Thursday, March 28, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 10:25)
A Political Type That No Longer Exists: The Life and Legacy of Senator Joseph Lieberman — Last of the Old Style Political Centrists

Part II (10:25 - 19:49)
Religion is Losing Influence, and Americans Aren’t Happy About It: Examining the Complicated (and Conflicting) Numbers from Recent Research

8 in 10 Americans Say Religion Is Losing Influence in Public Life by Pew Research Center (Michael Rotolo, Gregory A. Smith, and Jonathan Evans)

Part III (19:49 - 25:26)
A Claimed Drop in Religious Affiliation Due to Lack of LGBTQ Support — But Do the Numbers Really Support That Narrative?

People say they're leaving religion due to anti-LGBTQ teachings and sexual abuse by NPR (Jason DeRose)

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, March 28, 2024.
0:07.8	I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.2	a Christian worldview.
0:14.0	Former United States Senator Joseph Lieberman died yesterday in New York City.
0:18.4	His family reported that the death was due to complications from a fall.
0:23.2	Joe Lieberman was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1989.
0:28.2	By the time he left the United States Senate in 2013,
0:31.7	he was no longer in the good graces of the Democratic Party. But as we
0:36.2	look at the life of Joe Lieberman I think it's important for us to recognize
0:39.6	that in worldview significance what's most interesting here is that he was, in a sense, the last of a political type.
0:46.1	A political type who spanned the period between the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.
0:52.4	He was a political type that no longer exists.
0:55.5	His closest friend in the United States Senate, that is the late U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona,
1:01.3	a Republican, and yet you might say a awkward Republican
1:05.4	certainly by the end of his life. The fact is that Lieberman and McCain
1:09.3	together represented perhaps the last of the classic centrist in American politics.
1:15.0	It is a reminder that if you go back to the period after World War II, the political spectrum
1:20.0	in the United States was not just a liberal conservative.
1:22.6	As a matter of fact, those lines weren't particularly clear after the national unity that
1:27.9	was both the product of and the source of America's victory in World War II. By the time you get into the 1960s
1:35.2	everything begins to break loose and what's very interesting during that period is
1:39.3	the emergence even with the turmoil in so many moral and cultural issues in the United States
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