Shayne Smith
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I'll come to your school and do that.
Did you guys have those in Australia?
No, we don't.
We had them in America.
They were traveling around in the 90s, like bench pressing for the Lord and making kids be like, dude, well, I guess I could get super strong for God too.
I don't know what they were doing necessarily.
I do, as a grown man, I'm like, yeah, when I see a guy lift a lot of weight, it makes me believe in God.
Because weightlifting rocks.
And yeah, but.
This is what's interesting about Protestantism, right?
So with Catholicism, we have the 2000 years of tradition and we have a hierarchy.
And so no bishop is going to consent to me traveling around doing crazy things like this in schools.
ripping phone books in half.
Protestants have no like oversight.
So they just try everything.
And sometimes it seems to work well.
Sometimes it seems to work.
But if you, yeah, I can't imagine a bishop telling a priest like, so what you do is you rip the phone book in half and you tell kids it would be impossible without the strength of Jesus.
And then he's like, well, what if the kids figure out how to rip phone books in half themselves?
And he goes, that's a risk we're going to have to take.