God wants me to arise and speak out against ‘woke mob’, says Dr Phil

TV personality Phil McGraw – popularly often known as Dr Phil – says he feels compelled to talk up about a number of the “strange” ideas being pedalled in modern America. 

Dr Phil joined the stage at Pastor Ed Young’s Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, to advertise his latest book, We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity. 

In a sit-down interview with Young, Dr Phil said that family in America was “under attack” and that Christians have to fight back using the tools at their disposal, including their “energetic relationship with God”. 

He said that the Church was the perfect hope for young people to grow up protected against harmful influences. 

“If you’re married and also you do have two parents in [the] family and you’re going to church, that is your best shot of those children going into a way of life that shall be drug-free, alcohol-free, abuse-free, divorce-free, that is your best shot,” he said. 

Dr Phil expressed concern about “cancel culture” and attempts by the “woke mob” to rewrite the reality about history, science and biology. He said he would proceed to talk out even when he gets cancelled. 

“We’ve got some strange geese on the market peddling every kind of alternatives to God and religion,” he said.

“As a result, I’ve seen things in our country that made me think, ‘Wow, I do know some things I would like to discuss.’ And individuals are less willing to talk out now than they’ve been within the last 75 years due to cancel culture.

“If you’re taking a position, boy they are going to come after you, the hounds are going to be on you, and get you cancelled.”

He continued, “I do not care. I suppose I’ve been around so long that any person has to arise and speak out. I just imagine that is what God wants me to do.”

He told Young that having a “form of live and let live” mentality wouldn’t cut it anymore as people “start hijacking your narrative, until they begin hijacking science or biology, history and customary sense”.

“At some point, you bought to say, ‘Enough’s enough and an excessive amount of is just too much,’ and this is just too much. So I’m pushing back, and that is what this book is all about,” he said.