Point of View August 5, 2024 – Hour 2 : Open Doors, Today’s News

[00:00:00] The Olympics

[00:00:48] other banners on that as well and certainly prayer is important. But when we talk about the Olympics, of course last week when I was out, Penedexter and Dr. Merle Matthews did a pretty good job of covering it.

[00:00:59] Penedexter's commentary on Friday, which we distributed to most of you that have signed up for the Viewpoints commentary talks about, of course, the opening ceremony, the drag queens and the parody of the Last Supper and a variety of other things that were certainly really concerning.

[00:01:17] But our next guest, Ryan Brown also suggests that as we look at the Olympics we can pray for the persecuted as illustrated by the fact that if you look at, for example, maybe one of the most popular sports in the world is what we call soccer.

[00:01:33] Everybody else calls it football. And if you think about this, for example, in Egypt about 9% of the Egyptian population is Christian, yet there are no Christians, no believers, all plain soccer at that level. Do you believe that there are no Christians that are that good? No.

[00:01:54] I think that gets back to discrimination and especially if you've watched almost all of these other sports with Americans any individual, Scottie Schaeffler yesterday, of course, I can go through a lot of the track stars are all really strong Christians.

[00:02:11] It illustrates again that when you see what is supposed to be the best athletes in the world, if they're great athletes and in a country where Christians are being persecuted, they're not at the Olympics.

[00:02:24] And so I think it gives us another reason to be praying for the persecuted. And anytime we talk about persecuted Christians, we always love to talk with Ryan Brown, who serves at the CEO, the chief executive officer of Open Doors, individual that has

[00:02:39] spent so much time in terms of relief and development work, individual that has certainly been a leader there at Open Doors and joins us now by phone. So Ryan, thank you for joining us today here on Point of View. Oh, thank you so much.

[00:02:54] It's always a pleasure to connect with you and be with you. Let me just mention for our listeners the first article is written by you. This Olympics Pray for the Persecuted. And I borrowed one of your illustrations about soccer, but you can think of so many other

[00:03:11] individuals who are outstanding athletes who will never be given a chance to participate in the Olympics simply because they are religious or in this particular case Christian. Tell us more. Yeah. You know, it's so interesting that it was a couple of days before the opening ceremonies

[00:03:30] that Open Doors, we published a prayer guide for the Olympics. Many of those listening know every year we put out a world watch list in which we highlight the 50 countries around the globe in which Christians are most persecuted and discriminated against because of their faith in Jesus.

[00:03:51] And all 50 of those countries have teams competing in this year's Olympics, each and every one of them. In addition to those 50, there's also a team of refugees that is competing. The IOC, I think it was 2016, a few Olympics ago, made it possible for those that have

[00:04:13] had to flee their country to still compete on this refugee team. And we all know that many refugees are in that position because of religious convictions. Not all refugees, but many are. And so we released this prayer guide just focusing on those 50 countries and inviting people

[00:04:35] into an awareness and into specific areas by which they could be lifting up these countries to pray that is available on the website now. You know, it's been so interesting. Obviously, you made reference to it.

[00:04:51] We had no way of knowing with the opening ceremonies and just the firestorm that that would invite and entail. And so that is, it's somewhat dizzying just all the information you've got, you know, certain Olympic officials saying that, no, we never intended any type of a commentary there.

[00:05:13] It was never an intention of others saying, well, yes, there's intent, but we never thought that it would be offensive or provocative in any shape or form. And regardless of what intent may have been, I think that for us as Christians, Scripture

[00:05:30] gives us an insight into this and what response can and should be. And first is that Scripture tells us that the kingdom of Christ, the world will oppose the kingdom of Christ. It is counter-cultural.

[00:05:50] The world will take it, the message of the gospel is described as a rock of offense and the world is offended by the truth of the gospel. And Scripture tells us that we will be persecuted, but yet it goes so far as to say that, you

[00:06:09] know, blessed are you when people persecute you and they insult you because of my name. And we have an opportunity to lean into that and to believe that. And Scripture tells us to pray for those who persecute us.

