February 28, 2024 • 31 mins
When JM, a professional gamer known as Markinator99, suddenly found himself ousted from the Global Speedrun Association, it wasn't just a personal blow—it was a stark reminder of the broader cultural rift that's been widening beneath our feet. We open our hearts and minds in a conversation about the growing phenomenon of cancel culture, especially as it pertains to Christians upholding traditional values. Through Mark's story, we traverse the precipice between religious convictions and the societal impetus to conform, offering solace and insights for those who feel their faith is being marginalized in today's ever-shifting landscape.
Our dialogue intensifies as Milo and Cheese from GSA join in, bringing to the fore the delicate dance of balancing personal beliefs with the possibility of professional fallout. Recalling the trials of early Christians, we draw parallels to the present-day ideological clashes, underscoring the dire need for the freedom to express one's convictions. This is a candid exploration of the tension between standing one's ground amid the surging tides of cancel culture and the challenge of speaking biblical truth in a world that often seems at odds with it.
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Markinator99 (00:03):
I told them that making a statement like that
would be an open abnegation ofmy faith, and I was not going to
do that.
I was fired from the GSAcommentary team.
I sat in my chair and I cried.
Rick Yuhas (00:27):
That was Markinator99, a professional
gamer, a Super Mario 64speedrunner and a three-year
veteran commentator for the GSA,the Global Speedrun Association
.
Believe it or not, that's areal thing.
And well, he's a formercommentator anyway.
We'll hear more from him in abit, coming up as I discuss
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cancel culture and the targetingof Christians.
Right now, that's a me Mario.
Let's go boys.
Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets, where we study the basics of
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the faith through the lens ofour middle-aged experiences.
I'm Rick.
Welcome to the show where Ihelp you, gen Xers and
millennials, navigatespiritually through a world that
looks nothing like we expectedback, when cars were square and
mullets were totally awesome.
I am so glad you're here.
So the world is getting crazierand crazier and we wonder why
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is that?
Well, as Christians, we're toblame for a good bit of it.
You know, as more and more ofour traditional values are
banned, we can see the belief inChristianity on the decline and
, with the loss of the influenceof Christ in America, we're
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seeing a rise in the enemy ofChrist's influence.
You know, the recent stats fromthe Public Religion Research
Institute that's a tough one tosay show that the number of
Americans who identify asevangelicals has dropped from
23% to 14.5%, that's from 2006to 2020.
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Catholics have decreased from16 to 11.7%, and during that
same amount of time, thepercentage of people with no
religious affiliation has gonefrom 16% to 24%.
That's crazy, but this declinein religious influence has come
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with attacks on our traditionalvalues.
There's secularists out therewho don't believe in God, and
they've been fighting hard topush Christianity out of
American society since since asfar back as I can remember, like
classroom prayer let's use thatfor an example.
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It used to be a common thing inpublic schools until 1962, when
the Supreme Court said it wasunconstitutional, even though
the First Amendment says thatCongress can't make any laws
about religion.
As a result, school prayer wasbanned, and the next year,
bibles were kicked out ofschools too.
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Now these two decisions havebeen used to suppress the free
exercise of religion ever since,and now, over 50 years later,
most of the children coming outof these schools have little or
no influence of Christ in theirlives.
They operate on feelings andwill stop at nothing to defend
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their right to feel however theywant, even at the expense of
someone else's feelings or theirbeliefs.
And it doesn't stop there.
Some really awful things havebeen legalized and made normal.
God believes that all life isprecious, including unborn
children, but about 10 yearsafter those school prayer
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rulings, the court said womenhad a constitutional right to
end the lives of their unbornbabies, even though that right
was never mentioned in theConstitution before.
So we're talking about around60 million unborn babies being
killed, which is more than thepopulation of some whole
countries.
And, to make matters worse, in2015, the court said that the
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same-sex marriage was totallyfine, and in 2020, they said
that discrimination laws nowinclude sexual orientation and
people's chosen gender identity.
That means that anyone canclaim to be a different gender
than what they were born as, andeveryone has to accept it as
true and normal according to thelaw.
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It's crazy right All throughsociety.
Now we're seeing a strongpushback when it comes to
speaking out against abortion orthe LGBTQ agenda.
People who hold these views areimmediately labeled as
problematic or as promoting hatespeech or being homophobic,
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which is not a fairrepresentation of their beliefs.
Another trend we've noticed isthe cultural shift towards
downplaying biologicaldifferences when it comes to
gender roles.
For example, facebook, they nowoffer 56 different ways for
individuals to identify theirgender, including options like
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agender, transgender, mtf andPAN gender I don't even know
what that is Now.
This move towards inclusivityis certainly commendable from a
certain point of view, but it'sled to some absurdities, like
Apple introducing a pregnant manemoji.
Now some people may see this asprogress and others find it
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difficult to accept as normaland true.
It's kind of disheartening tosee how the concept of free
speech seems to be fading awayin America.
The Founding Fathers sawfreedom of speech as a
fundamental right, one thatderived not from the government
but from our Creator.
They even enshrined this rightin the First Amendment of the
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Constitution, along with freedomof religion and the press.
These freedoms have allowedAmericans for years and decades
centuries to freely expressthemselves in a wide range of
issues.
But in recent years, we've seenthe decline in the respect for
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this right.
What was once referred to aspolitical correctness in the
1990s has now become anexpectation enforced by a
progressive thought police.
Speaking out against thisorthodoxy can lead to harsh
societal backlash and, in somecases, even legal consequences.
It's like a wave of wokeculture has swept over us,
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stifling free speech andlabeling certain opinions as
unacceptable.
Now, the rise of social mediahas also played a big role in
this erosion of free speech.
Traditionally, the Americanmedia has stood up for this
principle, but now there'smounting evidence that they, too
, want to limit what can be said.
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Religious and conservativeperspectives are frequently
censored and silenced in thecurrent media landscape, which
is a concerning trend for thefuture of free expression.
Did you know that more thantwo-thirds of Americans are on
social media Facebook, instagram, twitter, youtube, tiktok?
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There's a ton more of them outthere.
People use these platforms toconnect with friends and family
and co-workers and everybodyelse.
But here's the thing as theseplatforms have become super
popular, they've also becomesuper powerful, and
unfortunately, they've crossedthe line into censorship and
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manipulating our political andcultural thoughts.
That's not cool, especiallywhen it comes to religious and
conservative expression.
These platforms and theirbig-shot corporate leaders
aren't too fond of it.
