Pokemon Go … Away!

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Are all things being redeemed … even Pokemon Go?! C'mon. We're handing out our very last Desperate Theology award and we hope the winner will take it in stride! In light of Pokemon, Carl, Aimee, and Todd sit down to talk "Hyperreality", that is, the reality that isn't. We live in a world increasingly fixated on what's fabricated. Screens have gripped our eyes and crippled the imagination. "It’s all crap and it’s destroying our souls," says one no-name Englishman. So what is reality and why do we shy away from it? You'd think it's an obvious answer, but how often do we function far from the natural created world before and around us with little awareness?The Alliance has MP3 set that we are really excited to be giving away. It's entitled Developing a Christian Mind by James Boice. It's some of his best messages and it will help you to think biblically about our world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.8	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:31.6	Today, our hosts take us through a discussion on hyper-reality.
0:36.3	These days, what's genuine and make-believe are blending together
0:40.0	in a new pseudo-reality. Where will this slide end, and how should the church view it? Let's see
0:46.9	what Amy, Carl, and Todd have to say.
1:00.8	Well, today, aordification of Spin, we're coming to the end of a bit of an era. We're actually going to be awarding our last desperate Theologizer Prize.
1:06.5	Don't worry, we do not intend to become any more respectable than we already are.
1:10.6	We will be having a very suitable replacement, but every joke has its day.
1:16.0	Every award comes to the end of its natural life, and we think that today is the day, but
1:20.7	we've decided to go out with a bang.
1:22.9	So, Amy, perhaps you'd like to tell us about today's nominee for Desperate Theologizer.
1:29.1	Yes, today's nominee really has a lot of connection to what we'll be talking about for our bully pulpit.
1:35.5	So I think it's a good one.
1:37.1	This is an article by Pikachu.
1:40.5	Pokemon Go in a fractured and flattened world.
1:45.0	And what he does here is he talks about this phenomenon of Pokemon Go,
1:50.0	and he theologizes it a little bit.
1:54.0	So he says that Pokemon Go tells us something about American life in the 21st century.
1:59.0	Many people experience the world as flattened
2:02.1	out and devoid of wonder, and they worry that our society seems to be fracturing. These feelings
2:07.7	create pressure points in our culture, and Pokemon Go provides a fleeting sense of relief. And so he
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