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.
Good Friday - Reflections on the Cross (S13 Episode27)
A Grave For Hate (S13 Episode26)
When You Are Engulfed In Flames (S13 Episode25)
Caravaggio’s Head (S13 Episode24)
This Is Not The End (S13 Episode23)
When Love is Not Enough (S13 Episode22)
The Path of Shame (S13 Episode21)
Do I Matter? (S13 Episode20)
The Nemesis Path (S13 Episode19)
Serpentine Side Trails (S13 Episode18)
The Goat on the Cow (S13 Episode17)
The Fortune Teller (S13 Episode16)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (S13 Episode15)
Inspirata Flourit (S13 Episode14)
The Mystery of Compulsion (S13 Episode11)
Compelled > Converted (S13 Episode10)
A Tactful Reduction of Options (S13 Episode9)
Tribute to Murray (S13 Episode8)
Your Questions, My Responses (S13 Episode7)
Things that Keep Me Up At Night (S13 Episode6)
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