What happens when you call 30 churches asking for baby formula? Most hang up. But when you offer them a donation? Suddenly, every line is open. In this episode, Dr. Jim unpacks three powerful social experiments that expose the deep, systemic hypocrisy of evangelical communities — and challenges listeners to stop pretending these are "good people" gone astray. The takeaway? If someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Chapters:
00:00 – Evangelicals and the Trump Vote: A Pattern Emerges
01:00 – The Crying Baby Test: Churches Say No
02:00 – Cash Offers Accepted: A Hypocrisy Exposed
03:00 – Drug Dealers Step Up Where Churches Failed
04:00 – Why This Isn’t Just Hypocrisy — It’s Character
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Transcripts
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1 of the interesting things that we've seen over the last week or so is a social experiment that's been run by a TikTok creator, this TikTok creator.
In light of the snap benefits being cut off, decided to call roughly 30 churches that were recommended to her by her followers. She called each of these churches, and in the background she had the audio of a crying baby, and her request was simple.
She called these churches, explained to them that she ran out of formula and the baby hasn't eaten in 24 hours, and she wanted to see how many of these churches would help.
This is one of three social experiments that paint a really interesting picture. Out of all the calls that she made, the vast majority of those churches hung up on her, turned her down, made excuses or generally tried to ignore what she was saying and told her to move on.
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That tells you. Exactly why Evangelicals voted how they did for a 34 time convicted felon with a history of abuse against women and a likely a child sex abuser. That makes all the sense in the world, but here's where it gets really interesting. Another creator decided to call a similar number of churches and offer donations.
of these churches said yes, [:
Another creator heard about this story and decided he lives in a not ideal neighborhood, and he knows of a handful of dealers in his neighborhood. And he walked to each of those dealers and explained that there's somebody that he's trying to help in the neighborhood who's got a baby. They don't have any money and they need formula.
Every one of those dealers gave that person money to get formula to feed that baby.
Isn't that something? The crowd that supposedly follows Christ and is all about living the teachings of Christ. It said no to somebody in need. And that same crowd usually points at people in brown and black communities and calls them criminals who are amoral.
But what did those amoral criminals do? They understood somebody was in need and they offered to pay to help them. Interesting contrast, isn't it?
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And when you look at how they behave, these are the same people that have no problem with places like Alligator Alcatraz operating. These are the people who have no problem with brown and black people being brutalized in the streets by their version of the Gestapo. These are the people who have no problem.
With doing whatever they can to make the lives of poor people even more miserable than it already is. They look at being poor as a moral failing. These are the people who have been handed all sorts of privilege in life and do nothing with it other than look down their noses and ridicule those that are in need.
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We need to understand and recognize this for what it is. Stop trying to redeem people who are irredeemable. Anyone who cheerleads. People being terrorized on a day-to-day basis are not good people, and we need to actually come to terms with that before it's too late.
