Sunday Service #11: Special ‘End Of World’ Edition

Matt D’Elia Is Confused

Matt D'Elia

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The world is breaking and the country is burning, so Matt couldn’t bring himself to do a normal Sunday Service. Instead, he focuses on a religion other than Christianity, though one that is just as confusing and indirectly destructive— American Exceptionalism. But the main focus of today’s episode is the only thing worth talking about at this particularly fucked up moment in time: the deeply disturbing murder of George Floyd, the astonishing straightforwardness of its brutality, the illuminating and differing responses to it from the media and the public, the ensuing nationwide protests, the unfortunate but unavoidable looting and destruction it has led to, why and how there is only one ‘side’ to be on amid all this chaos— and ultimately why it’s so hard for some white people to come to terms with the fact that racism is still so pervasive in our country. Matt also makes time to shit all over Donald Trump’s terrible but predictable response to all of this. And finally, Matt tells some personal anecdotes about the LA protests— which have literally been happening directly outside his front door. Stay safe, everybody.

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0:00.0	Not to the young is confused. Hello and this is
0:15.0	welcome to Mathelia is confused. This is Mathelia and this is Sunday
0:22.0	and we all know what that means it's time for Sunday service and we all
0:26.3	know what that usually means which is that I take this day of the week particularly in the in the time of COVID, to shit on the way religious people are
0:38.3	discussing and handling and acting, how they're acting in the face of this pandemic. It's been ludicrous, it's been crazy,
0:46.4	it's been fucking demented. This week, unavoidable, it's going to be a little bit different.
0:57.3	However, some things will remain kind of almost a little bit the same,
1:02.4	and one of those things is we're going to
1:04.6	fucking hear the Gaither family sing but they're singing about something a little
1:10.8	different which is more in line with this Sunday service which is a little
1:16.2	different so here we go. Oh, you you'll. Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grey,
1:45.0	for purple mountain majesty
1:55.0	above the fruited plain.
2:00.0	A man. play.
2:03.0	America.
2:07.0	America.
2:08.0	God shed his grace on me
2:18.0	and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. I need see.
2:37.0	Yeah, God, why don't you get on that? Fucking get on that brotherhood thing already.
2:40.0	If you exist, why don't you make fucking terrible shit stop happening?
2:49.0	Also, what's... Okay, this is the fucking Gaither family. I play a lot of their shit because I love
2:53.0	fucking Christian music. This is them. This song obviously isn't Christian
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