Don't Follow Your Heart: Thaddeus Williams Interview

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🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In today’s episode, Becket chats with Dr. Thaddeus Williams about his new book, “Don’t Follow Your Heart: Boldly Breaking the Ten Commandments of Self-Worship.” We were never meant to bear the impossible weight of creating and sustaining our identities, but with the steady stream of propaganda telling us to be true to ourselves and live our best lives, it's no wonder many of us are. In Don't Follow Your Heart, Thaddeus Williams builds a case that self-worship is not authentic, it's arrogant. It is not satisfying, it robs us of awe. It is hardly new and edgy, but is hopelessly traditionalist, rehashing what is literally humanity's oldest lie.

As he explores the Ten Commandments of Self-Worship, Williams calls for a new generation of heretics, iconoclasts, renegades, mavericks, and rebels who refuse to march like good little cows, mooing in unison with the herd. He points us to a life beyond the boring, conventional, and self-defeating dogmas of self-worship and shows us how much more meaningful a life centered on God can truly be. Thaddeus William's Website: https://jointheheretics.com/

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0:00.0	Life Audio
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0:26.0	Please consider subscribing to the podcast and leaving a five-star rating. rating. Hey guys, welcome to the show.
0:40.0	Today I have a special guest, Dr. Thaddeus Williams. We're going to be talking about his new book
0:45.3	Don't Follow Your Heart, boldly breaking the 10 Commandments of Self Worship. It's fascinating. We're going to look at what these 10
0:56.0	commandments of the culture are and discuss that. So Thaddeus Williams is a professor at
1:02.2	Talbot School of Theology, my alma mater, and he's written many, many books, and I'm excited to have him on the show. But first, a word from our sponsor. Welcome, Thaddeus. It is good to be here, Beckett.
1:14.0	How are you?
1:15.0	Good, good to have you.
1:16.0	Okay, so don't follow your heart.
1:20.0	I love that.
1:22.0	Let's talk about you talk about the new Decalog, the new 10
1:27.3	Commandments basically. Let's just do, can you just go through what those 10
1:32.2	commandments are in the culture and what and what the
1:36.2	hashtag and kind of just that brief explanation of what they are?
1:40.9	Sure. So the premise of the book is that what we're facing is a culture is not just a new trend, but a new religion, a fully orbed worldview with adherents and prophets and
1:57.4	saints and their own sacred songs, their own hymns, their own commandments, their own dogmas.
2:04.0	And it is what I call the cult of self-worship.
2:09.0	So you have 84% of Americans that say the chief end of man is to enjoy yourself.
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