April 12, 2021

EP248: Wants to affect change? The Culture > Politics & Government / Secular Progressivism Cleverly Changes Our Language / Voter ID Laws / A TON MORE

50 minutes

On this Episode:

BE CAREFUL OF HAVING YOUR MIND CAPTURED (0:00-12:48)

Colossians 2 warns Christians not to have their minds taken captive by secular, worldly, deceptive philosophies and ideologies. Our culture presents plenty of them: Woke-ism, Qanon-ism, and dozens of gradients in between. Colossians also gives us the solution: be rooted in the faith as Scripture describes it, take every thought captive, and measure against Scripture.

THE CULTURE MATTERS MORE THAN GOVERNMENT (12:38-31:45)

Folks obsess over what happens in capitol rotundas or on the nightly news. While a few million people watch and pay attention to these matters, though, literally hundreds of millions of people are having their minds and ideologies shaped on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.

Consider this: it's not that hard to find a YouTuber you've never heard of with 25 million regular viewers while the combined viewership of cable news will top out around 10 million. If we want to be change agents in the culture, we should recognize that and strategize around it.

In that vein, I have examples of how a Disney+ show and the latest Taylor Swift album endeavors to disciple our minds.

CHANGE THE LANGUAGE; WIN THE ARGUMENT (23:21-37ish)

Framing arguments for one own's advantage isn't new. However, I noticed that secular progressivism has been doing this lately insidiously -- and effectively. Secularism is winning the culture, in part, because they change the language, and we acquiesce to their changes. I'll provide details.

MORE MEDIA MALFEASANCE (35:34-37:30)

I have one quick thought on how the national media's agenda is made obvious in how they covered 4 recent violent acts.

VACCINE THOUGHT (37:30-41:20)

I have a brief thought on the Covid-19 vaccine. One spoiler: it's not the "Mark of the Beast.:

THE DEREK CHAUVIN TRIAL (41:20-47:30)

I have one piece of audio from an activist threatening violence and destruction if the trial doesn't go her way. That's evil, and cities should prepare to mitigate against that possibility.

I attempt here to prepare everyone for every possible outcome on what might be the most prominent criminal trial since the OJ Simpson case.

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