Podcast 350—What if Brian Thompson Was a Member of Your Church? Proverbs 22:16, 28:27; Ezekiel 16:49

Is there moral equivalency in shooting someone in the street and using AI algorithms to deny medical care to thousands of patients, perhaps leading to untimely death?  To start the new year, the fellows take up the topical concept of structural violence, the idea that organizations and institutions, just because of the way they work, can be as much a source of human suffering, injustice and harm as an angry man with a gun. The Bible says murder is a sin, but what about cold indifference? Is sin so pervasive it inevitably infects all worldly mechanisms? What do Luigi Mangione and Brian Thompson tell us about the human need for salvation?