQ, just like they're things like height. They're tribes in Africa. They're extraordinarily

00:52:01 – 00:52:08:	tall, and there's some tribes that are pigmies. They're tiny people. If an alien came from another

00:52:08 – 00:52:14:	planet and looked at them, probably wouldn't conclude they were the same species. And it's not denying

00:52:14 – 00:52:18:	any humanity. I'll just, if you look at the physical characteristics of things and you separate

00:52:18 – 00:52:23:	and say, well, all these people are seven feet tall, and all these people are three feet tall,

00:52:24 – 00:52:29:	I'm not sure I would call both of those groups the same kind of people as humans and as Christians

00:52:29 – 00:52:32:	were like browbeats and saying, oh, they're exactly the same. They're interchangeable. Well,

00:52:33 – 00:52:37:	the seven footers are seven feet tall because that's in their genes and the same with the pigmies

00:52:37 – 00:52:42:	and the same with the intelligence, the diminishing of intelligence in Africa and also in South

00:52:42 – 00:52:48:	America. We're going to one of the embeds is going to be a map in Central America. The IQs

00:52:48 – 00:52:53:	are every bit as in the toilet as they are in Africa. And personally, I believe as I've said in past

00:52:53 – 00:52:58:	episodes, that is a function of their 4,000 years of communion with demons. Maybe it's something

00:52:58 – 00:53:03:	else. I think that's the most Christian explanation for it. It's certainly not attacking them as

00:53:03 – 00:53:09:	human beings. It's saying, hey, man, we need God. We need God in our lives constantly. When you

00:53:09 – 00:53:14:	commune with demons with for thousands of years, that's going to have consequences that are passed

00:53:14 – 00:53:19:	on from father to son, especially when you're talking about cannibalism and human sacrifice and

00:53:19 – 00:53:25:	the most unspeakable, unthinkable acts of evil are corrosive on everything, not just on the soul,

00:53:25 – 00:53:32:	not just on your lifestyle, but literally corrosive on the body. So maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's not

00:53:32 – 00:53:38:	demons that cause them to be functionally retarded, but whatever it is, different people groups

00:53:38 – 00:53:43:	in different places have different qualities that are measurable. They're observable and they're

00:53:43 – 00:53:49:	consequential. One of the embeds that we're going to have is going to be something you maybe

00:53:49 – 00:53:54:	have heard this term before a green text. It's from 4chan. I think probably poll. There's some spicy

00:53:54 – 00:53:58:	language in it, and I'm not going to censor it. You can read it and deal with it. It's the internet.

00:53:59 – 00:54:07:	It's an anonymous post from someone who did research as a grad student on IQ in prisons.

00:54:07 – 00:54:12:	And one of the first things in this green text post is something you may have seen, particularly

00:54:12 – 00:54:17:	on Twitter lately. The question that he was asking, one of the many questions that he was asking

00:54:17 – 00:54:25:	in this study of prisoners was, how would you have felt yesterday evening if you hadn't eaten breakfast

00:54:25 – 00:54:29:	or lunch? And they have probably seen people maybe recently joking, how would you feel if you

00:54:29 – 00:54:35:	hadn't eaten breakfast? That's specifically what this is talking about. The reason that that question

00:54:35 – 00:54:41:	is so important is that what was found in that study was that if someone has an IQ below about 90

00:54:42 – 00:54:47:	now, these numbers are ranges. They're not absolutes. They're measuring how frequently a given

00:54:48 – 00:54:54:	degree of performance appears in the population. What they found in San Quentin, there were a lot

00:54:54 – 00:55:00:	of guys with lower IQs, not really surprising. They're racial aspects of that, and they're also

00:55:00 – 00:55:06:	just aspects that criminality may tend to be the only option for someone who isn't given

00:55:06 – 00:55:11:	viable options for employment. As Cory is saying, they're societal implications of this

00:55:11 – 00:55:18:	that are also, by the way, Christian implications. Anyway, what they found was when you ask that question,

00:55:18 – 00:55:23:	how would you have felt yesterday evening if you hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch? If someone has

00:55:23 – 00:55:29:	an IQ below about 90, they just break down. They can't process the question because it's a conditional

00:55:29 – 00:55:35:	hypothetical. The hypothetical is how would you have felt? And then the conditional is,

00:55:36 – 00:55:43:	had you eaten breakfast or not? So those two elements combined. If you had an IQ below 90,

00:55:43 – 00:55:47:	the responses were things like, what do you mean? I did eat at breakfast and lunch.

00:55:47 – 00:55:52:	And then the questioner would say, yes, but if you had not, how would you have felt to which they

00:55:52 – 00:55:58:	would respond in more vulgar language probably? Why are you saying that I didn't eat breakfast? I

00:55:58 – 00:56:03:	just told you that I did. This is something that also played out in episode four of the wire.

00:56:04 – 00:56:10:	If you haven't seen it, it's a profane violent series on HBO. So I'm not sure I'm recommending it,

00:56:10 – 00:56:16:	but I enjoyed it. I've actually, I probably washed it three or four times. There is an app in season four,

00:56:16 – 00:56:22:	they were the cops were doing a program similar to this in the schools where they're trying to find

00:56:22 – 00:56:27:	how do they intervene young enough in the students' lives to be able to keep them,

00:56:27 – 00:56:34:	up to divert them from criminality. And they had a student who was like 16 in a room and one of

00:56:34 – 00:56:39:	the psychologists and one of the cops was asking him questions very similar to this. And he became

00:56:39 – 00:56:46:	violently angry at the questions, just like in the green text, what he said is, he was cursing a lot.

00:56:46 – 00:56:51:	I think we'll embed the clip. And again, the content worryingly, it's vulgar, but it's realistic.

00:56:52 – 00:56:56:	When the, when the questioner asked him, how would you have felt about this situation?

00:56:57 – 00:57:02:	He got violently angry and said, why are you messing with my mind, man? Why are you doing this? Get

00:57:02 – 00:57:09:	out of my head. The reason for that response was that it was breaking his mind, being confronted with

00:57:09 – 00:57:17:	a hypothetical like this with a conditional. It hurt, it hurt his brain to be subjected to that

00:57:17 – 00:57:24:	sort of question, because he didn't have the capacity to process it. And it wasn't, as Corey

00:57:24 – 00:57:29:	was saying earlier, it's not the case that someone below about 90 IQ, you can teach them how to

00:57:29 – 00:57:35:	think about those things. It's literally too complicated, just like calculus is literally too

00:57:35 – 00:57:41:	complicated for some people to understand. It's hard. Calculus is a hard thing. For some people,

00:57:41 – 00:57:46:	it's much easier than others, but it's not just sort of a trivial task like tying your shoes,

00:57:47 – 00:57:51:	tying your shoes is something if someone is profoundly retarded. They probably can't even do

00:57:51 – 00:57:55:	that. They probably have Velcro on their shoes today because they can't tie them. That's

00:57:55 – 00:57:59:	that's the outer limit of their performance. So their societal and their

00:58:00 – 00:58:07:	doctrinal implications to someone that can't even understand a hypothetical question, which is

00:58:07 – 00:58:12:	why this is a Christian matter. Because when you look at the Christian faith, you find that there

00:58:12 – 00:58:19:	are a lot of hypotheticals like this to emphasize the issue of criminality and intelligence.

00:58:19 – 00:58:26:	As an attorney, I know a lot of other attorneys, unsurprisingly, many of them, many of my friends

00:58:26 – 00:58:32:	from law school and other colleagues went into criminal law. That was one of the common career paths

00:58:32 – 00:58:40:	out of my particular law school. And so I have talked to many of them, what it's like dealing with

00:58:40 – 00:58:45:	either the client or the accused, depending which side of the courtroom you're sitting.

00:58:47 – 00:58:55:	And many of these people simply cannot understand why what they did is wrong.

00:58:57 – 00:59:05:	You will ask them, how would you feel if someone did this to you and they cannot process it?

00:59:05 – 00:59:11:	Because that's a hypothetical. And so all they can say is, well, it didn't happen to me.

00:59:12 – 00:59:16:	If they can even manage that, some of them simply cannot understand it whatsoever.

00:59:16 – 00:59:21:	There's no response. They'll get they will get angry at you. But they cannot understand

00:59:22 – 00:59:24:	why you shouldn't do whatever horrible thing it is they've done

00:59:27 – 00:59:31:	on an empathetic level because they don't have that empathy because they cannot understand

00:59:32 – 00:59:38:	well, what if you had been the victim? And I also did psychology and undergrad and I did study

00:59:38 – 00:59:46:	IQ and things like that related subjects. But that is the real problem here. You cannot empathize with

00:59:46 – 00:59:54:	other people if you cannot understand hypotheticals to some degree. And so there is a lower bound

59:54 – 01:00:00
for human empathy. That doesn't mean that everyone with a low IQ is an amoral monster.

