Are Scandinavian countries a secular paradise? Christian Lomsdalen and Stefan Gustavsson

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

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It’s often been argued that the prosperity and welfare of Scandinavian countries such as Denmark, Norway and Sweden are proof that secular societies do better than religious ones. Christian Lomsdalen of the Norwegian Humanist Association & Stefan Gustavsson of Apologia – Centre for Christian Apologetics in Sweden join Justin to debate the issues.Christian Lomsdalen: https://lektorlomsdalen.no Stefan Gustavsson: https://apologia.se/ USA listeners check out our new USA website for exclusive resources and to support us: http://www.unbelievable.show Everywhere else, subscribe to our newsletter https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter and support the show https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Unbelievably, it's me Justin Briley with you for the show that
0:04.1	brings you conversations that matter between Christians and non-Christians and a very
0:08.2	interesting discussion we've got for you on whether the Nordic countries, the Scandinavian
0:12.5	countries, are a secular paradise on today's show. But what a beginning it's been to 2021,
0:18.7	a first of all here in the UK, Boris Johnson announces another lockdown.
0:23.2	Coronavirus running rife sadly due to a new strain of the virus that's more transmissible
0:28.0	than before. And then to top it off chaos in the capital in the US as the Trump rioters
0:36.7	went into Congress and that was all over our TV screens wasn't it? So I've seen a few memes
0:44.1	going around, something along the lines of I've tried my seven day free trial of 2021 and I want
0:49.4	to send it back. But anyway I think we're stuck with it. Let's hope the rest of 2021 starts to look
0:55.4	a bit brighter. We will be trying to cover some of what's been going on in the US on next week's show.
1:01.4	We're trying to actually bring that together for this weekend but couldn't quite make it happen.
1:04.7	So I'll update you on that a little later on in the show. Thanks by the way for everyone who
1:10.0	suggested topics and shows for this coming year. I put that out on our social media asking for
1:15.2	your suggestions. Many, many suggestions. I'll bring some of them again a little later on in the show.
1:21.2	We've also been blogging hard over the Christmas and New Year break. I put out a blog on the
1:26.8	Top 10 shows of 2020. I'll tell you what they were later on. And on Jordan Peterson's return as well.
1:33.6	And of course the capital hill riots just this last week. So if you want to check those out,
1:37.7	check out our blog at Pathios and exciting news on the TikTok front as well.
1:44.8	Finally got round to creating my own TikTok channel actually, Justin.browley.
1:49.6	And I've just been uploading three videos so far at the behest of my 16 year old son.
1:56.4	Just 60 seconds sort of apologetic explanations of arguments for God and that kind of thing.
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