Episode 41

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Here's episode 41! Happy Thanksgiving!

  • Spreading the bad news with Matt - Founding Fathers misinformation
  • News Items with Joel - Mississippi follow up, american atheists, and more
  • Words of Lizdom with Liz - George Bernard Shaw
  • Passion of the Bettor with Matt - Parallels between the Penn State scandal and the Catholic Church scandal
  • Ethics corner with Nik - ethics of persuasion
  • Religious Trivia Question with Matt - Norse Paganism
46:14 minutes (21.17 MB)

Religious Spotlight: The Roman goddess Trivia

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TriviaTrivia was a goddess of Roman mythology, equivalent to Hecate, the Greek goddess of witchcraft, the three-way crossroads, and the harvest moon. Trivia was an underworld Titan-goddess who helped Jupiter in the War of the Titans so was allowed to keep her powers. Trivia also helped her friend Ceres find her daughter Proserpina in the well-known myth about the origin of winter. Despite this kind streak, Trivia was knkown as Queen of the ghosts and stole young virgins to assist in her power. Trivia wandered about at night as the goddess of crossroads and graveyards, and her presence could only be identified by the sound of what animal?

A. Barking of dogs

B. Bleating of goats

C. Croaking of Ravens

D. Naying of horses

Episode 40

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Welcome to episode 40! This episode is a multiple of five, so we have a meta-ethics discussion in store for you, as well as many other exciting segments!

  • Matt has a Spreading the Bad News with Matt about Billy Graham
  • Joel covers some News Items this week about Ireland and the Vatican, Congresspeople reaffirming our nation's religious motto, Penn Jilette gets Christians riled up with the word 'bugnut', and more!
  • Liz brings us some Words of Lizdom from Stephen Weinberg
  • John addresses the Church in State situation of Mississippi's Initiative 26 and the national personhood movement
  • Nik hosts the Meta Ethics Corner tackling the ethics of moral ignorance
  • Matt tries out a Meta Religion Trivia Question about the Roman goddess Trivia

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51:52 minutes (23.75 MB)

Religious Spotlight: Abrahamic Religions

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Before the Christian words Yeshuah, God, or Lord were used to describe the one true monotheistic god of all three Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, there was a more sacred and less well-known name used to describe him. Abraham, his son Isaac, and his grandson Jacob, are claimed by all three major world religions to be founding patriarchs, and the name that Abraham calls god is the first name god ever had. Over time his name has changed somewhat, because god's original name was actually the same name as the most High God of the polytheistic Canaanites. Before Jesus, before David, before Solomon, and before Moses, what was the very first name of god, as called by Abraham?

 

Episode 39

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Welcome to episode 39. Our pre-Halloween podcast! Here's what we have in store for you this week:

57:16 minutes (26.23 MB)

Religious Spotlight: The Sumerians

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Sumerian_deitiesAccording to Sumerian mythology, humans were originally created as servants for the gods, buit the humans were eventually freed after they became too much trouble for the gods to handle. Like the bible and epic of Gilgamesh, early creation myths of the Sumerians also include a story about a local flood - however in this case the flood is naturally impending and the gods choose not to save mankind. The god of the waters, Enki, warns the hero of the story and sends the instructions for him to build the ark.

Episode 38

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Welcome to Episode 38 of our podcast! Here's what we have for you:

56:13 minutes (25.73 MB)

Religious Spotlight: The Jains

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Jainism_SwastikaJainism is an old, ascetic, Indian religion that dates back to between the 9th and 6th centuries BCE. Its main tenets include the principles of non-violence to all living things and a complete abstinence from any form of self-indulgence. These principles are so important that adherent Jains must remain strict vegetarians and cannot even eat certain vegetation because of strict rules about life.

Episode 37

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  • Spreading the Bad News with Matt - Atheist Billboards are sweeping the nation!
  • News Items with Joel - going to Church replaces jail time, Jewish Atheists, Sexism in the Atheist community, and more
  • Words of Lizdom with Liz - William Crenshaw of Erskine College
  • Unwanted Gifts with Liz - propaganda from the Hare Krishnas
  • Ethics Corner with Nik - Ethics of celebrity free speech vs. factual responsibility
  • Religion Trivia Question with Matt - test your knowledge about Jainism!
56:31 minutes (25.88 MB)

Episode 36 Bloopers

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This week we had an abbreviated blooper set because Matt does the editing, and he didn't want revelations about his... fruity passions... coming out. They were hilarious, and all in good fun, but we're all subject to his revisionism! Though it does also protect us from ever hearing the other 3 segments Nik usually records.

2:24 minutes (1.1 MB)