Episodes (Page 7)
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John Vervaeke identifies a meaning crisis where modern secular society has failed to provide the psychological and spiritual frameworks humans need
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Graham Oppy argues that atheism, like theism, requires positive justification and cannot merely rest on the burden of proof shifting to believers
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Just Stop Oil explains their confrontational activism tactics designed to disrupt normal life and force public attention to climate change
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Peter Hitchens becomes visibly upset during the interview, apparently over the host's framing or challenge to his positions
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Drew McCoy investigates modern Satanism, attending SatanCon to understand the movement beyond stereotypes and sensationalism
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Justin Brierley documents a shift in intellectual culture where prominent atheists and secular thinkers are reconsidering Christianity and theism
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Slavoj Žižek analyzes how capitalism and consumer culture create commodity fetishism that obscures the social relations underlying consumption
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Andrew Doyle critiques social justice movements as functioning like modern religions, complete with dogma, confession, and moral purity tests
The New Puritans
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Carl Robichaud assesses the current nuclear threat landscape, examining geopolitical tensions that could trigger nuclear conflict
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T.M. Luhrmann explores how religious belief becomes psychologically real through prayer practices, communal experiences, and cultural frameworks
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Peter Boghossian discusses street epistemology, a philosophical method for helping people change their minds through better conversation
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Bart Ehrman explores historical evidence regarding whether Jesus explicitly claimed divinity in New Testament texts
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Anil Seth presents neuroscientific perspectives on consciousness, arguing it's constructed by the brain rather than passively perceived
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Michael Jones defends Christian doctrine of hell against philosophical objections about divine justice and morality
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Steven Bonnell (Destiny) discusses his ethical positions on various political and moral issues
Testing Destiny's Ethics
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Peter Singer discusses the foundations and applications of utilitarian ethics to animal rights and social issues
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Joshua Bowen, an Assyriologist, examines biblical slavery passages and whether Old Testament endorses the institution
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Richard Swinburne addresses the soul, personal identity, and free will from a philosophical perspective
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Neil deGrasse Tyson identifies existential threats to Earth including climate change, asteroid impacts, and AI
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Philip Goff defends panpsychism, the view that consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe