Losing My Religion

It’s a couple of weeks now since the public berating of Róisín Murphy for expressing (in a private Facebook post) her concern with some of the more extreme elements of transgender ideology. At around the time that Róisín’s story was dominating the free speech news, Tom was fortunate enough to catch the final night of ‘The Crucible’ at London’s Gielgud theatre. In that context, we take the opportunity in this week’s episode to revisit the ideas of blasphemy and the parallels between contemporary ideological wars and the witch trials of the 17th century. The topic quite naturally moves on to a discussion of how a deeper understanding of religion, and Christianity in particular, might offer us a path through some of our problems.