The Cory Truax Show

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NATURAL DISASTERS RUIN THE GENDER NARRATIVE

The national narrative regarding gender has morphed and then radicalized over the past 50 years. We have folks who seem to embrace a full egalitarian relationship between men and women. During hurricane Ian, though, I noticed women were mostly doing the hard work of caring for the hurting while men were out sandbagging, rescuing in boats, repairing power lines and cleaning sewers.

When progressive gender ideology bumped up against reality that God designed, reality won. There are beautiful differences between men and women. We need each other. Let’s honor that.

LEFTISM WOKE-ISM CONTINUES TO BUILD ITS RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE

I’ve been establishing for years that Leftist Progressivism is a RELIGION – not a political ideology. It has its own origin story, fall story, and plan of salvation/redemption. It has its own symbols and creedal/doctrinal statements.

Recently, I noticed that their art has taken on the quality of 90s Christian art. It stopped caring about being good and primarily now cares about just making a point in favor of the religion.

I noticed ANOTHER way progressive Leftism is forming its theology. I’ll tell you about it.

ABORTION AND TWO SENATE RACES

The Republican running for governor in Arizona, I think, is sort of kook, but she gave a MODEL answer recently about abortion from which pro-life people can learn a lot. I’ll play the audio. Additionally, the Republican candidate for Senate in Georgia is being accused of paying for an abortion in the past. I’ll walk through the scant details and ethics surrounding his support.

COLD CIVIL WAR IS GETTING HOTTER

I’ve been saying for almost 7 years that the US is in a “Cold Civil War.” We hate each other – but we’re not hurting each other. Recently, though, an 84-year-old woman canvassing for a pro-life cause was shot in Michigan. Cayler Ellingson was killed in the Dakotas, and his killer said Cayler was a “Republican extremist.” I desperately want to find a way to cool down the country’s temper and tenor.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM UPDATES

The Supreme Court will hear a case where a Christian web designer wants to be free not to take on business for gay weddings. Her argument is iron clad, and I expect her to win – a GIGANTIC victory for religious liberty over the regime of sexual identity being the chief purpose of humanity. Additionally, CVS recently fired a Catholic woman for wanting an accommodation in not fulfilling prescription for abortion bills. The odd part is that they GRANTED the accommodation for four years. What changed?

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LESSONS FROM A CS LEWIS PLAY

My soon-to-be wife got us tickets to see what was an incredible biopic play about CS Lewis last week. I left wanting to preserve some examples he gave us about having an intellectual but simple faith as well as understanding how pleasures and pains are all hints much more profound truths. I'll provide details

A STORY THAT'S HARD TO BELIEVE FOR ME

The morning after that play, we found that my fiancé's car was STOLEN.  Stolen. In the Upstate of South Carolina from a nice complex -- it's crazy to me.  I have some thoughts on that event and how it made me think about our broader crime problem generally.

YOU'RE BEING LIED TO ABOUT ITALY'S ELECTION

The next Italian Prime Minister isn't a fascist. Her party isn't related to Mussolini's in any meaningful way.  Much more important is what her victory says about the state of life in the west. Her victory is akin to Brexit, the movements behind Donald Trump AND Bernie Sanders, and other recent election results in Europe. I have a lot to say here about what these results are responding to and what they mean for the future.

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DESANTIS, ABBOTT, AND FLYING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY

When Governors most affected by the 8,000 humans crossing our border each day sent many of them to New York, Chicago, and Washington DC, I thought it was a good and right decision. Small Texas towns don't have the resources to sustain the 2 million people who illegally cross the border this year. Moreover, the folks who govern and largely populate these cities need to be shown what their lawless, open-border policies cost and cause. Leftist border policy is inhumane, and they need to see the human cost.

Then those governors, however, took it one step too far. Humans are not props for political arguments. Sending these folks to Kamala Harris's residence and to Martha's vineyard was trolling. You might have laughed at the trolling, but it wasn't right. It's unproductive. 

This was a lesson of doing the right thing in the wrong way. The Left need to see the consequences of their inane, immoral border policies, but as we make arguments, let's make them humanely.

