'Suffer Little Children, and Forbid Them Not to Come Unto Me': A Conversation with Katy Faust

In this edition of the popular podcast series "Thinking in Public," Albert Mohler speaks with Katy Faust, founder and director of the children's rights organization, Them Before Us, about her recent book, "Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement."

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[robertmize]

Thank you, ma'am. Defending the children with the arguments that God gives you. I believe you're doing that and thats what the Word directs. I'm not learned enough to address any of the finer legal or theological points but I cry and pray for the children.

[gustavoserrano]

Awesome...!!!! Thought provoking and inspiring "two individuals "...that are leading the

[bestpossibleworld]

Great conversation. It is nice to hear Protestants embrace the Natural Law. Thomas Aquinas was a giant on the issue.

[globescape]

Katy Faust alluded to Jeremiah 29: 4-7 - This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. 7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”

[FredHosea]

What most people call their "Faith" is simply, and complicatedly, a self-serving form of idolatry that people adopt to (a) give themselves a sense of existential place, security and purpose which they then use as a pretext to pressure, judge, and condemn others, with an alleged backing by their Divinity, (b) to claim arrogant immunity from accountability to reason, science, or democratic values, consensus and social/religious diversity, and (c) to claim unverifiable and unfalsifiable supernatural justification and imperatives for social policy that aspire to be universally applicable, despite the fact that vast billions of other people do not share or respect their supernatural claims. Faith and Beliefs are mythological forms of thought and feeling that are only valuable and respectable bases for social policy when their principles and teachings have universal acceptability and applicability. Appeal to Revelation and sacred texts can have only marginal, anecdotal value in the wider context of universal human reason, science, and democratic diversity. The vast incoherences, contradictions, barbarisms, and inconsistencies of the worlds faith traditions make them one of the least reliable and respectable forms of moral reference for personal development and social order.