Truth Labs

By most accounts we have entered a new intellectual age. We are postmodern now. The major targets of postmodernism include doing away with Reason, Truth, and Knowledge. Postmodernism then becomes an activist strategy against the coalition of reason and power. Postmodernism seeks not to find the foundation and the conditions of truth but to exercise power for the purpose of social change. Why do skeptical and releativistic arguments have the cultural power that they now do? How do the intellectual themes of exhaustion, nihilism, and cynicism coexist with a broader culture that is richer, freer, and more vigorous than any culture at any other point in history? Why is it that the leading postmodern thinkers are Left in their politics--in most cases, far Left? And why is it that that prominent segment of the Left-the same Left that traditionally defended its positions on the modernist grounds of reason, science, fairness for all, and optimism--is now voicing themes of anti-reason, anti-science, all's-fair-in-love-and-war, and cynicism? In other words...why has everyone gone crazy? We're exploring the book: Explaining Postmodernism, Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault by Stephen R.C. Hicks --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

"I find the fact that there is no external force in charge of us all makes the life we do have much more interesting. We get to derive our meaning, and create our own purpose, and that makes it a much richer experience than playing out pre-written scripts for the amusement of an omniscient almighty. That we all just get one life to live means we don't have the safety net of a do-over, and it makes the time that we do have more meaningful to me." We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

"I feel that I've lost all ground and have spiraled out of control with fear, doubt, and confusion. Why is someone believing in Islam (or any other religion) wrong, and why am I right? I have always felt that Christianity was right because it confirmed my sense of compassion and goodness, but what if my sense of 'goodness' is just from my personal morality I've built thus far? How do I really know it's right?" We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

"Given that a person's religion is most often a simple accident of geography, how can religious people be so convinced that their particular one just happens to be the only one that is right?" How would you respond? We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

"A member of the Sikh religion stated, "The God of Abraham, Mohammed, and Jesus is the same as the God sorshiped by. Sikhs. We simply are seeing different aspects of it and approach it from a different understanding." How would you respond? We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

"We could argue until the cows come home about which religion is the best or truest, and it would be a monumental waste of breath. God is not concerned about which religion is better than other religions. God is concerned with how well each religion brings its people closer to God, and how well each religion moves its believers to. love and serve their fellow human beings." How would you respond? We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

"A woman posed the following question online: '93% of scientists are atheist or agnostic. Tell me, how does one in a religious group explain these statistics? I am an atheist myself just trying to discover how the minds of theists work.' Why do you think she's asking how religious people "explain" that statistic? How would. you reply? We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

"A teenager made the following claims on a website: 'Science is based off cold hard facts, while the Bible is nothing [more] than an explanation that was created by an ancient people with no knowledge of modern science...In the days of religions' creation, modern science (or almost any science) was not present because science had to progress from less complex roots...Religion is nothing more than an uneducated way of explaining the unknown from the past. (By the way, I am fifteen and I just proved thousands of years of region worthless.)' How would you reply to this statement." We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

Do Science and Religion Contradict or Compliment Each Other? Yes and Yes. We use this episode to explore the question a little further. We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

"I believe that science has the ability to disprove that a God exists. My aunt is currently taking an anthropology class in college and it basically disproves everything in the Bible." How would you respond? We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

"If I am to believe in God, I need direct, personal evidence. After that, I'll need someone to verify to me that I'm not hallucinating." We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

"I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon. Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further." -- Richard Dawkins We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. With due respect to the author, I think this chapter fell short of what the atheist challenge really is. She effectively set up a straw man and attack it vs the real argument. That said, I think this chapter was still useful in the claims it did make. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

"Look, I know right and wrong and so I don't need God." "Stop pushing your morality on me!" "Morals are relative; they are produced by cultures." We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

What are the conditions needed for life to exist? Where did life itself come from? "Had [finding-turning] not occurred...life here would either not exist or it would be different. That doesn't mean there's some big fairy who made it happen. Just because we survived on the planet doesn't not mean a god made the planet for us." How would you respond? We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

The truth is not afraid of any question. This podcast explores the deep questions of life. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

"I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no believe. - Dan Barker How would you respond? What questions would you ask to clarify what Mr. Barker means by "God" or by "evidence" or by. "no evidence"? We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support

An atheist claims, "Personally, I do not claim that the universe 'came from' anything at all and it did not 'appear' The universe just is....it needs no creation story" How would you respond to this person? What questions might you ask to understand why they believe that? We're reviewing and commenting on the book: Talking with Your Kids about God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have by Natasha Crain. Please help us continue to build out Truth Labs by donating via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthlabs?fan_landing=true --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-labs/support