My Soapbox

Audio version of Chapter 26 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." This chapter explores the issue of trying to live without the idea of God in our lives, and how to deal with its profound implications, including facing the fact we must accept responsibility for the state of our lives and the world in which we live since we cannot blame nor thank any "spiritual beings" for our life circumstances. Living without the idea of God or any illusions of supernatural agency, forces us to look at our lives with a kind of sobering humility in the realization of our mortality, life's transience, and therefore preciousness.

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Audio version of Chapter 25 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." This chapter explores an alternate definition of "salvation" not as ego survival or getting an eternal reward for believing in the "right things," but rather recognizing the ultimate Reality of The Oneness of All.

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Audio version of Chapter 24 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." In this episode I challenge traditional Christianity's view of "Jesus Christ" being limited to an individual person, Jesus of Nazareth. This episode explores how "Jesus Christ," like "Gautama Buddha," can instead be the expression of the dualistic experience of being "human" and "divine" at the same time - "human" in feeling like a self, an ego, an individual subject, and also "divine" in the awarenss of being the Oneness of All, not limited to an individual ego.

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Audio version of Chapter 23 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." In this episode, I discuss what I feel is the true definition of "God," which is not a being, nor a thing, a force, or an ego, but rather the Oneness of All.

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Audio version of Chapter 22 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." This chapter begins Part IV of the book on theological problems of Christianity. The main focus of this chapter explores the "genesis" of the problem with ALL theistic thought - the fundamental belief in the self, the "me," the ego, which is an illusion, which therefore renders all theistic thought invalid. Also explored is the selfishness of Christian/Islamic notions of "salvation," the mistaken notion of "original sin," and the essential difference between the Christian and Buddhist view of humanity's ultimate issue.

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Audio version of Chapter 21 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." In this chapter, I explore some of the philosophical and scientific problems with the belief in "free will" and why it is therefore an illusion. Also explored are some of the profound religious, ethical, spiritual, and practical implications for humanity in the realization of the illusion of "free will."

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Audio version of Chapter 20 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." The chapter examines the logical contradiction and therefore falsehood of the idea of "something from nothing," and why even potential and actions such as quantum fluctuations are "something," thus invalidating physicist Laurence M. Krauss' assertion that the universe came "from nothing." Also explored is physicist Sean Carroll's brilliant summation why life after death is impossible since the laws of physics underlying everyday life is completely understood, and there is no way within those laws in which the information stored in our brains can persist after we die.

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Audio version of Chapter 19 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." This chapter further explores the reality of death and its implications, why "life after death" in terms of ego survival is impossible, and why creationism is so fiercely defended despite the overwhelming scientific evidence against it, which instead supports evolution. Also explored is why the common arrogant notion of humanity somehow being a "special exception" to all other life forms is mistaken as demonstrated by the facts of science.

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Audio version of Chapter 18 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." This chapter explores the reality of death, why True "eternal life" has nothing to do with time and the survival of our egos, and how the Truth of Oneness invalidates the idea of permanent "individual survival" of death.

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Audio version of Chaper 17 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." In this chapter I discuss why there can be no such thing as "the supernatural," and how brilliant illusionists like Darren Brown, Matt Dillahunty, and James Randi expose so-called "psychics" and "spiritualists" for the frauds they are.

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