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Unashamed with the Robertson Family

Ep 1284 | Flashback: Phil Robertson's Questions About Mental Illness, Sin, and the Human Dilemma

Unashamed with the Robertson Family

Tread Lively

Religion, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.924.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Phil kicks things off with a question: When was the last time you heard the word sin in our courts, schools, governments, or Hollywood? This leads Phil, Jase, and Zach into a candid discussion of counseling, psychiatry, and the relationship between spirituality, sin, behavioral problems, brokenness, emptiness, mental illness, and the human dilemma. This episode originally aired on October 30, 2020. In this episode: Romans 2, verse 15; John 15, verse 18; John 15, verse 26; John 16, verses 7-11; Hebrews 10, verse 14; Colossians 1, verses 28-29; Hebrews 5, verse 14; 1 John 3, verse 10 http://unashamedforhillsdale.com/ — Sign up now for free, and join the Unashamed hosts every Friday for Unashamed Academy Powered by Hillsdale College Listen to Not Yet Now with Zach Dasher on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or anywhere you get podcasts. Check out At Home with Phil Robertson, nearly 800 episodes of Phil's unfiltered wisdom, humor, and biblical truth, available for free for the first time! Get it on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, and anywhere you listen to podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/at-home-with-phil-robertson/id1835224621 Chapters: 00:00 Zach Introduces a Flashback With Phil & Jase 02:05 Why Modern Culture Won’t Use the Word “Sin” 06:10 Behavioral Problems or Mental Illness? 11:40 Why People Feel Guilty 16:45 When Psychiatry & Culture Redefine Sin 22:05 The Human Problem: Biological or Spiritual? 28:10 Jesus, Repentance, & the Path to Real Change 34:30 The Holy Spirit’s Role in Convicting the World 40:10 Phil on Why Many People Turn to God Around Age 30 46:10 Living by the Spirit vs Living by Self — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, guys, we've got something special for you today. This is Zach, and I want to give you something new here.

0:05.6

It's a little flashback to 2020 when Phil, Jason, myself, were talking about a very important topic called mental illness and that relationship between spirituality and sin, behavioral problems, brokenness, emptiness, and just a human dilemma. We didn't, agree, but these conversations, they really did make us all better. You know, Phil was so sharp, and I think you guys are going to love this. And then next Friday, March 13th, we're starting a Hillstale online course on ancient Christianity. It's the life of Jesus, his apostles, and all the trials and triumph of the first Christians. I hope you guys will join us. And if you want to take the course along with us, just go to Unashamed forhillsdale.com and enroll in the ancient Christianity course. The link will be in the show notes. You can take the class at any time, and they're all free. And coming up in the next few weeks, we're going to tell you about something really cool that you'll be eligible to win if you complete the course. Okay. So make sure that

0:59.3

you complete the course. All you got to do is sign up at unashamed for Hillsdale.com to get started,

1:04.6

and it's no cost to you. I am unashamed. What about you?

1:16.2

So I'm asking myself this question, and I'll ask you younger bucks.

1:22.9

I'll ask y'all, and be sincere in your answer,

1:29.1

when is the last time, or have you ever heard?

1:53.0

Let's just get it down to the court system, the school system, the Hollywood governmental agencies, you say, when's the last time you heard the word sin?

1:55.5

Little word, S-I-N.

1:58.1

I don't think they use that word anymore.

1:59.1

Yeah.

2:00.8

That's an arcade word. They don't use that word anymore.

2:02.6

Okay.

2:02.9

Well, that leads to my next question.

2:05.2

Well, if they're not using that word anymore to characterize certain behaviors.

2:10.3

Yeah.

2:10.9

You know, people are shooting, looting, burning, robbing.

2:16.1

I mean, hatred is up in your face, spitting in your face,

2:21.0

spray painting your car, tariff ripping you out of a vehicle because you're going along with a

2:25.8

flag sticking out the window. You're describing peaceful protest. I'm describing, oh, perfectly

2:30.7

normal and healthy. Yeah, peace. What do they use the word? What is the word, the modern day word?

2:35.4

So what do they call, what you look at sin, we have lists of, lists of sins.

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