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I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Can the State Compel You to Violate Your Conscience? Plus Q&A

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.85K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary



Does the government have the right to force Christians (or anyone else) to say or do things that violate their conscience and/or religious views? The Supreme Court recently ruled in the favor of a Christian graphic artist who the Court declared cannot be compelled to create designs with which she disagrees, including same-sex weddings. Was this decision an act of discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community, or a true act of justice?

In this midweek podcast episode, Frank reacts to an insightful article written by Dr. Michael Brown entitled 'Questions for Those Who Differ With the SCOTUS Decision in Favor of a Christian Graphic Artist' that addresses the Supreme Court's ruling in this controversial case. Later in the episode, Frank responds to several listener questions about the deity of Christ, how to pray for loved ones who are embracing sexual immorality, and why God seemingly allowed people to lie in the Old Testament (1 Samuel 16) .

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Resources mentioned in the episode:

Dr. Brown's article on The Stream: https://bit.ly/3rvtHze

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Does truth exist?

0:03.4

Because you have faith, does that make this book cool?

0:05.7

Does God exist?

0:07.4

So when someone says there is no truth,

0:09.8

if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?

0:12.6

Is that true?

0:15.2

They don't think Christianity is true.

0:17.6

They're talked out of it.

0:20.0

You know why they're talked out of it?

0:22.0

Because they've never been talked into it.

0:24.2

Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views.

0:28.2

Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Torek.

0:33.1

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a number of questions

0:35.8

that you have emailed in that we're going to cover today.

0:38.7

Questions like, does God direct people to lie?

0:42.8

If you read 1st Samuel 16, you might go,

0:45.0

oh yeah, sure it does.

0:46.2

How can that be right?

0:48.0

Another question, how can I pray for my daughter

0:50.2

who now claims to be bisexual?

0:51.7

And I live 500 miles from her.

0:54.0

What can I do?

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