Take Facebook, for example.
They've got an army of contentmonitors who are in charge of
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filtering out religious orconservative content.
They say they're against hatespeech, but the problem is they
end up cancelling anything thathas religious, traditional or
conservative views.
It's pretty obvious that thesetech giants have some serious
biases.
They're all wrapped up in thiswoke culture leaning far to the
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left, and they're using theirown biases as a way to control
what information we see and whatthey censor.
Trust me, it's a lot of powerin their hands.
Just look what happened to ourformer president, donald Trump.
Twitter banned him when hespoke up about voter fraud in
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the 2020 election.
And it's not just Twitter.
Facebook and YouTube, which isowned by Google, are known for
blocking and deletingconservative and religious
content.
All the time.
They claim to be fair, butreligious and conservative
groups are reporting their postsbeing deleted or hidden from
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view.
Even major search engines likeGoogle and Yahoo and Bing have
been accused of manipulatingsearch results to hide
conservative and religious stuff.
They call it misinformation,but it's really just news that
doesn't fit the liberal agenda.
And that brings us back to myconversation with Mark and
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Ader99.
It all started on Twitter, onhis personal account.
Now, from here on in, I'm goingto refer to him as Mark, mainly
because he might want to listento this with his kids one day
and not get eye rolls Like I didwhen my kids found out I used
to be Big Booty Smacker 68 onYahoo Messenger.
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So what started all this, mark?
Markinator99 (10:25):
A while back, I saw a post from a Twitter user
named PhillyTV, who invoked hisCatholic beliefs to affirm the
idea that love is love and aslong as you don't intentionally
hurt somebody, everything isfine.
And as a fellow Christian, weare called to correct our fellow
brothers in Christ where we seethem misrepresenting the
teachings of Jesus and the Bible.
Rick Yuhas (10:45):
Okay, so I heard you say correct other people, so
now I'm assuming that this waslike a cage match in wrestling,
where you had people coming outfrom every different direction
and it was just a free for all.
Markinator99 (11:00):
At no point was I demeaning, nor did I attack
anybody.
We went back and forth for afew tweets where I made it clear
that I was not against thisperson or anybody, but the Bible
does teach that sexualimmorality is a sin and sin
takes us further away from God,which is the whole point in
Christianity.
I was very calm and respectfulthroughout the whole
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conversation, while maintainingmy defense of the Bible and its
teachings.
Once the conversation was over,philly even got back to me and
thanked me for maintaining alevel-headed conversation and,
even though we disagree, therewas no hard feelings from which
I completely agree.
Rick Yuhas (11:36):
So that sounds pretty tame and it sounds like
it ended without any issues.
How did it get to the pointthat it's at what happens next?
Markinator99 (11:46):
So I'm going to go ahead and give you the
conversation that I had for thetwo heads of GSA, Milo and
Cheese.
Rick Yuhas (11:52):
Milo and Cheese.
Big booty smacker 68 is notsounding too bad right now.
Markinator99 (11:59):
Received a message from Milo asking to have a
conversation with me overDiscord.
Of course, I accepted thisinvitation and had a respectful
conversation with both Milo andCheese.
Rick Yuhas (12:08):
So what happens next is totally absurd.
Markinator99 (12:11):
In this conversation I was told that
somebody complained about me andthat my words over Twitter made
them feel unsafe.
Nobody ever reached out to meprior to this Discord
conversation, and this was thefirst time I heard of my Twitter
conversation making somebodyfeel unsafe.
Conversations sued Boil down toa discussion about trans
ideology, and that is theidentity of the person who
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claimed I made them feel unsafe.
Rick Yuhas (12:35):
So it's not even the person that Mark was talking to
that was offended.
It was some observer to thisconversation somewhere in the
world.
Let's just say it was theUnited States, somebody who
wasn't even involved in thisconversation, a bystander.
Markinator99 (12:55):
I explain to them that I don't agree with the
ideology, but I believe Godcreated us in His image and with
a purpose.
If somebody attempts torecreate themselves in their own
image instead of the image thatGod created for them, it
ultimately takes that personaway from God and for the
purpose that he has for theirlife.
This is not a position ofhatred.
It is a biblical-based positionthat is in favor of people
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knowing God along with thepurpose that he has for their
life, so that you may live apurpose-filled life of
fulfillment and peace.
Rick Yuhas (13:24):
So that's a very mature way of looking at it.
What did Milo and Cheese haveto say about that?
Markinator99 (13:30):
Neither Milo nor Cheese disagreed with the
sentiments that ultimately sidedwith the trans ideology, under
the proposition that transpeople are more likely to kill
themselves if they are notaffirmed in their identity.
Rick Yuhas (13:41):
So what was their solution?
It sounds like they caved.
I mean, it sounds like theydidn't even disagree with you.
Markinator99 (13:48):
And they didn't really disagree with anything.
They didn't disagree with anykind of sentiments, but
ultimately they were siding withthe trans community and gave me
the ultimatum of well, you caneither say that there's nothing
wrong with the gay and transideology or be fired.
Rick Yuhas (14:10):
That's pretty bold and brazen, isn't it?
Markinator99 (14:13):
Yes, it was at this point where it was made
clear that I either publiclystate that there is nothing
wrong with the trans ideology orbe let go from the commentary
team, a position that I've heldfor the past three years.
I told them that I have beenand will be nothing but
respectful towards people whohold these views, but I cannot
ultimately state or agree withthe idea that this is the best
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thing for people.
For reasons already stated, Itold them that making a
statement like that would be anopen abnegation of my faith and
I was not going to do that.
Rick Yuhas (14:51):
So how did things get so bad?
Well, it's becoming moreapparent that there's a
progressive narrative that'sbeen at war with God,
christianity and biblicalmorality for a long time now,
but in recent years this war hasintensified so much more than
it was in the 1960s, when allthis really started.
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It's important for us to beaware of what's happening and
the effects that it's having onsociety.
We need to question the powerof these tech giants and fight
for our freedom of expression,regardless of our religious or
political views.
Let's bring some balance backinto the conversation.
It may be really bad now, butit's really kind of always been
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bad.
Back in the streets of Jerusalem, the apostles Peter and John
experienced great success inpreaching the gospel of the
kingdom.
Following the response of theday of Pentecost, when like
3,000 people were converted, godopened the minds of hundreds of
others to the gospel messageand before long the church in
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Jerusalem numbered in thethousands, just like now.
There were people back thenthat did not like that.
They were sogyeses.
