1:00 Western imperialism
2:00 Jerusalem
4:00 William Blake
5:00 Joseph of Arimathea
13:00 Believing in religious narratives
14:00 Wrestling with God's laws
15:00 An interpretational contest between me and Muslims
16:00 Different and better
Anthropologist as well as moral and political philosopher
19:00 The Pope and the Pill
20:00 Calvin
21:00 Having a different view of the same event
22:00 Group identity affirms individual identity.
23:00 People who knew us since we were born
25:00 The Washington Talmud
27:00 Objective truth
28:00 Are Unitarians Christian?
29:00 Choosing a church
30:00 John Calvin
31:00 The American Republic
32:00 The American Republic is not part of Christendom.
Absolute monarchs are the victims of Christianity.
33:00 Edward Gibbon said Christianity was to blame for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
34:00 The Ten Commandments
36:00 Lawyers wrestling with the interpretation of the law for their clients
37:00 Tovia Singer on why Christianity - which is idolatry - was allowed by God
39:00 Calvin accused of being a Judaizer
40:00 Libertines of Geneva
AI Overview
In 16th-century Geneva, the "Libertines" were a political faction of older Genevan families who fiercely resisted John Calvin’s strict religious reforms and the influx of foreign French refugees. Led by Ami Perrin, they opposed the theocracy's strict policing of daily life, sparking a bitter, decade-long power struggle.The term was originally a pejorative label coined by John Calvin himself. While Calvin used it to describe those who opposed his church discipline and desired moral laxity, the Libertines were, in fact, patriotic citizens who championed Geneva's independence.The historical conflict unfolded in several distinct phases:The 1538 Uprising: Resenting sumptuary laws that banned dancing, gambling, and swearing, the Libertines gained control of the town council and forced Calvin and Guillaume Farel into exile.The Crisis of 1553: The tension peaked when Calvin refused to allow prominent Libertines to partake in Holy Communion while they openly rejected the church's moral discipline.
42:00 God does not support monarchy according to Samuel.
43:00 Were the Founding Fathers proto-Muslim Noahides?
44:00 Unitarian Sam Tideman
46:00 Islam is like gravity.
47:00 The Trinity is walking on tenterhooks.
Deism/Theism
48:00 Lazy readers of scripture
49:00 Governments of Muslims probably discourage Muslims from reading the Koran.
50:00 Moral reasoning
Interval
51:00 The most powerful group for us to join: religious, political and national
53:00 Political economy: capitalism, communism, a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, a people's democratic dictatorship, a caste system, a meritocracy, a monarchy, a republic
54:00 Morality can only be maintained by marriage.
55:00 A society of sex offenders
Anticipating the problems of Secular Koranism
56:00 If not enough people want to become married parents, they won't be prepared to fight for it.
58:00 A low white birth rate can be easily addressed by slut shaming.
59:00 Pilgrim Fathers
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