The Stack: Decency After Tragedy in a Broken Culture
In today’s Toddcast, Todd Huff confronts a heartbreaking tragedy and the cultural sickness revealed in its aftermath. Following the brutal murder of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, political reactions quickly devolved into mockery, point-scoring, and moral confusion. Todd makes it clear: condemning violence should never depend on party, ideology, or who the victim is.
This episode isn’t about excusing reckless comments or defending tasteless reactions. It’s about drawing firm moral boundaries in a culture that increasingly celebrates cruelty. Todd challenges conservatives to reject the same depravity they rightly condemn on the left, arguing that moral clarity must apply universally. Justice matters. Human life matters. Decency matters.
Ultimately, Todd argues that America’s crisis runs deeper than politics. The erosion of empathy, restraint, and truth points to a spiritual problem—one that politics alone cannot fix. This episode calls listeners to rise above outrage culture, speak truth without malice, and remember that the Gospel—not power or revenge—is the only lasting answer to a broken culture.
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📝 Transcript: Decency After Tragedy in a Broken Culture
The Todd Huff Show – December 16, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: Alright my friends, welcome to the Todd Huff Show. I am your host, Todd Huff. Email, as always, todd@toddhuffshow.com. Website is toddhuffshow.com. Social media @toddhuffshow. I want to jump right in today because there’s a story that frankly is disturbing on multiple levels, and I want to approach this carefully, thoughtfully, but clearly.
Todd Huff: Over the weekend, we learned of a horrific tragedy involving filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife. They were murdered in what appears to be a politically motivated attack. And immediately, as you might expect in our modern culture, reactions poured in from every direction — some compassionate, some restrained, and others grotesque, vile, and indefensible.
Todd Huff: President Trump posted something on Truth Social in response to this tragedy. And it set off a firestorm. The left predictably lost their minds, accusing Trump of inciting violence, of celebrating death, of being morally bankrupt. And then, unfortunately, some folks on the right decided to pile on in ways that were also deeply wrong.
Todd Huff: I want to be crystal clear about something before we go any further. Murder is evil. Period. It does not matter who the victim is. It does not matter how much you disagree with their politics. It does not matter how much you think they’ve contributed to cultural decay. Taking a human life is wrong. Full stop.
Todd Huff: We cannot — we must not — allow ourselves to become the very thing we claim to oppose. If we cheer death, mock tragedy, or dehumanize people because of their political beliefs, then we have surrendered the moral high ground entirely.
Todd Huff: Now, that does not mean we cannot criticize words. That does not mean we cannot call out irresponsible rhetoric. That does not mean we have to pretend that public figures are saints simply because something terrible happened to them. But it does mean that there is a line — and too many people crossed it.
Todd Huff: Trump’s post was blunt. Some would say it was callous. I understand why people found it offensive. But there is a massive difference between saying something ill-advised and endorsing violence. And yet, once again, we saw the media collapse those distinctions instantly.
Todd Huff: The left wants to pretend that rhetoric equals violence when it suits them, while excusing actual violence when it’s politically convenient. We’ve seen this play out over and over again. When conservatives are attacked, mocked, or even killed, the response is silence, justification, or laughter.
Todd Huff: But let me also say this — and I want my fellow conservatives to hear me clearly — responding to tragedy with cruelty is not strength. It is not courage. It is not truth-telling. It is depravity. And we should reject it outright.
Todd Huff: There were people online celebrating this murder. Posting memes. Making jokes. Saying things like “good riddance” or “karma finally caught up.” That is sick. And if you find yourself nodding along to that kind of talk, something is deeply wrong.
Todd Huff: Politics is not ultimate. Power is not ultimate. Even justice, in the earthly sense, is not ultimate. Human life matters because people are made in the image of God. And when we forget that, we lose everything.
Todd Huff: The cultural rot we are witnessing is not primarily political. It’s spiritual. We have raised generations to believe that their enemies are subhuman, that ends justify means, that outrage is virtue, and that empathy is weakness. And now we are reaping the consequences.
Todd Huff: Let’s talk about accountability. Yes, leaders should be careful with their words. Yes, rhetoric matters. Yes, we should strive for clarity and decency. But accountability must be grounded in truth, not opportunism.
