We're going to get back to my analogy. We're gonna get back to the history lesson at hand. We're back in the history lesson when the women and the older may be weaker men and the children were the ones running the church. Do you really think they were still preaching the fire and the brimstone and all that that they were preaching in the church beforehand? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheared podcast. I'm your host, Austin Creed, and my friends today we're going to revisit a subject that's very near and dear to my. Heart and one of. The things that really inspired me to start this show in the first place. And its. The lack of strength in the Christian Church, it's my desire to save the Christian Church, or, more accurately, for Christian men, to save the church. Now, that might seem like. Extreme or it might seem completely out of pocket like Austin. How in the world could you even say you want to do that much less actually achieve it? Well. Actually, there's a very simple solution to it. However, a lot of people don't know the history of the subject. We're going to discuss. If you go to certain churches and certain demographics, you know, like ones, there are colleges or high schools or ones that maybe out of elementary schools in them as a part of it, like their Catholic schools or something like that, then you might not be aware. But for the most part. Young men especially, they're not really into the church. They're checked out. They have been for a long time, so you might think that this doesn't affect you and might say awesome. This doesn't talk about my church or this is a very representative of the church in general. And I say I disagree. The reason I disagree is because if you look at the demographics done in in statistics, you would find. That a lot of churches are lacking in young men and they have a surplus of young women now. As the older population gets older and they age out. The church is faced with OK, we have these younger people who are. A little more. Broke, but there's not a lot of them. Middle-aged people are kind of there, but kind of not there. Maybe they come on Easter and on Christmas. That's not super precise and not super consistent. And then they have the older people who are more consistent. Problem is a lot of people don't understand why younger men especially are checked out of the church. I've talked about this at length on this show. One of the biggest reasons is because men are not really given a reason to. If you look at how the church, whether it's your denomination or the Catholics versus the Protestants, when you look at how the churches have changed since World War 2. Up until now, there is a very stark difference with the message, with the culture, with the attitudes, with the people who are conducting themselves in the church, the morals, all these things are very slowly but surely they've been degraded. They've changed. And there's a very, very easy way to. Demonstrate what I'm talking about. Let's let's do some basic math, shall we? I don't say this to demean you in any way. I say this. Because a lot of. People, they don't like the claims we make on the show. They think that I'm being extreme. I'm being a shock jock. Well, I mean, you can think whatever you want. I can't control what you think. Not the government, but what I can do is try to make this make sense through reason and logic. OK, during World War 2 and World War One, arguably. But let's focus on World War 2 in World War 2, I realized many of you fell asleep. But for those of you who are still awake and World War 2. All most of the men were drafted into war and then you could add Vietnam in there as well. But during World War 2 especially, a lot of the men were off in the Pacific theater, off in Europe, and they were fighting a lot of them didn't. Come. Home during that time, who ran the church? Church didn't just shut down. Who ran the church? The very simple answer the women and the men who were too weak to fight, or the children. Right. So when you didn't take the years we were at war and you might think it wasn't that long with time and matter of years, but guess what? It doesn't take very long for a structure like that to change. And then when the men come back from war along them, have things that they'd like to forget. A lot of PTSD, a lot of. Alcohol and drug? I'm not saying this as a guy who doesn't. I'm a veteran. OK, I see what the veterans go through. I understand it very well. So don't think that I'm disrespecting veterans when I say that no, I am one. I understand how veterans think. I've seen them. I've met them. I know them now. This isn't right at all. But this is a generalization because we can't fit everything into every outlier. That's just not how things work. Now with that out of the way for the not all police to come to my damn channel, we're going to get back to my analogy. We're to get back to the history lesson at hand. We're back in the history lesson when the women and the older, maybe weaker men and the children were the ones running the chip. Do you really think that we're still approaching the fire and the brimstone and all that that they were preaching in the church beforehand? The strict order and law and all that kind of stuff that was in the church? No, not really. They were more about the feelings, more about the spiritualism, which is all well and good there. But when you lack. The structure, the structure, the order. The the accountability in the church you end up with people flying rainbow flags. You end up with people telling having pastors equating the rainbow flag with love. And the love of Christ and you end up having children talking, teaching children about basically gender theory. Marxist garbage in the church instead of preaching the gospel, you have people preaching about how things make you feel versus what the actually you said in the gospel, which then leads to guys like me having this conversation. Now, in an ideal world, we wouldn't have to have this conversation. In an ideal world, that church would function as it pretty much has from the beginning of, you know, Christ's ministry and everything else. Council macia, the Council of Germs, all this stuff, right. Problem is, we don't have that anymore because. A. The church doesn't have jurisdiction of marriage anymore. #1 and #2 the the pastors are selling out their flocks to the politicians and hopes of getting political clout recognition. And even more acolytes who are part of that political structure don't believe me. Look at how political theology has become, and look at how many pastors are on the Internet trying to get clicks and all this other stuff like that, and also look at how a lot of them men. Are run by their wives, not by their love of scripture or of anything else. See the reason why a lot of people tell a guy like me who's a biblical bachelor who believes in not getting married and whatnot? You don't like to say that I'm a hypocrite? Here's the problem. A lot of the men who would call me that are actually hypocrites themselves, and I don't say that the three when the bus I say this because I'm trying to save the church too. I'm trying to get men to realize. Wait, we met. We have isolated men out of the halls of the church, out of the pews, out of the synagogues, out of these places that matter in the society