The second part of the interview strikes a more personal note. Find out more about the culture shock missionaries experience, how the LDS Church treats those who gave up two years of their life to serve it, and the exit interview experience. Once again, Mike comes to the rescue by editing our massive conversation down into a slightly less massive podcast. Thanks, Mike!
No Skunk Dicks this week but we did stick in something very special for the fans, right around the middle of the podcast.
Posted in Guest Podcasts, Mormonism, Podcasts.
– August 31, 2010
Take a trip down missionary lane with everyone’s favorite ex-LDS brothers, Mike and Chris. Learn all about LDS indoctrination, patriarchal blessings, priesthood ordination, the Missionary Training Center, and early field experiences of a typical LDS missionary. And that’s just part one.
Huge kudos to Mike, who’s slaved away for the past week or so paring down the audio from some 5 or 6 hours of discussion into two 90 minute episodes because I was far too lazy to do it myself.
Check it out, along with an extended Skunk Dick segment, since, hey, we were running long anyway. Might as well bloat the thing out more.
Posted in Guest Podcasts, Mormonism, Podcasts.
– August 24, 2010
Yeah, I know we promised an episode on the Mormon involvement in Proposition 8, but we lied. In this episode, Leighton finds some religious podcasts and takes them apart while I sit back in a state of thorough confusion.
Also, some Skunk Dicks and a really bizarre episode in the ongoing Allred saga. It’s all in episode 76.
Posted in Christianity, Critiques, Podcasts.
– August 19, 2010
In this special episode we courageously venture into the dark heart of iTunes’ Top Ten Religious Podcasts, tackling the ever-charming, ever-gleeful Joyce Meyer as well as everyone’s favorite evangelical idiot, Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill. We also have a very special installment of “As the Allred Family Turns,” and a surprising announcement about the fate of the Mims H. Carter Skunk Dick Award.
It can all be found in episode 75, released on time even!
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Critiques, Jesus, Podcasts.
– August 10, 2010
Today we discuss the New Atheist movement in a wide-ranging conversation with philosopher-in-training Seth, who complains that the loose moral language that is typically used needs to be grounded in rigorous philosophical arguments instead of merely taken for granted. Also, Leighton chimes in with his usual high-brow, professorial commentary.
It’s all in Episode 74.
Posted in Critiques, Guest Podcasts, Philosophy.
– August 4, 2010
After discussing one final heresy, I hand the podcast reins over. Brace yourselves, it’s another Leighton-filled podcast, complete with all the stellar research you’ve all come to expect from Irreligiosophy.
Or at least, have come to expect since Leighton’s Hinduism podcast.
Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Critiques, Jesus, Podcasts.
– July 29, 2010
UPDATE: New new forum. Register at your peril.
I gave bbpress a try because it integrated with WordPress so nicely, but it just didn’t have enough features to be a “real” forum. So I converted to phpbb, but of course there isn’t a conversion pathway from bbpress to phpbb, so I had to do it manually. You’ll probably have to reset your passwords in order to post.
Post in this thread if there are any issues, and I’ll try to resolve them. Or you can email me at irreligiosophy@gmail.com if you’re too lazy or shy to post here. Unlike Job, my patience isn’t infinite. If this doesn’t work, or if there are too many problems, I’ll dump the forum and start from scratch. That means that everyone would have to register again, which is what I was trying to avoid with bbpress in the first place.
Posted in Forum.
– July 23, 2010
Today we talk about early Christian heresies like docetism and adoptionism, and how they influenced both the formation of the canon and the texts within it. It may not surprise you to learn that during the decades-long course of the argument over whether or not Jesus was fully human, fully divine, or both, scribes made alterations in the text so that it would more fully support their viewpoint. Because if you can’t win the argument with the texts you have, by all means make some shit up. And when that fails, simply kill people (as we’ll get into in the next episode).
Leighton’s Source: Wikipedia
Chuck’s Source: “Misquoting Jesus,” by Bart Ehrman, although “Orthodox Corruption of Scripture” goes into more detail
Posted in Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Critiques, Jesus, Podcasts.
– July 20, 2010
We’ve caught those wily NT rascals at it again — this time plagiarizing not from pagan sources but their own Old Testament! In this episode we discuss various portions of the Gospels that were obviously cribbed from OT sources like Psalms or Isaiah. Now why would God be plagiarizing himself?
All this and an extended Skunk Dick section awaits.
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Jesus, Podcasts.
– July 14, 2010
Now I know what God felt like, being subjected to the whining of 3 million Israelites for 40 years.
No podcast this week. Feel free to complain about it in the One True Forum.
Posted in General.
– July 9, 2010
Violate the Word of Wisdom (D&C 89), support the hard work that goes into making our podcasts, and endanger your eternal salvation at the same time by buying us a beer. Better yet, buy one for each of us and sin twice as much!
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