Woke Politics Dividing Churches & Gen Z Finding God | Nathan Finochio Interview

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Nathan Finochio (Founder of TheosU) about why Gen Z is finding faith, how social justice is dividing churches, and the dangers of identity politics that have no mechanism for forgiveness. Nathan shares why he thinks so many young zoomers are flocking to churches. He also discusses how woke politics are dividing churches. Since the start of the Black Lives Matter protests and pandemic, he has witnessed churches dividing into two separate camps of leftists and conservatives. Nathan shares what he feels are the dangers of critical theory and identity politics. He discusses how pentecostal christianity, is particularly vulnerable to woke identity politics due its absence of a central leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Rubin and this is the Rubin Report.
0:06.1	Quick reminder everybody to subscribe to our YouTube channel and click that pesky notification
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0:12.3	And joining me today is an author and a teaching pastor.
0:15.3	Nathan Finotio, welcome to the Rubin Report.
0:17.5	Hey, it's good to be here today.
0:20.7	I'm glad to have you, sir, because as you probably know, I do some talking to people
0:25.2	of faith, people better skeptics, people that are somewhere in between and I always find
0:31.6	these to be sort of the most interesting conversations that I have.
0:35.2	So before we do anything about what you're doing now, tell me a little bit about your
0:40.4	journey to faith.
0:41.7	Yeah, so I'm the son of a preacher man.
0:44.8	My dad has been in the ministry as long as I can remember.
0:50.8	And I've sort of just fallen into it to be quite honest.
0:54.0	I try to kind of not necessarily run the other way, but do something else and sort of
0:59.3	just cut up to me.
1:00.3	It's like, you know, so just kind of this is what I do now because it's just kind of what
1:06.0	I know.
1:07.0	But I do have always had a kind of strong faith in God.
1:12.8	I just never saw myself as the ministerial type because people of faith, I guess spiritual
1:20.4	leaders, they kind of have a type.
1:22.6	And they're kind of square and they stay home on Friday nights and play Scrabble with
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