Being an Christian, going to several denominational churches, and taking classes in other religions and geology, I started to step back and try to do my own small research on religions and the compared and contrasted views of them. Getting to read someone’s else view of religion, especially God, is the main reason I chose this particular podcast. The On Being podcast, “The Evolution of God” features Robert Wright discussing the topics and questions in his book The Evolution of God. The topics lean towards finding moral truth , contradictions of religions, and seeing how the views of God’s compassion affected humanity overtime. Whether Wright believes in a god/ religion or not, he does speak on some topics that were new to me or that I agreed with.
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Before reading the podcast’s transcript, I acknowledge the fact that people will see you as a threat if they feel you are disrespecting them, especially if you disrespect their religion. There has been several occasions that people have felt this, more so between Muslims and Christians or Muslims and Westerners. The people will either view God as “counseling belligerence” or “counseling intolerance” depending on how the person feels against another (Tippett). In a way, Wright’s views on how people change their perception of God depending on their interactions confirms what I thought before. After the feelings of disrespect, violence tends to occur. I like how Wright states that people “are more likely to go look for the parts of their scripture that would seem to justify violence” (Tippett). Christians have done this with the Crusades and so have Muslims with 9/11 and other events. Both have used verses from the Bible and the Qu’ran as prophetic messages from God that they feel will appeal to their
Before reading the podcast’s transcript, I acknowledge the fact that people will see you as a threat if they feel you are disrespecting them, especially if you disrespect their religion. There has been several occasions that people have felt this, more so between Muslims and Christians or Muslims and Westerners. The people will either view God as “counseling belligerence” or “counseling intolerance” depending on how the person feels against another (Tippett). In a way, Wright’s views on how people change their perception of God depending on their interactions confirms what I thought before. After the feelings of disrespect, violence tends to occur. I like how Wright states that people “are more likely to go look for the parts of their scripture that would seem to justify violence” (Tippett). Christians have done this with the Crusades and so have Muslims with 9/11 and other events. Both have used verses from the Bible and the Qu’ran as prophetic messages from God that they feel will appeal to their