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Phil and Neil Read Tolstoy's "The Gospel in Brief" So You Don't Have To
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In this episode of a Christian and an Atheist Walk into a Bar, Phil and Neil read and discuss Leo Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief. Much like Thomas Jefferson, Tolstoy wanted a version of the gospel that preserved the teachings of Jesus without referencing what we usually refer to as miracles or the supernatural. So is Tolstoy's "demystified" Jesus an appealing moral teacher or just an arrogant jagoff?
For "Should I Really Care About This" your hosts reveal the hidden fascism of the oft-used terms "impactful" and "addicting."
Beers* appearing in this episode:
Double Edged Sword, Grist House Brewing Company
*Neil was on antibiotics so he didn't have any beer.
Chapters
1. Phil and Neil Read Tolstoy's "The Gospel in Brief" So You Don't Have To (00:00:00)
2. What we're drinking today (00:01:54)
3. Tolstoy's "The Gospel in Brief" (00:04:13)
4. How are the gospels laid out? (00:09:36)
5. Dating of the gospels (00:11:48)
6. Building a Version of the gospel for its basic components (00:14:55)
7. Meeting the text on its own terms (00:16:21)
8. Jesus as a know it all? (00:20:23)
9. Does the New Testament teach us to pray or not? (00:24:00)
10. Tolstoy's contradictory ideas about God (00:25:35)
11. Spiritual but not religious? (00:28:09)
12. Why "mircale" and "supernatural" aren't useful terms (00:34:34)
13. Should I really care about this? The hidden fascism of "impactful" and "addicting." (00:41:58)
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