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🗓️ 20 February 2025
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0:00.0 | It's Thursday, February 20, 2025. I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
0:13.9 | As we look at the big issues across the cultural and moral landscape, it's quite easy for Christians in the United States to avoid looking squarely at |
0:22.9 | the issue of assisted suicide euthanasia, because in one sense, it can seem rather remote. |
0:28.6 | That's not true in several jurisdictions and several states in the United States, where you have |
0:34.1 | assisted suicide or physician assisted death, as the euphemism now is presented to us, |
0:41.3 | where it's legal. But on this issue, it's really important to look across the Atlantic and across our |
0:47.8 | northern border as well, to Canada and to Europe, and understand that the issues that are framed there now are going to be framed here |
0:54.6 | very quickly. Now, the fact that we do have states contrasted with other states in this nation |
1:00.6 | on the issue of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, that demonstrates the cleavage in the |
1:07.5 | American mind, in the American worldview on this. We're looking at blue states and red states, |
1:12.8 | and primarily we need to notice that there is an overlay on this issue. |
1:17.3 | Areas of the country where there is greater Christian influence |
1:20.4 | or the influence of the Christian worldview |
1:22.0 | and where there is less influence, |
1:23.9 | and that map also is very indicative. |
1:29.7 | Few surprises there. You are looking at states, |
1:34.7 | particularly on the Pacific coast, and in particular in the northwest, you're looking at some of the northeast, and you're looking at a predictable cultural pattern, but you're also looking at |
1:39.7 | a deep cleavage in the United States. In Europe, you're looking at nation by nation. Interestingly, a very |
1:45.5 | similar pattern. Nation by nation, you see there are different laws, whether it's called physician |
1:50.9 | assisted death or assisted suicide or euthanasia. The reality is that you can predict to a considerable |
1:57.8 | degree where a country is, depending on where it is on the side towards |
2:02.5 | secularization and political liberalism. |
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