It's Wednesday, June 21, 2023.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

The idea that we are living in a great, massive, singular, global community is something that

has been a dream going all the way back to the time of the ancients.

When, frankly, they didn't know how many people or peoples were on the earth.

They didn't even have a good understanding of the way the surface of the earth was arranged.

Nonetheless, the idea of one unified human community has been very old.

Then you look at the fact that in the last generation, or you might say even in the beginning

of the current generation, there came with the breakup of the Soviet Union and the end

of the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the USSR.

There came the declaration that we are living in a new era of global peace.

The emphasis there, more on global than peace.

A worldview known as globalization.

It's also, you might say, an ideology.

It's a theory.

It's the idea that the nation state, that would mean like the United States of America,

Uganda, Italy, Iraq, all those nation states would be declining, receding into the horizon

of history.

And instead, what would be emerging is a new singular global community.

Now sometimes this came with something of a formal proposal.

Something like would be coming from the far left wing, arguing for one global government,

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