As an American Anglican (ACNA), I appreciate this guest and his summary of the Church at large. Either the Church is a mirror of the culture or it can be a beacon for the culture.

The delightful accent aside, this was such a good interview and interview subject. Thanks for bringing it to us.

Cool. I am enjoying the GodTawk podcasts and do not believe have heard from Jamie prior, so will be at the ready 🐈 PS> 🏆😼

What qualifies a "good" life? How does one inherit one?

I started writing something abt religion similar to things I usually say, and started realizing how cynical and potentially trollish my views on religion actually are. I feel kinda bad, because I rly like this channel, if I were gonna rewrite this and be honest though, I feel like it'll be just as dark as before, and too real. Lol, let's see. I think firstly, um, magic is not real, let's get that out of the way. But more to the point (and on a more terrestrial note) I think religions are almost precisely comparable to big gangs, with everything from the shared rituals, to the dogmatic groupthink, to binding together against outsiders, to the shared insulated and idiosyncratic subculture for cohesion. It must also be pointed out, that although we're dealing here with social phenotype more than genotype (Dawkins's argument might not hold up, but he tried to argue it's both of these via his "extended phenotype" coinage) ethnic similarity tends often, but not always, to be a major factor. (Here's a relatively obvious hypothesis: as long as there's not too much variability in group genotype all at once, shared social phenotype largely contributes to the potential formation of a distinct new genotype, over the course of several generations). So, here's the question: should you join a gang? (Lol). If you're in prison...yeahh, not much choice. If you're a teenager in a dangerous neighborhood, unfortunately oftentimes, not much choice. But in terms of what's going on right now: what if you're in a culturally weakened, atomized Western society, with failing institutions? Should you essentially re-tribalize? Should you 'join a gang?' Ppl debate what kind of social utility religion ultimately has. Basically I'm here to tell you, ppl can dress it up all they like, but essentially this is it. In a weird way, this is not as much of a critique as it may seem to be. I mean, SHOULD ppl join a reliable and (overly) close-knit community group, amidst worsening social disintegration? Honestly, I don't know, increasingly atomized and desperate individuals may well prove to be EVEN MORE dangerous, if that's realistically the only alternative. I know our friendly neighborhood Christians, which probably includes most ppl on this channel, always seem like the most amicable and community-oriented ppl. But then, why can't they just be that way, without doing this whole thing? The initiation rituals, the blood oaths, the shared recitation of a culty creedo, ok maybe not all those things, but lots of them. Ppl get scared, some more easily than others, and this is what happens. Could you just try to join the most benign gang on offer, with the most benign possible outcomes? Maybe, but when the Sharks and Jets start snapping their fingers...

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Being Eastern Catholic, we have a lot of problems but this ain’t one of them 😂

Sorry- he is misinformed. Pope Francis is NOT a Liberation Theologian.

Obviously this guy is completely unaware of the WEF/UN plans and their church partnerships through NGO's, in addition to the manipulation tactics they use.

1:45:00 Thoroughly enjoying this interview, but I take exception to the pastor's remarks that he has solid theological grounds for his Protestantism. There are no solid theological grounds for Protestantism. While Protestants claim to rally around sola scriptura, that's just them tickling their ears. The true foundation of Protestantism is pride. Sola scriptura is like "diversity is our strength". It's a meaningless slogan. The Protestant's authority is himself, because he sets himself up as the sole authoritative interpreter of scripture. So it isn't scripture that's the authority, it's the Protestant's own opinions about scripture that is the authority. This is why you have one Protestant church that insists homosexuality is a grave sin and another one that marries gay people. If two people can read the same words and come to opposite conclusions, then the Protestant slogan that scripture interprets scripture is false. If it did, then everyone would come to the same conclusion.

He’s a fanatic. I’m a gay Christian who is critical of all things woke and I want nothing to do with these loons who will drag us back into the dark ages.

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