Saturday Matinee: Data Over Dogma
History Daily
Airship | Noiser | Wondery
4.4 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
On today's Saturday Matinee, come across one of the most significant archaeological find of all time: the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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| 0:27.0 | When you look back over the entire sweep of human history, there has probably been no greater force of change, no tool wielded so often so brutally or cynically, than religion. |
| 0:32.0 | We took basic survival impulses of tribalism. rudely or cynically than religion. |
| 0:32.8 | We took basic survival impulses of tribalism and codified them into instruments of civilization, |
| 0:38.6 | reasons to go to war, mandates for exploration and exploitation. |
| 0:43.2 | And it makes sense that religion would be this pervasive and this powerful, |
| 0:47.2 | as it is still. |
| 0:48.7 | We humans seem to crave meaning, purpose, and order. |
| 0:52.2 | Religion can provide all of that, but history proves the outcome |
| 0:56.0 | of religious fervor can be calamity just as often as it is charity. |
| 1:01.0 | And much of the world's religious discord, the schisms, the crusades, the colonization, stands |
| 1:06.4 | from what seems to be a very basic question, what's the truth? |
| 1:11.1 | What's the truth? |
| 1:12.1 | Was Jesus the only son of God or was he revered Prophet second to Muhammad? |
| 1:18.0 | What's the truth that salvation is available through faith alone or good works. |
| 1:23.0 | What's the truth? |
| 1:24.0 | Is the God of the Israelites, the one true God, or just one of a pantheon? |
| 1:30.0 | There are so many questions, and that's not even considering the non-Abrahamic religions. |
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