Episode 505: Stupid Social Media & Learning to Love While Offended with Albert Tate

The Holy Post

Phil Vischer

Skyejethani, Society & Culture, Philvischer, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, 226012, Christiantaylor, Atheism, Veggietales

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🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In a lengthy article in The Atlantic, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explains how social media has made our entire society more stupid in the last decade, and compares the disunity it’s causing to the Tower of Babel. Phil, Skye, and Christian discuss the article and what can be done to reverse the trends. Then, pastor Albert Tate talks about his new book, “How We Love Matters: A Call to Practice Relentless Racial Reconciliation.” By sharing personal stories, Tate says we must learn to live with being offended, commit to community, and love anyway. Plus, teenage gorillas are getting too much screen time.

News Segment
0:00 - Intro and updates
3:03 - Fasting from whiteness
https://religionnews.com/2022/04/08/chicago-area-pastor-says-his-church-is-fasting-from-whiteness-and-getting-pushback-during-lent/

6:16 - Gorillas, teens, and screen time
13:35 - Stupid social media
“Why the Past 10 Years of American Live Have Been Uniquely Stupid” by Jonathan Haidt - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/

Holy Post episode 495 with Robert Tracy McKenzie- https://www.holypost.com/post/episode-495-the-false-gospel-of-democracy-with-robert-tracy-mckenzie

Unbelievable? The Conference - https://www.unbelievable.live

Interview with Albert Tate
Albert Tate - https://alberttate.com
“How We Love Matters: A Call to Practice Relentless Racial Reconciliation” - https://amzn.to/36s6e86

47:51 - Interview intro
49:42 - Committing to community
53:48 - Loving while offended
1:00:07 - When to stay and when to leave
1:04:29 - Generational trauma/injustice and generational privilege
1:18:09 - Hope for the American church
1:24:48 - Credits

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 505.
0:02.6	On this week's show, we look at an article in The Atlantic by social psychologist Jonathan
0:07.5	Height, which explains how social media has made our entire society more stupid over
0:12.6	the last decade.
0:13.9	He also compares the disunity it's causing to the tower of Babel from the Bible.
0:18.6	We talk about what can be done to reverse this trend.
0:21.6	Then I talk to Pastor Albert Tate about his new book, How We Love Matters, a call to practice
0:27.1	relentless racial reconciliation.
0:29.8	Through sharing personal stories, he discusses how we must learn to live with being offended
0:34.2	and still commit to community and always love even those who are against us.
0:39.4	All of that plus new animal news.
0:41.8	Before we jump into the episode a quick note, we had a little bit of technical difficulty
0:45.3	with my audio and the first half of the show I apologize for that.
0:49.0	It sounds a little weird, but thankfully in the second half in the interview my audio
0:52.7	is back to normal.
0:54.2	Okay, here is episode 505 of The Holy Post.
0:57.3	Hey there, welcome back to The Holy Post podcast.
0:59.8	This is Phil Vischer and I am here on a delightful recording on Monday.
1:05.4	It's the middle of April.
1:07.0	We got snow last night in the Chicago area, but I think it's mostly melted by now.
1:11.8	Is it melted where you guys are?
1:13.4	Yeah, but it's still crummy out.
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