01:00:01 – 01:00:08:	There are plenty of very unintelligent people who are still decent members of society.

01:00:09 – 01:00:12:	But it is because they have been channeled into a proper place for them.

01:00:13 – 01:00:18:	That's the biggest thing. If you have someone who is particularly subnormal,

01:00:18 – 01:00:24:	that person can be a productive member of society and function at a lower level, yes,

01:00:24 – 01:00:31:	but still function. If he is channeled properly, if he's given a task that is suited to his

01:00:31 – 01:00:38:	abilities, if you just turn him loose in society, things are going to go poorly for him and possibly

01:00:38 – 01:00:44:	also for others. It's going to depend on whether or not he happens to have a violent disposition.

01:00:44 – 01:00:50:	And we talked about that in a previous episode. So if you allow individuals to flood your society

01:00:51 – 01:00:58:	who have low intelligence and a tendency toward violence, well, what are you doing to everyone

01:00:58 – 01:01:02:	else in your society? What are you doing particularly to the most vulnerable members of your society?

01:01:04 – 01:01:09:	And that's why this matters from a societal level. And we'll be getting into the Christian

01:01:09 – 01:01:13:	level. We just touched on a surface level right there saying, Christianity involves a lot of

01:01:13 – 01:01:20:	hypotheticals because it most certainly does. But on the side of whether or not your civilization,

01:01:20 – 01:01:27:	whether or not your society will be able to function at all. You have to deal with these

01:01:27 – 01:01:32:	matters. You have to deal with this reality. You have to know what to do with those who are

01:01:32 – 01:01:38:	particularly subnormal when it comes to intelligence. Because they're not going to just be turned

01:01:38 – 01:01:45:	free in society and function as a man would with an IQ of 100 to 115. If you turn a man loose who

01:01:45 – 01:01:51:	as an IQ of 115, he'll probably find his way in society just fine. He'll manage to do something.

01:01:51 – 01:02:00:	If you do that to someone with an IQ of 70, he's not going to manage just fine. He's going to wind

01:02:00 – 01:02:07:	up homeless or a criminal most likely. Those are the paths that are open to him. And it is not compassionate

01:02:07 – 01:02:15:	and it is not Christian to fail to recognize this or to ignore it in the name of equality or egalitarianism.

01:02:16 – 01:02:21:	You have to deal with reality as it is not as you would prefer it were.

01:02:21 – 01:02:24:	And for anyone who's listening who knows a little bit about psychology,

01:02:25 – 01:02:28:	when you heard Cory describing a lack of empathy, you probably thought,

01:02:28 – 01:02:36:	oh, that's sociopathy or maybe psychopathy. It isn't really. When you're talking about sociopathy

01:02:36 – 01:02:44:	and you're talking about someone who is incapable of empathy, that includes the expectation that if

01:02:44 – 01:02:50:	something weren't wrong with them, they would be able to. We're talking about an entire population

01:02:50 – 01:02:58:	that lacks the mental capacity. It's not emotional. It's not that they are unfeeling. It's that

01:02:59 – 01:03:06:	they're intellectually disconnected from what's right in front of them. And if you've been exposed

01:03:06 – 01:03:11:	to some of the horrible violent videos on the internet recently, they're happening all the time,

01:03:11 – 01:03:17:	but we see them more and more. Now that Elon has taken over the not getting censored like they used to,

01:03:17 – 01:03:24:	which is important because these are actually happening. There is a non-stop stream in the United

01:03:24 – 01:03:32:	States of African Americans committing horrifically violent crimes. And it seems to be sociopathic.

01:03:32 – 01:03:38:	It seems like they have no empathy whatsoever. They will grab something and they will hit a man

01:03:38 – 01:03:43:	and knock him down. And once they knock him down, he's unconscious. They continue whaling on his

01:03:43 – 01:03:51:	skull. They're trying to completely destroy him. And that's a very common reaction. I know that a

01:03:51 – 01:03:56:	lot of people follow me for whatever they find valuable in the takes I have on Twitter. I try to

01:03:56 – 01:04:02:	keep that stuff off my timeline just because it's so upsetting and depressing. But when I hear these

01:04:02 – 01:04:08:	guys saying they're just like us, it's all I can do to restrain myself when just sending them a

01:04:08 – 01:04:14:	flood of nightmarish violent videos like that because they're everywhere. And it's always black

01:04:14 – 01:04:20:	people. You never, ever see white people doing this to anyone else. You see it all the pun with

01:04:20 – 01:04:24:	black people. They don't care where they're doing it to us. It's a lot of times it's black on white

01:04:24 – 01:04:32:	violence, but it doesn't matter. They get set off and they engage in behavior that seems animalistic.

01:04:32 – 01:04:37:	It's it's utterly detached from anything that we would consider morality. You see them doing

01:04:37 – 01:04:41:	it and you're like, just stop them. Like even if you want to hit the guy even you want to hurt him,

01:04:41 – 01:04:47:	he's down. Why would you continue caving his skull in? And yet it's perfectly normal for the entire

01:04:47 – 01:04:53:	population to do that when they get angry. And as Corey said, it doesn't mean every single individual.

01:04:54 – 01:05:00:	But it happens often enough that if you have general intelligence and you can detect patterns,

01:05:00 – 01:05:05:	you cannot help but detect that pattern, which was was a subject to the previous episode. We

01:05:05 – 01:05:09:	don't need to talk about too much more, but I do want to highlight something. You know, we were

01:05:09 – 01:05:17:	talking a few minutes ago about the average African population, which is distinct from the African

01:05:17 – 01:05:22:	American population. You may notice that I typically go out of my way to say African American.

01:05:22 – 01:05:28:	The reason for that is that one, it precludes those who say, oh, it's just skin tone, which is

01:05:28 – 01:05:34:	something everybody wants to say now. The more that race becomes in the issue in Christianity,

01:05:34 – 01:05:39:	the more pastors who are afraid to speak truthfully will say, oh, it's skin tone. It's just color.

01:05:39 – 01:05:46:	There is all superficiality. We're all the same underneath. We all bleed red nonsense. I'm not

01:05:46 – 01:05:51:	going to curse here, but you can just imagine a stream of exaldives of me from me directed at that

01:05:51 – 01:05:58:	sort of lie. That is a vile wicked lie to say it's just skin color. If it were only skin color,

01:05:58 – 01:06:05:	then African Americans would not have IQs of 85 on average. That's one standard deviation above

01:06:05 – 01:06:13:	Africans and one standard deviation below Americans. Why is that the reason? There's been a lot

01:06:13 – 01:06:19:	of study that's gone into this. One of the problems with studies today is that because this subject

01:06:19 – 01:06:26:	is so politicized, many of them are getting censored or they're simply not getting done at all

01:06:26 – 01:06:33:	because anyone who's in the business of securing federal funding or grants for their research,

01:06:34 – 01:06:38:	they know how to milk the system and they know that if they produce a result,

01:06:38 – 01:06:43:	this says that African Americans do anything worse than anybody else. Not only are they not

01:06:43 – 01:06:46:	going to get funded, but they're going to get blackballed and they're never going to work again.

01:06:46 – 01:06:50:	No one's going to give money for anything because that's crime thing.

