Podcast #535, Religion: On Superbeings and Dogma
Drunk Ex-Pastors
Christian Kingery
4.7 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In our Religion Block we talk about the propriety of the Christian waiting for a "Superbeing" to save him, and apply Bonhoeffer's "Religionless Christianity" to this issue. We then hear from a caller asking for clarification on what "dogma" is and what it means to say that it cannot be changed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? |
| 0:02.7 | How's it going? |
| 0:03.6 | It's going all right. |
| 0:06.5 | Dude, did I tell you that? |
| 0:08.7 | I told you that, oh yeah, I told the story about my doctor taking me off my heart meds and stuff. |
| 0:15.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.7 | I've been thinking lately, like, you know, because I read a book on longevity, um, by a doctor named Peter Attia. |
| 0:24.4 | And, uh, it was, he, he uses the, the term health span a lot instead of lifespan. |
| 0:31.2 | You know, he's like, it's not really, he's saying it's not, you don't have to be healthy to live long now because uh because medicine can keep you |
| 0:39.8 | alive for an extra 10 20 years now but it doesn't mean you're healthy or that your quality of life is |
| 0:46.3 | good um you know or that you're living a life that somebody would want to live like it's pretty |
| 0:52.2 | common now that you you know feel pretty good until you're 60 or so. |
| 0:58.0 | And then you start kind of declining. |
| 0:59.5 | And then like from 70 to 80, you're pretty much just stuck in a chair watching television, |
| 1:03.8 | you know. |
| 1:04.1 | Not everybody's this way, but this is like kind of the normal progression of, you know, |
| 1:10.1 | humans now. And, you know, it used to be, though, you would, |
| 1:13.3 | you wouldn't live past 70 because you would have, you know, diabetes or cancer or whatever, |
| 1:19.4 | you know, but now through modern medicine, they can keep you alive quite a bit longer. You can |
| 1:24.2 | fight off cancer, even though it comes back later or whatever um but it just got me thinking |
| 1:31.6 | i've been really focused on like it doesn't have to be that way i i'm going to live however long |
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