Olivia Juliana (17:59)

I spent a lot of time on college campuses, and I spent a lot.

Michael Knowles (18:02)

Of time with young men.

Olivia Juliana (18:04)

I love young men. I love frat guys. And in that, I realized, like, even the ones that identify as conservative are almost always pro choice. They're almost always pro gay marriage. You'd be surprised at the number of them who supported Black Lives Matter. And so I feel like people just kind of lump them into this box when the truth is, again, a lot of them are with us on the issues. They're just not part of our coalition because they feel like they're not welcomed in it.

Michael Knowles (18:33)

Yeah. No, that's not true. The views she's expressing are laughable. Even. Let's say that the frat guys that she's supposedly talking to are open to abortion. That might be true. She says. Even the conservative ones. I'm skeptical. Even the conservative ones. But plenty of young college guys are open to abortion, either because they want to be able to have promiscuous sex and not be accountable for it, or because they want to flatter young women, some of whom are rabidly pro abortion, and they're willing to sacrifice their integrity in order to sleep with them. So maybe. Let's put that one as a maybe. Most of the frat guys are pro lgbt. No, they're not. They're not. Even. Even when I was a young man in college at a very gay university, at the height of all the super gay stuff, I think that peaked somewhere in the early to mid 2000 teens. Even then, like, nah, the frat guys were not. They're not pro lgbt. Okay. And then the cherry on top. Pro blm. You. Pro blm. You think the way that you're going to win over fraternity brothers for the Democrat parties to go over there and start talking about St. George, Floyd, and the supposed lynching of. What was his name? Michael Brown, criminal who charged the cop and grabbed his gun, and then the Democrats lied about it for two years. You think that's how you're gonna get young frat guys talking about black power and solidarity and America's evil and take a knee at the football games? I don't think so, honey. That's not gonna work. So why. Why even listen to this woman? Because one, makes me feel more comfortable for the midterms and the 2028 election. But two, it shows you she's so wrong on her substantive view of things, but it shows you even the young Democrats, even the radical Democrats know that Democrats have this existential problem with men. Even the most die hard true blue believers, young, inflexible, sticking to their guns, even they real the Democrat ship is capsizing right now and they need to fix something. And the end, they just have no idea how to do it. This woman sincerely believes that the way to attract young, normal conservative men back to the Democrat party is to brag about killing babies, be super gay and exalt. George Floyd Cool. Cool. Good luck. Let's see how it plays out. The global phenomenon the Chosen, the series that has captured audiences around the world, returns with its most powerful season yet. The table is set. The final hours are approaching. Every moment, every struggle, every sacrifice has led to this. Loyalties will be tested, pushed to the edge of faith and trust. Friendship will be questioned, challenged and shaken by uncertainty and doubt. Alliances will be broken. Families will be divided. Nothing will ever be the same again. 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Conservatives are more than twice as likely than the liberals to say their mental well being is excellent. This comes from data that was collected in the 2022 Cooperative Election Study. This is from Tufts, reported by Nate Silver. Among voters who said that they had poor mental health, 45% identified as liberal, 19% as conservatives. Among those who say they had excellent mental health, the majority of them, 51%, identified as conservative. Only 20% were liberal. This is not exactly man bites dog. I'm not even just joking and saying, oh, those libs, they're crazy, aren't they? I mean, this is backed up in survey after survey that people who are more anxious, more depressed, more neurotic, more likely to have these psychological Conditions are much more likely to be liberal. So this is not exactly a man bites dog story. But why? Why are the libs so crazy? I think this too comes down to the essence of the political ideology. Because liberalism, which comes about in the Enlightenment, really solidifies in the French Revolution, develops in all its various ways into classical liberalism, libertarianism, progressive liberalism. Socialism and communism are kind of cousins to liberalism or even offshoots of it. Something they all share is that all of these ideologies seek to change the world in a fundamental way. Classical liberalism less so. Classical liberalism at least says that it wants to understand the world and work in accord with nature. Though in practice, a lot of classical liberalism involved eradicating old institutions, eradicating tradition and old ways of life. But at least classical liberalism recognizes that fundamentally transforming the world is unlikely to work, even though liberalism does endeavor to do that. The other forms, libertarianism, progressive liberalism, socialism, communism, they all pretty explicitly see fundamentally to change the world and you can't. This