Satan is my Superhero

In this episode we dip back into the world of Asian video games. That’s right another episode suggested and researched by my kids. Luckily for us these games do tend to have a penchant for upsetting good honest narrow minded white chri$tians just trying to get through their day without experiencing anything new. If you’re old enough to remember Carly Rae Jepsen, you might just be wondering, what is a Genshin Impact? 

It’s only the fastest money making video game of all time. Released in 2020 by Chinese games company miHoYo, Genshin Impact is an action role play anime game set in an open world.

But why do we care on Satan is my Superhero?

Well it’s full of gods named after ‘real life’ demons carrying out all types of witchcraft, sorcery, divination, necromancy and there’s even a good helping of idol worshipping, so yeah, it’s blasphemy central and some Chri$tian gamers have raised concerns.

The game has also been drawn into a transphobic witch hunt, so that’s a good sign it’s worth checking out.

This episode also includes guest appearances from Pokémon, Phil Arms, Barbatos, Morax, Bue, Paimon, Ba’al, Beelzebub, Adam, Eve, Gabriel, Evelyn Gonzales, Michigan, Grant Middle School, Xiao, Guizhong, Liyue, Katelyn Thompson, Danielle Beight, Tracy Hargreaves, Kotaku, Sisi Jiang.

Sauces

https://kotaku.com/genshin-impact-xiao-demonic-mural-satanic-1849687277

https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/mural-at-grant-middle-school-leaves-parents-outraged-over-transgender-flag-and-symbols-deemed-witchcraft/69-3f685912-a38c-410d-b78f-f54a15a3045f

https://www.today.com/parents/parents/mural-painted-student-grant-michigan-sparks-controversy-rcna52243

https://gamerant.com/genshin-impact-seven-archons-facts/

https://www.quora.com/There-is-this-game-called-Genshin-Impact-and-you-can-worship-statues-to-get-stamina-is-it-Haram-to-do-so-just-for-the-stamina

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-a-sin-to-play-Genshin-Impact-The-game-has-some-features-such-as-worshipping-a-statue-for-stamina-and-it-s-against-my-religion-to-worship-other-gods-Some-characters-are-also-named-after-demons-Would-it-be

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/la0rii/genshin_references_quite_a_lot_of_oddly_satanic/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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In this episode we will tell the story of a long haired hippy with a dream to do something spectacular. With the help of his talented friends and against the powers of the land he made that dream into a reality. Then thousands of years later 2 middle class British toffs turned that story into a multi hundred million dollar enterprise with a Hollywood film, a lavish stage show and the epitome of 70s culture the concept double album.

How did a 24 year old Tim Rice, an assistant producer in the record industry and 21 year old composer Andrew Lloyd Webber end up with a hit single, hit album, hit stage show and hit movie?

And how was this potentially blasphemous production received by the Chri$tian world?

This episode features special guest star appearances from Olympic Studios, London, The Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil, MCA, The Likes of Us, Joseph and the Amazing Technocolour Dreamcoat, Bob Dylan, With God on Our Side, Judas Iscariot, Roman Empire, Rome, Romans, Roman Emperor, Billy Graham, Samuel L. Gaber, Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith, Mary Magdalene, Faith Free Presbyterian Church, South Carolina, Ted Neeley, Norman Jewison, Pope Paul VI, Vatican, New York Times, Curtis Bill Pepper, Pope Francis, Newtownabbey Free Presbyterian Church, Newtownabbey Independent Christian School, Pastor Brian McClung, Irvin Himmel, The Gospel Guardian, Got Questions Ministries, Richard Hollerman, Graham Russell, Russel Hitchcock, Air Supply, Love and Other Bruises, Lost in Love, All Out of Love, The One That You Love, Young Love, Making Love Out of Nothing at All, The Power of Love, Faith in Love, Richard O’Brien, Sylvester Stallone, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Irene Cara, John Legend, Mel C, Rik Mayall, Indigo Girls, Tim Minchin, Gary Cherone, Roger Daltrey, Corey Glover, Ian Gillan, Alice Cooper, Sebastian Bach, Burger King, Johnny Rotten, John Lydon, Graves Hollow.

