The Cory Truax Show

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TAYLOR SWIFT'S NEW ALBUM AND LYRICS

Swift's new album has drawn fire from some Christian thinkers. I'll lay out the controversy and try to bring some clarity to how the Christian intakes secular entertainment.

CIVIL WAR MOVIE REVIEW

I saw the new movie, Civil War. It's mostly an argument to NEVER actually go to war; wars are just horrific.

It also seems to make an argument, to me, for a negotiated severance when the need arises.

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JOHN NEWTON ON "ACCEPTABLE SINS"

I have to share with you some BRILLIANT points from John Newton (writer of "Amazing Grace") about sins we just accept in ourselves. He makes a good point that real joy comes in GROWTH, and growing out of these sins will be joyous.

ARGUING THE A-BOMB

Tucker Carlson recently said America was deeply immoral for dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan. I just want to be sure everyone has the historic facts.

UKRAINE

There's a lot of disagreement on the Right regarding Ukraine funding. I want to make my argument.

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THE MASTER'S WINNER

The winner of the Master's gave some compellingly strong and theologically astute responses to questions after his win -- regarding identity and even the cross of Christ. I have a theory why the great athletes of the next generation will be majority Christian.

2024's ABORTION POLITICS

I grew up with one "pro-choice" party, advocating for "safe, legal, and rare" abortion access and one pro-life party. Recently, after Donald Trump said the matter should be left to the States, that leaves us with one pro-ABORTION party and a pro-choice party. There aren't any true pro-life national figures now.

BILL MAHER TELLS ABORTION TRUTH

The audio is ghastly, but at least he's honest and owns the horrific position.

INTERESTING QUESTION FROM THE RIGHT

I'll try to answer this Twitter question. What's better:

-4 years of Biden followed by 8 of Desantis; OR

-4 years of Trump followed by 8 of Gavin Newsome?

A LOT MORE

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MITIGATING SMARTPHONE DAMAGE FOR KIDS

We now have evidence that religious families are doing better at diminishing the deleterious effects of smartphone usage in kids. I'll share the details.

ENCOURAGING GEN-Z NEWS

Generation Z is pursuing trade schools in numbers we haven't seen in decades. This is good news for crucial industries that need youth infusion and for the income stability of the next generation.

BEWARE THESE PREACHERS

Marc Driscoll and Tullian Tchividian are both gifted communicators. They also both disqualified themselves from ministry. Both are also making a comeback in popularity. I have a warning.

MUCH MORE

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BIDEN AND TRUMP FAIL AT EASTER

Before Easter, the former president decided to sell a patriotic Bible. On Easter, the current president released a proclamation recognizing a pagan holiday for "transgender visibility."

Both of these are bad, and the Christian can say both are both. I'll give details on each and my response to varying reactions to both.

My major conclusion is that in our country:

The blue team is antagonistic to Christianity and wants hostility to it.

The red team likes to co-opt Christianity and makes us passive to the real faith.

ATHEIST RICHARD DAWKINS SAYS HE'S A "CULTURAL CHRISTIAN."

In truly astounding audio, the most prominent atheist in the world admits we need Christianity. He recognizes both leftist Wokeism and Islam (the growing religions) are ugly and disastrous. But he wants the form without the substance -- a Christless Christianity. That might PROLONG our demise in the West, but it won't fix our problem.

MUCH MORE, INCLUDING AN INTERACTION I HAD AT QT THAT IS INSTRUCTIVE

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SOUTH CAROLINA CLOSE TO SCHOOL CHOICE

A bill passed that House that makes true school choice more likely in South Carolina than anytime in my lifetime. Let me encourage you: find your Senator at scstatehouse.gov and politely encourage them to pass House Bill 5164 to empower parents to choose their child's education.

CANDACE OWNS, BEN SHAPIRO AND "CHRIST IS KING"

In the dramatic breakup between Candace Owens and the Daily Wire, somehow her "Christ is King" declaration became a rallying cry for many on the political Right. I want to offer a word of caution: not everyone who declares "Christ is King" is a brother or sister. Some are USING that phrase for other reasons.

Listen, I get the enemy. I know the secular Left is a threat to my family and yours, our culture, and our future. That might require with being temporary ALLIES with some folks, but don't mistake them for brothers and find your unequally yoked.

