This is the first in a series of talks about rational Christianity. For most people, they consider religion as an experience of faith and not subject to rationality or evidence. I believe that this is a faulty position that is built on a perversions of Platonic Dualism's metaphysical view. That the better view is that God created all the cosmos so that everything is important, the material and the unseen. Within the realm of the material are us humans with physical bodies and minds. Those minds function primarily on the collection of data points through our senses and the use of reason to find truth. We use reason in 99.99% of our everyday function, but only give it up in the most important areas of meaning, morals, and relationship with the creator and truth in general. That is a travesty. 

I do a very quick, drive-by look at how we have arrived at truth in the west, starting with the Greeks.

Last part of a five-part series on the issue of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice. This talk is about how Pro-Life has become idolatry and how we can really reduce abortions to zero if we wanted.

In this V of VI installment of Abortion: The Shallowness of Pro-Choice and the Idolatry of Pro-Life, I'm looking at Pro-Life conservative American Christians, which includes evangelicals and conservative Catholics. This group was the most loyal backers of Donald Trump, even more so than the white supremacists and the reason they give is "Because Trump is so Biblical." They mean Donald Trump is "Pro-Life." This pod-cast looks at the real issue of how "Pro-Life" has risen to the point of being idolatry because they choose a man who makes a laughing stock out of the entire Bible because he said he would support anti-abortion judges, ... but the Bible says nothing about abortion. A real Paradox. 

This is a podcast shadowing a series of articles posted on my blog at jmichaeljoneswriter.com. This series of articles discusses the topic of abortion, looking at the moral limits of both sides and how they could come together in peace to make unwanted pregnancies a thing of the past, rather than the primary fuel for a war of cultures.

I grew up in a family in Appalachia. My aunt Helen moved in with us when I was in grade school, and she was hilarious. But her life had been filled with tragedy and her humor was a way of coping. In 2019, after being very healthy, I was suddenly diagnosed with incurable cancer (multiple myeloma) and renal failure. Humor has been a way to see the absurdity of it all. I share two stories about the lighter side of dating.  Mike, The Hermit at Loch Eyre.