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Podcast: The Bible as Literature
Episode: Be Perfect
Description: The United States is at a crossroads. Regrettably, all of us listened to our parents, teachers and Walt Disney, who conspired to convince us that we should believe in ourselves--and now, everyone believes in themselves. It's a disaster. We believe in ourselves and thus believe that our ideas, preferences and personal beliefs hold universal authority. When daily life demonstrates that our beliefs are not universal, we push back--sometimes violently--to silence all those who threaten our mental perfection. Did I say mental? Yes, I did. We are mental. The problem with mental perfection is that it's a...