Wednesday, January 11, 2023

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 26 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 - 13:19)
So What Armed Rebellion? Theological Considerations of Rebellions Against Government

Brazilian Authorities Detain 1,500 Protesters Involved in Riot by Wall Street Journal (Samantha Pearson and Luciana Magalhaes)

Part II (13:19 - 20:18)
Two Models of Revolutions in the Modern Age: What Conservatives Can Learn from the American and French Revolutions

Part III (20:18 - 25:52)
Most Teenagers Have Seen Online Pornography: The Unprecedented Moral Challenges of Digital Technology

Three-Quarters of Teenagers Have Seen Online Pornography by Age 17 by New York Times (Cecilia Kang)

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, January 11, 2023.
0:08.0	I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.2	a Christian worldview.
0:13.6	Well, there was a great deal of conversation in the United States about the second anniversary
0:18.9	of the rebellion that took place in Washington, DC.
0:22.6	It's now referred to simply as January the 6th.
0:25.7	Now there's a lot of controversy in the United States about that event, but as I said
0:29.4	at the time, the big issue is this.
0:32.2	Once Christians recognize the legitimacy of a government, they have to treat the government
0:36.3	as legitimate.
0:38.1	If we decide that the government is illegitimate, then we have to take all the consequences
0:43.0	and assume all the responsibility of deciding that a government is no longer legitimate.
0:48.4	Now, this takes us back to some of the most heated and important historical debates that
0:53.5	led to what is called the American Revolution.
0:56.3	And that was especially a matter of concern for Christians.
0:59.7	And everyone operating in that revolutionary era was operating out of what was basically,
1:05.3	at least the inherited framework of a Christian worldview.
1:09.2	So the legitimacy of government is a huge issue and not just in the United States, because
1:13.6	over the weekend, a vast demonstration broke out in Brzeilia.
1:18.1	That is, of course, the capital, what is now considered to be the modern capital of the
1:22.5	nation of Brazil.
1:24.4	By the end of the day on Monday of this week, something like 1,500 insurrectionists had
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