[chuck]Uhh, yeah. I’m not sure about this one. Leighton and I watched a video given by a professor about how religion may trace its origins to cognitive processes that evolved to help us sort out complex social interactions quickly. I really don’t know how it turned out, since I fell asleep while editing it.

Not that it’s boring or anything.

The video is here, and the podcast can be found here.

Come back next week, where we’ll discuss something interesting! I promise.

[chuck]Remember waaaaay back when we talked about having our April guests on the show? Well even though it’s May, they’re here!

I think this is our best podcast to date. Pete Rollins is a fascinating fellow and Adele Sakler as always provides a unique perspective on everything we discuss. And since I’m a genius, the odd man out was Leighton, who really didn’t contribute at all. But that’s pretty much par for the course. Give it a listen!

[chuck]Despite all of Jesus’s attempts to keep the lid on this podcast, we’ve got it online. This week, we discuss how Christians ripped off the best and most interesting aspects of pagan theology, sometimes nearly exactly. The similarities were so disturbing, early Church Fathers resorted to the strange idea of anticipatory plagiarism by Beelzebub himself.

It’s all discussed, in detail, right here.

[chuck]We have a fascinating podcast in the works for our 17th episode. Consider the last podcast our pagan precursor “Old Testament Edition.” Episode 17 looks into pagan precursors of New Testament beliefs, practices, and rituals, and it is an eye-opener.

I am so absorbed by the topic that I’m going to require some extra time to complete my research and preparations. Since Leighton is lazing around doing nothing, the delay is entirely my fault. That having been said, I’m convinced the final product will be well worth the wait — it should be the best podcast we’ve done to date.

[chuck]This week, in our fifteenth podcast, we discuss pagan religious ideas and rituals that are now found in the Bible, but which preceded those Biblical religious ideas and rituals, often by millennia. We also discover that Leighton believes that Plutarch was a Greek and that all Christians believe that Satan is the brother of Jesus.

Clearly, Leighton needs to get out more.

[adsense]

[chuck]Maybe we should just start having these things on Saturdays. In this podcast, Leighton and I discuss our research into how the Old Testament mythology compares to Babylonian creation and flood stories. Is it possible that one derived itself from the other, and if so, which is which?

I take on the creation stories found in the Enuma Elish and Genesis, while Leighton takes on both cultures’ takes on the flood mythos.

[adsense]

[leighton]

WARNING! Spoilers ahead!

Podcast Summary, Episode #15: Of Babylon and the Bible