Episode 38: Peter Rollins - The Bible as a Sacred Object

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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On this episode, we talk with Peter Rollins about how Christians have made the Bible (along with their views of God) into a "sacred object.” And, spoiler alert: that's actually not a good thing. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Bible for Normal People,
0:02.2	the only God ordained podcast on the internet.
0:05.3	Serious talk about the Sacred Book.
0:07.4	I'm Pete Ends.
0:08.2	And I'm Jared Bias.
0:10.5	Well, we're really welcome to the Bible for Normal People podcast.
0:13.5	And our topic today is the Bible as a sacred object
0:19.3	and folks that doesn't mean what it sounds like it means.
0:22.0	No, today we're going to have thinker, writer,
0:24.4	philosopher, Peter Rollins on.
0:26.3	And he is going to talk to us about this concept quite a bit.
0:29.1	The Bible as sacred object.
0:30.7	And really, I think I don't want to oversimplify,
0:33.5	but the way I understand it is that we have this human impulse
0:37.6	to create idols out of things,
0:39.0	whether that's fame or money or the Bible or even God maybe.
0:43.8	That way of thinking about God.
0:45.4	Right.
0:46.2	That we think is going to solve all of our problems.
0:48.0	If we just understood this correctly,
0:50.2	if we had that amount of money or had that car or that job.
0:53.5	And we arrive.
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