Does the Bible really contradict itself? Pastors take on viral TikTok theology



In a day where TikTok theology is wracking up millions of views, it’s more important than ever for Christians to know what the Bible actually says.

On this episode of “Live Free,” Josh Howerton’s co-hosts and fellow pastors Paul Cunningham and Carlos Erazo address a viral TikTok video, in which the creator claims the Bible has several contradictions.

“The Bible says that God is all-knowing. Psalm 147:5 says that His understanding is infinite. First John 3:20 says that God knows all things. Matthew 10:30 says that He knows the number of hairs on our heads,” the video creator began.

“But in Genesis 18, God says He's going to go down to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to know how sinful they're being. An all-knowing God would know that. He wouldn't have to go down there. Also, an all-present God would already be there,” he argued.

In his second claim, he argued that the empty story was inconsistent across the gospels: “In the books of Matthew and Luke in the Resurrection story, it says that the women who discovered the empty tomb ran off and told everyone that the tomb was empty. But in the book of Mark, it says that the women were afraid and didn't tell anyone.”

The creator’s final claim aimed to debunk the Bible’s definition of love: “And then of course there's the whole God is love, but then it also says that love is patient and kind, never jealous or boast. But then it says that God is a jealous God. So how could God be love if love isn't jealous?”

Cunningham begins by addressing the TikTok creator’s claim about love and jealousy, pointing to the semantics of the word “jealous.”

“The same word can be used in certain ways in certain contexts that would be appropriate and in other ways that would be inappropriate,” he says.

He gives the example of a husband being jealous regarding his wife. “I should not be jealous if my wife were simply to say hello to a male co-worker, but I actually should be jealous if my wife slept with that male co-worker,” he explains.

“The reason I give that analogy is that usually when it says God is jealous in the Bible, it's in relationship to His people, Israel, and it talks about in context that they are His bride and they are giving love to a different god or a different thing that only belongs to Him,” he adds.

Erazo then dives into the creator’s claim that an all-knowing God would not have to visit Sodom and Gomorrah to find out what the people were up to.

He gives the analogy of playing hide-and-seek with his 4-year-old son. “I'll say, ‘Where are you? I don't see you.’ I know where he is because I'm his father,” he says. “And so when God seems to be asking questions and when He seems to not know one thing, He knows.”

“A fancy phrase for that is called anthropomorphic language,” adds Cunningham. “God has to use language we can understand to help us understand a God we can't completely understand.”

Above all, Cunningham and Erazo want believers to not allow “seeming contradictions” to shake their faith.

“When you see videos like this, don't freak out if they bring up something you've never thought about because someone else has thought about it and probably given a really good answer for it,” says Cunningham.

To hear the duo’s full response to the video and other kinds of TikTok theology, watch the episode above.

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Philip Anthony Mitchell warns America will be devoured if it doesn’t see the ‘python sitting in the corner’



Philip Anthony Mitchell — founder and lead pastor of Atlanta’s 2819 Church — catches flak for speaking out about the dangers of radical Islam, but he does it boldly anyway.

The ideology, he told BlazeTV host and Lakepointe Church pastor Josh Howerton on a recent episode of “Live Free,” is “incompatible” with both Christianity and Western fundamentals — and yet it continues to be embraced in American cities and legislatures in the name of “inclusion.”

But if the church doesn’t contend, our “children and grandchildren” will suffer greatly under the “antichrist monotheism” that is Islam, Mitchell warns.

To crystallize the gravity of that threat, he offered a harrowing analogy pulled from his days as a college student.


“When I was in college ... my roommates and I, we had pet snakes,” says Mitchell.

“This one first python we had ... she only ate rats ... and I remember we would toss the rat in the cage. That python, Josh, would sit in the corner of the cage in the darkness, and that rat would just run around the cage,” he recounts.

The python’s eerie stillness created a “false sense of security.”

“That rat would even run on top of the python and off the python thinking ... ‘I'm safe in here,”’ says Mitchell.

“That python would then stare at that rat, and at an opportune time, it would lunge at top speed, coil that rat up, and then squeeze the life out of that rat until it was dead and then swallow that rat hole.”

The rat’s fate, he says, is what’s in store for America — especially her Christian population — if it doesn’t start recognizing radical Islam as the deadly python it is.

“[Radical Islam] is like a python sitting in the corner. It's just sitting there while we are running around acting like we have a false sense of security — until the day comes when it lunges, and then it wraps its grips around all of our systems, all of our policies ... and then chokes the life out of Christianity, chokes the life out of Western fundamentals, chokes the life out of everything,” says Mitchell.

