1 00:00:04,750 --> 00:00:10,589 Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a 2 00:00:10,589 --> 00:00:15,990 moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And 3 00:00:15,990 --> 00:00:25,890 today, I want to ask you, what in the world is an incel? I-N-C-E-L, an incel. Now, when I first 4 00:00:25,890 --> 00:00:31,149 heard this term, I thought it must be some kind of intelligence operative who works within a 5 00:00:31,149 --> 00:00:37,729 secretive group, or cell, on behalf of our country's defense interests. Silly me. Quite to 6 00:00:37,729 --> 00:00:47,149 the contrary of a James Bond-type figure, so skilled and deft with the ladies. An incel is the 180-degree 7 00:00:47,149 --> 00:00:58,369 opposite. He is involuntarily celibate. In-cell. Involuntarily celibate. Oh, my. Now, as a close 8 00:00:58,369 --> 00:01:04,670 student of church history, I'm quite familiar with the church's long tradition of the celibate 9 00:01:04,670 --> 00:01:16,030 monastic. A voluntary celibate. A vol-cel, if you will. A voluntary celibate. But an incel? Oh, my. 10 00:01:16,890 --> 00:01:24,709 Do not dismiss the voluntary celibate out of hand. No. The monastery grew out of a cultural stew 11 00:01:24,709 --> 00:01:31,810 of sexual promiscuity, where sex was easy and available, and all around a young man, much like 12 00:01:31,810 --> 00:01:39,109 our own day. The Roman Empire had decayed into such a cultural state that anything goes was the operative 13 00:01:39,109 --> 00:01:49,450 principle sexually. But the consequences of free sex were severe in Rome. Disease, the destruction of 14 00:01:49,450 --> 00:01:56,049 family life and alienation and loneliness brought about by selfish pursuits of intimacy. Oh, 15 00:01:56,750 --> 00:02:03,590 the more the Roman pursued happiness and closeness through free sex, the farther and farther he drifted 16 00:02:03,590 --> 00:02:11,229 from it, ironically. This corruption and debauchery coincided with the rise of a new religion, however. 17 00:02:11,229 --> 00:02:23,009 Christianity held to a strict moral code. And the monk stood radically opposed to his licentious Roman 18 00:02:23,009 --> 00:02:31,090 culture. Instead of a fleeting momentary thrill of the flesh, the celibate monk pursued an enduring 19 00:02:31,090 --> 00:02:38,689 full fellowship with God through Jesus Christ. He took a threefold vow of poverty, celibacy, 20 00:02:38,689 --> 00:02:47,050 and obedience. Each of these disciplines ran counter to Roman culture. Money, sex, and power were the 21 00:02:47,050 --> 00:02:56,169 golden rings that every man grasped after, right? For example, greed obsessed Pompey and destroyed him 22 00:02:56,169 --> 00:03:03,289 in his adventures in Egypt. But the Christian monk chose poverty instead. Power consumed Caesar, 23 00:03:03,289 --> 00:03:10,389 and ambition for it prompted his assassination. But the Christian monk embraced obedience to higher 24 00:03:10,389 --> 00:03:19,569 spiritual authority instead. And sexual perversion ate away at Nero, for example, and drove him insane 25 00:03:19,569 --> 00:03:28,289 at the end of the day. But the Christian monk chose sexual sanity instead. So, voluntary celibacy 26 00:03:28,289 --> 00:03:35,969 differs from involuntary celibacy in that it is an objection to immoral living and the desire to 27 00:03:35,969 --> 00:03:43,629 indulge in sexual behavior outside of the bounds of marriage. Incels desperately desire to indulge in 28 00:03:43,629 --> 00:03:51,770 unrestricted sex, but find no opportunity. The monk has every opportunity to indulge in unrestricted 29 00:03:51,770 --> 00:04:00,050 sexual behavior, but chose not to. And he did so as a dedication of himself and his energies unto God. 30 00:04:00,469 --> 00:04:07,449 Well, what are we talking about then when we consider the incel? First of all, let me describe for you 31 00:04:07,449 --> 00:04:14,909 the involuntary celibate, the self-described involuntary celibate for that matter, number one. 32 00:04:14,909 --> 00:04:21,990 Now, I used to think that this kind of guy, the incel, was a little more than a self-pitying version 33 00:04:21,990 --> 00:04:28,850 of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, who opined, I can't get no satisfaction. I can't get no 34 00:04:28,850 --> 00:04:36,810 satisfaction. Now, this song came out when I was a young, hormone-fueled teenage boy in the 60s, 35 00:04:36,810 --> 00:04:44,430 and I, too, couldn't get no satisfaction. But unlike the modern