Todd Huff: The same people screaming about Trump’s words today were silent — or worse — when conservative figures were attacked. When pro-life centers were firebombed. When Supreme Court justices were threatened. When Republican lawmakers were shot.
Todd Huff: That hypocrisy is staggering. And it erodes trust. But again, the answer to hypocrisy is not more hypocrisy. The answer to hatred is not more hatred.
Todd Huff: As Christians — and many of you listening are — our standard is not Fox News or MSNBC. Our standard is not Truth Social or X. Our standard is Christ. And Christ does not give us permission to celebrate death, even the death of our enemies.
Todd Huff: We are called to speak truth. We are called to stand firm. We are called to reject lies and evil. But we are also called to love our neighbor. And yes, that includes neighbors who despise us, mock us, and vote against everything we believe.
Todd Huff: If we cannot hold those things together, then we are not offering the world anything different. We’re just another angry mob with better branding.
Todd Huff: This moment is a test. Not just for politicians. Not just for media figures. But for all of us. How we respond says more about our character than our talking points ever could.
Todd Huff: I want to slow this down for a moment, because when emotions run high, clarity tends to disappear. And this is one of those moments where we need clarity more than volume. The question people keep asking is whether words cause violence. And the honest answer is that words can influence people, yes. But they do not remove personal responsibility. The person who committed this act chose to do so. No tweet, no post, no comment forced their hand. If we start pretending otherwise, we open the door to something very dangerous. Because if words are violence, then violence becomes speech.
Todd Huff: And once you cross that line, everything collapses. We already see this logic being used selectively. Speech the left dislikes is labeled dangerous, while actual acts of intimidation, harassment, and destruction are excused as righteous anger or justified resistance. That double standard poisons the culture. And it teaches people that morality is situational, that truth bends based on who is speaking, and that power — not principle — is what really matters. I want to return to something I said earlier.
Todd Huff: Criticism is not cruelty. Calling out bad ideas is not the same thing as celebrating death. We can say Rob Reiner promoted ideas that harmed the country. We can say his rhetoric was divisive. We can even say he bore responsibility for cultural damage. But we cannot say his murder was deserved. That distinction matters. And if you can’t see it, then politics has consumed you whole.
Todd Huff: I’ve seen comments saying, “Well, he supported policies that led to other people dying.” As if that somehow justifies murder. That logic has no end. By that standard, no one is innocent. And everyone becomes fair game. That is not justice. That is barbarism dressed up as moral outrage.
Todd Huff: Justice requires due process. It requires restraint. It requires humility. And it requires recognizing that we are not God. When Trump posted his response, some conservatives immediately rushed to defend every word as if it were scripture. That’s a mistake. You don’t have to pretend every statement was wise in order to reject the lie that it caused murder.
Todd Huff: Loyalty does not require blindness. And criticism does not require hatred. This binary thinking — where you’re either all in or all out — is destroying us. It turns leaders into idols and opponents into demons. And once that happens, anything becomes permissible.
Todd Huff: The media, of course, poured gasoline on the fire. Headlines were written to inflame, not inform. Context was stripped away. Motives were assigned without evidence. And the goal, as always, was outrage. Outrage keeps people clicking. It keeps advertisers happy. It keeps narratives intact. But it does not bring truth. And it certainly does not bring healing. I’ve said this before.
Todd Huff: I’ve said this before, and I want to reinforce it. We as humanity, my friends, are broken. Now, I know that depending upon your upbringing, your background, your faith, your religion, or your lack of religion, you may or may not agree with that statement, but biblically, let there be no mistake. We as humanity are 100% broken. We have all sinned. We have all chosen to go astray. We have all rebelled against the creator of this universe, the creator of this universe, who we should be eternally grateful for, grateful for creating us, grateful for giving us a place to live, grateful for heaping blessings upon us.
Todd Huff: We're not, we haven't always been, now, through the process of repenting and choosing the free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ, his son, and through the process of being sanctified, the ongoing work of God's Holy Spirit in your life — in my life, if you're a believer, to be made more like Christ — we've found ourselves on a path towards turning from our sin. At least we should, that's the direction we should go. But all of us are on that path. We're on the path of sin, and the question is, are we turning away from that sin and going back towards God, embracing him through his son Jesus, or are we not?
