347: Why WICKED Is Causing Some Evangelicals to Panic (Hint: They Don’t Get It)
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Eric Skwarczynski
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Nothing like a bit of satanic panic to kick off the new year.
Pastors like Mark Driscoll and Daniel White are labeling the musical Wicked as “demonic” and accusing it of corrupting young minds. But here’s the irony—Wicked is all about challenging fear, prejudice, and black-and-white thinking.
In this video, I dive into their critiques and why they completely miss the mark. As a former fundamentalist, Wicked struck a personal chord with me. Its themes of questioning authority and redefining good and evil mirror real-life struggles within high-control religious communities.
I also explore how Wicked invites us to think critically about the labels we place on others and the motives of those in power. Maybe that’s why some pastors feel so uncomfortable with it—it hits a little too close to home.
Join me as I unpack the controversy, reflect on Wicked’s deeper meaning, and share why this misunderstood musical deserves more credit than it gets from its critics!
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Sources mentioned:
Mark Driscoll on Wicked - https://youtu.be/mz_5OxyHRJc
Joe Brown's UNHINGED Sermon at FBC Hammond Youth Conference - https://youtu.be/GHGnaZfd4Ws
Isaiah Saldivar on Wicked - https://youtu.be/YVLtPRxpRjA
Daniel White's sermon - https://youtu.be/fXEJovbfK_Y?t=4670
April Ajoy links - https://linktr.ee/aprilajoy
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is |
| 0:07.3 | advised. My name is Eric Skritsky. As a former religious fundamentalist, I'm shedding light on the |
| 0:14.1 | dark side of the church, from the pulpit to the pews. But I'm not doing it alone. Each week, |
| 0:20.1 | I'm sitting down with survivors, advocates, |
| 0:22.5 | authors, and more to uncover the inner workings of these abusive religious groups, to give |
| 0:27.9 | tactical tips on how to escape and to find out what we can do to take them down. You're listening |
| 0:34.9 | to the Bridge Boys podcast. |
| 1:00.3 | God creates Satan counterfeits. That is an evangelistic appeal through a mainstream movie to convert an entire generation to the demonic and to witchcraft, particularly young women, which has always been the nefarious appeal |
| 1:08.0 | of witchcraft and paganism and sorcery and divination under the auspices |
| 1:14.0 | and guise of feminism and female empowerment. Oh boy. It's ironic that one of the major |
| 1:20.3 | themes of the movie Wicked is fearing things you don't understand and in the wake of the movie |
| 1:24.9 | evangelicals are terrified because, well, they don't understand it. |
| 1:29.7 | Look, it's no surprise at this point. |
| 1:31.3 | Media literacy is not a strong suit among modern evangelicals. |
| 1:35.1 | Just take a look at the satanic panic of the 1980s, the mass book, and music burnings that became |
| 1:39.6 | staples of evangelical crusades, or the viral freakouts that occur anytime a music video uses |
| 1:44.9 | religious imagery. |
| 1:46.3 | Monterell Amar Hills, a stage name is Lutonass X. |
| 1:49.5 | Here he is with the shoes that everybody promoted for a while. |
| 1:53.0 | They sold out within minutes of going online. |
| 1:55.6 | Then when enough old leather lung preachers and people out there, Christians started crying. |
| 1:59.8 | Nike was like, oh, I guess we might cancel it after they had already sold out. |
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