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White American Jesus my name is Dan Miller. I'm

professor of religion and social thought at Landmark College and I am your

host. Glad as always to be with you. As always I want to start just by thinking so many of you for the support the insights the feedback

The ways that you support this series in the podcast in so many ways

Always value your insights Daniel Miller swatch Daniel Miller SWAJ at gmail.com. I have I guess we're not in the new year yet

But it's a quasi New Year's resolution that I'm gonna catch up on the emails as soon as I am able

Now that we are through the academic semester and I've got a little time so I really look forward to getting to respond

To some of you haven't been able to respond to. To some of you I haven't been able to respond to, I've seen lots of emails and comments and things like that,

don't always get to respond to the one I want to,

but I will be doing that.

So I'm sure that that's something that everybody will be waiting for

just with bated breath in the new

year. At any rate, picking back up with with today's episode, really it's a sort of a

part two. Last episode we looked at this this line of

reasoning that people will have and and the some of you will have encountered as I said

and that episode a lot of you won't but people who have have been kind of thrown by it and it's the claim we looked at that everyone has an ultimate authority and last episode I situated it specifically in the context of claims to religious authority that there's an ultimate authority in terms of like sort of religious truth or religious matters I think closely related to that in issues of ethics or morality or whatever and specifically then within the

kinds of communities we're typically talking about biblical authority and

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