It's in the Code Ep 101: “Spirit of the Age”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ If you’ve encountered today’s right-wing culture warriors, you have heard them lambast efforts at LGBTQ+ inclusion, police reform, combatting climate change, and myriad other issues as reflecting the “spirit of the age.” But what do they mean by this? Where does this phrase come from? Is it specifically Christian, or does it have broader meanings? And most importantly, once we decode this phrase, what do we find people doing with it? Dan tackles these questions in this week’s episode. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.6	Straight White American Jesus. Again my name is Dan Miller and I am pleased to be
1:09.1	with you today. I had been out for a couple weeks as I've shared in some other contexts. My mom is is ill not doing well and I had gone and spent some time with her and doing some things with her house and so forth and just wanted to thank those who reached out some very
1:26.0	kind words, kind sentiments. I know a lot of people listening are in the same boat with
1:31.7	aging parents and everything that that brings with it.
1:34.1	So thank you for that.
1:36.0	But delighted as always to be back, delighted as always to be hitting on one of the topics that
1:40.2	I've heard about from a lot of you. As always, I'm behind on the emails, but I am responding to them and value your insights, questions, comments, topic ideas so much.
1:50.0	Reach out to me, Daniel Miller Swadge, Daniel Miller, SWA, J, J, and Z-A-J. much.
2:03.0	And I'm going to dive in here to pick up on a theme as I say that I've heard about from a number of people
2:08.1	and it is the language of or references to the spirit of the age.
2:12.4	When people talk about the spirit of the age when people talk about the spirit of the age or the
2:14.8	spirit of our age or the spirit of this age that go on to say what that is.
2:18.4	It's a phrase that you would hear a lot in conservative Christian contexts
2:23.8	uh... it also i think comes up a lot in sort of culture war context context
2:28.8	where i think for most of us if if we're aware of this at all we know that religion is at work we know
2:34.4	that religion is in the background but it may be articulated in non-religious terms
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