incel, I followed Jagger's 36 00:04:44,430 --> 00:04:50,930 advice, and that is, but I'm going to try. I'm going to try. I'm going to try. Now, of course, 37 00:04:51,009 --> 00:04:56,449 in reality, Mick Jagger was famous or infamous, if you will, for getting all the girls he wanted, 38 00:04:56,670 --> 00:05:04,550 and he proved to be an inspiring model for us sex-deprived boys of the 1960s, 39 00:05:04,550 --> 00:05:11,269 who were frustrated at not finding girls who would give us sexual satisfaction. Now, 40 00:05:11,550 --> 00:05:18,649 no one in my day ever thought about identifying as an involuntary celibate. Oh, our solution to 41 00:05:18,649 --> 00:05:26,750 celibacy was, I'm going to try. I'm going to try. And we tried until we scored, if you will. But alas, 42 00:05:26,970 --> 00:05:34,389 that's not the situation for the modern male in 21st century America. Instead of knowing that if he 43 00:05:34,389 --> 00:05:40,230 followed the prompting of his raging hormones and learned the art of wooing women, according to 44 00:05:40,230 --> 00:05:46,310 ancient ways, he would eventually find someone with whom he could find satisfaction, if you will. 45 00:05:46,970 --> 00:05:52,610 Today, he despairs of ever finding any woman with whom he can share intimacy and sex, 46 00:05:52,610 --> 00:06:03,129 and one another's bodies, even a sincere conversation. Can't find it. Oh, incels feel very oftentimes 47 00:06:03,129 --> 00:06:13,149 like this. In a 2001 study published in the Journal of Sex Research, the Journal of Sex Research, 48 00:06:13,149 --> 00:06:23,370 Georgia State sociologist Denise Donnelly identified the sense of being sexually off time as central to 49 00:06:23,370 --> 00:06:30,029 the experience of self-described involuntary celibates being off time. It makes me feel like 50 00:06:30,029 --> 00:06:37,069 everyone else, one incel male opined, that is, he said, it makes me feel like everyone else is going 51 00:06:37,069 --> 00:06:42,970 through some mythical gates into grown-up land while I sit out in the courtyard with the children, 52 00:06:43,170 --> 00:06:56,889 unquote. Or the Austin American statesman reports this on forums like 4chan's R9K or Reddit's Forever 53 00:06:56,889 --> 00:07:05,730 Alone and the old-timer loveshy.com. Incels gather to swap stories and debate the causes of their 54 00:07:05,730 --> 00:07:12,110 situations. Some have physical handicaps or psychological disorders that have prevented 55 00:07:12,110 --> 00:07:19,629 them from meeting women. Some just have bad luck. Some are cripplingly introverted, hence loveshy or 56 00:07:19,629 --> 00:07:29,029 anxious, unquote. Oh, my, my. One author for Elle magazine describes the typical incel, the involuntarily 57 00:07:29,029 --> 00:07:39,910 celibate, the typical incel who visits this website loveshy.com, says, and I quote, many of the sites' users 58 00:07:39,910 --> 00:07:46,350 have gone years, decades, or even their entire lives without romance. Some identify themselves as 59 00:07:46,350 --> 00:07:53,490 suffering from loveshyness, a condition, though not recognized by any mental health authority, that is 60 00:07:53,490 --> 00:08:02,110 characterized by extreme anxiety over any romantic or sexual interaction. Other users call themselves 61 00:08:02,110 --> 00:08:11,709 incels, meaning involuntarily celibate or forever alone, which requires no explanation. They use the 62 00:08:11,709 --> 00:08:19,509 site as an advice depot or confessional and water cooler, complaining frequently about the impossibility 63 00:08:19,509 --> 00:08:29,649 of making themselves understood by normies or non-cells, unquote, from Elle magazine on what is an incel, 64 00:08:29,730 --> 00:08:40,669 right? Well, dear listener, what a pathetic, humiliating travesty of masculine culture. No society survives to 65 00:08:40,669 --> 00:08:49,149 the next generation without the male drive to procreate and be one physically with a female. 