Why Do We God? with Professor Leela Prasad
Alive with Steve Burns
Lemonada Media
5.0 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada |
| 0:02.0 | Hey there you are. |
| 0:03.0 | Come on in. |
| 0:20.0 | It's good to see you. Uh, welcome you are. Come on in. It's good to see you. Welcome to Alive. |
| 0:23.6 | Okay, take a deep breath. This is a big one. Do you believe in God. Yeah, okay, fair. |
| 0:44.3 | That is a huge question, right? |
| 0:48.3 | But we tend to talk about these things, death and sex and taxes taxes and it's almost like we're dancing around |
| 0:55.3 | the biggie the big cheese the OG God I'm making tea you want tea it's have tea |
| 1:04.6 | and I don't mean the capital G intercedent anthropomorphic god sitting on a cloud somewhere |
| 1:14.9 | smiting people and, you know, painting sunsets and inventing the platyposed or something. |
| 1:23.4 | I'm talking about the small G God, the idea, you know? |
| 1:32.3 | The impulse, the story, really. |
| 1:40.3 | Because if you step back far enough, it's pretty easy to see that all cultures across all ages of humanity have some story of something larger than themselves to worship. |
| 1:55.0 | Here you go. To blame, to bargain with, to... I don't know. |
| 2:02.2 | It just seems that we do have some sort of God-shaped hole |
| 2:05.8 | at the center of our existence that we are compelled |
| 2:09.0 | to fill with all of the very big things, |
| 2:12.8 | like love and fear and hate and mercy and hope. And my question is, why do we God? |
| 2:32.9 | Why do we God? |
| 2:40.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:44.0 | Come on. |
| 2:47.0 | Okay. |
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