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Rainn Wilson

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Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

There are two ways of understanding the same ultimate reality. You can look at reality through a scientific lens. You can look at it through a spiritual lens. They both support and help one another. So all the teachings that Baha'u'llah brought are about building community, working in service. The highest form of worship is service to others from a Baha'i perspective. And

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

So going back to your question earlier, you talked a lot about old dogmas that don't work anymore. This is what happens. A great divine teacher comes, You look at, let's take Jesus Christ. Let's look at the message and life of Jesus Christ. There is nothing more beautiful on the planet.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

So going back to your question earlier, you talked a lot about old dogmas that don't work anymore. This is what happens. A great divine teacher comes, You look at, let's take Jesus Christ. Let's look at the message and life of Jesus Christ. There is nothing more beautiful on the planet.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

So going back to your question earlier, you talked a lot about old dogmas that don't work anymore. This is what happens. A great divine teacher comes, You look at, let's take Jesus Christ. Let's look at the message and life of Jesus Christ. There is nothing more beautiful on the planet.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

You know, the red letter Bible, you know, they have the Bibles and the red letter is what Jesus actually is purported to have said. You can read through a red letter Bible and be so profoundly moved at his humility, kindness, sweetness, putting himself outside of what society deemed as okay to serve the servants, right?

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

You know, the red letter Bible, you know, they have the Bibles and the red letter is what Jesus actually is purported to have said. You can read through a red letter Bible and be so profoundly moved at his humility, kindness, sweetness, putting himself outside of what society deemed as okay to serve the servants, right?

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

You know, the red letter Bible, you know, they have the Bibles and the red letter is what Jesus actually is purported to have said. You can read through a red letter Bible and be so profoundly moved at his humility, kindness, sweetness, putting himself outside of what society deemed as okay to serve the servants, right?

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

To wash the feet of prostitutes and to be with lepers and to be with people of tribes that were not of his tribe. And His teachings are so inspiring and his words and his sermons, his prayers. And then what happens, you know, not to point any fingers or anything like that, but, you know, 300 years later, there's, you know, certain books of the Bible are thrown out.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

To wash the feet of prostitutes and to be with lepers and to be with people of tribes that were not of his tribe. And His teachings are so inspiring and his words and his sermons, his prayers. And then what happens, you know, not to point any fingers or anything like that, but, you know, 300 years later, there's, you know, certain books of the Bible are thrown out.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

To wash the feet of prostitutes and to be with lepers and to be with people of tribes that were not of his tribe. And His teachings are so inspiring and his words and his sermons, his prayers. And then what happens, you know, not to point any fingers or anything like that, but, you know, 300 years later, there's, you know, certain books of the Bible are thrown out.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

Other ones are, you know, included this idea of like, you know, Essential sin is included and hell becomes very central or hell is kind of very obviously metaphorically, you know, related to in the Bible, but it becomes central. And then there's wars between Protestants and Catholics that kill millions of people.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

Other ones are, you know, included this idea of like, you know, Essential sin is included and hell becomes very central or hell is kind of very obviously metaphorically, you know, related to in the Bible, but it becomes central. And then there's wars between Protestants and Catholics that kill millions of people.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

Other ones are, you know, included this idea of like, you know, Essential sin is included and hell becomes very central or hell is kind of very obviously metaphorically, you know, related to in the Bible, but it becomes central. And then there's wars between Protestants and Catholics that kill millions of people.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

I mean, huge percentages of the population of Europe were killed in wars between Catholics

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

I mean, huge percentages of the population of Europe were killed in wars between Catholics

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

I mean, huge percentages of the population of Europe were killed in wars between Catholics

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

of followers of jesus i mean it's it's astonishing and you look at the dogmas that have grown up and the mistaken beliefs that have grown up and now in contemporary america so much of christianity is about making lots of money and being very militarized and there there doesn't seem to be any disconnect between guns and jesus and

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

of followers of jesus i mean it's it's astonishing and you look at the dogmas that have grown up and the mistaken beliefs that have grown up and now in contemporary america so much of christianity is about making lots of money and being very militarized and there there doesn't seem to be any disconnect between guns and jesus and

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

of followers of jesus i mean it's it's astonishing and you look at the dogmas that have grown up and the mistaken beliefs that have grown up and now in contemporary america so much of christianity is about making lots of money and being very militarized and there there doesn't seem to be any disconnect between guns and jesus and

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

If you read the Bible, there's a huge disconnect between guns and what Jesus was saying, right? This isn't to point any fingers, but this is why these essentially pure spiritual ideas need refreshing every few hundred years. They need refreshing every few hundred, every few thousand years. So this is why new faiths come. Is there essentially the same message? the messages added to and moved on.