The Reality War [The Pugcast]
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today the Pugs reflect on a Substack article by N. S. Lyons entitled, The Reality War. This insightful piece notes that we are living through a revival of the most pernicious of all heresies--Gnosticism. The bitter irony of our time is it is occurring in what many people have wrongly assumed is the triumph of materialism. Lyons begins with recounting the bloody Crusade the Medieval Church waged against the Cathars, then he explores three manifestations of Gnosticism in our time: "Scientific Gnosticism," "Luxury Gnosticism," and finally, and counter-intuitively, "Reactionary Gnosticism." The Pugs consider each and wonder how we can fight them in our time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Theology podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | I believe this will be, if not the first show of 2025, the second. |
| 0:10.0 | Anyway, happy New Year. |
| 0:13.0 | Great to have you with us. I'm C.R. Wiley. I'm a pastor. |
| 0:16.0 | I serve a church in Pacific Northwest. |
| 0:18.0 | I write things. I recently had a short story published on Canon, |
| 0:25.5 | plus about a character that I hope to write a lot more about, Reverend Ricky Jayhue Clay, |
| 0:31.3 | and I'm a senior editor at Touchstone Magazine. That's enough about me. How about you, Tom? |
| 0:40.1 | I'm Tom Price. I teach mainly. |
| 0:45.9 | I teach theology, Christian ethics, and philosophy. One of the places is Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, do some speaking, writing, and a host of other things. Great. Glenn. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm Glenn Sunshine. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm a retired history professor, senior fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:59.7 | I've got my own ministry, every square inch ministries at eSquare inch.org. |
| 1:03.6 | And I do have one thing I'd like to mention. |
| 1:06.7 | It's taken a while, but I finally managed to get the final things put in place for the trip to Ireland, a historical tour in Ireland. |
| 1:16.6 | And if you are interested in information on that, just go to my website, you can find it there. |
| 1:21.7 | It's eSquareinch.org. |
| 1:23.9 | All right. That's exciting. |
| 1:26.1 | Okay. Well, today we're going to be talking about a substack by NS Lyons, |
| 1:32.8 | and the title of the substack is The Reality War, Gnostics. It's Gnostics all the way down. |
| 1:40.5 | Anyway, there's a lot for us to draw on here related to history, but also the contemporary situation. |
| 1:48.4 | But before we dive into the subject of the day, I just want to kind of give a little teaser for some of the interviews that we're going to be conducting this month. |
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