How can conspiracy theories become a form of idolatry?

I've written a column for the latest issues etc journal titled

Yes Elvis is dead but God is in his heaven

a pastoral response to conspiracy theories. We'll send it to you for free.

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in the Wittenberg Trail feature Julie Stegamire writes about her path from Methodism to Lutheranism.

The free online issues et cetera journal issues ETC.org you. If we human beings are as many people believe just the end result or the latest state of

complete randomness, just particles coming together eventually life forms and life follows this path that is

essentially random as well if that's all we are what becomes of bioethics that is

what becomes of how we treat human beings in medicine at the

beginning of life at the end of life it doesn't make for very good bioethics. There's no reason whatsoever to have any ethics if all we are is just random particles. It happened to be the way we are.

This is why we need a biblical anthropology, a biblical view of man to really do bioethics.

Welcome back to issues etc. I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to talk about a biblical anthropology and bioethics, Dr Scott

Stegamie. He's Associate Professor of Theology and Bioethics at Concordia University Irvine

California, author of an essay for Dignitos, titled Theological Anthropology for

Bioethics.

Scott, welcome back.

Hey, thanks for having me.

It's good to be here.

How do you respond to someone who says, look,

we're Lutherans and Lutherans are people of the gospel.

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