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You are listening to the partially examined life, a philosophy podcast by some guys who are at one point set on doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 112 is something like, how does one actually apply this art of interpretation called hermiodidics like, say, to the Bible?

And we read a two part set of essays by Paul Recruer from 1973, the critique of religion and the language of faith. You can join the discussion, get the texts and lots more information at partially examinedlife.com.

This is Mark Linton-Mire, talking to you from Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin being suspicious in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes L. O'Wen and Boston, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin.

This is Lauren's Wear from the Snowpocalypse in Oklahoma, Syria, Oklahoma.

Law, welcome back.

Hey, guys, it was good to be here with you yet again.

Welcome back.

How long has it been?

I believe two years, two years or something.

It was two years for an idea that we had almost immediately after recording.

First time.

I'm going to say, yes, let's do that soon.

But you guys have blown up. You guys are celebrities now.

What makes you say that?

Maybe I'm like Sandel on and you have people from Slate on.

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