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I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Money, Greed and God with Dr. Jay Richards

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

4.95.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Many people seem confused about what socialism is and whether or not it would be better than America’s capitalistic system. If there’s one book you should read on this—in fact, it’s one of the best books on economics you’ll read anywhere—is the new edition of Money, Greed and God: The Christian Case for Free Enterprise by Dr. Jay Richards. On this show, Frank interviews Jay and gets clear answers to these questions: What are Socialism, Marxism, and communism and how do they differ? Shouldn’t Christians be communists based on the early believers communing their resources in the book of Acts? We hear that socialism works in Sweden. Is that true? Why doesn’t socialism work? Why do you think so many young people are attracted to a failed system? Isn’t capitalism based on greed? How can Christians be for it? We hear a lot about income inequality. Is that a bad thing, and, if so, what can be done about it? When politicians use the phrase “paying your fair share”, what standard are they using to determine what is fair? Our welfare system actually pays women to have kids out of wedlock. How do we improve the safety net to prevent that from happening? Why does religious and economic liberty fall together? The two industries in which the government controls significantly are education and health care. Why are prices high and quality low in those industries? You say that no one person at Apple, including CEO Tim Cook, knows how to make an iPhone. What does this say about the difference between socialism and free-market capitalism? Subscribe on iTunes: http://bit.ly/CrossExamined_Podcast rate and review! Thanks!!! Subscribe on Google Play: http://bit.ly/CE_Podcast_Google Subscribe on Spotify: http://bit.ly/CrossExaminedOfficial_Podcast Subscribe on Stitcher: http://bit.ly/CE_Podcast_Stitcher

Transcript

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0:00.0

Does truth exist?

0:03.0

Because you have faith, does that make this book cool?

0:06.0

Does God exist?

0:07.0

So when someone says there is no truth, if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?

0:13.0

Is that true?

0:15.0

They don't think Christianity is true.

0:18.0

They're talked out of it.

0:20.0

You know why they're talked out of it?

0:22.0

Because they've never been talked into it.

0:24.0

Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views.

0:28.0

Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Turek.

0:33.0

We got a lot of mail this week from last week's podcast.

0:38.0

Why did evangelicals vote for Donald Trump?

0:41.0

We're not going to get to that mail this week.

0:44.0

It'll come in coming weeks because we have another guest today that actually really started that meeting that we had in the Trump Tower.

0:53.0

But we're not really going to talk about that.

0:55.0

We're going to talk about money, greed, and God.

1:00.0

What is socialism?

1:01.0

What is Marxism?

1:02.0

What is communism?

1:03.0

How do they differ?

1:05.0

Shouldn't Christians be communists based on the early believers' communing, their resources in the book of Acts?

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