Ask HN: Podcasts, Discord servers, etc. for serious theological discussion?

6 points by pneumatic1 2 years ago | 2 comments

I have a lot of books but I’m looking for a podcast, discord server or anything else that has a community interested in critical discussions about world religions, spirituality, theological philosophy, metaphysics…things like this. Ideally something not limited to a particular subdomain but a survey of the entire domain.

mickelsen 2 years ago |

Probably not what you are looking for, but being non religious and ignorant myself on those topics, I was able to grasp a lot and get to details very quickly through ChatGPT. Things like discussing the disagreements among catholics with the counter-reformation, more nuanced differences between christian denominations, philosophical parallels between western and non-abrahamic, main ethical systems and so on. Since I had noone to talk about these things, and the fact it provides a lot of historical data that I can double check myself, made it very valuable.

pneumatic1 2 years ago | |

Thanks for the suggestion! I’ve actually done this as well with impressive results. I started to become wary of hallucinations about more obscure topics, but I agree it’s very valuable.

You’re right though I’m looking for something more. I guess I’m looking for a macro-theological “church” and I’m not sure if that exists.