LESSONS YOUNG PEOPLE NEED

I recently spoke to a group of college students on some of the themes they'll need as they enter adulthood. I emphasized practical ways to build discipline -- because motivation is brittle and fleeting. We talked about the dangerous and safe places to derive meaning and then finally about why we should embrace getting older and leaving childishness behind.

SOCIAL MEDIA LAW UPHELD

I'm struggling with this one. Texas passed a law saying large social media companies can't censor their users. My libertarian streak bristles at this idea. It's their companies, so leave them alone. The lawyers defending Texas's law, though, made some compelling points. I wrestle with the competing interests on show.

A LOT MORE

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LISTENER SUBMISSIONS

I finally catch up on some email from listeners:

-One says I've gone soft, and that the more cantankerous Cory was better. I'm not going back there, though.

-What do I actually think about the End Times and how the world ends?

-Are pharmaceutical companies responding to malignant incentives when it comes to depression treatments?

-Is the idea of extra-terrestrial life compatible with a Biblical worldview?

CRIME IS DRIVING A TON OF VOTERS AWAY FROM THE LEFT

A caller into a C-SPAN show made the case that he prefers the Left to run the federal government (for social programs), but that the Right should run local and state governments because they take crime and safety seriously. I have some thoughts on that.

LEARNING FROM THE QUEEN

It seems a lot of the admiration for the Queen was that she fulfilled her duties to her family and her country. We live in an age that says to live for no one but yourself. We operate in a time that calls us to reject our responsibilities to our parents, siblings, community, church, and everyone else. We're told me must live to be our truest selves -- no matter the cost. The Queen exemplified choosing duty over self. We should celebrate and emulate that.

JOE SCARBOROUGH MANGLES THE BIBLE REGARDING ABORTION

Admittedly, I got too angry with this one. Joe thinks he knows a lot of Bible. He doesn't, and it was obvious. I'll correct his idiotic theology on abortion.

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MATT CHANDLER

You probably heard one of the most prominent figures in American Christianity is taking a "disciplinary and developmental" leave of absence. I'll provide details and recognize the warning in the story for all us. That major warning: be fastidiously mindful of what you do on the internet.

CHRISTIANS AND HOUSING POLICY

The New York Times published a story recently about how well-off, mostly white and mostly liberal residents of Connecticut are fighting tooth and nail to keep housing being built in their neighborhoods for lower income folks. It seems the hoity toity don't want to be around the holloi polloi. I'll take a Biblical worldview perspective on housing policy, and by what method Christians should desire and pursue housing for all people.

US LIFE EXPECTANCY FALLS AGAIN -- THE MOST COMMON DEATHS FOR SERVICE PEOPLE ARE DRUG OVERDOSES

We're finding that heart disease, liver disease, and suicides (accidental and intentional) are major factors affecting our life expectancy. We are eating, drinking, drugging, and then literally killing ourselves to death. What's at the root of this, and what role can the church play in addressing it?

NEW YORK TIMES INTERVIEWS HISTORY TEACHERS ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY

The New York Times did interesting journalism here, and they explored what teachers are telling students about America, the Founders, slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. I'll give you those details and then tell you what I think SHOULD be taught in schools on those subjects. There might a bridge here to unite disparate people on how we tell the American story.

WHAT'S THE POINT OF EDUCATION?

We'll finish answering this question posed recently (also) by the New York Times. My take is that school is for intellectual formation, social cohesion, and economic development. It should also be for moral formation, but our morals are so divided, there's no way to do that in schools anymore.

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Well, I did an entire episode on why the current plan to transfer student loan debt from borrowers to tax payers is a morally hazardous, intellectually vapid, and obviously self-interest vote-buying.

Here’s a synopsis on why to oppose the Biden Administration’s plan to transfer student debt onto all of us.

1. It’s illegal.

There is no Constitutional or statutory authority for presidents to spend over $300 billion on a whim. I will play you audio of Nancy Pelosi saying so and remind you the president’s administration said this EXPLICITLY last year.

