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The Roots of Everything

Dr. Zachary Porcu, and Ancient Faith Ministries

23 episodes

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Episodes (20/23)

The Roots of Everything

Feminism Ep.2: Industrialism

Feminism is more than the desire for women to be treated with respect. It arose in a very specific set of cultural circumstances—the industrial revolution and the technologization of society—and it still bears the marks of those movements today.

2 weeks ago

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Feminism Ep.1: The Paradox

For the last 50 years, women have been steadily gaining more opportunities, education, and financial independence—yet at the same time, according to massive studies across the world, they've also been getting unhappier. What accounts for this seeming paradox?

3 weeks ago

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Epistemology Ep.4: The Collapse of Truth

Despite it's triumphant optimism, the Enlightenment and scientific revolution didn't lead to utopia, but instead to the complete breakdown of the idea of truth. How did scientific rationalism lead to postmodernism, neo-Marxism, and nihilism? Find out on today's episode.

1 month ago

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Epistemology Ep.3: The Enlightenment's Biases

While we often think of the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution as "unbiased" or "neutral", the reality is that, historically, the thinkers behind these movements were in fact quite biased and had a particular project in mind: destroying the past.

1 month ago

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Epistemology Ep. 2: Luther's Anxiety Crisis

While modern secularism is famous for being skeptical, the Reformation actually played a central role in destroying the religious culture of Europe and paving the way for the Enlightenment. Martin Luther is doing the same sort of project as Descartes!

2 months ago

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Epistemology Ep.1: Why Do We Doubt?

How do you know what you know? It's a simple question but trying to answer it reveals something very deep about our culture: an almost neurotic fixation on doubt. Why are we like this? Where did it begin? Join me as we embark on one of the most defining topics of our era.

2 months ago

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Techno-Paganism Ep.4: New Religions, Same Gods

For being supposedly non-religious, secular people are surprisingly interested in weird phenomenon, everything from A.I. worship to UFOs to drug-induced mystical experiences. It's almost like we're building new religions—but how new are they, really?

2 months ago

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Techno-Paganism Ep.3: The Science of Idol-Making

Can we build a god out of A.I.? As it turns out, the ancients were already doing much the same thing, and the "science of idol-making" is a recognized technique going back many centuries. Is what we're doing with A.I. the same? Are idols real creatures?

3 months ago

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Techno-Paganism Ep.2: Mythology of the Enlightenment

Because modern people tend to think of ourselves as irreligious or secular, it makes the rise of new religious movements based on worshipping computers seem almost wacky and unserious. But what if I told you that this was always the goal of the modern era?

3 months ago

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Techno-Paganism Ep.1: A.I. and the New Age

Increasing technology has also led to increasing anxiety. It's not merely that all the dystopian science-fiction stories are coming true; it's the bizarre return of ancient, religious impulses and desires now fused to our tech development—a new frontier of techno-paganism.

3 months ago

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The Dark Logos, Ep. 4: The Faustian Age

Are sorcerers and scientists really aiming at the same thing? People from CS Lewis to Oswald Spengler have answered this question in the affirmative. Spengler in particular, characterizes our age as "Faustian". Are we really sorcerers? Find out on today's episode.

4 months ago

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The Dark Logos, Ep. 3: Gods of the Shadows

If the gods were real but fallen, where are they now? Given a very basic set of Christian assumptions, it's not that far-fetched to imagine that the gods are still around, still very much crave worship and slaves, and having been working with humans to build a new Babel.

4 months ago

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The Dark Logos, Ep. 2: Fall of the Gods

The second element we need to understand in our relationship to knowledge and technology is the fall of the gods and all the stories about the fallen gods giving knowledge to mankind.

4 months ago

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The Dark Logos, Ep. 1: Origins

As our technological power grows, so do our concerns about the future. In this new series, Dr. Zac explores the historical and spiritual context surrounding man's relationship to technology, starting with the idea of the Dark Logos: an anti-Christ relationship to creation.

5 months ago

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The Secular State, Ep.4: Marxism

What is Marxism, really? Is it compatible with Christianity? Is it more freeing or less? What exactly is "real" Marxism? Today, we pull up the root ideas of the Communist Manifesto to see which ideas are at the core of Marx's thinking.

5 months ago

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The Secular State, Ep. 3: Fascism

Fascism is always villainized by Westerners, but what did people like Mussolini and Hitler actually say about it? Did they have a good critique of liberalism and Marxism? And if so, what's actually wrong with fascism? The answer may surprise you.

6 months ago

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The Secular State, Ep. 2: Liberal Democracy

Where did the Liberal Democracy come from? It's not enough to say that it's an Enlightenment-inspired society. At it's heart, liberalism is what happens when you take a Christian vision for reality and strip it of its theological elements.

6 months ago

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The Secular State Ep. 1: Origins and Ideals

Our latest series explores the concept of a secular state and its manifestations in liberalism, fascism, and marxism alike. For this first episode we explore the whole idea of the secular state, it's origins, and how these ideas have shaped our thinking about government.

6 months ago

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Secularism, Ep. 4: The Collapse of Secularism

Did the Enlightenment dream deliver on its promises of rational morality, utopianism, and prosperity, it did it all just lead to eugenics, global war, and nihilism?

7 months ago

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Secularism, Ep.3: The Enlightenment

Everyone's heard of the "Enlightenment", what exactly was it? Was it truly a triumph of reason and science, or was it the slave to its own prejudices?

7 months ago