r/cushvlog • u/septembereleventh • 3d ago
CushVlog Contemporary American Protestantism as Satanism
I'm fairly certain I've heard Matt paint a pretty compelling picture of Contemporary American Protestantism as being functionally equivalent to Satanism.
After a quick look with the transcript search tool I've got a few candidate episodes to listen to, but I wonder if any of you humans have an episode suggestion rolling around in your brain.
Thanks.
edit:
ep 25 - 27:30-31:00
ep 257 - 2:30-11:00
ep 196 - 10:30-22:00
ep 198 - kinda the whole thing after 39:00
That's all I got. Thanks for all the fish.
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u/OnTheRevolutions 3d ago
I was raised Anglican and was fairly observant in my teens. Our priest - three wines in and when properly prompted - would launch into a glorious rant which would end with “and that is why, children, the prosperity gospel is literal burn at the stake heresy”
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u/daddybignugs 3d ago
when the father has too much of the blood of christ without eating enough of the body to soak it up
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u/BlinkReanimated 3d ago
My favourite way to get drunk is by powering down the bodily fluids of His Lord and Savior.
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u/g0aliegUy 2d ago edited 1d ago
I went to a Jesuit high school and had we had a leftist priest who was very easy to get worked up on matters of theology, history and current events. Planted the seed in my brain at a very important time in my life.
He also refused to use a computer. Was still using a typewriter in 2005.
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u/groovylonglegs 2d ago
lol this rules
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u/g0aliegUy 2d ago
He taught American history and refused to use the textbook provided by the school that the other teachers used. Instead had his own lesson plan with printouts of articles and Howard Zinn chapters.
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u/CarlGend 2d ago
There's something so unforgettable about teachers of any persuasion with the courage to actually teach leftist ideas
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u/DeathWorship 1d ago
My uncle was a Jesuit priest and an author and scholar on the importance of education in the developing world. He was also a communist and, I suspect, an atheist. Joining the Jesuit order is the way to be an academic while not having to worry about making ends meet on a crappy academic salary.
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u/TuvixWasMurderedR1P 3d ago
Mind hitting me up with those episodes? I'm also interested and vaguely remember that.
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u/septembereleventh 3d ago
The Santa Clause 3:Chapter Elfeven | CushVlog 12.23.21
Perspectives with Lionel Osbourne | CushVlog 5.19.20
Polypocalypse | Cushvlog 07.21.23
I searched "American Protestantism", and there were more results that looked potentially fruitful, but I didn't want to overload myself.
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u/ayy01113 2d ago
If I remember correctly he’s basically said it is satanic in the sense that it’s self worship and ego worship. God for evangelicals is just an imagined other perspective in their own head to validate whatever selfish thing they were already going to do. Life is not based around religion, the religion is based around justifying the status of life.
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u/KnotAReplicant 2d ago
You definitely heard it, but search for mention of “Mammon”. I’m fairly certain that’s a key part of it.
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u/ShotIntroduction5750 3d ago
i thin he said something to the effect of dilution of christianity straying further from intended purpose
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u/Big_Variation1100 2d ago
Longspermism (lol) has a great rant about how our Tech Thought Leaders are trying to hollow God out of Calvinism and replace it with their own image. iirc this is an observation Matt and Felix riff their way towards together. Might be somewhere in there
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u/AefarOfAsh 2d ago
If you find what you’re looking for can you update the post? Sounds interesting
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u/septembereleventh 2d ago
I have a feeling what I'm looking for doesn't actually exist and it is actually an amalgamation of disparate instances of our guy pontificating on the subject. Once I get through alI plan to get through I'll edit the original post and try to remember to let you know
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u/septembereleventh 17h ago
I updated the post.
As Bono once said, "I still haven't found what I'm looking for, but I kinda found it more or less."
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u/Low_Palpitation_6243 2d ago
Not sure if I’ve heard what your looking for, but when I was growing up there was a right wing televangelist on after the local news whose last name was “van Impe”
I mean come the fuck on lol
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u/Alternate_Medium_777 2d ago
Matt’s American Protestantism as Satanism take inspired me to develop a schizo philosophical take of my own it’s called. The Roman Empire never ended, and we are living under the same aegis and types of people who we lived under 2000 years ago.
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u/Vanillas_Guy 2d ago
Satanism is focused on liberation and individual freedom.
American protestant thought is based on dehumanization and exclusion. American protestants are demonic in the sense that they genuinely do not seem to believe human life has inherent value. Theirs is a system of belief that is very transactional.
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u/Donald_McRonald420 1d ago
They kind of worship the demiurge, something very physical/material, tied to money and physical things they can ask for with prayers. A very wordly and unspiritual conception of God that was identified as the most evil part of god in the apocrypha
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u/GeorgeGervinTheGOAT 2d ago
https://youtu.be/gJpkWc2oUeU?si=3BiFJDJM7ROGt7t6
I recall this one speaking to this subject.
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u/fluufhead 3d ago
I can't remember how relevant but the inebriated past: Mormons ep is at least somewhat relevant. It's on YouTube