Friday, June 14, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 26 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 - 08:44)
Poll Shows Americans Don’t Care About Celebrity Political Support: The Shift in Celebrity Culture and the Influence of Celebrity on Political Elections in the U.S.

Celebs won't influence election, poll finds. But one couple still has sway. by USA Today (Terry Collins and Javier Zarracina)

Part II (08:44 - 11:50)
My Brother with Down Syndrome Passed Away Recently. What Hope Is There That He is in Heaven? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part III (11:50 - 16:22)
Is There a Difference Between Proverbs and Promises? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part IV (16:22 - 18:14)
Where Was Jesus Before He Was Born? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from an 8-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Part V (18:14 - 20:13)
How Should Christians View Near Death Experiences? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part VI (20:13 - 25:35)
Should Christians Ever Abstain from Voting? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

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0:00.0	It's Friday, June 14, 2024. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:13.0	Does a celebrity have much sway over how you vote?
0:16.8	My guess is the answers no.
0:18.9	And quite frankly, it turns out that's a big cultural pattern.
0:21.9	It seems to surprise USA Today. Just this
0:24.9	week USA Today came out with a front-page news story celebrities or
0:29.0	celebs hold little sway over voters. It turns out that celebrities hold actually very little sway
0:35.9	over voter choices. So having a celebrity endorsement it doesn't mean as much as it
0:39.9	used to and sometimes I think it can absolutely backfire, as might well have been the case this
0:45.8	week with liberal actor Robert DeNiro showing up at a Biden campaign appearance outside the
0:52.4	trial of former President Donald Trump.
0:55.0	The Niro looked pretty foolish, frankly, just for being there,
1:00.0	and that event is likely to turn on to be something of an embarrassment for the
1:03.1	Biden campaign. Of course there were big issues going on inside the courtroom,
1:07.2	but we're just looking at a celebrity mess. Robert DeNiro didn't look like he had much personal reason for why television cameras are pointed
1:16.3	at him.
1:17.3	He's famous for being famous, as Daniel Borston, the late former librarian of Congress said.
1:21.8	The new model of celebrity is not so much you're famous for doing something,
1:26.0	but you're increasingly famous just for being famous. And that's certainly true of some of the people whose pictures are on the front of this edition of USA today.
1:35.0	But the big thing here is that there appears to be, or at least is believed to be,
1:39.3	a falloff on the influence of celebrities when it comes to making electoral decisions.
1:45.4	And so it turns out that of all those identified in this massive article as celebrities,
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