This past Thursday (November 30, 2023) Dr. Al Mohler spoke on his daily podcast "The Briefing" about the war in the Middle East giving some unique insights into our modern-day culture wars and what this war is revealing about them.
Dr. Mohler is President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, and has been for over 30 years. He is a man who has a great mind for the Word of God and for culture bringing the two together each day in his podcast "The Briefing."
He noted two things about the continual release of hostages.
1. Women and children are being released first and are the ones being of top priority in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
Interestingly, he notes, that in our day of feminism and equal rights for women, no one is marching against this emphasis on women and children being released ahead of men. It would seem if you are for "equal rights" across the board, that should also go for war.
2. The absence of distinction when identifying those being released.
The negotiations are for men, women, and children to be released. No mention of the gender war going on concerning pronouns, non-binary or transgender. They are simply being referred to as men and women, boys and girls.
Why? Because in war and death, all of these other things are not primary. The moral obligation in these days of literal life and death is not gender or equality.
So it raises the question, if at our time of death what we forced others to call us or how we identified is not important, then why is it worth our time in the precious moments of life?
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