Hey, I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast, and thanks for making the time to hang out with me.

I know you got a bajillion things to do in the world right now, and also I know the world to do in the world right now.

Also, I know the world is a very interesting place right now

with a lot going on and a lot that demands our attention.

And so I don't know, I just figured I'd start off the week by saying

thanks again for doing this. I think it's really cool that we get to

I also think it's very unusual that I start a week or any episode with a hot take but this time around

Oh, we're going hot take.

Get ready, because here it comes.

You know who I think has lost a lot of credibility

in the last five or ten years?

Everyone!

I can't think of any group whose credibility has gone up in that period of time.

Let's just start close to home and break this thing down, right?

Church. I wouldn't say the church is more credible now than it was five or ten years ago.

You got scandalous stuff that happens from time to time.

You've got the fact that different expressions of Christianity like to sidle up with different political parties and weaponize theology for the sake of power.

Ick that has caused a whole lot of hypocrisy and a whole lot of people who are outside the church looking in to be like

that's just not as credible a societal institution as it used to be.

Okay next up not that these people ever had a ton of credibility but advertisers. There was a time when I think

we were so spellbound by television or the magic of radio that if somebody came on and said something

and they used that really credible sounding announcer voice.

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