Monday, December 2, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 06:15)
The Culture of Death Sweeps Great Britain: British Lawmakers Pass Assisted Suicide Bill
Part II (06:15 - 09:48)
“Assisted Death” — a Parable for the Sunset of Christianity’s Influence in Britain
Part III (09:48 - 14:08)
Great Britain’s Post-Conservative Age: Former Tory Prime Ministers Come Out in Support of Assisted Dying Bill
Part IV (14:08 - 26:56)
A Great Misuse of Pardon Power: President Biden Pardons His Son, Hunter Biden
- Read Joe Biden’s Statement and His Grant of Clemency by The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, December 2nd, 2024. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, the culture of death scored big last Friday in Britain, and it came quickly in terms of the bill that Parliament actually adopted on Friday, |
| 0:23.4 | moving forward, a proposal about legalizing so-called assisted death in Britain. On the other hand, |
| 0:30.0 | it came as a result, or at least the latest result, of long-standing patterns in British life |
| 0:36.7 | that, quite frankly, are a reality to one degree or another |
| 0:40.3 | on both sides of the Atlantic. We're talking about a post-Christian culture, and we're talking about |
| 0:45.4 | a culture which is not only post-Christian, but increasingly post-conservative. More on both of those. |
| 0:51.8 | But let's just look at the bill first. As you look at the bill, you recognize that this private member's bill is unusual even for reaching the floor, not to mention in record time. |
| 1:01.0 | But that means that you had the party system in the United Kingdom in parliament working such that this was not brought forward by the majority government, the Labor Party government under |
| 1:11.5 | Prime Minister Kier Starrmer. No, instead it was brought by Kim Ledbeater, and she's a fairly newly |
| 1:17.0 | elected member of parliament. A private member's bill, well, most private members' bills |
| 1:21.8 | die before ever seeing direct action. The fact that this one received action in a matter of |
| 1:27.0 | days tells you something. |
| 1:28.7 | It was also a vote, a free vote, as ruled by the party leaders, which meant that the party |
| 1:35.1 | whips did not discipline members who would vote against the party position. So this was a true |
| 1:40.5 | free vote. And when the vote came down, it was 330 to 275. Now, just a bit of history. |
| 1:47.0 | A similar bill went down to defeat by frankly similar numbers back in 2015. So we are looking at |
| 1:54.1 | a major moral shift in Britain. It is akin to the major moral shift we have seen in the United |
| 2:00.4 | States on the issue of same-sex marriage. |
| 2:03.1 | We had about 70% against it, 30% for it, five years later, 70% for it, 30% against it. |
| 2:10.4 | By definition, in a five-year period, you're talking about many of the same people, so this was a substantial change in mind and moral judgment in the United |
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