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The Briefing with Albert Mohler

Friday, August 30, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 06:00)
Not Even Penguins are Safe From the LGBTQ Revolution: So-Called ‘Queer Icon’ Penguin Dies, But It’s Not Just the Penguins Who Were Confused

Part II (06:00 - 10:12)
No, a Parrot Does Not Have the Intelligence of a Human Child: Animal Rights Movement Makes Insane Claim About Animal and Human Cognition

Part III (10:12 - 12:15)
AI Needs Personhood Credentials Now? Tech Industry Borrows Biblical Categories in Wake of Concern of AI Danger

Part IV (12:15 - 16:50)
Does a Belief in Conspiracy Theories Disqualify a Man From Being an Elder? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part V (16:50 - 20:56)
What are the Dividing Issues Between the West and Other Worldviews? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part VI (20:56 - 22:52)
Should My Wife and I Renew Our Marriage Vows Since I Became a Christian After We Were Married? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part VII (22:52 - 25:16)
What Are Your Thoughts On Kentucky’s Amendment 2 Proposal? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing




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0:00.0

It's Friday, August 30, 2024.

0:07.0

I'm Albert Molar, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

0:13.0

Remember the gay penguin couple?

0:14.8

Now they're supposedly at the Sydney Aquarium and the big news has come that one of the

0:20.2

two penguins has died.

0:21.2

So here is the big news story.

0:22.2

He came several years ago, supposedly,

0:24.6

that officials there at the Sydney Aquarium

0:26.9

and noticed that there was a male bonded pair.

0:30.2

There was a bonded pair of male penguins.

0:33.0

Now, given the moral confusion and the sexual revolution and the LGBTQ activism,

0:38.0

you can expect where this went.

0:40.0

This became a celebrity couple of penguins, and they were celebrated as evidence of the fact that same-sex marriage in effect takes place in the animal kingdom as well as among human beings after the sexual revolution and of course the revolt against marriage.

0:56.8

So you're looking at this and you recognize this is propaganda.

0:59.7

This was big media attention in the service of a moral argument, an argument against marriage

1:07.4

as the union of a man and a woman, an argument for the revision of marriage is whatever

1:12.2

to human beings or even more human beings that's

1:15.2

going to be hard to avoid as an argument but it's only two human beings but

1:18.9

evidently two penguins might want. Now there was an awful lot of what is called anthemorphism here

1:26.3

and that means to simply reading onto animals what is distinctively human.

1:30.4

That's a big problem and by the way it's something that's fun to play with. And this is why we have

1:35.7

animal stories. This is why we have lots of cartoons. You know, this is why we have animals talking

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