Special Podcast Tuesday!!! Our Pope Daddy!!!

[frandroid]

"This Platonic philosopher and the priest are the same person.
What do we call that person? Father. [...]
He's got a daddy too.
We call that guy The Pope.
Pope just means Father.
It means The Big Dad.
Our Father who art our father's Father.
The Representative of our Father who art in Heaven.
The Pope is also called the Patriarch of Rome.
It's Dads all the way down!!"

--Everyday Anarchism, episode 8, Anarchism is...Jesus of Nazareth - Part 1: Jesus Christ ?

And then it goes from there (all Old Testament, Jesus as Anarcho-Communist to Early Roman Christian Platonic perversion) straight to... Eisenhower!!!

Comments

[sabotabby]

Oh cool!

[frandroid]

I mostly posted for this quote because the punchline made me laugh so much, not because I was recommending the episode itself though. See comment to Frenzy below about the episode itself.

[frenzy]

The Kingdom of God is Within You is basically Christian Anarchism 101 (although it is dense as hellllll) It shaped a lot of my world view even though I'm def no longer a christian.

maybe ill find the time and give this a listen!

[frandroid]

The episode mostly covers this shift from anarchist jesus to platonic christianty. The next episode, which I haven't listened to yet, circles back on and focuses on anarchist jesus, you might get more mileage out of it!

I was baptized and stuff, but I was shocked when (way later than I would care to admit in public or even in private) I discovered that the places in the New Testament were REAL and not just a fantasy place, because I was living in a society that was so rejectionary of the Catholic Church, we were all like "what is this fake stuff". I wish I had cared more though because Jesus was cool.