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Welcome to politics by faith. Thanks for being a little part two of yesterday's episode about how COVID revealed that people are terrified

of dying.

It's five-year anniversary.

It missed yesterday.

It's five-year anniversary of COVID, the COVID lockdowns.

So we talked about 13 lessons from COVID.

And the 13th, the most important one, I think, is that people are terrified of dying in our culture.

And the church has done a poor job in our atheist culture of talking about the afterlife

and of instilling in people this perspective that Paul had. Paul said, for to me to live as Christ and to die

is gain. If I'm going to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me.

Yet what shall I choose? I do not know. I'm torn between the two. I desire to depart.

The word desire there's like this deep yearning. I desire to depart.

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