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The Kirk Cameron Show

Boiled Frogs and Castration

The Kirk Cameron Show

Kirk Cameron

Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity

4.9776 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Is it appropriate for the government to require taxes? Jesus said, "give to Caesar what is Caesar's." Taxes are not the problem, rather how taxes are being used to pay for things. When it goes too far to where it feeds the government with power and castrates you is where it becomes problematic. To learn more, visit kirkcameron.com  To learn more about the sponsor of today’s show and what our family currently uses for our healthcare check out Christian Healthcare Ministries by visiting https://hubs.ly/Q02vWQGy0 Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

With a country divided, the Republican risk and morality being redefined, it's time to get around the campfire, get back to basics, and spark the revival that this country so desperately needs.

0:15.8

This is the American Campfire Revival with Cook Cameron.

0:23.7

I wanted to talk with you a little bit, first of all, about last night.

0:27.8

What a fun time I had talking with you, and I completely forgot about the frog.

0:33.3

I mean, some of you were freaking out, and I didn't realize that until I was reading your comments later, but some of you were genuinely concerned that I was, I was boiling a frog on our campfire. Well, listen, I want you to know that no frogs were hurt in the filming of that video. In fact, I've got my little frog right here. In fact, I'll show him to you. He's just a piece of wood. That's all he was. That's all it was. It was just an illustration. So no frogs were harmed in that video. And I also talked about castration, of all things. Well, I talked about taxation is castration. And I trust that you know what I mean when I said that because it's true.

1:12.5

You know, you take, what's incentive does a man have to work when everything that he works for

1:20.3

is taken away or the majority of is taken away and used for purposes against that which he believes?

1:27.6

And he doesn't have enough to provide for his own family and help his friends and his

1:33.1

neighbors.

1:34.5

Right?

1:34.8

I mean, you just, you feel like a weakling without power, without will, without strength

1:40.7

and drive effectively is been stripped of all that he needs to be able to be the man that God's called

1:51.3

him to be.

1:53.3

So I have a friend, uh, I mentioned to you before, his name's Jay Johnson, and, uh, he challenged

1:59.2

me a little bit on that, uh, talk about taxation. And he challenged me a little bit on that talk about

2:01.2

taxation. And he said, but Jesus said that it is appropriate for the government to require taxes.

2:08.9

After all, Jesus said, when he was asked, is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar? Jesus said,

2:14.6

render under Caesar, that which belongs to Caesar. And so, absolutely, that's right.

2:20.2

I am not against paying taxes.

2:23.0

And it's great when our taxes are used for building roads and bridges and aircraft carriers

2:29.5

and providing clean water.

2:31.0

Those things are great.

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