The Sanhedrin were the highestJewish Judicial Council.
They took notice of theapostles' success.
They were really just sogyeses,just a bunch of priests who
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controlled Jerusalem's temple.
They saw that the growing powerand influence of Jesus Christ's
message was a threat to them.
Peter and the other apostleshad to be stopped.
So one day, peter and Johnhealed a man who was lame from
birth, and an occasion to arrestthem presented itself, with the
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temple guard to provide muscle.
The Sanhedrin leaders swept inand seized the two apostles and
they asked them by what power orwhat name did you do this?
They demanded Peter and Johntell them, and Peter answered
them.
He said it is by the name ofChrist, jesus of Nazareth, who
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you crucified, but who Godraised from the dead, that this
man stands before you, nowhealed.
Now the Sanhedrin couldn't deny, because a lot of them stood
there and watched, theywitnessed that healing.
It wasn't a fluke.
So really, in what was anessence of an early attempted
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case of cancel culture, theSanhedrin put a gag order on the
apostles.
They ordered them to stoppreaching in the name of Christ.
But Peter said Judge foryourselves whether it's right in
God's sight to obey you ratherthan God.
For we cannot help speakingabout what we have seen and
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heard.
It's Acts, chapter 4, verse 17.
They refused to be canceled.
Today in America, we see cancelculture everywhere, but no one
is more targeted than religiousAmericans, especially Christians
.
Traditional morals, ethics andvalues are under assault, and
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those who hold theJudeo-Christian values that were
common for the first 200 yearsof this nation's existence now
find themselves mocked,belittled and attacked if they
dare to express or to stand upfor their views.
A simple way of saying it isthat the people who hold this
view view those who holdbiblical values as uneducated,
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superstitious people who need tobe reeducated or eliminated in
order to supposedly save theworld.
And if we think it's bad here,countries like Australia and
Canada and Great Britain haveactually passed hate speech laws
that make it illegal to teachwhat the Bible says about topics
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like homosexuality ortransgenderism and false
religion, and, shockingly,pastors and other religious
figures have been fined or evenjailed just for quoting the
Bible regarding these matters.
Now, thankfully, these kind oflaws haven't made their way to
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the United States yet, but whoknows what the future holds
right?
Back in 2008, during hiscampaign, barack Obama openly
mocked various biblical laws.
In a candid moment at afundraiser in San Francisco, he
revealed his personal contemptfor small town religious
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Americans, saying they getbitter, they cling to their guns
or religion or antipathy topeople who are not like them as
a way to explain theirfrustrations.
And a few years later, whenthey were trying to pass the
Health Care Act, our governmentthe US government targeted
religious organization thatopposed the law's mandate to
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provide contraceptives andabortion-inducing drugs.
Now, one organization was theLittle Sisters of the Poor.
They stood up against thoserequirements due to their
Catholic beliefs.
Now, rather than finding acompromise, the government used
full force the full force of thefederal government to go after
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a bunch of nuns, subjecting themto years of exhausting and
expensive legal battles.
And this went on all the way to2016, when the Supreme Court,
in an extremely rare unanimousdecision, ruled in favor of the
Little Sisters holding theirFirst Amendment rights.
It's quite a journey, right?
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It's important for us to beaware that these issues exist
and understand the challengesthat face Christians in our
society today.
So, in so many words, youpledged your case to your bosses
and you've stood up for whatyou believed in.
So what happens now?
Markinator99 (21:16):
Soon after we sadly said our goodbyes and the
deed had been done, I was firedfrom the GSA commentary team.
Heartbroken and with nothingmore I could do, I sat on my
chair and I cried.
Rick Yuhas (21:27):
Man, I really, really hate that for you, but
I've got to commend you.
There's not a lot of peoplethat would take that stand that
you did.
Markinator99 (21:37):
Yeah, yeah.
They wanted me to say somethingI didn't believe.
Rick Yuhas (21:41):
Well, dude, you're just so matter of fact about it.
Praise God, you are a man ofGod and you stood up for what's
right.
You stood up for Jesus Christ.
Markinator99 (21:55):
That's it, praise God.
Rick Yuhas (21:57):
Angels in Heaven are singing about Markinator 99.
Praise God.
I mean, I don't want you tothink I'm sitting here making
jokes about it, but this is thekind of thing that Christians
are going to have to do more andmore of as the next months and
years go on.
Look in the enemy in the eyeand say, no, dude, you're doing
it.
Now, you're cutting edge.
That's what it's about.
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You're like leading the way.
Well, I've known you since youwere seven, so I'm proud of you.
It's all good.
Well, I know your dad's proud.
He's going to be wanting totake you on his business trips
and introduce you to all thepeople that he has to speak to.
That's a lie.
Markinator99 (22:32):
Let me tell you right now you don't know that.
Rick Yuhas (22:35):
I do know that.
He's making t-shirts right nowwith your picture on it and an
arrow pointing over where youstand and saying I'm with him.
All right, Let me pull thisback in.
I'm going to make a big jokeabout everything, but this is
pretty serious.
So the last I checked, there'speople on these threads that are
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calling for your cancellationin so many words.
It just makes me laugh.
Maybe we'll have time to talkabout that.
My generation looking at thisfrom the outside, just thinking
that y'all are nuts for evenputting up with it.
But there's cancel culture.
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I mean, what is it?
Why is it and how could thishappen?
Markinator99 (23:30):
There's a few reasons.
You know.
We have cancel culture probablyyou touched on one of them and
that's being where a lot ofpeople are being told that the
mainstream way of thinkingnowadays has to be validated.
The woke ideologies, the peoplewho are a part of it trans
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people specifically have a highrate of depression, and it is
extrapolated from that that theyare then more likely to commit
suicide.
And then it's extrapolated fromthat to say that it's all
because people are not acceptingof them and so therefore,
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everybody needs to be acceptingor else you're killing people,
dude, that is such a big leap.
Rick Yuhas (24:24):
There's always been people who were extra sensitive,
that went to extremes likesuicide over things like
bullying, and I'm not minimizingit, but it seems like we have a
whole generation that's likethat.
Markinator99 (24:40):
And that's a really important point that you
hear all the time and getsbrought up in talks and stuff.
Maybe you hear a protest orsomething yell out you're
killing people, your speech iskilling somebody.
That's what they mean.
They're extrapolating onextrapolation of data.
That doesn't even probably meanwhat they say it means, Because
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there could be a bunch ofreasons for that data being the
way that it is.
