Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Stories version of The Todd Herman Show.
Story number one, what if President Trump seems so popular
because you seem so repugnant? Story number two, the irs
says pastors can endorse candidates from the pulpit, so should they?
And story number three when church spectacle crosses the line
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made in These
are the times to which God has decided we shall live.
And people continue to struggle with the popularity of President
Donald John Trump. They continue to struggle with why he
can be and maintain this popularity. And when I say people,
obviously there's folks who are traumatized by Trump, I do
believe and I don't mean this. I honestly do not
mean this as a putdown because what the Mockingbird media
has done has been so unrelenting and so cynical and
so dishonest that I think that Trump's arrangement syndrome has
become a true and real thing. So people with Trump's
arrangement syndrome, of course they're going to wonder, how can
anyone even like this guy or anything he does? Because
if you've gotten the mental syndrome where you are completely unbothered,
say by deportations under figure had Biden or under Obama
or William Jefferson blythe Clinton the third, but now it's
the most terrifying thing you've ever seen on earth because
it's utter fascism, Well then you're kind of mentally captured.
But the people who aren't fully mentally captured, they're just
in the business. They struggle with why President Trump seems
so popular and what if it has to do with
the fact that they seem so repugnant. This is MSNBC's
Eugene Daniels on twenty four elections.
Speaker 3: Josh, one of the things that I took from the book,
like kind of zooming out, is that maybe this was
always how it was going to end with Donald Trump
back in the White House, right, because I think, you know,
we think about twenty twenty as like, ooh, people really
love Biden and didn't back Trump. Trump still almost won
despite the fact that thousands of people in this country were.
Speaker 1: Dying every day, a million over right, there.
Speaker 3: Was the assassination attempts. There were yet all these things
that were happening that with other candidates maybe would have
been a problem. Have we just underestimated Donald Trump's popularity
with the American people?
Speaker 1: I believe you have underestimated your republics. And I don't
know you. I've never met you, I probably never will
meet you. I have met Johnny K part name dropper me. Right,
you are speaking on a fancy set for a whole
bunch of money per year to say things like that,
And you just said millions of people died from what
people have cut onto this. And there's a lot of
people who look at the continuing lies on that topic
and say this is repugnant, and you're in this business
of doing this. But there's a whole series of reasons
for Presidents Trump's popularity. If you want to just do
a comparison, there's reasons why people can find his personality
difficult or even hard to be around, or even dislikable,
but still like the policies and there are comparisons, and
I think Americans, even some liberals, have made these comparisons.
These people in the mock and bird media can't afford
to get it because if they God explained it. You
know what happens. If you get something like this and
you explain it and you begin to voice it, so
you know what happens to you, you'll start to be
more open. So the idea that President Trump isn't Orange Hitler.
He is a flawed human being. We're all flawed human beings.
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So the FBI, let's go by a point of comparison.
The FBIS opens a grand conspiracy probe on the weaponization
of government. And what this means is that we could
see a special prosecutor come in to look at all
the documents related to the DOJ and the FBI's targeting
of President Trump, all the Clinton Obama era antics, all
of that. So, if President Trump is popular, could it
be because you seem so repugnant because you told people
time and again he's a Russian agent.
Speaker 4: You told people they've got credible proof. You put people
on your air who said they had seen the documentation
you continue to pretend that was the case. You have
never apologized. What percentage of your viewers who turned out
to vote for President Trump did this because they realized
you lied to them viciously for a whole number of years.
That seems really repugnant because you're still doing it. Eugene Daniels,
just in that clip we just played, said millions of
people died from what most people have caught onto the.
Speaker 1: Fact that that never happened. Most people when they look
at a Department of Justice or an FBI deciding to
use the huge, almosts unopposable powers they've been given to
target a person for political reasons. If most people grow
to understand it's political, that's going to seem really repugnant.
And then there's this President Trump stood against it. He
didn't quit, He didn't fold. The people who convinced figure
had Biden to stepped down, the Nancy Pelosi AOC party
forced him out with Obama playing an assist. They looked
at that and said, oh, he's quitting, but President Trump
won't quit. That can add to the popularity of someone,
even if you can't stand his personality. There are NFL
football players Neon Dian Sanders. I couldn't stand his personality. Man,
I couldn't wait to watch him play. Richard Sherman when
he was on the field was loud, obnoxious, trash talking.
I hated that stuff. He was also one of the
most brilliant strategists and tacticians in the game. Richard Sherman
often knew the deef of the offense better than the
offense did, so I could admire that while still disliking
his on field personality. So if President Trump is so popular,
could it be because you seem so repugnant. This is
a clip of a guy now in Minnesota state senator.