[00:06:24] And so, you know, in the midst of all of this, I think that the great tragedy would be that as we are, you know, some Christians taking offense, some not taking offense, whatever

[00:06:37] the case may be, you know, if our first response, if our first line of response are social media accounts, you know, taking to X, taking to Facebook to post our thoughts, perhaps we've missed an opportunity. Perhaps, you know, our first response should be to get on our knees.

[00:06:55] It should be to lift these things up in prayer, to lift up, you know, those that would seek to insult that the name of Christ, lift them up in prayer, to lift up against these representatives from countries around the globe where there's no question

[00:07:13] about the intention that the intention is to stamp out the church. The intention is to, you know, tear down the Gospel of Christ. And so, you know, there are countries around the globe where there's no debate. It's known, it's stated and it's clear.

[00:07:32] And so, we can be lifting those brothers and sisters up in prayer as well through this opportunity. Well, again, just a reminder that when people saw this so-called parody of the Last Supper with 18 drag queens, people said, well, they're persecuting us.

[00:07:46] And I always would say, well, persecuted with a small p, but around the world there's persecution with a large capital P. And in the article, This Olympics Pray for the Persecuted, you can actually find of course this great World Watch List of 2024.

[00:08:06] No surprise that the first one on the list is North Korea, but then the rest of them down the list are due to Islamic oppression like Somalia and Libya and Yemen and Nigeria. But don't forget, then you get to India, which is religious persecution all the way to

[00:08:23] by the time you get to 19 China. So between Islamic oppression, religious nationalism and communism there are so many and we're talking about billions of individuals that are persecuted. And that's why we always point you to open doors. We have those articles on our website.

[00:08:43] We'll continue our conversation with Ryan Brown right after this. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. But we can't ignore that a significant increase in mass murders and suicide does correlate with the same increase in the use of these psychotropic drugs. Just a casual search

[00:09:40] of the shooter surface a common pattern, so many of them are on one or more of these SSRI drugs. We've learned about the video games and movies the Columbine Shooter watched but hear much less

[00:09:50] about the two drugs he was on. We've heard about the racist ideas of the young man who shot up a church in Charleston, but we have heard much less about the drug he was on.

[00:10:00] I recently talked about the Lost Boys of America. We need a national conversation about why we are seeing so many mentally disturbed young men. Loneliness and isolation are an issue. Broken homes, bullying, violent video games and several other factors contribute. But we need to add

[00:10:16] the possibility that these drugs are also a factor. The Journal of Political Psychology put together a list of numerous mass shootings committed by young men on prescription drugs. At the least, there seems to be a correlation that is worthy of further research.

[00:10:31] You know lots of factors feed into these horrible mass shootings. Drug use by these shooters is another factor worth considering. I'm Kirby Anderson and that's my Point of View. For a few more minutes, Ryan Brown with us and again just have high respect for open doors.

[00:11:08] And if you are not already subscribing to some of the material they have available, we do have some links on the website including this article that Ryan Brown has written, This Olympics Pray for the Persecuted. And one of the things I appreciate about the

[00:11:22] article is not only did you talk about how in some respects Christians are being persecuted, but then you flip it on the other side and point out that if you look at the Olympic team from Syria,

[00:11:35] that includes one individual who along with his family have been targeted by international sanctions for their involvement with the Syrian government. In this case we're talking about the fact that Christians have suffered in Syria from ISIS attacks and from the

[00:11:53] authoritarian government of Syria. And so in some respects you also point out that you're dealing with individuals that are in the Olympics who actually are up for international sanctions.

[00:12:07] Yes it you know and I would not be so bold as to you know point to this individual and I you know state this in the article that this individual is personally responsible but there is an association with these these folks in the Syrian government and authority structures

[00:12:28] that are certainly complicit in the persecution of Christians. And so it's you know I think if anything it's just a wake-up call to recognize the complexities of so many of these situations and how easy it can be for these things to be overlooked and glossed over in

[00:12:53] you know the international communities. And so you know the hope through this article, the hope you know by pointing these things out is to recognize that persecution is real, it is happening, at times it you know gets swept under rugs, at times it you know is not given

[00:13:12] the visibility that it should but it is there and it's pronounced and it's growing globally and we as Christians need to be aware. And again I would say that our first response as Christians needs to

[00:13:26] be a response of prayer you know anytime the people of God are persecuted because of their faith in Jesus Christ it is first and foremost a spiritual issue. And you know our first and frontline response in this type of an issue should be one of prayer.

