My Soapbox

My Soapbox

By John CrossSociety & Culture
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My Soapbox episodes

  • 18. The Principles of Oneness
    Audio version of Chapter 16 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." This chapter details a "theory of everything" as developed by my best college friend and I, predicated on the idea that stasis and change are the two fundamental principles underlying All that Is, or the cosmos, and that stasis and consciousness are one and the same.
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    38 min
  • 17. The "Creator" IS the "Created"
    Audio version of Chapter 15 of by book, "The Christian Contradiction." This chapter begins part III of this book on scientific problems of Christianity. Some topics covered are the lack of distinction between the "creator" and the "created," why all is one, and why the ideas of "intelligent design" are mistaken.
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    12 min
  • 16. The Emotional Factor
    Audio version of Chapter 14 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." This chapter explores some reasons why we adhere to religious belief even while applying logic, reason, and critical thinking to the non-religious areas of our lives, and how the power of compartmentalization can allow very intelligent and critical thinking individuals to still adhere to their religious beliefs even when those beliefs do not hold up to critical thinking and sound reasoning.
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    21 min
  • 15. Coexist
    Audio version of Chapter 13 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." This chapter explores why religious certainties can often lead to violence, and why all those who adhere to their religious convictions are in the same boat since none have genuine, good evidence for their claims which could be demonstrated to an objective, impartial third party. Also explored is why if religious claims WERE backed by genuine, credible evidence, then religion and spirituality would be absorbed within the domains of science and philosophy and would therefore not need to be kept in a "special" and separate category whose purpose is to keep these ideas shielded from criticism and falsifiability.
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    33 min
  • 14. The “Sacred” and the “Miraculous?”
    Audio version of Chapter 12 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." Topics include our genuine longing for "the sacred," why the "miraculous" does not exist, why traditional religious and spiritual concepts of the sacred are false, and how our natural human tendency to anthropomorphize things by attributing human qualities and causality to non-human beings, things, or forces leads to idolatry and our invention of gods.
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    17 min
  • 13. Why Belief?
    Audio version of Chapter 11 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." This chapter delves into the difference between belief or "faith" with knowledge, why faith has nothing to do with knowledge, and why faith is not and cannot be a valid path to truth.
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    19 min
  • 12. No Absolutes?
    Audio version of Chapter 10 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." Topics include the fundamental reason why atheists and theists are essentially the same, more on the illusion of the ego, why there is absolute truth, and why the idea there are "no absolutes" is impossible since it is contradictory.
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    11 min
  • 11. Ego
    Audio version of Chapter 9 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." This chapter covers several reasons - incuding physiological and neurological reasons why the "self" or the notion of "I" and "me" as separate and independent of "other" is an illusion, and why Oneness is therefore the only True Reality.
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    35 min
  • 10. Who Made God?
    Audio version of Chapter 8 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." Some topics include why the concepts of God and religion are one and the same, and why humankind made both concepts. This chapter begins Part II of this book on philosophical problems of Christianity.
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    12 min
  • 9. Having it "Both Ways"
    Audio version of chapter 7 of my book, "The Christian Contradiction." This chapter explores the problems with religious apologists trying to have things "both ways" to rationalize their faith in the "spiritual world" with the contradictory facts of the phenomenal, material world, and why those who would posit these two separate "realities" cannot have it both ways.
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    30 min

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The "My Soapbox" podcast is a place where I can think out loud on several topics, including religion and spirituality, logic, reason, epistemology, science, critical thinking, politics, culture,…