Identity and Sexuality: All Hail King Self - a podcast by FBC Baton Rouge

How did philosophies from almost 400 years ago help create our modern views on identity and sexuality? These days self is king, but it wasn't always like that. Oren and Dave give a quick (very quick) overview of how changes in philosophy, science, and psychology laid the foundations for where we are today.

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Show Notes:

• God matters in our thinking.
  
  


• Philosophers during the Enlightenment began removing God and replacing him with self
  
  
  
  
  
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    
    
  
  
  
  


• A God-less framework requires a deconstruction of reality and worldview
  
  
  
  
  
  • How we see society, economy, power, etc.
    
    
  
  
  
  


• If meaning and purpose don’t come from God, then where?
  
  
  
  
  
  • My true, authentic self
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Nietzsche and Marx double down on the self
  
  
  
  
  
  • God must die
    
    
  
  
  • Meaning is what you make of it
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Charles Darwin
  
  
  
  
  
  • Bad science meets bad thinking
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Sigmund Freud
  
  
  
  
  
  • The sexualization of self
    
    
  
  
  • Implications on children
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Man-made realities have a common enemy - the God of the Bible
  
  


• How should Christians respond to the philosophies and ideas that created the modern concept of self?
  
  

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