Todd Huff: And what's unfortunate, there are lots of consequences for the fall, the fall of man, the original sin of Adam and Eve. There are tons of consequences for that. And one of those is that no matter what group you're a part of, you're going to find knuckleheads and idiots and people who are using their liberty and their freedom to do some really reprehensible things. It doesn't matter your group. I'm telling you, it doesn't matter. You can be in a group of whatever the purest group of people you think morally are, and you will find reprehensible behavior.
Todd Huff: Now, you will find people, again, think about what we've seen within the Catholic Church, with priests and so forth, certainly there are people who condemn that 100% what happened, but there are people that are within any group. And I'm not picking on Catholicism here. I'm just saying, no matter what the group is, there are people that choose within that group to use their freedom to use their liberty to exercise their choice for reprehensible things.
Todd Huff: Now, there is a difference between that truth, and that matters. Listen, whether you're Colts fans, Patriots fans, whether you're soccer fans, whether you're WNBA fans, or whether you are Christian denomination this, denomination that, whatever, there are bad people that are making bad choices. People who are choosing actively in this moment to do reprehensible things in any group.
Todd Huff: Now, there's also the reality that if the group embraces, if the group itself embraces evil as an ideology, if a group itself actually endorses or talks highly about certain immoral activity, you'll find, obviously, a much higher percentage of that happening within that group because they will basically be saying, this is what we want to do. Again, I can choose here as to which groups we pick on, but some of the most egregious in my mind would be some of these organizations like NAMBLA, which I don't want to get into that, but they're condoning absolute evil, depravity, and sin.
Todd Huff: You get into the LGBTQIA+ agenda movement group, you'll find that they're condoning sinful, ungodly behavior. In that sense, you'll find a higher propensity of people because they've basically gotten together and said, hey, we're going to pretend like this thing isn't against the will and the nature of God, or whatever, and so we're going to all make arguments that it's not bad. The pro-abortion crowd, same thing, and we're going to just come up with one-liners: love always wins, for example, my body, my choice, and we just yell that loud enough, pound that into the minds of the youth, and hopefully eventually people will stop seeing these evils, these sins, this depravity for what it is.
Todd Huff: The Republican Party, the conservative movement does not fit that mold. Now, some on the left think it does, and I would say, explain to me how it does, because I'd be happy to have that conversation with you, but it doesn't. But that still doesn't mean that there are people within the conservative movement, even up to and including the president of the United States, who can say things or do things that are not good and decent.
Todd Huff: This is not a good and decent thing. He's gotten, by the way, bipartisan condemnation on this. Thomas Massey, who, of course, has got an ongoing feud with Trump, Commonwealth of Kentucky Representative Thomas Massey, he called Trump's comments disrespectful towards someone just murdered. I agree with that. Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, who, of course, is retiring, she's had a rift with Trump as well. She said this is a family tragedy, this shouldn't be something that's viewed as some sort of a political fight between enemies or whatever.
Todd Huff: Talking about Trump's social media post on Truth Social regarding the tragic, horrific, alleged murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, allegedly murdered by their son. Talking about that today. Talking about the discourse that we have out there. Talking about the value of human life. Folks, we need to win the battle that's being waged in this country politically. You've heard me talk about we're in the midst of a cold civil war, and we have to use every legal, ethical, moral, constitutional solution that we have at our fingertips. We have to do this.
Todd Huff: That's why I favored redistricting. I'm not going through all that again. But it's a viable option. It's not the use of violence. Violence has to be rejected in a civil society. Violence that's unjustified. Which what makes something justified in the world of using violence? Is if someone is using violence against you. I just had lunch with a friend yesterday. He was telling me about one of his kids had gotten in trouble at school for telling somebody on the bus he was going to bust his mouth.
Todd Huff: He's a little kid, and he got in trouble for this. And when he dug deeper, he realized his son was kind of getting picked on. He's a younger kid. And he was getting picked on by an older kid. His son was trying to, there's a bus monitor. He went and told the bus monitor, hey, can you keep this kid from hitting me? The bus monitor said something. That kid continued to do it. So the kid told the bus driver.
