This week for some Revisionist History, we start with a very controversial Tweet by the notoriously adored, and reviled, atheist, Richard Dawkins. What he tweeted sounds controversial to our ears, but what Dawkins had done is merely parrot an ancient story, one that has been rehashed and retold down through the generations: from Plato and Aristotle, to Nietzsche and Himmler, to the greatest of documentary filmmakers, Werner Herzog. Dawkins was telling the story of “nature.”
In contrast to that story, something new seemed to emerge in the first century. A radically different story that highlighted an experience and emotion centered in the bowels, of all places. And this very unfamiliar emotional response in the ancient world would start a movement that, over time, would launch universal healthcare, as well as end infanticide and the gladiatorial games forever. How could such a thing happen?
Trigger warning to all, this Sunday we will be talking about some sensitive subjects like abortion and infanticide. My goal is not to explore the ethical debate around those issues, but to showcase how radically some things have changed over time. Of course, I will also need to tell you about a young boy I met this summer. A boy named Hudson, and how my response to him left me thinking God often works in our lives in the most obvious of ways...we just don’t see it.
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The Open Wound of Life (Season 9 Episode 19)
Lightning Falls Upon Us (Season 9 Episode 18)
Of Wits and Wagers (Season 9 Episode 17)
Pirating Anger (Season 9 Episode 16)
It's the most Apocalyptic time of the year! (Season 9 Episode 15)
Clocks and Time (Season 9 Episode 14)
Haunted by the Ghost of Arius (Season 9 Episode 13)
Swallowed (season9 episode 12)
Pirating Tribalism (Season 9 Episode 11)
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"Stingy" Why being generous is so hard (Season 9 episode 9)
Shall we dream? (Season 9 episode 8)
Archeology of the Ordinary: Happiness & Disappointment: Part 1. (season 9 Episode 6)
Building a House of Cards - Happiness and Disappointment Part II (S9 Episode 7)
Leave Your Skin Behind (S9 Episode 5)
A Burning Bush & The Structure of Self-Doubt (S9 Episode 4)
To look for the Thousandth Time (S9 Episode 3)
Hoist the Jolly Roger (S9 Episode 2)
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