[00:13:41] Also I think there is a sense in which as much as I appreciate the fact that here you've got the games of the latest Olympiad bringing together supposedly the best athletes of 206 nations

[00:13:54] and a time in which they can demonstrate their athleticism and all that, that there's sort of this idea that you know all we need to do now is kind of hold hands and sing kumbaya. The opening demonstration that we talked about a minute ago and the opening ceremonies,

[00:14:12] the fact that you have some people competing who are part of groups that may have been persecuting others. There are others who have been persecuted that will not be able to be there.

[00:14:22] We do I think we have to be careful not to be lulled into an assumption that the world is all right. The world is fine that we have spreading tolerance across the globe. As much as we would

[00:14:37] wish that would happen one of the reasons open doors exist is because you recognize that there is a high degree of discrimination and intolerance in a very large part of the world.

[00:14:49] Yeah you said that so so well that you'll often the you know some of these thoughts and these ideas you know the enemy very rarely you know just blatantly comes out and and and you know

[00:15:03] proclaims a lie but usually it's through deception. It's by taking things that are familiar with things that you know we would say are true and finding ways to twist those, finding ways to you know

[00:15:15] misrepresent those and yeah you bring up with such a very good point that this yes ideally that there should be this brotherhood of nations where we should come together and look to see

[00:15:27] you know where we can celebrate with one another as opposed to you know open you know being combat with one another and war and those types of things but the reality is

[00:15:42] is that in the midst of those things we as Christians need to be aware of this tension that yes let's look for those opportunities where we can celebrate and hold hands and

[00:15:51] sing the kumbaya but let's not do so with blind eyes let's not do so with thinking that that all is right because the enemy is at work and the enemy is taking these things and trying to twist

[00:16:04] these things to destroy and to chip away at Christchurch. We know that you're not even the gates of hell are going to prevail against this church and so you know we have an opportunity to lock arms in solidarity and certainly in prayer and identify with our brothers and

[00:16:20] sisters around the globe who are most persecuted because of that decision to follow Christ. One of the articles we've posted of course is from Christian Post this Olympics pray for the persecuted let's talk about what's on your website at open doors

[00:16:35] and one of the things you'll find is 51 ways to pray for Christians during this summer Olympics it's alphabetized from Afghanistan all the way to Yemen and so that is a resource

[00:16:47] that I think people would certainly want to take advantage of but talk about how to maybe use that in your own prayer group maybe in your own church maybe pastors listening right now might say

[00:16:58] if you've been offended by what happened in the opening ceremonies of the summer Olympics let's use this as a time to pray and then make available some of those resources so can you just before I let you go talk about some of the resources available at open doors.

[00:17:13] Absolutely so you mentioned what I think is really a great one and that's that the 51 ways to pray during this Olympics and you know that the hope is as we publish this that again

[00:17:27] as sometimes it can be difficult to even know how to pray and the context in which we live sometimes these realities can just just seem so foreign and unknown to us and you know what's amazing is I have had opportunities to walk with there are so many Christians

[00:17:47] in these contexts that you know they're not praying that you know we would take them out of their persecution they're not even in many cases praying that the persecution would end but rather that they're praying that they would not be forgotten asking us to pray that they

[00:18:00] would not be forgotten and that they would not falter or fail in their testimony of Jesus Christ in the midst of persecution they see the context of their persecution as a very opportunity to advance the kingdom of Christ and so we have opportunity and with

[00:18:15] very specific prayer points to vocalize the things that you know our brothers and sisters are asking me pray for we're not just praying for them we're praying with them in these things and

[00:18:24] so you know that the hope and the prayer is that these these prayer resources these guides would be ways that we can lock arms with our brothers and sisters around the globe. Again opendoorsus.org we have of course all the links necessary on our website

