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
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
- Sphen, Penguin Whose Gay Love Story Earned Global Fame, Dies by The New York Times (Isabella Kwai)
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
- Parrot is ‘attention hog’ and smart as human toddler, owners say by The Washington Post (Sydney Page)
Part III (10:12 - 12:15)
AI Needs Personhood Credentials Now? Tech Industry Borrows Biblical Categories in Wake of Concern of AI Danger
- AI researchers call for ‘personhood credentials’ as bots get smarter by The Washington Post (Will Oremus)
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
- Needed: An Exit Strategy by AlbertMohler.com (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)
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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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