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Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show.

I shouldn't tell you this, but Eric hired someone who sounds just like him to host today's show.

But since I'm the announcer, they told me, so I'm telling you, don't be fooled.

The real Eric's in jail. Hey there folks at socrates in the city we're doing a new thing it's called the question of where we interview somebody

i'm not talking we just let them talk on an important question uh and we've got a number of those

they're all like nine 10 ten minutes long. We're

going to play one of those for you right now. Here it is. By religion, I mean a perspective on the

world that assumes there exists some kind of supernatural reality, that is responsible for

ordering and creating the universe, is responsible for human life and that human

beings can be and should be in some kind of relationship with both as a preparation for what

awaits us after death and in order to be good people and live virtuous lives in relationship with the truth about the universe while

we're on planet Earth. So all of the big religious traditions, not just Christianity, but Islam

and Hinduism and other faiths as well fall under this definition, but communism and Taylor Swiftism

would not. Religious faith is not something that exists in a separate sphere from reason.

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