It's Friday, January the 6th, 2023, and this is the Daily Article Podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison,

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Now, back to Dr. Ryan Denison's daily article for today. I'll admit, my initial

reaction when I realized that I would need to write about the second anniversary of the capital

riots was somewhere between, not this again, and I just don't care. That's not to say that

the breach of the capital lacked significance or was in any way

an appropriate or moral response to the 2020 election. As Dr. Jim Denison wrote in the days following

those events, however, it was also not, as President Biden described it, the worst attack on

our democracy since the Civil War. The truth is that most Americans think what happened that day was wrong,

but far fewer think it is worth continuing to dwell on or investigate going forward.

So, if that's the case, why am I writing about it today?

In short, it's because it provides a good opportunity

to think about a larger cultural question that continues to impact all of us, regardless of our

political affiliation. Why is it that we so often feel the urge to push views to the extreme?

And, as we'll see in a bit, the answer to that question has a

profound impact on the way we should see evangelism as well. With the capital riots, we see this

trend in those who, like President Biden, exaggerate the historical significance of the attacks.

However, we also see it from those who view

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