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EP 172 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism

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The God Concept Within Culture

The author of a new book on religion says that God means different things to different people. He argues that over the course of time religious traditions evolve so that even if you're a devout person today, let's say, and you would hear to a particular existing religious tradition, your conception of God is likely very different than the people's conception of it was when that religion was founded. And by intentionally engaging in cultural evolution, sort of consciously evolving culture, "God" can be used to talk about a religion of complexity," he writes.

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