was the subject of my Ave Maria University commencement speech this year. You can't change the world, you shouldn't change the world. That's the classic advice in liberal self help therapeutic culture. But it's a bad idea, because the world is not gonna change. The world is as it is. And what you should do is seek to understand the world and live in accord with nature and to cooperate with supernatural grace so that you can be transformed, so that the love that created the world can transform you. That's really what you're after, bringing it back to earth a little bit. If your political ideology comes down to, as George Bernard Shaw says, some people see things that are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not? You're going to get frustrated because the liberal worldview is just a little disconnected from reality. Why does marriage have to be what it always has been? Why does this baby have to grow inside? Why can't I just get rid of the baby? 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But but in any case, Jeanne was the girl. She might have already been working on it. Liu, when he tried to come into the country, was turned around at the Detroit airport. He was just sent back and they abandoned his poor girlfriend. His poor girlfriend, I guess has been arrested. Why? Why are the Chinese sending students to bring toxic fungus to American university campuses? First of all, most things on university campuses are toxic today. So had the fungus made it, it would have fit in just fine. But the reason that the CCP is trying to bring fungus to the campuses is to work on it, to investigate it. There are a lot of scientific instruments available to them to work on this. And presumably in case they need to use it, these guys have ties to the Chinese Communist Party, as do many students of Chinese origin who are at American universities, which is why Marco Rubio is going to revoke a lot of their visas. Why is the CCP targeting campuses? Because the CCP understands something that American liberals have understood for many decades at this point and that conservatives need to figure out, which is that the campuses matter. The campuses really matter. They're power centers. They produce elites who will go on to run the country. They produce. They conduct scientific research. They are a nexus for powerful people coming out. They matter. Okay? And the conservative view, and I've heard many conservatives say this, and I've heard relatively few state the opposite opinion, which is they'll say, oh, who cares about the stupid campuses? Let the left have them. Oh, who cares? You know, don't go to college. Oh, no, it's all dumb. It's all waste of time. You're just sitting around reading Derrida or whatever. You need to go out and get a job. Let the left have the campuses. They're all stupid anyway. That's not the CCP's opinion. That's not the American left's opinion. The American left worked doggedly to take over the university campuses because they realize it's powerful. And so if conservatives want to do anything, we need to exert a little power in those areas. We need to exert a little control. We need to make sure, as President Trump is demonstrating beautifully in the case of Harvard and other schools, but especially Harvard, we need to make sure that the mission of the university is ideally in line with our national and political mission, but at the very least, not totally contrary to it. This is not. The toxic fungus is not the first time the Chinese have tried to take over American universities. They had the Confucius Institutes. They continue to fund the universities through the tuition of their elite children and through all sorts of other grants. And they buy them off because they know they're very powerful places. And conservatives should play that game, too. Now, speaking of young people, a marvelous, marvelous essay by my friend Madeleine Kearns, who's been on this show a number of times. Maddy Kearns writes in the Free Press, how Catholicism Got Cool. Young Americans and people around the world are flocking to the Catholic Church. The Free Press spoke to them to find out why. This is not surprising. A lot of you have noticed this. There is a return to faith. Broadly, the declining Christianity of the past several decades has leveled out, but there is a turn toward Catholicism in particular. Why? Because young people, many if not most of whom have been raised without religion or without conscious religion, want something solid. And I don't care if you're the most anti Catholic person out there and you disagree with the veneration of saints and, and you don't believe in transubstantiation and you hate the Pope or what even the most anti Catholic person has to admit. The Catholic Church is pretty solid. It's the only institution in the west that has persisted from classical antiquity, from roughly the year 33 AD all the way up to the present. There are no other institutions in the west that have done that. It's solid. Also, the Church makes authoritative claims. Other institutions, including religious institutions, they seem to change their mind left and right. Okay, now, this week we're going to have women priests. This week we're going to redefine marriage. This week we're going to accept abortion or contraception. The Catholic Church, again, I don't care if you're the most