Episode 10: Religion, Meaning, and Morality

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2012

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Does life have meaning if there is no God? Why should I be a good person if there's no reward or punishment waiting for me in the afterlife? Why does religion seem to make people happier and healthier? Dave and Tamler heroically try to answer these questions without being stoned. Other topics include Dave's paralyzing fear of death, bad times on mopeds, and the pros and cons of naming your daughter Chlamydia. They almost get through the episode without having to censor something--but not quite.

Links

Woody Allen's "Love and Death"

Paul Bloom- Does Religion Make You Nice? [Slate.com]

Follow-up reading on religion and health (for the slightly academically inclined)- Powell, L. H., Shahabi, L., & Thoresen, C. E. (2003). Religion and spirituality: Linkages to physical health. American Psychologist, 58, 36.

Pascal's Wager [wikipedia.org]

Albert Camus [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

The Problem of Evil. [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

"Yes but subjectivity is objective."

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.
0:09.3	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:30.0	I'm very bad man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man,
1:00.0	I'm a very good man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very bad man, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'm a very
1:30.0	very bad woman, I'm a very bad woman, I'll be full today. Less than 30 minutes some time now. Less than 30 minutes. Less than 30 minutes not.
2:00.0	Why go on living? Why not just commit suicide?
2:03.0	Well, let's not get hysterical. I could be wrong.
2:06.0	I hate to blow my brains out and then read in the papers they found something.
2:09.0	And that was a clip from the Great Woody Allen movie Love and Death.
2:12.0	It was the last of his early funny movies, the more slapstick comedy,
2:17.0	like Charlie Chaplin, like movies before Annie Hall,
2:21.0	the next movie that he did was Annie Hall.
2:23.0	How many movies has he made?
2:25.0	I have to admit that I don't think I've sat through an entire Woody Allen movie.
2:29.0	Maybe one.
2:30.0	That's insane. That's crazy.
2:32.0	Have you really not? You've never seen Annie Hall.
2:35.0	I don't know. I think the most I've seen is clips.
2:40.0	Like when it would come up.
2:41.0	Clips that I bring.
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