Les (of Stupid Evil Bastard fame) has been planning on doing a podcast for quite some time, and has been gracious enough to invite me to join him. He’s soliciting questions for us to discuss …
Here’s the thing: As most of you who follow both SEB and ***Dave Does the Blog already know, outside of him being a theist and me an atheist, we have more in common than not. My concern is that we’re going to ask each other questions about topical items and we’re going to agree with each other so much that the entire podcast will be similar to this:
Me: I think Pat Robertson is stone-cold crazy.
***Dave: I agree completely. And I think the Teabaggers are a wee bit deluded.
Me: I totally agree.
I suppose there’s some risk there — though I think we could probably both speak at length (and not necessarily in full concord) on why Pat is an idjit, or in what ways the Teabaggers are deluded. That gets into further questions or discussion about religion, society, political liberty, the media, etc. Still …
Which is going to make for a fairly boring podcast. So I’m opening this up for you guys to participate. Got a topic you’d like to hear us pontificate on? A question burning a hole in your brain? A query you’re curious if we can help you with? Leave it in the comments or alternatively drop me an email or drop ***Dave an email if you prefer. Topics can be anything you want – politics, religion, technology, pop culture – and we’ll do our damnedest to talk about them in an amusing manner.
And I throw the same invitation open here. Drop either of us a line, or leave a comment.
We’d been planning on Saturday night to finally get this done, but that’s turned out to be Date Night at the Consortium, so I’m working with Les to reschedule. But soon! Soon!
One serious need for both Christians and atheists is some way of distinguishing among Christian approaches to human society. I am not comfortable generalizing; “Christians do THIS horrible thing!” But the slightest misalignment of labels will bring denials from any Christian who wants to do a horrible thing while not being aligned with some other horrible thing.
And of course I have no truck with any atheist who wants to do horrible things either. As Atheists tend to lump Christians together (while Christians are desperately trying to divide themselves into True and false), Christians tend to lump Atheists together. Some Christians, anyway.
I guess I’m feeling the need of some robust taxonomy of Christian social/economic approaches. Because atheists along with everyone else, have an interest in puncturing the false “who’s a Real Christian?” conundrum. The idea that real Christians can disagree on social issues confounds both Christians and atheists. But it shouldn’t.
I don’t know what to do with that but maybe you two can think of something?
An interesting thought. I would type a lot about it, but I should save it for the ‘cast (which looks like we’ll be doing tomorrow (Sunday) night).