Petitioners want to stop Jeff Bezos from returning to earth: The quest for relevance and the path to eternal influence
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Tens of thousands of petitioners want to stop Jeff Bezos from returning to earth after he travels into space on July 20. In The Daily Article for June 22, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison explains this story, then he focuses on other ways our culture conflates opinion with reality and shows how the quest for relevance opens the door to sharing the transformating the gospel through our lives and witness.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.5 | Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is worth nearly $200 billion, but money doesn't necessarily buy |
| 0:26.5 | popularity. |
| 0:27.9 | For example, after Bezos boards the suborbital rocket New Shepherd on July 20th, for an 11-minute |
| 0:34.4 | voyage into space, a sizable number of people hope he doesn't come back. |
| 0:39.3 | The petition, Do Not Allow Jeff Bezos to Return to Earth, |
| 0:43.1 | has collected more than 74,000 signatures as of this morning. |
| 0:47.6 | Other petitions are making the same request. |
| 0:50.4 | Our post-truth culture views reality through personal sentiment. |
| 0:54.8 | If you consider Jeff Bezos to be unworthy of living on the planet with you, |
| 0:59.3 | whether you have met him in person or not, you might sign a petition stating the same. |
| 1:06.6 | One person was killed and another was seriously injured last Saturday when a truck drove |
| 1:12.1 | into a crowd at a pride parade in Florida. Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trentalis immediately called |
| 1:18.3 | the tragedy a terrorist attack against the LGBT community and stated, this is exactly what it is, |
| 1:26.5 | hardly an accident. It was deliberate. It was premeditated, |
| 1:30.7 | and it was targeted against a specific person. However, police soon determined that the driver |
| 1:36.1 | was a participant in the event and that the tragedy was not deliberate. The Fort Lauderdale |
| 1:41.6 | Gay Men's Chorus President stated, to my knowledge, it was an accident. |
| 1:46.1 | This was not an attack on the LGBT community. We anticipate more details to follow, and ask for |
| 1:52.8 | the community's love and support. If the mayor could conclude, apart from the facts, |
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