Wednesday, June 4, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 - 08:13)
Europe Has a Huge Free Speech Problem: Europe is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Saving Democracy
- Europe’s free-speech problem: J.D. Vance was Right by The Economist
Part II (08:13 - 12:31)
What is Happening in Finland Will Not Stay in Finland: Americans Need to Closely Watch the Free Speech Case of Paivi Rasanen in Finland
- Europeans are becoming less free to say what they think by The Economist
Part III (12:31 - 18:06)
A Dark and Deadly Legacy: Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the Creator of the Abortion Pill, Dies at 98
- Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Who Developed the Abortion Pill, Dies at 98 by The New York Times (Scott Veale)
- The Truth About the Abortion Pill: The Deadly Danger and Effects of the Abortion Pill Revealed in New Study by the EPPC by The Briefing April 29, 2025 (Albert Mohler)
Part IV (18:06 - 27:53)
A Prominent NT Scholar Justifies an Abortion in the Case of Rape and Incest? The Big Issues with NT Wright’s Recent Comments on Abortion
- Is abortion ever justified? Can Lucifer be forgiven? NT Wright answers your questions by Ask NT Wright Anything (Michael Bird and NT Wright)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June 4th, 2025. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian |
| 0:12.6 | worldview. |
| 0:13.9 | Europe has a huge free speech problem, and at least increasingly, some Europeans are beginning |
| 0:19.7 | to admit the problem. |
| 0:20.8 | Now, just remember that it was a matter of a few months ago that U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance in Europe |
| 0:26.1 | accused the Europeans of having a free speech problem. |
| 0:29.5 | And he expanded that to many European nations having a democracy problem. |
| 0:34.3 | We discussed this yesterday on the briefing, the attempt to try to shut out so-called |
| 0:39.0 | far-right parties, basically compromising democracy in the name of some kind of higher goal. And here's |
| 0:45.2 | one of the ironies. You have so many European governments saying that they are basically compromising |
| 0:50.3 | democracy in order to save democracy. And you also see the cultural and intellectual |
| 0:55.5 | elites in the United States circling the wagons to try to do exactly the same thing, to try to curtail |
| 1:02.2 | democratic freedoms, supposedly in defense of preserving democracy. Now, the irony and all that is |
| 1:08.8 | thick, and it turns out to be really instructive as well. |
| 1:11.8 | So let's look at the European situation. |
| 1:13.8 | What was the vice president talking about when he accused Europe of having a free speech problem? |
| 1:19.1 | Well, many Europeans were up in arms. |
| 1:21.0 | How can you accuse us of having a free speech problem? |
| 1:23.9 | All of our nations offer some kind of guarantee of free speech. |
| 1:29.0 | Just a little footnote here. |
| 1:35.9 | Free speech in the American tradition is a matter of a constitutional right. It is in the Bill of Rights. |
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