Todd Huff: The bus driver saw it, told the kid to quit doing it, the kid kept doing it. And finally, the little guy, to his credit, says, if you don't stop it, I'm going to bust you in the mouth. And of course, the kid gets in trouble by the bus driver, according to my friend here. But if the kid decided to hit him in response to being hit, that's different than being the person who's the aggressor, right? So there is violence as defense versus violence as an act of provocation.
Todd Huff: There's obviously a difference. I unequivocally reject, I should say, violence, threats of violence, bomb threats, assassination attempts, political murder of any kind. I hope everybody can agree with me on that. Unfortunately, I know that they can't because I've seen them on social media. By the way, if you want to know how to do this, I think we're doing that today. This is how you address this. This is absolutely how you address this, folks.
Todd Huff: We have a problem. A problem of evil in humanity. We have humans, human beings who are responsible for this depravity we have brought, we ourselves have brought evil into the world through the choices we've made. Now, you and I didn't make the choice that resulted in this heinous murder of Rob Reiner and his wife or the assassination of Charlie Kirk. We didn't choose that, but people made those choices, and if we're all being honest with ourselves, we all made choices that have harmed other people.
Todd Huff: That's called sin biblically. You missed the mark. You fail, you come up short. You do things in such a way that is against the nature and the will of God. We've all done this. We've all been, dare I say, absolute rebels against the creator of the universe. So the gospel, my friends, the gospel message, which is really what I want to get to today. The gospel. Listen, in fact, I did the Todd talk on not this particularly, but as we enter into this Christmas season, I always feel it to be a burden upon my heart to say, to share with people out there.
Todd Huff: That whether you agree with me zero percent or one hundred percent, the gospel message is for you. The gospel message is that, well, let's back up. God created man, humanity, human and woman in his image. He made us to be rulers, so to speak, over this planet. We are the top of the pyramid as far as who is in charge of planet Earth. Of course, he wanted us to do this in partnership with him, not in rebellion against him. But we chose the latter.
Todd Huff: We chose to do this with rebellion. And that's why this looks like it looks. So he gave us free will. We used that free will to choose things that were not in alignment with how he created this world to work, and now, as such, we are all accountable for those actions. But God didn't just stop there. He didn't say, you broke it, you made your bed, now lie in it sort of thing. God provided a way out, my friends, and he offered this way through his son, Jesus Christ.
Todd Huff: By the way, that's the only way to the father. This is upsetting to a lot of folks because a lot of folks will tell you that just as all rivers lead to the sea, all religions lead to God. That's not true. God told us through his son Jesus that Jesus is the way, the truth, the life. No one, no man, no person comes to the father but through his son Jesus. And so God has given us this grace.
Todd Huff: God has given us this grace. We have Bible studies here. Our family does. We talk about grace and mercy. Mercy is not getting something you do deserve. So if you've broken the law, and the law says you deserve X as the punishment, whatever the punishment must fit the crime, mercy is when a judge says, I'm not going to, other factors, you're a first time offender, whatever, and you've thrown yourself at the mercy of the court, and I've decided to respond with mercy. That's what mercy is.
Todd Huff: Grace is getting something, proactively getting something that we do not deserve. Grace is what this is, getting the forgiveness of God. We can ask for mercy, again, it's perspective, ask for mercy, God's mercy through his son Jesus. And then through the grace of Christ, we get what we don't deserve, which is the presence of God living in our hearts, eternally being united with the Father through the Son, Jesus being sealed with the Holy Spirit.
Todd Huff: This is powerful, powerful stuff. And this grace is available to everybody. Everybody, my friends, I'm going to say listen, everybody. You have to choose it and accept it. You have to repent, turn from your sin. We're saved by grace through faith, not by works. Bible also says, if you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Todd Huff: There's a difference between that initial bit of forgiveness that wipes our slate clean that's available, that check, by the way, is written for you. All you have to do is take it and deposit it. God paid the price. It's written. The money is in the account. You just have to receive it. And you will be forgiven. But sanctification, my friends, is an ongoing process.
