The Roots of Everything
The Roots of Everything is a podcast that explores the origins and foundations of various aspects of life, faith, and culture. Hosted by Dr. Zachary Porcu and produced by Ancient Faith Ministries, it delves into historical and theological roots to understand the present. Each episode examines a different topic, tracing its development and significance through time.
Episodes
Storytelling Ep.1: Reality Is a Story
In every culture and every age, people tell stories. It's a universal human practice because reality itself is a story. Because stories are worldviews, they are more religious than anything else. How you read the story, therefore, makes all the difference.
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Decline of the West Ep.4: Magian Man
Does Orthodoxy belong to the Classical "world-feeling" or to the Western? Neither! Orthodoxy inspired a new culture that rose out of the ashes of Classical antiquity and which also gave birth to its rivals: Islam, Judaism, Nestorianism, and the other early heresies.
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Decline of the West Ep. 3: Faustian Man
According to Spengler, our Western culture did not begin with the Greeks and Romans but was born around the year 1000 with a completely new take on everything from math to art to religion, all in pursuit of the same thing: infinite, unbridled will-to-power.
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Decline of the West Ep. 2: Classical Man
In trying to understand what the West really is, it's helpful to contrast the things that we as a culture find intuitive with a culture that would NOT have found them intuitive at all: the Greeks and Romans, whose cultures were basically the exact opposite of ours.
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Decline of the West Ep.1: World-Feeling
Is the West dying? Can we save it? What should Christians do? To answer these questions, we need to take a big step back and answer not just the question "What is the West?" but "What is culture itself?" To do that we turn to Oswald Spengler and his theory of history.
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Neo-Politics Ep.4: Neo-Reactionary
Curtis Yarvin says the Left always claims to be the victim, but still always beats the right, because the Left-Right dichotomy—along with Democracy—is a construct. Dr. Zac puts this view into an Orthodox framework and assesses Yarvin's solutions.
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Neo-Politics Ep.3: Neo-Fascism
Why is there a budding nostalgia movement interested in bringing fascism back? Dr. Zac explains the appeal of this movement, why it's built on the failures of liberalism, and how it nevertheless doesn't offer a Christian alternative.
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Neo-Politics Ep.2: Neo-Marxism
People say that Marxism starts as a critique of capitalism and then evolves into an economic system. The reality? It starts as liberalism and turns into a societal method for weaponizing resentment.
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Neo-Politics Ep.1: Neo-Liberalism
To understand the political landscape of the 21st century, we need to understand the way neoliberalism controls all definitions about all politics and the way we as a culture interpret the World Wars mythologically in order to justify both Left and Right politics. Music attribution: History Repeats Itself by FSCM Productions | https://fscmproductions.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free
Left and Right Ep.4: Conservatism
It's difficult to define the Right because, historically speaking, the Left and Right are fraternal twins with the same definition of the human being—a secular, Enlightenment definition that ultimately isn't compatible with a traditional Christian one.
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Left and Right Ep.3: Egalitarianism
While the liberal democracies and socialism were at odds politically throughout the 20th century, they've started to merge because they share a core belief about the human being: egalitarianism—which turns out to be yet another secularization of an ancient Christian idea.
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Left and Right Ep.2: The Foundations of Liberalism
To understand the left politically, we need to look at the history of how secular ideologies emerged in Enlightenment Europe and realize that we're not just talking about politics but about a view of humanity and morality—one that's deeply indebted to historic Christianity.
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Left and Right Ep.1: A Brief History
Modern political ideologies are pseudo-religions that want to replace and subvert all your other religious beliefs. Left or right, they are all based on a radically new political idea that no previous religious cultures had entertained: secularism.
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The Feminine Ep.4: Who is the Heroine?
The "hero's journey" is essentially male; what is the female equivalent? Today we explore archetypes in folk stories, mythology, Orthodoxy, and pop culture alike. Why are these archetypal stories about girls still resonant, and what can they tell us about feminine virtue?
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The Feminine Ep.3: Hierarchy and Love
The religious conversation about "headship" and "submission" in marriage is confused by our modern narratives about oppression, power, and secular equality. But what if I told you that the fundamental element constituting hierarchy was love?