66 00:08:49,509 --> 00:08:57,850 Now, there's something critically amiss with our cultural orientation in this matter. American males have 67 00:08:57,850 --> 00:09:06,610 been subjected to a relentless assault upon what it means to be a man now for over 70 years. Is it any wonder 68 00:09:06,610 --> 00:09:17,370 that the modern male is confused, impotent, and angry at his society and the women who comprise it? Well, 69 00:09:17,370 --> 00:09:26,029 there are a number of forces at work that have brought us to this existential past, dear listener. First of 70 00:09:26,029 --> 00:09:34,769 all, number two, point number two, whatever happened to sexual liberation? My, my, my, with the modern 71 00:09:34,769 --> 00:09:43,389 morality, whatever happened to sexual liberation? Shouldn't the Gen Z male be having frequent gratifying sex 72 00:09:43,389 --> 00:09:50,730 to his utter satisfaction after having inherited the fruits of the liberation movement of the 60s. The sexual 73 00:09:50,730 --> 00:09:58,590 revolution of the 1960s, when I was hormone-fueled, if you will, as a young man? Well, that revolution was supposed to 74 00:09:58,590 --> 00:10:05,269 have made sex freer, more frequent, and more pleasurable than under the uptight cultural straight 75 00:10:05,269 --> 00:10:13,269 jacket of the 1950s. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. That was the mantra of my generation. From the male 76 00:10:13,269 --> 00:10:19,809 perspective, could anything have been more advantageous to our sexual gratification than this? We thought heaven 77 00:10:19,809 --> 00:10:27,070 on earth was about to dawn. Reluctant girls were turning into compliant girls before our eyes, as rock 78 00:10:27,070 --> 00:10:34,450 and roll especially unleashed previously suppressed passions in the hearts of teenage girls. Oh, I can't 79 00:10:34,450 --> 00:10:41,649 get no satisfaction, as the Rolling Stones sang, was quickly turning into I'm getting all the satisfaction I 80 00:10:41,649 --> 00:10:50,990 want. Sex only within marriage was seen as old-fashioned and uptight. Who could believe in a morality that was 81 00:10:50,990 --> 00:10:59,909 hopelessly stuck in the past and in what was seen by us, at least, as hypocrisy? The sexual act itself 82 00:10:59,909 --> 00:11:07,269 gradually became divorced from its prime directive as the means of perpetuating the species to one of mere 83 00:11:07,269 --> 00:11:15,029 personal pleasure and individual enjoyment. Was it good for you? Became the prime question rather than 84 00:11:15,029 --> 00:11:24,830 is this good for the species? There was a profound confusion introduced to American culture that is 85 00:11:24,830 --> 00:11:32,529 as ancient as the Garden of Eden, and that is sexual pleasure and enjoyment as an end in itself versus 86 00:11:32,529 --> 00:11:40,450 a means to a wider goal, that is the propagation of the species. It is now given an assumption in a 87 00:11:40,450 --> 00:11:45,850 relationship that after a discrete period of introduction, getting to know the person, they 88 00:11:45,850 --> 00:11:52,230 become a partner. The person becomes a partner in bed as well as perhaps board, bed and board, that is 89 00:11:52,230 --> 00:12:00,090 living together if they hit it off well. Delaying sex until after marriage is seen as silly and unwise. 90 00:12:00,090 --> 00:12:06,889 You don't buy a car without test driving it, do you? I heard someone say this the other day for the 91 00:12:06,889 --> 00:12:12,629 countless hundredth time. Then why would you marry someone without seeing if you get along in bed? 92 00:12:13,070 --> 00:12:23,070 Oh boy. Moving from person to partner in no time is now a cultural ritual in America. It only seems 93 00:12:23,070 --> 00:12:32,509 logical that if that is the cultural norm for each succeeding generation. Well then, this generation 94 00:12:32,509 --> 00:12:39,210 would be living it up at the Hotel California, as the song goes, right? With lots of free gratifying sex. 95 00:12:39,649 --> 00:12:48,110 Oh, but au contraire. For some reason, there is a growing pool of young men who aren't getting it, 96 00:12:48,110 --> 00:12:55,070 can't get it, or have stopped trying to get it, and are rather living it down in the basement, 97 00:12:55,070 --> 00:13:04,029 not the bedroom of the Hotel California. Oh, as one incel, one involuntarily celibate 98 00:13:04,029 --> 00:13:10,529 on loveshy.com, he puts it this way. He says, and I quote, I'm tired because it's hard to look 99 00:13:10,529 --> 00:13:15,929 directly at the fact that some people, for all kinds of reasons, end up desperately alone, 100 00:13:15,929 --> 00:13:23,570 feeling frozen out of the joys of love and sex, joys that our culture is forever celebrating, 101 00:13:23,850 --> 00:13:29,929 unquote. Oh, how sad, how sad, dear listener. Well, how can this be? Well, let me move on to 102 00:13:29,929 --> 00:13:36,889 point three. Whatever happened to the feminist movement? Ah, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yes, here