Have you ever been in a conversation with maybe someone on the left? And you've talked about why you don't think the government should be doing something. And they instantly respond. But if the government didn't do it, who would? In fact, in our last episode, we addressed this specifically with respect to the abortion debate, where we have a lot of people saying that, you know, you claim to be pro life, but you're really only pro birth because you don't support paid medical family leave or you don't support universal health care, you don't support all these other government programs. So what we're going to be addressing today is specifically this idea, the differences

with respect to how the left and the right typically view the role of government within society.

And we're going to address some of those differences,

not to mention the fact that we're going to get in

to what I think is kind of a controversial idea.

And this is the idea that the church in the West

is actually contributing to its own downfall.

So we're going to be answering why that is,

how we potentially stop it.

All of this and more coming up on this episode

of making the argument, where we make the arguments to defend a free society. Thank you for joining us

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All right. So I think first things first. We want to kind of look at this from the left perspective, and we're not trying to set up a straw man, right? Or is I heard one person, do a steel man, given the best version of their argument, let's look at, I think one of the primary differences between the left and the right when we look at problems within society. We can all agree on certain problems like poverty or health care, education, things

like that. It's almost like a foregone conclusion on the left that if there's a problem,

well, of course, especially if it's a larger problem or a larger issue that we're trying to risk,

of course there's going to be a government solution or approach or some sort of involvement.

Whereas on the right, that is not necessarily a foregone conclusion. And so it really is this idea of how do you view society? Do you

do you view government as the primary mechanism by which society is organized and by which

problems are addressed? Or do you view government is simply one

aspect among many within society and not necessarily the most important? And so I think the left

sees government is something that we are all required by law to participate in. It is a mechanism

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