{"id":7224,"date":"2023-06-13T11:21:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeroaggressionproject.org\/?p=7224"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:21:47","slug":"faith-without-love-dead-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeroaggressionproject.org\/gracearchy\/faith-without-love-dead-51\/","title":{"rendered":"8 [Heretical?] Reflections on Faith and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Skeptics and nonbelievers are right to reject the religion and faith believers have presented them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You might be tempted to take that statement at face value. Don&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p>Everything you&#8217;ve been told about religion and faith is likely wrong. That goes for believers and nonbelievers alike.<\/p>\n<p>Presented here are eight personal expressions on religion and faith&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NL8dXmF0vI0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of the eight items we covered (in just 35 minutes) could be an entire episode. But if I could oversimplify&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-Religion is an artifact of violence.<br \/>\n-Faith is blind adherence to religion.<br \/>\n-And God is on our side in this violence!<\/p>\n<p>This is trouble if we want a Zero Aggression world.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m saying all of this, as a believer!<\/p>\n<p>In fact, my thinking on this started with a Ron Paul moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Every episode is also on these five podcasting platforms:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/gracearchy-with-jim-babka\/PC:1001041306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pandora<\/a> * <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/show\/gracearchy-with-jim-babka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stitcher<\/a> * <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-gracearchy-with-jim-babka-104993243\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iHeart<\/a> * <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vZ3JhY2VhcmNoeQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a> * <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/38qo6q3PwdCUfxjgcrD3Ff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re featuring today&#8217;s episode on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\" align=\"center\"><strong style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff; background-color: #b90f10; border: 1px solid #b90f10; border-radius: 6px; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.25em; text-decoration-line: none; width: 350px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/gracearchy-with-jim-babka\/ep51-faith-without-love-is-dead-gracearchy-with-jim-babka\/PE:1304412422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pandora<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please also subscribe to the service on which you listen, so you&#8217;ll be <strong>conveniently<\/strong> notified of all upcoming episodes.<\/p>\n<p><em>ZAP The State and have a nice day,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jim Babka<br \/>\nHost, Gracearchy with Jim Babka<br \/>\nCo-creator,\u00a0Zero Aggression Project<\/p>\n<p>Gracearchy is hosted by Zero Aggression Project&#8217;s co-founder, Jim Babka, but the views expressed in the show are not necessarily those of the board, staff, or supporters of the Zero Aggression Project (Downsize DC Foundation).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undoing Religion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[760],"tags":[758,1085,1086,761,25,74,1087,417,380],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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