Todd Huff: Sanctification is taking up your cross daily and following him. Sanctification is the process of being made into the image, being shaped and molded to look a little bit more like Jesus. The Bible gives us an example or an analogy of a silversmith who is refining silver. And you heat it up and you take the impurities out and you keep purifying it and purifying it.
Todd Huff: And it's amazing to me, the silversmith knows the silver is done when the silversmith can see his reflection in the silver. And it's a beautiful metaphor, right, because he's never done with this this side of heaven. But what he's trying to do is create, this is the process of sanctification, which is different from being forgiven.
Todd Huff: You can be forgiven and still have really bad ideas and things that you're arguing for, whether it be politically or doctrinally or whatever, the way that you treat people. But if you're being sanctified, those things are getting removed from your life. You're becoming more like Jesus. To where eventually, hopefully, when the silversmith, the great silversmith, God himself, when he looks at the refined silver, he can see his reflection.
Todd Huff: That's what God is after. And it doesn't matter, friends, this grace through that matters. But what doesn't matter is who you are and where you are now. You can be an atheist. You can be an agnostic. You can be a very animated, hate-filled agnostic or atheist. You can be a Democrat, a Republican, an independent, be a communist, you can be a fascist, you can be any number of things.
Todd Huff: I'm not condemning any or, excuse me, I'm not condoning any of those ideas in particular. I'm a conservative Christian, a constitutionalist. But where you are today, whatever category you fall into, the grace of God is made available to you through Jesus Christ, wherever you are, whoever you are. That's available to you.
Todd Huff: The gospel transcends politics. This stuff still matters tremendously. In fact, I think that if you are a believer who's being sanctified, made more into Christ's image, you will certainly change some of these beliefs and ideas that are not in alignment with scripture. More to say on that, my friends, here in a moment.
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Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends, coming to you from the Full, Sweet Wealth studios, talking here today about Trump's social media post on Truth Social regarding the tragic, horrific murder, alleged murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, allegedly murdered by their son. Talking about that today. Talking about the discourse that we have out there. Talking about the value of human life.
Todd Huff: Folks, we need to win the battle that's being waged in this country politically. You've heard me talk about we're in the midst of a cold civil war, and we have to use every legal, ethical, moral, constitutional solution that we have at our fingertips. We have to do this. That's why I favored redistricting. I'm not going through all that again. But it's a viable option. It's not the use of violence.
Todd Huff: Violence has to be rejected in a civil society. Violence that's unjustified. Which what makes something justified in the world of using violence? Is if someone is using violence against you. I just had lunch with a friend yesterday. He was telling me about one of his kids had gotten in trouble at school for telling somebody on the bus he was going to bust his mouth. He's a little kid, and he got in trouble for this.
Todd Huff: And when he dug deeper, he realized his son was kind of getting picked on. He's a younger kid. And he was getting picked on by an older kid. His son was trying to, there's a bus monitor. He went and told the bus monitor, hey, can you keep this kid from hitting me? The bus monitor said something, that kid continued to do it. So the kid told the bus driver.
Todd Huff: The bus driver saw it, told the kid to quit doing it, the kid kept doing it. And finally, the little guy, to his credit, says, if you don't stop it, I'm going to bust you in the mouth. And of course, the kid gets in trouble by the bus driver, according to my friend here. But if the kid decided to hit him in response to being hit, that's different than being the person who's the aggressor, right?
Todd Huff: So there is violence as defense versus violence as an act of provocation. There's obviously a difference. I unequivocally reject, I should say, violence, threats of violence, bomb threats, assassination attempts, political murder of any kind. I hope everybody can agree with me on that. Unfortunately, I know that they can't because I've seen them on social media.
Todd Huff: By the way, if you want to know how to do this, I think we're doing that today. This is how you address this. This is absolutely how you address this, folks. We have a problem. A problem of evil in humanity. We have humans, human beings who are responsible for this depravity we have brought, we ourselves have brought evil into the world through the choices we've made.
