Podcast #520, Religion: Exile & Empire
Drunk Ex-Pastors
Christian Kingery
4.7 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Religion block of Drunk Ex-Pastors Jason sets forth a broad paradigm for looking at religion and Christian themes: Exile/Empire. We unpack the meanings of these categories and see how they apply to common themes found in evangelicalism such as dogma, canon, and essentials/non-essentials.
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| 0:00.0 | what's up how's it going pretty good it's like 75 degrees today it's pretty it's pretty |
| 0:06.0 | nice here like it's it's like the type of weather where I could walk from the house to the |
| 0:12.1 | garage with a t-shirt on and not be like oh I wish I put on a hoodie on when I came outside you know |
| 0:17.4 | yeah yeah um well it's getting to that time of year where it's going to be nice everywhere |
| 0:21.6 | like dude spring in washington is insane it's getting beautiful i went on a walk this morning and it was |
| 0:26.6 | just like everything started to bud um the trail i walk in has like moss all over it and so like the |
| 0:33.6 | concrete does you know so it was just like and the sun was like shining the, I took a picture of the sun was like shining through the trees, |
| 0:39.8 | just perfect. So there's like these rays of sun were coming through. And I was just like, dude, this is like straight out of like, Lord of the Rings or something. Yeah, it's like Lothorian. Yeah. Yeah. I've been wanting to rewatch those so bad, but I'm forcing myself |
| 0:53.4 | because I'm starting a new tradition |
| 0:54.6 | that I haven't started yet |
| 0:55.6 | which is, and I saw someone |
| 0:56.9 | who already does this, but I'm forcing myself, because I'm starting a new tradition |
| 0:54.6 | that I haven't started yet, |
| 0:55.7 | which is, and I saw someone who already does this, but watch the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy in between Christmas and New Year's. Oh, nice. And it's like, I want to do that, but I want to watch them now. But if I watch them now, it won't be as exciting to watch them again in like eight months. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.8 | It's been years for me. |
| 1:12.2 | And Sky and I have talked about... be as exciting to watch them again in like eight months. Yeah. It's been years for me. And |
| 1:12.2 | Sky and I have talked about when we both have just a whole day off just trying to get them all |
| 1:18.7 | watched, you know, because she loves him too. I saw a video of a guy. We never watched them together. |
| 1:22.9 | I saw a video of a guy. He's watching Return of the King with his girlfriend and he's filming her |
| 1:28.3 | unbeknownst to her during the part where Aragorn says to the hobbits at the end you bow |
| 1:33.3 | to no one yeah everyone bows down to the hobbits and she's just like I'm almost tearing up |
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