The Patrick Madrid Show: December 28, 2022 - Hour 1
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
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🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
- Andrew – Should Christians impose their morality on non-religious?
- Bethany - What do you think about the idea of separation of church and state?
- Rocio - What is the Catholic teaching on getting a tattoo?
- Dennis - Was the question of personhood brought up in the overturning of Roe v Wade?
- Gloria - My sister, Maria, called earlier. Is the mass on TV valid even though it is a rebroadcast?
- Janice - How could God send an evil spirit to Saul?
- Paul - Who told the disciples that Jesus died on the Cross?
- Elias - Why do Muslims believe in Mary and Jesus, but Jews don't?
- Juliana - My sister is using alcohol to cope with her husband's death. How do I protect her daughter, my God Daughter, when her mom is drinking?
- Anne - You said the public schools teach students to hate this country. I am a teacher and I disagree with you.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, |
| 0:12.6 | encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, I have a note here that comes in from Andrew listening in Chicago. |
| 0:25.1 | It says, Patrick, can you comment on why or why not Christians should or should not impose |
| 0:29.7 | their morality on nonbelievers? |
| 0:32.1 | Is this found anywhere in the Bible, specifically in regards to the abortion issue? |
| 0:36.5 | I have Protestant friends who claim Christians |
| 0:38.1 | should not impose their morality on non-believers via the state, as it will have no effect on |
| 0:43.1 | anyone's salvation. He also claims that whenever Scripture teaches morality, it is only teaching |
| 0:48.4 | it to Christians, which further cements his point that Christians should not impose the morality |
| 0:52.3 | on non-Christians. Thanks. Well, it sounds like your friend might be a little bit muddled in his thinking. Here's how I look at it, Andrew. |
| 1:00.3 | First of all, as St. Paul says, the law of God is written on everyone's heart. So nobody, |
| 1:08.7 | whether they believe in God or not, is exempt from knowing at some deep level in your |
| 1:14.1 | conscience being aware that certain kinds of activity, behavior, etc., are wrong. So you don't |
| 1:21.7 | need religion to tell you that murder is wrong. Atheists know that murder is wrong. They know because |
| 1:27.0 | they know. They know because, |
| 1:28.6 | even though they deny God's existence, God has encoded that or hardwired that into their very being. |
| 1:36.7 | So we can start there and just say that it's self-evident with or without belief in God, |
| 1:43.4 | with or without religion. It's self-evident that |
| 1:46.2 | certain kinds of behavior are wrong. This is why, in the course of human history, societies have |
| 1:53.1 | imposed laws to make life a little more livable. If there were no laws, if there were no |
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