we 103 00:13:36,889 --> 00:13:43,549 are. The feminist movement. It is difficult to decide whether the feminist movement has made women 104 00:13:43,549 --> 00:13:52,750 more accessible to men or less so. Or is it really that hard to decide? Feminism has sent mixed signals 105 00:13:52,750 --> 00:14:00,090 to men for generations now. For most men, it's like plucking petals from the daisy. She loves me. 106 00:14:00,490 --> 00:14:07,269 She loves me not. She loves me. She loves me not. Ah, there have been so many forces at work 107 00:14:07,269 --> 00:14:14,509 over the decades that it makes one's head swim. For example, birth control and the widespread 108 00:14:14,509 --> 00:14:22,690 availability of abortion services have liberated, quote unquote, women from their wombs. But that 109 00:14:22,690 --> 00:14:29,789 has not necessarily translated into a widespread availability of women's bodies for men's enjoyment, 110 00:14:29,789 --> 00:14:39,429 however. Also, feminist philosophy and theory has plotted a whole spectrum of practice and behaviors 111 00:14:39,429 --> 00:14:48,330 that leaves many men bewildered and confused and in the dust. Remember Gloria Steinem's maxim. I remember 112 00:14:48,330 --> 00:14:54,370 this from the 70s. A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Oh, that would bring chuckles all 113 00:14:54,370 --> 00:15:03,250 around. Now, many men over those generations since have experienced that sense of rejection and obsolescence, 114 00:15:03,970 --> 00:15:12,730 feeling like an unused rusting bicycle at the bottom of the sea. Also, feminism has transformed our 115 00:15:12,730 --> 00:15:21,330 institutions that have left men behind. More women now attend college than men. More women than men are 116 00:15:21,330 --> 00:15:28,009 pursuing white-collar jobs. Men are increasingly finding that their bosses, their doctors, and their political 117 00:15:28,009 --> 00:15:37,590 authorities, as in many other institutions, are now women. Oh, and the social context? Oh, dear listener, 118 00:15:37,730 --> 00:15:47,250 the social context is now fraught with danger for most men. For social and emotional and psychological 119 00:15:47,250 --> 00:15:55,129 danger for a lot of men now, that social context, right? Oh, yeah. A lot of men are asking, they're 120 00:15:55,129 --> 00:16:02,169 saying, my boss seems to like me. Should I ask her out? Or will I get fired? Right? Should I hold this 121 00:16:02,169 --> 00:16:09,769 door open for this approaching girl? Or will she scorn me as a male chauvinist pig? Or, this is our third 122 00:16:09,769 --> 00:16:17,009 date? Should I invite her to spend the night tonight? Or, wow, she makes more money than I do. 123 00:16:17,710 --> 00:16:23,730 If she says yes when I ask her out for a date, will she pick up the tab? Oh, and then, of course, 124 00:16:23,850 --> 00:16:30,289 the last three women have said no. Should I bother asking a fourth to the party? On and on we could go. 125 00:16:30,289 --> 00:16:38,450 The social context for men now is fraught with emotional and psychological danger for most men. 126 00:16:38,970 --> 00:16:44,950 There seems to be no reliable rules to this game anymore. I feel like I'm trying to pick my way 127 00:16:44,950 --> 00:16:50,590 through a field laced with bear traps all around me, and I'm barefoot. Oh, what's the point, right? 128 00:16:50,870 --> 00:16:58,429 To the incel, there is no point in playing the game any longer. The price is too great for his 129 00:16:58,429 --> 00:17:05,309 self-esteem. He's better off in his mother's basement, surfing the net. Oh, and there is also 130 00:17:05,309 --> 00:17:14,130 a darker side to this game, if you will, that has sealed the fate for the incel. For example, 131 00:17:14,670 --> 00:17:24,269 feminists have created a dilemma, a false dilemma for men. That is a dilemma intended to confuse and 132 00:17:24,269 --> 00:17:32,069 frustrate and control them. Feminists have pitted the toxic male versus the beta male. There is now 133 00:17:32,069 --> 00:17:37,769 no choice. You're either one or the other to the radical feminist. They have pitted the toxic male 134 00:17:37,769 --> 00:17:46,450 versus the beta male. You're either one in this game of binary choices. You are rejected if you're a toxic 135 00:17:46,450 --> 00:17:54,670 male. Oh, yeah. Displaying all of the classic toxic male traits. Aggressive, patriarchal, competitive, 136 00:17:55,569 --> 00:18:02,750 dominant, suppressing