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I saw something on Twitter yesterday.

And it's questions that there's a skeptic on Twitter posted.

And I guess these are questions from Richard Dawkins, the British atheist.

And I think they're kind of dumb questions, but they're characterized as, characterized as blasphemy for religious people. And I promised

on Twitter that I would read them and respond to them. I don't think they're blasphemous at all.

I just think they're, they kind of show an ignorance of Christian Theism. So I'll be getting to that as well.

If you need to get your atheist fixed for today, I can help you with that.

I saw that last night, and when I read through the questions by Dawkins, I actually pictured

you going, oh, yeah, I can, I'll answer these tomorrow. These are easy. Yeah, I know what you mean. Well, thank you. I'm glad that you follow my Twitter feed, Cyrus. I don't have a choice. Did you retweet it, though? That's the question. Did I retweet? Oh, I didn't. No. I'll do it right now. Okay. There you go. Well, we have more phone calls to get to. I want to get to the cadults thing. Real quick, a couple of emails in the last few moments. John listening on the Relevant Radio apps regarding the conversation about adult children still living at home. Patrick, you're right on the money. How often do I say that? Well, thank you. God bless you and all your colleagues at Relevant Radio this Christmas. Thank you for that. And he signs it Jack, not John. Thank you. Jack. Appreciate that. Also, Mary, listening on the Relevant Radio app, she just wrote in on the same topic and she said, one thing missing in this conversation is an aspect of family community living.

As a single Catholic woman who has raised several children in our home, any money coming in was available for the good of the family.

So money from paper routes, fast food or grocery stores, and other part-time or odd jobs paid our monthly bills.

These children grew into adults quite aware of what it takes to support of family. There are situations where living in a multi-generational home is positive, even similar to

sharing which seems to happen in the early church. A shift needs to happen as children become adult

members of the in-home family. A new respect for each member is necessary, but it can be a positive

and healthy way to live.

Fair enough, and I don't disagree with that. I'm not advocating that we should avoid at all costs any kind of multi-generational family. I mentioned in passing how much I like the Waltons,

and there's a great example. Graham and Grandpa living full- time with the family, and it's a beautiful thing.

So I'm in favor of all that, but maybe you might be not catching the point I'm making,

and that is in those situations where it's necessary or helpful for members of the family

who are having difficulty or struggling or something, I fully endorse that.

What I'm saying is as a general principle, since most people are not in that situation,

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