ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Religion: it’s at the centre of world affairs, but profound questions still remain. Why are you here? What happens when you die? Does God matter? God Forbid seeks the answers.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
54 minutes
English
Australia
731 episodes
since Sept. 30, 2017
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~42.55% of listeners are from United States.
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US
42.55%
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AU
40.07%
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GB
3.13%
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NZ
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NL
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution nearly 170 years ago.
So why are there still creationists?
While mainstream Christianity holds that evolution and faith are compatible, a minority of Christians believe they are not.
Last week on God Forbid we looked at the entangled relationship …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In 1927, a Catholic priest told Albert Einstein the universe was expanding. Einstein though that was a crazy idea. But the priest was right.
And when the Pope claimed this as proof of creation, the tables were turned again. The priest told the pontiff, keep your religion out of my physics.
There’…
The world has trust issues with its media.
Three in five Australians trust TV and radio news, and what's in the newspapers,.
But in North America it is fewer than three in ten.
Are we doing something better here, OR are we just a decade behind them?
Is it an economic problem? After all, ownership …
Is intolerance tightening its grip on public life?
The twentieth century was among the most intolerant in human history; the Holocaust, Stalinism, empires collapsing in blood.
So why, in the twenty-first century, is tolerance still so elusive?
In the final episode of a two-part series on tolerat…
Rulers throughout history have used tolerance and intolerance in their pursuit of power.
In our modern context, tolerance is often lauded as an unqualified good, but are there limitations? Should we extend tolerance to those who commit acts of violence?
In the first of two episodes on the rise a…
What is the place of religion in a pluralist society?
Australia calls itself a secular country, yet it has never been more religiously diverse.
Whether you're religious or secular, whether you support multi or mono-culturalism, it seems we all claim the authentic mantle of modern Australian identit…
Generation Z is the first generation since the war to start out with less claim on the country than their parents.
You might believe this story is just all about economics. Negative gearing, property investment, supply and demand...
But there's an older, even ancient, argument that says that says …
Neuroscience is now spectacularly good at explaining how brains work.
But there’s one thing it still can’t explain: why having a brain feels like something. Like anything at all!
Philosophers call this the Hard Problem of consciousness.
Is this gap in our knowledge something that science can n…
The Northern Territory is set to become the final Australian jurisdiction to legalise voluntary assisted dying (VAD). While thirty years of arguing comes to an end, God Forbid examines the wider conversations that are essential, but so often overlooked when it comes to voluntary assisted dying.
GUE…
Mother Earth. Mother Mary. The "good mother." Is there a more impossible standard than motherhood itself?
Every culture seems to believe in a mother who is endless. Endlessly patient, endlessly giving, endlessly present.
In Christianity she's Mary, the sinless virgin, the giving and eternal mother…
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