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The Feminine Ep.2: Cosmic Dualism
PARENTAL ADVISORY: This episode may contain some adult themes. Masculine and feminine are constantly portrayed in the Bible and mythology as fundamental aspects of the cosmos: creator and creation, heaven and earth, Yin and Yang, husband and wife. How do these dynamics work, and what happens when they go wrong?
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The Feminine Ep.1: Yin and Yang
Before we can begin to have the conversation about the role of women in culture or religion, we need to go back to the basics on sex and gender, because a female is not merely a biological reality; the feminine is one of the cosmic, enchanted elements of being itself.
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Rise of Pop Culture Ep.4: Tolkien and Fantasy
Everyone knows that Tolkien started the fantasy literature genre, but it wasn't the fantastical that made it special; it was his moral, imaginative framework, especially in contrast with later disenchanted fantasy stories like Harry Potter.
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Rise of Pop Culture Ep.3: Star Wars and Media
In the transition from newspaper to radio to film and TV, the Western world transitioned to picture-thinking, the most powerful force in shaping our imaginative framework. Movies become profoundly influential, and Star Wars becomes a cultural phenomenon.
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Rise of Pop Culture Ep.2: Science Fiction
The early fathers of science had grand visions for the domination of the earth and the future utopia, but it isn't until the 20th century's pop culture that their ideas become firmly implanted in the imaginative framework of Westerners.
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Rise of Pop Culture Ep.1: The 60s and 70s
With the World and Cold Wars of the 20th century, Western culture sees the rise of something it had never experienced before: youth culture. But sex, drugs, and rock and roll aren't just pastimes: they become our new cultural mythology.
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American Religion Ep.4: American Mysticism
The 19th century was home not only to many brand-new American religions but also to a large philosophical movement towards esotericism, mysticism, and new-age thinking that would influence all the major social movements of the time.
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American Religion Ep.3: The Burned-Over District
America is the birthplace of an astounding number of new religions, but what's surprising is that many of them have their starting place, directly or indirectly, in a specific time and place: Upstate New York in the 19th century.
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American Religion, Ep.2: Protestantism
It's often admitted that America has a strong Protestant influence, but what were the actual beliefs of these colonial religions? Utopianism, Kabbalism, and the belief that America is a new Israel are just a few of the ideas that characterize early American Protestantism.
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American Religion Ep.1: Founding Fathers
Is the United States a Christian nation? While the colonies mostly consisted of Protestants fleeing the European wars of religion, the answer is complicated by the strange new beliefs of many of these groups and the occult religious interests of the Enlightenment thinkers.
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Feminism Series Intro: Eve vs. the Devil
"Feminism" is a modern, secular ideology with many different, conflicting manifestations. Today we explore the roots of this movement, and contrast it with the way Orthodoxy defines and grounds the dignity of the person—male and female alike.
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Epistemology Ep.4: The Collapse of Truth
Despite it's triumphant optimism, the Enlightenment and scientific revolution didn't lead to utopia, but instead to the complete breakdown of the idea of truth. How did scientific rationalism lead to postmodernism, neo-Marxism, and nihilism? Find out on today's episode.
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Epistemology Ep.3: The Enlightenment's Biases
While we often think of the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution as "unbiased" or "neutral", the reality is that, historically, the thinkers behind these movements were in fact quite biased and had a particular project in mind: destroying the past.
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Epistemology Ep. 2: Luther's Anxiety Crisis
While modern secularism is famous for being skeptical, the Reformation actually played a central role in destroying the religious culture of Europe and paving the way for the Enlightenment. Martin Luther is doing the same sort of project as Descartes!
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Epistemology Ep.1: Why Do We Doubt?
How do you know what you know? It's a simple question but trying to answer it reveals something very deep about our culture: an almost neurotic fixation on doubt. Why are we like this? Where did it begin? Join me as we embark on one of the most defining topics of our era.
