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Ep 45: The Realities of Social Construction, with Sam from the Broken Book Bible Podcast

Micah Redding, Sam McConnell

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Posted on 2020-08-24 20:00:00

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How can we love religion when so many are hurt?
How do we describe the reality of social constructs?
Does Jesus have a personality?
What's St. Paul's social media presence?
Is God an AI?

• twitter @BrokenBookPod
• Broken Book Podcast
• twitter @micahtredding
• Deconstruction
• John Calvin
• Calvin College
• How to be human.
• Different messages from the minor prophets.
• Scripture trains you for the ambiguity of life.
• Sharing religion to expand the universe.
• Religious thought separates us from other animals.
• Logic does not have room for contradiction, but the world is all about contradictions.
• Speaking possibilities into the world.
• Religious improvisation.
• Most things exist because we have faith in them.
• Substance comes from words.
• Virtual Reality government from words.
• The most prominent things in life are constructs of imagination.
• Non-binary religion. We aren't dealing with conservative vs. progressive.
• We are, like the Trinity, multiple things at once.
• Are you a coat hanger?
• You are a trinity.
• "Jesus Christ is an excellent dinner party guest" - Sam
• Jesus' Myers-Briggs – INFJ??
• Jesus is into irony.
• "Jesus is good at saying smart things in less than 160 characters" - Sam
• Paul is Naïve.
• Humans are contradictory, nuanced beings.
• AI won't come about from logic, but from.
• "The Bible is closer to being human than the most complex super computer that we have devised" - Sam
• Libraries are a first draft at AI.

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