Plodcast Ep. 82 - The Ethics of a Border Wall, The Case Against Education, Anoetos

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Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This week Douglas Wilson talks about the ethics of a border wall. He then goes on to talk about “The Case Against Education ” by Bryan Caplan. Wrapping it up with a look at the New Testament word “Anoetos.” Happy plodding! Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ihoo62cf5kspbbj5e52wyaes2p4?t=Plodcast iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/plodcast/id1257949421?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=148592&refid=stpr RSS Feed: http://canonpress.libsyn.com/rss Get the weekly episodes in your inbox: http://canonpress.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=7c049fc7f2904e30e1ac37ebf&id=db9614c891 Show notes: Ethics of a Border Wall From the OT we can see that a wall is not inherently unethical Because it is built by men it can be misused The difference is in the payout A wall that is capable of keeping everyone out can also keep everyone in The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan He shows that going to college and completing a degree has a strong economic payoff Caplan argues that a degree is a signal that you can get things done Caplan deals only with tax-funded education and not private education It would be better if he said “A Case Against Government Funded Education” Harmartiology “Anoetos” means foolish Gal. 3:1,3, 1 Tim. 6:9, Tit. 3:3, Luke 24:25

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0:00.0	Yes, God, God. God don't never change these guys.
0:17.0	Here we are, 82.
0:21.0	So I want to talk a little bit about the ethics of a border wall. Of course, this has been a huge
0:29.3	subject in our country for the last two, three years. It was all through the campaign.
0:35.0	Donald Trump was going to build a wall on our southern border and Mexico is going to
0:38.7	pay for it, etc. Completely aside from the personalities and the comments and tweets and stuff.
0:48.0	I wanted to talk a little bit about just the concept of walls.
0:52.0	All through scripture you have because you have a world in which there are dangerous predators, dangerous foreigners, dangerous dangerous adversaries, you have obviously walled cities.
1:08.0	So one of the, that's basically what a city was.
1:14.6	Everything else is a village or a town.
1:17.2	If it got big enough to be worth taking,
1:22.0	it was big enough to be worth taking it protecting and so a city would build a wall
1:27.0	Babylon had walls Jerusalem had walls
1:31.0	because foreigners would come and besiege your city and they would try to come
1:36.5	through the wall or over the wall or blow up the wall. Well they didn't blow up the wall but
1:41.8	perhaps tunnel under them that sort of thing.
1:44.4	So there's nothing in we can see right off the bat that there's nothing inherently sinful
1:51.6	about a wall. As you build a wall and as you establish your gates you
1:59.0	could have righteousness or unrighteousness determining who you let in, why you let them in, the rate at which
2:07.0	you let them in, but it would be impossible to say that simply because of the fact of a wall you've got a problem.
2:16.1	Now because a wall is a thing built by men, it can be abused.
2:25.5	So for example, you look at a success story
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