Protestants Call This Pagan, Except Pagans Hated This

"Appealing to his own desire to lead and provide will always be more effective than trying to overcome him in an adversarial way." Support the channel by visiting: https://brianholdsworth.ca/help In this episode, I explore one of the most difficult truths about human nature: our tendency to blame…

Modern science was not inevitable. It emerged from a fragile historical chain in which Christianity preserved Greek reason, reconciled faith with philosophy, invented the university system, and cultivated the conviction that the natural world is intelligible because it was created by divine reason.

Marriage only makes sense as a public institution if it serves a public good. If it is reduced to private romantic attachment or sexual companionship, then the state has no coherent reason to recognize it, limit it, incentivize it, or treat it as distinct from any other consenting arrangement.

There are two very different kinds of atheism: the sentimental optimism of John Lennon's Imagine, and the hard, brutal realism of Friedrich Nietzsche's "death of God." Lennon imagines a world without religion, borders, or possessions, where everyone naturally lives in peace. Nietzsche saw more clea…