Friday, March 22, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 07:56)
Social Contagion and the Limits of ‘Happy’: U.S. Drastically Falls on UN Happiness Scale — What Moral Points Should Be Considered Here?
- U.S. No Longer Ranks Among World’s 20 Happiest Countries by The Wall Street Journal (Clare Ansberry)
Part II (07:56 - 12:23)
What is the Difference Between Sex and Gender? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part III (12:23 - 15:32)
What Happens to Those Who Die Having Never Heard the Gospel? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 14-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part IV (15:32 - 20:12)
Would You Elaborate on Your Opinion about FDR’s Presidency and Leadership? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (20:12 - 23:55)
Why Are So Many Young People Pro-Palestine? Is It Because of Social Media and Misinformation, or Is There More to It Than That? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 14-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part VI (23:55 - 26:14)
How Could Adolf Hitler Glorify God? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 9-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, March 22nd, 2024. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.6 | Well, how's this for a negative headline? |
| 0:15.7 | Quote, US slips from top 20 of happiest countries. |
| 0:19.3 | That's the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, quote, |
| 0:21.2 | US hits new low in world happiness report driven largely by young people. |
| 0:27.0 | Well indeed there are some interesting patterns here. For one thing, you do have the United States slipping. That's the word that the Wall Street Journal uses |
| 0:34.6 | slipping from the top 20 rankings of the happiest countries. Okay? So how do you determine |
| 0:39.8 | how happy a country is? Is there a happiness meter? Can you take in some kind of |
| 0:44.7 | happiness gauge? No, it's subjective. It's actually as the citizens of the |
| 0:50.8 | country are polled and indicate their own sense of happiness or |
| 0:54.7 | unhappiness. |
| 0:55.7 | That's how all of this is tabulated to produce a score ranging from the happiest of countries |
| 1:00.5 | to the least happy of countries. Now I guess one fundamental question here to ask is this |
| 1:06.7 | is it absolutely worthless. Are we talking here about something that's completely invented of no |
| 1:12.2 | worth whatsoever, nothing more than just an ephemeral? is it something that should lead us into a |
| 1:15.0 | worth whatsoever, nothing more than just an ephemeral media story? |
| 1:16.7 | Or is it something that should lead us into national self-searching? |
| 1:20.8 | Is it something that should lead us into a sense of national crisis? |
| 1:23.7 | Should we be mobilizing task forces? Should the President of the United States |
| 1:27.6 | hold a press conference because the US has, according to this particular system, |
| 1:32.2 | fallen out of the top 20 of the happiest |
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