Welcome back to James Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire, and I want to offer a Christian take on Andrew Tate.

More specifically, I want to propose a thesis that I haven't heard anybody else make,

namely that Tate is playing the role of something like a pagan philosopher, and that his ideas

should be evaluated on those grounds. Now, I realize that it's not the popular way of understanding

him. I'll explain what I mean in a minute.

But first, I've got to give a quick update for people who maybe don't know who Undertate is or

haven't followed his case very closely. He is a wildly popular and wildly controversial figure

online right now. He made a name for himself really sane and doing provocative things,

particularly things about women,

but also about wealth, his own prowess, his own success, all of this stuff. As I'm going to show,

I think a lot of the people who like Andrew Tate actually like him for pretty different reasons

than the people who hate or dislike him, hate or dislike him.

You'll see all of that, I think, as we go through it.

But I'd be remiss if I didn't at least acknowledge at the outset and bringing him up to speed.

He's been accused of doing some pretty horrible things to women in Romania, in the UK,

and it seems like U.S. authorities are kind of looking into matters right now.

So I'm going to play you a quick clip, juxtaposing kind of his description of his views on women,

coupled with what the authorities are kind of accusing him of. But as I think we'll be clear,

there's much more to what he presents and much more to, I think, what people are drawn to than the stuff he's kind of

notorious for. So at the outset here, I should say, if you're listening with kids, a lot of

this stuff isn't appropriate for kids. Nevertheless, if you're a parent, you should know

a lot of Andrew Tate's audience is made up of kids, especially young teenage boys. So with no further

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