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🗓️ 7 August 2025
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Rejecting Christianity will mean losing those cultural goods that depend on Christian values, such as freedom of speech and religion.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth. |
0:05.4 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
0:09.0 | The Christian citizenship is in heaven, but that does not mean that our cultures and civilizations here on Earth do not matter. |
0:16.0 | Rather, Christians are to bring Christ's kingdom to bear in whatever time and whatever place God has put them, |
0:21.6 | working to renew and to restore, to turn our upside-down world right-side-up again with his power. |
0:28.1 | Christians are also right to mourn whenever nations reject their Christian heritage, |
0:32.4 | especially when, by doing so, they devolve into something unrecognizable. |
0:36.6 | In a new film, Truth Rising, an impressive collection of British intellectuals |
0:41.1 | describe just how this has happened in their own nation, and what this means for the |
0:45.6 | wider Western world. |
0:47.3 | Baroness Philippa Stroud, a founder of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, |
0:51.4 | Sir Neil Ferguson, perhaps the foremost expert in the world in the history of civilizations, |
0:56.2 | Winston Marshall, formerly of Mumford and Sons, and Constantine Kisson. |
1:00.8 | Best-selling author and political commentator are among the many voices in the film that describe this fraught cultural moment. |
1:08.1 | The global premiere of Truth Rising is September the 5th. You can learn more by |
1:12.1 | visiting truthrising.com slash colson. That's truthrising.com slash colson. In the years after |
1:19.0 | World War II, immigrants from former colonies generally integrated into those countries that had colonized |
1:24.9 | them. However, in recent decades, many European nations adopted a |
1:29.1 | careless border policy and at the same time rejected their own heritage. As a result, mass |
1:34.8 | migration from the Middle East and Africa, or in Britain's case, South Asia, occurred without sufficient |
1:40.2 | vetting or any expectation of assimilation. Especially migrants from Muslim countries |
1:46.1 | tend to despise Western values as well as the people who hold them. Often they're explicit |
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