Paul VanderKlay's Podcast

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I am a minister in the Christian Reformed Church. I have a YouTube channel where I do commentary on religion, theology, belief, and thought leaders like Jordan Peterson, Eric and Bret Weinstein, the IDW and anything else I find interesting. I also have conversations with many in my audience.

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Monday Feb 15, 2021

CS Lewis helps Sheldon VanAuken understand how to evaluate Religion and Belief

Monday Feb 15, 2021

I had a scalability discussion in the Bridges of Meaning Discord server Q/A on Feb 5. CS Lewis made the point to Sheldon VanAuken in his book A Severe Mercy that real things scale.

Going back over VanAuken's book I realized how relevant it is to many of the searching people are doing today. How can he benefit from Christianity if he finds himself not believing?

Bridges of Meaning Q/A Feb 5 https://youtu.be/ycUBlfHlV7k
JBP and Babylonian Image https://youtu.be/J2W242PGwdY
A Severe Mercy https://amzn.to/3afBeHy

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Saturday Feb 13, 2021

Stories from the Underside of the Idolatrous Projected Image

Saturday Feb 13, 2021

Corey's worked in the Canadian correctional system for a number of years and has learned wisdom by looking at life from the bottom. He's currently working on becoming a counselor and pursuing a degree of psychology. Of course he found me by watching Jordan Peterson and so we swap stories.

Notes:

Born in St. John
Grew up Roman Catholic, drifted

Second largest city geographically in Canada, lived in the country of the city

Cottage on a lake, no real neighbors around

Father was a projectionist, trailed along with him to the theater

Criminology degree, working at a jail

Prison reform

Working with human nature

Got a black belt in JBP, gotta pick a master, first master I submitted to

Trust levels goes down for people when you work in prisons

Do a masters degree in counseling psychology

Forced to sit

Trying to be brave enough to listen to something that before you wanted to brush off

To be open to what would challenge what you think

To be OK with not knowing

Feel like we're getting to a point when things are converging.

Is this the UFC of ideas? Champions of thought?

What are some of the things that challenge our faith?

I almost feel like I don't have a right to the ideas, that I haven't earned them

The Magic Schoolbus

Stories from the underside of the idolatrous projected image

Tools, techniques and philosophies

Rebel Wisdom

Never heard a sophisticated Christian before

The whole thing seemed to outdated. I had everything I needed to move forward

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Saturday Feb 13, 2021

The Brilliant Son of God Glorified in the Dark

Saturday Feb 13, 2021

I made a video about the transfiguration earlier in the week. https://youtu.be/z_CN5tUTCjk

WE are separated from this story for deep reasons. Most of the Bible reads heard this story more directly although the core of Jesus' ministry and mission is always disruptive to us.

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Friday Feb 12, 2021

Friday Feb 12 2021 at 10am Special Atheist Question and Answer session at Bridges of Meaning

Friday Feb 12, 2021

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Thursday Feb 11, 2021

How the Lightbulb Destroyed Jesus' Transfiguration: Pageau's Language of Creation (Book) Part II

Thursday Feb 11, 2021

This week I have to preach on the Transfiguration and I am once again confronted by the fact that nobody gets it. Oh yeah, Jesus is God... but we hardly get that either.

I also have to try to explain what Matthieu Pageau is saying about heaven and earth, and they actually come together.

Why didn't anyone need to explain before the 19th century what the Transfiguration meant?

Logos Bible software available at https://www.logos.com/
Commentary Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSXopxC8Z9u8yrYm9NufLXp06rxxfcNA
The Language of Creation https://amzn.to/367mTdL
The Discarded Image https://amzn.to/364ClaE
John Walton Lost World of Genesis One https://amzn.to/2Z8jO9l
Walton Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament https://amzn.to/2MXT2hx
Walton Genesis One as Ancient Cosmology https://amzn.to/377ST1R
The Batchelor 2021 https://abc.com/shows/the-bachelor/cast/bachelor-2021-matt-james
ISBE International Standard Bible Encyclopedia https://amzn.to/2OpKWhX
What happened to our villains? https://youtu.be/vnRP7SKzOgk
History in English Words https://amzn.to/3dczgcG

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Thursday Feb 11, 2021

Knowing Science and Religion Parabolically

Thursday Feb 11, 2021

@Jordan B Peterson did a conversation with Matt RIdley where there were some points where I couldn't not think about the conversation I've been having with Mary, Mark, Manuel and John about "parabolic knowing".

It also came to mind when I was enjoying a hymn song by Fernando Ortega. https://youtu.be/xDOWd8BEa6Y

Jordan Peterson with Matt Ridley https://youtu.be/kjqEMqOyUr8
Mary, Mark and Manuel on Parabolic Knowing https://youtu.be/rM8BHpOaKDA
John Vervaeke, Mary and I on parabolic knowing part 1. https://youtu.be/DIoppyflMwg
Part 2 https://youtu.be/y73apPsMy-w

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Wednesday Feb 10, 2021

Self Help as Secular Folk Religion: Jordan Peterson, Mikhaila and Mark Manson

Wednesday Feb 10, 2021

"Religion" will be increasingly difficult to marginalize and to stigmatize as modernity recedes. This conversation between @Jordan B Peterson , @Mikhaila Peterson and @Mark Manson was remarkably good, and made better by Mikhaila's participation. What shone through was how "Self Help" segment functions as a folk religion, offering an implicit value hierarchy.

