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Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Sexual Revolution with Mary Eberstadt

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Christian Research Institute

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

5.0810 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week, Hank is joined on Hank Unplugged by Mary Eberstadt, author of It's Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies. Her writing has appeared in TIME, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Review, First Things, and The Weekly Standard, and in March 2017, she was named Senior Research Fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute. They discuss the secularist religion birthed by the Sexual Revolution and how it helped yesterday’s sinners become today’s secular saints.

Topics discussed include: the secularist religion birthed by the Sexual Revolution (3:00); Christians being labeled as bigots and a damaging decrease of dialogue in society (9:30); the social experiments of the Sexual Revolution (13:00); what inspired Mary to do the work she is doing? (16:00); the new hypereugenics movement and Margaret Sanger as a secular saint (20:30); the growing ideological incoherence of many who claim to be Christians (30:00); the anti-Islamophobia motion in Canada and their censorship of Hank with the release of MUSLIM: What You Need to Know About the World’s Fastest-Growing Religion (34:00); the demographic crisis in Europe (40:00); the need for Christians to pursue excellence in word and thought in the public arena (46:30); dhimmitude and the death of religious liberty in America (48:30); the Nazarene pin and the Scarlet letter that being a Christian has become in society (52:00); how the Sexual Revolution helped yesterday’s sinners become today’s secular saints (55:00); Mary’s wake-up call to the West (1:01:30).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to another edition of Hank Unplugged.

0:26.2

This is sort of the lean-back version of what I do on the Bible Answer Man broadcast, out of the studio, into the study,

0:33.3

talking to some of the most significant people on the planet.

0:38.5

And today is no exception.

0:40.0

I'm talking to Mary Eberstadt.

0:42.4

She's an American essayist.

0:44.0

She's a novelist.

0:45.0

She's the author of many books.

0:46.6

We'll probably talk about some of those books today.

0:49.3

And she has an incredible gift with the pen.

0:54.2

Her writing has appeared in magazines, including Time Magazine,

0:59.1

the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Review,

1:05.0

the Weekly Standard, and I could go on and on.

1:07.4

And then in March 2017, Mary was named Senior Research Fellow at the Faith and Reason

1:17.6

Institute in Washington, D.C. And Mary has been on our broadcast a number of times because I was so

1:27.1

excited about one of her books. I so excited about one of her books.

1:28.6

I'm excited about all of her books, but a book titled It's Dangerous to Believe, Religious Freedom and Its Enemies.

1:37.9

Yeah, now we'll talk about that some today as well.

1:41.1

But we want to talk about what's happening.

1:42.9

There's a great paradigm shift taking place

1:45.9

in Western civilization. And we have to wake up to its realities. There's a brand new orthodoxy

1:56.0

afoot. And interestingly enough, we have sort of an unholy alliance between liberal liberalism and illicit Islam.

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