He acknowledges the polarizing nature of this warning, but the risks are too steep to stay silent.

“People are going to push back against this one moment right here, Josh, I just invite them to come back to this podcast five years from now, 10 years from now, if the Lord tarries, 20 years from now, and see did God not raise up true voices to warn America that this is coming to your own detriment,” he forewarns.

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Josh Howerton and Philip Anthony Mitchell’s Jesus conversation just climbed past Joe Rogan



This week, Lakepointe Church pastor and BlazeTV host Josh Howerton sat down with Philip Anthony Mitchell — founder of Atlanta’s 2819 Church and one of the most viral preachers in the evangelical world right now — for an interview that did not flinch.

Their conversation, which tore into persecution, radical Islam, and the call to contend for the faith, was compelling enough to outrank a Joe Rogan episode on Apple’s Trending Episodes list.

But beating Rogan was never Howerton’s agenda. His excitement at ranking above the podcasting king has everything to do with what the spike revealed: Listeners are hungry for the Word of God.

By Thursday afternoon, it wasn’t just one episode trending. The "Live Free" podcast sat at No. 5 on Apple’s all-categories Top Shows chart — one spot above "The Joe Rogan Experience."

If you haven’t seen the interview, the charts prove it's one you don't want to miss. The duo take an unapologetic look at the truths a lot of Christians would rather ignore: a culture losing its appetite for Scripture, political pressure that could muzzle biblical preaching, and a religious challenge from Islam too many pastors will not acknowledge. Mitchell’s warning is harrowing: Unless the church learns to contend, it will not be ready for what’s coming.

Underneath it all is his own story — a former Queens drug dealer, suicide plans, Rikers Island, then a call to preach he treats as a matter of life and death.

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‘We are going to just invite the devil in’: Philip Anthony Mitchell’s dire warning to the American church



Philip Anthony Mitchell has been faithfully preaching the gospel for years, but in the last few, his platform — known for urgent, fiery, no-nonsense exegesis — has gone viral. His sermons and podcasts now reach millions of people across the country.

On today’s episode of “Live Free,” Mitchell joins BlazeTV’s Josh Howerton for an unvarnished conversation about Mitchell’s gut-wrenching testimony, his rise to prominence, and a dire warning he has for the church in an age of casual Christianity.

Mitchell’s first book, “Contend,” which comes out next month, dives into the the warning. It unpacks Jude’s urgent letter to ancient Christians who were living in an age of false teachers, watering down the gospel, and treating the faith as a comfortable inheritance instead of the paramount mission it is — and draws parallels to the church in modern America.

In this episode, Mitchell takes that same warning to Howerton.

Howerton begins by reading an X post Mitchell wrote about “Contend":

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. - Jude

Policies that could eventually muzzle the Scriptures. Satanic delusions running rampant on social media. A growing hostility towards Christianity, globally. And time that is running out. Now is the hour to contend.

“Tease this out for me. … Why did you say policies that could eventually muzzle the Scriptures, satanic delusions running rampant on social media, growing hostility towards Christianity?” Howerton asks.

Mitchell, acknowledging that his answer will likely “stir up a bit of trouble,” bluntly explains what he means by policies that could “muzzle the Scriptures”: “There are ideologies and certain political streams that, if left unchecked, they will pass legislation and laws, I think, that would inadvertently muzzle the Scriptures.”

“It will get to the point where those who are faithful in gospel proclamation will be considered preaching things that will be hailed as hate speech and illegal,” he continues, “and they will threaten us to say we'll remove your 501(c)(3); we'll shut down your church if you preach this way.”

If this happens, Mitchell warns preachers will be forced to make “a tough decision” — “be faithful to proclamation or capitulate to that kind of pressure.”

“I'm watching that happen right now in real time in other countries, and I feel like it's encroaching on the West,” he warns.

Mitchell then turns to his warning about “satanic delusions running rampant on social media.”

“Right now as I'm talking to you, there are people on social media who claim the name of God, but they are heralding doctrines of demons — seducing spirits that are leading people astray in the name of God,” he tells Howerton.

He highlights the growing popularity of “spiritualism,” which he exposes as religious “syncretism” — a blending of distinct religious belief systems into a new and heretical practice.

He gives the example of “people merging crystals and mystics and psychic behavior … with the kingdom.”

“There is a syncretism I see on social media amongst people who don't even know … they're being used by the enemy to lead people astray, and then those who are direct pawns of the devil who are willingly leading people astray,” Mitchell explains.