I suspect attorneys general from conservative states will have to intervene and sue the administration like they did when the administration used power they didn’t exist to expand the eviction moratorium and to implement illegal vaccine mandates.

2. It’s unfair in countless ways.

It’s unfair to people who avoided student loans, to those who already paid them off and to those who are about to take student loans out. It’s also unfair because the policy advantages the privileged, those already making more, and those with more potential earn more over time.

3. It’s going to exacerbate inflation.

Even Larry Summers (on the Left) and OBAMA’s chief economic advisor, Jason Furman, have said the policy pours “gasoline on an inflation fire.”

In this section, I also give you data over the last 20 years that demonstrate everywhere the government is involved in the economy, prices skyrocket. When they’re not involved, prices are stable or decrease over time.

4. It’s typical Leftist redistribution of wealth through taxes.

I illustrate it this way. If you received a receipt for your taxes in 2021, it would include a line item for social security, medicare, Medicaid, WIC, unemployment, the military, and a bunch more.

If this is implemented, in 2022, there would be a line where you absorb the cost of someone else’s debt. That’s wrong.

5. We already have a solution.

I’ll explain how the Income Based Repayment system is the solution to this current problem. We still have to work on preventing future debt, but we have the tool to solve this one.

If the plan would have just been to lower the minimum payment, I would have shut up and moved on. Unfortunately, there weren’t a lot of votes in lowering payments.

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ARE YOU A “QUIET QUITTER”?

There’s a new phenomenon called “quiet quitting,” wherein employees are making a statement by doing the absolute minimum required, but doing it excellently. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think one is generational. I think my generation and younger saw our parents POUR their lives into jobs that didn’t appreciate them, and we’re not making the same mistake.

However, for the believer, we cultivate the world and act as salt and light in our jobs. We can’t be quiet quitters. There’s too much Kingdom opportunity at work.

BRIDGET PHETASY: “I REGRET BEING A SLUT”

A former Playboy writer makes the compelling statement that this culture decoupling sex from significance, intimacy, and meaning was sold as empowerment, but it made her miserable. She found, finally, that being DESIRED isn’t the same as being ESTEEMED.

We have a couple of generations of people wrecked by a low view of sex. The church has a compelling message for those people.

THE COUNTRY IS BECOMING LESS LIBERAL

This study shows the number of people identifying as “liberal” is falling.  The numbers among Black and Hispanic Americans are especially striking. That’s what “defund the police,” “men can get pregnant,” “some women have penisis,” and “every blade of American grass is racist” will get you.

At the same time, conservatism hasn’t grown at all. What does it tell us that when liberalism was diminishing, conservatism couldn’t appeal to more people.

STACEY ABRAMS IN A CHURCH GOES AS WELL AS YOU’D THINK

An apostate church invited Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to speak. She spoke demonic heresy. I’ll respond.

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BEING FAITHFUL IN AN ANTAGONISTIC WORLD

Recently, my Facebook memories were full of condemnations of what happened in Charlottesville, VA 6 years ago. I saw me and many people of God rightly condemning the sin of racism and white supremacy. It occurred to me while looking back on those posts that we have to be faithful to call out the sins of the culture of this moment as well. It was popular to call out racism. It won’t be popular to call out sexual deviations from God’s design, gender confusion, and family breakdown. We’re called to be faithful, though – whether it’s popular or not.

WE JUST HATE EACH OTHER

I saw this – unsurprising but saddening to see how divided we are. It reminded me of this.

In a world where we think the “other side” is close-minded, immoral, dishonest, etcetera, I have some ideas on how to try and bridge gaps.

IT’S TIME TO MOVE ON

The recent events at Mar a Lago have led me to this conclusion: the country needs to move on from the most recent president. The Right was slowly forgetting him – Fox wasn’t featuring him (even counter-programming against him), polls were starting to show the Governor of Florida slightly leading him, and other polls started to show more and more on the Right were ready to move. And then Mar a Lago happened. Now instead of talking about inflation and crime, Republicans are spending time defending one of the most unpopular people in the country. The Left can’t quit him for other reasons I’ll discuss.

I just argue this: we all need to move on.