emotions, manspreading, if you will, and just generally being a rude, insensitive pig 137 00:18:02,750 --> 00:18:11,190 that only wants to talk about sports and food. You're rejected if you're a toxic male. Oh, but wait a 138 00:18:11,190 --> 00:18:18,930 minute. You're also rejected if you're a beta male. Passive, emotionally sensitive, non-competitive, 139 00:18:19,490 --> 00:18:27,349 empathetic, choosing compromise and cooperation over domination, often having low self-confidence 140 00:18:27,349 --> 00:18:34,250 and harboring resentment and anger too. Many beta males do. Well, if that's the case, you are too low 141 00:18:34,250 --> 00:18:42,609 on the genetic totem pole for most women then. Many men feel this damned if you do, damned if you 142 00:18:42,609 --> 00:18:51,089 don't pincer movement that can engulf them in despair and loneliness. Oh, you may say, do I get my 143 00:18:51,089 --> 00:18:58,390 inner toxins flowing as a male, my toxic male, inner toxic male, and show myself bold and successful? 144 00:18:58,390 --> 00:19:06,589 Oh, snap. There goes a bear trap. With Susie, she's done with you. Well, then, perhaps I let my inner 145 00:19:06,589 --> 00:19:13,250 beta male surface, and I show myself sensitive and caring. Maybe playing a little Mozart in the 146 00:19:13,250 --> 00:19:19,769 evening and making a steak du poivre for dinner that night. Snap. There goes another bear trap. With 147 00:19:19,769 --> 00:19:27,029 Gretchen, she finds you entirely too passive for her taste. So, in the end, for the incel, at least, 148 00:19:27,029 --> 00:19:33,549 the game is too complex and too risky for his self-esteem. Too many bear traps. Not worth it. 149 00:19:33,910 --> 00:19:41,630 I'll stay in my mother's basement. Thank you. Well, the incel is the ultimate irony of our age, 150 00:19:41,690 --> 00:19:49,710 I submit to you. In the day of sexual freedom and license, oh, when all of these vistas are opening 151 00:19:49,710 --> 00:19:57,750 up for the male, right? He is bound, nevertheless, the incel by loneliness and emptiness and despair. 152 00:19:58,549 --> 00:20:07,289 Oh, and in the day of women being as free and available as ever before, oh, the incel is alienated 153 00:20:07,289 --> 00:20:14,829 and confused by the whiplash of expectations from those very same women. Dear listener, is there a 154 00:20:14,829 --> 00:20:23,549 solution? Oh, is there a solution? Fourthly, I submit to you, indeed, it is time to return to the 155 00:20:23,549 --> 00:20:34,150 covenantally active male role model. It is time to return to the covenantally active male and his role 156 00:20:34,150 --> 00:20:40,410 model that we have portrayed for us in the scriptures. Yes, under the biblical model, dear listener, 157 00:20:40,410 --> 00:20:49,250 there are no involuntary celibate men. They are rather quarters of biblically prepared, 158 00:20:49,890 --> 00:20:58,049 biblically raised women. Yes, vital to have both of these on the scales. That is a biblically prepared 159 00:20:58,049 --> 00:21:08,549 and biblically raised woman with no involuntarily celibate men. That is rather men who are looking to be 160 00:21:08,549 --> 00:21:15,430 active in raising a family. Men need to be reminded of their prime directive, which is given to us in 161 00:21:15,430 --> 00:21:23,730 Genesis by our creator. And I quote now from Genesis chapter one, then God said, let us make man in our 162 00:21:23,730 --> 00:21:29,670 image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the 163 00:21:29,670 --> 00:21:35,990 heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the 164 00:21:35,990 --> 00:21:44,369 earth. So, God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him. Male and female, 165 00:21:45,150 --> 00:21:52,789 he created them. And God blessed them. And God said, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and 166 00:21:52,789 --> 00:21:58,710 subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every 167 00:21:58,710 --> 00:22:07,089 living thing that moves on the earth. Unquote. How beautiful. We need to return to this original 168 00:22:07,089 --> 00:22:15,349 cultural mandate, dear listener. We were designed to labor together, man and woman, in the bonds of 169 00:22:15,349 --> 00:22:23,170 marriage to fulfill our destiny as image bearers of the God who created us. And it is time to return to 170 00:22:23,170 --> 00:22:33,289 that model, dear listener, all of us. One man, one woman, one marital covenant that binds the two. And