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Confronting Christianity

2020/4/19
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Undeceptions with John Dickson

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Rebecca McLaughlin: 本集探讨了对基督教的十二个挑战性问题,包括其在同性恋问题上的立场、世俗化趋势、道德影响、地狱的教义、与科学的关系、以及历史上的暴力行为等。她认为,圣经并非简单地谴责同性恋关系,而是强调基督徒之间非性爱的、重要而强大的关系;世俗化假说已被证明是错误的,世界正变得越来越宗教化;定期参与宗教活动有益于身心健康;基督教的道德标准定义了我们对善恶的认知;基督教的历史暴力行为并非源于其伦理,而是违背了其伦理;对圣经的比喻性解读并非为了逃避现代证据,而是因为耶稣本人也大量使用比喻;她相信地狱的真实性,但认为耶稣对地狱的描述是比喻性的,关乎公正而非恐吓;基督教信仰为科学提供了比无神论更好的哲学基础。 John Dickson: 作为节目的主持人,John Dickson 提出问题,并引导 Rebecca McLaughlin 阐述其观点。他与 Rebecca McLaughlin 就基督教信仰的各个方面进行了深入探讨,并对她的观点进行补充和解释。

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Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin discusses the decline of Christianity in the West and challenges the secularization hypothesis, arguing that the world is becoming more religious, not less.

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Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin is a learned, feisty academic who's not afraid to confront the challenge that this two thousand year old faith has run its course.

Claims of institutionalised homophobia, that religion is bad for us, and scare tactics surrounding the teaching of Hell - they all surface in this episode.

Faced with the most challenging questions of the day, Dr. McLaughlin offers a spirited defence of Christianity that John Dickson thinks amounts to the best answer to troubling questions since Tim Keller's Reasons For God.

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