Yes, God, God. So welcome to the

the plodcast this is episode 100 we're moving from two digits into three digits episode 100. This is the

podcast. Thanks for joining us. It's great to have you. Great to have you here.

I'm pretty sure that I've talked about this before but I want to talk about it some more. I want to talk about it again. And that is the issue of boycotts. The issue of boycotts.

We see that the secular left is going in big time for boycotts. They want companies to divest if they have any

holdings that are connected to Israel. They want to boycott Netflix and Disney both threatened to boycott Georgia to not make movies there in Georgia because of the abortion law, the heartbeat abortion law that was just signed there.

And a lot of Christians have gone in for this over the years and have said, well, we need to,

we need to boycott this company because you know they're doing this evil thing or this vile thing.

One of the one of the website that's dedicated to knitters,

Ravelry, just announced that they would not have any tolerance for Trump supporters on this knitting website.

I mean, seriously, knitting?

Because they were taking a stand against white supremacy.

And I'm tempted to wonder why can't we have all our admitting websites tell us what our views ought to be on the Federal Reserve interest rate or come on.

Everything has gotten so politicized and then so then some Christians will say well

should we boycott should we boycott

rivalry and and and here's this is the basic

answer no we are not morally obligated to detach ourselves from morally problematic businesses. is this is something we find in the

new testament. The apostle Paul tells us that when you when you're considering the eating of meat that was offered idols.

The thing that you should take into account, the thing that you should have in the front of your mind is your relationship with your brother.

You don't have to worry about the meat.

The meat is not demon possessed. So for example, if today, let's say Burger King

instituted a new practice where they had little alcove in the back by the grill and a little

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