Tuesday, January 10, 2023

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 28 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 - 07:58)
The Return of Doctor Population Bomb — Why Do the Media Seem to Want Such an Intellectually Discredited Doomsday Prophet to Be Vindicated?

The Paul Ehrlich Apocalypse Is Back by Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)

Part II (07:58 - 14:04)
An Anti-Human Worldview Runs Rampant Through Our Culture: How Issues of Abortion Intersect with Those of Population Control and Make For a Deadly Combination

Part III (14:04 - 20:20)
Sometimes, the Death Penalty is the Right (and Righteous) Response: Biden’s Department of Justice Presses for Death Penalty in Terrorism Case, Even as the President Claims to Have Halted Federal Executions

Suspect in Bike Path Killing Faces First Death Penalty Trial Under Biden by New York Times (Benjamin Weiser)

Part IV (20:20 - 28:09)
One Who Worked to Save Lives and One Who Worked in a Death Camp: Juxtaposing Two Lives and Huge Moral Lessons

Albert A. Richman, 88, Dies; Rabbinical College President by New York Times
Irmgard Furchner: Nazi typist guilty of complicity in 10,500 murders by BBC News (Paul Kirby and Robert Greenall)

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, January 10, 2023.
0:08.0	I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.4	a Christian worldview.
0:14.3	One of the most intellectually discredited figures in American academia is a Stanford University
0:20.0	professor by the name of Paul Erlich.
0:22.7	In 1968, he authored a book, along with his wife, who wasn't credited in 1968.
0:28.4	He authored a book entitled The Population Bomb, and in it, he predicted that the planet
0:33.6	would face mass starvation.
0:36.0	Human beings would die by the mass millions of inevitable famine and climate collapse
0:41.8	beginning in the 1970s.
0:44.0	The world's population at that time was 3.5 billion.
0:47.5	And again, he promised that there would be a massive die-off of the human race beginning
0:52.6	in the 1970s.
0:53.6	Well, let's just fast forward.
0:59.0	Remember, when he wrote the book, 3.5 billion, now, after he wrote the population bomb
1:04.5	by a matter of decades, the global population's 8 billion, and that 8 billion is better fed
1:10.6	than the 3.5 billion who were alive when he wrote the population bomb.
1:15.6	But nonetheless, Paul Erlich was a part of the population control movement, and we need
1:20.6	to understand that worldview held that human beings were a threat to the planet.
1:25.6	Now, we'll talk about the fact that that's the absolute contradiction of the biblical
1:29.5	worldview.
1:30.5	But nonetheless, what Paul Erlich was calling for was government action, international
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