Rick Yuhas (25:06):
So basically, it's like we're being told you must
validate me and believe myfantasy, or else.
Markinator99 (25:15):
Yeah, so you're being forced to validate
something and you don't believein.
You're then being told that ifyou don't validate it, that
you're probably hurting somebody, you're probably causing them
to commit suicide, which is acrazy thing.
It's a crazy thing to put onsomebody who simply thinks that
there's a God out there, whothinks that you have a purpose
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and you were made with meaningand you don't have to chemically
or physically alter yourself tofulfill that.
You don't need to do that.
But if you say that all of asudden you're killing somebody,
which is such an insane thing tosay, but that's the mainstream
idea.
That's why it's so important tonot platform people, to not
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give people any kind of say.
If somebody does think this way, you have to get rid of them.
So that's it, huh.
And in this case I think that isthe main reason for the cancel
culture being the way that it is.
But beyond that, I think it isjust like a group mentality type
deal of people needing to bevalidated.
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They're not secure in who theyare, despite them saying
otherwise, and they feel thatsense of importance from being
validated by others.
And when they stop feeling thatway, it's not their fault for
not being secure in who they are.
It's the other person's faultfor making them feel insecure
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and nobody's correcting them onit.
Rick Yuhas (26:46):
Okay.
So how is somebody like me orpeople in my generation that
look at this like it's not evenreal?
I mean, you watch the news andyou hear, or you scroll through
Facebook and you hear, thesestories and I sit back and think
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this has gotta be fiction.
There's no way that this couldbe real.
How are we supposed to connectwith young people with this
ideology?
Now, I realize it's not alljust young people, but there are
some older people that havejumped on this bandwagon.
The majority of it is a youngergeneration.
How are we supposed to connectwith them?
Markinator99 (27:33):
Well, you have to meet them where they're at, like
Jesus meets us where we're at.
You're never gonna walk up tosomebody who's acting in a
particular way.
You're never gonna talk tosomebody who's addicted to drugs
and goes quit doing drugs.
God doesn't like that andthey're gonna be like oh, you're
right, I'm gonna stop doingdrugs.
It's like no, and it's not gonnawork for gay people either,
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like it's just not.
You're talking about peoplebeing born into it to a certain
degree, but we're all born intosin, into the sinful world, and
we're pulled by.
You know, multitude ofdifferent temptations Could be
drugs, it could be sex, it couldbe, you know, same sex
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attraction and you know we tendto separate all of that stuff in
our minds and we kind of giveit hierarchies and whatnot.
We give some more understandingthan the other.
But ultimately the people whoyou know nowadays are finding
themselves in the gay and, youknow, lgbtq category.
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They are being attacked by lustand sinful desires and nobody
is beating them where they're atand saying, hey, it's okay to
experience these things.
It doesn't mean that it's okayto engage with it.
You know that's not what Godtells us to do, but it's okay.
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If you have these thoughts, youhave to understand that they're
not your own.
You have to attempt to dwell inthat of the thoughts of the Lord
and his will and his spirit.
But to engage in any sort ofthought and to just say which
one, which thought, feels thebest, that's not the way to go
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about it, because you know yourphysical body will desire
anything and everything thatfeels good and brings temporary
what's the word temporarysatisfaction.
Your body loves that because itgets what it wants and it has
no concern for the future, butour mind and our spirit does.
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The spirit that we have maybenot exactly the one that we have
right now is built for eternity, but you know, god lives in
eternity and ultimately we wantto meet him there and be with
him in eternity.
And so our mind is definitelyforward thinking and our body is
not, and we have to separatethose two things.
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And that's where a lot ofpeople start to stumble with a
multitude of different sense,whether it's like a spiritual or
spiritual, like I said, drugsor lustful desires or anything
of the sort.
Rick Yuhas (30:16):
Well, listen, mark, I really appreciate you taking
time out to come talk to usagain.
Kudos to you and your faith.
We don't really hear that much,do we Kudos, on your faith.
Good job on being faithful.
That's it.
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Praise God, man.
Well, before we go, how canpeople find you?
I can imagine there's gonna besome people that wanna get a
hold of you, get your story,might have more people want to
interview you.
Then again there might be somepeople out there that want to do
you some real harm.
So stay safe.
I hope that you feel safe.
Markinator99 (30:59):
I don't feel safe.
That's such a crazy statement.
We could have harped on thatstatement more, but For real,
though.
Rick Yuhas (31:07):
How can people find Markinator 99?
Markinator99 (31:13):
Yeah, you can find me my name's out there.
I'm not completely anonymous.
So that's Markinator 99 is myonline handle.
You can find that pretty muchanywhere Instagram, youtube,
twitter.
If you wanna hit me up onTwitch, there is an underscore
between Markinator 99.
It's the only platform it'slike that, but everything else
(31:36):
Markinator 99, I should come upand also there'll probably be
some content on John Mark Walkeron YouTube.
It's just as far as likegeneral videos and stuff.
There's really not much thereat the moment, but if you wanna
subscribe to my YouTube there,there definitely will be and
probably there'll be at leastone or two new videos by the
(31:58):
time this airs.
So yeah, john Mark Walker, ifyou wanna know more Christian
stuff.
The Markinator side is allgaming related stuff, which will
probably have some crossovernow that everything's happened.
But that's where you can findme.
Rick Yuhas (32:15):
All right, well, thanks again.
We gotta end this thing,because I've had to keep the
heat off so that the microphonedidn't pick it up, and I'm
freezing now.
Markinator99 (32:26):
That's the opposite of me.
It's hot in here, so yeah, sohave a good night.
Rick Yuhas (32:32):
All right, man, you have a good night too Good
talking to you.
Say hey to the fam, say hey tothe family.
For me, you too appreciate itAll right.
Markinator99 (32:39):
Talk to you later.
Rick Yuhas (32:44):
We've heard about the persecution around the world
, and it's here in this country.
Now, and sometime in the nottoo distant future, millions of
Americans are gonna have tochoose between their conscience
and their jobs.
At a very minimum, it's messedup.
But here's the thing All ofthis is leading to something
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bigger.
It's like there's a plan tocancel God from the public arena
.
It's an end game where aworldwide government takes
control and this system isagainst anybody who follows
God's word, and most of theworld's gonna go along with it.
But don't be fooled.
(33:27):
It's all a front Together.
They're gonna wage a waragainst God's people and it's
gonna be a mess and a lot ofpeople are gonna worship the
beast.
It's all in prophecy, you know.
But think about it now.
Cancel.
