Waiting for the Mueller Report and examining five cultural lies. Is your Savior, your Lord?

This is Dr. Jim Denison's The Daily Article podcast for Thursday, April 18, 2019.

America is waiting for the redacted version of the Mueller Report to be published later this morning.

We will not be able to read the report in its entirety, since it contains information that was presented to a grand jury and is therefore subject to secrecy

rules. In addition, intelligence officials will redact information that could compromise sensitive

sources and methods or hamper other current investigations. And the Justice Department will

redact information it believes unfairly infringes on the privacy

of quote, peripheral third parties, end quote, and damages their reputations.

What difference then will the report make?

Not much in the minds of most voters, apparently.

A recent survey found that the report may not change the minds of many Americans about the

president.

Barring a bombshell revelation, voters are likely to view

the report through the prism of their partisan identities. Now let's consider five lies that

explain our culture from New York Times columnist David Brooks. Pick a subject from the president

to abortion to gender identity to the environment. Can you think of a single significant issue

on which Americans are largely agreed?

What is causing our nation's cultural divides to grow ever deeper and more vitriolic?

Writing for the New York Times, columnist David Brooks offers some diagnoses of our cultural

condition that merit significant attention and personal application.

His bottom line, we've created a culture based on lies, five of them

to be specific. Here they are. 1. Career success is fulfilling. Brooks notes that such success

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