[00:18:39] and again we certainly appreciate the work that you do there at Ryan and thank you for taking something that has been quite discouraging with especially with the opening ceremonies and some of the other scandals that almost always seem to come from the Olympics

[00:18:52] to turn that into a positive prayer target so thank you for being with us today here on point of view. Thank you so much it should be with you. Let me also mention while we're talking

[00:19:01] about prayer that we do have a pray for America presentation that we make available about once a week we present it to you we actually send it to you and so if you go to

[00:19:12] the website pointofview.net let's kind of work our way through what's available first of all on the left hand side is the viewpoints commentary mine today on are these psychiatric drugs part

[00:19:23] of the reason we have some of these shooters and I think the answer to that is yes but I'll let you read it we have of course the one about the banning the federal digital currency the

[00:19:32] CBDC which we've had as an action item we have a video for you to watch but on the right hand side you will see a couple of things first of all election central we'll come back to that later

[00:19:43] this week to talk about it the second item there is pray for America if you've not subscribed about once a week we send out prayer targets and I think you will appreciate those in addition

[00:19:54] to some of the others we've talked about beneath that of course are the podcast we have the point of view highlights which is on spotify also have some links to some other podcasts

[00:20:04] as well and then after the break let me also encourage you to go to the button that says see more when you have see more you will then see the articles of course we have the

[00:20:15] different ones about JD Vance about Israel about some about cummel harris which we'll get to in just a minute the olympics and then one which I'll talk about after the break here

[00:20:26] and that is we will today be announcing the fact that we do have all the information necessary for you to join us next may for our trip to Greece and Turkey this is the journeys of Paul and John

[00:20:41] which include quite a bit we'll talk more about that in just a minute and that information is available of course weekend for those of you watching online can send you the actual brochure and all the relevant information but also we have it digitally available as the last article

[00:20:58] on the website little difficult to find we'll see if we can put on the front page in the future but certainly today for those of you that have heard me talk about it I wanted you to know

[00:21:08] indeed that it's available we'll talk more about that before the end of the program today but that is available as well come back we have a lot of other things to cover we will do our

[00:21:18] best to try to cover as much as we can in the last half hour stay tuned we'll be back right after this in 19th century London two towering historical figures did battle not with guns and bombs but

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[00:22:58] listening to point of view the opinions expressed on point of view do not necessarily reflect the views of the management or staff of this station and now here again is Kirby Anderson final

[00:23:14] half hour list if we can just spend a little bit of time kind of looking ahead we have the democratic national convention coming next weekend of course once we get into that we'll

[00:23:23] certainly cover some of the stories that unfold as well but i thought it would be good to actually focus just a little bit of time on how the media has been poorly covering Kamala Harris

[00:23:36] and a lot of it relates to the conversation we've had already with Paul Kinger if you know anything about the background of Kamala Harris and one of the articles I've posted

[00:23:47] is a background of the history of not only Kamala Harris but her father her father if you're not familiar donald Harris was a professor at stanford he's a marxist i'm not labeling him as such he

[00:24:01] calls himself that and you can read some of the articles that are in this that show very definitely a marxist analysis so there's no surprise and it shouldn't be a surprise but it would be to anybody watching the mainstream media that both Kamala Harris and Pete Budache's

[00:24:18] had fathers who were marxist okay that's just true i mean and it's a factual piece of information that you would not know if you didn't listen to point of view or a variety of other programs

[00:24:29] and this one in particular really goes on for many pages so for the person that says wait a minute you're just grasping at straws you're making some of this up this one on the it's

[00:24:42] called the marxist dreams of Kamala Harris is eight pages long if you say well i want to read it for myself i want you to read it i really want you to read it don't believe me take the information

[00:24:55] that is there i think also will schwam does a good job of saying that look Kamala Harris is not a carbon copy of her as he calls it left us academic dad but it'd be a stretch to deny that

[00:25:08] there aren't at least some similarities and there are and so i think it's a very good article it doesn't do as much name calling as matter of fact you'll have to kind of work a little way to make

[00:25:20] your way through because it's you know getting into some of the technical journals and articles that he wrote and then some of the statements that Kamala Harris has made but that is the case

