{"podcast":{"title":"The Blue Collar Scholar","slug":"the-blue-collar-scholar-5584458","podcast_index_feed_id":5584458,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/XAYHUsKl","website_url":"https://the-blue-collar-scholar.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/62dba346-87c2-4896-99a0-8910ee2f9f79/fd5244fc-d0e2-4e2b-a6e6-27892d67390a/3000x3000/ea6732da-855c-4167-819f-7ae16b1f6e01.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Will Reitz","episode_count":376,"summary":"This podcast will cover the topics covered by the history lectures, sermons, and Bible/theology studies of Will Reitz.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T20:17:37.914753+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blue-collar-scholar-5584458"},"episode":{"title":"Comparing World Religions, episode 8: Religions That Branched Off of Christianity","slug":"comparing-world-religions-episode-8-religions-that-branched-off-of-christianity","published_at":"2026-03-15T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blue-collar-scholar-5584458/comparing-world-religions-episode-8-religions-that-branched-off-of-christianity","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blue-collar-scholar-5584458","url":"https://the-blue-collar-scholar.simplecast.com/episodes/comparing-world-religions-episode-8-religions-that-branched-off-of-christianity-zmv47wg3","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/0629b599-6b9f-45a8-910c-a58b113af6d4/9547d0c6-f239-43ae-b10f-f2b66bd3573b/episodes/audio/group/070900a3-2a15-4eb4-8284-beeed805290d/group-item/27c03298-c78d-4578-9193-2c50433b10f5/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=XAYHUsKl","summary":"This one will be controversial. I have concluded that several religions are not part of Christianity because they have changed or abandoned major theological components of Christianity: the Trinity, the Incarnation, the nature of reality, the existence of God, etc. I acknowledge that many of these groups claim to be denominations of orthodox Christianity, and I don't deny their right to define their own religious expression. But if the world \"Christian\" has any meaning, I cannot make the claim that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Jehovah's Witnesses, or Christian Science (to name a few) are Christian. What I will admit freely is that these groups clearly descended from the Christian tradition, often from American Protestantism. In this lecture I attempt to be unbiased. But - full disclosure - while editing this episode I came to the conclusion that I did a pretty poor job of that. So consider this episode to be a mild polemic from an evangelical Protestant Christian who is trying to make sense of the beliefs of religions that branched of Christianity.","meta_description":"This one will be controversial. I have concluded that several religions are not part of Christianity because they have changed or abandoned major theologi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6145,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-blue-collar-scholar-5584458/episodes/comparing-world-religions-episode-8-religions-that-branched-off-of-christianity/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blue-collar-scholar-5584458/comparing-world-religions-episode-8-religions-that-branched-off-of-christianity.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}