We Are Not Saved
We Are Not Saved discusses religion (from a Christian/LDS perspective), politics, the end of the world, science fiction, artificial intelligence, and above all the limits of technology and progress.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 423
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
"The Good Place", Brain-uploading, and Eschatology
Now that The Good Place is over I discuss what it had to say about eschatology.
***Warning this episode contains massive The Good Place spoilers. Proceed with caution***
In particular when they event…
Churchills, Hitlers, and Hedonists
In 1941 George Orwell said:
Hitler is a criminal lunatic, and [yet] Hitler has an army of millions of men, aeroplanes in thousands, tanks in tens of thousands. For his sake a great nation has been wi…
Books I Finished in January
- The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life By: David Brooks
- The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason By: Chapo Trap House
- Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal U…
Don't Don't Fear the Filter
Scott Alexander of SlateStarCodex recently declared that "nobody ever really believed [that Fermi's Paradox] was a problem. I not only believed it was a problem I still believe it's a problem, and I …
We're All Montezuma, and the Europeans Are Always Just Around the Corner
In 1519 Cortés began his invasion of the Aztec empire. By 1520 Montezuma would be dead, and by 1521 the empire would have fallen. Within the next half dozen decades 95% of the Aztecs would be dead of…
Predictions Looking Back to 2019 and Forward to 2020
My annual episode where I look back on predictions I've made in the past (particularly my 100 year predictions) and make some predictions for the upcoming year. As you might imagine there would be no…
Books I Finished in December
- Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age By: Bear F. Braumoeller
- Tower Lord (Raven’s Shadow #2) By: Anthony Ryan
- Oath of Swords (War God #1) By: David Weber
- The War God’s Own (War…
Pornography and the End of the World
A recent debate on the dangers of pornography, and whether government should restrict things more or whether people just need to "parent better" plus an article about "total sexual freedom" causing t…
I Finally Figure out What I Want to Be When I Grow Up An Eschatologist
The title pretty much says it all, but in case you don't know what an Eschatologist is, an eschatologist is someone who studies eschatology. And eschatology is "a part of theology concerned with the …
Books I Finished in November
My book reviews for November:
- The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why By: Amanda Ripley
- The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs, #7) By: Jacqueline Winspear
- The Origins …
If We Were Amusing Ourselves to Death in the 80s, What Are We Doing Now?
In 1985 Neil Postman published the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death". The central claim of the book was that TV had replaced the superior epistemology of the printed word with an inferior version foc…
Immigration, Caplan and Buckets
After getting significant pushback I revisit my evaluation of Bryan Caplan's argument for open borders. I continue to maintain that if the average GDP of the US drops by half that some low-skilled wo…
The End of Productive War
In the book War! What is it Good For? by Ian Morris, he speculates that the world has been built on the back of productive war. But what happens when empire building is out of fashion and nukes make …
Books I Finished in October (Including a Graphic Novel On Immigration)
- The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation By: Carl Benedikt Frey
- Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age By: Arthur Herman
- All …
The Blind Spots of Atheism
A collection of ways in which atheists misunderstand the strength of their position (or rather the lack their of).
- The difference between gathering evidence on the existence of something like Bigfo…
Post Christianity
Nietzsche said that God is Dead, and that people had not reckoned with with the consequences of that. Additionally he and other's predicted that people could not be good in the absence of religion. T…
The Pendulum
Moderation is an underrated value. To achieve it we need to not merely push for moderation, we need to push back against whichever side which has become too extreme. This is the pendulum, and it swin…
Books I Finished in September
It's my monthly review of the books I read. In this episode I cover:
- Savage Worlds: Adventure Edition By: Shane Lacy Hensley
- Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea By: Steven Callahan
- Novacene: The…
How Does the Bloodshed Start?
I have heard some people, even in the comments of my this podcast, claim that we shouldn't worry about the current level of political unrest because there's nowhere for the violence to start. That we…
The Solution to Conflict is More Conflict
I recently read American Carnage, the story of the development of the Republican Civil War and the events which led to the current political crisis. While reading it I was struck by a question, not w…