Religion and Its Ideas

There is a vast diversity of human religions whose core beliefs present incompatibilities with each other. Can all religions be true? How do we reconcile faith with reason? Do angels and demons exist? Is there eternal life or is death final?

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No one denies the diversity of human religions, and the apparent incompatibility of their core beliefs. Many believe only their own religion to be True. Some claim all...

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Can Many Religions All be True?

Episode 07

Season 03

26:45

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I would like to believe in God, but conflicting religions trouble me. Religions clash and compete-and that’s a problem for those who believe or want to believe.

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Do Religions Complement or Contradict?

Episode 11

Season 10

26:47

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There is strain between faith and reason, yet many people proclaim their faith. Why? What generates faith? God? Or human psychology? Should we want to have faith?

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Religious Faith: Rational or Rationalization?

Episode 06

Season 16

26:48

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We like to think that we are rational, that what we believe is what is true. But we often believe because of our “belief systems”-“how we believe” may...

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How Belief Systems Work

Episode 10

Season 10

26:46

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Most people believe that God exists and religion is God’s revelation. But some claim that religion needs nothing supernatural; that religion, without God, can flourish...

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Can Religion be Explained Without God?

Episode 09

Season 05

26:46

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If I seek God and avoid “the problem of evil,” I fool myself. If there is a God, evil is God’s hardest problem. If there is no God, evil is No-God’s...

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Can God Face Up Evil?

Episode 09

Season 10

26:46

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Many theologians take angels and demons seriously. Why? Certainly, most human beings believe in angels and demons. Certainly, such nonphysical beings, in one form or another,...

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Do Angels and Demons Exist?

Episode 10

Season 04

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In every generation, some religious believers imagined their time to be the end time. Why is this so? Is our generation different? What, in a religious nutshell, is the End...

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Is This the End Time?

Episode 11

Season 03

26:46

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Judaism, Christianity and Islam each proclaim a resurrection of the dead, a bodily reconstruction of all people from all time. How would it work? Does it make sense?

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What’s in a Resurrection?

Episode 11

Season 11

26:46

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Every religion thunders its day of reckoning, and to examine God’s judgment is to probe God’s character and perhaps assess God’s existence. If God does not...

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What is God’s Judgment?

Episode 12

Season 04

26:46

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The Judeo-Christian scriptures tell of “a new heaven and a new earth,” when all shall be made new. What could this mean? Could this ever make sense? Believers...

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A New Heaven & A New Earth?

Episode 13

Season 06

26:45

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Almost all religions promise eternal life. In one form or another, the message goes forth that death is not final. But each religion paints its own portrait of the hereafter:...

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Eternal Life is Like What?

Episode 12

Season 03

26:46

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“Theism” is the belief in God. But atheists claim that theism is not coherent, meaning that God as a concept is riddled with conflicts, Inconsistencies and...

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Is Theism Coherent?

Episode 13

Season 07

26:46

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