John West: Stockholm Syndrome Christianity
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Has toxic empathy led modern Christians to live in a Stockholm Syndrome-like way towards an opposing world? John West, Vice President of the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, where he also serves as Managing Director of the Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, shares how the overwhelming influence of toxic empathy and desire to appease popular culture can be fatal to our faith. Using the famous Stockholm bank robbery of the 1970, West joins Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas, to discuss how Christians have subconsciously grown up in cultural captivity, and how we can rebel against it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to Socrates in the studio. |
| 0:03.8 | We are in New York City. |
| 0:07.3 | Socrates in the city is often in New York City, but we're often not in New York City. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm glad we are here. |
| 0:14.3 | If you can see where we are, you will see why it brings to mind Betty Davis's famous line, |
| 0:24.2 | what a dump. |
| 0:26.5 | You can only say that if it's not a dump, it's a gorgeous room. |
| 0:30.3 | But we're not here for the room. |
| 0:31.6 | We're here because I get to have a wonderful conversation with someone whose works I have found increasingly interesting. |
| 0:41.9 | This last book, I have to say, first of all, my guest is the esteemed John West. |
| 0:48.1 | John, welcome. |
| 0:49.1 | All right. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:50.1 | I want to describe you as the author of this book, and I have, but you are the vice president of the Discovery Institute. |
| 1:00.2 | How long have you been with the Discovery Institute? |
| 1:02.3 | Because it seems like half of the Socrates and the City conversations are with someone affiliated with the Discovery Institute. |
| 1:08.3 | Well, I was there even before Steve Meyer, so basically 92, so just about a year or two after we started. |
| 1:15.6 | Well, 92, my goodness. |
| 1:17.5 | Do you realize that's now potentially over 30 years ago? |
| 1:24.3 | That's hard to believe. |
| 1:25.5 | I was going to say, there's nothing potential about it. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, we've interviewed you before for Socrates in the city, |
| 1:32.0 | but when I read your most recent book, I said, |
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