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Hello, my name is Chris Elkins, and I have the honor of serving at Denison Forum with Dr. Jim Denison, who is here with us today to talk about a subject that Americans hold near

and dear to their heart.

It's what does the Bible say about freedom?

Recently, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored rights.

Why do you think this is, Jim?

Yeah, it's a great question.

When the justice made that statement, it got national news, national coverage, of course, and understandably

so, but I think he's right, unfortunately. I think it goes on two levels. The first thought has to do

with truth itself, what the nature or definition of truth is. We live in a culture that's decided

truth as personal individual and subjective. A lot of reasons for that. I think we've even done some

videos on what is truth and

why does the culture look at truth the way it does. I could take you all the way back to Descartes and

Locke and Kant and Nietzsche and some of the philosophy behind that. But it basically boils down to what's

called postmodern relativism. All truth is personal individual and subjective. Your truth is how your

mind interprets your

senses and yours isn't mine and so your truth isn't going to be mine and everybody has their own

truth. Well, our culture has believed that now for a very long time and it's driven that idea

into all sorts of moral destinations. You have your own truth as regards abortion, your own

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