Friday, March 3, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 08:38)
A Once-Religious Society Falls Deeper Into Secularism: Spain Expands Abortion Rights and Trans Rights for Teenagers
- Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws by LA Times (Jennifer O’Mahony and Ciarán Giles)
Part II (08:38 - 17:28)
Some Moral Sanity Preserved in California: Sirhan Sirhan Denied Parole Yet Again
- Board Denies Parole for Sirhan Sirhan, the Assassin of Robert F. Kennedy by New York Times (Shawn Hubler)
- Linda Kasabian, 73, Dies; Lookout Testified Against Charles Manson by New York Times (Neil Genzlinger)
Part III (17:28 - 21:37)
What is the Definition of Virtue? Is Being Virtuous Contingent on Accepting Christ as Lord? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (21:37 - 25:04)
Why Did Humans Start to Eat Meat After the Flood? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (25:04 - 26:53)
How Could King Solomon Be Called Wise While Having 700 Wives and 300 Concubines? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part VI (26:53 - 30:18)
Should We Use Instruments in Our Worship, Or Should We Sing Acapella? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, March 3, 2023. I'm Albert Molar, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis |
| 0:10.8 | of news and events from a Christian worldview. The transition from a society that is dominated |
| 0:16.6 | by Christian influence to one that includes Christianity among its influences to a post-Christian |
| 0:22.8 | condition in which Christianity has almost no social significance. We've seen that in |
| 0:28.2 | several nations, most importantly, in Western Europe, where the process of what is called secularization |
| 0:34.2 | has now been well underway for a matter of decades. But in general, even as I spoken about |
| 0:40.2 | the geographic fact or the social fact that secularization tends to be most accelerated and most |
| 0:46.9 | present, if you're in a city on a campus or on a coast that's just a longstanding pattern, |
| 0:52.8 | it is also true that in Europe, secularization has been far more dominant in the north rather |
| 0:59.6 | than in the south, that is to say where the climates are colder rather than where the climates are warmer, |
| 1:06.3 | whether that has anything to do with it, that's unclear. But even as you have in the south of Europe, |
| 1:12.0 | nations such as Spain and Portugal, you have had nations that have had a very long, very historic |
| 1:18.9 | tie to some form of Christianity and have been at least until recently far less evidenced by secularization |
| 1:27.6 | than countries in the north, where, for instance, in some of the Scandinavian nations, |
| 1:31.8 | and you could say, now you're looking at Britain as some other nations catching up with Scandinavia, |
| 1:36.6 | the process of secularization has been under way for a fairly long time, already very evident. |
| 1:42.7 | So much so that current generations don't know that their nations ever were dominated by an |
| 1:49.6 | understanding of Christianity, if not an absolute commitment to it. But what I want us to look at |
| 1:54.8 | right now is Spain, because the headlines coming this week that are of greatest importance in this |
| 1:59.6 | regard are coming from Spain. For instance, this headline in a story from the Associated Press that |
| 2:04.8 | ran in the Los Angeles Times yesterday, Spain OK's laws on teen abortion transgender rights. |
| 2:12.8 | Now, an observer of these issues and the continent of Europe might think that if Spain is in the |
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