In this episode of Rameumptom Ruminations, we explore the emotional complexity of hearing others express beliefs we once held, especially when used to explain away… Read More »Echoes of Belief: Rameumptom Ruminations: 110
This episode delves into the emotional complexities of engaging with believing family and friends after leaving a shared faith. It highlights the pain of feeling… Read More »Religious Trauma Triggers: Rameumptom Ruminations: 109
Why is there evil? Is deity compatible with the suffering that we observe in the world around us? In today’s episode, Scott introduces the listeners… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 081: Why is there Evil?
The infamous Happiness Letter offers a glimpse into the morality used to justify the practice of Polygamy. In the letter, Joseph Smith uses an argument… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 067: The Happiness Letter
How can you be a moral person without God? Friends and Family pose this question to those of us that deconstruct religion and leave it… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 066: Divine Command Theory
In this episode, Scott joins the podcast Hie to Kolob and Beyond for a discussion on the prisoner’s dilemma. The tragedy of Antigone has interesting… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 064: Antigone King Noah and the Modern LDS Church
Last week, we discussed the story of Laban and the concept that God judges people based on different codes of morals. The problems with eternal… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 049: The Plan of Salvation is Not a Standardized Test
In the New Testament Jesus talks about the responsibility for the flock of sheep. In this episode, Scott contrasts a few famous passages against the… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 041: The Ninety and Nine
A listener asked a fantastic question that I thought would benefit the audience as we enter the holiday season. How do we communicate and deal… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 031: The Metaphor of the Archer
Continuing with the discussion of the Demarcation Problem as presented by Karl Popper, Scott examines the concept of the shelf. Everything on the shelf falls… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 030: Falsifiability and the Shelf
Karl Popper introduced the idea of falsifiability to better understand what constitutes science and what is pseudoscience. In this episode, Scott examines Latter-Day Saint or… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 029: The Demarcation Problem of Truth Claims
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints faces incredible dilemmas when science disproves an aspect of the belief system, or when society shifts towards… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 021: A Trolley Problem for the LDS Church
Four people stand before God to be judged, each from a different time, with a unique list of commandments for them to follow to enter… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 005: The Source of Morality
In this episode, Scott examines the Russian Nobleman thought experiment and what implications this concept has on the impermanence of a person’s ideals. Is a… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 002: On Covenants and the Impermanence of Things
The Good Ship Zion is a term used in the Mormon church to refer to itself. In the first episode of Rameumptom Ruminations, Scott discusses… Read More »Rameumptom Ruminations: 001: The Good Ship Zion