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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheared Podcast.

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I'm your host, Austin Creed, and today my friends, we're going to be talking about how

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the church manipulates men.

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My friends, I don't take any joy in saying this.

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Quite frankly, it really makes me sad that we even have to have this conversation.

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But unfortunately, when I look at the church today, and not just the church I've been to,

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I'm saying in a general broad sense.

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I see a very unfortunate shift.

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The shift is mainly towards men being pushed out and women being elevated.

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Now, this whole idea of equality has bled from the secular realm into the religious

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realm, which wouldn't be so bad if equality was actually what people wanted.

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When in fact, just like the Trojans found out during the Trojan War, a gift is often dubious

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at best because just like the Trojan horse the Greeks gave the Trojans they thought was

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a gift, turns out it was in fact a terrible atrocity from which they would never recover.

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And our society is no different with how feminism has affected our society.

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And I'm not just here to persecute feminism, I mean, everybody in their grandpa is doing

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that today, so that's not something new.

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But when it comes to the seduction of the spirit itself, when we look at the church leadership,

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and I'm not just talking about one specific church or even just Christianity at this point

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either, we look at how the church has not adapted to the modern day.

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We see how pastors instead of saying, hey, we have the Jezebel spirit at stage left,

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and then we have the spirit of memmon or the greed, the desire for power on stage right.

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We have to ask ourselves, wait, hold on a second.

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We look at the marriage laws, and as much as we want to say that, oh, oh no, we're the

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church, we're religious, state got nothing on us, we are even the ruler of it.

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Well, then what happens then when you then sign a marriage contract that doesn't favor

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you?

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What that happens when, hold on a second, you're faced with a very unfortunate reality.

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What happens when, oh no, oh no, I have to go and to the guy to go to the divorce court

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because my wife wants to get rid of me?

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What?

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What are you saying, my kids not our kids?

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Why is this happening?

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Why is my wife suddenly switching up on me?

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Maybe she's not divorcing me yet, but maybe she doesn't want to have sex with me anymore.

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Maybe she's working all the time and all of a sudden she's distant from me, what do I

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do?

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What do I do, Austin?

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Well, I'm sorry man, you ain't got leverage.

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You're pastor, you ain't gonna help you in the divorce court because he can't.

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That is a law contract that he has nothing to do with and he can't help you even though

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he might want to, he can't.

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So when I go to church, and I'm not just one church, when I go to a church and I hear

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pastors talk about whether it's on the internet or whether it's just at in their church because

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a lot of churches have live streams that is not hard to go into a church's live stream.

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So when I see them talk about how the church is built off of young couples and off of marriage

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and if you're a young guy or you're a young gal and you want to get married, then that's

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the right thing to do and having sex outside of marriage is bad and whatnot.

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I totally understand what they're saying.

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I do.

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Here's a problem though.

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Here's what they're not telling you because it all sounds well and good.

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Technically speaking, they are not lying.

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That's what they are lying by omission about in my opinion.

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They're not telling you, oh by the way, marriage is a contract between you, Uncle Sam and your

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significant other.

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They don't tell you that part.

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They don't tell you that if stuff goes south, there's this thing called no fault divorce

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where your wife can wake up one day and say, hey, you know what?

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Yeah, I'm done.

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You know, I've been kind of fed up with you for the last couple months now and I've

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kind of over you or, hey, I went to that girl's nights out last week and I got my cheeks clapped

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by Tyrone in the bathroom and I realized that I'm not attracted to you anymore because

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she wouldn't say that part but you find that out like, I don't know, two, three years later

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maybe you find that out or maybe Tyrone moves into her apartment or your house after you

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get kicked out of your house that you paid the mortgage for and you get to live in your

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car.

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So I've taken this up.

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There are real people on the internet and in real life who've gone through this.

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This is not something new.

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So my friends, when I talk about this, this is something that hits real people's lives.

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I want you to know that the church has a responsibility to point out these realities and they're not

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doing it.

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And it really makes me sad.

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I wish I could sit here and tell you that this wasn't the case but it is.

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So when we deal with these uncomfortable realities, when we have this hard conversation, you

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have to realize that, guess what?

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We're dealing with very sad realities.

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The question is, does the church just ignore it and think that, oh, if I just don't talk

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about this, then maybe it will just go away.

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Maybe it will just not affect me anymore.

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Maybe I can just move on.

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Maybe the problem will just sticks itself.

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You know, you might think that that's what they're doing but here's the part they won't

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tell you.

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What they won't tell you is they benefit from marriage because guess what?

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Kids are really, really, really easy to indoctrinate.

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Kids are really, really easy to get them to keep coming back to church, keep giving money

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in the offering plate.

