Religion in the Modern World

Another hilarious sketch featuring Stanford Nutting from season 5 of The Apostle of Common Sense

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[Jim5150jvc]

Awesome video!!! But heyyyyyy- wasn't this story taken directly from SOCRATES MEETS JESUS by Peter Kreeft? if so, make sure you acknowledge that in the title or video description. Keep up the good work!

[TheaterOfTheWordInc]

@Jim5150jvc - Um ... no ... this has nothing to do with Kreeft's book; odd that you think it does. By the way, I have secured the rights from Kreeft's publisher for a stage adaptation of SOCRATES MEETS JESUS and the rights to record it on video. This sketch has nothing to do with that. Great book, though - and it makes a great play. Visit our website for more info.

[TheaterOfTheWordInc]

Thanks, fxwrldfan. The moral: never let your teen-aged son upload and title your videos.

[TheaterOfTheWordInc]

Big Mike, that's great! I'll put it in Stanford's next video.  Meanwhile, good luck on that vestigial appendectomy.

[Speculum81]

@TheaterOfTheWordInc

Do you know why your video is not found when searching for "religion in the modern world" on Youtube?

[TheaterOfTheWordInc]

@Speculum81 No.  Do you?

[chrisgaffrey]

"Religion ... it's about tolerance and I will not tolerate any mention of that ... G.K. Chesterton." That just about sums up the "dictatorship of relativism." Maybe we should forward this video to Pope Benedict. He'd have a good chuckle over this too.

[justalayman]

"i'm your facilitator ..." Brilliant!

"I'm fascinated by the topic of religion in the modern world ... because there is nothing MORE IMPORTANT than the modern world."

Brilliant.

[tatripp]

I go to Cal State San Bernardino and I'm an English Major. I've had quite a few Stanford Nuttings as professors. What Stanford Nutting Says about being a facilitator instead of a teacher is almost exactly what I have been told by my teachers even to the point of the semi circle. The real students, just like everyone in the video, give a little sigh when the teacher puts us in a semi circle.

[SorokChyetirye]

@CarlSagan6 Perhaps. I wonder if they would someday do a study on the empirical sciences - Biology in the Modern World, for instance - and compare evolution to Intelligent Design, Lamarck's theory, theistic evolution, and the like. Or Quantum Physics in the Modern World - the Copenhagen interpretation vs. the "Many Worlds" hypothesis.

Perhaps the academia are just confused about religion? Maybe they're too busy exploring the material world to care about spiritual and religious truth?

[SorokChyetirye]

@CarlSagan6 The open and honest study is the only thing I am trying to promote. But you will not find this in the secularist lens through which so many students receive it nowadays. Many professors are irreligious, some of them condescending and even quite hostile to religion, or even belief. Their job, it seems, is to cause the student to doubt everything about religion, rather than to share the truth. That, or agnosticism (i.e, ignorance) is just a new fad in the academia.

[SorokChyetirye]

@CarlSagan6 Not at all. Buddhism, Islam, paganism, even atheism have facets of truth that the Catholic can appreciate. It's not necessary to "denounce every bit of it in favour of Catholicism".

That said, remember that humans teach these classes. And religion (or lack thereof), being a very personal subject, is often taught through their eyes, if only partially, whether they are secular Jews, strong Buddhists, lapsed Catholics, or militant atheists.

[CarlSagan6]

@SorokChyetirye Are you telling me that it's intolerable to take a class about Buddhism unless it's being taught by a Catholic who denounces every bit of it in favor of Catholicism? What about the beliefs of the Greeks? Or the Egyptians? Are you so threatened by the mere presence and existence of other faiths that you label the open and honest study of them to be "unholy" or heretical?

[CarlSagan6]

@SorokChyetirye I'm not sure what you mean, but I suppose one would teach a "Religion in the Modern World" class by approaching religions as emergent, social institutions *regardless* of the truthfulness of their respective claims. That's all I'm asking.

[SorokChyetirye]

@CarlSagan6 What is the lens through which these religion classes are viewed? If this seems a strange question, all classes are taught through some lens. Biology holds its lens in evolution; quantum physics in the Copenhagen interpretation, English in the MLA handbook. Through what lens does a secular professor see, and therefore teach, religion in the modern world?

[CarlSagan6]

@dogmaticcommenter I sense a slice of sarcasm in that, but I'll choose to take it as a genuine complement :)

[dogmaticcommenter]

@CarlSagan6 ...Stanford Nutting just gave you an "A+". Way to go buddy!



[CarlSagan6]

This video smells misleading to me. The strictly *academic*/bare-bones study of religion in the modern world is about the influences within, effects of, and interrelationships among religions... in the modern world. Nothing wrong with that. Sure, if you want to subscribe to a particular faith, go ahead! But labeling the honest and open study of other religions as "liberal relativism" is absurd. We're not asking you to proclaim those other religions to be true, just to learn about them. Simple.