Amazing one!

"We are teaching about religion... so they can get rid of it" and he supposed to be neutral :D

Very interesting! RSP should do a podcast on psychedelics Renaissance ^^

Worth to listen the ending comments!

There are many better ways to explain devastation of nature than Bible metaphysics. If that would be the case then non Western countries would be doing much better with this problem... Thank you for your work as always!

Secular law is the only way forward because it's the only way that you religionists can play well together. It is you British Christians who are scrating and crying at the loss of influence but there is a very good reason for that, all churches in the UK have declining attendances. We just don't need our imaginary friend any more and it's downright dangerous to give crazy religionists any more power than they already have. You are trying to promote fear of Muslims in this piece so far as I can see because the way you posit the future - it was fine until the Muslims turned up seems to be what this man is saying? And the question going forward (according to this idiot anyway) is how can we contain the Muslim community? You are promoting fear of one group and implying that the way to sort it out is to make the larger religious group the official religion of the country. Why would you need to do that unless you are afraid of Muslims and their growing influence in British politics and society. You disgust me. You are part of the entire problem and exactly like the numpties like Farage who are trying to pretend to be Christians in order to make idiots vote for their own destruction. Religion has always been used by the state to control people historically. So, if we are to be a Christian dictatorship then does that mean that blasphemy laws are going to come back? Or what? Please tell me that you are not very important in public life because you are a menace and possibly even a racist (Yeah I noted your side step on that one.) Go back to the 19th century mate and stop trying to control other people with your mumbo jumbo.

So you are trying to drag us back to the dark ages ?? Religion is respected by public institutions here in the UK and they already steal school funding from the public sector and take it to their various mosques,churches and synagogues. 40% of British people don't believe in God at all according to a recent survey, so what? Are we supposed to put up with living in a Christian dictatorship then ?? So what? Our state schools are going to teach all that Christian mumbo jumbo at every single opportunity then, just like when I was a kid? I don't mind how religious you are and i don't want to see anyone persecuted for their religious beliefs but no way do I want to live in a Christian dictatorship either. There are also many many nutty varieties of Christian and this man talks as though Christians are a homogenous group!? So which particular nutty Christian sect is he proposing? Or is he saying that we need to be Church of England? Then there are all the old rows between Puritanism, Catholicism, Anglican and now we have scientology and Mormons and all sorts of crazy pseudo religious claptrap. So which particular nutty Christian sect is going to win? The one who bribes the British government most?

A kind of narcissism by proxy then. If God is good and I believe in God then I too am good. Yeah, right.

Ok, so, I am a religious studies grad student in my third year. I first encountered the notion of The Axial Age in fluffier works on comparative myth, such as those of Joseph Campbell. Once my Ph. D. studies were underway, I stumbled across this concept again in experimental studies by Nicholas Baumard seeking to rebut the social psychological, 'Big History' theories of Ara Norenzayan and others coming out of the University of British Columbia. Now, having looked over a few of the works mentioned by Dr. Tsonis in this podcast, I his criticisms seem incisive & helpful. I'd love to know what he thinks of newer cognitive science oriented evolutionary theories of religions.