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Straight White American Jesus

It's in the Code ep 168: “Man’s (Empty) Purpose”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Josh Hawley devotes the second chapter of his book to outlining what he sees as “man’s purpose.” He promises to answer the question of why men are here, and what they are supposed to do. What does he see as this purpose? And why does his claim to uncover man’s purpose ultimately amount to nothing? Why does Dan describe it as an “empty” account of purpose? And how does this undermine Hawley’s claim that the Bible’s story of man is the only story that can provide meaning and purpose? Check out this week’s episode to find out! Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 850-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Subscribe to Teología Sin Vergüenza Subscribe to American Exceptionalism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

AXIS Moondy

0:07.0

AXIS Moondy Hello and welcome to it's in the code.

0:30.8

This is part of the podcast, Straight White American Jesus.

0:33.8

I, of course, am your host, Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Lamar College. Pleased, as always, to be with you, and as always, want to start by just saying, thank you for listening. There are a lot of other things you can be doing, and it means the world that you listen to us. If you're a subscriber, in particular, thank you to you. If you're not a subscriber, and that's something you would be willing to do, would ask you to consider doing that. We put out a lot of content or an

0:58.5

indie show, doing the best we can, and you help us to do that. And with regard to this series,

1:03.6

of course, I am driven in what I do by you and your insights. Please keep those coming. Feedback about

1:10.0

these episodes, ideas for upcoming episodes, upcoming series, Daniel Miller

1:14.6

Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com, please keep the thoughts coming.

1:19.9

I love to hear them.

1:20.9

I do not get to respond to as many as I wish that I did.

1:24.3

I do the best that I can, but I do listen to those, and I'm always mapping out

1:28.4

future episodes and directions that we're going with the show. As I say, it is driven by you.

1:33.4

I need you to help me do that. And if you're a subscriber, please also check out the Discord.

1:39.2

I hover around in there from time to time. Some great discussions that go on, great ideas.

1:44.3

So I want to dive into this today. I am in a topic that came from a listener.

1:49.9

As you know, if you've been listening, we are looking at Josh Holly's book, Senator Josh

1:54.5

Holly's book, Manhood, where he lays out what he understands to be the masculine

1:59.9

virtues that are missing from American men,

2:02.7

the masculine virtues, excuse me, that will save America, and we're going to be taking a look at

2:08.1

those. Again, we're looking at him because he gives us a window into a discourse that is

2:13.5

increasingly pervasive in American society, a discourse about men, about masculinity,

2:19.2

about what that means.

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