60: Make It Make Sense: Why do American Christians elevate horrible people?

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The things we lift up and admire say a lot about us. Why, then, do so many evangelical Christians in America lift up the worst of us like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and others. Has Christianity always been like this? Is there any way to redeem it?

• Halloween was weirdly warm
• Nathan can only handle “evangelical scary”
• Steve has numbed himself to everything “scary”
• Series: “Midnight Mass”
• Film Genre: Elevated Horror
• Film: “Midsommar”
• Director: Martin McDonnaugh
• Film: “In Bruges
• Purgatory
• Bruges, Belgium
• www.letterboxd.com
• 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon
• Film: “Amelie”
• Film: “Rubber”
• Film: “The Social Dilemma”
• Elon Musk buys Twitter
• Tesla
• SpaceX
• Ford valuation
• Tesla valuation
• Attention Economy
• Lauren Boebert
• Mark Driscoll
• Colt McCoy
• Series: “Knight Rider”
• