Monday, June 13, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 14:28)
‘The Enlightenment Consigned Religion in America to the Private Realm of the Individual’: The Secular Arguments Banishing Religion from the Public SquareShould Religion Influence Abortion Policy? by Religion News Service (Jeffrey Salkin)Part II (14:28 - 20:22)
‘China Harvests Organs from Death-Row Prisoners and Prisoners of Conscience’: Wall Street Journal Study Reveals Chinese Surgeons Turned ExecutionersIn China, New Evidence That Surgeons Became Executioners by Wall Street Journal (Jacob Lavee and Matthew P. Robertson)Part III (20:22 - 24:09)
Could the Unethical Organ Procurement in China Come to the United States?: That Reality Lies Closer Than What Might Seem Possible to Americans
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, |
| 0:05.0 | Monday, June 13, 2022. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, |
| 0:10.0 | a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | One of the big questions being asked by many people in secular society is, who are these |
| 0:18.4 | religious people and why do they keep showing up trying to influence public policy. That must be unconstitutional, right? |
| 0:24.7 | At Religion News Service, Jeffrey Salken wrote an article asking the question |
| 0:29.5 | should religion influence abortion policy? That means national policy. It means law. |
| 0:35.0 | And of course the implication of the question is no. And frankly, you would find that very same |
| 0:40.4 | answer in his article. He begins quote for the past three weeks for the |
| 0:44.6 | first time since the end of February the biggest and boldest headlines in the |
| 0:47.7 | New York Times have not been about Ukraine they were about America the threat |
| 0:51.1 | to Roe v Wade and the very real possibility |
| 0:53.7 | that abortion will no longer be legal and huge swaths of this country has shaken us. |
| 0:58.5 | But for those of us who are people of faith, he says, the issue runs deeper and it is |
| 1:02.3 | even more painful. |
| 1:04.6 | That is to say something more painful than the abortion debate right now is the fact that |
| 1:09.7 | the abortion debate is coming on theological or on religious terrain. He says quote, this is because |
| 1:16.6 | this conflict forces us to ask the question what role should religion have in |
| 1:20.7 | national conversations on public policy, especially on issues as sensitive |
| 1:25.1 | and intimate as abortion. |
| 1:27.7 | He continues making his own argument. |
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