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Unholier Than Thou
Unholier Than Thou
4.7 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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And now for something a little different. This week, Phill is joined by a panel of great thinkers, writers, and theologians to tackle a big question: What role does Christianity have in an increasingly secular America? Do we need it? Does it leave room for those of marginalized identities? Does it welcome those who might have left and want to come back? Can it eschew its imperial past and embrace those it has harmed? It sounds heavy, but you'd never know it from the all the laughter.
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| 0:00.0 | So I would say I'm post-Christian but I'm still Jesus because |
| 0:09.6 | until Christian stops meaning white |
| 0:15.3 | hegemonic white supremacy leave church lynch the people stone the queers what hate the hate the women, rape the women, send the children back into molesti, |
| 0:25.6 | but when Christian stops being that, I might reclaim it. |
| 0:28.8 | But I'm a post-Christian and I'm still a Jesus follower. |
| 0:33.0 | From crooked media, this is unholyier than now. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm your host, Philip Picardy. |
| 0:39.0 | So one thing about being at Harvard |
| 0:41.0 | is that they make us read a lot. |
| 0:43.5 | And it's not exactly a fun kind of reading. |
| 0:47.4 | We're reading Marx, Honey, we're reading Freud, |
| 0:50.3 | we're reading some guy named Schliermacher and there are explorations into things like |
| 0:55.5 | secularism or colonialism and many usages of really pretentious words like |
| 1:00.5 | ontological and hegemony which I mispronounced in front of like a |
| 1:04.3 | hundred people as hegemony and the ultimate div school professor's favorite word |
| 1:08.6 | which is normative and the entire time I've been preparing for divinity school, I've been sharing that Jiff of L Woods like a little shit. |
| 1:16.4 | You know the one where she's like, what? Like it's hard? And it turns out it actually is. It is really hard and I would curse but I'm around reverence so I will not curse in front of holy people. |
| 1:29.2 | The good thing about hard work though and of course the privilege of going to school as an adult |
| 1:33.9 | specifically in a school that is about answering life's bigger questions is that it really does make you |
| 1:38.8 | think and one of the things I keep thinking about especially because I came here to divinity school to reclaim |
| 1:44.7 | God for myself, is what role does Jesus play in all of this? What role does Christianity play in all |
| 1:52.3 | of this? And world does Christianity play in all of this? |
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