Peter Jensen | Why Am I Still a Christian? | #CLIP

"Christianity is the answer", said no one. People of faith are the worst kinds of do-gooders.
Pompous wind-bags pretending they occupy the moral high ground. Get a new tune.

There is too much for me to think about before I could make an informed comment on Dr Jensen's enlightening conversation. What I would value is membership in a community of thinkers who discuss the types of critically important issues raised. Traditional church membership and services don't suit everyone. Interactive participation underpinned by Christian theology may be the answer..

What a great talk.

I really appreciated this wonderful conversation. Thank you.
My take-home message is to work on more meaningful engagement with people and to provide a more meaningful narrative that clearly and engagingly presents the Gospel truth.
God bless.

Without forgiveness, the West is doomed. The ideals of limited government pre-supposes a moral people who will govern themselves without the need for an external government.

Crime went down.

John it seems your podcast is frozen ,its been in circulation since this morning & now its 8pm ,you have 135k subscribers but less than 2000 views ...160 likes ? Confusing. ....42 comments, suspicious...........you tube what you up to, what , the usual on right wing leaning podcast 😄

I'm not religious but if i had to choose, the religion of Christianity or the new religion woke , DAAAAAAAA

Thank you John, and thank you Peter, for such a beautiful conversation. AMEN.

Yes John, "we". 100%

Super stuff. Nice to hear an Anglican talking sense - increasingly rare these days. Happy Easter all.

Thank you!

Many talk about "Love" (especially modern day yogis) but what really is it? Affinity? Addiction? Narcissism? Dependence? Worship? Lust? Community? Union? Icecream?

How refreshing it is to hear two seasoned, God honoring gentlemen speak Truth in a time where emotion and image seem to precede everything. Thank You!

Following the rationale of the flawed character of even people trying to execute the biblical worldview - the bible tells us unambiguously, even Paul who tried to to do good, end up doing evil.

A very clear example is - A democratic society is successful over communism because of the people implementing them. works for a while, but we end up where we are. The biblical model of a success system is actually dictatorship - but that is the perfect dictatorship - which God (omnipotent, omnipresence, all fair judge, with love and compassion) can do it because He can customise the rule or need down to one individual (no such man will exist). A democratic society risk a popularity contest, the check system can hinder one society from progressing - as opposed to China's (adopted from Singapore) system, which allows highly intelligent and qualified people to run the system, and make decisive decision, which also will ultimately succumb to sinful nature of men.

The various post-modernism, feminism etc - they are the response to the once flawed Christianity based system - that end up running dry....ie church goers but not true christians.....This is not to say the same would not backfired at the progressives...But despite your mention of the good old days - the people then did make mistakes of not showing compassion to those that while indulging in sin or not (such as slavery) - still are infinitely precious individuals.

But is not Christianity ultimately is about spreading the Gospel to those 'who have ears, let them hear'? Is it not taking the cross and follow Christ? While in this world, there is always going to be prosecution and hate? And therefore we pin our hope in the world to come rather than this world?

Thank you gentlemen, for sharing your love, concerns snd faith with us this Good Friday.

Thanks to God for his love, mercy, and gifts of repentance and faith.

Rom 13 is not about secular govt

Scary how religion is gaining popularity.

On the topic of Church and State it's important to point out that the Church of England was established to be a State Church and works best without a separation. While other denominations such as the Catholic Church and other Protestant churches were established underground and can work well with a separation.

Wish I could share this with Joe Biden.

Happy Easter!

Be strong in the Lord in His mighty power.

God has not given us a spirit of fear but power love and a sound mind.

Submit therefore unto God.
Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Never believe the Australian Media that is an error take everything they say and flip it and you will then have the truth. They have even messed with the Weather.

Thank you Dr Peter Jensen really enjoyed listening to you.

Yes it works - For the ruling class, they can use Christianity to dumb down and manipulate their minions by ignorance and fear of a fictitious next world. Just look at the man who made Christianity really significant in Europe - Emperor Constantine. The arrogant pig killed his own son, then advocated a religion with no intrinsic logic, but it did have a god who killed his son too. 100% BS. Any man who advocates the medieval nonsense called Christianity is not mentally, or intellectually, fit to have opinions.

Contempt, hate, bile, vitriol and denigrating comments and insults is in almost all discussions whether it’s climate change, abortion, race whatever, is taught nowadays by the media by politicians etc. it’s sad that two or more people cannot sit and discuss a topic rationally and calmly but most people talk in slogans from sound and video bites and with little knowledge of a topic other than an emotional aspect which erupts in anger and frustration as they cannot express their view in any other way. They lack the cognizance and knowledge to verbalize coherently.
With contempt and hatred comes the ability to see a person or group of people as less than human. At that point it’s a small step to incarceration and elimination.
We ignore history at our own peril.
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There is no Christian or any other community rights. You, as an individual, have a right to freely associate. This is an individual right. The association formed by individuals (the group, the collective etc) has no rights other than the individual rights of its members. Some men dont have any different or any more or less rights by happenstance of which groups he associates. To suggest otherwise is tribal collectivism.

