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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