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Ep 13: Cloning Jesus with Christian Piatt
Manage episode 161908885 series 1269299
What if someone cloned Jesus, to kickstart the second coming? What if fringe religious groups USED science for a change? Christian Piatt explains his religious sci-fi thriller, and tackles thorny questions in science, faith, and progressive spirituality.
Christian Piatt is an author, speaker, musician, podcaster, and church planter. His books include the novel Blood Doctrine, a non-fiction book titled PostChristian, and the upcoming work "Not THAT kind of Christian: Loving God Without Being an A**hole". He also hosts the "Home-brewed Culture Cast", which discusses pop culture and news through the lens of progressive Christian spirituality.
- Blood Doctrine and PostChristian by Christian Piatt
- Christian Piatt's website
- What if we had a fringe religious group USE science for a change?
- The bone box of James, brother of Jesus
- 2000-year-old seed springs back to life
- Free idea: a bible-themed Jurassic park
- The pope would baptize martians
- Einstein wanted to know the mind of God
- The movie Pi and its basis in [religious numerology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)#Kabbalah)
- The tree of the knowledge of good and evil as the original MacGuffin
- Rene Girard and the structure of desire — the gospels are full of people disappointed in Jesus because he was not the messiah they were looking for
- Our uncomfortableness with Jesus' humanity, Christopher Moore's book Lamb, and why we obsess over relics
- Using religion for the power of fear, rather than the power of faith
- Richard Rohr, Christian mystic
- How we misuse the Bible and the DSM
- You can use a brick to build a hospital, or to break someone's window
- The problems with how we approach neuro-diversity
- Deconstruction and reconstruction
- [The Year of Jubilee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)) and the apocalypse
- The end of Christian empire
- The unconscious bias towards right-handed people, and what that shows us about our culture
- Orthodoxy, orthopraxy, orthopathy
- "A childlike faith" — children ask lots of questions!
- The opposite of faith isn't doubt, it's indifference
46集单集
Manage episode 161908885 series 1269299
What if someone cloned Jesus, to kickstart the second coming? What if fringe religious groups USED science for a change? Christian Piatt explains his religious sci-fi thriller, and tackles thorny questions in science, faith, and progressive spirituality.
Christian Piatt is an author, speaker, musician, podcaster, and church planter. His books include the novel Blood Doctrine, a non-fiction book titled PostChristian, and the upcoming work "Not THAT kind of Christian: Loving God Without Being an A**hole". He also hosts the "Home-brewed Culture Cast", which discusses pop culture and news through the lens of progressive Christian spirituality.
- Blood Doctrine and PostChristian by Christian Piatt
- Christian Piatt's website
- What if we had a fringe religious group USE science for a change?
- The bone box of James, brother of Jesus
- 2000-year-old seed springs back to life
- Free idea: a bible-themed Jurassic park
- The pope would baptize martians
- Einstein wanted to know the mind of God
- The movie Pi and its basis in [religious numerology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)#Kabbalah)
- The tree of the knowledge of good and evil as the original MacGuffin
- Rene Girard and the structure of desire — the gospels are full of people disappointed in Jesus because he was not the messiah they were looking for
- Our uncomfortableness with Jesus' humanity, Christopher Moore's book Lamb, and why we obsess over relics
- Using religion for the power of fear, rather than the power of faith
- Richard Rohr, Christian mystic
- How we misuse the Bible and the DSM
- You can use a brick to build a hospital, or to break someone's window
- The problems with how we approach neuro-diversity
- Deconstruction and reconstruction
- [The Year of Jubilee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)) and the apocalypse
- The end of Christian empire
- The unconscious bias towards right-handed people, and what that shows us about our culture
- Orthodoxy, orthopraxy, orthopathy
- "A childlike faith" — children ask lots of questions!
- The opposite of faith isn't doubt, it's indifference
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