01:06:50 – 01:06:57:	The reason I call them African Americans is that that's what they are. They're Africans in

01:06:57 – 01:07:03:	America, but they're also part American. Now, I've said before that American is a race. American

01:07:03 – 01:07:11:	is a white race. American is synonymous with white. African Americans on average are about 25 percent

01:07:11 – 01:07:18:	white. Whenever you do genetic studies on a population of African Americans, you'll find that they're

01:07:19 – 01:07:25:	they're a quarter white on average, some are much less, some are much more. It sort of gets

01:07:25 – 01:07:34:	averaged out in the wash because visually African DNA, the physical characteristics that go along

01:07:34 – 01:07:40:	with that are dominant. So if you have African DNA, you're not going to have, for example,

01:07:40 – 01:07:47:	light colored eyes. It's very rare. You do see it very rarely, but light colored eyes only come

01:07:47 – 01:07:52:	for Northwestern Europe. They don't really come from anywhere else. And it's a recessive gene,

01:07:52 – 01:07:57:	which is why it's the only place you see it. Those genes are being wiped out by the ad mixture

01:07:57 – 01:08:02:	with other groups that do not have them. So if someone is three quarters African and one quarter

01:08:02 – 01:08:09:	American, they're going to have predominantly African characteristics. And because Africa is such

01:08:09 – 01:08:14:	a huge continent, there are many lights. And Africans, there are Africans who have less

01:08:15 – 01:08:21:	noticeably African facial features than others. And that's not just, and that's not because they

01:08:21 – 01:08:26:	necessarily have ad mixture in Africa, which means mixing with with another foreign alien

01:08:26 – 01:08:31:	population of DNA. And somebody means that there's a variety. God likes variety. He likes different

01:08:31 – 01:08:35:	shapes. He like different sizes. He likes different looks. It's what he gave us. We don't get to

01:08:35 – 01:08:44:	complain about it or insult it. So African Americans have IQs on average of 85. A big,

01:08:44 – 01:08:49:	huge overwhelming percentage of that is because they're 25% European DNA. Now,

01:08:50 – 01:08:54:	mathematically, that would imply that they have a grandparents who is white. But that's never

01:08:54 – 01:08:59:	the case. It's almost never the case. What has happened is that they have a number of great,

01:08:59 – 01:09:04:	great grandparents or great great great grandparents. And so there are all those little bits and pieces,

01:09:04 – 01:09:09:	you know, 150 years ago. There was a family secret or is just lost to time because, you know,

01:09:09 – 01:09:14:	there's no, there's no living connection to those people. The DNA is passed on. The genes

01:09:14 – 01:09:22:	are passed on. And so a major factor in why African American like user hire is because they have

01:09:22 – 01:09:28:	European DNA. Now, 85 is important because as we've just mentioned, it's below the threshold

01:09:28 – 01:09:35:	of about 90 for being able to understand conditional hypotheticals. If you've ever, I think I said

01:09:35 – 01:09:41:	this last week, if you've ever served on a jury, the rules for a jury, the instructions that

01:09:41 – 01:09:47:	they're given are filled with conditional hypotheticals are complicated. They're based on reason.

01:09:47 – 01:09:54:	They're based on logic. You have if x, then y, if not x, then z. And you have to be able to

01:09:54 – 01:10:02:	process that correctly is just assumed by our society that anyone in the jury room is able to

01:10:02 – 01:10:08:	understand hypotheticals. The average African American can't do it. And I think one of the biggest

01:10:08 – 01:10:14:	problems that the confusion that arises is that we're not saying these people are not human. We're

01:10:14 – 01:10:19:	not saying that they're bad. We're saying that they lack a capacity for something that we just

01:10:19 – 01:10:25:	assume they have. Now imagine if me as someone whose forestander deviation separated from the normal

01:10:25 – 01:10:30:	man, if I just expected you to be able to do everything that I can do, I can jump to conclusions

01:10:30 – 01:10:36:	so quickly. No one even knows what happens. I can remember a time when I was working in a company

01:10:36 – 01:10:40:	and we were sitting around. We were discussing a number of issues and they hand out a piece of

01:10:40 – 01:10:46:	paper. They had one of the issues on it. And I scanned it and sent seconds and I set out loud.

01:10:46 – 01:10:50:	Well, this is a no-brainer. And one of the guys in the room's name was Dave. He's a very smart guy.

01:10:51 – 01:10:55:	He was actually hurt. He was shocked and offended that I said that. And he's like, whoa,

01:10:55 – 01:11:00:	hold on. We need to talk about this first. I don't even if you got it, everyone else needs to

01:11:00 – 01:11:06:	understand. And so we spent like five or 10 minutes going over the thing in detail and they were

01:11:06 – 01:11:10:	yammering back and forth. And eventually they reached the conclusion that I reached in 10 seconds.

01:11:11 – 01:11:17:	That's my experience pretty much all the time. I look, I know, I move on. If I were to hold

01:11:17 – 01:11:22:	you to that standard, it would be vicious. It would be cruel. It would be insane and it would

01:11:22 – 01:11:28:	just be utterly unfair. That's not the gift that you were given. And I can't just say,

01:11:28 – 01:11:35:	oh, you're stupid. Why don't you understand? No, I don't think that. I try to be charitable,

01:11:35 – 01:11:39:	but I know some people take more time. Now, in that case, I was in a room with a bunch of

01:11:39 – 01:11:46:	really smart people like the average IQ that room was probably 130 plus. And so I just wasn't

01:11:46 – 01:11:49:	thinking. I was just relaxed and saying, well, this is, this is easy. This is an easy one.

01:11:49 – 01:11:54:	Like I wanted to move on. I want to get out of there and go home. And yet it took five minutes

01:11:54 – 01:11:58:	for everyone else to struggle through it. And they did struggle. I can remember that specific

01:11:58 – 01:12:05:	problem. They they had a hard time processing when I got like a lightning bolt. And so

01:12:06 – 01:12:12:	the reason that I've given these examples to try to contrast my experience with your experience

01:12:12 – 01:12:19:	is that your experience does not mirror the African-American experience. They don't process

01:12:19 – 01:12:25:	on average that quickly of the 40 and a half million African-Americans in this country.

01:12:26 – 01:12:33:	Six and a half million of them, 13 to 16 percent have IQs of 100 and above. So almost all of

01:12:33 – 01:12:42:	them are below 100. When you get to 85, it's nearly half 19.9 million have IQs below 85,

01:12:42 – 01:12:46:	which you know is what we say is about half. What that implies is that although they have

01:12:46 – 01:12:52:	verbal ability, they can talk to you. They like they seem like normal decent human beings. I'm not

01:12:52 – 01:12:57:	saying they're not. I'm not saying they're not normal decent human beings. What I'm saying is

01:12:57 – 01:13:03:	that your normal experience of being able to process things is different than theirs. And I'm

01:13:03 – 01:13:08:	trying to suggest to you that is cruel and it is unusual and it is impermissible for us as

01:13:08 – 01:13:15:	Christians to impose on a group of people and expectation to which they can't live. And frankly,

01:13:15 – 01:13:20:	we see this all the time in society today and a lot of times it's called wokeism. You'll say

01:13:20 – 01:13:25:	IQ tests are racist. We'll say expecting people to show up on time as racist,

01:13:25 – 01:13:31:	expecting people to do math as racist, expecting people to do math correctly to say that

01:13:31 – 01:13:37:	three to the second power can either be six or it can be nine depending on your cultural expectations.

01:13:37 – 01:13:44:	We as normal whites, we see that and say that's insane. That's it's woke. It's crazy.

01:13:45 – 01:13:50:	They're calling things racist that are in fact racist, not in the sense that they're

01:13:50 – 01:13:56:	hateful, but in the sense that they are based on race. And when someone has an IQ of 85 and they

01:13:56 – 01:14:01:	can't understand hypotheticals and you tell them to do things like consider the future, which by

01:14:01 – 01:14:08:	the way is a hypothetical, it's not fair. You're trying to expect them to do something that they're

01:14:08 – 01:14:14:	not able to do. It's like trying to expect someone with down syndrome to tie his shoes correctly.

01:14:14 – 01:14:22:	You can't do it rather than insulting and calling names and degrading or the opposite of saying,

01:14:22 – 01:14:26:	no, you can do it. You're just fine. You're just like me. You can process. That's just fine.

01:14:26 – 01:14:30:	Well, that's not true. If someone is incapable of understanding something, you're capable of

01:14:30 – 01:14:36:	understanding. It is not kind to lie to them, to gaslight them, to say, you're just like me. You

01:14:36 – 01:14:41:	can get this. Well, they'll never get it. And we see a lot of anger from this population in part

01:14:41 – 01:14:48:	because they're being tasked with something impossible. And it is on us who understand better than

01:14:48 – 01:14:55:	them what's going on. And what we see in society is the exact opposite. This demonic world that

01:14:55 – 01:15:00:	Satan is ruling is telling our churches, it's telling our pastors, it's telling our lady, no,

01:15:00 – 01:15:05:	you're all completely the same. You all have the same ideas, the same arts, the same souls.

