The Christian Transhumanist Podcast

Ep 13: Cloning Jesus with Christian Piatt

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What if someone cloned Jesus, to kickstart the second coming? What if fringe religious groups USED science for a change? Christian Piatt explains his religious sci-fi thriller, and tackles thorny questions in science, faith, and progressive spirituality.

Christian Piatt is an author, speaker, musician, podcaster, and church planter. His books include the novel Blood Doctrine, a non-fiction book titled PostChristian, and the upcoming work "Not THAT kind of Christian: Loving God Without Being an A**hole". He also hosts the "Home-brewed Culture Cast", which discusses pop culture and news through the lens of progressive Christian spirituality.

  • Blood Doctrine and PostChristian by Christian Piatt
  • Christian Piatt's website
  • What if we had a fringe religious group USE science for a change?
  • The bone box of James, brother of Jesus
  • 2000-year-old seed springs back to life
  • Free idea: a bible-themed Jurassic park
  • The pope would baptize martians
  • Einstein wanted to know the mind of God
  • The movie Pi and its basis in religious numerology
  • The tree of the knowledge of good and evil as the original MacGuffin
  • Rene Girard and the structure of desire — the gospels are full of people disappointed in Jesus because he was not the messiah they were looking for
  • Our uncomfortableness with Jesus' humanity, Christopher Moore's book Lamb, and why we obsess over relics
  • Using religion for the power of fear, rather than the power of faith
  • Richard Rohr, Christian mystic
  • How we misuse the Bible and the DSM
  • You can use a brick to build a hospital, or to break someone's window
  • The problems with how we approach neuro-diversity
  • Deconstruction and reconstruction
  • The Year of Jubilee and the apocalypse
  • The end of Christian empire
  • The unconscious bias towards right-handed people, and what that shows us about our culture
  • Orthodoxy, orthopraxy, orthopathy
  • "A childlike faith" — children ask lots of questions!
  • The opposite of faith isn't doubt, it's indifference
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