It's Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022.

I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Are we or are we not in the midst of what's described as a culture war?

I'm just going to say simply, straightforwardly, undeniably, we are.

Culture war explains much of what is going on in the world around us.

It doesn't explain everything, but it explains why at the most fundamental level

of our civilizational life there is a war over what is true, what is beautiful, what is good,

what should be moral, what is marriage, what does it mean to be male and female or does it mean

anything that's objectively true? Now we need to recognize at first that the term culture war

is originally descriptive.

That is, it describes a fundamental struggle

over the future of the culture, a fundamental struggle over the future of the a fundamental struggle over the future of the civilization

a struggle that is not merely the engagement of partisan politics is not merely an

argument over national policy it's an argument over national policy, it's an argument over reality.

Now the term wasn't even originally English, it was originally German.

It comes from 19th century Germany where the term was culture comf meaning culture war or struggle for the culture

It goes back to the 19th century and the unification of Germany as a modern nation and even as that was taking place under the leadership of the man known to history as the

Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismark, the reality is that there were fundamental differences

about how the new German society should be arranged.

What should be the laws, what should be the customs, even what should be the holidays, who should

run the schools.

And one of the major distinctions was between the Protestant states of Germany and the Catholic states of Germany.

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