811: #711 - God and Guns in America: Dr. Michael Austin

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🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Mike Austin is the author of the book "God and Guns in America" Mike navigates this super touchy subject with grace and wisdom, not coming down hard on either extreme: "Take away all the guns!" or "More guns = less crime!" Mike is a philosopher, so he carefully considers all sides and arguments of the gun debate.

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0:00.0	Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw I have on the show today
0:03.8	Dr Michael Austin Mike is a professor of philosophy at eastern Kentucky University and he is the author of
0:11.2	God and guns in America.
0:14.0	Now he has a very well thought out.
0:18.0	I would say, for lack of better terms,
0:21.0	balanced perspective on the volatile debate about guns in America.
0:27.6	He is a Christian, he is a very thoughtful guy, he's an author of 12 books including his most
0:34.8	reason book God and Guns in America and I had a wonderful time talking to Mike. I love
0:39.0	how careful and gracious of a thinker he is so you can check out more about Michael
0:45.6	Austin's work at Michael W Austin.com and if you would like to support this show
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1:17.6	is in the show note. So without further do, let's get to know the one and only Dr.
1:20.9	Michael Oster. All right, hey friends, I'm here with Mike Austin, author of God and guns in America.
1:44.0	Mike, thank you for being on the show.
1:46.0	And my first question is,
1:48.0	do we have a gun problem in America
1:50.0	and how do we go about fixing it? We'll start off with a nice and easy question.
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