EP267: Some Covid Fear is Now a Paranoid Phobia (You MUST hear this audio) / Addressing our Envy and Resentment in Our Jobs / Listener Question on God's Allowing Evil In The World

On This Episode: I HAVE AUDIO OF A WOMAN INDICATIVE OF PEOPLE HOW HAVE A CoV2 PHOBIA You really need to hear this audio from This American Life. This young lady has passed caution onto outright hysterical phobia -- but she feels righteous and good in this fear. We can laugh at or resent these people, sure. But there's also a better response. "ESSENTIAL WORKERS" AND HOW WE THINK ABOUT WORK I have some audio from a journalist questioning by people we called "essential" during the pandemic are also often low paid. The journalist makes the mistake of thinking an ESSENTIAL service is one where the workforce is limited. Labor is a market. If there is a lot of supply, wages will stay low. The more unique a skill set becomes, the supply for that labor is diminished (thus driving up wages). The quicker we realize this truth about wages, the better off we'll be. I have some additional thoughts on how to think about work Biblically here as well. LISTENER QUESTION: WHY WOULD GOD ALLOW THE CONCEPTION OF CHILDREN WHO WILL BE ABORTED? This question could be asked a myriad of ways: why deadly floods in Tennessee or chaos and killings in Afghanistan. Theologians and philosophers have wrestled with the "problem of evil" (theodicy) for millennia. I'll give my abbreviated response to it. V-WORD MANDATES AND THE CHRISTIAN (I say "V-word" so our Tech Overlords don't throttle me) Government mandates? I'm all the way out. Private Service Provider Mandates? Sure. That's freedom of association. Employer-to-employee mandates? That one is hard and requires wrestling through out. I also have a quick word here on how v-word absolutists on both sides are just behaving irrationally.