Episode 165

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

True Crime, Entrepreneurship, Business, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4 • 61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Freedom of speech and religion are two foundational parts of what this nation has to offer. They’re important to us and when we feel they’re being infringed upon, Americans speak up. What happens when freedom of religion directly causes harm to someone though? Are there limits to this freedom? Seth Welch found that there are hard limits. Not every state cracks down on how freedom of religion can put children in direct danger, but Michigan does.

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0:00.0	Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences
0:06.1	Listener discretion is advised
0:14.7	Her cheeks slipped
0:16.7	Sunkin like they weren't when we put her to bed. I knew she was dead.
0:32.0	Welcome to season 7 episode 165 of Sword and Scale. A show that reveals the worst monsters.
0:54.6	So this pandemic scare we had a couple months ago got some of us around the world thinking
1:01.9	What would happen if we had to sustain ourselves and our family for a while?
1:07.8	What if society broke down and there was no food available?
1:11.7	What then? How the hell would we provide for our families?
1:15.0	Well it seems like certain people have given this a lot more thought than others.
1:19.3	Pandemic or no pandemic. In fact there's a whole reality show about it called Doomsday Prepars.
1:25.5	But we'll get into all of that in just a sec. Stay tuned.
1:47.6	2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse 18
1:50.4	As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen or the things that are seen or temporary but to things that are unseen are eternal.
2:03.3	Sounds deep right?
2:05.3	A man named Seth Welch posted this to his Facebook page titled Seth Welch, A Mind Regenerated by Christ.
2:14.4	Now, verses from the Bible are taken out of context all the time. They're often used to fit a narrative.
2:22.4	They are in a lot of ways intentionally vague and allow for anyone to interpret or reinterpret.
2:30.4	Not just the Bible but words in all religious books can be twisted and turned to support a myriad of different arguments.
2:38.4	Some better than others.
2:40.4	This particular verse however is ironic. It's ironic for Seth to have picked it out of thousands of other verses to display proudly on his Facebook timeline for others to see.
2:52.4	You see Seth and his wife Tatiana Fusari, both nearing 30 years old, were living out of rural Kent County, Michigan back in 2018.
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