BPQ&A - What does physician-assisted suicide do to trust in medicine and how should Christians respectfully disagree?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane field a question from someone in the medical community who asks what physician-assisted suicide does to our view of medical practitioners. The listener also asks for a worldview breakdown on how physician-assisted suicide came to be.
Next, Shane asks John what makes a church "woke", after a listener asks John and Shane to explain what woke is and what it does to a church body.
A listener also writes in asking for clarity on what the mindful movement is and what worldview category it fits inside before John answers a listener's question on the four chapter Gospel that John has talked about in other shows.
To close, John responds to a listener who asks for clarity on how Christians should respectfully disagree, noting a video from Matthew Vines and a response from Sean McDowell. The listener asks what Christians are to do when there is conflict inside Christian thought
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the Breakpoint podcast. In our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Shane Morris, host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers here at Breakpoint. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm joined by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and, of course, the host of Breakpoint. |
| 0:14.5 | And today, we're answering your questions. These were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, and the Colson Fellows Program. |
| 0:22.0 | If you've got a question that you'd like us to answer here on the program, all you've got to do is email us at ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. |
| 0:31.0 | John, the first question today has to do with the commentary that we ran recently in response to a very kind of impassioned plea in the Washington Post by a columnist by the name of George Will on assisted suicide. |
| 0:43.3 | Specifically the kind of physician assisted suicide that targets those, and I used the word targets advisedly, those who are very much in a terminal state and who would like to avoid what |
| 0:56.0 | will calls a hideous death. And we talked about that. This listener has some questions that kind |
| 1:01.0 | of build out of that commentary. And I think we began to answer, but I'd love to hear your further |
| 1:06.4 | thoughts on it. And we can kind of discuss what this listener is concerned about. This person writes in, why does society ask physicians to do the opposite of our training? |
| 1:16.2 | In my years of training to be a physician, I never had a course on how to kill a patient. |
| 1:22.6 | Neither would I suspect a pilot to be taught how to crash a plane. |
| 1:26.6 | As you've said before, the number one cause of |
| 1:29.2 | death for almost all ages right now is suicide and drug overdose. Clearly, people do not need |
| 1:35.1 | an advanced degree in order to kill themselves. What were the worldview breakdowns that led to |
| 1:40.3 | this point? Secondly, what does physician-assisted suicide do to the trust and authority |
| 1:45.4 | of physicians in society? I'll start with the second question first. This is a great one. |
| 1:51.3 | What does physician-assisted suicide do to the trust and authority of physicians in a society? |
| 1:55.8 | I mean, it erodes that. It erodes that trust. In fact, it erodes not just that trust, but there's so many players here involved. |
| 2:03.4 | There's insurance companies. There's pharmaceutical companies, all of which are put together in order to advance healing. |
| 2:12.8 | It's not just the physician, him or herself. It's the whole industry. And so now all of a sudden, and by the way, |
| 2:19.9 | it adds to federal regulatory agencies and therefore the federal government, you know, it becomes a, |
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