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Episode: It's In the Code Ep. 78: "Everyone Has an Ultimate Authority"
Description: “Everyone has an ultimate authority.” You might encounter this claim in a discussion about the authority of the Bible, or in religious debates about LGBTQ+ inclusion, or the respective roles of men and women in church and society, or about evolution, or vaccines, or any number of other topics. But what, exactly, does this mean? Why will people with a particular view of religious authority make this claim? What attitudes or beliefs encoded within it? These issues are the focus of this week’s episode.Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the en...