JBP, Mikhaila and Mark Manson whole https://youtu.be/dGDF2tTq6xw

JBP short on values https://youtu.be/hWbmMOklBxU

Judy Garland sings the Battle Hymn of the Republic https://youtu.be/e4Xz7WV_qJs

Judy Trailer https://youtu.be/98t7aXRaA6w

How the Civil Rights Movement Displaced the Mainline Church https://youtu.be/zxRymRwasLM

Christian Nationalism in 1870s https://youtu.be/PfEYdG6mTQg

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2021/01/how-the-civil-rights-movement-converted-liberal-white-protestants-to-secularism/
https://enemieswithinthechurch.com/2020/08/22/tim-keller-and-progressive-evangelicalism/
https://jesusculture.com/sacramento/
George Marsden Twilight of the American Enlightenment https://amzn.to/3oIyZR4
Fundamentalism and American Culture https://amzn.to/3rkqEVc

Mark Manson books https://amzn.to/3ry48IA

12 Rules for Life https://amzn.to/3jByJSM

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Tuesday Feb 09, 2021

Talking IDW, Classics. Miracles and Christianity in Rural Friesland

Tuesday Feb 09, 2021

Marten lands a randos slot and our conversation traverses far and wide.
24 years old, University of Groningen
Bachelors in classics, major interest in ancient history

Masters in theology and religion, masters in early Christianity

Montanism

Applied to the research masters and was accepted

Hopefully find a use for it

Very difficult to find a decent career in this stuff.

PhD if I find any interesting internships later on in the program

The most rural part of Friesland

Bret Weinstein

Douglas Murray

Rural vs urban

Permanence of occupation

Pentecostal are people who believe in miracles

At the age of 8 had an intensive meaning crisis. Finitude and Infinitude, one way or the other and both were quite terrifying.

Evangelical church occupied with apocalyptic thinking

At a young age afflicted with these crisis? Why isn't the rest of the world making a big deal out of these crisis

Living in an entirely different world from the other people about him

Autism, all along

Watching apocalyptic movies, different from Lord of the Rings

Primary school very popular and very social, sensitivity for authority.

Appreciated authority and eager to submit to it.

Especially in hindsight that was exceptional.

There were two kinds of Reformed not getting along, tensions became too hot, things not going well. Exodus of some to another school.

Set his world upside down. Able to get along with almost anyone.

Parents became associated with more Charismatic types.

Charismatic renewal. Made quite an impact on him. See miracles. Is this supposed to be normal?

Rigoristic things like fasting, piety,

Sense of authority damaged.

Distinction between reverence due to people of authority and what he thought of the persons themselves.

Transition to secondary education, not as seriously Christian. Very secularized. Not pietistic.

Found it very difficult to take church seriously. Very very very religious in his own right. Not able to find anything solid in the Evangelical church. No room to develop himself. Due to the fact that his Bible knowledge was beyond his peers.

Names and facts about the Bible. Very lengthy sentences to write over from the book.

Felt like a pariah. Didn't feel like I had a home. Wander for quite some years in that regard.

Bouts of the meaning crisis, panic attacks over social situations, declined over 2 or 3 years

Didn't effect personal devotion.

Resentment crept in and he knew about it. Festering in the corner.

Began praying to God for humility. Wasn't involved in church. Deeply within Frisian culture.

Are you still going to church. Rock music made by Christians. Switchfoot. Reliant K, House of Heroes. Falling Up

Just looking for God in almost any media, any book. Came into contact with Socrates. Love with classical languages began. Contributed to the reason he still believes.

Uncertainty, darkness, Voth, Sally, doubts, back of your mind,

Don’t want to sow seeds of doubt and fear.

Why do I believe. He's pre-modern. Living in an enchanted world,

You're arguments might be right but you don't speak with authority.

Very apprehensive of sophism.

Rhetoric, Cicero and Augustine.

Rhetorical argument and the aesthetical argument. Reading Latin and Greek conveys rational and aesthetic knowledge. Middle voice.

Pascal idea. Always enough light, always enough shadow.

Frisian charismatic, classics, meaning crisis,

Argument of simplicity: embodied by Socrates

Calvinist root of self-examination.

Known unknows and unknown unknowns. Master of knowing what I do not know a lot.

Peterson's combination with the dragon of chaos: Socrates, Augustine, Calvin, Nietzsche: Abyss,

Humanist side of Calvin. Overlap between Calvin, Nietzsche and Peterson

This is not like propaganda.

Augustine has this commentary on Psalm 41: Deep unto deep, abyss unto abyss

Compares to God and people as abysses.

Speaking into the void.

Take these elements and synthesize them.

Lord Huron: how they speak about the void. Is Calvin speaking here? Is JBP speaking here? Am an bsing myself…

The Discarded Image.

Nature gives most of her evidence to the questions we ask her

Rationality. We are not rational, but we participate in, or inhabit rationality. Stay in my logos if you want to believe.

Retranslate Logos

Ratio.

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Monday Feb 08, 2021

"Christian Nationalism" in 1870 Compared to Today

Monday Feb 08, 2021

It is common today to hear people complaining about "Christian Nationalism" as if this were a new thing. George Marsden's "Fundamentalism and American Culture" is a classic text about Christianity and American History.

Fundamentalism and American Culture by George Marsden https://amzn.to/3rzM1C2

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Saturday Feb 06, 2021

Why does Jesus say a Slave-owning Occupying Soldier has more faith than God’s people?

Saturday Feb 06, 2021

In the middle of the Judean culture war Jesus heals the slave of an occupying servant. Why would he do such a thing? Luke 7

Through the Eye of the Needle https://amzn.to/3jlT6mW
Dominion by Tom Holland https://amzn.to/3pYmlyE

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