EST074 - People Were So Much Dumber During Esther's Time Because They Were Always Freaking Out About Performative Kneeling and Not Kneeling
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast
Matt Whitman
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think it's really interesting that kneeling has come back into the collective consciousness |
| 0:15.0 | here over the last 10 or 12 years in the West. |
| 0:19.2 | As a gesture, it's not something that you would really think about very much. |
| 0:23.6 | Maybe 15 years ago, you'd say, oh, well, okay, it's a family feud thing. |
| 0:27.5 | It's like, ah, it's situations where you would kneel. |
| 0:30.5 | To propose. |
| 0:31.5 | Show me to propose. |
| 0:33.1 | Number two, dang, dang, that's great. |
| 0:34.9 | That's amazing. |
| 0:35.9 | Okay, chance to steal and look back over your team, look back up and go with, I'll go |
| 0:43.4 | with in church or praying. |
| 0:46.4 | I show me church or praying. |
| 0:48.6 | Ah, that's the top answer. |
| 0:51.0 | Those would be the two things that people will come up with, right? |
| 0:53.5 | For when you kneel in some kind of public situation that involves a display or making |
| 0:58.7 | a gesture, but since 12 or 15 years ago, the kneeling thing has become a political gesture |
| 1:06.5 | of submission again, which is really actually more in keeping with how people have thought |
| 1:10.4 | of kneeling for like all of human history, because it's a very vulnerable gesture to tap |
| 1:16.2 | a knee to the ground. |
| 1:17.7 | You're assuming a position of weakness and submission before the person or the body, the |
| 1:25.5 | organization to whom you are kneeling. |
| 1:29.2 | And it was a phenomenon, a gesture of respect and submission, that the entire world adopted |
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