Culture has already done so muchto turn all these nations away
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from biblical morals.
We're going down a dark path.
It's only gonna get worse andit's a little overwhelming.
But here's the thing.
Don't lose hope.
Even though we can't change thewhole world, we can make a
difference.
If we stand up for God in hisways, we can resist Satan's grip
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I told them that making a statement like that
would be an open abnegation ofmy faith, and I was not going to
do that.
I was fired from the GSAcommentary team.
I sat in my chair and I cried.
Rick Yuhas (00:27):
That was Markinator99, a professional
gamer, a Super Mario 64speedrunner and a three-year
veteran commentator for the GSA,the Global Speedrun Association
.
Believe it or not, that's areal thing.
And well, he's a formercommentator anyway.
We'll hear more from him in abit, coming up as I discuss
(00:50):
cancel culture and the targetingof Christians.
Right now, that's a me Mario.
Let's go boys.
Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets, where we study the basics of
(01:10):
the faith through the lens ofour middle-aged experiences.
I'm Rick.
Welcome to the show where Ihelp you, gen Xers and
millennials, navigatespiritually through a world that
looks nothing like we expectedback, when cars were square and
mullets were totally awesome.
I am so glad you're here.
So the world is getting crazierand crazier and we wonder why
(01:35):
is that?
Well, as Christians, we're toblame for a good bit of it.
You know, as more and more ofour traditional values are
banned, we can see the belief inChristianity on the decline and
, with the loss of the influenceof Christ in America, we're
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seeing a rise in the enemy ofChrist's influence.
You know, the recent stats fromthe Public Religion Research
Institute that's a tough one tosay show that the number of
Americans who identify asevangelicals has dropped from
23% to 14.5%, that's from 2006to 2020.
(02:22):
Catholics have decreased from16 to 11.7%, and during that
same amount of time, thepercentage of people with no
religious affiliation has gonefrom 16% to 24%.
That's crazy, but this declinein religious influence has come
(02:46):
with attacks on our traditionalvalues.
There's secularists out therewho don't believe in God, and
they've been fighting hard topush Christianity out of
American society since since asfar back as I can remember, like
classroom prayer let's use thatfor an example.
(03:06):
It used to be a common thing inpublic schools until 1962, when
the Supreme Court said it wasunconstitutional, even though
the First Amendment says thatCongress can't make any laws
about religion.
As a result, school prayer wasbanned, and the next year,
bibles were kicked out ofschools too.
(03:27):
Now these two decisions havebeen used to suppress the free
exercise of religion ever since,and now, over 50 years later,
most of the children coming outof these schools have little or
no influence of Christ in theirlives.
They operate on feelings andwill stop at nothing to defend
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their right to feel however theywant, even at the expense of
someone else's feelings or theirbeliefs.
And it doesn't stop there.
Some really awful things havebeen legalized and made normal.
God believes that all life isprecious, including unborn
children, but about 10 yearsafter those school prayer
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rulings, the court said womenhad a constitutional right to
end the lives of their unbornbabies, even though that right
was never mentioned in theConstitution before.
So we're talking about around60 million unborn babies being
killed, which is more than thepopulation of some whole
countries.
And, to make matters worse, in2015, the court said that the
(04:33):
same-sex marriage was totallyfine, and in 2020, they said
that discrimination laws nowinclude sexual orientation and
people's chosen gender identity.
That means that anyone canclaim to be a different gender
than what they were born as, andeveryone has to accept it as
true and normal according to thelaw.
(04:54):
It's crazy right All throughsociety.
Now we're seeing a strongpushback when it comes to
speaking out against abortion orthe LGBTQ agenda.
People who hold these views areimmediately labeled as
problematic or as promoting hatespeech or being homophobic,
(05:15):
which is not a fairrepresentation of their beliefs.
Another trend we've noticed isthe cultural shift towards
downplaying biologicaldifferences when it comes to
gender roles.
For example, facebook, they nowoffer 56 different ways for
individuals to identify theirgender, including options like
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agender, transgender, mtf andPAN gender I don't even know
what that is Now.
This move towards inclusivityis certainly commendable from a
certain point of view, but it'sled to some absurdities, like
Apple introducing a pregnant manemoji.
Now some people may see this asprogress and others find it
(06:01):
difficult to accept as normaland true.
It's kind of disheartening tosee how the concept of free
speech seems to be fading awayin America.
The Founding Fathers sawfreedom of speech as a
fundamental right, one thatderived not from the government
but from our Creator.
They even enshrined this rightin the First Amendment of the
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Constitution, along with freedomof religion and the press.
These freedoms have allowedAmericans for years and decades
centuries to freely expressthemselves in a wide range of
issues.
But in recent years, we've seenthe decline in the respect for
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this right.
What was once referred to aspolitical correctness in the
1990s has now become anexpectation enforced by a
progressive thought police.
Speaking out against thisorthodoxy can lead to harsh
societal backlash and, in somecases, even legal consequences.
It's like a wave of wokeculture has swept over us,
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stifling free speech andlabeling certain opinions as
unacceptable.
Now, the rise of social mediahas also played a big role in
this erosion of free speech.
Traditionally, the Americanmedia has stood up for this
principle, but now there'smounting evidence that they, too
, want to limit what can be said.
(07:30):
Religious and conservativeperspectives are frequently
censored and silenced in thecurrent media landscape, which
is a concerning trend for thefuture of free expression.
Did you know that more thantwo-thirds of Americans are on
social media Facebook, instagram, twitter, youtube, tiktok?
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There's a ton more of them outthere.
People use these platforms toconnect with friends and family
and co-workers and everybodyelse.
But here's the thing as theseplatforms have become super
popular, they've also becomesuper powerful, and
unfortunately, they've crossedthe line into censorship and
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manipulating our political andcultural thoughts.
That's not cool, especiallywhen it comes to religious and
conservative expression.
These platforms and theirbig-shot corporate leaders
aren't too fond of it.
Take Facebook, for example.
They've got an army of contentmonitors who are in charge of
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filtering out religious orconservative content.
They say they're against hatespeech, but the problem is they
end up cancelling anything thathas religious, traditional or
conservative views.
It's pretty obvious that thesetech giants have some serious
biases.
They're all wrapped up in thiswoke culture leaning far to the
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left, and they're using theirown biases as a way to control
what information we see and whatthey censor.
Trust me, it's a lot of powerin their hands.
Just look what happened to ourformer president, donald Trump.
Twitter banned him when hespoke up about voter fraud in
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the 2020 election.
