How to respond when skeptics claim our faith is dangerous
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 28 January 2019
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Skeptics claim that tragedies in our world prove that our faith is irrelevant or even dangerous. Today's podcast shows us how to demonstrate the relevance of our faith through our lives and service. For more news discerned differently, or to receive the Daily Article via email, please visit denisonforum.org.
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| 0:00.0 | How to respond when skeptics claim our faith is dangerous. This is Jim Denison's daily article for |
| 0:05.6 | Monday, January 28th, 2019. Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. Survivors marked the 74th |
| 0:13.9 | anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, where more than a million people were killed. |
| 0:18.6 | Six million Jews in total died in the Holocaust. Closer |
| 0:22.4 | to home, Dakota Terrio was captured yesterday afternoon at his grandmother's home in Virginia. |
| 0:28.1 | The 21-year-old is believed to have killed his parents, his girlfriend, and her father and brother. |
| 0:33.4 | In other news, at least 58 people are dead, and at least 300 are missing after a dam collapsed |
| 0:38.4 | in Brazil on Friday. This morning's Wall Street Journal reports that the rushing wall of mud |
| 0:43.5 | was enough to fill a football stadium more than six times. And ISIS has now claimed |
| 0:48.6 | responsibility for the bombing of a Catholic cathedral in the Philippines during Sunday Mass. |
| 0:53.7 | At least 20 people died in the double bomb attack. |
| 0:56.0 | Skeptics often ask what difference Christianity makes in a world like ours. |
| 1:01.0 | If our God apparently cannot fix the world he made, how does faith in him change anything? |
| 1:06.0 | Isn't religion just the opium of the people, as Marx claimed? |
| 1:10.0 | In fact, isn't religion not just irrelevant, but dangerous to our progressive society? |
| 1:15.7 | When Christians like Karen Pence choose to follow biblical morality in ways the culture finds |
| 1:19.8 | offensive, the outcry is deafening. |
| 1:22.3 | Commentator Matt Walsh wrote, |
| 1:24.5 | Gone are the days when leftists pretended to see religion as a thing that should be relegated to homes and churches in private schools. |
| 1:30.3 | That very small amount of extremely limited and qualified tolerance is gone. |
| 1:34.3 | They will not tolerate Christianity in any forum, especially a private school. |
| 1:39.3 | The Religion is Dangerous Movement has been gathering momentum for several years. |
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