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This is part 3 of a discussion with my wife Chelsea about the Equality Act and our deep concerns about its consequences. We address these basic questions about the potential effects of the Equality Act: Would the ambiguous language force tax-funded abortions? Could it make women more expensive to hire? Could it chill businesses with fear, uncertainty, and doubt? How should Christians respond? Sour...

This is part 2 of a discussion with my wife Chelsea about the Equality Act and our deep concerns about its consequences. We address these basic questions about the potential effect of the Equality Act: Could it crush female sports? Could it harm female privacy and safety in restrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms? Could it undo the security and charity of shelters? Sources Consulted: H.R.5, 11...

This is part 1 of a discussion with my wife Chelsea about the Equality Act and our deep concerns about its consequences. We address these basic questions: What is the Equality Act? What is "discrimination" and is it always bad? Does the Equality Act correctly cite the Fourteenth Amendment? What are some biological differences between males and females? Can we truly avoid biology if we can't "discr...

We are continuing a series of episodes comparing Jesus to superheroes. This series will tackle wrong ideas about Jesus from church history in chronological order. A superhero will represent each of these ideas. This is part 1 of 2 of "Is Jesus Like Captain America?" Who is Captain America? Comic book history and story Some mention of the Marvel movies An honorable mention of Chris Hohnholz and his...

My wife Chelsea returns to Truthspresso to discuss COVID vaccines and related political and Biblical issues. Rather than taking a hard-line approach, we try to present some information we could gather. We encourage weighing all factors according to the Bible and Christian conscience. Questions we address include To what degree do the various COVID vaccines rely on fetal cell lines? How are the new...

We are continuing a series of episodes comparing Jesus to superheroes. This series will tackle wrong ideas about Jesus from church history in chronological order. A superhero will represent each of these ideas. Is Jesus Like the Incredible Hulk? Who is the Incredible Hulk? The first issue was in 1962. The Incredible Hulk comics underwent quite a few changes and series. Dr, Banner was exposed to ga...

We are continuing a series of episodes comparing Jesus to superheroes. This series will tackle wrong ideas about Jesus from church history in chronological order. A superhero will represent each of these ideas. Is Jesus Like the Green Lantern? Who is the Green Lantern? There are 7200 Green Lanterns in the intergalactic corps. They each have a ring that gives them their power. Hal Jordan was the fi...

We are continuing a series of episodes comparing Jesus to superheroes. This series will tackle wrong ideas about Jesus from church history in chronological order. A superhero will represent each of these ideas. Is Jesus Like Iron Man? How are Jesus and Iron Man (Tony Stark) similar? They are both fully human. They are both highly intelligent. They both sacrificed the wealth they have to save the w...

We are continuing a series of episodes comparing Jesus to superheroes. This series will tackle wrong ideas about Jesus from church history in chronological order. A superhero will represent each of these ideas. Is Jesus Like Thor? Is He a created Son of God Who had a beginning and is a separate lesser being from the Father? This episode covers the following aspects of history: The council of Nicea...

We are continuing a series of episodes comparing Jesus to superheroes. This series will tackle wrong ideas about Jesus from church history in chronological order. A superhero will represent each of these ideas. Is Jesus Like Thor? We answer this question by answering the following: Who is Thor? What are things that Jesus and Thor seem to have in common? What does it mean for Jesus to be the "Son o...

My wife Chelsea came up with the idea to record a discussion about how to stay encouraged when the world seems to be falling to pieces. We discuss ideas such as Take a step back and look at the big picture. Turn off the news and social media for a bit. Take time to read the Bible and pray. Look at examples in the Bible of how people handled suffering. Remember that God is on the throne. Put your t...

We are continuing a series of episodes comparing Jesus to superheroes. This series will tackle wrong ideas about Jesus from church history in chronological order. A superhero will represent each of these ideas. Is Jesus Like Ant-Man? We answer this question by answering the following: Who is Ant-Man? What are things that Jesus and Ant-Man seem to have in common? How does Ant-Man's different sizes...

