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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Our Fascination with Murder and the Case for Christianity

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, J. Warner is interviewed by the hosts of the Centre for Public Christianity Podcast and tackles the question: why are we all so obsessed with crime stories? Along the way, J. Warner also lays out the case for Christianity. You can visit the Centre for Public Christianity at their website (www.publicchristianity.org).

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0:00.0

Today on life and faith.

0:02.0

When you knock on the door of the neighbor of a serial killer that you're now taking to jail, that

0:07.5

neighbor is likely to say, oh I'm so glad you're taking that guy.

0:10.5

That guy's crazy.

0:11.5

I mean it smells bad over there all the time

0:13.4

there all kinds of weird noises over there he's a weirdo to begin with and he's always

0:17.2

digging holes in his backyard I'm not quite sure what to make of all that right

0:20.1

but then when you so when you take someone to jail for my kinds of cases where a guy

0:25.1

did a murder 30 years ago, got away with it, and you knock on the neighbor's door and tell

0:29.5

me, I'm taking your neighbor to jail for this case from 30 years ago, they'll typically say that, oh, there's no way.

0:35.3

There's no way that guy could, no, I've done that guy for 30 years, he's a great guy.

0:39.7

No way could he have done that? Why are we here?

0:44.0

Can I have a relationship with God?

0:46.0

These kinds of things I can't measure with my microscope or my telescope.

0:49.0

Hope deranges us.

0:51.0

Hope breaks things and breaks things down.

0:53.9

Christianity isn't some kind of self-help doctrine, it's not probiotics for the soul or something,

0:58.4

you know?

0:58.9

He was using the Parable of the I'm Simon Smart and in this episode Natasha Moore and I are asking the question why

1:16.2

we all so obsessed with murder? Well I mean a lot of us are kind of obsessed with

1:21.4

murder you're actually not that much right? No I have some interest in murder and

1:26.6

mayhem but no it's not not the thing I'm kind of into big time but lots of people

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