Todd Huff: Now, you and I didn't make the choice that resulted in this heinous murder of Rob Reiner and his wife or the assassination of Charlie Kirk. We didn't choose that, but people made those choices, and if we're all being honest with ourselves, we all made choices that have harmed other people. That's called sin biblically. You missed the mark. You fail, you come up short. You do things in such a way that is against the nature and the will of God.
Todd Huff: We've all done this. We've all been, dare I say, absolute rebels against the creator of the universe. So the gospel, my friends, the gospel message, which is really what I want to get to today. The gospel. Listen, in fact, I did the Todd talk on not this particularly, but as we enter into this Christmas season, I always feel it to be a burden upon my heart to say, to share with people out there that whether you agree with me zero percent or one hundred percent, the gospel message is for you.
Todd Huff: The gospel message is that, well, let's back up. God created man, humanity, human and woman in his image. He made us to be rulers, so to speak, over this planet. We are the top of the pyramid as far as who is in charge of planet Earth. Of course, he wanted us to do this in partnership with him, not in rebellion against him. But we chose the latter. We chose to do this with rebellion.
Todd Huff: And that's why this looks like it looks. So he gave us free will. We used that free will to choose things that were not in alignment with how he created this world to work, and now, as such, we are all accountable for those actions. But God didn't just stop there. He didn't say, you broke it, you made your bed, now lie in it sort of thing. God provided a way out, my friends, and he offered this way through his son, Jesus Christ.
Todd Huff: By the way, that's the only way to the father. This is upsetting to a lot of folks because a lot of folks will tell you that just as all rivers lead to the sea, all religions lead to God. That's not true. God told us through his son Jesus that Jesus is the way, the truth, the life. No one, no man, no person comes to the father but through his son Jesus. And so God has given us this grace.
Todd Huff: This grace is available to everybody. Everybody, my friends. You have to choose it and accept it. You have to repent, turn from your sin. We're saved by grace through faith, not by works. Bible also says, if you love me, you will keep my commandments. There's a difference between that initial bit of forgiveness that wipes our slate clean that's available.
Todd Huff: That check, by the way, is written for you. All you have to do is take it and deposit it. God paid the price. It's written. The money is in the account. You just have to receive it. And you will be forgiven. But sanctification, my friends, is an ongoing process. Sanctification is taking up your cross daily and following him.
Todd Huff: Sanctification is the process of being made into the image, being shaped and molded to look a little bit more like Jesus. The Bible gives us an example or an analogy of a silversmith who is refining silver. And you heat it up and you take the impurities out and you keep purifying it and purifying it. And it's amazing to me, the silversmith knows the silver is done when the silversmith can see his reflection in the silver.
Todd Huff: And it's a beautiful metaphor, right, because he's never done with this this side of heaven. But what he's trying to do is create, this is the process of sanctification, which is different from being forgiven. You can be forgiven and still have really bad ideas and things that you're arguing for, whether it be politically or doctrinally or whatever, the way that you treat people.
Todd Huff: But if you're being sanctified, those things are getting removed from your life. You're becoming more like Jesus. To where eventually, hopefully, when the silversmith, the great silversmith, God himself, when he looks at the refined silver, he can see his reflection. That's what God is after.
Todd Huff: And it doesn't matter, friends, this grace through that matters. But what doesn't matter is who you are and where you are now. You can be an atheist. You can be an agnostic. You can be a very animated, hate-filled agnostic or atheist. You can be a Democrat, a Republican, an independent, be a communist, you can be a fascist, you can be any number of things. I'm not condemning any or, excuse me, I'm not condoning any of those ideas in particular.
Todd Huff: I'm a conservative Christian, a constitutionalist. But where you are today, whatever category you fall into, the grace of God is made available to you through Jesus Christ, wherever you are, whoever you are. That's available to you. The gospel transcends politics. This stuff still matters tremendously. In fact, I think that if you are a believer who's being sanctified, made more into Christ's image, you will certainly change some of these beliefs and ideas that are not in alignment with scripture.
Todd Huff: More to say on that, my friends, here in a moment. Before I do that, though, you ever notice how some families seem to have a plan? That lasts for generations. That is not by accident, my friends. Full, Sweet Wealth works with people who want their wealth to make a difference for years to come. Their team brings together high-level investment strategies like private equity, private credit options, strategies, all that combined with expert legal guidance.
