412 - Revelation Part Twelve: America the Beautiful?

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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America the Beautiful? Today, Mike and Tim fight off a Seth and Mazzy interruption to discuss how the model of ‘Christian Nationalism’ is nothing new. Rome built a civic religion that John rebuked... What exactly does a civic religion look like in this case? How has America followed Rome? What parts of civic life have we ordained? Solemn devotion and allegiance? Blessing of the State? What lens does John offer us to examine? Is it unpatriotic to critique America? How do we as Christians exercise a healthy patriotism while advocating for the Kingdom of God? Has Christianity, as the dominant American religion, been co opted in service to the sacralization of power? How do we take the narrative back?!?!? How do we participate, even with pride, and resist the baptizing of American ritual? How did self preservation become a Christian trait when we follow a sacrificial God?

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0:00.0	Oh, Ladies, the gentleman, welcome to a special 4th of July episode of the Voxology Podcast, maybe a couple of weeks later. But we want to talk
0:27.2	about America today. It's going to be glorious. Before we get in, just a couple of
0:31.7	disclaimers. Number number one my screen name on
0:35.3	YouTube is Liam Nissan and I know it's misspelled so that was the joke nobody can
0:41.6	see those names though, just FYI.
0:43.7	Well, unless they're, well, I'm trying to, oh, they can't?
0:47.0	No.
0:48.4	Even on the YouTube's, they can't?
0:50.1	That's just our pretty.
0:51.3	So I go, oh, so I go to all this effort. That's just our pretty cool. Oh!
0:53.0	So I go to all this effort to try to think of something cute,
0:57.0	and it doesn't even do Jack?
0:59.0	Yeah, it does Jack.
1:00.0	I mean, I always appreciate it.
1:02.0	Oh, yeah, but it's for the dear listener. Oh I thought was
1:05.4	friend that we do this. Okay well then that you don't need to know. Never mind. Yeah,
1:11.1	Nirvana put it best in their first album when they said never mind.
1:16.0	Today, however, my daughter is rummaging around very loudly right now as I'm recording an international podcast for the universe.
1:29.0	Yeah, totally loud and she's going to work so in perfect job for her she works at
1:37.5	Arie which is this fashion clothing store for like girls her age and so she gets a sweet discount and on top of how much
1:49.0	an hour?
1:50.0	11 dollars an hour. That's pretty good right? But you factor in the
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