Monday, February 14, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:18)
The Big Story of the Super Bowl LVI? Gambling. — How the Snowball of Legal Gambling Predictably Turned into an AvalancheSuper Bowl LVI Is Poised to Be Biggest Bet Game in Football History by Wall Street Journal (Joseph De Avila)Part II (12:18 - 19:48)
You Simply Bought A Chance to Win a Game of Chance: The Temptations of Sports Betting and the Waning Evangelical Concern of Legalized GamblingSuper Bowl Betting Is a $7.6 Billion Problem Fewer Evangelicals Care About by Christianity Today (Emily Belz)We Aren’t in Vegas Anymore by New York Times (Ross Douthat)Part III (19:48 - 22:34)
An Unfolding Series of Moral Challenges in the Beijing Olympic Games: Russia Finds Itself Mixed Up in Another Doping ControversyRussia is Embroiled in Another Doping Controversy. No One Should be Surprised. by Washington Post (Editorial Board)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, |
| 0:05.0 | Monday, February 14, 2022. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.2 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, Super Bowl 56 is now in the rearview mirror. |
| 0:17.0 | It was a relatively close game by Super Bowl standards, |
| 0:21.0 | but in the end, the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati |
| 0:24.0 | bingles by a score of only 23 to 20. |
| 0:27.0 | The Super Bowl has turned out to be a massive win for the NFL, a massive win for |
| 0:32.0 | television, and it has at least until the last couple of years |
| 0:35.8 | been a massive event in American popular culture. |
| 0:38.9 | No doubt it still remains that, but it has lost stature and standing in terms of American culture perhaps |
| 0:44.0 | because there are now so many other forms of entertainment there are so many |
| 0:47.4 | other spectacles and this one oddly enough is taking place right in the |
| 0:51.4 | midst of another controversial |
| 0:53.3 | spectacle which is the olympiad unfolding in the Winter Olympics in Beijing |
| 0:58.8 | right now. So you're looking at a situation in which the big story is really not about the score, the big story is not really about football, |
| 1:07.0 | the big story as it turns out is about gambling and about a whole lot of gambling. |
| 1:12.0 | And this requires us to step back for a moment and understand at least two things. |
| 1:16.0 | Number one, what exactly happened in Super Bowl 56 that has to do with gambling? |
| 1:21.0 | Why was this Super Bowl different than previous Super Bowls? And then secondly, |
| 1:25.4 | what should Christians think about the gambling issue? Because there is good evidence to believe |
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