anti Catholic person in the world. The Catholic Church doesn't really change its opinions, does it? Does she? No. No women priests, no gay marriage, no contraception. No, none of that. And in part, this is because the Church, with the weight of the Magisterium, can't just start changing stuff, can't just start inventing new doctrines. We just had a relatively very liberal Pope. And even that pope, Pope Francis, was constrained. Even if he had wanted to be a radical innovator, he was really constrained. And some of the things that he wanted to do, some of the things he was a little unclear about whether or not cohabitating people are effectively married. That was one issue that it sounded like Pope Francis was saying that people who aren't married but who are living together in a state of great mortal sin are like, basically married. And it just was reported in the news that Pope Leo XIV has come out and kind of clarified. No, no, no, that's not how it. In case you misunderstood, no, that's not how it works. So I think the solidity is part of the reason why people are converting, especially young people. But the other thing is we've just come out of the trans nonsense, and I think that's over. I think transgenderism is well on its way to being eradicated from public life entirely. People don't Believe it. It's a punchline again after the trans nonsense. People want incarnational and sacramental religion. Christianity is by definition incarnational and I think sacramental as well. But the trans idea said, your identity has nothing to do with your body. And Christianity says, no, the body matters. We're not Gnostics, we're not Albigensians, we're not Manicheans, we're not any of these ancient heresies that kind of minimize the role of the body. We are body and soul, and the body matters. And the body has something to do with my identity. And if I want to worship in a real way, I'm not just going to go sit in my little room and close my eyes and not engage with my body at all. Because for goodness, the body matters so much that our Lord becomes flesh and dwells among us, is born to a woman in Bethlehem. It matters. And he tells us, you got to eat my flesh and drink my blood or you won't have life in you. And he actually tells his apostles that on multiple occasions. That, I think, is the draw. Because a lot of modern religion, just like modern political ideology, minimizes the role of the body, minimizes the role of flesh, pretends that we're all just atoms floating in outer space without beginning, without end, never going to die. And reality ain't that very good stuff. I like it. I encourage you all to go read Mattie's column talking to the young people, giving their these are my reasons. But listen to the young people in their own words. This Father's Day, get dad something. He will actually use a Daily Wire plus membership for 40% off with code DAD40. While the culture tries to convince us that masculinity is toxic, fatherhood outdated, we know better. Dad deserves uncensored ad free shows, exclusive content and commentary that will not make him question his sanity. Because Dad's been right about a lot of things that the culture said he was wrong about. 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Not to protect Christianity of course. No, no. You might guess which religious group is being protected by the anti blasphemy laws. It would be the group that has conquered the entire United Kingdom. It would be our friends the Muslims. Hamet koskun is a 50 year old. Get this. Turkish born Armenian, Kurdish atheist. I do not encourage atheism for anyone. Atheism is wrong. It's spiritually very dark for you and it's just wrong. It's just not true. But I kind of get if you're born in Turkey and you're Armenian and Kurdish, I get how you might be a little religiously confused. He migrated to Britain and he was just convicted of a quote, religiously aggravated public order offense over a February protest that he took part in in which he burned a Quran outside of the Turkish consulate in London. So a guy born in Turkey who is Armenian, part of a group that has been genocided or nearly genocided on multiple occasions. The oldest Christian country in the world, a Christian nation before the edict of Milan legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire. He's also Kurdish, knows a thing or two about Islam. Now he's an atheist, he burns a Quran and he wasn't convicted of blasphemy Exactly. It was a religiously aggravated public order offense, but it's effectively a blasphemy law. Now, of course, if someone burned a Bible in the uk, of course that person would never be prosecuted. This is a special carve out for Islam and therein lies the problem. For a country like the uk, for a country like the United States, therein lies the problem. The libs are gonna tell you that the problem with this law is that it's effectively a blasphemy law. That's not the problem. The problem is not that it's protecting religious taboos and the sacred things. The problem is it's protecting the wrong religious taboos and it's mistaking the sacred. That's the problem. I've seen a lot of people post about this from the United States. They say this is crazy. Thank goodness we're not like the UK and we don't have blasphemy laws. Blasphemy laws are anti freedom. They're counter to our Constitution. It's un American. That