Ccp vassal state Kanada persecuting Christians and ultra orthodox jews, rcmp enforcement arm of Marxist govt. boarded up Pastor james Coates church today

What an excellent interview!

Fact is that in 60 -tis they use word love against true meaning of love .
To love people does not mean that you will sleep and have sex with everyone .
That is against Christianity and true meaning of love .
So called leaders should lead us in the good way not bad way .
They role here is to serve us .
They are paid for serving ( us- society .)
So if their servis is not good they should be replaced by good and honest people who will fulfill their duties well.
That is really very simple .

Dr Anderson, this is the most exceptional upload you have made mate. Truely inspirational! 💪👍

Response to title: Yeah, the Catholic church and the oppressive religious zealots from the 1970's, 80's and 90's ruined that perception. Now, we have a rabid, lost, spiteful leftist culture with activists no different to those religious zealots obsessively seeking political power. It will take a generation to undo the damage done by both.

Thanks for this Mr Anderson! Keep it up.

A better way to phrase the headline is, "Christiaity worked", past tense. Christians are guilty of the same feeling of entitlement.
The ancient Greeks did not believe that people were good or bad. They did believe that, no matter how proper, just or loving a person appeared, demons lay below the surface of every human and we have to learn to deal with them and keep them under control. That's just the way things are. This was illustrated in the myths of Apollo and Dionysus. Nietzsche was a classics scholar who explains this concept in, "The Birth of Tragedy". The Greek myths which underlie their philosophy are not that different from the Christian myths. Human nature does not change.
Christianity required centuries of brutal, ruthless, even thuggish enforcement by the state to become widely accepted in the west. There was nothing mysterious about it.
To quote Joseph Campbell, most Christians have become lost in the myth, in particular the fundamentalists, and have become oblivious to the thoughts behind it. Born in the Bronze Age and adapted through the Dark Ages, Christianity served the social order. We are now in an industrial age which does not economically support former traditional family or moral structure. Almost no one believes in the divine right of kings or nobility through birth. A new order will eventually emerge, but we are in a difficult transitional period. Human nature is still the same and what ever comes will still likely be explainable through the metaphors of the Dionysian and Apollonian myths.

Another great interview John, thanks to you and Peter both.
I hate to think we are a this point, but with our failing standards in Australia, is it time that we who are Christians say we are Christians first and Australian second?
We should promote that which give us all the greatest hope, charity, forgiveness and sense of community.
A Christian umbrella that is open to all and totally inclusive.
Perhaps it was a mistake of the past to put nationhood on a similar level to God.

I was in tears at the end. Thank you Dr. Jensen for your powerful witness. ✝️

I agree that what society is experiencing now can be traced back to the 60s, but what enabled the 60s was the post war prosperity.

Prosperity kills culture.

What a conversation; so many different themes and insightful perspectives. Thank You!

An outstanding episode. The core issue (human nature) is also discussed exhaustively in Thomas Sowell: "A Conflict of Visions."

What an enjoyable discussion

This was wonderful, glad I happened upon this today.

My husband at yrs of age committed his life to Jesus at an off-shoot rally inspired by the Billy Graham Crusade in WA in 1959. I became a 'born-again' Christian in Perth in1980 and for the last forty years we have had a marvelous adventure together with God. My husband went on to become a Preacher and we were Missionaries to Papua New Guinea. When we retired in 2020 God gave us a lovely modest home as a free gift. God always looks after his faithful children. His love for us is amazing and wonderful.

I very sincerely enjoy this episode of your podcast John, you have done great work and are one of the few conservative speakers my wife will listen to. However, I did have a chuckle when I saw the date this video was posted. Keep up the good work and God bless.

1st. Love God who gave our privilege to even uttered words beloved? Is like what is the true meaning of utterance beloved. So you and me may know why is very, very, very, vital to 2nd love thy neighbors as thyself beloved! Breathing through our nostrils indeed. Given. Indeed can be kept. Is like why are we talking at all beloved? Remember it will be hard to show off to God without our neighbors beloved. Many have different definitions of our beloved neighbors upon all the tribes of judah upon all dry GROUNDS nor the world. Noises has an Aim beloved! Now what noise can be kept beloved! Nothing is wasted but increased. Beloved my true forefathers are true WASHERS OF FEETS OF NEIGHBORS. CAN'T SEPARATE GOD AND NEIGHBORS. SPECIALLY DEALING WITH THE SKY CAN'T TOUCH THE ROOF OF IT BELOVED.

I was dismissed from my employment because of my Christian faith

Jesus saved me how arrogant was l thinking l knew better in my youth