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At least six killed by terrorists at bus stop in Jerusalem · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Greetings on this Monday, September the 8th, 2025.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for joining us for Dinnison Forum's Daily Article Podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today's Daily Article is authored by our co-founder Dr. Jim Dinnison and narrated by your truly praceulcan's.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At least six people were murdered and dozens were wounded when terrorists opened fire on civilians at a bus stop in Jerusalem this morning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The two attackers were killed at the scene, Hamas praised the shooting by whom they referred to as two Palestinian resistance fighters.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This tragedy is especially personal for me on two levels.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One is that I have led more than 30 study tours to Israel and love the country and its people.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The other is that Ray Muth Junction, the site of the attack, is located at one of the main entry points to Jerusalem.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've traveled by it many times over the years and know that what happened there could have happened to me and to my fellow travelers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In other news, Russia launched its largest attack on Ukraine over the weekend since the war began.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At least four people were killed, including a two-month-old baby and the child's mother, dozens more were injured.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Queen Elizabeth II died on this day in 2022 at the age of 96.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even though she was the longest-raining monarch in British history,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Death found her as it will all of us, and let's crash returns first.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our very human fear of that moment is not just the threat of pain and suffering, but also our innate dread of the unknown.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We fear walking into a dark room or a dark forest, much less a dark future.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we ignore the fact if human mortality when we can.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't want to write about today's tragic news from Jerusalem and Ukraine any more than you wanted to read about it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We, you for my death, people don't die anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They merely pass on, and we seek to extend our lives through medical means.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When we fear death, we make this world our home and fight tooth and nail to stay here as long as we can.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We measure success by temporal standards and drive ourselves to achieve it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And we go through life claiming, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Therein lies the issue I want to address today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Patrick J. D'Nine is a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In his masterful book, while liberalism failed, he describes liberalism from the Latin Libre meaning free.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As a point that, quote, can see humans as rights-bearing individuals who could fashion and pursue for themselves their own version of the Good Life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quote,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Over the centuries of its Ascent, this view has led many of its followers to jettison everything that constrains individual freedom, including religious dogma, societal morays, and legal strictures.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whether the topic is abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia, or a host of other cultural issues Western culture has, quote-unquote, evolved,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How is this working for us?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Professor Deneen notes that, quote, some 70% of Americans believe that their country is moving in the wrong direction, while every institution of government shows declining levels of public trust by the citizenry, in quote, after documenting a plethora of other social ills he concludes, nearly every one of the promises that were made by the architects and creators of liberalism has been shattered.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then he draws this surprising lesson,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: liberalism has failed, not because it fell short, but because it was true to itself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By removing barriers and constraints on human behavior, built by religious teaching and legal structures, it has freed us to be our fallen selves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And when my will to power collides with yours, conflicts abound, terrorist attack, wars are launched, and the week are oppressed by the strong.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What is the solution?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible teaches in Hebrews 2, verses 14 and 15, that Jesus died to destroy the one who has the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver those who through fear of death, were subject to lifelong slavery.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're enslaved to our fear of death, and less we are set free by a power greater than death, and no other person in human history demonstrated such power except Jesus Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Muslims venerate the tomb of the prophet Muhammad in Medina.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I have been to the tomb of Buhalullah, founder of Baha'i Faith, and visited the graves of some of our culture's greatest heroes from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Winston Churchill and
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  [SPEAKER_00]: then rose physically from the tomb, even Lazarus and others whom Jesus raised from the dead eventually died again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Only Jesus demonstrated the power to defeat the grave.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, only He can give that power to us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When we receive the gift of eternal life that He offers all who trust in Him, we are freed from lifelong slavery to death.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a downside to the upside.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Those of us who trust in Christ is our Lord, know from John 316 that we will never die, but we can therefore feel free to pursue whatever we want in this life, secure in the knowledge that Jesus will forgive our sins when we confess them and that nothing we do in this world can keep us from the world to come.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We can even believe that our religious activities will earn God's favor and blessing on the non-religious areas of our lives.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All of this is but a spiritual expression of our fallen will to power.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Such a compartmentalized way of life makes Jesus a means to our ends.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By seeking what we want, we forfeit what He wants for us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This grieves our Father and empoverishes us since the will of an all-knowing all-loving God is by definition better for us than ours.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The solution is the simple, but transforming decision to submit yourselves therefore to God from James 4 of our 7 to humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, according to 1 Peter 5 of our 6, and from Luke 242 to pray with Jesus, not my will, but yours be done.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the words of a dear friend whose business and cultural influence spans the globe, it is to pray all through the day you lead, I follow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dwight Moody Council, let God have your life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He can do more with it than you can.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you agree?