Cultural Update: Western Civilization's Need for Christianity; Abortion as a Social Good; Designer Babies
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae
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🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If Western civilization is going to survive, here's why it needs Christianity. |
| 0:07.0 | A new study reveals that Christians form the largest group of global migrants. |
| 0:12.0 | The new glee and exultant nature of abortion advocacy, |
| 0:16.4 | and designer babies are here, but why is no one talking about it? These are the |
| 0:21.4 | stories we'll discuss today and we also take some of your |
| 0:24.8 | questions. I'm your host Sean McDowell. I'm your co-host Scott Ray. This is the |
| 0:30.0 | Think Bivocally Weekly Cultural Update brought to you by Talbot School of Theology, |
| 0:34.8 | Biola University. Scott, this is an interesting article we're going to start with. |
| 0:39.5 | It's a conversation we've had and it's been popping up in the news recently, but this brings the story home |
| 0:46.2 | about the so-called crumbling of Western civilization through the lens of what's taking place in the UK right now. |
| 0:54.0 | And this article is by Laura Hall, |
| 0:56.0 | she says there's no Western civilization without Christianity. |
| 1:00.0 | And she's referring to unrest that's taken place recently in the UK in light of the stabbing to death of three little girls at a Taylor Swift dance party in England, July 29th, and the suspect is a British citizen, but he emigrated |
| 1:18.8 | to the UK from Rwanda. |
| 1:21.5 | And there's been massive amount of immigration concern that's been |
| 1:27.7 | allowed and that's kind of the roots of the discussion right now are these |
| 1:31.6 | concerns being paid attention to now newly elected British |
| 1:35.1 | Prime Minister Kieer Starmer called the protest far-right Thuggery and |
| 1:40.2 | virtually every single media outlet according to this article |
| 1:47.2 | has smeared all protesters as far-right bigots and racist and according to Hollis this ignores the legitimate |
| 1:55.2 | concerns of native British population. Now what she pointed out I wasn't aware |
| 2:00.7 | of this that 40% of London's population was not even born in Great Britain. |
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