that have helped keep the morals in this country afloat. The problem is nobody cares about men. Nobody cares about how men are. Men's reality in marriage. Nobody cares about men's reality when it comes to the participation in the church, a a good man in the church is basically no more useful than a toolbox. He is a toolbox. Or the last time you had a male, a pastor. Male, female, whatever. Come up in the church and say, hey, man, in the church, we appreciate you. Amen, fathers. We appreciate you. Hey, men in the church you are, you know, God fearing. And who are who are trying to live according to the life that's been said before us. We appreciate you. We want to support you. We want to help you. We got. We want to do all those things. I haven't have you. But when it comes to Mother's Day, ohh. The mothers are great. The moms are great, the women are great, the women need. To be respected. Now, I'm not saying that the women inherently don't deserve those kind of compliments. What I'm saying is, where is the appreciation for the men? Where is the messages to men saying, hey man, you know, we preached this because this is what the Bible says. However, on this society's end. Society is much different than a culture in which this was written, so here's how we're gonna make this actually livable. We're not gonna hold it to a standard that's not actually livable. Well, I'm gonna tell you. Hey, man, just get married. Don't worry about it. Your wife's gonna be loyal to you. You're not gonna be risking anything if kids are going to burn off the spine. Society doesn't matter, there's a problem. When guys like Paul in the in the old, in the, in the New Testament, he references the Old Testament all the time, by the way. But even in the New Testament he talks about how men should love their wives and blah blah blah. This is true. Here's what he left out and what many pastors leave out in that time period, women could get. They had no rights. They did not have protections that women today have under the law. So a man could basically go upside his wife's head. Nobody cared, nothing, nobody missed a beat. He was regular. And that's what? That's why he said to love your wives, to treat them with respect, because they depended on that man. They relied on that man. Now, today that is not the case anymore. Now we have this thing called cherry picking equality. Now we have feminism. Now we have these things where men are treated like a utility, not like the backbone or a cornerstone of the family structure. The problem is they leave that part out. They want the man to be traditional, but when it comes to, hey, women, you're really not supposed to talk all. That much in the church. No, though no that there's nothing about that there. Or women you're supposed to cover yourselves up and be modest. Ohh. Wait. No, no, no. That's body shaming. You can't do that. All women you're supposed to be virgins. Ah, no, you can't do that. Or hey, ladies, you know you're supposed to keep each other lying accountable. You can't do none of that. You see what? I'm you see what I'm saying? Am I making sense to anybody? Again, I don't say these things for dramatic effect. I say this because I want you to understand you're not alone if you think this way. If you see what we're talking about, you are not. Alone, in fact. You're in good company. There are a lot of us. Out there, who believe this, by the way. Ohh and for those of you who think Ohh Austin, you know if you you have such before marriage, you're a bad person. I say, you know what? Back in the day I'd agree with you. But not today. No, no, sorry. It it just it's not feasible. It doesn't work that way anymore. When you look at the statistics of how women are the ones who most divorced men and are a lot of men are also in sexless marriages and how the government has control of marriage. And so if your marriage falls apart, even if it's never your fault. Guess what? You're still on the hook. Guess what? You still get the pay. You still get all the BS that follows it. And all because you try to do the right thing. Now, is this set in stone and guaranteed? No. But is it statistically gonna happen? Yes. So you could go and say you. Know what I have? A. Slim chance of it not happening to me, and I'm gonna go for it. OK? That's your choice. But don't tell me that because I'm smart and I'm not gonna just bet everything on a on a hope and a prayer that I'm the bad guy. Don't do that. Don't do that, because guess what? You're the one who's giving, giving you to a system that doesn't care about you. You're the one who's making it harder for guys like us, like guys like myself, from actually, if we're actually going to marriage laws could be changed, but guess what? You're so *****. You still want to be the good right guy that you don't want to actually help fix society. You don't want to actually do anything that you claim. That's what you want, but your actions don't actually match up with what you say me. I'm not trying to fix society. Would it be great? Yeah, but can I actually do that? Probably not. I'm not. I'm not a politician. I don't have really any authority to do that. Can I open up people's minds? Who give them an alternative? Yes. Can I give you information that maybe you didn't know, or maybe to even let you know that if you think this way, you're not alone and you're not crazy? That's a win for me. Ohh yeah. You'll hear guys talk about stuff like this that are not religious people and they're that's their. Their advice is still good. Absolutely still viable for sure, but. Lot. Not a lot of them are actually on the inside and they see what's going on in these churches where these these pastors are basically like Forrest Gump trying to teach you to be forced gunk and go in there. Find yourself a journey and be a happy, good, good man. No, I don't think so. No, because you don't. You've earned more than that by working your heart out by giving something to this world. And you own better than that, in my opinion. But hey, you know what do you want to treat me like I'm the problem for talking about how to save the church. OK, go ahead. Make my day. I would love to have that discussion, but a lot of you probably won't want to because. You just rather insult me. That's cool. I don't care. I'm still here to talk. Try to. I'd love to help save the church by saving the minds of men. But you know what? Sometimes people need to experience things the hard way. What friends? I encourage you to do your research when it comes to this topic. I know that a lot of you this is. A. Very sensitive issue. I know that a lot of times you're going to react emotionally and I don't blame you for that. What I would ask you to do though, is to think about this from a logical perspective. After you've had your emotional reaction. Calm down and. Wait a minute. Maybe there's actually some good points here. Maybe Marxism is coming into the church. Maybe the gynocentrism in the society has looked into the church. Maybe we can actually do something about this if we try to open men's eyes and prepare them for the slaughterhouse that the society is. Going to basically be for them. My friends, I encourage you to do your research. Think for yourself. Use your brain, not what's below your belt. You take care yourselves in the mean time. I'll see you next time. Peace.