[00:25:33] but that's a piece that i would recommend to you and it's on the website the bigger concern is back to our favorite word that we use around here and that is the need for discernment because

[00:25:45] what we have taking place right now are individuals that really want to cover for very clear statements that she has made both as a prosecutor as the attorney general in the state of california

[00:25:58] then as vice president now as a presidential candidate and again the phrase that i think probably best illustrates that is the word or phrase gas lighting i've always hated that term because first

[00:26:12] of all it's based upon a movie that hardly anybody ever saw second of all it doesn't really direct you what we're talking about here are we talking about gas lights versus electric lights and all

[00:26:22] that kind of stuff but i think you've heard the term enough to know that it's basically saying don't believe what you read don't believe what you see just believe what i tell you and during

[00:26:33] the clinton administration since we didn't have the term gas lighting we used to use the old phrase don't believe your lying eyes believe what i tell you and there are some good ways in which this

[00:26:44] is surfaced almost every major news organization from axios to the new york times referred to kamlaharis as the border czar i'll be the first to admit border czar was not an official term

[00:27:02] but the bottom line is is that was a phrase used all the time now if a republican or especially trump or vance uses that they'll be immediately corrected saying no they never you never was

[00:27:18] the borders are okay well we can get down to little semantics but we're talking about an individual that was responsible for giving advice consent in information about the border number two we have

[00:27:33] and i've posted this even in previous booklets uh that you had what was called the gov track which was actually rating the voting records of the u.s senate and you can go to gov track today

[00:27:49] you can't go to the gov track in the past but the gov track in the past actually rated kamlaharis senator kamlaharis as more liberal than bernie sanders in terms of voting record today we see

[00:28:03] more and more people branding her as a moderate you don't think so well here's uh robert night reacting to it here comes centrist kamlah again here's one by ben Shapiro kamlaharis a candidate of myth and then we have some other good articles here about what kamlaharis believes

[00:28:25] fact checking and the rest but again that's another issue where the press has been saying no that's not the case and if you as i understand i didn't look for it recently but i've heard that

[00:28:36] you go and try to find that original rating it's not even available on the website anymore well let's take two more um one other one is the media falsely claims that she did not actually support

[00:28:51] a fracking ban uh yet she had made many statements in that regard again we're going to have a guest in about two weeks just talking about energy policy in general but i'll also want

[00:29:03] to ask my guest who's kind of the energy expert about what fracking is which is a different way of actually being able to extract oil from various kind of shale and things of that nature

[00:29:16] but again this isn't as one of these articles say an oversight on the part of the media it's easy to demonstrate and is easily documented and then the fourth one and i'll end with that

[00:29:29] is what you might call the b l m bailout and that is the argument that has said she did not actually urge people to donate to bail out black lives matter rioters despite the fact

[00:29:44] that you have that on social media and what she's really wanted to do now is rebrand herself is tough on crime and so you're some really significant areas where the media has been complicit

[00:30:00] in not telling the truth which brings me back to some of these articles so robert night's piece that came out a week ago is again talks about the fact that she was as he points out from 2017

[00:30:14] to 2021 as a u.s. senator had a more leftist voting record than even the socialist bernie sanders from vermont she also cosponsored medicare for all which would have eliminated private health insurance there are clips that you can find very easily on the website where when they were interviewing

[00:30:38] for the very first time all the candidates including joe biden the question was would you want to support medicare for all and eliminate private insurance and you can see that two hands go up bernie sanders

[00:30:53] in kamala harris she also is of course cosponsored the equality act which is a bill that would add gender identity and sexual orientation to the federal civil rights code that one you don't see

[00:31:07] or backing off from as much simply because she's convinced that that is something that will help her actually gain support from the homosexual community and she also sponsored a particular piece which

[00:31:22] had a name and some of these are so inaccurate that do no harm act but basically what this particular piece of legislation would do would force catholic hospitals other faith-based health organizations and institutions to perform abortions and gender transition surgeries well you can go

[00:31:42] through a longer list as well but there are people that obviously are writing about the fact that the press is not actually telling you the truth and so as a result it's going to be i think