And it's not just Twitter.
Facebook and YouTube, which isowned by Google, are known for
blocking and deletingconservative and religious
content.
All the time.
They claim to be fair, butreligious and conservative
groups are reporting their postsbeing deleted or hidden from
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view.
Even major search engines likeGoogle and Yahoo and Bing have
been accused of manipulatingsearch results to hide
conservative and religious stuff.
They call it misinformation,but it's really just news that
doesn't fit the liberal agenda.
And that brings us back to myconversation with Mark and
(09:57):
Ader99.
It all started on Twitter, onhis personal account.
Now, from here on in, I'm goingto refer to him as Mark, mainly
because he might want to listento this with his kids one day
and not get eye rolls Like I didwhen my kids found out I used
to be Big Booty Smacker 68 onYahoo Messenger.
(10:19):
So what started all this, mark?
Markinator99 (10:25):
A while back, I saw a post from a Twitter user
named PhillyTV, who invoked hisCatholic beliefs to affirm the
idea that love is love and aslong as you don't intentionally
hurt somebody, everything isfine.
And as a fellow Christian, weare called to correct our fellow
brothers in Christ where we seethem misrepresenting the
teachings of Jesus and the Bible.
Rick Yuhas (10:45):
Okay, so I heard you say correct other people, so
now I'm assuming that this waslike a cage match in wrestling,
where you had people coming outfrom every different direction
and it was just a free for all.
Markinator99 (11:00):
At no point was I demeaning, nor did I attack
anybody.
We went back and forth for afew tweets where I made it clear
that I was not against thisperson or anybody, but the Bible
does teach that sexualimmorality is a sin and sin
takes us further away from God,which is the whole point in
Christianity.
I was very calm and respectfulthroughout the whole
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conversation, while maintainingmy defense of the Bible and its
teachings.
Once the conversation was over,philly even got back to me and
thanked me for maintaining alevel-headed conversation and,
even though we disagree, therewas no hard feelings from which
I completely agree.
Rick Yuhas (11:36):
So that sounds pretty tame and it sounds like
it ended without any issues.
How did it get to the pointthat it's at what happens next?
Markinator99 (11:46):
So I'm going to go ahead and give you the
conversation that I had for thetwo heads of GSA, Milo and
Cheese.
Rick Yuhas (11:52):
Milo and Cheese.
Big booty smacker 68 is notsounding too bad right now.
Markinator99 (11:59):
Received a message from Milo asking to have a
conversation with me overDiscord.
Of course, I accepted thisinvitation and had a respectful
conversation with both Milo andCheese.
Rick Yuhas (12:08):
So what happens next is totally absurd.
Markinator99 (12:11):
In this conversation I was told that
somebody complained about me andthat my words over Twitter made
them feel unsafe.
Nobody ever reached out to meprior to this Discord
conversation, and this was thefirst time I heard of my Twitter
conversation making somebodyfeel unsafe.
Conversations sued Boil down toa discussion about trans
ideology, and that is theidentity of the person who
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claimed I made them feel unsafe.
Rick Yuhas (12:35):
So it's not even the person that Mark was talking to
that was offended.
It was some observer to thisconversation somewhere in the
world.
Let's just say it was theUnited States, somebody who
wasn't even involved in thisconversation, a bystander.
Markinator99 (12:55):
I explain to them that I don't agree with the
ideology, but I believe Godcreated us in His image and with
a purpose.
If somebody attempts torecreate themselves in their own
image instead of the image thatGod created for them, it
ultimately takes that personaway from God and for the
purpose that he has for theirlife.
This is not a position ofhatred.
It is a biblical-based positionthat is in favor of people
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knowing God along with thepurpose that he has for their
life, so that you may live apurpose-filled life of
fulfillment and peace.
Rick Yuhas (13:24):
So that's a very mature way of looking at it.
What did Milo and Cheese haveto say about that?
Markinator99 (13:30):
Neither Milo nor Cheese disagreed with the
sentiments that ultimately sidedwith the trans ideology, under
the proposition that transpeople are more likely to kill
themselves if they are notaffirmed in their identity.
Rick Yuhas (13:41):
So what was their solution?
It sounds like they caved.
I mean, it sounds like theydidn't even disagree with you.
Markinator99 (13:48):
And they didn't really disagree with anything.
They didn't disagree with anykind of sentiments, but
ultimately they were siding withthe trans community and gave me
the ultimatum of well, you caneither say that there's nothing
wrong with the gay and transideology or be fired.
Rick Yuhas (14:10):
That's pretty bold and brazen, isn't it?
Markinator99 (14:13):
Yes, it was at this point where it was made
clear that I either publiclystate that there is nothing
wrong with the trans ideology orbe let go from the commentary
team, a position that I've heldfor the past three years.
I told them that I have beenand will be nothing but
respectful towards people whohold these views, but I cannot
ultimately state or agree withthe idea that this is the best
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thing for people.
For reasons already stated, Itold them that making a
statement like that would be anopen abnegation of my faith and
I was not going to do that.
Rick Yuhas (14:51):
So how did things get so bad?
Well, it's becoming moreapparent that there's a
progressive narrative that'sbeen at war with God,
christianity and biblicalmorality for a long time now,
but in recent years this war hasintensified so much more than
it was in the 1960s, when allthis really started.
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It's important for us to beaware of what's happening and
the effects that it's having onsociety.
We need to question the powerof these tech giants and fight
for our freedom of expression,regardless of our religious or
political views.
Let's bring some balance backinto the conversation.
It may be really bad now, butit's really kind of always been
(15:39):
bad.
Back in the streets of Jerusalem, the apostles Peter and John
experienced great success inpreaching the gospel of the
kingdom.
Following the response of theday of Pentecost, when like
3,000 people were converted, godopened the minds of hundreds of
others to the gospel messageand before long the church in
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Jerusalem numbered in thethousands, just like now.
There were people back thenthat did not like that.
They were sogyeses.
The Sanhedrin were the highestJewish Judicial Council.
They took notice of theapostles' success.
They were really just sogyeses,just a bunch of priests who
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controlled Jerusalem's temple.
They saw that the growing powerand influence of Jesus Christ's
message was a threat to them.
Peter and the other apostleshad to be stopped.
So one day, peter and Johnhealed a man who was lame from
birth, and an occasion to arrestthem presented itself, with the
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temple guard to provide muscle.
The Sanhedrin leaders swept inand seized the two apostles and
they asked them by what power orwhat name did you do this?