is not true. It's not true. That's not a conservative opinion. It's a very liberal opinion. And like many liberal opinions, it's not true. We have had blasphemy laws in America for most of our nation's history. Even just since the founding in the late 18th century. If you include America going back to the early 17th century, I.e. jamestown and Plymouth and all of the early settlements, then we've had blasphemy laws in America for the vast majority of American history. But even still, even if you just go back to the late 18th century, we've had blasphemy laws in America for most of our history. That all ended. Well, actually, it didn't even all end. It started to end 1952. Not 1852, not 1902, 1952 in Burstyn v. Wilson. Burstyn v. Wilson held that the New York State blasphemy law was an unconstitutional prior restraint on freedom of speech. But that didn't settle the matter. 25 years later, 1977, Pennsylvania passed another blasphemy law and that other blasphemy law was on the books for 33 years, which is the holy life, actually. Kind of interesting that blasphemy law was on the books until 2010 when it was ruled by some district court judge to be unconstitutional. The issue is not blasphemy laws per se. The issue is what is understood to constitute blasphemy. As you know, it's a little hobby horse of mine. I've pointed out There are all sorts of speech that have never been considered to be protected by the First Amendment. Obscenity, fraud, direct threats, all that kind of stuff. Blasphemy until 1952 was understood to be the kind of thing that you can discourage as a matter of law. And the response to that is the liberal response is always going to be, well, who's blasphemy? Who's going to define what the blasphemy is? You know, is it going to be the Muslims who define it? Or the Jews or the Zoroastrians or the Christians? The Christians, that's who. Because we're a Christian country, so we have religious toleration. We have a long history of religious toleration with the Jews. We have a more recent history of religious toleration with the Muslims. I don't know if we have any Zoroastrians in the country since Freddie Mercury died. But sure, we have religious toleration, but we're a Christian country, so it would be the Christians who would decide that. But you don't even need to get all too sectarian about it. We all kind of know what blasphemy is. Mocking God. We don't like that. We don't want to do that. I think that's a bad idea. And then, you know the liberal response. You say, you authoritarian, you fascist, you anti American. Hold on, you can't call me anti American. I just proved to you that for most of American history, we had blasphemy laws. So on my side of the argument, is Every American until 1952. On your side of the argument is all of the people since the middle of the 20th century when our country went to pot. So don't tell me you're the strong conservative here. All the conservatives are on my side, and even the liberals in America were on my side until the middle of the 20th century. But the liberal response then is gonna be, okay, all right, I won't call you anti American. I won't call you fascist or this or that. But, Michael, you're just. You're being too capricious with the law. You're being too arbitrary. Because how can anyone really even know what blasphemy is? You know, how are we supposed to know who God is and therefore what it would mean to attack God? And I said, you know, well, okay, because we have a conscience and we know the difference between good and bad. And some of them are going to say, well, do we? Maybe your good is my bad. Maybe my bad is your good. Okay, well, if you think that if you believe that, then we can't have a government, because government exists to distinguish between good and bad and to promote good and to discourage bad. That is the basic charge of government, and it is the first precept of the natural law, that good is to be done and evil avoided. So I know there are going to be many people on the right who say, michael, this is too far, defending blasphemy laws. Well, no, I guess you got to ask yourself this question. Why did everyone just about think blasphemy laws were totally fine until the middle of the 20th century at the earliest, and really until much later? Why did Pennsylvanians in 1977 think that blasphemy laws were fine? Why did that law only get overturned in 2010, 15 years ago? Maybe it's not that all those people are totally crazy. Maybe we're the ones who've gone a little bit crazy in pretending that we can't distinguish between good and bad. Maybe that's a little crazy for a country that fancies itself as self government. Now, speaking of modern religious standards, there's a story. I really want to get to it. I really want to get to it, but we're running out of time. I'll give you a little teaser. You know, I'm a tease. The libs and the LGBT people are very, very upset because LGBT characters in TV shows have declined by 36% this year. 30 over a third down on the LGBT elementop characters. This is according to Glads, that's a pro LGBT group. Their annual report that even Hollywood is turning on the LGBT pride stuff. We'll get to what that means tomorrow because today is Theology Thursday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Noel Skinner wles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans. Sam.