[00:31:55] especially impossible for you to read widely i mentioned these two articles here by robert night in ben Shapiro but you might say okay well they're kind of uh maybe a little biased okay this one comes from the wall street journal and sometimes the wall

[00:32:09] street journal is moderate sometimes it's kind of left to center uh and some conservative issues especially the economy maybe right of center so it depends on where they are but again just talking about the particular agenda that was being proposed there as well and she again

[00:32:27] as a senator proposed a bill that would create a six thousand dollar guaranteed income for family making up to one hundred thousand dollars also a refundable tax credit that would effectively cap rents and utility payments and a variety of things that would be very intrusive also of

[00:32:47] course cosponsored legislation with bernie sanders that would pay for everyone's tuition at four-year public colleges for students with families making up to 125 000 year if you want to get an idea of what socialism looks like i think i just gave you a pretty good idea and so those are

[00:33:06] articles out there and then one by becket adams on how even when we do individuals doing the fact checks all of this one fact checks end up being cover ups and i've said before there's a

[00:33:18] real need to fact check the fact checkers so this is going to be another one of those elections perhaps more than most in which you're going to have to read more than just the mainstream media

[00:33:32] don't believe it just because we say it that's why we post these articles so you can read them in their entirety and follow the references in the links because when you read it you realize

[00:33:42] where we may be headed with this particular nominee let's take a break we'll be right back you're listening to point of view your listener supported source for truth back for a few more

[00:34:02] minutes let me just mention i kind of misspoke it's actually two weeks from today which the democratic national convention will begin and part of the reason i was thinking was next week is tomorrow is when kamala harris is going to announce her vice presidential pick and so actually

[00:34:17] that's more than a week ahead which sometimes is done but uh in other cases isn't done until the week of so tomorrow we'll probably know whether it is the governor of the state of pennsylvania

[00:34:29] or someone else but we'll see where it goes and i think i have a pretty good idea but we'll wait and make that announcement then let me also point you to some commentaries and articles

[00:34:39] i will post tomorrow one a very good piece by victor davis hanson called a coup upon a coup upon a coup and what he's talking about is how we did not have anybody in the democratic primaries

[00:34:52] vote for kamala harris's president and uh so in some respects there is kind of an interesting coup that happened there but the previous one was a coup to prevent bernie sanders from being the

[00:35:03] nominee and the coup to put um joe biden in that place so it's a very good reminder of how the democratic leadership is oftentimes willing to do some pretty unique things to circumvent

[00:35:18] the will of their own democratic voters i think that may come back to affect the election as well but we will see where that goes in due time so again also i'll put that one of tomorrow on fact

[00:35:31] checkers for harris uh which ends up being a cover up of her come inconvenient record so we'll see some of that as well earlier i did mention the fact that we are announcing

[00:35:42] that we do have a trip to greece and if you would like again those of you watching online you can see that i actually have a brochure that we can mail to you so if you want to write to us we'll mail you

[00:35:53] the brochure with the enrollment form in all the rest uh again this is one where we actually go to greece we go to thessalonica it's called thessalonica and so you get to see that we get

[00:36:06] of course to get to see philipi and all of that which is just incredible uh that the ruins are still there so you can see what it was like to be there with paul by the way by the time you get to corinth

[00:36:18] corinth is still there and you can see what that was like when paul spent time there also athens will take you to mars hill where the aragapus where he gave the great sermon in x17

[00:36:31] then eventually when we finished at corinth and athens and all of that we get on a cruise ship a very small one by the way which will take it to crete in centurina as well as to emphasis

[00:36:43] and patmos because emphasis is very much what it was uh what it was like when paul was there so again it is kind of the cruise of a lifetime we call it the journeys of paul and john because

[00:36:56] john of course gets us into patmos and we'll see what we will have there i would love to say that it was not terribly expensive we were targeting a certain dollar amount and unfortunately the plane

[00:37:10] flights are just so expensive so you can see what the cost is and how that would be i think still a great investment of your time and energy and money for all that we will do traveling all

[00:37:24] through greece part of turkey and taking a cruise and also flying you back and forth from dallas we'll use that as the center point but of course many of you've been flying from other parts of the country

