Christianity Without the Crap - Podcast

It's easy to get all judgy about people at the bottom of the economic ladder. But the people who make these judgements demonstrate an unsophisticated and naive understanding of human failure and loss, and the complex factors that keep people in poverty. 

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Belief in the Christian orthodoxy about Hell messes with our heads in profoundly negative ways. The traditional understanding of Hell feeds our worst tribal instincts, desensitizes us to human suffering, corrupts our understanding of justice, and makes our present world a worse place to live.

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Our modern conception of Hell first emerged from Dark Age Medieval politics, and NOT from the Bible. In this episode we discuss out how this ridiculous notion came about, and how it only got worse as time went on and new generations discovered it's powerful ability to manipulate others. 

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What if everything they told us about Hell is wrong? What if the current orthodoxy about Hell has less to do with the Bible, and more to do with the politics of the Dark Ages? And what if the Bible actually teaches something much more hopeful? It might just change everything.

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Can you really call yourself pro-life if you only protect life inside the womb, and then advocate for policies and politicians that make it hard for people outside the womb to survive? On the other hand, pro-choice advocates can’t allow themselves to be so angered by the hypocrisy on the right, that they become distracted from engaging with the fundamental moral problem that abortion poses.

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Human Beings are chronically dissatisfied. And it makes us miserable. We know what we want, but we so often have no idea what we really need. Satisfaction is not about acquiring the right things, it's about acquiring the right desires. 

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Some christians freak at the idea that we could ever learn anything from studying eastern religion. They've been taught to believe that it's all satanic. But that kind of thinking is sad, small, paranoid and pathetic. The truth is that there are many parallels between eastern religious philosophy and the message of Jesus.

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The consumer mindset is destroying community in America and in the church. We may go to the same building on Sundays, just as we go to the same gym, chiropractor or grocery store. But that doesn't make us a community. We're just fellow consumers, looking for the best service, the coolest brand, the most comfortable experience. Pastors know that sooner or later, something is going to make you mad, or something won't be good enough, and you're going to leave.

Has Christianity been bad for women? Well, yeah... duh! A lot of the blame can be laid on the Apostle Paul. But Jesus had a different attitude about the value and contributions of women. So why did the church end up following Paul's lead instead of Jesus'?

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Many of us were taught that the Bible is to be taken literally on every point. But does that hold up? Is the Bible even concerned with historic or scientific accuracy? If it isn't historically and scientifically accurate, does that mean its all garbage? 

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