Cultural Update: After-school Satan clubs; Cops using DNA to predict a suspect's face; Listener questions

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This week, Scott & Sean discuss:After-school Satan clubs in South Orange County — has religious liberty gone too far?Ethical implications of law enforcement using DNA to predict suspects' facial features.A proposed bill in the Australia for voluntary assistance in dying (VAD) extending to children and people with dementia.Listener Question: Did homosexuality exist in biblical times?Listener Question: Attending worship services of other faithsRead a transcript of this episode at: https://w...

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0:00.0	After school Satan Clubs, euthanasia for kids and people with dementia, cops using DNA to predict a suspect's face.
0:11.0	These are some of the stories we will discuss today on the Think Vivically
0:14.4	weekly cultural update. We also address some of the questions you have sent in.
0:18.7	This Friday update is in addition to not a substitute for our regular ThinkBibbically
0:24.0	podcast episodes which we release early in the week. I'm your host Sean
0:28.1	McDowell. I'm your co-host Scott Ray. This is Thinkbibically brought to you by Tappsco Theology, Biola University.
0:35.2	Now this first story, Scott, is going to sound alarmist and over the top and like we're bringing the
0:40.4	1980s hysteria back.
0:43.0	But I understand why I understand why you are so hysterical about it because it's pretty close to home for you.
0:50.0	It is. It actually involves some parents that I know at the school. This is in my community so it's a very personal issue for me and these are starting to crop up in other parts of the country.
1:00.0	So I think it's worth thinking about biblically.
1:03.0	So here's the story from one of the local papers where I live here in South Orange County.
1:08.0	There's these after-school Satan clubs that will meet that are sponsored by the satanic temple. This is not
1:16.0	the Church of Satan Anton LaVay, it's the satanic temple which interestingly
1:22.4	enough is rooted in Salem, Massachusetts, of course.
1:27.0	Coming up on February 12th, ironic, of course, intentional.
1:33.0	Coming up on February 12th at Truman Benedict Elementary School,
1:38.0	there's going to be its first club meeting.
1:41.0	They've been passing out flyers after school and the club's flyer
1:45.9	advertises science and community service projects, puzzles and games, nature
1:50.9	activities, arts and crafts, snacks and tons of fun.
1:54.8	Now their brochure distinctly says, it does not attempt to convert children to any religious
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