They demanded Peter and Johntell them, and Peter answered
them.
He said it is by the name ofChrist, jesus of Nazareth, who
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you crucified, but who Godraised from the dead, that this
man stands before you, nowhealed.
Now the Sanhedrin couldn't deny, because a lot of them stood
there and watched, theywitnessed that healing.
It wasn't a fluke.
So really, in what was anessence of an early attempted
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case of cancel culture, theSanhedrin put a gag order on the
apostles.
They ordered them to stoppreaching in the name of Christ.
But Peter said Judge foryourselves whether it's right in
God's sight to obey you ratherthan God.
For we cannot help speakingabout what we have seen and
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heard.
It's Acts, chapter 4, verse 17.
They refused to be canceled.
Today in America, we see cancelculture everywhere, but no one
is more targeted than religiousAmericans, especially Christians
.
Traditional morals, ethics andvalues are under assault, and
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those who hold theJudeo-Christian values that were
common for the first 200 yearsof this nation's existence now
find themselves mocked,belittled and attacked if they
dare to express or to stand upfor their views.
A simple way of saying it isthat the people who hold this
view view those who holdbiblical values as uneducated,
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superstitious people who need tobe reeducated or eliminated in
order to supposedly save theworld.
And if we think it's bad here,countries like Australia and
Canada and Great Britain haveactually passed hate speech laws
that make it illegal to teachwhat the Bible says about topics
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like homosexuality ortransgenderism and false
religion, and, shockingly,pastors and other religious
figures have been fined or evenjailed just for quoting the
Bible regarding these matters.
Now, thankfully, these kind oflaws haven't made their way to
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the United States yet, but whoknows what the future holds
right?
Back in 2008, during hiscampaign, barack Obama openly
mocked various biblical laws.
In a candid moment at afundraiser in San Francisco, he
revealed his personal contemptfor small town religious
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Americans, saying they getbitter, they cling to their guns
or religion or antipathy topeople who are not like them as
a way to explain theirfrustrations.
And a few years later, whenthey were trying to pass the
Health Care Act, our governmentthe US government targeted
religious organization thatopposed the law's mandate to
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provide contraceptives andabortion-inducing drugs.
Now, one organization was theLittle Sisters of the Poor.
They stood up against thoserequirements due to their
Catholic beliefs.
Now, rather than finding acompromise, the government used
full force the full force of thefederal government to go after
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a bunch of nuns, subjecting themto years of exhausting and
expensive legal battles.
And this went on all the way to2016, when the Supreme Court,
in an extremely rare unanimousdecision, ruled in favor of the
Little Sisters holding theirFirst Amendment rights.
It's quite a journey, right?
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It's important for us to beaware that these issues exist
and understand the challengesthat face Christians in our
society today.
So, in so many words, youpledged your case to your bosses
and you've stood up for whatyou believed in.
So what happens now?
Markinator99 (21:16):
Soon after we sadly said our goodbyes and the
deed had been done, I was firedfrom the GSA commentary team.
Heartbroken and with nothingmore I could do, I sat on my
chair and I cried.
Rick Yuhas (21:27):
Man, I really, really hate that for you, but
I've got to commend you.
There's not a lot of peoplethat would take that stand that
you did.
Markinator99 (21:37):
Yeah, yeah.
They wanted me to say somethingI didn't believe.
Rick Yuhas (21:41):
Well, dude, you're just so matter of fact about it.
Praise God, you are a man ofGod and you stood up for what's
right.
You stood up for Jesus Christ.
Markinator99 (21:55):
That's it, praise God.
Rick Yuhas (21:57):
Angels in Heaven are singing about Markinator 99.
Praise God.
I mean, I don't want you tothink I'm sitting here making
jokes about it, but this is thekind of thing that Christians
are going to have to do more andmore of as the next months and
years go on.
Look in the enemy in the eyeand say, no, dude, you're doing
it.
Now, you're cutting edge.
That's what it's about.
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You're like leading the way.
Well, I've known you since youwere seven, so I'm proud of you.
It's all good.
Well, I know your dad's proud.
He's going to be wanting totake you on his business trips
and introduce you to all thepeople that he has to speak to.
That's a lie.
Markinator99 (22:32):
Let me tell you right now you don't know that.
Rick Yuhas (22:35):
I do know that.
He's making t-shirts right nowwith your picture on it and an
arrow pointing over where youstand and saying I'm with him.
All right, Let me pull thisback in.
I'm going to make a big jokeabout everything, but this is
pretty serious.
So the last I checked, there'speople on these threads that are
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calling for your cancellationin so many words.
It just makes me laugh.
Maybe we'll have time to talkabout that.
My generation looking at thisfrom the outside, just thinking
that y'all are nuts for evenputting up with it.
But there's cancel culture.
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I mean, what is it?
Why is it and how could thishappen?
Markinator99 (23:30):
There's a few reasons.
You know.
We have cancel culture probablyyou touched on one of them and
that's being where a lot ofpeople are being told that the
mainstream way of thinkingnowadays has to be validated.
The woke ideologies, the peoplewho are a part of it trans
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people specifically have a highrate of depression, and it is
extrapolated from that that theyare then more likely to commit
suicide.
And then it's extrapolated fromthat to say that it's all
because people are not acceptingof them and so therefore,
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everybody needs to be acceptingor else you're killing people,
dude, that is such a big leap.
Rick Yuhas (24:24):
There's always been people who were extra sensitive,
that went to extremes likesuicide over things like
bullying, and I'm not minimizingit, but it seems like we have a
whole generation that's likethat.
Markinator99 (24:40):
And that's a really important point that you
hear all the time and getsbrought up in talks and stuff.
Maybe you hear a protest orsomething yell out you're
killing people, your speech iskilling somebody.
That's what they mean.
They're extrapolating onextrapolation of data.
That doesn't even probably meanwhat they say it means, Because
(25:00):
there could be a bunch ofreasons for that data being the
way that it is.
Rick Yuhas (25:06):
So basically, it's like we're being told you must
validate me and believe myfantasy, or else.
Markinator99 (25:15):
Yeah, so you're being forced to validate
something and you don't believein.
You're then being told that ifyou don't validate it, that
you're probably hurting somebody, you're probably causing them
to commit suicide, which is acrazy thing.
It's a crazy thing to put onsomebody who simply thinks that
there's a God out there, whothinks that you have a purpose
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and you were made with meaningand you don't have to chemically
or physically alter yourself tofulfill that.
You don't need to do that.
