Carbon Based Business Units

Politics, Religion And Sex That’s what today’s episode is about. Yes, it’s safe for work! This is one of the episodes we recorded in February at Podfest and it’s with Daniel J. Lewis, host of the Audacity to Podcast. The conversation was precipitated by a controversial Facebook post where Ralph called out Daniel, who is a Christian, and asked him to explain how it’s possible to reconcile President Donald Trump’s behavior with Christian values. That wasn’t the controversial part, though. In the Facebook post, Ralph mistakenly said that Daniel had endorsed Trump, which he didn’t. So Ralph apologized for the error and the rest of the conversation was amicable. The controversial part comes in when other people jumped onto the thread to denounce Ralph for “attacking” Daniel, and in turn Christianity. Nothing of the sort happened. But people reacted. So today’s question is: why can’t we have a conversation about faith or politics without everything turning into – or being perceived as – an attack? Daniel says this