#94 - Larry Taunton and John Zmirak
The Eric Metaxas Show
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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric talks with Larry Taunton about Tucker Carlson’s defense of Islam, his attack on the Book of Esther, and why false teaching becomes dangerous when it is dressed up as Christian commentary. Later, Eric speaks with John Zmirak about Baptist Press, Christian morality in public life, the lie of secular neutrality, and why America’s founding was rooted in truths far deeper than modern leftist institutions want to admit. Subscribe for clips from The Eric Metaxas Show to hear politics and culture from a Christian perspective.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome. |
| 0:01.8 | I am talking right now, or I get to talk right now, to my friend Larry Taunton, |
| 0:06.7 | a continued conversation from yesterday. |
| 0:12.4 | Larry, yesterday we were talking about the nature, at the end of our conversation, about the nature |
| 0:22.3 | of Islam and how wicked it is. And people, I mean, listen, you and I have grown up, you know, |
| 0:28.3 | at a time where people will say dopey things like, you know, the three great world religions, |
| 0:34.9 | you know, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, or four, Buddhists, or whatever, |
| 0:41.1 | they kind of talk like, the religion is wonderful. And you think, excuse me, excuse me, |
| 0:46.5 | that religion, Islam is led by a man who was a bloodthirsty, what do you say about him? |
| 0:57.0 | I mean, even if he existed, Jay Smith, my, my dear friend and Islamic, Islamist, |
| 1:03.5 | the scholar of Islam a Christian, he has argued that his scholarship |
| 1:09.1 | increasingly demonstrates that Muhammad never existed. |
| 1:13.5 | Wow. |
| 1:14.6 | I've never heard that. |
| 1:15.7 | Well, let's assume he existed. |
| 1:17.8 | Who is he? |
| 1:18.7 | Who is this great prophet? |
| 1:20.8 | He was someone who married a six-year-old, didn't consummate it because he was a real |
| 1:27.2 | gentleman. |
| 1:27.9 | He waited until she was nine. |
| 1:29.4 | Until she was nine before he raped her. |
| 1:32.2 | And I think that's a fact. |
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