Thursday, February 13, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 11:07)
Is the Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas About to Fall Apart? Hamas Threatens to Halt Hostage Returns Remains Committed to the Non-Existence of Israel
Part II (11:07 - 17:57)
Climate Change Hypocrisy or Something Deeper? Has Silicon Valley Changed its Stripes?
- Under Trump, Billionaire Climate Champions Have Gone Quiet by The New York Times (David Gelles)
Part III (17:57 - 23:20)
Celebrity and Climate Ideology: Those Pushing Climate Change are Often the Most Hypocritical – Just Look at Their Private Jets
- Why Climate-Change Ideology Is Dying by The Wall Street Journal (Barton Swaim)
Part IV (23:20 - 27:00)
A Refreshing and Right Message: The Department of Transportation is Prioritizing Areas with High Marriage Rates and Birth Rates
- Duffy tells DOT to prioritize areas with high birth rates by The Hill (Lauren Irwin)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, February 13, 2025. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing. |
| 0:10.0 | A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Is the ceasefire in the Middle East about to fall apart? |
| 0:17.0 | The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the ceasefire that has been holding for the last |
| 0:22.4 | several days, even the last couple of weeks, surprising many observers, a ceasefire that is |
| 0:27.4 | fragile from the start, and at least in terms of many moral issues, should be controversial |
| 0:32.7 | from the start. But let's just remind ourselves of what is happening. Most immediately, |
| 0:37.4 | Hamas has said that it is not going to move forward on Saturday's exchange of the hostages they are holding and prisoners Israel is holding as well. |
| 0:47.9 | Now, we'll have to come back to the lopsided nature of that in a moment. The fact is that Israel has said in response that if the hostage exchange |
| 0:55.5 | does not take place on Saturday, Israel will resume full military activities in the region, which means |
| 1:01.7 | the ceasefire would be over. Now, I said the ceasefire was controversial from the start. |
| 1:07.0 | Just the way I described it should set up the most controversial part of this. |
| 1:11.7 | A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. |
| 1:15.6 | When you think of the traditional context and the traditional morality of war, |
| 1:20.7 | the traditional understanding of the ethics between nations, |
| 1:24.1 | you're talking about just that, ethics between nations. |
| 1:27.4 | Israel is a nation. |
| 1:28.8 | Hamas is not a nation. |
| 1:30.5 | It is an Islamic terrorist group. |
| 1:32.9 | And so when you're talking about a ceasefire between a nation, Israel, and a terrorist group, Hamas, |
| 1:38.4 | we understand that only under the most excruciating moral conditions would this kind of arrangement become |
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