Being Christian in an Age of Heightened Hostility
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
For the sake of our neighbors, all who believe in the importance of truth must continue to say so. We cannot beat ideological opponents into conformity, and it is sinful to try.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging |
| 0:05.3 | truth. |
| 0:06.3 | But the Colson Center, I'm John Stum Street. |
| 0:09.8 | Last week, in response to a Breakpoint commentary about the murders in Nashville, the Colson |
| 0:14.1 | Center was identified by a critic as being, quote, proudly, if quietly, dominionist. |
| 0:19.5 | Now, to be clear, we aren't. |
| 0:21.4 | But he was particularly troubled by how the commentary described Christians as victims, |
| 0:26.4 | which, of course, in this case, they were. |
| 0:29.4 | In that commentary, we wondered aloud whether or not, in fact, we have entered a new cultural |
| 0:33.9 | moment characterized by an increased hostility toward Christians and to others. |
| 0:38.2 | Who are, shall we say, culturally non-conforming? |
| 0:41.6 | The strange and shameful reversal of who's the victim and who's guilty, and that Nashville |
| 0:46.2 | incident, has only continued since. |
| 0:48.8 | And there are additional incidents now to consider as well. |
| 0:51.8 | On March 29, while speaking on abortion at Virginia Commonwealth University, Kristen |
| 0:56.4 | Hawkins, the founder and president of Students for Life, along with a group of others, were |
| 1:00.4 | confronted, threatened, even assaulted by an obscenity-crime crowd, who failed to notice |
| 1:05.2 | the irony of suppressing free speech by screaming fascist, fascist, fascist. |
| 1:10.1 | And rather than remove those who were disrupting the presentation, the campus police instead |
| 1:14.4 | removed the pro-life first. |
| 1:16.3 | Then two days later, on March 31, authorities in Colorado arrested 19-year-old William |
| 1:21.4 | Whitworth for two counts of attempted murder in addition to many other charges. |
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