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The Briefing with Albert Mohler

Monday, September 9, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 15:35)
Unspeakable Moral Evil in Georgia School: Massive Questions Raised in Aftermath of Mass Shooting

Part II (15:35 - 23:44)
Yet Another Orchestrated Political Game: A Republican Dynasty, the Cheneys, Announce Support for Harris/Walz Campaign

Part III (23:44 - 26:27)
Love of Neighbor Does Not Mean Support for ‘Queer Joy’: Politics and the Confusion of Creation Order




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0:00.0

It's Monday,

0:05.0

Monday, September 9, 2024.

0:07.7

I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing,

0:10.0

a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

0:13.7

Once again, America's heart is torn by a school shooting.

0:17.2

In this case, the shooting took place in Barrow County, Georgia.

0:20.4

The shooter was a 14-year-old, and the dead in this case include two other 14 year old

0:26.1

children and two school teachers.

0:29.1

Now every one of these cases is unique, and on the briefing we do not discuss every one of these cases because

0:36.1

we do not want to give publicity to this kind of shooter and in many cases that's exactly

0:41.2

what they are looking for. So with that in mind I am not going to

0:44.3

mention the boy's name. I'm not even going to mention the name of the boy's father.

0:48.2

I'm going to talk about the meaning and the significance, the Christian worldview

0:52.3

implications of the story as it is unfolding.

0:55.8

First of all, it is an unmitigated tragedy.

0:58.3

And it's a tragedy if we were talking about the shooting of a human being by another human being in the first place.

1:05.0

But it's not just that.

1:06.3

It is the shooting of multiple human beings.

1:08.8

In this case, we're talking about students and teachers in a school. There were nine who were injured but there were the four who were killed.

1:16.5

Now almost immediately we tried to find some kind of sense in the middle of this kind of horrifying crime.

1:23.1

So a part of trying to seek the sense is understanding motivation, how the motivation was then

1:28.8

somehow in an intersection with the opportunity, and we want to know what kind of grievance this shooter had,

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