01:15:05 – 01:15:10:	You're all completely interchangeable. They can do exactly what you can do. If you believe that,

01:15:10 – 01:15:15:	then of course, I'm a monster for saying this. I am the only evil thing in the world who's saying

01:15:15 – 01:15:20:	these people can't do exactly what you can do. What I'm telling you, in contrary distinction to

01:15:20 – 01:15:26:	that is, in fact, a subset of those people, a sizable subset, can't do it. And no amount of

01:15:26 – 01:15:32:	yelling at them or encouraging them or lying to them is going to change the fact that they

01:15:32 – 01:15:39:	can't be taught to do something that they're not capable of. Back when the LCMS was a more serious

01:15:39 – 01:15:47:	church body, we produced a pamphlet called helping the retarded to know God. It was published and

01:15:47 – 01:15:54:	I think it was 1969. And today, to modern sensibilities, to some ears that's going to sound

01:15:54 – 01:16:02:	atrocious or at least perhaps silly, but it's not. And it is of a kind with very early on,

01:16:03 – 01:16:11:	Lutherans became very concerned with how do we reach the handicapped? And there are a lot of

01:16:11 – 01:16:17:	different handicaps that will play into this issue. For instance, scriptures very clear,

01:16:18 – 01:16:22:	faith comes from hearing. Well, how do we reach the death?

01:16:23 – 01:16:28:	They can't hear the word of God. And so Lutherans set up schools for the death because we wanted to

01:16:28 – 01:16:34:	teach them so that they would be able to receive the word of God in another way, because they can

01:16:34 – 01:16:38:	still read as long as they're not both blind and deaf. And then of course, they're blind and

01:16:38 – 01:16:44:	deaf. Well, that's why we have braille and other things like that. But for those who are mentally

01:16:44 – 01:16:50:	retarded, this is a very real concern, because as was stated, much of the Christian faith

01:16:51 – 01:16:58:	is phrased, is worded in hypotheticals. If you believe in Jesus Christ, if you have faith,

01:17:00 – 01:17:07:	those are both hypothetical statements, those are conditional, if then. If you believe in Jesus

01:17:07 – 01:17:12:	Christ, if you have faith in Jesus Christ, then you will spend eternity in paradise.

01:17:14 – 01:17:20:	Almost none of that statement is comprehensible to someone with an IQ below 80 or so,

01:17:21 – 01:17:28:	because you have made it conditional. If this, then that, it's a hypothetical because it has

01:17:28 – 01:17:33:	to do with the future. It has to do with if you do this condition, then that thing will happen.

01:17:34 – 01:17:41:	It has to do with eternity, because you're speaking about eternal life and paradise. It has to do

01:17:41 – 01:17:47:	with paradise, which is a hypothetical. All of these are things that are not comprehensible

01:17:48 – 01:17:55:	to someone who has an IQ below 80, perhaps below 85, but at least below 80. How do you reach that man

01:17:56 – 01:18:02:	with the faith? How do you teach him the faith? How do you ensure that he has faith and continues

01:18:02 – 01:18:07:	to grow in the faith? These are real problems for the church, and these are things that are simply

01:18:07 – 01:18:13:	swept under the rug and ignored by those who want to say, no, we're all equal. Everyone has

01:18:13 – 01:18:17:	the same capabilities, and if you just try hard, you'll be able to achieve it. And that's not the

01:18:17 – 01:18:25:	case. As stated earlier, there are certain things that no matter how hard you try, no matter how

01:18:25 – 01:18:31:	well you understand them, you will never be able to instruct someone below a certain level of

01:18:31 – 01:18:37:	intelligence. And that is the case with the faith. There are certain things about the faith

01:18:37 – 01:18:45:	that someone with an IQ of 85 or lower will never be able to understand. You are not going to give him

01:18:45 – 01:18:52:	a dogmatics textbook and explain to him the communication of attributes between the divine

01:18:52 – 01:18:57:	nature and the human nature. You will never be able to explain that to him. That's not to say

01:18:57 – 01:19:04:	this person cannot be a Christian as we stated multiple times. Those who are not very intelligent

01:19:04 – 01:19:11:	can make excellent Christians, if they have faithful pastors and faithful congregations who

01:19:11 – 01:19:18:	recognize how you reach that person. If you treat him as if he were just any other man with a

01:19:18 – 01:19:26:	standard IQ 100 to 115, if you treat him like that, you may very well dam him, because he is not

01:19:26 – 01:19:32:	going to get the faith in the way that he needs to hear it in a way that is understandable to him.

01:19:33 – 01:19:38:	Yes, certainly, if he's at least in the service and hears the word, we trust that God's word

01:19:38 – 01:19:46:	does not return to him void as he promises in Scripture. But you should be able and you should

01:19:46 – 01:19:55:	be attempting to reach these men where they are. God at the very least permitted them to be that way.

01:19:55 – 01:20:01:	Yes, some of this is of course a consequence of the fall. So to say God simply made you that way

01:20:01 – 01:20:07:	is accurate but not entirely because obviously through the corruption of original sin,

01:20:07 – 01:20:14:	we see these defects creeping into human nature over time. But you have to take that into account

01:20:15 – 01:20:20:	because if you treat him as a normal man, you are actually doing him a disservice and you are

01:20:20 – 01:20:24:	being disloyal to God. You are not doing what you have been called to do as a Christian.

01:20:25 – 01:20:31:	It's the same thing as if you had a particularly slow child. If you have a mentally retarded

01:20:31 – 01:20:37:	child, you do not put the same burdens on him. You do not set the same expectations for him

01:20:37 – 01:20:42:	that you would for a child who was average. That would be cruel and as a parent you should understand

01:20:42 – 01:20:49:	that. But it's the same thing in the church because the pastor is supposed to care for the sheep.

01:20:50 – 01:20:57:	If you have a sheep with a broken limb, you don't just wander off, have all the sheep follow you

01:20:57 – 01:21:01:	and then well the one with the broken limb, he'll eventually waddle over and make it know. You have

01:21:01 – 01:21:07:	to bind up the limb, you have to heal that, you have to carry him if necessary. You have to account

01:21:08 – 01:21:15:	for the capabilities of the people in your congregation and that is not being done today because it

01:21:15 – 01:21:24:	goes against our public civic religion, which is just again, it's the slogan of the French Revolution

01:21:24 – 01:21:32:	with particular emphasis on egalitarianism, on equality. And as Corey reiterated from the beginning,

01:21:32 – 01:21:36:	and I want to say one more time, we're not saying that these people cannot be Christian.

01:21:36 – 01:21:41:	African Americans have for a long period of time ever since they were brought here as slaves

01:21:41 – 01:21:47:	and their slave masters forced them to be Christian and taught them the Christian faith, many of them

01:21:47 – 01:21:51:	have been faithful Christians. That was God blessing them even in the face of adversity.

01:21:52 – 01:21:59:	There's nothing to do with receiving the faith. However, this has everything to do with propagating

01:21:59 – 01:22:06:	the faith. Because one of the requirements for pastors is to be apt to teach. Who is capable of

01:22:06 – 01:22:13:	teaching? He who has mastered a subject. It's not enough to simply regurgitate. It's not

01:22:13 – 01:22:20:	enough to know a few things. To be a teacher is to have mastered the subject area sufficiently,

01:22:20 – 01:22:25:	that whatever question arises, whatever error arises, perhaps there's no question, but there's

01:22:25 – 01:22:30:	a problem that you need to address, because someone say something out of left field. Only a pastor

01:22:30 – 01:22:37:	who is apt to teach is equipped to do that. Now, when two-thirds of the African American population

01:22:37 – 01:22:44:	has an IQ at or below 90, meaning that they cannot typically handle, and by typically, I mean,

01:22:44 – 01:22:51:	90% or 5% of the time, handle hypothetical conditionals. Are they going to be able to propagate

01:22:51 – 01:22:57:	the Christian faith among themselves? The reason this is a pressing issue for our church,

01:22:57 – 01:23:03:	particularly the Missouri Synod, is that it is the stated goal of President Matt Harrison and

01:23:03 – 01:23:10:	the entire St. Louis seminary staff, and probably many in Fort Wayne as well. It's the general

01:23:10 – 01:23:17:	view of the Missouri Synod that, while for the last 100 years, the Missouri Synod has radically

01:23:17 – 01:23:25:	embraced using contraception to prevent God from giving us the blessing of children in marriage,

01:23:26 – 01:23:31:	we've completely capitulated that. 100 years ago, it was illegal, and the church condemned it,

01:23:31 – 01:23:35:	and then I think the Anklins jumped ship first, and we immediately followed, and today,

01:23:35 – 01:23:40:	if you speak out against any form of contraception, as a pastor, you may well get run out of your

01:23:40 – 01:23:46:	congregation. You're certainly going to lose people, because a lot of the people in your congregation

01:23:46 – 01:23:53:	are practicing it to some degree. If you want to be married, and you want to have sex,

01:23:53 – 01:23:59:	God will sometimes give you children, as he sees fit. You don't get to decide, I want the sex,

01:23:59 – 01:24:04:	I don't want the babies. It's a package deal. If you want neither, don't get married. If you want

01:24:04 – 01:24:09:	one or the other, you get married, and you get both, according to God's good will. Contreception

01:24:09 – 01:24:15:	interrupts that. It says, nope, I want part of it, I don't want all of it. It's really no different

01:24:15 – 01:24:20:	than fornication, where you say, you know what, I don't want the marriage, I just want the intimacy,

01:24:20 – 01:24:26:	I want the fun, I don't want the obligation. Contreception is just another variation on that same

01:24:26 – 01:24:31:	thing. And so the Missouri Senate embraced it radically. Most of our pastors have maybe one or two

01:24:31 – 01:24:36:	kids. If you have seven, eight, nine, you can tell who's practicing contraception and who isn't.