“And these delusions are running rampant so bad, and I'm watching a generation being carried astray by these delusions, Josh. And the thing about it is that if we don't know the Scriptures, we won't be able to determine that this is heresy packaged eloquently.”

He then turns to his final warning in the X post: the “growing hostility towards Christianity.”

“There is another monotheism that is almost an antichrist monotheism. It is one of the fastest-growing ideologies in the world, and there are fringes of that ideology that is radical and hostile towards Christianity,” says Mitchell, noting that he’s “talking about radical Islam.”

“There are people who for the sake of inclusion think that we are doing people good by allowing that ideology to … infiltrate and invade our political sphere and our social sphere,” he says.

But this “inclusivity” comes at an enormous cost.

Mitchell fears “we will keep giving away seats in office and we will keep giving away seats in various legislatures across the country until the day comes where that ideology has enough political power … to introduce Sharia law in America.”

“Oftentimes, the past is a good predictor of what's going to happen in the future. We're talking about an ideology that has conquered the East, has conquered most of North Africa,” he warns.

“Now it's encroaching on our shores. To talk like this — they will say we are closed-minded and we are hateful and we are bigoted — at the expense of not contending and not taking a stand, not praying. Our children and our grandchildren will suffer.”

“They will suffer the consequence of our complicit nature right now if the church in America, in the West, does not wake up and realize the infiltration of what the enemy is doing through politics, through social media, right under our nose to hijack from our country what I think an ideology that is incompatible with Western fundamentals and incompatible with Christianity,” he warns.

Mitchell acknowledges people will hate both him and Howerton for speaking about the dangers of radical Islam, but he knows a day could come when those same naysayers seek out the very warnings they’re issuing today.

“Ten years from now, 15 years from now, they will be underneath … the tyranny of that ideology, and then they will go on YouTube and search for my messages and they will search for yours, but by that time it would be too late,” he says.

“Now is the hour to vote right, pray right, stand right, contend right — all the things to hold back that invasion as long as we could, and if we don't do that right now, I feel like we are going to just invite the devil in.”

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Revivalist Philip Anthony Mitchell joins Josh Howerton for an unfiltered talk on persecution, Islam, and the call to contend



Philip Anthony Mitchell is quickly becoming a household name in the evangelical world. Covered by the Associated Press, CNN, Fortune, and CBN, among several other prominent outlets, the Atlanta pastor and founder of 2819 Church has built a platform of fiery, no-nonsense, revivalist preaching that now reaches millions.

Once a Queens drug dealer who nearly took his own life, Mitchell came to Christ in his mid-20s and has spent the years since calling the church back to repentance and the Great Commission.

Tomorrow, Mitchell is joining BlazeTV’s Josh Howerton on “Live Free” for a conversation that is as inspiring as it is gut-wrenchingly raw.

The duo dig into it all — from Mitchell’s near-suicide and the weight of being one of the most viral pastors in the country to a growing political threat Mitchell says “would inadvertently muzzle the Scriptures” and the looming horrors of radical Islam.

“Somebody got to stand up and lift up their voice even if it comes at the expense of persecution. Man, I just want to be one of those somebodies, bro,” Mitchell tells Howerton.

This episode has it all: stunning testimonies, unpolished insecurity, honest tears, and warnings the church would rather dodge.

Check out the trailer below. Then come back tomorrow for a conversation that will captivate you — even when it makes you squirm.

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Dave Ramsey ignites firestorm after telling mom to cut her socialist kids out of the will — but is he right?



Finance guru Dave Ramsey made waves recently when he advised a caller on his show to withhold her daughters’ inheritances because they’ve become socialists.

“I've gotten to the point where I don't want to give either of them any money. I feel like I've worked so hard my whole life. I paid for college for them. I've paid over half a million dollars for college for them, and they’ve turned into socialists,” the caller said, noting that she felt “terrible” for wanting to withhold her daughters’ inheritances.

“You shouldn’t,” said Ramsey.

“My children have been instructed since they were small that in order to get the opportunity to manage the money that God gave me to manage … they will have to be people of character. Socialists are not people of character. They’re parasites,” he continued.

“If [my kids] aren’t walking with God, they don’t get to manage God’s money,” Ramsey concluded.

The clip of the call went immediately viral, with many people, including some Christians, angry at Ramsey’s advice.

But is he right? Should parents write their children out of their wills if they go astray?

