Episode 008 | Politely Up Yours - Religion

Dave Rael and Joe Macaluso faith and religion, the impact of religion on societal norm,

Chapters:

• - Book Club - Man, Economy, and State
• - Elasticity of demand
• - Outlay
• - Speculation and equilibrium
• - Digging into religion and personal experiences of faith and institutional religion
• - Science, observation, the scientific method, and faith
• - Progression of human knowledge; morality and ethics; the state as religion
• - Sources of wisdom, inspiration, and ideas of "right" behavior
• - Secular ethics: The Non-aggression principle and Stefan Molyneux's Universtally Preferable Behavior
• - Selfishness, virtue, and altruism
• - Guilt, Original Sin, and white privilege
• - Comparisons of church and state
• - Perceptions of "the one percent"
• - Sources of conflict and zealotry

Resources:

• Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition - Murray N. Rothbard
• Arbitrage
• Herbert Henry Dow and the German Chemical Cartel
• Campus Crusade for Christ
• Deism
• Scientific method
• Non-aggression principle
• Stefan Molyneux - Freedomain Radio
• Universally Preferable Behaviour: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics - Stefan Molyneux
• The Virtue of Selfishness, Centennial Edition - Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand
• Dave's Blog Post on Self-Sacrifice
• Original Sin