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The Scopes Monkey Trial as Meme
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In this episode of A Christian and an Atheist Walk into a Bar, Neil and Phil dig into the Scopes Trial and reassess the competing legacies of William Jennings Bryan, H.L. Mencken, and Clarence Darrow. Along the way they’ll talk about memes that have nothing to do with kittens.
In “Should I Really Care About This?” they expose the injustice of serving appetizers in odd numbers.
Beers appearing in this episode:
Cinderlands’ Tracks Again Unfiltered Pilsner
Ayinger Jahrhundert Beer
Indispensable Reading: Under God: Religion and American Politics by Gary Wills
Chapters
1. The Scopes Monkey Trial as Meme (00:00:00)
2. What we're drinking today (00:00:37)
3. What is a meme? (00:04:13)
4. Mencken's White Supremacism (00:07:55)
5. Who is William Jennings Bryan (00:09:38)
6. What Happens at the Trial? (00:13:56)
7. Evangelicalism in the Wake of the Scopes Trial (00:19:15)
8. Mencken's Literalistic Darwinism (00:24:15)
9. The Nature of the Bible (00:29:28)
10. Progressive or Reformational (00:33:39)
11. Darwinism and Historical Context (00:38:10)
12. Secularizing the End Times (00:42:13)
13. Becoming a God or Becoming Yourself? (00:43:56)
14. Reading the Bible in Context (00:47:09)
15. Should I Really Care About This? Appetizers in odd numbers? (00:52:37)
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