Podcast Ep. 97 - Equality of Outcome, Holiness, Apalgeo

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Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This week Pastor Wilson address how conservatives and progressives think about equality. He also talks about J.C. Ryle’s wonderful book, “Holiness”, and Pastor Wilson finishes things off with a look at the word apalgeo. Happy plodding! Show Notes: Equality of Outcome: We all think that equality is a good thing, but we need to look at the context of the equality Conservatives want equality of opportunity, while Progressive’s want equality of outcome Conservatives want equality in the rules, while Progressives want equality of the scoreboard In order to keep everything perfectly equal, you would have to be God Holiness: Written by J.C. Ryle Ryle is a master of clarity, and is a very straight forward writer In this book he presents the classic reformed understanding of sanctification Ryle shows what it is to grow in holiness and is an enormous help to Christians who want to be holy in God’s sight Apalgeo: Means to be past feeling Only used once in the New Testament: Ephesians 4:19-20 This refers to one whose conscience is seared, whose moral sensibilities have been deadened Guilt is a gift from God, without it we would destroy ourselves

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0:00.0	Yes, God's God. So welcome to episode 97 of the plodcast. I'm Doug Wilson. Thanks for joining us. So I want to begin
0:26.2	by talking about one of the things that distinguishes conservatives or people who have a conservative
0:32.2	disposition from progressives.
0:35.0	As we're considering social problems or social challenges or areas of our lives that exhibit some form of injustice or another. What do we do?
0:50.3	Well, conservatives tend, we all think that equality is a good thing, but we need to fit that word into its context.
0:59.6	Equality of what, equality where,
1:03.0	equal in what respects.
1:06.0	Conservatives tend to want equality of opportunity,
1:11.0	and progressives tend to want equality of outcome.
1:15.0	All right, so conservatives want equal rules during the game.
1:27.5	They want equality of mind among the refs they want clipping for one side to be clipping for another if one side has to go 10 yards for a first down, you can't have it be that the other side gets to go five yards for a first down.
1:38.0	So, conservatives want equal application of the rules, equal application of the laws, equal application of the
1:47.0	laws, equal application of the judgment calls that the refs make.
1:53.7	So the refs should be,
1:55.8	when they're talking about
1:59.0	on sportsman like conduct or holding
2:01.9	or offsides or whatever call they're making, they ought to be colorblind with regard
2:07.2	to the color of the Jersey.
2:09.7	If it's a foul, it's a foul.
2:11.9	You ought not to be favoring one side over the other. So a
2:15.2	conservative understanding of equality is equality of treatment, a quality of
2:21.2	process, equality of equal opportunity.
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