Sauces

https://religionnews.com/2018/03/29/the-splainer-the-stormy-surprising-history-of-jesus-christ-superstar/

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/31/archives/they-wrote-it-and-theyre-glad-they-wrote-superstar.html

http://www.freepres.org/pamphlet_details.asp?superstar

https://www.villagevoice.com/2003/11/04/mel-gibsons-jesus-christ-pose/

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/24/1058935783/michael-jackson-jacket-capitol-rioter-jan-6-actor-james-beeks-oath-keepers

https://www.songfacts.com/blog/writing/jesus-christ-superstar-ted-neeley-tells-the-inside-story

http://newlinetheatre.com/jcschapter.html

THE MUSICAL ‘JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR’ IS A BLASPHEMY OF CHRIST!

Pastor Brian McClung 

https://michaeljeshurun.wordpress.com/tag/jesus-christ-superstar-opera/

https://www.wordsfitlyspoken.org/gospel_guardian/v22/v22n38p9-10.html

https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-Christ-Superstar.html

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/501993/facts-about-jesus-christ-superstar-andrew-lloyd-webber-tim-rice

http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2014/05/15/vatican_radio_welcomes_%E2%80%9Cjesus_christ_superstar%E2%80%9D/en-1100657

Battell, James. "The Year of Three Popes." Ex-Catholics For Christ. ETC Ministry, Apr. 2005. Web. 29 Mar. 2016.

Martina Hejcovä The Rock Opera Jesus Christ Superstar - Analysis of the Critical Reception Over the Decades Bachelor's Diploma Thesis

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/10/archives/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-pope-pope-paul-vi.html

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jesus-christ-superstar-rockers/

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In this episode we look at how an evil 1st century apocalyptic blood cult that secretly and not so secretly controls much of our lives with its over represented influence on media and politics is terrified of Disney. 

After the spooky month we’ve had it's time for a fun family friendly palate cleanser. 

If you look for lists of Disney witches you will find there is somewhere in the region of 140 of them. 

Disney had already created an impressive catalogue of witches by the time the company embarked on its first feature length film, so it came as no surprise their first feature length film antagonist would be a witch.

Which is where we start our list of cameo special guest stars like The Evil Queen, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Magic mirror on the wall, American Film Institute, Hannibal Lector from Silence of the Lambs, Barbie, Regan MacNeil from The Exorcist, The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, Lucille La Verne, Babes in the Woods, Hansel and Gretel, Brother’s Grimm, Ursula, the Sea Witch from The Little Mermaid, Ariel, Eve, Garden of Eden, Bea Arthur, Rosanne Barr, Elaine Stritch, Pat Carroll, Shakespeare, Devine, Deborah Bunting, The Owl House, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, American Family Association, One Million Moms, Jamie Gooch, Ron Desantis, Vanessa Hudgens, Dead Hot: Season of the Witch, GG Magree, Salem, Bounding Into Comics, Jacob Smith, High School Musical and Kevin Sorbo on the comeback trail.

Sauces

https://www.ksla.com/2022/10/05/you-unleash-hell-your-kids-central-texas-mom-warns-parents-about-hocus-pocus-2/

https://www2.cbn.com/news/news/warning-parents-new-disney-cartoon-teaches-kids-how-be-witches-using-demon-do-so

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/vanessa-hudgens-gg-magree-dead-hot-witchcraft-film-1235572456/

https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/04/18/former-disney-star-vanessa-hudgens-promotes-satanic-witchcraft-with-her-tubi-film-dead-hot/

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-burk-maleficent-disney-20140613-story.html

https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2020/08/the-owl-house-is-worse-than-1mm-thought/

https://www2.cbn.com/news/us/ex-witchs-warning-about-new-disney-show-its-not-joke-realm-very-real

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/may-web-only/maleficent.html

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Evil_Queen

https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-heroes-villians/

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In this episode we return to a former subject of this podcast, Cotton Mather and tear another chapter from his life story. We first met Cotton in the episode, A Pox to You, where Cotton was the voice of reason, the man of science who stood up to superstitious misgivings and disinformation. He was, not to put too finer point on it, the hero of that story. So how does our man of science and reasoning acquit himself at the Salem Witch Trials?

