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The Attempted Assassination of Former President Trump and Has the GOP Abandoned Social Conservatives?

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump raises questions about the providence of God. And at the Republican convention this week, party leaders appeared to be putting as much distance between themselves and evangelicals as possible.

 

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Segment 1 - The Attempted Assassination of Former President Trump

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Segment 2 - The Republican National Convention and Evangelicals

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0:00.0

You're listening to Breakpoint this week where we're talking about the top stories

0:05.1

from the week from a Christian worldview.

0:07.6

Today we're talking about the attempted assassination of President Trump and what that means

0:12.2

from a worldview perspective and also the Republican

0:15.2

Convention.

0:16.2

Evangelicals are seemingly being left behind what should we make of that.

0:20.8

We're looking forward to our time together today. Thanks for joining us.

0:26.0

Well, welcome to Breakpoint this week and no, I'm not Maria with a cold.

0:30.0

I'm Bob Dittner, the executive producer of Breakpoint and Breakpoint this week and

0:35.4

Maria is off on vacation and so filling in on short notice here John on a really

0:41.5

eventful week.

0:43.0

There has been so much going on with politics,

0:45.6

with the Convention for the Republican National Committee,

0:49.1

and also then, of course, what happened last weekend,

0:51.6

the attempted assassination on President Trump, and it has

0:54.9

spawned so much controversy and discussion over God's hand in all of this and, you know,

1:01.1

God protected President Trump, there's no doubt about that God has a hand in all of human history

1:05.8

but yet then we see a firefighter who was a devoted dad and a devoted Christian who loses his life

1:11.7

while protecting his family.

1:13.7

How do you square those two seemingly contradictory

1:17.1

suggestions and items?

1:18.5

Yeah, well that's a great question.

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