Philosophy of religion, argued in the open. Long-form articles and episodes hosted by Arjuna Das.https://theologyunleashed.com/https://theologyunleashed.com/articles/hard-problem-materialists-only/https://theologyunleashed.com/articles/hard-problem-materialists-only/Consciousness looks intractable for physicalism only under a particular, fairly recent picture of what physical stuff is. Change the picture and the difficulty moves rather than disappears.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/articles/what-god-owes-a-mosquito/https://theologyunleashed.com/articles/what-god-owes-a-mosquito/Animal suffering is the version of the problem of evil that gets the least airtime and may be the hardest to answer, because none of the usual appeals to sin or freedom apply.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/articles/free-will-defence-needs-a-soul/https://theologyunleashed.com/articles/free-will-defence-needs-a-soul/The standard reply to the problem of evil leans on human freedom to explain moral suffering. That reply quietly assumes a picture of the self that not every theist, and no materialist, actually holds.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/articles/karma-vs-the-fall/https://theologyunleashed.com/articles/karma-vs-the-fall/Two accounts of why the world hurts: one inherited from a single ancestral act, one accumulated across countless lives of one's own making. Neither is obviously the more comfortable answer.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/muslimskeptic-defending-pirates-slavery-and-apostasy-and-blasphemy-laws/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/muslimskeptic-defending-pirates-slavery-and-apostasy-and-blasphemy-laws/Arjuna highlights clips from his Modern Day Debate with Daniel Haqiqatjou in which the Muslim apologist openly defends the Barbary Pirates, slavery, and conquest as 'eat or be eaten', and argues this exposes a theology that sanctifies base urges instead of calling people to be better.Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/debate-which-is-more-violent-islam-or-hinduism-muslimskeptic-vs-arjuna/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/debate-which-is-more-violent-islam-or-hinduism-muslimskeptic-vs-arjuna/In a Modern Day Debate moderated by Dr. James Coons, Arjuna (Alex Gallagher) argues that Islamic violence is systemic and doctrinally rooted while Hindu violence is episodic deviation from Vedic teaching, against Daniel (Muslim Skeptic), who openly defends conquest, slavery, and blasphemy law as justified and attacks Hinduism via paleogenetics, caste, and shock passages from the Manusmriti and Vedas.Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/how-skeptics-make-us-too-trusting-and-discourages-thinking/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/how-skeptics-make-us-too-trusting-and-discourages-thinking/Arjuna argues that Stephen Woodford (Rationality Rules), in attacking Stephen Meyer over the 2016 Royal Society evolution conference, defends not science but an authority structure — relying on ad hominem, misrepresenting the conference's admission that neo-Darwinism needs supplementing, and ignoring the career costs (Günter Bechly) that silence dissenting scientists.Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/christian-tries-to-destroy-hinduism/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/christian-tries-to-destroy-hinduism/Arjuna answers a Christian short claiming an impersonal Hindu 'force' can't ground the world's wisdom: Hinduism is no monolith, the anti-impersonalist argument was made centuries ago by Vaishnava acharyas against Shankara, and the Bhakti God possesses every quality the creation displays.Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/the-bizarre-christian-defenses-of-meat-eating/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/the-bizarre-christian-defenses-of-meat-eating/Arjuna argues, against Christian interlocutors from Facebook apologetics circles, that every standard Christian defense of meat eating fails — necessity is obsolete, soul-based speciesism parallels racism, and the skeptical attack on moral intuitions destroys the Christian's own ground — while the way ex-bhaktas resume meat only upon converting shows Christianity actively un-teaches animal compassion.Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/interfaith-discussion-on-atonement-theories-w-jimmy-akin/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/interfaith-discussion-on-atonement-theories-w-jimmy-akin/Arjuna argues that atonement theories collapse unless they locate the problem the cross solves in us rather than in God or the world, and Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin largely agrees — rejecting penal substitution as unjust and unscriptural, offering sacrifice-as-gift as the primary model, and denying both the necessity of the crucifixion and Christian exclusivism.Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/when-online-atheists-miss-the-point/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/when-online-atheists-miss-the-point/Arjuna, responding to a Victor Stenger 9/11 meme and the Facebook firestorm his comment sparked, argues that theism/atheism is a nearly useless predictor of a worldview's harm, so atheist activists making converts achieve nothing — the productive work is targeting specific bad beliefs (like 'God damns outsiders eternally') inside any worldview.Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/atonement-theories-god-s-anger-problem/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/atonement-theories-god-s-anger-problem/In a casual solo video, Arjuna sorts Christian atonement theories into three categories and argues penal substitution fails because it splits into two divine choices — forgiving us and punishing Jesus — the second of which is gratuitous unless God is subject to an external legal code or has an anger problem.Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/is-god-s-existence-possible/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/is-god-s-existence-possible/In a scripted response video, Arjuna argues that Matt Dillahunty's dice-in-a-bag routine against 'God is possible' equivocates between knowledge-based and reality-based senses of possibility, and — via Plantinga on Dawkins — that the argument-from-ignorance charge boomerangs onto the New Atheists themselves.Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/hinduism-vs-christianity-which-is-more-probable/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/hinduism-vs-christianity-which-is-more-probable/In a formal debate hosted by Arjuna (Alex Gallagher), philosophy student Amos Wollen argues that anthropic reasoning and the problem of evil make 'mere Hinduism' (henotheism, karma, infinite reincarnation) more probable than Christianity, while Catholic John Buck counters that karma is morally paralyzing, infinite reincarnation is logically incoherent, and only Christian atonement resolves guilt.Sun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/defending-islam-while-making-it-sound-worse/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/defending-islam-while-making-it-sound-worse/Arjuna answers an apologist's point that jihad, blasphemy killings, and apostasy punishments don't make Islam false (as even David Wood concedes) by noting the defence backfires: it concedes the doctrines are immoral, entailing a psychopathic god and believers licensed to act immorally.Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/when-defending-islam-makes-it-sound-worse/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/when-defending-islam-makes-it-sound-worse/In a solo reaction video, Arjuna argues that Jake the Muslim Metaphysician's and Daniel Haqiqatjou's defense of Islam against David Wood amounts to 'the Bible has it too' - a tu quoque that concedes rather than answers the moral charges - and that Jake's own fitra-based moral epistemology, used to reject the Canaanite genocide, equally refutes Islam's expansionist wars and apostasy killings.Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/christspiracy-debate-review/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/christspiracy-debate-review/Reviewing the Cam Waters vs Tony Jones Christspiracy debate, Alex Gallagher argues that Thomistic 'humans have special souls' metaphysics is unprovable speciesism indistinguishable in form from racism, and offers the Vedic alternative: one kind of soul migrates through all bodies, so animal suffering matters even though not everyone must be vegetarian.Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/why-your-career-isn-t-fulfilling-why-it-matters/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/why-your-career-isn-t-fulfilling-why-it-matters/Career Dharma authors Urmila (Dr. Edith Best) and Rukmini (Dr. Ruchira Dutta) argue to Alex Gallagher that career misery comes from working against one's nature, replacing 'anyone can get rich' self-help with the Vedic four fields of work and six prosperity types.Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/a-new-thoery-on-the-metaphyics-of-god-and-space-ft-jonathan-lyonhart/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/a-new-thoery-on-the-metaphyics-of-god-and-space-ft-jonathan-lyonhart/Christian theologian Jonathan Lyonhart presents his book Space God's thesis — Henry More's idea that space is divine lets God be radically immanent without Spinozan pantheism and conceptually grounded Newton's physics — while Arjuna maps it onto Chaitanya Vaishnavism's simultaneous oneness and difference, and both close ranks against Advaita-style impersonalism.Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/controverial-new-temple-has-muslims-upset-hindus-cheering/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/controverial-new-temple-has-muslims-upset-hindus-cheering/Arjuna defends the Ram Mandir's construction in Ayodhya against Western media framing, arguing the story must start with the Mughal destruction of the original temple rather than the 1992 demolition of the Babri Mosque, and — using David Wood and Apostate Prophet clips — that Muslim outrage over the site is inconsistent with celebrations of Hagia Sophia's reconversion.Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/the-israel-hamas-conflict-a-bhagavad-gita-perspective-ft-chaitanyacharanofficial/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/the-israel-hamas-conflict-a-bhagavad-gita-perspective-ft-chaitanyacharanofficial/Alex Gallagher and Chaitanya Charan Das argue, against Western apologists for the October 7 attacks, that the Bhagavad Gita's three-modes framework shows extremism (not religion) drives atrocity, and that grievance must rise toward tolerance and transcendence rather than descend through vengeance into malevolence.Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/a-deep-dive-on-the-pitfalls-of-organised-religion-swamipadmanabha/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/a-deep-dive-on-the-pitfalls-of-organised-religion-swamipadmanabha/Swami Padmanabha, author of Radical Personalism, joins Alex Gallagher in a loving self-critique of organized religion: 'requirement religion' of box-checking and over-absolutized gurus who pass unresolved trauma down as divine revelation, versus 'relationship religion' grounded in vulnerability, wholeness, and unconditional love.Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/does-belief-in-karma-lead-to-a-victim-blaming-attitude/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/does-belief-in-karma-lead-to-a-victim-blaming-attitude/In a solo essay, Arjuna argues the victim-blaming objection to karma fails: karma is for introspecting on one's own life while dharma governs duties to others, withholding help from a sufferer itself earns bad karma, and a God who lets only the deserving suffer is greater than one who assigns suffering capriciously.Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/the-eternality-of-souls-in-christianity-and-vedanta/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/the-eternality-of-souls-in-christianity-and-vedanta/In a clipped dialogue, a Christian and a Vaishnava agree souls survive death and will return to flesh — resurrection or reincarnation — while the Vaishnava clarifies that a soul's eternality means existing outside material time, not enduring through infinite time.Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/comparing-christianty-and-vedantic-traditions-dr-graham-m-schweig/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/comparing-christianty-and-vedantic-traditions-dr-graham-m-schweig/Harvard-trained Vaishnava scholar Graham M. Schweig argues to host Alex Gallagher (Arjuna) that the personalism-impersonalism debate runs inside Christianity and Vedanta alike, that Shankara's Mayavada is better named 'mithyavada' — a world-denying delusion refuted by its own performative contradictions — and that interreligious unity lies in the practice of dialogue, not in the perennialist claim that all religions teach the same thing.Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/reacting-to-some-extreme-christian-ideas/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/reacting-to-some-extreme-christian-ideas/In a solo video essay, Arjuna Gallagher reacts to Christian preachers who call yoga demonic and consign Hare Krishnas to hell, answering that Western yoga is mere 'Vedic calisthenics', Hindu devas are analogues of Christian angels rather than demons, Chaitanya Vaishnavism is itself monotheistic, and a personal God — unlike a vending machine — cares about intentions.Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/tjump-michael-egnor-debate-materialism/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/tjump-michael-egnor-debate-materialism/Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor argues against atheist TJump that metaphysical simplicity, qualia, abstract thought, intentionality, and free will show the mind cannot be material, while TJump counters that every immaterialist move is an argument from ignorance and every Thomistic argument can be mirrored by a mindless 'naturalistic pantheism'.Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/a-philosophical-defence-of-the-doctrine-of-karma/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/a-philosophical-defence-of-the-doctrine-of-karma/In a solo opener to a video series, Arjuna Gallagher lays out the Gaudiya Vaishnava conception of karma, drawing on Akshay Gupta's doctoral work, as a reformative rather than punitive mechanism that shapes desires across lifetimes via samskaras, and pre-empts the fatalism, victim-blaming, and memory objections he will answer for Christian critics in later videos.Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/a-philosophical-defence-of-the-doctrine-of-karma-2/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/a-philosophical-defence-of-the-doctrine-of-karma-2/In a solo opener to a video series, Arjuna Gallagher lays out the Gaudiya Vaishnava conception of karma, drawing on Akshay Gupta's doctoral work, as a reformative rather than punitive mechanism that shapes desires across lifetimes via samskaras, and pre-empts the fatalism, victim-blaming, and memory objections he will answer for Christian critics in later videos.Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/christian-exclusivism-debate-arjuna-vs-mark-tan/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/christian-exclusivism-debate-arjuna-vs-mark-tan/Arjuna argues that a God who damns sincere practitioners of other faiths over honest theological conclusions is not all-loving — proposing 'universal religious principles theism' instead — while Malaysian lay pastor Mark Tan defends exclusivism on the ground that affirming a different Jesus just is rejecting the real one, on a debate hosted by Marlon's Gospel Truth channel.Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/how-christians-believe-in-karma/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/how-christians-believe-in-karma/In a clipped exchange, a Christian guest tells Arjuna that Christianity already affirms karma's core — Saint Paul's 'you reap what you sow' — while insisting it is not ironclad, since repentance brings God's mercy.Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/karma-as-divine-justice/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/karma-as-divine-justice/In a clipped exchange, a Vaishnava speaker argues the world is hard to explain without karma as God's supreme justice, and a Christian dialogue partner agrees the concept captures Christianity's own conviction that God's universe is fundamentally just.Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/philosophy-of-religion-some-politics-w-michael-huemer/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/philosophy-of-religion-some-politics-w-michael-huemer/Agnostic philosopher Michael Huemer argues to host Arjuna (Alex Gallagher) that original sin, penal substitution, and eternal hell violate the self-evident principle that nobody deserves punishment for a crime they did not commit, while Arjuna answers with the Hare Krishna alternative — karma as fitting, reformative punishment with unlimited chances — and defends spiritual practice against Huemer's unfalsifiability charge.Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/what-makes-us-saved-christian-vs-vedanta-soteriology/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/what-makes-us-saved-christian-vs-vedanta-soteriology/Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin and ISKCON guru Howard Resnick (Hridayananda das Goswami), hosted by Arjuna, argue that Christian and Gaudiya Vaishnava soteriology converge on love of God, grace, and post-mortem purification, and diverge only where revelation — resurrection and atonement versus reincarnation and karma — settles what philosophy cannot.Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/drjamestour-vs-professordaveexplains-debate-review-are-we-clueless-about-origin/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/drjamestour-vs-professordaveexplains-debate-review-are-we-clueless-about-origin/Arjuna and Christian layman Michael Shipman review the James Tour vs Dave Farina origin-of-life debate, arguing that Tour showed prebiotic chemistry is nowhere near explaining life while Farina substituted ad hominem and paper-waving for argument — and, more interestingly, building a method for how non-experts can rationally adjudicate a battle of experts.Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/an-atheist-and-a-theist-discuss-philosophy-of-mind-dualism-vs-monism/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/an-atheist-and-a-theist-discuss-philosophy-of-mind-dualism-vs-monism/Atheist philosopher Ben Watkins defends a Searle-style neutral monism (minds are real but inseparable from brains) against Arjuna's Hare Krishna substance dualism, with the whole dispute converging on the pairing problem — why is this mind attached to this body — which Arjuna answers with the soul as a situated occupant, like a driver in a car.Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/scientific-gas-lighting/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/scientific-gas-lighting/In a solo talking-head video, Arjuna argues that dismissing a well-read layperson's view with 'the experts disagree' is gaslighting: appeal to authority is the very dogmatic, top-down epistemic structure New Atheists condemn in religion, and anyone - scientist or layman - pushing a strong opinion owes proportional study of the dissenting case, including Stephen Meyer's.Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/majestyofreason-reacts-to-philomena-cunk-doing-philosophy/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/majestyofreason-reacts-to-philomena-cunk-doing-philosophy/Philosophy YouTuber Joe Schmidt (Majesty of Reason) uses Philomena Cunk's absurdist interview clips as springboards for real epistemology — the logic of definitions, why Cartesian certainty fails and phenomenal conservatism succeeds — while host Arjuna presses him on solipsism, degrees of reality, and what separates philosophical atheists from internet atheists.Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/the-surprising-reason-for-dysfunction-in-religious-organizations-w-dr-urmila-edi/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/the-surprising-reason-for-dysfunction-in-religious-organizations-w-dr-urmila-edi/Dr. Urmila Devi Dasi (Edith Best), an ISKCON educator with a doctorate in educational leadership, argues to host Arjuna Gallagher that religious organizations become dysfunctional when their form contradicts their function - imposing corporate, bureaucratic, centralized models on what Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and Prabhupada explicitly demanded be an organic, decentralized, family-like body.Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/how-acharya-prashant-embraces-atheism-without-embracing-it/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/how-acharya-prashant-embraces-atheism-without-embracing-it/In a solo response video, Arjuna argues that Acharya Prashant's Advaita teaching — 'the soul is a myth, even God is a myth' — meets Graham Oppy's definition of atheism while refusing the label, and that its claim to include all traditions insults the Vaishnava, for whom the personal Deity is a beloved, not a stepping stone.Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/dawkins-is-still-using-this-bad-argument/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/dawkins-is-still-using-this-bad-argument/Arjuna, using a Dr. Howard Resnick clip, rebuts Richard Dawkins's 'you'd be Muslim if born in Afghanistan' argument: religious affiliation demonstrably changes among serious seekers, and the argument is self-defeating since Dawkins's own atheism is equally an accident of his time and place of birth.Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/chaitanya-charan-answers-questions-on-skepticism-karma-salvation-more/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/chaitanya-charan-answers-questions-on-skepticism-karma-salvation-more/In an audience Q&A hosted by Arjuna, ISKCON monk Chaitanya Charan Das answers skeptics and Christians alike: karma is an expansion of the cause-effect principle science already assumes, hell punishes actions not beliefs, religious diversity reflects levels of consciousness rather than causing war, and salvation works by redirecting love to Krishna while God manages the karmic account.Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/3-arguments-against-reincarnation-answered/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/3-arguments-against-reincarnation-answered/Arjuna answers Trent Horn's three patristic arguments against reincarnation — Ambrose's human/beast incompatibility, Tertullian's uniform infancy and population growth, and the memory-loss-equals-death claim — arguing each smuggles into 'soul' what Vaishnava theology assigns to the body.Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/why-atheists-leave-eastern-traditions-alone/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/why-atheists-leave-eastern-traditions-alone/A short clip arguing that atheists target Christianity and Islam rather than Buddhism or Vedic culture because exclusivism invites ridicule — each of Islam's 70-plus sects consigns the other 69 to hellfire, while Vedic teaching offers rebirth and good karma instead of damnation.Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/the-real-reason-the-roman-s-persecuted-early-christians-response-to-drcraigvideo/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/the-real-reason-the-roman-s-persecuted-early-christians-response-to-drcraigvideo/Dr. Howard Resnick, with host Arjuna, answers William Lane Craig's defense of Christian particularism: Rome punished divisive fanaticism rather than monotheism, and an exclusivism that rejects rational criteria for spiritual advancement de-rationalizes religion and leaves no answer to any fanatic who claims God's authority.Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/is-jesus-the-only-way-a-coherent-idea-response-to-drcraigvideos-w-dr-howard-resn/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/is-jesus-the-only-way-a-coherent-idea-response-to-drcraigvideos-w-dr-howard-resn/Reacting to a Reasonable Faith video, Dr. Howard Resnick (HD Goswami) and Arjuna argue that William Lane Craig's Christian exclusivism is assertion without argument — 'tribal monotheism' — and that a God who offers many paths, judges by earned reciprocity across lifetimes, and never dies is more coherent than one proven by resurrection.Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/personalism-vs-impersonalism-explained/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/personalism-vs-impersonalism-explained/Arjuna (Alex Gallagher) and Gaudiya Vaishnava sannyasi Swami Padmanabha argue that Advaita Vedanta's 'radical non-dualism' collapses under the Maya problem while theistic non-dualism preserves both oneness and loving diversity — and that the most dangerous impersonalism is the kind practiced unknowingly by personalists themselves.Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/vedanta-philosopher-and-humanist-philosopher-discuss-mind-physicalism-and-the-na/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/vedanta-philosopher-and-humanist-philosopher-discuss-mind-physicalism-and-the-na/Transhumanist philosopher David Pearce defends non-materialist physicalism — quantum fields whose intrinsic nature is experiential — while Vedanta philosopher Akhandadhi Das argues consciousness, mind and matter are three distinct function-sets unified only at a deeper substrate, with the persistent experiencer as the datum physicalism cannot dissolve.Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/if-non-water-can-produce-water-can-brains-produce-consiousness-response-to-tjump/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/if-non-water-can-produce-water-can-brains-produce-consiousness-response-to-tjump/Arjuna Gallagher answers TJump's claim that 'consciousness can't come from non-consciousness' is a composition fallacy by distinguishing weak from strong emergence: walls and water are fully explained by their causes (as physicist Stephen Barr's water-simulation example shows), whereas consciousness from brains would be a rabbit out of a hat unless consciousness is fundamental.Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/is-christianity-responsible-for-the-advent-of-science/https://theologyunleashed.com/episodes/is-christianity-responsible-for-the-advent-of-science/Historian Michael Granado argues against the apologetic claim that Christianity uniquely birthed science — citing Gupta India, Mesoamerica and the Islamic Golden Age — while 'Of Popes and Unicorns' authors David Hutchings and James Ungureanu answer that Christianity was still science's greatest benefactor and the real enemy is the conflict thesis; Arjuna closes with a Vedic panentheist critique of the 'de-deified' nature that made both science and ecological abuse possible.Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT