In this episode of still unbelievable, Matthew reviews an episode of the Unbelievable? podcast. It's an episode that features Stephen Law and Michael Jones in conversation. He'll mostly focus on the things that Michael Jones says, because through his channel, Inspiring Philosophy, he says things about Christianity which are Unbelievable!, at least to the listener who is prepared to fact check things. Which sadly, most christians are not, so let us do that job for you so we can all see how Christianity always was, and is Still, Unbelievable!

1) original episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UOwOCGIPzQ

https://www.premierunbelievable.com/unbelievable/does-humanism-or-christianity-offer-the-world-a-better-future-mike-jones-inspiring-philosophy-vs-stephen-law/19875.article?fbclid=IwY2xjawMFQvhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHn10xC1NvdZ0kJ4DK7W0wbeHoLbQEzThrFMsbk6TOJmSPwV_cM7ThYeErj5m_aem_DpmX3nw7Y91-weiovn7nqw

2) Dr Stephen Law

https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/profiles/stephen-law

3) Michael Jones

https://www.inspiringphilosophy.com/team

4) 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 (ESV)

“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”

5) Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages, Edward Grant

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YyvmEyX6rZgC&pg=PA223&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

6) The Byzantine Empire

https://www.worldhistory.org/Byzantine_Government/

7) Forced Conversion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_conversion

8) Human rights

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/udhr/history-of-the-declaration

9) Life Unwasted Podcast

https://open.spotify.com/show/4z1czHu4yiCPXGU4gauvkM

10) Robert Woodberry and the Benefits of Protestant Missions

https://tifwe.org/robert-woodberry-and-the-benefits-of-protestant-missions/

11) Critique of Robert Woodberry

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/abs/conversionary-protestants-do-not-cause-democracy/89D4552E3CEED18F62E94E4ABEF322F6

12) National context, religiosity, and volunteering: Results from 53 countries

https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/national-context-religiosity-and-volunteering-results-from-53-cou

13) Community involvement and mental health

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/england/node/9466

https://www.jstor.org/stable/30038985

14) Secularism and Fertility Worldwide

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/23780231211031320

15) Is the Earth really overpopulated?

https://mahb.stanford.edu/library-item/is-the-earth-really-overpopulated/

16) Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, By Eric Kaufmann

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/shall-the-religious-inherit-the-earth-by-eric-kaufmann-1939316.html

17) Human Rights

https://www.questjournals.org/jrhss/papers/vol10-issue3/Ser-2/B10030812.pdf

https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/education/human-rights-explained-human-rights-origins

https://polsci.institute/comparative-politics/human-rights-evolution/

https://lawbhoomi.com/evolution-and-historical-development-of-human-rights/

18) Children in Antiquity and Early Christianity: Research History and Central Issues

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/50604571.pdf

19) Ancient Marriage in Myth and Reality

https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-4438-2261-9-sample.pdf

20) John W. Compton

https://academic.oup.com/book/32101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywrobxq-h7U

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