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Infants on Thrones

Ep 501 – On Death and Truth and Why Some Stay

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Glenn, Tom and Randy sit down with Christian Braithwaite, author of “Open Letter to Mormonism” and 2nd place winner in the most recent Listener Essay contest to discuss his essay, how to deal with tragedies like death after rejecting a belief in an afterlife, and how to define things like “truth.”  We also talk with Christian’s wife Cassandra, a licensed social worker, about her experience with Christian’s faith crisis, some of the problems she sees in the Mormon church, and the reasons why she chooses to stay.

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0:00.0

This is infants on Thrones, the philosophies of men,

0:06.0

beingled with humans.

0:08.5

We are the Corps. Find your life, don't hide from what you are and rise before you fall and hope for something more

0:31.0

live if you really want to move.

0:39.3

Welcome back to Infants on Thrones.

0:41.7

I'm Glenn Ostland and today Tom and Randy and I sit down with

0:45.9

Christian Braithwaite, the second place winner from our last listener essay contest.

0:51.0

Now Christian recorded the essay titled An Open Letter to Mormonism

0:56.4

and it was over an hour long. Yeah I know. So we talk with Christian today about his

1:02.0

essay and we go on some tangents about death.

1:05.6

We speak to Christian's wife, Cassandra, about her experience as Christian has left the

1:10.5

Mormon Church and so much more. And we start with a discussion that Tom initiated regarding his reaction to Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson's infamous podcast episode about the definition of truth, which we're going to discuss

1:25.8

in an upcoming episode, but we started it today and all this and more on today's episode of Infants on Thrones and it all starts right

1:42.4

now Now, Tom, it's good to meet you as well.

1:45.0

Tom, it's good to meet you as well.

1:49.0

Hey, yeah, you too, Christian, right? That's your name?

1:52.0

Yeah. I enjoyed your essay man thank you

1:56.3

appreciate you at listening to it and I know it was long and you've been listening to stuff like that

2:00.6

for quite a while it was but I actually listened to it today because I was trying to take some mental notes if if there was any you know points of

2:10.4

conversations we could bring up but you mentioned a couple times about the Jordan

2:16.0

Peterson Sam Harris. Oh yeah and Glenn and I had a couple of conversations about that too and it sounded like and maybe you can clarify that you

2:29.1

Enjoyed that discussion because I know Glenn said he hated it I I loved it really loved it because it was

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