2 - The Moral Landscape

The seasons wraps with the epic Paradise Lost, teaching us that (1) Heaven is worth hell (2) Why we should read broadly and (3) Everyone has faith

Hunter and Ben address a painful history of the holocaust and manage to learn that (1) Mankind can do unthinkable evil (2) You can be a devil and (3) How we can avoid being a devil

The cousins enjoy Chesterton's Orthodoxy, discovering some time honored truths such as (1) Ideas have a spiritual nature (2) Love something enough to keep it and hate it enough to change it and (3) We can become enslaved to ideas

Leatherbound welcomes Carlpooling co-host Chris Carl to help tackle Nietzsche's most famous work, discovering that (1) Man has been sublimely aborted (2) What moves man and (3) Man has a deep need for the Truth This is the best episode for obvious reasons and Chris didn't even write this.

This podcast addresses the despicable apologist Ravi Zacharias, still managing to learn (1) Western atheism stands on religious values (2) Moral relativism isn't a tenable world view and (3) We'd rather our children be good than happy

Your favorite Christian nerds read the famous atheist Sam Harris, discovering (1) Moral relativism is the world's blight (2) There ain't not no free will and (3) You must choose this day whom you will serve

Hunter and Ben delve into the best of Russian literature learning (1) Don't lie, especially to yourself (2) Being righteous is better than being "right" (3) I am responsible for mankind's sins