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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Finding Pleasure in Fasting, Sex and Spirituality – Nadia Bolz-Weber with Dave Asprey : 785

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Hacking, Science, Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Diet, Brain, Meditation, Nutrition, Biohacking, Wellness, Lifestyle, Fasting, Fat, Health & Fitness

4.67.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Lutheran Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber shares her relationship with religion that’s refreshingly frank.

Nadia, a former addict and stand-up comedian, founded the House for All Sinners & Saints church in Denver, Colorado, in 2008. She led the congregation for a decade, then retired from church leadership to continue her work as a public theologian. She’s also the author of three New York Times bestselling books in which she considers the nature of sex, pleasure, spirituality–and even shame.

She explores and embraces a pretty expansive worldview. I find her fascinating–from her “Sarcastic Lutheran” social handles to "The Confessional" podcast she hosts–and wanted to get her unique perspective on fasting, lack and going without.

On Fasting: “My own profound experience of fasting actually isn’t part of the Christian tradition,” Nadia explains. “It's just 48 hours of prayer and fasting, and I'm outside on the ridge of this mountain, not a mountain, but the hills. With just a bedroll. For two days. I stay in one spot. Being a New York Times bestselling author does jack shit for you.”

On the Body: “It's baffling to me that Christianity became such a body hating, pleasure-hating religion, when the whole story behind Christianity is, God decided to have a human body,” she says. “And then we say they're evil if we actually believe God decided out of all things to slip into skin and walk among us. It's just crazy to me.”

On Sex: “I was walking down the street in London, all this stuff is swirling in my head, and I was just like so amazed by how good it was for me to be having sex again,” she says. “And then I thought, “Why did the church make me sign a paper saying I wouldn't do this. How is it better for my church if I'm not getting laid?” That makes no sense whatsoever.”

 In her most recent book, “Shameless: A Sexual Reformation: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)“ she writes about the complicated relationship people have with sex and pleasure, and Christianity’s often distorted reality of that.

Listen on to our conversation and to learn how to sift through life’s mixed messages about faith and pleasure to find what brings you personal meaning.

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Food proof radio state of high performance you're listening to bullet proof radio with Dave asprey in honor of our show today I am on our 48 of a fast and this is my third interview of the day why because you don't have to have a brain that doesn't work when you're fasting it's entirely possible to do both if you know how.

1:22.5

And the guest today is known as the sarcastic Lutheran on her social media and she's got a strange relationship with religion that is frank and includes a lot of swear words so if you don't like swear words this might not be the right.

1:37.5

It's not a bad episode for you. Her name is Nadia bullsweather she's a Lutheran pastor she's written three New York Times bestsellers and was a standup comedian and she ran something called house for all sinners in saints and Denver.

1:53.5

she's just a public theologian. And she's going to talk with us today about fasting,

2:00.2

spirituality, faith, and religion, sex, pleasure, and all sorts of things you probably wouldn't

2:06.7

expect from a Lutheran minister. Nadia, welcome to the show. Oh my gosh, I can't wait. Yeah,

2:12.9

thanks for having me. I'm going to admit something. I don't really have a good map in my head of all

2:19.5

these different Christian derivatives in the US. I've had a leader from the Escopillian church on

2:27.4

and I really don't know the basics of what's a Lutheran versus all the other flavors of

2:33.2

Christianity. So what's the deal with Lutherans? The important thing is we're just better looking.

2:39.4

It's taller, better looking, smarter. Yeah, all those things. I got it.

2:43.6

No, so the Lutherans and Episcopillians are just one degree separate from Roman Catholic. So we

2:52.1

were the first ones to sort of break off because there was just sort of, you know, Eastern Orthodoxy

2:58.1

and Roman Catholicism. There was really just these two things. And so in the 16th century, there was

3:05.5

the Protestant Reformation. So there was this Augustinian monk Martin Luther who realized that the

3:11.9

teachings of the church were harming the people in his care and he thought we should probably

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