On this episode of “Live Free with Josh Howerton,” the Lakepointe pastor reacts to the viral Ramsey clip and asks whether Christian parents should ever disinherit a rebellious child.

After unpacking all the ways socialism is incompatible with Christianity, Howerton dives into the scenario of disinheriting rebellious children — whether that rebellion is rooted in socialism or other sins.

“In the Bible, you've got three institutions: family, church, and state,” Howerton says, explaining that there are specific penalties for “high rebellion” within each of those institutions.

“The ultimate penalty for the church is outlined in 1 Corinthians 5, and it's excommunication. If you are a member of a church that's living in open rebellion against God … the Bible commands the leaders of a church to remove that person from the church,” he explains.

“In the state, the ultimate penalty for rebellion is the death penalty,” he continues, noting that “the death penalty is biblical” according to Romans 13’s instructions for the government not to bear the sword in vain.

But what about families? What’s the biblical penalty for children who engage in “high rebellion and open unrepentant sin”?

Many theologians, says Howerton, have arrived at the conclusion that "disinheritance” is a “biblically permissible response from parents.”

Based on evidence in both the Old and New Testaments, Howerton agrees.

“I have decided I am not going to fund rebellion against my Lord,” he says frankly.

However, there are other parts of Scripture, Howerton argues, that must be factored in — most notably the father’s decision to give the prodigal son “part of his inheritance” (a reflection of Christ dying for us “while we were yet sinners”); Romans 2:4 that says “it is God's kindness that leads us to repentance”; and Deuteronomy's instructions not to “revenge-disinherit kids.”

To find out how Howerton and his wife are threading this difficult needle when it comes to their children and their will, watch the episode above.

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This little-known fact changes everything about Jonah and the whale



The story of Jonah and the whale is one of the most well-known stories in all of Scripture. But there’s a hidden historical detail the vast majority of people don’t know, says Lakepointe pastor and “Live Free with Josh Howerton” co-host Carlos Erazo.

In this episode, he shares a little-known fact about the pagan city of Nineveh that will change the way you think not only about the story of Jonah and the fish that swallowed him but also about God, who he says never wastes a single detail.

Most people, even many non-Christians, know the basics of Jonah’s story: He was an Israelite prophet whom God commanded to go to the wicked city of Nineveh and warn it of coming judgment, giving the pagans who lived there a chance to repent before God destroyed their city. Wanting judgment, not mercy, to fall upon the Ninevites, Jonah refused God’s command and fled on a ship.

God sent a violent storm, and the sailors, knowing Jonah was the cause of God’s wrath, threw him overboard, where he was swallowed by a giant fish. For three days, he remained in the beast’s belly until it spit him out on dry land. Repentant, Jonah went to Nineveh, where the people believed God, turned from their violence, and were spared from divine judgment.

“That's basically the whole story. ... It's a short book,” says Erazo, “but there's something more happening behind the scenes that a lot of people have no idea.”

He explains that Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian Empire — a military superpower in Jonah’s day and Israel’s mortal enemy.

“If you know a little bit about the culture, Mesopotamia back in the day, it would be a polytheistic culture, which means that they would have a lot of different gods, little g pagan gods, that they would worship,” says Erazo.

One of those gods was named Oannes. Ancient art and writing describes him as a man-like being with a fish’s head and tail who comes out of the water to teach people divine wisdom.

Erazo displays a picture of an ancient stone relief of Oannes. He is depicted as a bearded man with a fish head and skin worn as a cloak.

“It looks like it's a man with a fish on top, or you could say a man coming out of a fish,” he says.

“If you were a pagan fisherman at the time, and you're kind of out there doing your thing at the coast ... and all of a sudden you see this fish literally come out, and there's this man coming out of the mouth of the fish, and he's out there preaching repentance in the name of this deity, in the name of God, and all of a sudden people are listening to this,” he tells fellow pastor and co-host Paul Cunningham.

Erazo explains that there’s speculation that Jonah was received by the Ninevites because he initially appeared as Oannes coming out of the sea to share wisdom.

“But at some point, they would have realized, ‘Hey, actually this is not one of these little g gods. This is the real God revealing Himself, giving us wisdom and telling us that if we don't repent, He will destroy us in judgment,”’ he notes.

This fascinating historical detail, says Erazo, is an example of how free will and God’s sovereignty beautifully co-exist.

“Jonah may have been running from God, but he was never outside of the sovereignty of God,” he says.

