Episode 419: Rethinking Roe, Crotch Christianity, & Militant Masculinity with Kristin Kobes Du Mez
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Is our vision of the ideal Christian man more like Jesus or John Wayne? Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez talks about the rise of militant masculinity within evangelicalism, how the threat of Communism in the mid twentieth-century led church leaders to deify testosterone, and why we don't like images of a weak, crucified Jesus. Also this week, Jerry Falwell's "pool boy" scandal, John MacArthur says abortion, gay marriage, and transgenderism should determine how Christians vote which leads Skye to explain the difference between "cosmic" and "crotch" Christianity, and Phil unpacks David French's latest article about why your vote for president will have no impact on abortion. Plus, it's 130 degrees in Death Valley. What does that mean?
"Do Pro-Lifers Who Reject Trump Have Blood on Their Hands?" by David French
https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/do-pro-lifers-who-reject-trump-have
"About Those Manly Evangelical Protectors" by Kristin Kobes Du Mez: https://kristindumez.com/resources/about-those-manly-evangelical-protectors/
"You Want Context? Jerry Falwell Jr's Crotch Shot and Family Values Evangelicalism" by Kristin Kobes Du Mez: https://kristindumez.com/resources/you-want-context-jerry-falwell-jr-s-crotch-shot-and-family-values-evangelicalism/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome back to the Holypost podcast. This is Phil Vischer and I am here with |
| 0:04.8 | Christian Taylor. Hey, how you doing? I'm good. How are you Christian? Good. |
| 0:09.4 | And oh, I hear a siren. Who has a, is that coming to your house, guy? |
| 0:14.4 | Our man's guy. We're not far from each other. It's going down Naperville. |
| 0:18.1 | Oh, and Skyge, Tony. Hi, everyone. Hi, Sky. How you? |
| 0:23.4 | Hi. I'm all right. Yeah. Anyone have anything wild in the last, it's been two weeks since we |
| 0:28.8 | recorded. So anything wild happened. I didn't have anything wild, but I do have some news to share. |
| 0:34.8 | What's the news? Well, we got an in-person screening date for Shagrin documentary film festival. |
| 0:41.2 | And we'll be having our world premiere on October 10th at 4.30 in the afternoon in Shagrin falls |
| 0:48.9 | drive in. Oh, that's fun. That's super exciting. And then we are now assembly find, a |
| 0:55.2 | symbol, a symbol, a semi finalist in the Glasgow world of film film festival. |
| 1:06.8 | Was that being, was that being Glasgow? Was that being, is that where that would be? |
| 1:10.4 | Yes. Well, that's cool. Sky, are you up for any awards that we should know about? |
| 1:16.1 | I know of none. No, no one's giving me anything. I'm sorry. I hope hearing about Christian's |
| 1:22.1 | awards doesn't make you a little sad in your heart. If I were a documentary filmmaker, |
| 1:27.4 | you know, I was up against her and she was getting all this acclaim and opportunity. And I wasn't |
| 1:31.8 | happy very, very sad. But you guys still be happy for her though, right? Yeah, very, very, |
| 1:36.8 | very happy. You guys can run around me with awards and accolades and accomplishments. Stop, stop. |
| 1:46.2 | Just because I was called the snopes of Christian BS. I think that I like that. I guess that's an |
| 1:52.6 | accolade. Okay, here's the theme song. What's the news that you like the most? Who's your favorite |
| 2:00.6 | podcast host? If it's breakfast, get your toast. It's Sky and Phil and the Holy Post. Sky and |
| 2:08.8 | Phil and the Holy Post and sometimes Christian. Okay. Okay. This is getting serious. Sky, I think |
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