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God Forbid

ABC Australia

Religion: it’s at the centre of world affairs, but profound questions still remain. Why are you here? What happens when you die? Does God matter? God Forbid seeks the answers.

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248 episodes

  1. Muhammad Ali: the prettiest bravest wittiest Religious Rebel yet! 54:37
  2. The AI Apocalypse: Human salvation or human extinction? 54:36
  3. God, the Big Bang & the fortunate universe 54:37
  4. Young earth creationism: why some Christians contest evolution 54:36
  5. The long border dispute between science and religion 54:37
  6. How can media gain back lost trust? 54:36
  7. Will toleration or tribalism define this era of enlightenment? 54:39
  8. Is tolerance really a virtue? 54:36
  9. Secular Australia's identity crisis 53:22
  10. Does owning property make you more moral? 54:38
  11. Will science ever explain the self? 54:38
  12. Voluntary assisted dying: more than a matter of life and death 54:34
  13. The Good Mother standard: Can anyone live up to it? 54:37
  14. The History of Time 54:38
  15. The History of Reality: What is real and is God behind it all? 54:37
  16. The History of Emotion: Were feelings always felt this way? 54:35
  17. Is racism about skin colour, colonialism or wealth? 54:36
  18. What does God expect of fathers? 54:34
  19. Why do animals matter? 54:36
  20. How old do you feel? 53:57
  21. The pleasure we take in others' misfortune and what it says about us 54:36
  22. The ideas that inspired American Christian Zionism 54:38
  23. How should we view our relationship to work? 54:10
  24. The seen and unseen: Belief in Jinns, Marian apparitions and Japanese yokai 53:49
  25. Home economics: waking up from the Australian dream 54:36
  26. Doomsday or just good planning? The ethics of prepping 54:10
  27. Can we truly love AI? And can it love us back? 54:37
  28. Addiction, God, and the origin of the twelve steps 54:10
  29. Christian leaders talk war, the Pope, getting arrested, courage and empathy 54:37
  30. Why do adults still need fairytales? 54:08
  31. The Orthodox surge 54:00
  32. Why are the Middle Ages are still relevant today? 54:08
  33. Is your privacy sacred? 54:08
  34. On judgement 54:34
  35. Is the 21st century’s version of freedom liberating or a freedom trap? 54:36
  36. International Women's Day special 54:34
  37. Conversion — Why would anyone move from disbelief to belief? 54:36
  38. The nature of evil, abuse and forgiveness 53:49
  39. The pain of love and grief for our pets 54:36
  40. Pawnbroking, bankruptcy, debt, usury & God! 54:24
  41. If you could save a drowning child, would you? 54:36
  42. The Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Royal Commission 54:28
  43. Living simply in a complex world: how modern monks navigate AI, social media, and climate change 54:07
  44. Coercion, control and worship: Where do we draw the line between a religion and a cult? 54:07
  45. Did the human species invent the Bible? 54:07
  46. Why do we fear fat? 54:07
  47. Close encounters of the religious kind: how God and UFOs have both begun religious movements 54:07
  48. What were the biggest religious stories in 2025? Ask the experts! 40:25
  49. Religious Rebels 06 | Dorothy Day: Rebel for the poor, saint for the restless 54:06
  50. Religious Rebels 05 | Malcolm X: Reborn in Mecca, killed in Harlem 54:37