81: Putting the Man Back in "Son of Man"

08/25/23 • 66 min

John Pina and Elliot Toman compare Evangelical Christian and Muslim ideas of The Rapture with a little help from Charlton Heston and Nicholas Cage's left behind. Forays into religious exclusivism, religiously motivated violence, martyrdom and charity.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:30 Khartoum
08:00 Left Behind
18:20 The Rapture
23:30 Fundamentalism
29:00 Who's In? Who's Out?
37:00 Religious Violence
52:30 Muslims Aiding the Christian Minority in Pakistan

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John Pina and Elliot Toman discuss issues of faith and certainty in the context of Islam and Charismatic Evangelical Christianity.

00:00 Introduction
03:30 How We Met
06:30 Team Jesus
10:25 Invoking The Holy Ghost
18:00 This is The Way
24:00 Charismatic Christianity
30:00 Prayer Circle in the White House
40:00 The Problem of Authority
49:30 Beyond the Law
56:00 The Search for Certainty

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Chapters:
01:00 What we don't know.
02:18 Parfait me.
07:55 Are you as religious as you think you are?
14:15 The blurred lines between religion and politics.
22:24 The religious veneer of Conservatism.
27:00 The rise of radical Islam.
42:00 Parallels between Christian and Islamic conservatism.
44:30 The Jesus Movement.
54:20 The freedom to believe.

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