This is infants on Thrones.

The philosophies of men mingled with humans.

We are the world. If you are. Yeah!

Yeah!

After your faith has let you down.

Look for the good in everything.

Look for the people who will set your soul free.

It always seems impossible until it's done. Look for the good and everyone. Welcome back to Infants on Thrones. I'm Glenn Ostland and this is

episode 696 religion versus dogma and I think this is really. So let me set the stage for you.

I got an email three days ago on Tuesday, November 17th from a high school senior and and he says hi my name is Trevor I'm a

senior student in high school I'm working right now on my senior paper I decided

to choose a topic that might go against the common believing and very Mormon-based community.

I chose to write about how religion is more harmful and helpful to society and to people.

Oh, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, and to people. I was wondering if I could interview you and ask you a few questions in my paper.

I listened to a few of your podcasts and have enjoyed them. Get back to me as soon as possible if there's a chance we could work something out thank you

And I responded to him. I said hello Trevor I'd be happy to do an interview with you, but I don't think that religion is more harmful than helpful

unless of course you mean dogma instead of religion and I'm happy to talk to you

about why I make that distinction and what I mean by it and so that's what we did and it's a little 30 minute conversation that we have

where Trevor asks me some questions and I answer them I liked it so I asked

him afterwards if he and his dad would mind if we published this as an episode and they said yeah go ahead that be awesome.

So I'm sharing this with all of you because I think Trevor's an awesome kid. I think the questions he asked were really insightful.

I hope my answers were insightful as well.

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