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The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

And I'm still, whoa.

On today's Stone Quire, we're going to be continuing the series we're doing on the current state of religion.

Last week we talked about defining religion in terms of a source of right and

wrong and morality and why it's important to use that view when you're looking at religions,

because many of us simultaneously hold multiple religions in our heads. So we made the case last week

that there's a whole lot of that going on

that's causing problems in the church. And we said that this week we were going to specifically

be discussing Judaizing and Gnosticism, which are two of the earliest false religions that

attacked Christianity in its very earliest days. As Corey and I were doing the prep for this episode,

we realized that there's more than enough just on Judaizing for an entire episode. So this will be in two parts. Next week will be about narcissism exclusively. And then the following week we'll be talking about apostasy. Before we get into this warning to parents who listen with kids, one of the subjects we're

going to talk about is circumcision.

We're going to go into some of the obvious details because it's necessary to discuss

what's going on there.

And you can decide if you want to listen to that before your kids do.

This episode is, as always, a continuation of previous episodes,

and I want to make this point, again, particularly as we're getting into the second full year of

Stone Choir, this season, insofar as such a thing exists for us, there's going to be a lot more

episodes that are syntheses of parts of previous episodes. So what I mean by that is that

we're going to treat every previous episode that we've done essentially as axiomatic for the

purposes of arguments we make in future episodes. So this episode on Judaizing obviously

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