Ep. 84: Christmas Aliens
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes to see earth clearly, you have to look down on it from mars. C.S. Lewis's space trilogy is a classic of sci-fi literature but it's also, weirdly, the perfect thing to read at Christmas. In "Out of the Silent Planet," Lewis takes his place alongside Dante and Milton with a Christian vision of the worlds beyond our world.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Christmas season. Let's talk about aliens. |
| 0:07.0 | It's Christmas season. This is the Christmas show and we are offering a Christmas deal out of the |
| 0:12.5 | grand joy and magnificence of my heart in the spirit of the season. You can go to YoungHeretics.com |
| 0:18.5 | forward slash shop and get 20% off all of our merch when you use the code Santa. You know our |
| 0:26.3 | merch. It's the best in the biz. It's high quality. We tested all ourselves. I love wearing my |
| 0:31.6 | YoungHeretics shirt around, especially the one that says, we're reading Homer and Screw You. |
| 0:35.5 | And you can get all of this plus makes a great Christmas gift. So you can get it for other people too |
| 0:40.0 | when you go to YoungHeretics.com forward slash shop and use the code Santa. I immediately morph into |
| 0:46.4 | a vast ghastly combination of Ebenezer's Scrooge and the Grinch on December 26th. So this deal will end |
| 0:54.4 | on Christmas. After Christmas, there's no more 20% off. So go now to YoungHeretics.com forward slash |
| 0:59.2 | shop and enter the code Santa to get 20% off. Happy Advent. It is Advent the season of the lead up |
| 1:06.3 | to Christmas. This is people typically confuse this with the Christmas season, which extends from |
| 1:10.4 | any days after December the 25th. But right now we are contemplating the incarnation and expecting it, |
| 1:17.0 | awaiting it in the liturgical calendar. And last year when this time came up, I did a special |
| 1:22.5 | Christmas episode. This year I wanted to do something a little bit different. And I'd like to do |
| 1:26.0 | three episodes on the trilogy that is sometimes called the Space trilogy, sometimes called the |
| 1:31.9 | Rensom trilogy. It's CS Lewis's grand space sci-fi allegory for the Christian universe. He sometimes |
| 1:40.4 | calls it a fairy tale for grown-ups. And I just think it is his literary masterwork, especially |
| 1:46.8 | the third one. The three books are called Out of the Silent Planet, |
| 1:50.4 | Parallandra, and that hideous strength. A lot of you have asked for episodes on this. And the |
| 1:55.0 | Christmas season seems like as good a time as any to get down to them, especially because one of the |
| 2:00.6 | things I said last year when we talked about Christmas was that the familiarity of the Christmas |
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