Episode 1: How the Right Ruined Jesus

The gang talks about a long haired, bearded, religious fanatic from the middle east. Tangents include Leo Tolstoy (a long haired, bearded, religious fanatic from farther east), intro to philosophy topics, and the joys of being attacked with aerosol sprays. 

 

Reading list

• “Who people believe rules in heaven influences their beliefs about who rules on Earth”
  https://news.stanford.edu/2020/01/31/consequences-perceiving-god-white-man/
• “The relationship between beliefs about Jesus’s race, racial attitudes, and ideologies that maintain racial hierarchies”
  https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-22418-001
• Read the Bible, it’s not bad. Skip anything written by Paul and anywhere where people start talking about rules from God. Those parts drag.
  https://www.biblestudytools.com/niv/
• Brief History of Palestine
  https://www.worldhistory.org/palestine/
• Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine.
  Only interesting if you are a huge ancient history nerd. But if you love reading about boring old shit (fair warning this is a slightly colonial perspective) it is an interesting read.
  https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199216437.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199216437
• A decent resource for learning the basics of early Christian history:
  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/portrait/
• Also, if you’re looking for more books on Christanity that make Pat Robertson roll in his grave, read these:
  https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/271652.God_of_the_Oppressed
  https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Theology_of_Liberation.html?id=0cY80yUpU9MC
• Thesus’ ship explained in more depth:
  

Intro and break music by Daniel Griggs.