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Ep. 5: The Greatest Intellectual of the 20th Century

Young Heretics

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Why Do Tyrants Go After Kids?

In Herod's account of the birth of jesus, a child is killed. Why? Because tyrants feel threatened by god and want to snuff that out. Lewuis: Kids are the ones whom you can train. And plato and aristotle both believed very strongly it. In an intense focus on early childhood education. We talk about neuro plasticity. But we've known this for ever - kids get shaped more deeply than adults do. This is one of the reasons why jesus himself would grow up to say, unless you become like a little child, you will never enter the kingdom of god.

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