Todd Huff: It's about making sure your vision becomes a reality for the people you love today and tomorrow. If you're looking to do more than just manage your money, if you want to leave your mark, if you want to build something lasting, take a look at Full, Sweet Wealth. That's fullsuitewealth.com. Fullsuitewealth.com. Build your legacy, my friends. Secure your future. Quick time out for me.
Todd Huff: You're listening here to conservative, not bitter talk. I'm your host, Todd Huff, back here in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. This is one of those episodes that I wish I had more time for. I don't. This is the last segment. I'm going to get to as much of what I wanted to say as possible. I'm just not going to get to all of it.
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Todd Huff: And that includes things like resisting sinful reactions, showing empathy, choosing restraint, even loving those, my friends, with whom we disagree. And listen, our political worldview, for those of us who have a belief in the scripture, should be shaped by the scripture. We should strive to follow, of course, God's spirit, the Holy Spirit.
Todd Huff: We should read the word. We should seek his guidance. We should pray. Acknowledge that we sometimes mess up. We're sinners saved only by the grace of God. And so when I look at this reaction, what I want to make sure that we hit is that we should be decent to one another.
Todd Huff: We can have tremendous fights, and these fights are important to have. But at these times of tragedy, we should be decent and graceful to one another. We should reject mockery. We should reject violence or endorsing the violence that has happened time and time again in the wake, of course, of the attempted assassination on President Trump or in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Todd Huff: I still got a quote, a post the other day when I posted the video of me speaking at the statehouse during the Turning Point Action event. Somebody posted something like, where's your boy Charlie? What is wrong with people? They do that to personally, I guess, attack me or whatever in that instance, but it actually shows the depravity of their heart and their mind.
Todd Huff: It's reprehensible. That stuff has got to stop, my friends. This world is broken. This world is broken, and we need more Jesus in this world, dare I say, and I know for some people this is a lot today because they're like, I didn't sign up to go to a church service.
Todd Huff: But listen, I think we're to the point. I think we're to the point where these things have to be. Well, as Christians, we always should have been about this business, but we've got to proclaim these ideas. We've got to proclaim the truth from the mountaintops. What America needs more than anything is a spiritual revival, a spiritual awakening.
Todd Huff: Starting with, may I say it respectfully, I say it to myself, starting with the person that you see when you look in the mirror. And see. What's the old saying? I don't know if it was Gandhi who said this, but I've seen this before. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Todd Huff: First of all, you can't change yourself. Ultimately, it takes the grace and the help and the guidance of the Holy Spirit to be truly sanctified and changed to where you reflect the image of God. And that starts by looking in the mirror. It starts by impacting first after ourselves, those who are closest to us, spouses, children, immediate family.
Todd Huff: You can think to your church, your community, your state. That's how these things grow. That's how these things will ultimately change. I'm not going to go to this microphone and just say some words and then it changed things dramatically. It's going to take action on our parts that are complementary with one another and they're replicated all around.
Todd Huff: All around in your home first of all, in your heart, just like it would be in my heart, in your home, in our churches, in our communities. That's how these things change. We shouldn't be having reactions and responses like this. This needs to stop. This is unacceptable.
Todd Huff: Nothing Rob Reiner and his wife did warranted this. We all have sinned, and the wages of sin is death, but that is true for all of us in a general sense. But to do something specifically that warrants a capital offense, the loss of my life, there are things that I can do, that someone can do, that warrant that response by the state or even again in this case of self-defense.
Todd Huff: That warrant that outcome. That is not the case here, at least. There's no evidence to suggest that. This is tragic. This is sad. Friends, we need Jesus. And listen, you can reject what Trump said and still think he's done a lot of good things.
Todd Huff: The left wants to tie those things together. The left wants to say, yeah, but you got to reject him completely. I don't condone what he said. I condemn it fully. We don't need to go that direction. But I also understand that there's lots of things that he has done politically that are good for the nation, that are good for religious liberty, that are good for prosperity.
Todd Huff: I'm just out of time, and I got to go. SDG.