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Oh yes, and I'm not saying that's bad inherently but that's the part they're not telling you.

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They make it seem like, oh, it has nothing to do with money.

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Oh, it has nothing to do with you getting to do things for free called volunteering.

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They want to pretend like it doesn't have anything to do with that but it does because

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most dudes are good men.

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Most dudes are like, hey, I want to give back.

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I want to be a nice person.

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I want to be a good guy.

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The problem is that goodness, that desire to do nice things, kind things, be a good

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guy is then exploited.

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It is utilized.

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It is treated like, oh, sweet.

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Okay, well guess what?

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I'm going to use you here, here, here, here and everywhere else and you know, I'll teach

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you how to be good and I'm not going to reward you.

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I will penalize you if you step out of line or I'll shame you or whatever but being a

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good man means putting everybody in their grandma before you, you take the raw deal,

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you just follow the sword every day for everybody else and that makes you a good man.

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You know, marrying a single mother or marrying a woman who's like 25 to 30 who's had more,

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you've had more schmendrics inside her than your parents age so what?

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What?

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You don't want to do that?

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You're not one of those toxic mean guys, are you?

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Oh, no, no, no, no.

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You don't want to be a toxic mean guy.

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No, no, no, you want to be a good example, you know, like Jesus was and just take the

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raw deal, just go out there and sacrifice for everybody else, have them not appreciate

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you, not thank you, not do anything for you in return and if you want to complain about

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it, well then you're the problem.

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That's unfortunately what a lot of men are dealing with right now and to me, I find it

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disgusting.

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You know what I'd love to see?

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I would love to see a church pastor elder, deacon, anybody come out here and say, you

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know what, we see that the world is changing.

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We see that a lot of men are taking raw deals.

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We see that a lot of women are really not marriage material, but they'll try to back

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door you, shame you or anything in the relationship.

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So here's what we're going to do.

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We are going to hold a legal seminar so that a lawyer of our congregation or a higher one

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and what they'll do is we'll come in here and they'll tell you all about the marriage

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process, freeing up and we'll talk about the divorce law process.

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We'll talk about how this is what could happen to you.

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This is what marriage actually looks like behind the scenes outside of the rose colored

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glasses that you have because you're horny and we're going to really tell you and break

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this down into a science because we want to make sure that you have the best foot forward

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and you could actually live this out and we're not going to use vague, sphincter language

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like just read the Bible and everything will figure itself out.

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We're not going to just make it seem like we're super wise when we're really just kind

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of giving you a blank check and you know, we're kind of like this garbage.

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You know, you might have picked up on that and I'm not knocking reading the Bible.

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It's fantastic.

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What I'm knocking is people using vague language, using Christianese vocabulary and people don't

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know how to actually live their daily lives.

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People don't know how to actually deal with hard problems.

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You want to like speak in riddles like the riddler from Batman and you want to make it

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seem like that every and then look at other people like they're crazy when they don't

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get it.

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I think it's disgusting.

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I don't think it's good.

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It doesn't lead to healthy communities.

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It doesn't lead to good multi-generational churches because guess what?

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We don't live in the 1950s anymore.

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We don't live in society that you might think we wish we lived in.

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But guess what?

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We don't.

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All you have to do is go on the Internet and see it for yourself and I know people who

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say, oh, Austin, you know, that's just the Internet.

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That's not real life.

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Last time I checked real life people have Internet connection.

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So just because they don't act that way in front of you when you see them at the grocery

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store or at the, oh, I don't know where you go at the movie theaters or at the gym or

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whatever, doesn't mean that they're any different.

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It just means that they're not going to show you how crazy they are or who they actually

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are because it's not socially appropriate.

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And I think that our spirits are being seduced by these by these disgusting individuals who

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are not discussing with you the harsh realities because it hurts their pocketbooks.

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It hurts them.

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And so we need to really have a harsh discussion about it.

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That's what I think.

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And I'm not saying this because I'm hurt.

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I'm saying this because I want to stop people from doing this.

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It's with a heavy heart that I even have to talk about this.

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I wish I didn't have to.

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But guess what?

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They are leading you right down the Krameros path, right to the altar, be sacrificed and

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I'm sick of it.

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I think it's about time that we had people win again.

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I want you to win.

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My friends, I think I'll leave it there.

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We'll save this for another time.

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I think you get the point and I can get given you a chance to chew on for today.

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My friends, if you have anything you want to ask, add, inquire, whatever, give me up on

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an X or a Twitter at sheepkitcheered.

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I'm over there.

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DMs are open.

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You can leave a comment.

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My friends, take care of yourselves.

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Question everything.

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I'm out of here.

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I'm out of here.

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I'm out of here.

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I'm out of here.

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I'm out of here.