But if you say that all of asudden you're killing somebody,
which is such an insane thing tosay, but that's the mainstream
idea.
That's why it's so important tonot platform people, to not
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give people any kind of say.
If somebody does think this way, you have to get rid of them.
So that's it, huh.
And in this case I think that isthe main reason for the cancel
culture being the way that it is.
But beyond that, I think it isjust like a group mentality type
deal of people needing to bevalidated.
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They're not secure in who theyare, despite them saying
otherwise, and they feel thatsense of importance from being
validated by others.
And when they stop feeling thatway, it's not their fault for
not being secure in who they are.
It's the other person's faultfor making them feel insecure
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and nobody's correcting them onit.
Rick Yuhas (26:46):
Okay.
So how is somebody like me orpeople in my generation that
look at this like it's not evenreal?
I mean, you watch the news andyou hear, or you scroll through
Facebook and you hear, thesestories and I sit back and think
(27:08):
this has gotta be fiction.
There's no way that this couldbe real.
How are we supposed to connectwith young people with this
ideology?
Now, I realize it's not alljust young people, but there are
some older people that havejumped on this bandwagon.
The majority of it is a youngergeneration.
How are we supposed to connectwith them?
Markinator99 (27:33):
Well, you have to meet them where they're at, like
Jesus meets us where we're at.
You're never gonna walk up tosomebody who's acting in a
particular way.
You're never gonna talk tosomebody who's addicted to drugs
and goes quit doing drugs.
God doesn't like that andthey're gonna be like oh, you're
right, I'm gonna stop doingdrugs.
It's like no, and it's not gonnawork for gay people either,
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like it's just not.
You're talking about peoplebeing born into it to a certain
degree, but we're all born intosin, into the sinful world, and
we're pulled by.
You know, multitude ofdifferent temptations Could be
drugs, it could be sex, it couldbe, you know, same sex
(28:16):
attraction and you know we tendto separate all of that stuff in
our minds and we kind of giveit hierarchies and whatnot.
We give some more understandingthan the other.
But ultimately the people whoyou know nowadays are finding
themselves in the gay and, youknow, lgbtq category.
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They are being attacked by lustand sinful desires and nobody
is beating them where they're atand saying, hey, it's okay to
experience these things.
It doesn't mean that it's okayto engage with it.
You know that's not what Godtells us to do, but it's okay.
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If you have these thoughts, youhave to understand that they're
not your own.
You have to attempt to dwell inthat of the thoughts of the Lord
and his will and his spirit.
But to engage in any sort ofthought and to just say which
one, which thought, feels thebest, that's not the way to go
(29:17):
about it, because you know yourphysical body will desire
anything and everything thatfeels good and brings temporary
what's the word temporarysatisfaction.
Your body loves that because itgets what it wants and it has
no concern for the future, butour mind and our spirit does.
(29:39):
The spirit that we have maybenot exactly the one that we have
right now is built for eternity, but you know, god lives in
eternity and ultimately we wantto meet him there and be with
him in eternity.
And so our mind is definitelyforward thinking and our body is
not, and we have to separatethose two things.
(30:02):
And that's where a lot ofpeople start to stumble with a
multitude of different sense,whether it's like a spiritual or
spiritual, like I said, drugsor lustful desires or anything
of the sort.
Rick Yuhas (30:16):
Well, listen, mark, I really appreciate you taking
time out to come talk to usagain.
Kudos to you and your faith.
We don't really hear that much,do we Kudos, on your faith.
Good job on being faithful.
That's it.
(30:37):
Praise God, man.
Well, before we go, how canpeople find you?
I can imagine there's gonna besome people that wanna get a
hold of you, get your story,might have more people want to
interview you.
Then again there might be somepeople out there that want to do
you some real harm.
So stay safe.
I hope that you feel safe.
Markinator99 (30:59):
I don't feel safe.
That's such a crazy statement.
We could have harped on thatstatement more, but For real,
though.
Rick Yuhas (31:07):
How can people find Markinator 99?
Markinator99 (31:13):
Yeah, you can find me my name's out there.
I'm not completely anonymous.
So that's Markinator 99 is myonline handle.
You can find that pretty muchanywhere Instagram, youtube,
twitter.
If you wanna hit me up onTwitch, there is an underscore
between Markinator 99.
It's the only platform it'slike that, but everything else
(31:36):
Markinator 99, I should come upand also there'll probably be
some content on John Mark Walkeron YouTube.
It's just as far as likegeneral videos and stuff.
There's really not much thereat the moment, but if you wanna
subscribe to my YouTube there,there definitely will be and
probably there'll be at leastone or two new videos by the
(31:58):
time this airs.
So yeah, john Mark Walker, ifyou wanna know more Christian
stuff.
The Markinator side is allgaming related stuff, which will
probably have some crossovernow that everything's happened.
But that's where you can findme.
Rick Yuhas (32:15):
All right, well, thanks again.
We gotta end this thing,because I've had to keep the
heat off so that the microphonedidn't pick it up, and I'm
freezing now.
Markinator99 (32:26):
That's the opposite of me.
It's hot in here, so yeah, sohave a good night.
Rick Yuhas (32:32):
All right, man, you have a good night too Good
talking to you.
Say hey to the fam, say hey tothe family.
For me, you too appreciate itAll right.
Markinator99 (32:39):
Talk to you later.
Rick Yuhas (32:44):
We've heard about the persecution around the world
, and it's here in this country.
Now, and sometime in the nottoo distant future, millions of
Americans are gonna have tochoose between their conscience
and their jobs.
At a very minimum, it's messedup.
But here's the thing All ofthis is leading to something
(33:07):
bigger.
It's like there's a plan tocancel God from the public arena
.
It's an end game where aworldwide government takes
control and this system isagainst anybody who follows
God's word, and most of theworld's gonna go along with it.
But don't be fooled.
(33:27):
It's all a front Together.
They're gonna wage a waragainst God's people and it's
gonna be a mess and a lot ofpeople are gonna worship the
beast.
It's all in prophecy, you know.
But think about it now.
Cancel.
Culture has already done so muchto turn all these nations away
(33:47):
from biblical morals.
We're going down a dark path.
It's only gonna get worse andit's a little overwhelming.
But here's the thing.
Don't lose hope.
Even though we can't change thewhole world, we can make a
difference.
If we stand up for God in hisways, we can resist Satan's grip
(34:11):
on society and even in our ownlives.
So let's not give up.
Let's keep fighting the goodfight.
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