He's running to be the mayor of Minneapolis. And I know,
I know he's not on President Trump's level. I get that,
but he is becoming a mockingbird media rockstar because he
says things like this. His name is Omar Faty.
Speaker 5: I heard them being called terrorists, we heard them being
called drug dealers, we heard a lot of insults. We
heard that they're a threat to our national security, and
that's a flat out lie. You want to know who
the real threat is matter of president, I'll give you
a hint. It doesn't They don't look like our chief author.
They don't look like the folks up in the gallery.
They don't look like the folks on the rotunda. They
look like many of the members that sit in the front.
And you don't have to take my word for it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So he's too cowardly to say white people.
Speaker 2: Chrise.
Speaker 1: He wants to missa. I didn't say that, but that's
what he's saying. And we all know that's what he's saying.
So let's let the kind gentleman from small you continue. Oh,
why did you say Simonia doesn't matter? Racis see that?
But no, I'm saying Somalia because he calls it his home.
To this day, this man says Smalia, it's his home.
Speaker 5: According to the DHS Matter President, the domestic the greatest
domestic threat facing the United States comes from quote racially
or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically specifically those who advocate
for the superiority superiority of the white race, not our immigrants.
We are safer and we're better off because of them.
Speaker 1: This is in a city, Minneapolis, which has nearly burned
down twice in which people were locked in their homes
because of violent riots, and what he's quoting comes from
the weaponized government that took moms and dads who asked
quot questions of school boards and called them domestic terrorists.
If you were told to leave a school board meeting illegally,
by the way, if you were told to leave your
trespassing get out and you refuse boom, domestic terrorist. And
then the FBI just did this. Let's just do a
threat assessment. How many viewers of the mockingbird media who
are obsessed with trying to continue to drive down President
Trump's popularity do not understand that they become so repugnant
in people's eyes because of tactics like that, or the
DOJ's become repugnant, or the Department of Educations become repugnant,
or the FBI's become repugnant. Life does not exist in
a vacuum. Donald Trump's not walking around. Is the only
man on earth? If only there was another man. There's
another example. This is Dana Bash on CNN and she's
trying to go at Tom Homan talking about alligator Alcatraz.
And look, you can debate that. I mean, is that
all drama? Yeah, it is. It's all also branding to
say to other countries, don't send your people here. We're
not going to play the open border scene anymore.
Speaker 6: This, of course, is a new detention facility set up
by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. What these congress people described
was sweltering heat, bug and thin infestations, meager meals. They
say they heard detainees crying out for help. The wife
of one man detained there said he has not been
given access to a lawyer. He's been in detention for
about two weeks. Is that acceptable to you? And is
that what you're saying when you go, I have.
Speaker 7: Not been there yet, and I doubt a lot of
that's factual. I mean, bottom line is, you know, from
the day one, I've been doing this job since nineteen
eighty four, detainees complain about the conditions of detention. And
I said this many times. You can simply go to
ICE dot GUB and look at the detention standards. ICE
has had the highest detention standards in the industry. But
these same congressmen that complaining about alligator alcatrasts, you didn't
see him complaining about under Biden administration, people being held
in a borbital parking lot surrounded by a fence in
the Schwatter heat.
Speaker 1: Again, Trump drain syndrome is a real thing. And when
people can recall that, that's right, they did they put
up chailing fences on blacktop parking lots and put a
canvas cover over them and called it home. At least
in this case there is really from the heat and water,
et cetera. President Trump might seem so popular mockingbird media
because you guys are so repugnant that when Tom Homan
can simply answer question like that in fifteen seconds. This
is the PBS chief. Her name is Paula Krueger, and she,
of course thinks President Trump is too popular. But PBS
isn't popular.
Speaker 8: Enough because part of the argument from the administration is
that public broadcasting has become politically biased. They describe it
as radical, woke propaganda disguised as news. How do you
respond to that and being part of the reasoning for
PBS and other public media no longer deserving taxpayer support.
Speaker 9: I don't think that Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is a biased
program that teaches children basic skills around letters and numbers.
And when you look at the breadth of programming.
Speaker 1: That with PBS and the breadth of programming. She goes
on to say she often struggles to come up with
any examples we're talking about with PBS. Is that your
experience with PBS. I don't think it's anybody's experience with PBS,
not anybody who's actually looking at it. So the Mockingbird media,
maybe President Trump is so popular because you're so repugnant
to the DOJ, to the FBI, to the Department of Education.
