Can Christians swear? Can Christians swear on a podcast? Can Christians swear on a podcast and find a big audience? Joey Svendsen, co-host of the “Bad Christian Podcast” joins the show to talk Christian cussing, evil Dungeons & Dragons toys and a life spent recovering from an overly legalistic past. Plus – Harry Potter turns 20, and overly legalistic Christians rue the day..
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Enjoyed the ‘bad Christian’ episode, especially the part about cussing. Here’s some more fun and insightful thoughts on that: https://substandardseminary.wordpress.com/2016/07/30/cursing-in-america/
Great show! I enjoyed last week’s worm tangent and Jo’s consistent laughing in the background. I found the idea of a ‘Bad Christian’ quite interesting and will be checking out that podcast.
Now, I just have to point out that Narnia doesn’t have any witches in it that aren’t evil. It does have magic in it, but none of the mortal creatures can or do you use it. Magic is known by Aslan and it can be argued that he uses it but if anyone else uses it they’re using it for selfish or evil ends and are portrayed as such. (Jadis/White Witch, Uncle Andrew, The Lady of the Green Kirtle, The Hag, Tashban, etc.)
Harry Potter seemed to be driven off paranoia, I’m very team that. It was a perfect storm. We in the evangelical tradition cannot seem to separate the idea of magic with demons so I think that’s where the problem happened. At least, that was what I heard when I was a kid and wanted to read them. (I finally got to in 2005). I was told it would teach me how to summon demons. No one bothered to read it to learn such was not the case and it just led to a state of frenzied panic.
Dungeon’s and Dragon’s cracks me up. I think it all goes back to the summoning thing. I’ve read numerous books on spiritual warfare that always seem to bring that game up. They argue that when you play this game you open yourself up to the demons to come inside you. They don’t even harp on Ouija boards as much as Dungeon’s and Dragon’s. I think it was because it was the first role-playing game that it freaked people out. They had never seen people pretend to be other creatures before for a game. Though, with that train of thought, why does acting and theater not freak them out? Anyway, the idea was that the game was a trick to summon evil things. Hence the dragon in the title! *cue dramatic music* It was surely a blatant mark of the beast!
Joey put it best in my opinion with the statement that we regard our relationship with Christ as far too fragile.