BreakPoint This Week: The Myth in Eradicating Down Syndrome, Britney Spears, and Popularizing Relational Minimalism
Breakpoint
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🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
John and Maria discuss a popular movement that's gaining momentum in how young people build community. Relational minimalism cuts out people who are viewed as toxic, and it's problematic for our sense of unity.
Maria shares her thoughts on the media and culture frenzy surrounding Britney Spears. She shares some insight from Neil Postman regarding how we worship pop-culture and lose our bearings in the process.
John then introduces a false report that the world is being cured of Down Syndrome. New reports mask the fact that the world's way of resolving it is through abortion, which is misleading about what is actually happening.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:06.1 | Today we're going to talk about a new trend in relationship minimalism. |
| 0:10.6 | This is the idea of cutting people out of your life. |
| 0:13.8 | We're also going to talk about the eradication of people with Down syndrome in countries like Iceland and elsewhere. |
| 0:20.5 | We have a lot to talk about today, but we're so glad you're with us. |
| 0:23.2 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. |
| 0:27.1 | I'm Maria Bear alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:32.6 | John, we have a lot to get to today, but beforehand, I have to have a little bit of a Matthew 18 moment with you. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm afraid. |
| 0:39.0 | You, all the, oh, I was almost going to say C-R-A-P, but I don't know if I'm allowed to say that. |
| 0:45.3 | All the, uh, lack you were giving me for the way I say, now I'm not even going to say it, |
| 0:50.7 | the one football team from Cincinnati, B-E-N-G-A-L-S. So you, you were teasing me last |
| 0:55.5 | week about how I say that. And my life has been turned upside down since that moment. |
| 1:01.2 | Mine has too, actually. You know how many people have reached out to me and been like, yeah, |
| 1:05.6 | why do you say it like that? Exactly. I got it. I got immediate tax going. No, you're right. |
| 1:11.0 | She says it like, you know, one of them said walk like a football player. |
| 1:17.1 | Because that was the band. |
| 1:18.6 | Bangles, yes. |
| 1:20.6 | It's not the Bengals. |
| 1:22.4 | It's Bengals. |
| 1:22.8 | And what's funny, you know, what's funny is I did a commentary this week on, uh, the impact of |
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