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podcast my name is John Harris we're

talking a little bit about J.D. Greer and Tim Keller today and this

won't surprise anyone who has listened regularly to this podcast at least, but more compromising in my opinion, more showing true colors, really I think is what it is, more exposing and showing true colors because the tweet I'm about to show you from J.D. Greer I have a

feeling that he would not have shared it while he was the president of the

Southern Baptist Convention. I could be wrong. He shared a bunch of other things

while he was president of Southern Baptist Convention.

I don't know that he would have shared this one. I'm not sure. I'll highlight why I think that is.

Tim Keller we're going to spend a lot more time on. He has congratulated the chief of chaplains at Harvard University. The

appointment was I believe last week, early last week, and he's a personal friend with him.

Not only that, he actually voted for him to be in that position,

and then publicly went out and congratulated him.

So a lot of people thought this is insane, an atheist chaplain, I mean this sounds like an oxymoron and Keller tries to defend it so let's go through his logic let's see

what he's using to try to defend this and I'm gonna evaluate what I I'm gonna at least analyze what I think the issue actually is why people are actually upset about this because there's all kinds of other religions that Christians would consider to be false religions represented at Harvard. I mean would there have been an outrage if it

was another religion there might have been against him Keller you know why are you

voting for a Hindu chaplain or a Muslim chaplain or something like that but I think it's especially it's more it seems more absurd and I think

there's more outrage over this in a way just because we haven't actually really gone there

as a society this is kind of like the

for years really for you know since at least the 50s and really it's before that

but I think since JFK if I really want to put like a line there that you

know we had a Catholic president and ever since then there's been kind of this really

strong current towards ecumenicism and of course there was that strong current in the

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