Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and there is a technique

that we've all employed at one point or another in our own brains or maybe even out loud

we've certainly seen other people employ it certainly on

Twitter and it's the it's the if technique it's the hypothetical technique it's the

counterfactual technique to use the fancy philosophy term that we'll deal with a little bit more later on.

And the technique is one that you employ to point out that what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander, that somebody's being

hypocritical, somebody's being inconsistent or false, and to do that you throw out a

hypothetical that demonstrates that hypocrisy. So for example, somebody might say something like this,

if Barack Obama had done that, all of you would have freaked out.

Now, again, not making any political judgments here whatsoever,

other than to say, say hey do you recognize that

technique because we use that one well if Donald Trump had said that you all be

up in arms aha again same technique just maybe this time it's coming from a

different perspective if a lady had said that if a guy had said that, if a black dude says that, if a white lady says

that, if a bald person says that, if a gay person says that, if a gay person says that,

we all know these techniques and these techniques usually appear and are employed in the place in the Venn diagram where the identity circle overlaps with the ideology circle.

That little sliver in between is where the counterfactual if this, then I bet that would have happened

kind of argument manifest.

This is not a new thing.

Language has allowed for this kind of hypothetical tense or mood

since thousands of years ago,

dating all the way back to long before the writing of the New Testament.

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