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First, let me share this hilarious remake of a Gospel classic, giving it a philosophical agnostic twist (HT Luke Muehlhauser<\/a>):<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p>And now, on a more serious note, a challenging video on how to make a difference in the world \u2013 including response to possible skeptical objections (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonablefaith.com\/2010\/06\/10\/how-to-cut-global-poverty-in-half\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daniel Florian<\/a>; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeyoucansave.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">charity<\/a> that produced it is connected with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeyoucansave.com\/author\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peter Singer<\/a> and shares its name with one of his books, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-You-Can-Save-Poverty\/dp\/1400067103?ie=UTF8&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Life You Can Save<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1400067103\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><\/i>):<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Life You Can Save in 3 minutes by Peter Singer\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/onsIdBanynY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1818914193269010164?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, let me share this hilarious remake of a Gospel classic, giving it a philosophical agnostic twist (HT Luke Muehlhauser): And now, on a more serious note, a challenging video on how to make a difference in the world \u2013 including response to possible skeptical objections (HT Daniel Florian; the charity that produced it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Skepticism In Song<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"First, let me share this hilarious remake of a Gospel classic, giving it a philosophical agnostic twist (HT Luke Muehlhauser):And now, on a more serious\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/skepticism-in-song.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Skepticism In Song\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First, let me share this hilarious remake of a Gospel classic, giving it a philosophical agnostic twist (HT Luke Muehlhauser):And now, on a more serious\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/skepticism-in-song.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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