Sublime

Though humanism is the moral code that people will converge upon when they are rational, culturally diverse, and need to get along, it is by no means a vapid or saccharine lowest common denominator. The idea that morality consists in the maximization of human flourishing clashes with two perennially seductive alternatives. The first is theistic mor

The broad and general elements of the Gospels are imaged for us by the ancient nonbiblical authors of the first and early second centuries, and they are confirmed by the archaeological record.

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Some of the beliefs that I will address are: “You don’t need to believe in God to have a full life of meaning, hope, and satisfaction” (chapters 3, 4, and 8). “You should be free to live as you see fit, as long as you don’t harm others” (chapter 5). “You become yourself when you are true to your deepest desires and dreams” (chapters 6 and 7). “You

Episode AI notes

1. Religions like Christianity recognize human flaws and the potential for cruelty and exploitation, while also acknowledging the capacity for goodness.




2. Expanding empathy through cosmopolitanism and understanding different experiences is crucial for progress.




3. There are trade-offs between human freedom and flourishing, as well as between

He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)

I suspect that no figure in Christian history has suffered a greater injustice as a result of the desperate inventiveness of the Christian moral imagination than the Apostle Paul, since it was the violent misprision of his theology of grace—starting with the great Augustine, it grieves me to say—that gave rise to almost all of these grim distortion