The Jonathan Pageau Interview | Monsters, Hidden Symbols, and Jordan Peterson’s Church Experience
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On The Babylon Bee Interview Show, Kyle and Ethan talk to Jonathan Pageau about making Christian carvings, monsters, and the breakdown of identity in our culture. Jonathan carves Eastern Orthodox images and other traditional images. He has been appearing on many podcasts, including one on Jordan Peterson’s podcast. Jonathan has a knack for discovering the hidden meaning behind things. Kyle and Ethan delve in deep on why we need symbolism and how the Bee is making the world turn right side up again.
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Kyle and Ethan first find out what informs Jonathan’s art and why he can make images of Christ and other Eastern Orthodox figures. Jonathan tells us how it was to be with Jordan Peterson in church. Ethan discovers the hidden meaning behind his love for monsters and the grotesque. Jonathan gives his criticism of our culture that is losing the idea of identity.
In the Subscriber Portion, Kyle and Ethan find out what Target’s logo means, along with a few others. Jonathan tells all about what is the biggest misuse of symbolism in churches in our current culture. He also gives us what he terms as the upside down hierarchy with The Babylon Bee as the hope to help turn things right side up again. As always Kyle and Ethan finish the interview with the ever great 10 questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Real People Real Interviews |
| 0:04.0 | I just have to say that I object |
| 0:07.0 | Strain you as late to your use of the word Galerius. |
| 0:10.0 | Hard-hitting questions. |
| 0:12.0 | What do you think about feminism? |
| 0:14.0 | Do you like it? |
| 0:15.0 | Taking you to the cutting edge of truth. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, well last Jedi is one of the worst movies ever made |
| 0:21.0 | and it was very clear that Ryan Johnson doesn't like Star Wars. |
| 0:25.0 | Kyle pulls no punches. |
| 0:27.0 | I want to ask how you're able to sleep at night. |
| 0:30.0 | He's a brings bone-shattering common sense from the top rope. |
| 0:35.0 | If I may, how double dare you? |
| 0:38.0 | This is the Babylon B Interview Show. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey Calvinist slash-reformed fans of the Babylon B. |
| 0:50.0 | Are you ever standing in line and you see an eligible co-ed next to you |
| 0:54.0 | or behind you or in front of you or however people stand in lines? |
| 0:57.0 | And you're like, hmm, I wonder if that eligible bachelor and or bachelor |
| 1:02.0 | at knows that I'm a Calvinist? |
| 1:04.0 | Now you can inform them that you're a Calvinist and then maybe God will have ordained a conversation |
| 1:09.0 | for you guys to hook up, not in the weird secular way, but in like the, you know, |
| 1:14.0 | just normal like hang out way that we used to use it in the early 2000s like 90s. |
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