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The Eric Metaxas Show

John Zmirak (Encore)

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this historic day, we re-air John Zmirak's interview with Eric about the end of so-called "abortion rights" in America -- and don't forget to read John's latest article at Stream.org! (Encore Presentation)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Mettaxas show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

0:15.7

Folks who returned with John Zmirak.

0:18.9

But John, right now we're talking about what is a human.

0:22.5

And the Supreme Court has just upheld that whatever a human is,

0:25.7

the Constitution doesn't give you the right to kill one.

0:30.0

Yeah.

0:30.7

The leftist vision of the human person,

0:34.8

the secular vision of the human person,

0:37.0

is completely incompatible with our constitution.

0:40.2

Our constitution was designed to protect mammals who are also primates, who are also creatures of God.

0:49.8

The left, beginning with the progressive movement in the early 20th century, they don't just get the human species wrong.

0:57.8

They get our phylum.

0:59.7

They think we are termites or ants or some other kind of social animal, which have a collective identity, but no real individual identity, where reproduction should be centrally

1:14.0

controlled, where all the means of force should be centrally controlled, and we have to work

1:19.7

as a unit. And if one dies here or there, they decide to eat, they'll eat some of the larvae

1:25.6

to feed the queen. It doesn't matter because they have no individuality.

1:30.6

That is the vision of the left is that you and I are termites.

1:33.5

And by the way, the vision of secular libertarians is a little better.

1:37.7

It's that we're lizards who abandon their eggs in the desert.

1:40.7

So that's why they don't have very sophisticated ideas with the family.

1:44.5

Well, look.

1:45.2

You know, in your in your very funny, slightly exaggerated way, you are gloriously, brilliantly

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