This podcast examines, page by page, the ideas proposed by Christian writer Ross Douthat in his book Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.
In his book, Ross Douthat claims that religious belief in general, and Christian belief specifically, is the rational choice. Do his arguments hold up to scrutiny?
Why make this podcast? Well, not everyone believes. We want to know why Ross Douthat thinks that’s so terrible, and why he’s using his power as a member of the media elite to try to get everybody in America to believe the same thing.
Humans Learn From Experience, Not God, Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat tells a weird story about science being like a secret book written by God in a coded language that little kids invented to avoid being listened to by their parents. That is the unhinged fantastical kind of thinking that Ross Douthat claims is “rational” in his book Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.