“God knew from the very beginning that Jonah was going to be swallowed by a fish, and he was going to spend three days and three nights inside the fish, which would be a prophetic sign for the Messiah,” he continues, highlighting how Jonah’s three days and three nights in the whale before emerging to save the Ninevites parallel Jesus’ time in the grave before His resurrection that would save humanity from eternal damnation.

“The whole process of him rebelling and running away from God and eventually repenting and obeying God, God knew He was going to use that testimony, that story, that experience, and eventually He was going to use all of that for the people to hear the gospel. ... With God, no detail is ever wasted,” Erazo beams.

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Recent earthquakes and rising global wars echo Jesus’ end-time warnings, pastor says



On August 10, a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia near the town of San José del Palmar in Chocó Department, killing at least 287 people, injuring thousands, and knocking down buildings in cities like Pereira and Cali.

While Colombia is the most recent example, it’s certainly not the only country to experience devastating earthquakes in recent months. Since May, Venezuela, Indonesia, Mexico, and Japan, among several others, have all experienced the ground-splitting force of major quakes.

On a recent episode of “Live Free,” host and Lakepointe Church pastor Josh Howerton, along with co-host and fellow pastor Carlos Erazo, dove into the biblical significance behind the uptick in earthquakes and other kinds of chaos.

“When you look at Scripture, there's only one time that Jesus actually specifically explicitly addresses earthquakes,” says Erazo, “and the one time He does it, it happens in the context of the end-times and the return of Jesus.”

He then reads Matthew 24:7-8, which documents Jesus’ answer to His disciples’ questions regarding the signs that will mark the end of the age: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.”

The earthquakes that are happening all over the world right now, Erazo says, are “literally what Jesus said 2,000 years ago would happen.”

He acknowledges that skeptics will argue that earthquakes have always happened, but they’re missing a critical distinction.

“There's always been earthquakes ... and that's true, but we haven't always had these amount of earthquakes in the context of literally everything else that we're seeing right now happening and unfolding in our world,” he says.

He points to another of Jesus’ end-time signs in Matthew 24 — “wars and rumors of wars.”

“Studies show today that in the last four to five years, there's been an increasing number in quote ‘active armed conflicts involving governments.’ 2025 set an all-time record high since World War II,” says Erazo.

“In 2026, the amount of countries that were involved as well in conflicts outside of their own borders nearly doubled in the last 20 years, and according to this same report, it says quote, ‘Global peace is at its lowest level since 2007,”’ he adds, citing the 2026 Global Peace Index from the Institute for Economics & Peace.

These natural disasters and global conflicts aren’t mere occurrences, Erazo argues, but signs that Jesus’ prophesies are coming to pass.

“When you see stuff like that — earthquakes, wars, persecution, the insanity happening out there, chaos — Jesus said this would happen,” he says.

For Christians, these signs herald the good news that Jesus’ final return draws nearer — but not so for the unbeliever, says Erazo.

“If you're not a Christian ... this should scare you,” he warns.

“Jesus spoke about birth pains, and this is just the beginning of something that's going to get worse.”

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Should Christians fight to stop mosques in their cities? The answer is more complicated than you think



Josh Howerton, BlazeTV host and pastor of Lakepointe Church in Dallas, Texas, regularly receives emails from Christians in the DFW metroplex asking if they should try to legally stop mosques from being built in their city.

Data shows that Texas ranks third in the country for number of mosques and has seen significant growth in recent decades. Is aiming to stop or slow this growth a genuine Christian mission — or is it politics dressed up as a holy crusade?

On this episode of “Live Free,” Howerton responds to this inquiry by looking at both Scripture and the current law.

Howerton acknowledges the ideological divide among Christians regarding the issue of Islam. Some will point to the religious liberty granted by the First Amendment and Christianity being “the religion of invitation” and say “of course not” to organizing around mosque prevention. Others, he says, will strongly advocate for it on the grounds that Islam is “demon worship” that aims to “[overtake] cities” where their families live.

This division was on full display at a recent city council meeting in McKinney, Texas, where the council heard arguments surrounding the McKinney Islamic Association’s mosque expansion site plan, which the council still unanimously approved. The arguments were so contentious that the story made national news.

There were several Christians who advocated against the mosque’s expansion, some of whom did “not [display] team Jesus character,” says Howerton. He shares this reminder: “We are commanded in the book of Second Timothy to 'correct opponents with gentleness and respect and to be people who conduct ourselves with a spirit of power and of love and of self-control."’

But conduct aside, was their advocacy biblical?