01:24:36 – 01:24:41:	What do they preach against it or not? When their entire family takes up at least a row,

01:24:41 – 01:24:47:	you know what they're practicing. And that is a testimony to their faith in God. And it's

01:24:47 – 01:24:53:	something that should be said publicly and explicitly. God blesses those who obey Him. We've

01:24:53 – 01:24:58:	talked in the past about how Protestants are allergic to being told, hey, if I obey God, good

01:24:58 – 01:25:03:	things will happen. Well, try to find a page of the Bible that doesn't say something to that effect.

01:25:03 – 01:25:09:	God promises that. He promises punishment to the wicked in this life. And he promises blessings

01:25:09 – 01:25:14:	to the faithful for being faithful. He also promises suffering. I'm not saying everything's going to be

01:25:14 – 01:25:19:	great. You may do everything right and be barren. That happens, too. If that's God's will

01:25:19 – 01:25:27:	embrace that cross and use it for your own personal adification. But that's not the norm.

01:25:27 – 01:25:32:	Just as being exceptionally brilliant or retarded is not the norm. Most people get married.

01:25:32 – 01:25:38:	If they don't contracept, they have kids. They have a lot of kids. That's how God designed us.

01:25:38 – 01:25:42:	That's how he designed everything. The Missouri Senate embraced interrupting

01:25:43 – 01:25:48:	the creation of families. We then embraced sending all of our girls off to college as well as

01:25:48 – 01:25:54:	the boys. We then embraced those colleges, ceasing to even be Christian colleges. So you have

01:25:54 – 01:25:59:	multiple effects of not having babies, destroying local congregations and local families by

01:25:59 – 01:26:03:	sending everyone away. And then destroying the faith of the children of that congregation

01:26:03 – 01:26:09:	by not properly categorizing them. And by that, I don't mean catechesis before they're confirmed.

01:26:09 – 01:26:14:	I mean everything that they're taught. If you're taught that that obedience to God and the

01:26:14 – 01:26:19:	participation in the church is just this optional thing. Yes, of course, they're going to

01:26:19 – 01:26:25:	fall away. And we see all of those things in massive numbers. The LCMS is actually getting older

01:26:25 – 01:26:32:	year over year. We're aging as a population faster than we're literally aging. That means that the

01:26:32 – 01:26:39:	apostasy of the younger generations is continuing to accelerate. So we're losing souls, not even to

01:26:39 – 01:26:44:	death. They're not being claimed by God in heaven because the boomers are dying. They're being

01:26:44 – 01:26:48:	claimed by Satan's world because they see no reason to come to church and work as why would they?

01:26:48 – 01:26:53:	When their churches aren't about God in the first place, sure they have the sacraments and there's

01:26:53 – 01:26:58:	preaching, but is not preaching against those things that the people need to hear is not telling

01:26:58 – 01:27:04:	what they actually need. You need more than the forgiveness of sins. Lutheran heads explode when

01:27:04 – 01:27:09:	you say that, but it's the truth. The forgiveness of sins is the beginning of the Christian life. It's

01:27:09 – 01:27:14:	not the end. The cross is yes, the beginning and the end of your Christian life, but only because

01:27:14 – 01:27:20:	everything that flows from it is a blessing from God. Your justification is the first blessing from

01:27:20 – 01:27:25:	God. And then all the good works that he gives you for the rest of your life in view of the cross

01:27:25 – 01:27:32:	are also gifts from the same Father in heaven. We cannot ignore one and expect to keep the other.

01:27:32 – 01:27:36:	As that's what we're seeing in the numbers, it's what we're seeing in the pews. You look around

01:27:36 – 01:27:42:	and you see nothing, a gray hair, and most of our congregations. The reason this race thing

01:27:42 – 01:27:49:	matters is that Matt Harrison and the St. Louis seminary, their plan for reversing this decline,

01:27:49 – 01:27:56:	is to replace the European American population of Lutheranism with foreigners, with Africans,

01:27:56 – 01:28:02:	with Turks, with people from anywhere in the world except for us. One of the things that all those

01:28:02 – 01:28:07:	people have in common is substantially lower IQs to the point that they're beneath threshold

01:28:07 – 01:28:13:	of being able to even comprehend the more complex parts of the faith, never mind propagating it.

01:28:13 – 01:28:20:	And this is why this is a gospel issue. It is one thing to teach an African-American or anyone

01:28:21 – 01:28:28:	anyone to teach them the faith. Anyone can be taught the faith. No matter how low their IQ, IQ

01:28:28 – 01:28:34:	doesn't keep you from God. Babies, you know, they effectively have no IQ. In the womb,

01:28:34 – 01:28:39:	they're all they can do is here. They can't even think in any common in any way that we can

01:28:39 – 01:28:44:	understand. And yet they can receive faith by hearing. If you're a pregnant mother in your sitting

01:28:44 – 01:28:49:	in church every Sunday, your baby is already a Christian because your baby is hearing the word of

01:28:49 – 01:28:55:	God through your belly. Faith comes by hearing. It doesn't come from understanding. We are not

01:28:55 – 01:29:02:	gating the faith on intellectual ascent. What we are saying is that comprehension is the only

01:29:02 – 01:29:08:	way that the faith can be propagated. And if the synod succeeds in derasinating our churches,

01:29:08 – 01:29:12:	so we get rid of all the white Europeans who are out of fashion with the world. It's not

01:29:12 – 01:29:19:	cool anymore. We're 96 percent white as a denomination. And that is a matter of profound shame

01:29:19 – 01:29:25:	for the men in charge. They despise it. Whenever they talk about it, it's with venom.

01:29:26 – 01:29:33:	Is that not how God made our denomination? Is it or isn't it? Did God make these 96 percent

01:29:33 – 01:29:39:	white population Lutheran? And the smattering, it's like half African-American and half others.

01:29:39 – 01:29:44:	Great. I'm glad that they're here. As we talked about in the shaking the dust off your feet

01:29:44 – 01:29:50:	episode, we have tried for over a century to reach out to the African-American population.

01:29:50 – 01:29:57:	We spent hundreds of millions of dollars on black colleges. They failed. They all failed. They

01:29:57 – 01:30:02:	worked a little bit for a time and then they died. They died because African-Americans do not want

01:30:02 – 01:30:07:	to be Lutheran. And so these guys think, well, the solution is, let's be less Lutheran. It's more

01:30:07 – 01:30:13:	important for us to get Jesus in front of these people than to be Lutheran, which is a false dichotomy.

01:30:13 – 01:30:17:	Being Lutheran is putting Jesus in front of these people. Whoever these people, I don't care

01:30:17 – 01:30:21:	what their race is or what country they're from. I care about the fact that the proper

01:30:21 – 01:30:27:	proclamation of the gospel, the proper proclamation with all the gifts that we have been given in our

01:30:27 – 01:30:35:	doctrine, must come from someone who can properly express it. And if Matt Harrison and all

01:30:35 – 01:30:39:	his flying monkeys succeed in replacing all the white men that they don't want to see in these

01:30:39 – 01:30:45:	positions anymore, they're going to be replaced by people who by and large are less capable.

01:30:45 – 01:30:54:	We're seeing this in every industry. In fact, in Harvard, in medical schools, in the military,

01:30:54 – 01:31:00:	in the airlines, they are systematically replacing whites, specifically replacing whites with

01:31:00 – 01:31:06:	other populations, with minority populations who are less intellectually apt.

01:31:06 – 01:31:11:	One of the charts I'm going to have is going to show the absolute numbers. We talked about percentages,

01:31:11 – 01:31:17:	but absolutes matter too. There are 40 and a half million African-Americans in this country.

01:31:17 – 01:31:21:	How many black people do you think have IQs above 115?

01:31:23 – 01:31:31:	The answer is 1.2 million. They're 1.2 million African-Americans today who have IQs above 115.

