11 - Guilt and Self Atonement

Good and evil are inescapable categories for human thought and action, yet Christianity alone deals in these categories in its underlying philosophies. Everywhere we turn, we see this question: how can we be clean? If we don’t have Jesus’ life and death in our place, we try to figure out some way on our own… yet in our sins we continue to defy God and harm our neighbors and even ourselves, and we know something’s still wrong. In this episode we discuss some of the popular ways to mitigate the feelings that stem from the legal reality of our guilt--and why they all fail.

This Episode Features: Emily Learns New Words; Ancient Greek Playground Bullies; Money Doesn’t Matter (Especially If Your Friends Give You Lots of It); Just Following Orders; Sin Is Abusive; Soap Commercials; Japanese Storage Units; Cain and Abel’s Family Values; Great Book, but Boring; and Moralistic Nonsense.

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQxcOW4VCHnTi8J37UkHoNBQD5Cb8xNKUUyRh4indUAhrG9iSfFYDZgLJR0BoeVMqOWivKObMVr8h2N/pub

Links
Ghostbusters (1984): “Don’t Cross the Streams”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyKQe_i9yyo
The Oresteia - Aeschylus: https://amzn.to/2I6TrZ1
Shooter (2007): https://amzn.to/32Bf1hE
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946): https://amzn.to/2Vwuf5Z
Hail, Caesar! (2016): https://amzn.to/2vj1ejP
Genesis 3: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+3/
The Quest for Holiness - Adolf Koeberle: https://amzn.to/3agUYYt
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo: https://amzn.to/3adEdNR
Man of La Mancha (1972): https://amzn.to/39cacxU
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes: https://amzn.to/2T9iQaE
Wikipedia: Francis Bellamy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy

Recos
The Gulag Archipelago - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/2T9ZySv
Postwar - Tony Judt: https://amzn.to/396PSOl
Little Women (2019): https://amzn.to/385SXwM
The Ancient City - Fustel de Coulanges: https://amzn.to/2IaMuWE
The Secular City - Harvey Cox: https://amzn.to/2wiuBT8