Howerton acknowledges the complexity of the issue. It is true, he argues, that Christianity treats all opposing religions as “demon worship” (1 Corinthians 10:20). In the Old Testament, God harshly judged the kings who “allowed the construction of things that facilitated the worship of false gods in the nation,” he points out.

However, under the current American legal system that interprets the First Amendment to mean “radical pluralism,” the government is not allowed to treat one religion differently from another — even though our founders wanted religious tolerance for all but religious preference for Christianity, Howerton notes.

It’s right for Christians to want to stop the spread of the demon religion of Islam, he argues, but it’s a guaranteed lost battle with the modern interpretation of the First Amendment.

So where does that leave Christians who want to be “salt of the earth” in the public square?

The solution, says Howerton, is to fight Islam legally — opposing mosque building projects on zoning grounds or via existing legal restrictions on certain organizations.

In Texas, there are two ways to legally oppose the construction or expansion of a mosque.

The first, Howerton explains, is called a formal property owners protest. It lets nearby landowners who control at least 20% of the land next to the project to formally challenge the zoning change, which then forces the city council to get a larger majority of votes before it can approve it.

The second way, says Howerton, is to prove that a mosque or Islamic center’s construction or expansion is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood or Council on American-Islamic Relations (or their affiliates). Under Texas law, those groups are restricted from owning land, which gives protesters a legal basis to challenge the project.

“A significant number of potential mosque developments are connected in some way to one of the two organizations,” he explains.

“You file a public records request on the potential development’s paperwork, nonprofit status, and any connection to CAIR or the Muslim Brotherhood, and if you establish it ... then you file that complaint with the Texas AG's office, and it's done.”

Howerton warns that the time for Christians to sit back and not take a stand on the issue of Islam’s growth in the United States is over.

“If you're a Christian, whether you like it or not, you are going to have to learn to think about things like this in the next 20 years. You are no longer afforded the luxury of not having an answer to this question.”

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Josh Howerton reacts to Ross Douthat’s VIRAL interview with Yale professor over ‘demonic’ voting idea for kids



On a recent episode of his “Interesting Times” podcast, New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat interviewed Yale law and history professor Samuel Moyn.

One particular clip from the episode has gone wildly viral. In it, Moyn suggests that minors should have some stake in elections because decisions about the future impact them. But since the law prohibits their casting votes, another eligible class should be charged with casting those votes on their behalf.

But his most shocking claim came next.

When Douthat inquired about the parents of children being the ones to cast those additional votes, Moyn argued against the idea.

His reasoning? Parents aren’t the best ones to determine what’s in their kids’ best interest.

“Because there’s a divergence of interests between parents and children. And I think it’s likelier that young people — not people who are raising families — will have the best insight into the interests of children,” Moyn said.

“I think parents generally confuse the interests of their family with the interests of their children. Part of our goal, I think, as parents, but also as a society, is trying to make sure that children aren’t the hostages of their parents,” he added.

On this episode of “Live Free,” BlazeTV host and Lakepointe Church Pastor Josh Howerton exposes not only what he sees as the spiritual danger behind Moyn’s words but also how popular this toxic ideology has become in our current culture.

Moyn’s belief that what’s in children’s best interest cannot be determined by their parents, Howerton says, is “emblematic of thinking that is far more prevalent and far more influential in our culture than people realize.”

Moyn, he explains, is not some “fringe” thinker. “This is the person that’s training the most prominent legal minds in our nation,” he points out.

Moyn’s proposal to shift the proxy voting power for children away from parents and give it to young adults is the “demonic reverse image of Malachi 4:6,” says Howerton.

“Malachi 4:6 says that what the Spirit of God does ... is He turns the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to the children. What unholy spirits do is they turn the hearts of the fathers against the children and the hearts of the children against the fathers,” he explains.

The three main “streams of progressivism” push this spiritually toxic ideology, says Howerton.

He then explains how each goes about poisoning the minds of kids against their parents:

Critical theory teaches children to “see their parents as racist oppressors that they have to oppose in order to stand on the side of justice”; queer theory “disciples kids to see their parents’ views on gender, marriage, and sexuality as bigoted and repressive, so they have to rebel against their parents to ‘be themselves”’; and hyper-therapy culture “disciples children to see their family of origin ... as the source of every problem that they ever have, so they have to go no-contact or separate from their parents to be happy.”

All three of these streams are specifically “designed to reverse-disciple children to turn the hearts of children against the fathers,” says Howerton.

Moyn’s proposal is simply “a fourth way” to do this, he argues.

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