GET YOUR KIDS OFF SMART PHONES

Let me tell what I've learned thus fair from Jonathan Haidt's new book, "Anxious Generation." In short, smartphones and the apps thereon are hurting our kids. We need to preserve them.

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JOHN MACARTHUR ON CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM

John MacArthur got into the Christian Nationalism discussion recently. I'll play you the audio and respond, I hope, with some grace and humility.

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE

Perry Noble is now cursing in sermons and benching 400 pounds on stage to "make a point." How do we help people drawn in by these personalities to come out of these places?

WHY DO WE GO TO CHURCH?

A recent Instagram posed that question recently. It was a GOOD question, but it SHOULD be a secondary question. I'll give details.

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WHAT DO KIDS LICKING TOES, A LOCAL FIGHTING LEAGUE, AND ONLY FANS HAVE IN COMMON?

I recently noticed that an event is coming to my area where local, random men, can sign up to fight other random men, so other people can pay money to watch them punch each other. I then heard a story about children licking peanut butter off of toes at a school in Oklahoma and another story about OnlyFans.

All of these fans demonstrate our low anthropology and how lowly we think about what it means to be a human. The entire discourse sent me back to CS Lewis's "Abolition of Man." It has some lessons we need to learn quickly.

LOS ANGELES SCHOOL INDOCTRINATION VIDEO

A video has surfaced that is used in training L.A. teachers. In that video, they do a skit that informs a man he must use the "preferred pronouns" of a co-worker. They then tell him he "can believe whatever he wants," but he must "keep it out of the workplace.

Wait. Believing men and women are distinct has been every human's take for over 6,000 years of human history. About ten years ago, Woke white people changed their mind on fundamental biology. If anyone is bringing a cultic "belief" to work and forcing it on anyone else, it's the "transgendered" person.

EXPERTS ARE FINE, BUT SOMETIMES COMMON SENSE IS ALL YOU NEED

A recent conversation about what books should be in school libraries had me witness a grown woman claiming she didn't know if lewd, pornographic images should be available to elementary schoolers and that only "sex educators" would know.

We have over-romanticized the role of "experts." Sometimes, you just need some obvious, common sense.

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OUR ROTTEN MASCULINE/FEMININE DYNAMIC

Over a period of three days last week, I had several experiences that made me evaluate how rotten the dynamic is now between men and women. It made me wonder what broke it. I've been watching "Masters of the Air" on AppleTV and noticed how healthy the masculine/feminine dynamic was back then. I think the distinction was that era told men their duty was to sacrifice themselves for their families, communities, and culture. A generation of women saw men rising to their task, respected those men, and those men thrived. We have something to learn there.

SOCIAL MEDIA GOES TO COURT

Meta (Facebook & Instagram), TikTok, and Alphabet (YouTube & Google) are suing Texas over a law that says those social media companies cannot show favoritism to some content while artificially constraining other content. This is a confusing set of arguments with no clear left/right, red/blue divide. I'll try to walk you through it.

OH HOW THINGS CHANGE

The 1995 State of the Union address from Bill Clinton recently resurfaced. In that address, he celebrates the bipartisan effort at more border security, faster deportations, restrictions on giving welfare benefits to illegal migrants, and more hardcore efforts against illegal immigration. The room erupted into applause. Only THIRTY YEARS ago, that was a bipartisan issue. Consider how much we've changed.

That experience led me back to other audio when Barack Obama chided Mitt Romney for Romney thinking RUSSIA was a chief enemy, everyone on the Left saying marriage is for one man and one woman, and even Biden saying into 1987 that all rights come from God.

It's a stark realization of how much the world has changed in a short 35 years,

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THE MASCULINITY WE NEED

Nancy Pearcy is one of my favorite authors, and made a fantastic point of not contrasting manhood to womanhood. We need to first contrast it to BOYHOOD. We must hold to the male/female distinctions, but first, let's have men who want to leave childhood behind.

EXAMPLE OF BAD MANHOOD

An absolute lout went off at a New Hampshire school board meeting. I'll play the audio as an example of "what not to do."

YOUR ENEMY'S ENEMIE AREN'T YOUR FRIENDS

I'll use two examples, primarily Tucker Carlson' visit to Russia, to be sure we know that our the Machivellian alliances we make are often terrible.

TAX FACT

Almost always, when we lower tax rates, our revenue GOES UP. That is very true of the 2017 tax cut. I know that's not intuitive, but I'll explain it and why it's important we get that right.