“Christianity’s most dangerous idea (and why it won’t die)” – Drew McCoy | Genetically Modified Skeptic ▶️

If Nietzsche, Proust, Baudelaire, or Rimbaud survive the fluctuations of fashions, they owe it to the disinterestedness of their cruelty, to their demonic surgery, to the generosity of their spleen. What makes a work last, what keeps it from dating, is its ferocity.A gratuitous assertion? Consider the prestige of the Gospels, that aggressive book, a…

“What Are the Gnostic Gospels?” – Elaine Pagels | Within Reason ▶️

Elaine Pagels is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jExBkcB0RTs TIMESTAMPS 00:00 What is a Gnostic Gospel?04:51 How the Gnostic Gospels Were Discovered10:36 Secret Knowledge & Teachings18:01 Do the Gnostic Gospels Contradict the New…

Are Quakers Christian? Not all of them (and that’s fine) | QuakerSpeak ▶️

Much of Christianity is what we might call “cataphatic” spirituality, which you can think of as a list of all the sentences that you could make that begin “God is…” Quakers have lifted up in large part an “apophatic” spirituality, which you can think of as all the sentences that begin, “God is not…” and…

Palestinian pastor rev Munther Isaac on Gaza, Israel, and Christian Zionism | The Review of Religions ▶️

March 14, 2024 | Christian Pastor Dr. Rev. Munther Isaac joins us for Episode 5 of our Let’s Review podcast where we discuss the Israel/Palestine war and its solutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk0i28P1xGY&ab_channel=TheReviewofReligions Christian Zionism is a political and religious ideology that, in a Christian context, espouses the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land. Likewise,…

The Stones Cry Out: The Story Of Palestinian Christians (they exist) | Documentary film (2013)

In 1948 the history of Palestine changed forever, but little is ever said about the upheaval faced by its Christian minority. Christians have lived side by side with Muslims and Jews for almost two thousand years. An integral part of Palestinian society, they have shared in the events of recent history, yet their voices are…

“How Does the Government of Israel Treat Christians? Christian Leaders in the West Should Care” – Rev. Munther Isaac & Tucker Carlson ▶️

How does the government of Israel treat Christians? In the west, Christian leaders don’t seem interested in knowing the answer. They should be. Here’s the view of a pastor from Bethlehem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHayOkXe5ig&ab_channel=TuckerCarlson Munther Isaac (PhD, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies) is the academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College in Palestine and director of the Christ…

“Žižek’s materialist Christianity, Hinduism, and the (ideological) refusal to see” – Rodrigo Menezes

To seek out suffering in order to avoid redemption, to follow in reverse the path of deliverance, such is our contribution in the matter of religion : bilious illuminati, Buddhas and Christs hostile to salvation, preaching to the wretched the charm of their distress. To suffer: sole modality of acquiring the sensation of existence; to…

“Trump’s Christian Nationalism could end America” – Rob Reiner & Dan Partland | The Bulwark Podcast ▶️

Christian nationalism is not only a threat to democracy, but also to Christianity itself. Prominent evangelicals, like David French and Russell Moore, break it all down in a new documentary, "God & Country." Charlie Sykes is also in the film. Reiner and Partland take it to 11 with Tim Miller today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op_x9eYJc1I&ab_channel=TheBulwark The Bulwark Podcast:…

Quakers: That of God in Everyone | Documentary film (2015) ▶️

Our American Religion, whether homegrown or ostensibly Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant, is more of a Gnostic amalgam than a European kind of historical and doctrinal Christianity, though very few are able to see this, or perhaps most don’t wish to see it. Harold Bloom, Omens of Millenium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection…

“The threat of White Christian Nationalism (pt III): the power worshippers” – Katherine Stewart | The Lincoln Project

February 15, 2024 | In the third episode of “The Threat of White Christian Nationalism”, host Reed Galen is joined by investigative journalist and author Katherine Stewart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7e64vwfRM4&ab_channel=TheLincolnProject Galen and Stewart discuss how the white Christian nationalist movement is driven by a cohort of leaders and organizations that form a deep organizational network, how the…