The Odyssey is a Distracting Mess (Ep. 949)

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This is Undaunted.Life. A Man's Podcast. I'm your host, Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it. And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord who is great and awesome and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes. That is Nehemiah 414 Guys, that doesn't have a connection really to anything in this episode, but it's always a good reminder. And again, love the book of Nehemiah. If you've not read the book of Nehemiah, you need to get in it, especially Nehemiah 4 But thank you guys for being here today on the show. We're also very, very thankful and always thankful to our donors. Guys, we can't pull off this show without donors like you. We got guys that have hopped on board to be monthly donors, 15 bucks a month, 30 bucks one time, 75 bucks a month, whatever. Every little bit helps us to pull this off to equipment around the globe to push back darkness. Undaunted.Life slash donate, if you would like to hop on board. Undaunted.Life slash donate. That is in the show notes. Also leave us a five-star review and share this with a friend. And got a little bit of breaking news here. Some of you may have already noticed this, but we just launched a new website, okay? So if you go to undaunted.life, go ahead and check out the new website. We basically redid the entire thing, but we got this thing 80, 85% of the way there. And sure there's gonna be some bugs to work out, but in the bottom right, there's a feedback button. And so if you find like a glitch or some sort of an issue or something that you wish was on there functionality-wise, go ahead and leave that on there, but go ahead and check out the new website. So today's show, you've been asking and asking and asking, and here they are, they are back, baby, the Quick Hitters. The Quick Hitters are back. So here's what we're going to be going over in the Quick Hitters section. A gay couple suing their surrogate for refusing to murder her baby with a cleft lip. Tucker Carlson threatening to start a third political party after his split from the Republican Party. Hundreds of thousands of white British girls being sex trafficked and raped by Muslim men in the UK. Senator Cory Booker's moving tribute to the late Senator Lindsey Graham. An independent minor league baseball team canceling their game because too many players refuse to wear the Pride Night uniforms. Texas public schools deciding to make the Bible required reading. Sam Allberry resigning from his position at an Anglican church because it was discovered that he was having sex with men. Shocker there. The Southern Baptist Convention officially voting to follow biblical guidelines on females in church leadership and a six-year-old Scottish boy standing firm in the face of Islam. Now, I'm going to do a whole review of the movie The Odyssey. The blockbuster, right? Everyone's been talking about these last couple of weeks. I got a full review here in just a second. But before we get there, I did want to address one more thing. So as I've talked about on this show a lot, I've talked about Christianity and the connection to the Enneagram, right? And so if you go back to episode 552 of the show, I believe it was, yeah, 552, I did an entire deep dive on the Enneagram. And I talked about how, hey, I used to make money doing the Enneagram. I would do it for C-suites when I was consulting with them. I did it with my wife and it was very, very helpful. And oh my gosh, look at all the things I'm learning and everything like that. And then I was flabbergasted when I dug into the foundations and the origins of the Enneagram. And so I'm not gonna do the full deep dive here because I've already done it before. But it popped up here again recently because some very prominent Christians were talking about the Enneagram and how helpful it was. They were talking about it on their platform. And then I saw it on Instagram. There's entire Instagram pages about how useful the Enneagram is with Christianity and how Christians can just use it and it's okay and it's neutral. It's even better than neutral. It's helpful and all those different things. And then I was also told by a Christian friend of mine that the Enneagram is just something that we can do and that we can redeem. We can use it. It's redeemable. And what he was talking about is this idea that there are things that we can accept, reject, redeem. Accept, reject, redeem. I think Mark Driscoll is the first person I heard talk about that, but who knows where he got it from. But there's just things in life that we can flat out. Accept on the face, on its face, reject it on its face. And then there are some that we can redeem, okay? And so for some of you, you were like, okay, what does that exactly mean? Let me just give you a scenario. So let's say there's a cooking show, right? It's one of those baking shows on Food Network or something like that. And the hosts say, okay, you're gonna bake a chocolate cake. There are three different contestants, okay? And so they've done their cakes. And now here they are, they're presenting it to the judges and all the different things. They have to describe how they made it. And they have to list all the ingredients that they used, okay? So contestant number one comes up and look, it looks like chocolate cake. And they just describe, hey, we just, you know, use normal ingredients. So you had, you know, sugar, flour, some eggs, some oil, some different things. And then boom, here's a chocolate cake. And so before they even take a bite to test it, we can just accept that, right? This is a baking show where we told you to bake a chocolate cake. You made us a chocolate cake. You used normal ingredients. You used them in order. Great. Accept. Now we have contestant number two. Okay. And then they come walking up to the judges and they have an easel and a painting on it of chocolate cake.