Hello, my name is Matt Whitman.

This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast, and I have an observation about people who wrote

cartoons in the 1980s.

I think these people had an unhealthy obsession with mind control, and I hesitate to speculate

exactly what prompted that unhealthy obsession, but it was in every single kid's series.

I ever watched everybody had an episode as a cartoon hero where their bad guy would

find like a bracelet of power, a ring of mind control, or they'd invent some headband

that they could put on the good guy's head, and then the good guy would have electricity

go through him, and he'd shake and his fingers would crinkle all up, and then like a little

thing would happen in his eyes.

And that would tell you he's bad now.

And then the good guys would go and do bad things, and you'd be like, what, no, that's

not how you are.

What are you doing?

I hated those episodes, because it just felt so wrong and dirty and out of character.

I remember reading the passage, we're going to be looking at today for the first time,

which is Matthew 15, 20, something through 20 something else, I don't know, look it up

in just a second.

And when I encountered this passage for the first time, I remember being very troubled

by it as a kid.

Now, cool side note here, this Bible that I can reach it went and got for this conversation

is my super old growing up Bible.

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