[00:37:35] and that can be arranged of the way to get the price down i suppose is if you have miles maybe you could reduce some of the cost there i'm not sure how all that would happen don't want to

[00:37:46] promise that but i just wanted to say that we do now have this and it is may 17th to the 27th and i will be hosting it along with paul bereca uh curby and susanne paul and kim bereca will be part

[00:38:00] of that we'll also have a greek tour there guide as well and i have been there once never been deficits never been to patmos but have been to many of the other places where we'll take you

[00:38:11] and it is so helpful to get a sense of what was paul looking at especially when you're in the area where the beam a seat is and say he was there and here's where the temple is and here's where

[00:38:24] i can now see why he said what he said because i see some of these illustrations here is philipi there's most likely where he was in prison here's where he baptized the first people on the european

[00:38:37] continent we know that because you can uh take the road off to that and you can walk it if you want or see the water that and oh just there's just a lot of things that begin to click just as

[00:38:49] going to israel helps click in some of the things that you think about in terms of the bible so again it is available we have brochures here at point of view we can mail you one of course you

[00:39:01] can find out more by simply going to the website by hitting the button that says see more it is the last article on the list there right under the one on this olympics pray for the persecutors who

[00:39:13] won their journeys of paul and john including a three night a g in cruise so it's available and we hope that you would be able to join us i recognize it's expensive but unfortunately

[00:39:25] a lot of that has to do with the plane flights and if we could figure out a way to lower those costs we would certainly want to do so let me just before and though since we haven't talked

[00:39:35] about robert f kennedy this story just gets a smile on my face and also kind of roll my eyes it turns out that uh the independent presidential candidate robert f kennedy jr had um a concern

[00:39:51] that there was going to be a profile coming out of him in the new yorker and it is a result he decided to preempt it and say that he is the one that left a dead bear cub in central park

[00:40:05] and made it appear as if a bike had hit him i am not making this up you can read the article if you want it is amazing but in a three minute video featuring actress rozan bar can you make any of

[00:40:19] this up i mean i'm sorry this is why i'm laughing even though i feel sorry for the bear cub this is what was posted on visual media and so basically this is such an interesting statement but in

[00:40:32] 2014 he was on the way back after talking with a group of people in york state when the van in front of him hit and killed a black bear cub so he put the dead bear carcass in his van with the intent

[00:40:49] that he was going to skin the bear and keep the skin i'm not making this up he said i pulled over and i picked up the bear and put him in the back of him because i was going to skin the

[00:41:01] bear it was in very good condition i was going to put the meat in my refrigerator oh this is unbelievable but then he had to attend a dinner in new york city and then leave for the airport meaning you had to

[00:41:12] dispose of the young bear so he decided to place it in central park alongside an old bicycle from his van during the time there were numerous bicycle accident in new york and resulted in the deaths of several people so i thought it would have been amusing

[00:41:27] found it in the park although his acquaintances were drinking clenny clarified that he was sober at the time when he came up with the idea i think it would have been better if he said i was half drunk

[00:41:39] but nevertheless and then a day later when the bear carcass received so much attention from the local press that over 20 police cars and multiple helicopters arrived at the scene i was

[00:41:50] like oh my gosh what did i do he remarks in the video adding that he was worried about having all of his fingerprints on the bike fortunately for him the story eventually died and didn't

[00:42:01] resurface until of course this article coming out in the new yorker pursued it and actually found out about it and so was notified about the story before publication it he said it's

[00:42:14] going to be a bad story in a photo he could be seen putting his fingers inside the bear's bloody mouth when asked to comment on the incidents um he says maybe that's where i got my brain worm if

[00:42:26] you haven't heard he said he ate too much was tuna fish and he has brain worms um i'm sorry i feel sorry for the bear because no reason to kill a bear but i was in accident anyway

[00:42:39] but everything else about this campaign so far is just caused me to roll my eyes he has brain worms because he eats too much tuna fish he's the man responsible for the dead bear cub

[00:42:54] in central park as kelly schackover likes to say so often you cannot make this stuff up but nevertheless there's the story i want to thank megan for help engineering the program steve thank you for producing the program we'll be back here tomorrow right here one point of view

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