Maybe you've become repugnant. Maybe you should think about that
and maybe even pray about it. That is, if you
don't find God repugnant. Story number two. So the IRS says, hey,
they figured out that it's have this hold on a second.
What's that called when you get to say things you believe?
Free speech? So thank you. No, it's helpful to have
a research department. That was Stephanie. She's from Louisiana if
she's an assistant researcher, what Greg confirms, Yeah, so it's called
free speech. So the IRS has kindly said that churches
can endorse candidates from the pulpit. Well, no, actually that's
The New York Times says, it's not churches. It would
be pastors or elders humans in other words, in leadership
positions at churches, can endorse candidates from the pulpits. So
here's my question. Should they I mean, the instant answer
people would have is, of course they should, now that
this has been made clear. It never was the case
that she could lose your tax coxemption, but now that's
made clear, maybe they should. Well, I want you to
picture some things because I'm not so certain that they
should give into this. And maybe there's some cases where
they have to. But I'm not so certain they can
give into this because I can picture some things really
really screwing up churches if this happens, because I know
Satan's going to step into this.
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Here's the thing I can picture. It's almost see it
like a movie in my mind. So pastors give into
this and they start endorsing candidates from the Pulpits okay,
in a situation between figurehead Biden and the Polo CAOC Party,
the Obama Party, that's pretty easy. And that's the point.
If you're in the Bible teaching that God's word considers
the ending of an infant's life, right that what's it
they call that? What's the euphemism for that, a voluntary
pregnancy termination? It's not voluntary for the child in Italy
that this is considered a grave sin in the Bible.
Then you're in the Bible, then you should be able
to look at a figurehead Biden and say, okay, I
can't back in or what they do to kids' minds
spiritually and what they do them physically on behalf of pharma,
et cetera. With all the confusion about gender, you can say,
well God made male, Okay, so you can look at
all this, which is the point. If you're in the
Bible and people are still voting for people who are
adverse to the Bible, then you can't fix that because
you can't fixin problems. And people could say, well, there's
nuanced Trump is a very rough man. Okay, what's the
part where he's violating the Bible. If you're talking about
our laws and that we are to follow our laws
with Romans thirteen, then you can go to the fact
that immigration is a law. There's a way to come
in the United States, and there's a way to not
come in the United States. And if you're stressing to
people that we are to follow the law and tell
the law says break the word of God, then you
shouldn't have to go endorse candidates and people are still
going to go their own way. Pastors can endorse, but
they cannot force Okay, they can't force people to vote
a certain way. But here's how I can see this descending.
Once this happens and churches start doing this, do you
think that candidates aren't going to lobby. Do you think
that the DNC or the RNC is not going to lobby. Look,
I know of a very very successful evangelical church that
has a whole bunch of locations. They are very very
biblically strict, and I know that the Trump campaign went
to their state and said, we want to hold a
rally at your church, and the elders and the pastors
prayed about this and came back and said, no, we
can't do this. What are you talking about. Eighty percent
of your people support us. Yep, they do, but we
are not going to get into this politics thing.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: They support you because we are biblical, because we teach
these things. The campaign sought to punish them. We're going
to publicize the fact that you said no to divide
the body of Christ. I could also see this becoming
pastoral preference, because there's going to be some cases where
there's nothing particularly biblical stake. It could be planning commission stuff.
And I live in a state where real estate agents,
real estate companies own Idaho and they run the regional
planning districts and it's ruining North Idaho. And look, I
have friends who are developers, and I would tell them
the same thing. So I could see it becoming pastoral preference.
And now here's a new way for Satan to tempt pastors.
I don't want two hundred and twenty homes in my area.
I don't either. I'll think I'll endorse this guy from
the pulpit, even though I know he's not a Christian man.
I do not think pastors should give into this unless
it's absolutely necessary. Story number three, when churches ross the
line with spectacle, and do you know what I mean
by spectacle. There's a ton of pressure that pastors put
on themselves to put quote butts in seats. And I
think there's a polite way to say that in the
evangelical land, bottoms in the I don't know tushes in
the because, by the way, if you're an evangelical and
you give in the evangelical speak, if I ever if
I ever see you personally in the chat, I say,
let's dialogue, I'm asking you to slap me as hard
as you possibly can, and I will. I will not
realize that just sometimes evangelical speak doesn't do it for me.