01:31:31 – 01:31:37:	Now, that's kind of the minimum threshold for being able to do anything useful in business.

01:31:37 – 01:31:42:	It's not nearly smart enough to be a scientist. It's not remotely smart enough to be a doctor,

01:31:42 – 01:31:48:	but that's the entire pool of all available African-Americans for everything. 1.2 million people.

01:31:48 – 01:31:53:	Now, if they're smart, and they're not Lutheran, and maybe I have Christian, what are they going to

01:31:53 – 01:31:57:	do? They're going to pursue wealth. They're going to pursue fame like everybody else. I don't

01:31:57 – 01:32:01:	fault them for that apart from the fact that it's worldly. It's not a particular son of that

01:32:01 – 01:32:07:	community. It's what our entire culture is built around. 1.2 million people is all you have who

01:32:08 – 01:32:15:	are apt to teach anything remotely. That's the pool that the Missouri Senate wants to replace us with.

01:32:16 – 01:32:22:	We're talking about this because it's not going to work. It is guaranteed to fail. It's

01:32:22 – 01:32:27:	mathematically guaranteed to fail. And the reason we're talking about something that's so controversial

01:32:27 – 01:32:31:	and upsetting, and we're telling you something that you can't see and you don't think is real,

01:32:33 – 01:32:37:	is because it's one of the things that God has equipped Cory and I to be able to do. We can

01:32:37 – 01:32:43:	connect these dots that no one else can even see. You may be able to connect to add 2 plus 2.

01:32:44 – 01:32:50:	I can add 2 plus 2 by inferring the existence of one of the twos from what's going on in the

01:32:50 – 01:32:55:	environment. And I can imagine that the other two is the only possible solution to the problem.

01:32:55 – 01:33:00:	I don't need either two to connect 2 plus 2. You may need God to hand you both up and you say,

01:33:00 – 01:33:06:	yeah, 2 plus 2 is 4. The ability to comprehend these situations is something that's not given to

01:33:06 – 01:33:11:	every man. The reason that Cory and I started Stone Quire and the reason that we're talking about

01:33:11 – 01:33:17:	these issues that are upsetting and they're divisive and they make people uncomfortable is that if

01:33:17 – 01:33:22:	Matt Harrison and the Missouri Senate and all these other places, all these other churches,

01:33:22 – 01:33:28:	it's not just about Lutherans, but there are chief problems. If these men succeed in driving the

01:33:28 – 01:33:33:	whites away from these positions and replacing them with African Americans, how many of that 1.2

01:33:33 – 01:33:38:	million or even remotely capable of doing these things are going to be in those positions.

01:33:38 – 01:33:43:	The answer is basically none. You're not going to be able to maintain the same standards that we

01:33:43 – 01:33:50:	have and replace us with them. I'm saying us and them specifically, not because they're not

01:33:50 – 01:33:54:	Christians, not because they're not brothers in Christ. I do not deny that. I'm thankful to God

01:33:54 – 01:34:01:	for giving them faith. What I am resisting and what I am objecting to is the notion that we can

01:34:01 – 01:34:07:	be wholesale replaced just as we are in our countries, just as we are in the lands that we have,

01:34:07 – 01:34:13:	we're being replaced in our churches by those who tell you, oh, it's fine, their Christians too,

01:34:13 – 01:34:18:	their Lutherans too is all going to be exactly the same. Lutheranism will be dead into generations

01:34:18 – 01:34:23:	of we go away because there's not going to be anyone left who can even understand the book of

01:34:23 – 01:34:28:	conquered. It's just that simple. If you pick up the book of conquered and you start flipping through

01:34:28 – 01:34:33:	it, there's going to be stuff in there that you have a hard time understanding. Imagine if you're

01:34:35 – 01:34:41:	a standard deviation lower. Imagine if you don't have the ability to understand hypotheticals,

01:34:41 – 01:34:46:	you open that book. What are you going to see? You're not even able to read it. That's what our

01:34:46 – 01:34:50:	church is facing. That's why we're talking about this. That's why race is something that matters

01:34:50 – 01:34:55:	in the church because yes, you can receive faith by hearing. That doesn't mean you can teach it to

01:34:55 – 01:35:01:	others. If you have a friend who's a Christian who has Down syndrome, you love him as a brother in

01:35:01 – 01:35:06:	Christ, but you don't ask him theological questions. That's wisdom. That's not cruelty.

01:35:07 – 01:35:12:	On the point of the book of conquered, the best example would probably be the solid declaration,

01:35:13 – 01:35:20:	which was written by men with IQs probably in the 140s, 150s, addressing other men in a similar

01:35:20 – 01:35:27:	range. As was mentioned earlier with the numbers, you're not going to get that if you replace

01:35:27 – 01:35:34:	Europeans with Africans. That population simply does not have those individuals in it.

01:35:35 – 01:35:43:	There are two populations that currently exist among humanity that have even the potential

01:35:43 – 01:35:50:	to maintain Christianity for any length of time. That is Europeans, which includes Americans because

01:35:50 – 01:35:59:	Americans are of European descent and East Asians, Northeast Asians. However, across generations

01:35:59 – 01:36:06:	of effort, we have made very minimal if any inroads in Asia. Now, I know those are going to

01:36:07 – 01:36:13:	know. Today, there are millions of Christians in China and there are some Christians in

01:36:13 – 01:36:18:	Korea and some Christians in Japan. There are some. There's a lot of syncretism and other problems,

01:36:19 – 01:36:26:	but that small population over that period of time, because don't forget this has been centuries

01:36:26 – 01:36:36:	of effort. It's never been self-maintaining. It's never been self-sustaining. The odds are that if

01:36:36 – 01:36:41:	it did not have Christian support from outside, it would be crushed by the government inside of a

01:36:41 – 01:36:47:	generation. Of course, we see that happening in the West now as well. But the bottom line here and

01:36:47 – 01:36:57:	the reason this matters is that there is no church without white Christians. There is no church

01:36:57 – 01:37:04:	without Europeans. That doesn't mean that there wouldn't be a church for a time. If all Europeans

01:37:04 – 01:37:10:	disappeared today in some strange version of the rapture, which is false, of course, but we'll

01:37:10 – 01:37:16:	get that at another time, but if we were all to disappear, the church would continue for a period of

01:37:16 – 01:37:29:	time. But inside of two, three, four generations at the most, the church would die and everyone in

01:37:29 – 01:37:37:	areas that today have churches would return to animism, to syncretism, to paganism. And we've seen

01:37:37 – 01:37:44:	that happen. We've seen areas in Africa where Europeans have withdrawn. The areas were Christian,

01:37:44 – 01:37:51:	and they've gone right back into animism almost immediately. And the reason that's going to happen

01:37:52 – 01:37:59:	is that you are always going to have men at the top who are intellectually gifted by God running

01:37:59 – 01:38:07:	things, answering the questions, being the administrators, the administrators, etc. If you remove those

01:38:07 – 01:38:15:	men, well, something someone else with those capacities with that ability will take their place.

01:38:16 – 01:38:20:	And it's going to be demons because there's no one else to fill the role. And that's what we've

01:38:20 – 01:38:27:	seen happen all over the world. If you don't have the capable men at the helm, demons come in and

01:38:27 – 01:38:36:	say, well, sure you're worshiping God, but shouldn't you also worship this saint? Shouldn't you also

01:38:36 – 01:38:44:	worship this tree? And over time, you become a syncretist. And then eventually you lose the

01:38:44 – 01:38:50:	elements of Christianity entirely, and you're a pagan again. That is exactly what will happen

01:38:50 – 01:39:01:	without Europeans. And it may be that men with an IQ of 115 say, could sustain a church for a time,

01:39:01 – 01:39:05:	could keep it going. That's certainly the case. Neither one of us doubts that.

01:39:06 – 01:39:13:	But can those men answer new challenges? Could those men have written the Book of Concord? Could

01:39:13 – 01:39:18:	those men have produced the creeds? Could those men have answered any number of challenges in

01:39:18 – 01:39:26:	the history of the church? The answer is no. Because the intelligence behind those who are going to

01:39:26 – 01:39:33:	bring the challenges against Christianity, the diabolical intelligence, is going to be greater than

01:39:33 – 01:39:39:	those men can handle. They will not be able to contend with it. And so even if you have the

01:39:39 – 01:39:43:	materials on hand to address many of the issues in the history of the church, we do. We certainly do.

01:39:44 – 01:39:49:	We have great writings. For many church fathers, we have the Book of Concord. We have great materials.

