Mao Survivor Speaks to Virginia School Board - China's Child Policy to Likely Force Childbearing | BreakPoint This Week
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🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
John and Maria discuss how politics makes a lousy worldview before dissecting stories on deconversion from Christianity and other stories of conversion to faith in Jesus.
Maria then shares a recent story of a mother in Tanner Cross' school district to defends the elementary gym teacher with her story from Mao's China. John shares his disappointment that the mother's story isn't given more credence in the eyes of the media.
John and Maria also visit on three important movements happening with China. They discuss new findings that some U.S. allies have been complicit in deporting Muslim Uyghur's to China where they joined labor camps. John then makes a prediction that China's new three child policy may turn into a baby-making mandate for Chinese citizens. He breaks down the worldview line, showing how economics is driving Chinese decisions. Then Maria shares a story that many U.S. politicians are likely boycotting the Olympics in Beijing over human rights concerns of the Chinese government's treatment of the Uyghur population.
Finally, Maria and John discuss the removal of Queen Elizabeth's portrait at a British school. John breaks down the worldview analysis, showing how media coverage casts an implicit bias, while providing a structure for Christians to view the news with hope and purpose.
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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. |
| 0:06.5 | Today we're going to talk about what's going on in China, including an effort by some politicians, including U.S. politicians, for a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, given the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese. |
| 0:20.7 | We're also going to talk about, |
| 0:22.1 | again, what's going on in Loudoun County, Virginia, with a elementary school teacher there |
| 0:27.1 | who is refusing to adhere to a new school policy that would force him to violate his religious |
| 0:33.2 | conscience. We have a lot of stories to talk about today, but we're excited to get into it. Thanks |
| 0:38.0 | for joining us. You're listening to Breakpoint this week. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. |
| 0:44.4 | We're talking about the major news stories of the week from a Christian worldview. I'm Maria |
| 0:48.8 | Bear alongside John Stone Street, the president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:54.6 | John, I have to tell you this week, I am potty training my youngest, which is a story unto |
| 1:01.6 | itself, but I'm bringing this up for a reason. I went to the library the other day. It's the biggest |
| 1:08.1 | downtown city library in the city where I live in Ohio. |
| 1:12.4 | And I went to the kid section and I thought, I'm going to find a bunch of books about using the potty because this is what I did with my older one. |
| 1:19.3 | So I'm like, I'm going to find a bunch of books about the potty so I can read it to my youngest. |
| 1:22.9 | So I go to the board book section, which for non-parents, board books are the ones for like the youngest |
| 1:28.6 | possible children because they're made of cardboard so the kids can't like slobber on them and |
| 1:33.5 | tear them and whatever. So go to the board books. I'm not kidding you when I say it took me, |
| 1:38.6 | I had to use the card catalog to find books about potty because this little board book kiosk was full of |
| 1:47.0 | the craziest like i'm not kidding these titles are like um feminist baby how to my my vote counts |
| 1:56.4 | a board book called my vote counts okay uh of course anti course, anti-racist baby. This is, you know, taking the |
| 2:04.2 | world by storm this book. Baby's first book of mindfulness. Like, I almost took pictures of |
| 2:10.0 | these because I, and I literally, like, as I'm standing there, I'm thinking, I just need a book |
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