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Brandt's book, Unoffendable, check out Brant Hanson.com. Yesterday's news story in Baton Rouge, this is

another one of those things we've talked about it earlier on in the show, but it's another one of

those things where it's like, if I didn't believe in the biblical story, I wouldn't know what to do with this. Because I believe in the biblical

story, I believe in evil, that there is such a thing as evil. Some people will say, no, all of

that's just imagination. It's just, you know, it's our brain chemistry. Well, then you can't

hold somebody responsible for their brain chemistry. you can't hold somebody responsible for their brain chemistry.

You can't hold somebody responsible for just physics and matter and things.

You know, they don't have any free will.

Like, there's got to be this thing called evil, and I see it happen.

I have to put that somewhere.

I can't believe there's not evil.

And the other thing is,

there's going to be more funerals. It's heartbreaking for everybody involved, heartbroken for the families, but what would I do with that if I didn't believe ultimately in justice that God's going

to set things right and that death isn't the last word.

It's our only hope.

It is our only hope.

Like, if you don't have that, I don't know where you go.

I don't know what you say if you have to stand up at a funeral.

If you don't believe in God, you don't believe in an afterlife, you don't believe there's,

there's, that anything really ultimately has meaning.

Like, what do you got to say then?

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