there is 171 00:22:33,289 --> 00:22:41,369 an order to this covenant as well that will guarantee sweet and good relations between man and woman. No more 172 00:22:41,369 --> 00:22:51,450 involuntary celibate men. For example, the Apostle Paul tells husbands and wives, he says, first of all, wives, 173 00:22:51,450 --> 00:22:58,609 submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ 174 00:22:58,609 --> 00:23:06,230 is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its savior. Now, as the church submits to Christ, 175 00:23:06,569 --> 00:23:12,910 so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. This infuriates the feminist, of course, 176 00:23:13,150 --> 00:23:19,569 and goes counter to all that is transpiring in our culture. Well, he also tells husbands, though, 177 00:23:19,569 --> 00:23:26,849 husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might 178 00:23:26,849 --> 00:23:32,829 sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the 179 00:23:32,829 --> 00:23:38,710 church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy 180 00:23:38,710 --> 00:23:45,309 and without blemish. In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. 181 00:23:45,950 --> 00:23:52,809 He who loves his wife loves himself. Therefore, it is written, a man shall leave his father and mother 182 00:23:52,809 --> 00:24:00,809 and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is profound, Paul says, 183 00:24:00,809 --> 00:24:09,569 and I'm saying that it refers to Christ and the church. So, dear listener, in the holy bonds of 184 00:24:09,569 --> 00:24:16,109 matrimony, we are to live together. The husband loving his wife as Christ loved the church, and the 185 00:24:16,109 --> 00:24:22,869 wife submitting to her husband as the church submits to Christ. This has been the operative model in the 186 00:24:22,869 --> 00:24:29,269 life of the church for millennia now. And when it's running on all eight cylinders, it is a beautiful 187 00:24:29,269 --> 00:24:41,329 machine to behold. And it has also then helped us to fulfill our mandate to indeed take the earth and 188 00:24:41,329 --> 00:24:50,450 subdue it and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the entire creation. We were meant to 189 00:24:50,450 --> 00:24:56,569 do this, and we've stalled, if you will, in our day and time in our culture. We've stalled in that 190 00:24:56,569 --> 00:25:04,789 cultural mandate. In fact, we're declining. We're not even replacing at birth rates those we have now, 191 00:25:04,890 --> 00:25:12,670 and that's because of the free sex feminist model that we've adopted, and we will continue to 192 00:25:12,670 --> 00:25:19,170 deteriorate and decline as a culture and a society as long as we do that until we return to the biblical 193 00:25:19,170 --> 00:25:26,089 model, indeed, of family, where we have the husband and wife and children looking forward not 194 00:25:26,089 --> 00:25:33,029 only to their generation but to the next generation as well. When we do this, we will indeed find 195 00:25:33,029 --> 00:25:39,549 ourselves thriving and prospering again, and no more incels, involuntarily celibate men that are 196 00:25:39,549 --> 00:25:45,970 desperate and roaming the earth and even turning to violence from time to time. All of this we will see 197 00:25:45,970 --> 00:25:53,470 indeed go away as we return to the biblical model of marriage, the biblical model of true male 198 00:25:53,470 --> 00:26:00,490 leadership. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for 199 00:26:00,490 --> 00:26:07,670 holy worship on Sundays at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard, and there you'll 200 00:26:07,670 --> 00:26:14,049 find a lot of strong biblical males and strong biblical women, for that matter as well, at New Geneva. Come 201 00:26:14,049 --> 00:26:21,210 and join us across our threshold. You'll find a warm reception and perhaps a place for you at our 202 00:26:21,210 --> 00:26:27,910 church as well. We meet once again for holy worship at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and 203 00:26:27,910 --> 00:26:32,970 Boulevard, and you can call us for more information or perhaps to give us some feedback. Maybe you're 204 00:26:32,970 --> 00:26:38,049 infuriated by what you've heard today. Maybe you've found that there is some wisdom in it after all, 205 00:26:38,049 --> 00:26:49,569 but go ahead and give us a call for more feedback at area code 208-523-0196. That's area code 208-523-0196.