It's Wednesday, November the 20th, 2024, and this is the Daily Article podcast. Welcome.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article, written by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Tech entrepreneur Brian Johnson receives blood transfusions from his teenage son,

undergoes regular gene therapy injections,

and adheres to a strict diet all in his $2 million a year effort to live forever.

His face recently became so gaunt, however, that he injected fat from a donor into it.

His body rejected the fat, sparking a severe allergic reaction that took a week to subside.

Think how he'll feel if an epidemic like the bird flu or Impox sickens him.

He's like the masked raiders who struck Windsor Castle attack him.

Noise bombing, like the auditory barrage being waged by North Korea against South Korea,

finds him. A nuclear war like the one Vladimir Putin is threatening breaks out,

or storms like the winter weather looming over Thanksgiving travel jeopardizes his life.

In other words, no matter how much

money Brian Johnson or the rest of us spend, none of us is guaranteed another day on this fallen planet.

In such a world, you're either being buffeted by the storm, in the eye of the storm with its

temporary calm, or facing the next storm. As we have noted

this week, one response to our chaotic culture is to double down on partisan confidence, trusting

in our political quote unquote tribe and its leaders while rejecting all others. But as we'll see

today, asking people to do what only God can do

is idolatry that threatens our very future.

C.S. Lewis wrote in The Abolition of Man,

For the Wise Men of Old,

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