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In another first for Popcorn N' Soda, Super gets to review a music album! For this episode let's go over the timeless death metal classic, Gorguts' Obscura. Without dwelling on the music too much (there are endless discussions on the music), he spends more time talking about the lyrical themes and why Gorguts teaches us what REAL brutality is.

The album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1X0Bejwnko

The lyrics: http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/gorguts/obscura.html

Some trivia: https://web.archive.org/web/20220903185409/https://aminoapps.com/c/metal/page/blog/erebos-presents-excruciating-art-the-story-of-gorguts-obscura/j0lI_KugE3zJ2b3pKGnVvZZLX0zpzvN

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Are American churches doomed to extinction? Today, Super live-reacts to a video claiming that very thing for a, uh, *certain* denomination. Let's chat about the problem of aging congregations, pastor shortages, and hostile cultural shifts.

Emails in the second half!

Stuff we talked about:

The video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp2O0mj6-Go

Pew Research's religious landscape survey:

https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-denomination/lutheran-church-missouri-synod/

https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-family/lutheran-family-mainline-trad/

The ELCA copes about the former failure to assimilate: https://learn.elca.org/jle/german-lutherans-and-assimilation-lessons-in-the-current-atmosphere-of-islamophobia/

A mainline pretending to be conservative: https://fatherhollywood.blogspot.com/2006/09/tradition-female-deacons-and-where-is.html?m=1

Various thoughts on the decline:

https://sowhatfaith.com/2023/06/15/the-elca-is-missing-4-million-people/

https://concordiatheology.org/2023/07/the-future-of-the-missouri-synod/

Our Tare Parade episode: https://amerikaner.org/the-godcast-episode-316-the-tare-parade/

An attempt to laugh off the decline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rSVp86PSyU

Zombie liberalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_liberalism

Josephus on Japheth: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=J.+AJ+1.122&redirect=true

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In a first for our show, Super reviews a video game (Gamer Word no bully). And not just any video game, but the masterpiece of 4-bit horror and Christian character building that is Faith: the Unholy Trinity by Airdorf Games. Let your imagination run wild as we go through the themes of regret, redemption, Erik Satie's occultism and what to do with a gun with one bullet. Also, why you shouldn't do deep dives on lore before experiencing something in the horror genre.

The game itself: https://new-blood.itch.io/faith-the-unholy-trinity

Erik Satie (yes, this is really part of the game): https://interlude.hk/erik-satie-the-rosicrucian-adventure/

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At the end of the Shepherd of Hermas miniseries, we teased a new long deep dive on the seventh ecumenical council, Nicaea II. Well my friends, promises made, promises kept; let's start out by reading the canons of the council and looking at the most blatant power grab in Church history. Before we decide what was right or wrong about it, we need some real talk about what the council actually *did.*

Here's where you can read along (we're starting with the canons): https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3819.htm

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So someone requested we do a show on a 17th Century cult/secret society called the Knights of the Apocalypse. Unfortunately, details are so scarce that we know hardly anything about this mysterious group at all, save a few of the names. But fear not my dear audience, SuperLutheran and his Imagination Team were able to piece together an audio re-enactment of the saga of Agostino Gobrino.

Emails are first again: the main content starts at 1 hour and 4 minutes.

Show notes:

-V-tuber song+lyrics:

https://genius.com/Pretty-patterns-bluestar-lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMzvPz3VzvA

-Check out "Unequal Weights and Measures" and "Permission and Boundaries," the VLP doctrinal papers on race advocacy:

https://verylutheran.biz/theology-resources

-The Knights of the Apocalypse (these articles contain literally everything we know about them):

https://books.google.com/books?id=sttPAAAAMAAJ&dq=Agostino+Gabrino&pg=RA1-PA163#v=onepage&q=Agostino%20Gabrino&f=false

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Apocalypse,_Knights_of_the

https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/G/gabrino-augustino.html

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As a follow-up to the Cainism lectures, let's talk about Nimrodism as we continue to explore the cthnonic religions lost to the sands of time... or are they lost? The problem is, Cainism died and its corpse produced a theology of loss that permeates most paganism. Nimrodism, unfortunately, is alive and well.

This episode starts with the email segment. The main content starts at an hour and twenty eight minutes!

Stuff we talked about in the first half:

Changelings: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/changeling.html#luther

Changelings and autism: https://mappingignorance.org/2020/06/22/the-changelings-fairy-tales-about-autism/

An excellent starting lecture on Lewis' The Discarded Image: https://youtu.be/JmaY6_HhtJY

Pygmies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_peoples

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This one's for the nerds. Today, SuperLutheran makes a philosophical argument that consciousness is an inherent property that comes out of human existence itself...and once a person starts existing, they never stop. In other words, oblivion don't real, annihilationism is wrong, and no matter who you are you will spend eternity somewhere.

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For today's Godcast, we kick it OLD SCHOOL and do the emails FIRST. Mostly because the email segment is two hours long. AFTER THAT though, starting at the 2:18 mark, let's hear Super's speculations concerning the first pagan religion: Cainism.

Email segment notes:

"Magic Mushrooms" make you a sucker; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-59282-y

They can also change your entire personality: https://www.woodlandrecovery.com/long-term-effects-shrooms/

Psychedelics of all stripes are just not good for you: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763419310413

Joseph Smith and kabbalah: http://www.gnosis.org/jskabb1.htm

In addition to the affidavits from Spaulding's contemporaries showing that his work was plagiarized, some family members of the founders of mormonism testified in interviews that they knew the book of mormon was a hoax: https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sx7pwj/12895943

Rick Grunder demonstrated that nothing in early mormonism is unique to mormonism: https://www.rickgrunder.com/articles

Yes, joseph smith was a false prophet: https://mit.irr.org/failed-prophecies-of-joseph-smith

Mormonism is non-agreement capable: https://www.mormonstories.org/home/truth-claims/doctrinal-changes/

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Join Super as he live-reacts a video where some crowley-ite "priestess" gives her life story and then subtly tells everyone that she lied about it. If we're going to be going over conspiracy theories, it's good to know that these people exist and lie to you with every breath they take.

Show notes:

"Enochian magic" and why the "hermetic order of the golden dawn" (the founders of modern western esotericism were even worse charlatans than john dee: https://www.llewellyn.com/journal/article/2321

Breakdown of hermeticism and its vague relationship to Plato (which I would wager is illusory, Plotinus did a lot of the "connecting"): https://mysticryst.com/blogs/the-mystic-journal/hermeticism-and-plato-philosophical-roots

The interview in question: forget that, I'm not giving those dweebs clicks lmao

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"Would you smash your face and wear makeup? I'd smash my face and wear makeup. I'd smash my face...hard."

Today let's chat about the arguments for looksmaxxing, the issues concerning "lookism" in economics and the Bible, and give a Christian answer to the people that embrace it. Spoiler warning; no, we aren't answering with the tired old "just B Urself" advice.

General rundown on looksmaxxing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/inside-the-disturbing-forum-incels-use-to-brutally-criticize-each-others-faces/

Yes, society incentivizes looking good: https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/sfd/vol2/iss1/6/

Don't be this ghoul: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rdH0tg9-jk4

Eli Valley's projected insecurities:

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