Immigration, Why Pro-Natalist Strategies Aren't Working, and the Death Penalty
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Many use passages from the Old Testament to inform their views on immigration. John and Maria will talk about their arguments. And they'll do a deep dive on two topics at the edges of life, childbearing and the death penalty.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:07.3 | Today we're going to talk about the border crisis and how Christians can think about that. |
| 0:11.2 | We're also going to talk about policies designed to |
| 0:13.6 | incentivize people to have more children. Do they work? We have a lot to get to |
| 0:18.0 | today. We're so glad you're with us. Stick around. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Coulson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, |
| 0:28.0 | president of the Coulson Center. |
| 0:29.0 | John, today is the anniversary of the most sinister terrifying horror movie ever made in US history, |
| 0:36.3 | Groundhog Day. So, happy Groundhog Day. Do you watch the movie to commemorate? |
| 0:42.3 | I don't, but it is I guess it is yeah I don't know is there a report yet on what the the groundhog saw? I don't know my kids were making me listen to the radio all the way to school today so that |
| 0:54.7 | they could hear it. So they're under the impression that this is legitimate science and I don't |
| 0:58.8 | have the heart to break it to them yet. So they're very concerned about it because they'd like |
| 1:02.4 | it to be |
| 1:02.8 | warm. As weather forecasters go in Colorado Springs this is a |
| 1:06.2 | legitimate science. It's pretty close. Oh yeah I mean you don't know I mean it's |
| 1:11.9 | impossible to know because weather systems hit mountains and bounce all over the place and no one knows and so they really guess and if they're close it's kind of like Congress, you know, they just get close enough and it's fine, you know. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, and they're like yeah, nobody else is willing to do this job. |
| 1:25.0 | Did you know that in my spare time, when I am feeling bored or anxious, one of my favorite things to do is to go on YouTube and watch news bloopers, and it's always the weather guy that's making a blooper but I can't recommend it highly enough. |
| 1:37.2 | Okay well happy Groundhog Day everybody. John I want to talk to you first about the crisis at the US border. So we're shifting |
| 1:44.7 | gears pretty hard here. I want to give you a few numbers, but I don't want to, we're |
| 1:48.5 | not going to talk about this from a policy perspective. Neither you nor I are experts in this or know what should be done about this |
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