But when there's these spectacles and it's all about putting
tushes in the whatever they would call that, that becomes
the motivating factor and it stands against Christ Jesus. Jesus
sometimes use signs and wonders sparingly and tell he was
asked for them. There are times in the Bible where
people said to him, Rabbi, show us a sign and wonder,
and he said, you sinful generation, you breweded vipers. When
will I not have to deal with this sinful generation?
You need to be able to believe without seeing. Jesus
also sometimes did things to make the crowds run away
from him. Very famously Jesus did, and I'll show you
an instance of this mentioned an instant of this where
Jesus did do something that caused most of the crowd
to flee, even though they'd seen a massive, massive miracle
and they wanted to see it again and again and again.
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the five thousand and traditionally, by the way, I think
that's a number of men, so it might have been
ten or fifteen thousand people, because they only counted men
back in those days. So he feeds these people with
the little bits of bread and the little tiny scraps
of fish, and it's evidently a miracle. Everybody sees it,
and he flees. He goes across the water, and people
follow him and they show up. We want more miracles,
And basically he's saying, what you're saying to the king
of the universe, and try this with Jesus walk up saying, hey,
maybe make me a sandwich. Then I'll believe make me
a sandwich, but extra male, Hey, none of that pasts
so on at this time, I don't like ollips. You
got the gluten free Jesus. So they come and they
want to see this again, and not only does Jesus
challenge him on that, you sinful generation, you want more
signs and wonders. And then he says, I am the
actual bread of life, and I am telling you unless
you eat my flesh and drink my blood. You can
have no peace of me, no part of me. And
people flee. They think he means literally, so they flee.
And Jesus even turned to his disciples to become as
apostles and said are you going to run away to?
And I believe it's Peter who says, Lord, you're the way,
that your the life. Where would we go? Great point?
Where would you go? Jesus did the opposite of putting
tushes into whatever the evangelicals will say, or the butts
in the seats, the opposite. He came with a hard teaching.
His goal was not to fill stadiums. Had Jesus Christ
wanted to fill stadiums, I think he could have put
on a spectacle. Here is a megachurch and they they've
spent a ton of money on this, and I want
you to look at this and tell me if you
think they have crossed the line, And I'll tell you
what the line is. So animatronic dinosaurs, Alex. That's an
expensive set. And this set up, these caves, these walls
that look like etch rocks. They've got all this ivy
holographic dinosaurs dancing, real animatronic ones run round Jurassic Park
up on the walls production stage, moving head back, back
and forth of a t Rex, little baby animatronic dinosaurs
that kids can play catch with in their lobby. The
lowering is this is the lowering of a calf, a
dinosaur calf into moving plants, tons of money. What's the line?
Go back through that and find Jesus Christ. Have someone
come from in the Who's of the world and they
come into God's house and what is it? It's the world? Now,
I get it. I understand thet The tactic is to
get people in. So then once they came in the
see the dinosaurs, maybe some of them will come and
join you and maybe hear the word of God. I
understand that. And I'm not saying that our church doesn't
do that. We give out Halloween Canyon sometimes that's very
very controversy. It really is you have kids from miles
around who come to our church and they come to
our fields. And one year I volunteered at that mission
a ministry, and we gave away candy to I think
eight hundred one thousand kids, maybe more than that. And
I understand the criticism. And so you can say the
log in your eye. While we're out there, we're we're
preaching Jesus. We are told to ask people, hey, do
you have a church home? We're told to ask people
and kids, do you know who Jesus is? You know
what he did for you? And as we're having these
conversations with families, we actively invite them to church, We
actively speak the gospel. And I'm not saying that these
people didn't. But when you are just the spectacle and
people come in for the spectacle, it leads to the
same thing of coming back and saying, wait, where's the spectacle?
I thought church was about antibatronic dinosaurs. Can't we have
animatronic attack fish or maybe you could bring us you know,
spaceships and stuff, and churches fall into this, so now
it's just butts and seats. Because what else happens is
people get the revenue reports. Wow, we got a lot
of donations. People loved it. Story as we can do
a lot of good with this. The line is this,
when the spectacle is put on a bigger platform than eternity,
that's the line. The spectacle should be tied tightly to
an internal choice, and in something that expensive, it should
begin with an eternal choice. It should begin with God
made the world and everything in it and all the
rules that govern it. Because the risk of spectacle crossing
the line is that people come in of the world
and they leave of the world. That's not what Jesus pursued.
This is the Todd Hermann Shaw. Please go, be well,
be strong, be kind, and please make it this decision
today to walk in the light of Christ. I'm going
to go home and see my beloved wife. I hope
you get to go see your beloved families.