The Matt Walsh Show

The crisis in American culture is twofold: we do not know WHO we are, and we do not know WHY we are. We are confused about our identity and our purpose. But a person cannot live, and he certainly cannot be happy, unless he knows who he is and where he is going. We need to restore our sense of identity and purpose.

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The Left has been having a tantrum over Chick Fil A for years now. Chick Fil A has just ignored them and made no effort to apologize. In the meantime, the company has had enormous success and become one of the most popular restaurants in America. We can learn two important things from this chain of events.

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Conservatives lost the culture because they stopped fighting for it. Now we brag about our "silent majority" while we cower in the corner, too terrified to meaningfully resist the Left and its agenda. If only we had a little bit of courage. That is all we need, and it would be enough to change everything.

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Yet again, gender-confused boys were allowed to compete against girls in a track and field meet, and they of course blew out the competition. This madness needs to end. Parents need to step up. Pull your daughters out of these competitions so long as boys are allowed to participate.

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Whenever suicide is in the news, well intentioned people say really horrible and dangerous things about it. In an effort to be kind and generous to the dead, they end up justifying, glorifying, and promoting suicide, which is very harmful to the living. Today I want to talk about two of the great lies people tell about suicide, thinking they are being helpful, when really they are causing enormous harm.

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The "child-free movement" says that the only way to be free and happy is to avoid having kids at all costs. Many people in my generation have taken this idea to heart, and as a result the birth rate has dropped to cataclysmic lows. But the "child-free" mentality is wrong, and leads only to emptiness and sadness, and I'll explain why.

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The Church today treats guilt as a bad thing. Many Christians think that they ought never feel guilty, and that feelings of guilt should be rejected and overcome through positive-thinking. But this is a serious error. Guilt is our soul's response to sin. It is good that we have that response if we are in fact guilty of something. But what do we do with guilt? What can we learn from it and where should it lead us? That's what I want to talk about today.

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Millennials are generally blamed for everything in our society, even though our country was already financially and culturally and spiritually ruined before my generation came of age. Yes, many of us tend to be entitled and selfish. But they learned it from their entitled, selfish parents, who seem to always get off the hook somehow. Maybe it's time to stop foisting all the blame on Millennials and start looking at our situation honestly.

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The Left is lying about the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. The Christian baker never "refused service" to gay people. He never discriminated against gay people. He never told gay people that they couldn't buy a cake. These are all lies. Let's discuss the actual truth of this case.

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It was revealed last week that Planned Parenthood has been conspiring to cover up child rape. How did the public generally respond to this revelation? With a giant yawn, of course.

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Just because you have free speech does not mean you are free from the consequences of your speech. Some speech ought to be shamed and shunned by society. Some ideas ought to be treated with contempt and hostility. We need to stop excusing all idiocy and indecency on the faulty basis of "free speech."

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Two employees were fired from a bakery for refusing to serve a black customer after the store had already closed. Let's talk about this insane and chilling case, and how it reflects the situation in our society as a whole.

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Roseanne has been a far left radical her whole career. Her show, both the newer and older version, was a vehicle for left wing propaganda. Yet conservatives embraced her as a hero, and now, to thank them for their support, she has embarrassed them. Let's talk about what conservatives can learn from this whole debacle.

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Ireland voted to dehumanize the unborn over the weekend. Pro-abortion people were crying tears of happiness and jumping for joy in the streets of Dublin when the results were announced. Once again, the Left's satanic enthusiasm for abortion was on full display.

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There is nothing good that can come of a child on social media. But many people miss the real danger. Let's talk about that.

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We are often told that it is wrong to "judge." It is even said that the Bible warns against "judging." Both of these claims are false. We should judge. It is good to judge. As long as we judge rightly.

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If marriage isn't a permanent, unbreakable, monogamous union -- as Jesus defines it -- then it is pointless. Many churches treat it as pointless, and as a result the institution of marriage lays in ruins.

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Thoughts and prayers really could save this country. If we all had our thoughts on God and we prayed unceasingly, many problems would be fixed. But we have rejected Him. And this is the result instead.

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People think that our society is plagued by "hatred" and "division." They're wrong. Hatred isn't our problem. Our problem is indifference, which is worse than hatred and the true opposite of love.

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The sexual revolution has been a catastrophic failure, having wrought only disease, abortion, divorce, unwed pregnancy, and other miseries, with none of the advantages it promised. Maybe it's time to cut our losses and go back to the old fashioned way, which is the only way that works.

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I have been told that Christianity's moral laws are too constricting and oppressive. I have been told that they deprive us of our freedom. But the opposite is true. It is through living moral lives, and walking the path that Christ laid down for us, that we can really enjoy true freedom and happiness. "Freedom" without morality always turns into slavery and death. Here's why.

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Young people are by nature idealistic, radical, energetic, and eager for change. The church in America tries, and fails, to win them with bad rock music and corny pop culture references. Why not win them with the truth which will give them precisely the radical change they seek?

