Thursday, September 15, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 14:21)
Nonsense of the Quintessential Sort: MSNBC Host Argues ‘Jesus Never Once Talked About Abortion’ — And That the Pro-Life Position is HeresyPart II (14:21 - 22:16)
‘Being Trans Is A Medical Condition’ — But Wait, There’s More.Is Being Transgender a Medical Condition? by Washington Post (Jennifer Finney Boylan)Part III (22:16 - 27:18)
Reality Trumps Political Theory: Sweden—That Bastion of Liberal Social Experiment—Shifts Right Amidst Rising Crime RatesSweden Democrats Reflect Europe’s Rightward Trend by Wall Street Journal (Dominic Green)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, September 15, 2022. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.2 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Sometimes just a few seconds of some kind of media coverage |
| 0:18.0 | gets a great deal of attention. |
| 0:20.0 | It goes, as they say, viral on social media, |
| 0:22.0 | and people are talking about it even if |
| 0:24.9 | there's not a general understanding of exactly what's going on but there is a |
| 0:29.0 | general sense this is absolute nonsense. |
| 0:32.8 | The most recent quintessential example comes from MS NBC host Joe Scarborough. |
| 0:38.8 | In a conversation about abortion, Scarborough spoke of the fact that he was by his own definition a Baptist if a |
| 0:45.2 | backslidden Baptist he says however quote but I still know the Bible now |
| 0:50.6 | I'll just say when I hear someone say that I brace myself for what's going to follow in this case |
| 0:55.2 | You better brace yourself pretty securely because Joe Scarborough went on to say quote |
| 0:59.6 | Jesus never once talked about abortion never, and it was happening back in ancient times, |
| 1:05.4 | it was happening during his time, never once did he mention it. |
| 1:10.2 | He went on to talk about those in particular Republicans, in particular pro-lifers, and they are |
| 1:16.1 | by his own words, quote, people who are perverting the Gospel of Jesus Christ down to one issue, he said, it's heresy. |
| 1:25.1 | And then he dared people, he said, if you don't believe me, if that makes you angry, |
| 1:28.0 | why don't you do something that you haven't done in a long time? |
| 1:31.0 | Open the Bible, open the New Testament, read the red letters, you won't see |
| 1:35.6 | it meaning abortion there, end quote. |
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