We are continuing a series of episodes comparing Jesus to superheroes. This series will tackle wrong ideas about Jesus from church history in chronological order. A superhero will represent each of these ideas. Is Jesus Like Batman We answer this question by answering the following: Who is Batman? What are things that Jesus and Batman somewhat have in common? Is Batman divine or human? Does he hav...

We are beginning a series of episodes comparing Jesus to superheroes. This series will tackle wrong ideas about Jesus from church history in chronological order. A superhero will represent each of these ideas. Is Jesus Like Superman? We answer this question by answering the following: Who is Superman? Is Superman or Clark Kent human? What is Gnosticism and Docetism? What are three flavors of Docet...

Welcome to Christmas 2020 at Truthspresso. In this episode we are going to unwrap the depths of Isaiah 9:6 as a present from God for the first Christmas. Isaiah 9:6: "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." We look at each phr...

To conclude our series of political economic topics, let's derive some Biblical principles of economics (and against tyranny) as we break down the Tale of the Superblians. As many humans in our story replaced simple Biblical rules for tyrannical man-made rules, they drove the benevolent Superblians away from earth. Over time, when the fog cleared, at least one started to realize the evil they had...

Welcome to the first made-up, imaginary, fictional type story on Truthspresso! This episode is part 3 and concludes the Tale of the Superblians. Jake arrives at the convention center after Dr. Tom Words finished delivering a speech against Dr. Paul Drugman's article in the New Dork Times. Jake still wants to meet Dr. Words before he has to catch his plane. As Jake befriends Superblians, he has the...

Welcome to the first made-up, imaginary, fictional type story on Truthspresso! Guess what: I was wrong ! It turns out as I write this silly story, part 2 will not conclude the Tale of the Superblians. We pick up our story a year after the Superblians "invaded" from outer space. Listen in as our antagonist Jake has to battle two opposing economic ideas about these benevolent aliens. Are their impro...

Welcome to the first made-up, imaginary, fictional type story on Truthspresso! I am planning to wrap up the economics series with the Tale of the Superblians. Part 1 introduces the main characters and our rather unique situation. Part 2 will show how our unusual story shockingly concludes. If you like Sci-Fi, I hope you will bear with me in my first attempt at a Sci-Fi short story that also teache...

Continuing with parsing through the politics of income inequality, we shift from the myths and articles to get down to some simple questions. We consider these few basic thoughts: College shows why incomes differ. Different majors offer different skills that have different levels of supply and demand. People intend to go to college for a return on investment. Jobs are different and command differe...

Income inequality has become a hot button issue in this last decade. Concerns range from the idea that it will destroy civilization to simply "It just isn't fair!" Well, this episode will present four common claims about how income inequality is "unfair" and answer them" The rich are getting richer and the poor are staying poor. The United States is the worst offender for income inequality. The po...

Joe from WalkwithGod joined me on Wednesday to chat about the upcoming election and politics from a Christian perspective. What made this fun is that we didn't plan out our discussion. Neither of us knew the other's views until right before hitting the record button! Joe described himself as a "centrist." I described myself as "libertarian-leaning." Both of us feel a little like outsiders looking...

We shift from the overpopulation myth because respectable mainstream opinion has changed. Even the political left has criticized the former overpopulation alarmism as potentially "racist" and bigoted toward poorer people. But the new alarmism in the recent decade is that "income inequality" is the new dragon to slay. We tackle two claims of how income inequality crushes civilization: Income inequa...

After seeing that some people sympathize with Thanos against the Marvel Avengers for the fate of the universe, we look at another model of population growth trends that is becoming more mainstream. The Demographic Transition Model (DTM) provides four to six stages of population growth to show how it naturally levels off after spiking. This model correlates statistics about birth rates, death rates...

We continue discussing the overpopulation myth that still hasn't died. We start with some 21st-century statements from the infamous Paul Ehrlich, proving that he hasn't recanted his failed prophecies of overpopulation fearmongering. Next, we review an article from Forbes that tries to convince the world that Thanos, the supervillain from the late Marvel Avengers movies really did nothing wrong. Ac...