Monday, November 6, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 11:17)
Intelligence Divorced from Morality Equals Massive Scandal: Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty on All Counts
Part II (11:17 - 24:29)
The Worldview of Sam Bankman-Fried: Utilitarianism, Elective Altruism, and the Secular Mind
Part III (24:29 - 26:33)
Parents, Your Worldview Will Show Up in Your Children: The Importance of Godly Parenting
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, November 6, 2003. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily |
| 0:10.2 | analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.7 | You want to know what a difference time makes, just go back about two years in time, and |
| 0:18.3 | Sam Bankman-freed is one of the wealthiest human beings on the planet. |
| 0:22.3 | He's sitting atop a vast |
| 0:24.7 | cryptocurrency and investment machine. He's considered one of the most generous |
| 0:29.7 | donors, basically on the progressive left, one of the biggest political donors to Democratic |
| 0:34.7 | candidates, and now he is facing what amounts to a lifetime in prison, which is saying even |
| 0:40.1 | more than you might think when you consider the fact that this convicted criminal who might be guilty now of the largest financial crime in the history of the United States is 31 years of age. |
| 0:51.0 | Now I think there are many people who are looking at this and they see it as |
| 0:54.4 | mostly a soap opera. There are others who look at it and see a crime drama. It is a soap |
| 1:00.0 | opera. It is a crime drama. The soap opera has to do with the fact that there is so much that basically |
| 1:06.1 | is salacious, it's interesting, there's sex in the middle of all of this, there are young people living |
| 1:11.9 | in a 31 million dollar home together in something like an incredibly |
| 1:16.6 | wealthy commune in the Bahamas. You're looking at cryptocurrency, you're looking at fast and blazing financial transactions. at Bankman Freed is somewhere on the genius scale but once again we are reminded |
| 1:35.0 | that often high intelligence and especially here you're talking about a |
| 1:38.9 | particularly kind of fine-tuned hyperintelligence and moral character don't always go together. |
| 1:46.1 | And the signs of the fact that there was a lack of congruity there, that was very evident years |
| 1:51.8 | ago when it came to Sam Bankman Freed. |
| 1:54.0 | Now I want us to look at a deeper level. I want us to look not just at what happened but |
| 1:58.8 | there are some really interesting vast worldview issues behind this that very few in the secular media are giving any |
| 2:06.1 | attention at all. But before turning to that let's just go back to that courtroom in New York, |
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