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Lead: If racism is wrong, then religious beliefs that uphold racism are... ? Wrong! And what might this imply for you as a Christian ambassador?
Intro: We’ve talked before on this show about how the old version of tolerance meant I could respect you as a person but call one of your ideas wrong…because now I had something to tolerate! The new tolerance? It’s wrong to judge that someone else is wrong.
So what do you do if racism is wrong and tolerance is right and someone else hold a religious belief that is racist? This is one of the worldview cracks we’ll get to today as we continue on our conversational journey together.
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Bible segment (read along with The Bible Project):
Passage: Job 32-34
Translation: NET (New English Translation)
Words: ~1514
Apologetics/reflections segment:
Rebecca McLaughlin points out six (which we flesh out in the show):
Lack of foundation for science and existence
Lack of grounding for human equality
Tension between secular values and religious diversity
Competing needs for objective truth and religious relativism
False assumption of increasing secularism
False assumption that less religion is good for society (1)
Wisdom segment:
Passage: Psalm 143
Translation: NET (New English Translation)
Words: ~197
The bottom line:
Watch The Bible Project’s video on Job (below) if you haven’t already.
Love you!
-R
Roger Courville, CSP is a globally-recognized expert in digitally-extended communication and connection, an award-winning speaker, award-winning author, and a passionately bad guitarist. Follow him on Twitter -- @RogerCourville and @JoinForTheHope – or his blog: www.forthehope.org.
Sources and resources
(1) Rebecca McLaughlin, “6 Cracks in a Secular Worldview” The Gospel Coalition (blog), January 4, 2018, https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/cracks-secular-worldview/. Accessed May 24, 2019.
20 Compelling Evidences That God Exists: Discover Why Believing in God Makes So Much Sense, Ken Boa & Rob Bowman on Amazon (Kindle) — 99 cents
Understanding the Faith: A Survey of Christian Apologetics (Understanding the Times) by Jeff Myers for 99 cents — that’s cheap! Amazon or Google