Welcome back to High on Christ! It's not every day the Ten Commandments trend on the world's biggest podcast. We'll get into it. But first…

Here's what the world is up to.

The Bullets

  • One verdict, 13 walk: In 2023, mobs in Pakistan burned churches and Christian homes. A judge just gave the first sentence for it: 10 years for one man. Thirteen others walked free.

  • Week one of round two: After a seventh straight night of American strikes, Iran fired back at the Gulf states. Kuwait's airport shut down, and a plant that makes power and drinking water was hit.

  • Planned Parenthood sues: The group is suing the Trump administration over new rules that steer teen-pregnancy money toward abstinence education. They claim that approach doesn't work.

  • Smoke gets a bill: Smoke from Canada's wildfires has 100 million Americans under air alerts. Trump's answer: make Canada pay with higher tariffs.

  • A win for decency: San Francisco ordered Apple and Google to pull 13 "nudify" apps, AI tools that make fake explicit images of real people without consent. Both companies have started removing them.

Rogan vs. Moses

Rogan and JD Vance spent 20 minutes arguing about the Ten Commandments
Lol about what exactly?
Texas passed a law putting them in every public school classroom. Rogan says that's forcing religion on kids.
I mean... is he wrong?
Vance says they're not just religion. They're the foundation of Western law and culture.
Eh. What about the Hindu and Muslim kids in that classroom?
Rogan asked basically that. Why not Buddhist or Muslim texts too?
And Vance said?
That seeing a document doesn't force anyone to believe it. Even the Supreme Court has Moses and his tablets on the wall.
Huh. Didn't know that.
Right next to other ancient lawgivers. His point is you can't teach where our laws came from without him.
Ok but I'd still rather kids learn the commandments at home than from a poster.
Same. That's actually the Bible's plan too. Parents teach first.
So how did the argument end?
They agreed to disagree. The lawsuits won't.

Read more here.

Spiritual Perspective

Christians can disagree about what belongs on a classroom wall, and this one is now headed for the courts. But there's no debate about where the commandments belong first: "bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart" (Proverbs 7:3). A poster never changed a life. A parent who lives them has.

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