Show Notes
For the annual Sectarian Review “Banned Books Week” show, Danny is joined by Jay Eldred and Megan Von Bergen to discuss the Christian Impulse to boycott or ban. What drives people of faith to avoid businesses and works of art in adherence to the faith? Are there occasions when this impulse is appropriate? As always the Sectarian Review gang try to take a nuanced approach to such questions.
Topics
Teaching controversial material at Faith-Based institutions
Banning art versus boycotting companies
Trigger warnings and teaching Alan Moore
Moral Superiority and the motivation for avoiding art
Translating Calvin and Ovid at the same time
Pitching our Scandal of the Evangelical Mind episode
Evangelical separatism and Bob Jones
Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ
The Lion King
The Lego Movie
Aladdin
The gay Beauty and the Beast
Procter and Gamble (thanks Brett Chase!)
Faith-Driven Consumers!
The trade-off between Christianity and capitalism
The poor, oppressed Christian’s best defense? Discretionary income
Avoidance of the uncomfortable
The wisdom of Milton
Danny sees your Milton and raises you a Matthew Arnold
What things are worth avoiding?
Why should Christians wrestle with Taxi Driver?
Josh “bringin’ the” Feuerstein rails against Starbucks
Paul and meat sacrificed to idols
Is there an institutional solution to this problem?
The role of unorganized fundamentalism.
Alex Jones!
Artistic Standards, doctrine, and Wonder Woman
Chris Gehrz’s The Pietist Option
Rod Dreher and idolization of the family
Cleaning the outside of a dirty cup
Links:
The Faith-Friendly Companies Christians Can ‘Buycott’ This Christmas | The Daily Signal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_hUF76FQ-s
Some Dude Josh Feuerstein Goes Full Bonkers on CNN over Starbucks Cups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti629wLy4vU
Christians Need to Stop Boycotting Stuff
http://ift.tt/2fgY1J7
Conservatives Urge Boycott of Procter and Gamble
http://ift.tt/2uuKb7T
Procter and Gamble Awarded $19.25 Million in Satanism Lawsuit
http://ift.tt/2oSCCc2
History of Comics Censorship, Part 1 | Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
http://ift.tt/ZWrSJe
Beauty and the Beast and Boycotts | Think Christian
http://ift.tt/2v9ck6m
'Last Temptation' Views Still Coming In : Boycott of 'E.T.' Among Religious Reactions
http://ift.tt/2fi1CXl
The Lego Movie: One of the most anti-Christian movies ever
http://ift.tt/2wieeSg
Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy
https://librivox.org/culture-and-anarchy-by-matthew-arnold/
Areopagitica
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/areopagitica/text.html
Alex Jones as Bon Iver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEoCg4737LU
The Pietist Option, by Chris Gehrz and Mark Pattie III
https://www.ivpress.com/the-pietist-option
In the same vein of “least Christian” movie, but on the flip side, there’s this: (H/T Christian Feminist podcast, which posted this to their FB page): http://www.marilettesanchez.com/marilettesays//wonder-woman-might-be-the-most-accurate-on-screen-depiction-of-biblical-womanhood-and-heres-why
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