Spoiler alert. Not good.

This episode features special guest star appearances from Richard Mather, John Cotton, Harvard University, Doogie Howser, Anne ‘Goody’ Glover, Martha Goodwin, Thomas Oakes, Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Parris, Massachusetts, Ann Putnam Jr, Arthur Miller, The Crucible, Susanna Wallcott, Doctor Griggs, George Burroughs, Robert Calef, William Phips, Dorothy Good, Sarah Good, Margret Atwood, Handmaid’s Tale, Peter Miller, Samuel Sewell and Danvers.

Sauces

https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/people/c_mather.html

https://famous-trials.com/salem/2037-sal-bmat

https://famous-trials.com/salem/2075-asal-ch

https://thehistoryjunkie.com/cotton-mather-and-the-salem-witch-trials/

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A50139.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A70086.0001.001/1:9.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext

https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/letters/to_richards1.html

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In this true crime special episode we delve into the sickening tale of one of the U.K’s most successful serial killers, Matthew Hopkins the self-proclaimed Witchfinder General. Between 1644 and 1646 Hopkins may have murdered as many as three hundred people under the guise of doing the lord’s work. Hopkins is a fascinating individual and hundreds of historians have written thousands of pages about him. Just go online and there is a plethora of information about him and his life before, during and after his one and half year reign of terror. But he hasn’t had the Satan is my Superhero treatment yet!

This episode contains special guest star appearances from Manningtree, The Chelmsford Witch Trials, John Stearne, Edward Parsley, Frances Mills, Mary Phillips, John Gaule, John Lowes, Kenneth Copeland, Graves Hollow and their debut album Thrones of Decay.

Sauces

http://www.nzlii.org/nz/journals/AukULawRw/2003/3.html

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-life-of-matthew-hopkins-the-opportunistic-witchfinder-general

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z3jb3j6/revision/6

https://www.gcsehistory.com/faq/matthewhopkins.html

https://www.controverscial.com/Matthew%20Hopkins.htm

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14015/pg14015-images.html 

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In this episode we will finally get to the WITCHES of Shakespeare’s Macbeth!

Because of course, let us not forget it is our Spooky Month Special!

The witches are in fact the very first characters to appear onstage. Act 1, Scene 1, A Desert Place. The trio speak in a different rhythm to everyone else in the play. This allows their vocal performance to sell their otherworldliness. Described by Shakespeare as weyward sisters in the first folio, refer to my excellent description of what the first folio is, in the last episode. These ladies are from the Upside Down. They’re from Bizarro World. They come from a place where evil is good and good is evil. Despite all the evidence I provided in the last episode, I can still legitimately argue these weyward sisters are witches complete with withered in wild attire and facial hair! 

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In this episode we dig around in the garage to find the plastic storage tub filled with Halloween decorations and cover the house in them for the next 31 day of our Spooky month special.

It’s witches bitches!

That's right for the next 5 Tuesdays in a row we will be delving into the wicked world of witchcraft.

We kick spooky month off as we mean to go on and dive right into the witches of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Shakespeare never calls the 3 sisters in Macbeth, witches. The source material that inspired him to write the play never calls them witches. They might not be witches. So if Shakespeare didn't call them witches, what did he call them and where does that leave us?

Of the many plays he wrote Macbeth is one of the most famous. The Tragedie of Macbeth was first performed in 1606. While the play is based on real historical people, Duncan, Macbeth and Malcolm really were kings of the Scots. The play does not necessarily follow the actual events.

Shakespeare uses the plot of Macbeth to create a cautionary tale for any would be usurper looking to dethrone any rightful monarch. Oh and coincidentally, Shakespeare’s employer/patron at the time WAS the ‘rightful’ monarch of England. This employer was also massively into the hunting and killing of witches. So yeah.

