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EP124 - Seared Conscience — Epstein, Worship & the Death of Outrage

R&B Talks by Reggie Payne and Brian Kirby

Episode notes

The Epstein files are public. Children were trafficked. The evidence is documented. And culture can't stay outraged about it for longer than a news cycle. Then we turn the mirror on the church: has worship become so formulaic, so captured by the same handful of entities, that it can't produce the moral clarity to confront any of this?

KEY TOPICS:

• DOJ released half of 6 million identified pages — still withholding FBI victim statements and a 2007 draft indictment while botching redactions that exposed 31 child victims

• International arrests (UK, Norway, France) while zero Americans face consequences from US-originated evidence

• The Big 4 worship monopoly (Bethel, Hillsong, Elevation, Passion) and why every church sounds the same

• 5% actual weekly church attendance vs. 22% self-reported — and what that says about  ... 

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