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If you try to speak truth in our culture, you will be attacked viciously and hated by many people. This is a guarantee. So what can we do when the hatred and backlash comes our way? As with everything else, Jesus has the answer.

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These days men are encouraged to be emotional and vulnerable and to constantly share their worries with those around them. But a masculine man, especially when he becomes a husband and father, should not always be venting his anxieties. He should have quiet strength. He should be willing to carry his cross, and sacrifice for his family, without whining. This is what we used to call "dignity."

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I make my living on the internet. The more time you spend here, the better for me. But I still think you should cut way, way down on your internet usage. It is harming you in immeasurable ways. Take it from me: you'd be much happier if you put down your phone and lived a real life again.

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Every pro-abortion argument really boils down to this: "my body, my choice." Or, as pro-aborts call it, bodily autonomy. The bodily autonomy argument is supposed to be unassailable and logically bullet proof. It is supposed to end the discussion. It doesn't. Let me demonstrate how to completely annihilate the Left's "best" argument for abortion. I can do it in 5 simple steps.

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We have fled the home and family life in pursuit of happiness, but in the process we have become the most depressed and confused society in history. That's because happiness and fulfillment is found not in professional achievement or material wealth, but in service to God and family.

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As Christians in modern American society, we are surrounded on all sides by constant and unrelenting temptation. How do we deal with it? Well, Christ underwent his own temptation out in the desert and provided us a model to follow. Let's talk about what we can learn from that story.

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People in our culture are starving for identity. They are lost, confused, dissatisfied. The church must be there to provide that direction, that purpose, and that identity. But it can't do that if it is more concerned with being "affirming" and "inclusive.”

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The end of the Boy Scouts is just another symptom of a growing problem in America: boys are not allowed to have their own spaces. They are forced to include girls in everything.

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Many Christians in this country have given up on prayer. They complain that it doesn't "work" and God isn't answering them. Let's talk about prayer, why it's so crucial to the Christian life, and why our prayers may not be getting the answers we expect.

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Cultural Appropriation doesn't exist. On the other hand, gender appropriation does exist. But that's the one kind of appropriation the Left celebrates.

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Americans hate each other because we don't have anything at all in common with one another. There is no single uniting value or principle in our culture. Nothing holding us together. No defining characteristic. We are the United States no longer.

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I got an email from a Christian who has been struggling with religious doubts. He asked for my advice. I will do my best to offer some. Doubt is a taboo subject in Christian circles, but it need not be. We all struggle with it at various points in our lives. So let's have an honest conversation about it.

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The ONLY meaningful dividing line in the culture war is this: those who defend morality, virtue, the family, and the sanctity of life on one side, and those who are hostile or indifferent on the other.

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It's not exactly true to say that feminists hate masculinity. Actually, they are jealous of masculinity and want nothing more than to be masculine themselves. What they hate most of all, in the end, is femininity.

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A death panel in the UK has sentenced a young child to death. This is what happens when you have socialized medicine and a godless government. This is our future, unless we change our course.

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There are no good pro-abortion arguments. All arguments in favor of killing human children are horrendously illogical and demented. But this particular argument is the worst one of all, for reasons I will now explain.

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With a few exceptions, the university system is viciously hostile to the values we try to instill in our children. Most colleges will seek to override and undo your child's moral and spiritual formation. Yet, for some reason, we keep giving our money and our kids to these cesspools of lunacy and intellectual depravity. Will we ever learn our lesson?

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The racism claims against Starbucks are not supported by the facts. Call me crazy, but I think a private company ought to have the right to enforce its rules against loitering and trespassing.

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Sex ed is not about education. It's about corrupting and perverting our children.

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Tolerance is not enough anymore. And it's not enough to just mind your own business. The Left now demands that we affirm, celebrate, and actively support their "lifestyle choices".

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Last week an elderly couple in Canada decided to be euthanized together while their supportive children stood by and watched the execution approvingly. Euthanasia is the next frontier for the death cult of modern leftism. Let's talk about why suicide is not "death with dignity." It is most certainly the opposite.

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We're told that men have all the privilege, but that's not true. Females are the beneficiaries of several enormous privileges in our society. Boys are broken down while girls are built up and encouraged. Here are a few examples of how this works.

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Let's talk about why parents need to teach their kids about modesty, class, and respect for authority.

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London has now instituted strict new knife control policies. The gun grabbing mentality on the Left has now transcended parody. Let's talk about what lies at the root of it, and why their efforts will always fail to produce the results they desire.

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A conservative writer was fired from The Atlantic because in the past he said people who get abortions should be executed. Whatever you think about that position, it is far, far less offensive than supporting the mass execution of 60 million unborn babies.

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The problem is not all the atheists in this country. It's the Christians who live like atheists.

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George Washington University is hosting a seminar on 'Christian Privilege.' Meanwhile, Christians are the most persecuted people in the world.

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Our culture is hostile to Christianity yet ignorant of it. But there is no excuse to be ignorant of Christianity, which is the largest religion in the world and the driving force of western civilization.

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