Episode features cameos from John Heminge, Henry Condell, The First Folio, Holinshed’s Chronicles is a comprehensive history of England, Scotland and Ireland, Simon Forman, The Globe Theatre, London and Macbeth.

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In this episode we examine chapter one of the Book of Revelations! The antichrist, conspiracy theorists, heavy metal, zombie movies, evangelicals, all my favourite things have been influenced by this book. And it has a half-naked sexually liberated temptress riding a dragon! 

Did you know you are blessed just to read it or hear it read? Did you now this book is a cornerstone of conspiracy theories like Flat Earth Theory and the Holy Trinity? Does it allude to the Holy Ghost or the Archangels? What’s the deal with John and the number seven? Will we see the saviour coming in the clouds? Will he or won’t he have a two edged sword in his mouth? Will he sound like a fart or diarrhoea? Did you know it gives you a description including but not limited to Christ’s breasts? And why does John mansplain away his poetic metaphors?

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The Book of Revelations series starts here, with a deep dive into the New Testament’s most metal, chaotic and downright ridiculous final chapter. If you want to understand why this apocalyptic prophecy reads more like a Lovecraftian hallucination than holy scripture, this highly rated episode is your perfect entry point.
Join us as we skip past the first 65 books of the christian bible and go straight to the good stuff. In this fan- favourite premiere, we explore the prologue of the epilogue. Why did early church theologians include a volume of vengeful violence—complete with multi-headed dragon hybrids and human-faced locusts—in the final draft of the New Testament? We break down the three main ways historians unpack this text: as a literal future apocalyptic prophecy, a coded message of underground rebellion against the brutal Roman Empire, or first-century anti-Hellenistic propaganda.
Discover the true ancient Greek meaning of the word "apocalypse" (hint: it means an unveiling, not a V8-powered wasteland), learn why Emperor Nero is the prime candidate for the infamous "Beast," and find out how a 4th-century bishop named Eusebius essentially earned a blue checkmark for his questionable claims on Christian persecution.  Finally, we look at why the Jesus of Revelation looks less like a peaceful, socialist pacifist and more like a full-blown capitalist war pig steamrolling humanity.

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Ready for the next chapter of the final chapter? Don't let a short attention span stop you now. Keep the momentum rolling and dive straight into the first actual chapter of John's wild letter to see just how angry Jesus gets.
Listen to Episode 52: Book of Revelation 01 - First Chapter of the Final Chapter 

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Heavy metal exists because one guy lost his fingertips, one guy couldn't play bass, and nobody had the guts to fire the other two.
Turns out heavy metal wasn't invented so much as stumbled into by four blokes from Birmingham who couldn't commit to a band name, couldn't play their instruments properly, and accidentally terrified an entire generation of parents along the way. We trace Black Sabbath from the truly cursed Polka Tulk Blues Band through a forgettable stint as Earth, all the way to naming themselves after their own song because nobody could think of anything better. Along the way: a guitarist who lost his fingertips and reinvented the instrument out of spite, a bassist who just copied the guitar parts, and a singer whose "unique" voice would get him escorted out of any other genre. We get into the tritone, the album cover model's journey from flower child to anti-vax astrologer, and the time Rolling Stone hated this record so much it's almost impressive. Expect skepticism, religious satire, and a borderline emotional appreciation for a band that succeeded entirely by accident. Fully scripted. Heavily produced. Featuring Satan critiquing genre debates and a very confused choir of angels.

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If a band accidentally inventing a genre is your thing, Episode 74 digs into Glenn Danzig turning the Misfits into horror-punk royalty basically by refusing to compromise on anything. 👉 Listen to Ep. 74 | Danzig Here

SAUCES 
Sources include Ozzy Osbourne's autobiography I Am Ozzy, Kory Grow's Rolling Stone retrospective, and a Metalsucks piece on the album cover model's unexpected turn toward anti-vax conspiracy theories. The actual research trail is longer, messier, and occasionally handwritten at 2am—email us for the full list anytime.

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