Virtue signaling is sort of like a modern way of telling people, I'm a part of your tribe.

I'm a part of your tribe based on who I follow, who I quote, the people that I associate

myself with. That's why oftentimes, even we have to admit, even as preachers, it's like, well,

I know that the tribe will listen more closely if I quote this person and not that person,

even though both people are godly individuals, we tend to lean towards, you know,

whatever tribe you find yourself a part of. I know that I will be accepted in this tribe,

feel safe in this tribe if I quote these people, follow these people, et cetera, et cetera.

Tribalism, what it does is it makes you, again, feel safe.

And we tend to gather around us the people that affirm us.

And so when someone is perceived as a compromiser,

because they're either nuanced in their view

or they're trying to be careful and find balance

or trying to seek truth in spite of tribe then they're seen as compromising you don't even need

to say they're wrong you simply simply need to label them as compromising or too soft and then

they're sort of on the out of the tribe i mean we're very territorial in this as well right i, right? I mean, it's okay for you to say that you're watching Fox News, but you can't say that you're watching CNN. Right? The moment you say that you're watching MSNBC, it's like, we know anything there's something wrong with you. There is something wrong with you if you did that. But the first thing I do, after I check out one of the news sources, I go to the other news source. Not realizing that both news sources are owned by the same,

right? But I mean, really, it's the way it is. But how dare you watch anything other than what I watch?

Right. Ray speaking at an event, you know, up in Washington. And they created a poster of it.

I go, yeah, this is great that Ray's speaking,

Ray's reaching different people.

And people are coming unglued that certain people are speaking there.

And it's not like there's people that are innately horrible speaking,

but they don't belong to our tribe.

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