The third episode of the Ghana Freethinkers podcast made a return Friday night with host Chris-Vincent Agyapong Febiri hosting three panellists to look at the big questions.
The over two hours discussion looked at the big questions from the freethinking angle, with Godwin Nii-Armah Okine and Adam Braimah joining from Ghana, whilst Kobby Newton and Fleance Kyere also joined the conversation from the UK.
The episode kicked off with discussion about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, considering the show was being held on Good Friday.
Host Chris-Vincent wondered about the supposed uniqueness of Jesus’ resurrection when Matthew records in his gospel (chapter 27 v 52) that other saints came out of their tombs at the same time and went around Jerusalem. It looks like resurrection was actually commonplace then, going on what Matthew said.
Panellists opined on how this ties into the larger issue of the inconsistency of the gospel accounts, with Matthew being the only one noting down this pretty incredulous account.
Kobby Newton added in that the account is not to be taken literally, but rather allegorically or symbolically. The conversation drifted to the history of resurrected gods which was commonplace at the time, and the history of the bible.
On religion and terrorism, and the link between beliefs and actions, the panellists talked about how beliefs are not benign, in that they aren’t held in abstract and they actually translate into action. This means that a straight line can be drawn from the actions of terrorists to their holy books, and thus we cannot play the no true Scotsman fallacy in the aftermath of deadly attacks and say the terrorists aren’t true Muslims, especially when there is no arbiter for who a true Muslim is.
The conversation then shifted towards the question of morality, whether an objective standard for morality can be said to exist.
Chris-Vincent made the case for an objective morality by appealing to the shared instincts within all of us that could tell us some things are wrong, no matter the society we grow up in. Other panellists disagreed, making the point that all morality is subjective, pertaining to the society and the shared morals and values they agree on.
The conversation ended on the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence. Panellists generally agreed that it is quite likely that there is life out there, just going by the numbers, looking at the size of the universe, and the existence of hundred of billions of galaxies populated with even more stars, which are then orbited by an even greater number of planets. A contributor agreed, with the point that it would be the height of arrogance to assume otherwise. Fleance Kyere on the other hand, disagreed.
The third episode of the Ghana Freethinkers podcast was an intellectually stimulating two and a half  hours of conversation looking at these big questions, and it is one you don’t wanna miss.
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