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Techno-Paganism Ep.4: New Religions, Same Gods
For being supposedly non-religious, secular people are surprisingly interested in weird phenomenon, everything from A.I. worship to UFOs to drug-induced mystical experiences. It's almost like we're building new religions—but how new are they, really?
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Techno-Paganism Ep.3: The Science of Idol-Making
Can we build a god out of A.I.? As it turns out, the ancients were already doing much the same thing, and the "science of idol-making" is a recognized technique going back many centuries. Is what we're doing with A.I. the same? Are idols real creatures?
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Techno-Paganism Ep.2: Mythology of the Enlightenment
Because modern people tend to think of ourselves as irreligious or secular, it makes the rise of new religious movements based on worshipping computers seem almost wacky and unserious. But what if I told you that this was always the goal of the modern era?
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Techno-Paganism Ep.1: A.I. and the New Age
Increasing technology has also led to increasing anxiety. It's not merely that all the dystopian science-fiction stories are coming true; it's the bizarre return of ancient, religious impulses and desires now fused to our tech development—a new frontier of techno-paganism.
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The Dark Logos, Ep. 4: The Faustian Age
Are sorcerers and scientists really aiming at the same thing? People from CS Lewis to Oswald Spengler have answered this question in the affirmative. Spengler in particular, characterizes our age as "Faustian". Are we really sorcerers? Find out on today's episode.
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The Dark Logos, Ep. 3: Gods of the Shadows
If the gods were real but fallen, where are they now? Given a very basic set of Christian assumptions, it's not that far-fetched to imagine that the gods are still around, still very much crave worship and slaves, and having been working with humans to build a new Babel.
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The Dark Logos, Ep. 2: Fall of the Gods
The second element we need to understand in our relationship to knowledge and technology is the fall of the gods and all the stories about the fallen gods giving knowledge to mankind.
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The Dark Logos, Ep. 1: Origins
As our technological power grows, so do our concerns about the future. In this new series, Dr. Zac explores the historical and spiritual context surrounding man's relationship to technology, starting with the idea of the Dark Logos: an anti-Christ relationship to creation.
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The Secular State, Ep.4: Marxism
What is Marxism, really? Is it compatible with Christianity? Is it more freeing or less? What exactly is "real" Marxism? Today, we pull up the root ideas of the Communist Manifesto to see which ideas are at the core of Marx's thinking.
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The Secular State, Ep. 3: Fascism
Fascism is always villainized by Westerners, but what did people like Mussolini and Hitler actually say about it? Did they have a good critique of liberalism and Marxism? And if so, what's actually wrong with fascism? The answer may surprise you.
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The Secular State, Ep. 2: Liberal Democracy
Where did the Liberal Democracy come from? It's not enough to say that it's an Enlightenment-inspired society. At it's heart, liberalism is what happens when you take a Christian vision for reality and strip it of its theological elements.
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The Secular State Ep. 1: Origins and Ideals
Our latest series explores the concept of a secular state and its manifestations in liberalism, fascism, and marxism alike. For this first episode we explore the whole idea of the secular state, it's origins, and how these ideas have shaped our thinking about government.
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Secularism, Ep. 4: The Collapse of Secularism
Did the Enlightenment dream deliver on its promises of rational morality, utopianism, and prosperity, it did it all just lead to eugenics, global war, and nihilism?
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Secularism, Ep.3: The Enlightenment
Everyone's heard of the "Enlightenment", what exactly was it? Was it truly a triumph of reason and science, or was it the slave to its own prejudices?
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Secularism, Ep. 2: The Birth of Modernity
What exactly ended Christendom and caused the whole world to become secular? It took a few centuries, but the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and even the World Wars are all part of the story we discuss on today's episode.
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Secularism, Ep. 1: A Christian Heresy?
What if I told you that you are secular, that no matter how religious you are, the fact that you were born in the modern Western world means you've unavoidably inherited fundamentally secular ways of thinking about reality?
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Pilot Episode: The Ideas that Made Your World
Do you view the world correctly? If you didn't, how would you know? In discussing everything from the definition of slavery to the collapse of arranged marriages, Dr. Zac explains how the great idea of Western civilization influence us today in ways we never think about.
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