Friday, November 18, 2022

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 18 November 2022

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Summary

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

Part I (00:13 - 09:22)
1 Out of 8 Americans Have Been Given Prescriptions for Antidepressants — Are We Really at the Point Where the Modern Age Just Equals Depression?

Antidepressants Don’t Work the Way Many People Think by New York Times (Dana G. Smith)

Part II (09:22 - 13:15)
‘Puppies on Prozac and Cats on CBD’ : Evidently Our Pets Are Now as Anxious as We Are

Puppies on Prozac: How to Handle Your Pet’s Anxiety by New York Times (Melinda Wenner Moyer)

Part III (13:15 - 16:07)
Why Is It Okay to Euthanize Our Sickly Pet But Never Right to Euthanize People? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Young Listener of The Briefing

Part IV (16:07 - 18:21)
If the Fall Had Not Happened, How Could the Earth Have Provided for Population That Would Grow Exponentially And Never Die? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part V (18:21 - 20:49)
Why Did Georgia’s Senate Election Go to a Run-Off When the Republican Governor Won So Decisively? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part VI (20:49 - 24:02)
Why Is It So Hard to Share the Gospel? Does Loving People Mean That We Respect Their Choices Even When Bad? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 14-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Part VII (24:02 - 25:46)
Why Did God Refer to Himself as ‘We’ in the Old Testament? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

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0:00.0	It's Friday, November 18, 2022.
0:07.8	I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.0	a Christian worldview.
0:13.2	We're going to get to questions in just a moment.
0:15.3	I want to start out by raising an issue and then a related issue.
0:19.4	I don't think you're going to see the related issue coming.
0:22.4	The first issue has to do with the rise in the use of antidepressants in the United
0:27.2	States.
0:28.2	There's a stunning report out indicating that one out of eight Americans either has or
0:33.4	has had a prescription for some form of pharmaceutical antidepressant.
0:39.4	Now that's depressing, and I mean that with full force.
0:42.4	It's depressing because it tells us that what is now defined, perhaps even medically
0:47.4	and clinically as depression, is becoming something so widespread and the use of antidepressants
0:53.4	have become so widespread that something like one out of eight people in the United States
0:58.7	right now, and we're talking here primarily about adults, either have or have had a prescription
1:04.6	for an antidepressant.
1:06.4	But actually some of the most interesting research coming out tells us something else,
1:10.3	and that is that no one actually knows how they work anyway.
1:13.8	Now when it comes to medication, you would often think that causality would have to be
1:18.6	the defining issue.
1:20.3	That would work this way, the maker of some kind of pharmaceutical, some kind of drug
1:24.9	or product would have to prove not only that it works, but that it works like this.
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