3179 The Reality of God - Call In Show - January 13th, 2016

Question 1: [1:27] - “Ten years ago, I had an epiphany and realized the God is real. After some searching, I lucked into the Catholic Church. My whole world view changed and expanded. I have come to realize that the Catholic world view makes a lot more sense than the Atheist world view. In watching your videos, I see that you are an Atheist and you also refer to yourself as a moral philosopher. I have also heard you use terms like “virtue” and “evil,” which I normally associate with Theology. I have also heard you be somewhat snarky and dismissive of the views of believers. What homework have you done to explore the Catholic world view? Why do you feel the Atheist world view is superior? On what basis do you derive your moral code?”Question 2: [1:05:45] - “I have really enjoyed your Gene Wars presentations but still have questions as to how certain groups may fall into R or K selection. Western Feminists, for example, are notorious for having few to no children as well as being highly formally educated relative to the rest of the world - both K selection traits, yet I would suspect would fall into R selection along with the rest of leftists. A pattern I have noticed is upper-class people who are far removed from nature or any type of danger often lean anti-gun and fail to see the state as representative of any form of danger, a R trait, yet they come from high-resource backgrounds which is a K trait. Can you help clarify this for me?”Question 3: [1:56:00] - “Should libertarians and anarcho-capitalists abandon the puritan approach of total liberty within the political spectrum? Should we be more pragmatic about our approach to regaining the lost liberties in the west in order to work towards achieving a free society?”Question 4: [2:11:50] - “Stefan has said that Stephen Harper was inspired by Ayn Rand and is the Canadian "John Galt" and our "Rand Paul". I'm no Liberal, but the former prime minister has done more to increase the power of the state and centralize political power to the Prime Minister's Office than any other Canadian government in my lifetime. If Stephen Harper is our Galt, or that was at least his early intentions, then what happened? Where did it all go so horribly wrong?”