01:39:50 – 01:39:55:	You one have to have men who can read them and understand them and then teach them. And that

01:39:55 – 01:40:01:	requires a certain level of intelligence. But you also need men who are even more capable of that,

01:40:01 – 01:40:07:	who can answer the new challenges that face the church. And that is the problem we have today.

01:40:08 – 01:40:15:	We have that problem because we have many faithful pastors. The LCMS in particular has

01:40:15 – 01:40:21:	many great parish pastors out there who are doing their duty day in and day out working 60 hour

01:40:21 – 01:40:27:	weeks, keeping up with their parish, following up with shut-ins and all of the things that they do day

01:40:27 – 01:40:35:	to day. But those are not the men who need to address the problems we face today. Those are not

01:40:35 – 01:40:41:	the men who have that task. God doesn't give the task to them. Other men, whom God has given the

01:40:41 – 01:40:47:	ability to do that, have to address those issues and then teach the pastors and then the pastors

01:40:47 – 01:40:51:	teach the parishioners. That's the hierarchy. That is how it's supposed to work.

01:40:53 – 01:41:00:	And if you replace the white European population in the church with others, you will lose the

01:41:00 – 01:41:06:	ability to do that. You will first lose the ability to address novel issues. You will second

01:41:06 – 01:41:10:	lose the ability to address issues that have already been addressed because you will have lost

01:41:10 – 01:41:17:	the ability to understand the materials and then you will lose the faith. That is why this issue

01:41:17 – 01:41:23:	matters. That is why we're fighting for it. Because if those who hate the heritage that God has

01:41:23 – 01:41:30:	given to the Western church get their way, there will be no church on earth in a hundred years.

01:41:31 – 01:41:35:	I'm going to emphasize that again so that we're both on record saying exactly the same thing.

01:41:36 – 01:41:44:	Satan wants to destroy the church. He always has. Christianity will die without white people.

01:41:46 – 01:41:50:	It may not die out completely, but the spread will die. I know that there's some who will say,

01:41:50 – 01:41:56:	what about Ethiopian Sudan? Yeah, what about them? They preserved a small remnant of Christianity.

01:41:56 – 01:42:00:	I haven't really looked into their doctrine. I'll assume for the sake of charity that they're

01:42:00 – 01:42:04:	actually Christian. I don't have any reason to believe they're not. I think they're a little weird,

01:42:04 – 01:42:10:	but fine. Who isn't weird at this point? They never evangelized anyone. They were in Africa. They

01:42:10 – 01:42:15:	never evangelized any Africans. It took white people to evangelize Africans. It takes white people

01:42:15 – 01:42:21:	to sustain Africans in the faith outside of Ethiopia. And by the way, those Ethiopians are

01:42:21 – 01:42:26:	descended from Solomon, at least those who have preserved the church there. So even that is a

01:42:26 – 01:42:32:	racial church, and it's not African in the way the most people think. Satan wants you to believe

01:42:32 – 01:42:39:	that race is not real. He wants you to believe that race does not exist, that we're all fungible.

01:42:39 – 01:42:44:	He wants you to believe that any man who tells you differently is evil and must be excommunicated and

01:42:44 – 01:42:49:	destroyed, which is something that both Cory and I are facing for saying precisely these things.

01:42:50 – 01:42:55:	The reason that we're talking about race at all is not because we care. It's not because we think

01:42:55 – 01:42:59:	it's interesting. We've said that repeatedly. The reason we're talking about IQ is not because we

01:42:59 – 01:43:05:	care or we think it's interesting. We're talking about these controversial upsetting things that

01:43:05 – 01:43:09:	are probably upset and alienating. Some of you are listening right now. We're talking about them

01:43:09 – 01:43:14:	because as men who are so much smarter than you that you can't even understand what's going on

01:43:14 – 01:43:22:	in our heads, we're telling you with all the fervor that we can muster. If you continue to deny

01:43:22 – 01:43:28:	that race is real and that it matters and that white people have been the colonel head that has

01:43:28 – 01:43:36:	kept Christendom alive for 1500 years, buy our attributes. It's a gift from God. And to make

01:43:36 – 01:43:42:	clear, we're not saying, oh, we're great because of this. God is great for giving us these gifts.

01:43:42 – 01:43:49:	God is great for making me as smart as I am. And I was a jerk most of my life. I wasted it.

01:43:49 – 01:43:55:	I used it on selfish things. I'm trying to change that now. A gift is only as good as how it's

01:43:55 – 01:44:01:	spent. And if it's despised, it's a gift that's wasted. We are not taking credit for the good

01:44:01 – 01:44:07:	things that whites have done. God gets the credit for the good works. However, no one else in human

01:44:07 – 01:44:16:	history has ever done it. And based solely on IQ aptitude, as Cory just mentioned, only

01:44:17 – 01:44:24:	white Europeans are capable of preserving the faith as we know it today. The Christian church

01:44:24 – 01:44:31:	will die. At this point, all we can do is try to warn people that Satan is, he's on the verge of

01:44:31 – 01:44:39:	winning. And the fact that our own churches are burning down men like us for the sake of destroying

01:44:39 – 01:44:45:	racism in their words next week's episode is going to be about racism and what a fictional sin

01:44:45 – 01:44:51:	that is and why it's being weaponized against Christendom. The reason that these are issues is a

01:44:51 – 01:44:56:	Satan knows that all he has to do is take us off the table and it's over because whatever time

01:44:57 – 01:45:01:	you remnant has existed in Ethiopia or India or all these other little gothic exceptions that

01:45:01 – 01:45:07:	your editors have, they're nothing. Not in the kingdom of God, they're important souls to God. I'm

01:45:07 – 01:45:11:	not minimizing that. They've never in the history of the Christian church done anything to spread

01:45:11 – 01:45:17:	the faith that only happened after the apostles went out in Europe. You have effectively happened

01:45:17 – 01:45:22:	virtually nowhere else that we know of, which means it didn't happen because that's recorded

01:45:22 – 01:45:27:	history. This stuff matters because the church will die if we capitulate to the world.

01:45:28 – 01:45:35:	And I'll once again say, if your morality is coming from the mainstream media and it's in perfect

01:45:35 – 01:45:41:	lockstep against the things that we're saying and it's in lockstep with the vile statement that

01:45:41 – 01:45:47:	Matt Harrison put out last week, if that's your morality, it's identical to CNN's. If you think

01:45:47 – 01:45:51:	you're getting it from God, it may have mercy on your soul and judgment day because it does not

01:45:51 – 01:45:58:	where it came from. The fact that we are outnumbered and that we are despised doesn't mean we're right.

01:45:58 – 01:46:01:	There are plenty of people who are outnumbered and despised because they're awful and that's an

01:46:01 – 01:46:07:	easy thing to sell to people who are suckers, especially if you're used to identifying who's

01:46:07 – 01:46:11:	correct by being in the majority. For Lutherans who are listening in Protestants in general,

01:46:12 – 01:46:17:	that's the claim their own has. They said we have over a billion souls. We must be the church

01:46:17 – 01:46:24:	because look at all the people who agree with us. Numbers don't matter. Opinions don't matter.

01:46:24 – 01:46:31:	Scripture matters. And Scripture is not at odds with anything that either quarrying eye

01:46:31 – 01:46:36:	have ever said on this podcast. The more that our adversaries listen to our episodes,

01:46:36 – 01:46:41:	the more they agree that we're doctrinally sound on everything except for the one or two things

01:46:41 – 01:46:47:	that they want to attack and race is chief among them. Ask yourself why that is. How can the men

01:46:47 – 01:46:53:	who hate us and want to see us murdered admit that we are sound Christians who are smarter than

01:46:53 – 01:46:58:	them and who know the Christian faith better than them? How did we get this one thing wrong? How's

01:46:58 – 01:47:03:	it the only thing that we're getting wrong? Why are we the only ones talking about it? Because we

01:47:03 – 01:47:08:	will be destroyed for talking about it. And if you believe and you talk about it too, you'll also

01:47:08 – 01:47:12:	be destroyed. You'll be destroyed by the Missouri Senate. You'll be destroyed by your own church

01:47:12 – 01:47:19:	body, whatever it is. Because Satan is holding the reins to all of them. He has CNN. He has the

01:47:19 – 01:47:25:	purple palace in Missouri Senate and St. Louis. He has most of your church bodies too. There's nowhere

01:47:25 – 01:47:31:	to hide. And we're talking about these things because what else can we do? All we can do is tell

01:47:31 – 01:47:36:	you the truth. And like I said, I've been called retarded and stupid for decades. I'm used to. I

01:47:36 – 01:47:41:	don't mind it. I feel bad when it happens for the person who's saying it because I know that

01:47:41 – 01:47:45:	I'm not going to be able to reach them. And I just pray that someday they'll believe me.

01:47:45 – 01:47:51:	But the days are running short for this. So if you believe me, if you hear me now and believe me

01:47:51 – 01:47:56:	later, it might be too late. The reason that we're talking about this uncomfortable subject is that

01:47:56 – 01:48:03:	if our churches capitulate, if they participate in the white replacement that's happening in every

01:48:03 – 01:48:08:	European country that's being welcomed with open arms by virtually every denomination of

01:48:08 – 01:48:16:	Christianity today, if that succeeds, there will be no Christianity in the 22nd century, which means

01:48:16 – 01:48:20:	that there will be no 22nd century. The end is near. God is going to come and He's going to end

01:48:20 – 01:48:26:	all of this because I don't see any other outcome. That's my personal opinion. But I think if you

01:48:27 – 01:48:32:	if you read the parts of scripture that talk about end times and you don't find these things

01:48:32 – 01:48:37:	playing out in ways that they have never played out before, I hope you'll just spend more time

01:48:37 – 01:48:43:	in the word because our faithfulness is being tested. And the things that God says about those

01:48:43 – 01:48:49:	who are faithful in the last days, apply to you too. If if you believe us, if you don't believe us,

01:48:50 – 01:48:57:	look at scripture and you may find that you must mistrust your pastors or result of that,

01:48:57 – 01:49:04:	which is a terrible thing. I don't want us to have to mistrust our pastors. The ideal case

01:49:04 – 01:49:10:	is a church where the people are sheep. They're believing they're like children and the teachers

01:49:10 – 01:49:16:	are shepherds who are faithful. That is the ideal circumstance for the church. We don't have that.

01:49:16 – 01:49:21:	We have some moderately clever sheep and we have some moderately dumb pastors and we have both

01:49:21 – 01:49:29:	of them embracing the lies of the world. This is very likely the final battle for the church

01:49:29 – 01:49:33:	and that's why we're talking about it. Even knowing the Missouri Senator right now is trying to

01:49:33 – 01:49:40:	dox me to hand me over to Antifa where I will face physical jeopardy for saying these things

01:49:40 – 01:49:48:	for speaking out against the CRT, the Marxism in the large cataclysm. Matt Harrison wants to see

01:49:48 – 01:49:54:	me physically destroyed and they've called the police and they have taken measures that are

01:49:54 – 01:50:01:	utterly demonic. If you think that that's good for the church, okay, I'm not going to try to change

01:50:01 – 01:50:06:	your mind. But if you think that a reaction like that to someone simply talking about scripture,

01:50:06 – 01:50:11:	even if our ideas are weird, even if even if we're wrong, if you think that it's a natural reaction

01:50:11 – 01:50:20:	from a church body to seek the physical destruction of critics, you're wrong. It's evil and it's

01:50:20 – 01:50:26:	demonic. What Matt Harrison is doing is evil and demonic. What the the presence, the council of

01:50:26 – 01:50:31:	presidents, all the district presidents, all six vice presidents, the Missouri Senate, who all

01:50:31 – 01:50:37:	signed their names to his wicked email, his wicked statement last week. All of them are guilty of

01:50:37 – 01:50:42:	this evil because they're doing nothing to stop it. I have got on my side, so I'm not worried.

01:50:42 – 01:50:47:	Cory has got on his side, so he's not worried. We knew when we began this that we would be hated

01:50:47 – 01:50:53:	for saying these things. Why would we do that if we were lying? Do we think that we're scoring

01:50:53 – 01:51:01:	points with whom? If we're defying God and we're making the whole world hate us? What's the upside?

01:51:01 – 01:51:07:	What's the upside to a man signing up for destruction and then damnation? Why would a man do that?

01:51:07 – 01:51:12:	You know, that's one of the principal arguments for those who say that the martyrs of the early

01:51:12 – 01:51:17:	church who would proclaim Christ, even to the point of being executed for it. Why would those

01:51:17 – 01:51:24:	men have lied for a lie? We're not martyrs, not in the same sense, and I hope it doesn't come to

01:51:24 – 01:51:30:	that, but if it does, if I get killed as a result of Stone Quire, and you hear about that, because

01:51:30 – 01:51:36:	the Missouri Senate will dox me what happens. Maybe think about that. Why would the world want me dead

01:51:36 – 01:51:40:	for saying these things? I hope it doesn't happen. It's in God's hands, so I'm not worried about it.

01:51:40 – 01:51:45:	I'm not not trying to be dramatic. I'm just saying these are the stakes. They're the stakes for the

01:51:45 – 01:51:51:	church. It's not about us personally. It's about the fact that if we do not prevail in preserving

01:51:52 – 01:51:59:	true doctrine and the true faith, we're handing Christendom over to Satan, and there's not much

01:51:59 – 01:52:05:	Christendom left. So we're seeking the preservation of that, which God has given to us. That includes

01:52:05 – 01:52:11:	our blood. It includes our faith. It includes our homelands. It includes every good gift from God.

01:52:12 – 01:52:18:	We have a duty to him to preserve those things, and if the world hates us for it, we should welcome

01:52:18 – 01:52:23:	that. And if you're afraid to be hated by the world for the sake of telling the truth, you need to

01:52:23 – 01:52:27:	think about what God says about that, because all of these things are bound together. This is all

01:52:27 – 01:52:34:	the same argument, and it's all the same more. And in the end, we're going to all end up before

01:52:34 – 01:52:40:	the same judgment through them. We'll be standing side by side, and those who cried out Lord, Lord,

01:52:40 – 01:52:45:	and did not serve him, will be cast into fire, and those who said that they did nothing, but they

01:52:45 – 01:52:50:	were wrong. If they had faith, they'll be preserved. Those who are seeking the destruction of those

01:52:50 – 01:52:55:	who try to preserve the church, I'm thankful that God is the judge to sort those things out,

01:52:55 – 01:53:03:	because I don't know. No man knows what he could do at that point. God knows. And God is watching

01:53:03 – 01:53:08:	all of us. He's watching you. He knows what you're doing, and he knows what you're thinking. He

01:53:08 – 01:53:13:	knows what I'm doing. He knows I'm thinking. Even while I'm pseudonymous, I know I'm not hiding

01:53:13 – 01:53:18:	from God. I might be hiding from those early senators trying to kill me, but I'm not hiding from God.

01:53:18 – 01:53:25:	There's no hiding from the creator. What we do in these last days will determine how we are received

01:53:25 – 01:53:31:	in heaven. That's something that you should keep in your heart. Christ's blood covers your sins,

01:53:31 – 01:53:39:	but if you despise him, where does that cloak go? You can cast that cloak off, and there are many in

01:53:39 – 01:53:43:	this church who are casting off the cloak of Christ's righteousness for the sake of amity with the

01:53:43 – 01:53:49:	world. They want friendship with the world. They want to have good arguments. They want good

01:53:49 – 01:53:55:	articles and MSN and not bad ones. They want to be welcomed and loved and not criticized by people

01:53:55 – 01:54:03:	who hate Jesus Christ. I love Jesus because Jesus first loved me. God first loved each of us. Our

01:54:03 – 01:54:08:	response should be love for him, and that should be a willingness to face even death for the truth.

01:54:09 – 01:54:17:	So if you would choose safety over truth, you may have a peaceful death, but your afterlife will

01:54:17 – 01:54:25:	be one word that's also judged. I pray that everyone who's in the church today who's still

01:54:25 – 01:54:29:	remaining will remain faithful in these last days. I hope they're not, well, I hope they're the

01:54:29 – 01:54:36:	last days, but if they're not, then that's up to God. My days end when God ends them. I don't care

01:54:36 – 01:54:45:	how it comes out. What we do matters because God has given us things to do. What we confess matters

01:54:45 – 01:54:48:	because God has told us the truth. And if we lie about what He's told us,

01:54:50 – 01:54:55:	that will be counted against us. And so we'll end with a short passage of scripture

01:54:56 – 01:55:02:	just to bring it back to the word of God and prove that this is not something new that we're saying.

01:55:02 – 01:55:09:	This is not surprising. God knew this from the beginning, of course. And so Genesis 9,

01:55:10 – 01:55:14:	cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.

01:55:15 – 01:55:21:	Blessed be the Lord the God of Shem and let Canaan be his servant. May God enlarge Japheth

01:55:21 – 01:55:30:	and let him dwell in the tense of Shem and let Canaan be his servant. We are Japheth and the

01:55:30 – 01:55:34:	tense of Shem. Well, that's the church.