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Straight White American Jesus

Mild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 7

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Why does love feel like death? Brad continues to reflect on the soulmate myth and purity culture's vision of love. He analyzes how the model of love in these stories sees it as the end of life--the completion of one's journey, and thus something like death. With help from Plato and the Odyssey he explains why it is such a toxic, and potentially abusive, vision of love within the purity culture context. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This fall, get ready for on God's campus. Voices from the Queer Underground podcast about

0:13.7

white Christian supremacy and being queer in the most conservative campuses in the country.

0:19.5

Join Chloe as the $90 reads in God We Trust. Paul.

0:24.4

Especially the text about homosexuality and abortion.

0:28.7

And I adhered to that biblical document until I was 19 when I had my first relationship

0:34.0

with a woman. As they reveal a roadmap to change from the underbelly of the church's best kept secrets.

0:46.5

You're listening to an irreverent podcast.

0:50.2

Visit irreverent.fm for more content from our amazing lineup of creators.

0:58.8

What's up, y'all? Welcome to Mildred Heart.

1:09.2

Our series here at St. White American Jesus on Love, Sex, and Masculinity after Peer to Culture.

1:14.6

My name is Brad O'Nishi. I'm faculty at the University of San Francisco.

1:18.7

I want to talk again today about love and Peer to Culture and how Peer to Culture's vision of love

1:25.7

and model of love is really just dysfunctional and misguided at best and toxic at worst.

1:33.6

Last week I talked about the Soulmate myth and I talked about how the Soulmate myth goes back to

1:39.7

Plato and I think many of us are familiar with the story of finding the one and finding our other

1:45.8

half and historians will say that goes and philosophers will say that goes back to Plato.

1:50.3

And Plato has this whole story in the symposium and that's where we get that.

1:53.8

Well, my argument is that it goes back further than Plato to Yahweh in the Israelites

2:00.2

because Yahweh enters into a monogamous and monotheistic relationship with the Israelites

2:06.1

and vice versa. Yahweh promises to fulfill and complete the Israelites to give them all their

2:14.7

desires and to fulfill them and to protect them in ways that sound very much like what is supposed

2:20.9

to happen when you meet your soulmate. I talked about how this is problematic because

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