Jun 10, 2026 · 32 min · 10 segments
**Is this the deadliest teaching in human history?** An encore presentation of our most-listened-to episode ever — and maybe our most powerful. And honestly? *It feels even more urgent now than when…
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Today we're talking about one of the two deadliest teachings in all of humanity.
This teaching is responsible for some of history's deadliest torture and death from ethnic groups to religious groups to really any group it's aimed at.
I was doing some research about something I was writing on marriage, and I found John Gottman of the Gottman Institute.
He can observe a couple for 15 minutes and tell you with 90% accuracy if they'll be together in 15 years.
It's responsible for the Holocaust, the Inquisition, the annihilation of religious groups, including my ancestors, the Waldensians, and other early church reformers in the Great Reformation.
This deadly teaching is responsible for the division, the polarization that we experience today that Pew Research says is the worst division in all of history.
Today we're talking about one of the two deadliest teachings in all of humanity.
This teaching is responsible for some of history's deadliest torture and death from ethnic groups to religious groups to really any group it's aimed at.
I was doing some research about something I was writing on marriage, and I found John Gottman of the Gottman Institute.
He can observe a couple for 15 minutes and tell you with 90% accuracy if they'll be together in 15 years.
It's responsible for the Holocaust, the Inquisition, the annihilation of religious groups, including my ancestors, the Waldensians, and other early church reformers in the Great Reformation.
This deadly teaching is responsible for the division, the polarization that we experience today that Pew Research says is the worst division in all of history.
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