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Ep 6: Evil Capitalists!
Micah Redding, Amy Gaskin
Posted on 2015-11-02 00:00:00
Micah Redding & Amy Gaskin discuss whether transhumanism is just an apologetic for capitalism, what will drive the economies of the future, and how Christians need to get out and play more...even if it means finding yourself mixed up in a plot to overthrow Hitler.
- Reddit AMA on Christian Transhumanism
- Bitcoin & Bartering
- Matthew 18:2-4 and why Jesus says becoming like a child is the key to the future
- The Tree of Life movie, and the contrast of "nature" and "grace"
- Imagination & Idealism as the answer to world problems
- Trust as the basic of economics (and the corpspeak version of that)
- Acts 2 as a high-trust economy
- Synthetic trust & capitalism, socialism, feudalism, mercantilism
- Why the mafia is better than nothing
- Phyllis Tickle, The Great Emergence, and how Christianity reboots itself every 500 years
- Every reboot gives us a new basis of authority - and a new basis of trust across generations
- Sola Scriptura, the Vatican's hidden files, and Ashley Madison
- The effectiveness of confession
- A 50-cent microscope for the developing world
- The Roman Empire's roads, and why Jesus came when he did
- Scaffolding, spiritual gifts, and the Jewish temple system
- Religion as a way of increasing Dunbar's Number
- The Maze Runner and the changing face of leadership
- Why you can't practice real leadership without egalitarianism
- CS Lewis on survival of the fittest
- Saints, asceticism, and the brilliance of living outside the normal world
- Hebrews 11 and the hall of faith
- Play!
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Ep 6: Evil Capitalists!
Christian Transhumanist Podcast
Micah Redding, Amy Gaskin
2015-11-02 00:00:00
178253895
Christian Transhumanist Podcast
Micah Redding, Amy Gaskin
2015-11-02 00:00:00
178253895
Guests
- Kevin Kelly
- NT Wright
- Science Mike McHargue
- David Deutsch
- Aubrey de Grey
- Frank Tipler
- Robin Hanson
- Robert Wright
- James Hughes
- Steve Fuller
- Liz Parrish
- Thomas Jay Oord
- Greg Boyd
- Philip Clayton
- Adam Ericksen
- Christian Piatt
- Paul Wallace
- Derek Flood
- Katharine Hayhoe
- Christopher Benek
- Robert Walden Kurtz
- Calvin Mercer
- Peter Enns
- Shannon Vyff
- Ron Cole-Turner
- Meghan O'Gieblyn
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The Christian Transhumanist Podcast is an editorially independent production of Micah Redding, provided here as a community resource on behalf of the CTA.