Bowing Down to Culture | The Writings | Daniel 3

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

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Do you feel pressured to have a certain belief system or act a certain way because of the culture around you? Should Christians resist or assimilate? In today's episode, Patrick looks for the answer in Daniel 3. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Daniel 3

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life,
0:09.0	in the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	I'm Patrick Miller.
0:14.0	Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. You will service us.
0:19.0	That's a quote from The Borg, which is a cyborg nation
0:22.5	bent on assimilating all life in the galaxy
0:24.6	into its hive mind in the classic TV show Star Trek,
0:28.0	specifically Star Trek The Next Generation,
0:30.2	whose Captain Jean Luke Picard
0:32.2	is basically every nerd's favorite dude from the late 1980s.
0:37.0	Now under that threat of violence that the Borg wanted to assimilate the entire ship into its hive mind, the enterprises crew has to make a choice.
0:46.4	They must either choose between assimilation or destruction.
0:50.7	Rewatching it today, the whole bit is a little bit cheesy and it's a clear nod to late Cold War fears about Soviet
0:56.4	gulags this fear that anyone who dissents with the reigning regime will pay terribly.
1:05.2	But that seems like something of the past. We all have free speech, we can say whatever we want. But is that really true? You see this kind of thing is
1:10.5	still happening today. People are still being assimilated. of children into Russian culture under force.
1:23.4	This is what she told the Moscow Times.
1:25.9	She said, when we brought them, these are Ukrainian children,
1:28.8	to the Moscow region so that they could get their strength back,
1:32.0	at first they were negative about the president and said nasty things.
1:35.2	They sang the Ukrainian anthem and that sort of thing. But later that negative attitude turned into love for Russia.
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