32: Dissonance: How "biblical inerrancy" led to Trump & conspiracy theories

Following the Fire

Steve goes solo this week for his hot take on how the American Evangelical / Fundamentalist belief in biblical inerrancy (a relatively new concept, actually) has led to the era of Trump and conspiracy theories ruling the church

• Biblical Inerrancy
• The Reformation
• The Age of Enlightenment
• Brad Risley’s tweet
• Insular Cortex

Some sources on Steve’s crazy claims: (There are many more than these, but these are all a good start/summary of the topic. Also, there are obviously many opinions on these things, so please search out and read multiple sides of the arguments)

• “1 & 2 Timothy and Titus not written by Paul” - link
• “The God of the Israelites was initially named “El” and it became “Jahweh” later in history” - link
• “The Bible never tells us that homosexual relationships are wrong” - start with this book
• “The book of Revelation almost didn’t make it into the Bible at all” - link
• “Job was not a real person” - Book
• “Isaiah was written by multiple authors in different eras” - link
  
• “The Bible is so ancient in some places that we have no idea how to translate it” - link
• “It’s doubtful that Abraham was a real person” - link
• “Moses didn’t write the Pentateuch” - link
• “John was not written by John” - link

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