Ep. 1335 The Myth of Religious Violence

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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That's a provocative title, to be sure. Author William Cavanaugh, a professor at DePaul University, is not saying that what we recognize to be religious beliefs can never inspire violence. What he is saying -- and I won't spoil the episode by spelling out his thesis here -- forces us to rethink what we thought we knew about religion, secularism, and war.

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0:39.2	the myth of religious violence, secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict, written by
0:45.0	our guest, William T. Kavanaugh, published by Oxford University Press. I got wind of this book
0:50.8	not too long ago. It's been out for 10 years, and somehow it only just now
0:55.4	came to my attention. There's something wrong with me because this was a very, very interesting
0:59.2	book indeed. Professor Kavanaugh teaches at DePaul University, where he is Professor of Catholic
1:04.0	Studies and Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology. Professor
1:09.7	Kavanaugh, welcome. Thanks, Tom. It's good to be here.
1:12.2	Well, I have to say this is, as you know, and I'm sure you intended it this way, a very controversial
1:16.2	title for a book, because it does seem to run counter to everything we think we know about how
1:21.4	the world works. And as somebody who is inclined to be sympathetic with this thesis, I have to say,
1:26.8	I was very anxious to see how you
1:28.9	were going to carry it out, what your plan of attack was. And I was hoping that it wouldn't just
1:34.1	be a semantic argument about what constitutes religion. And it's not, although there is a very
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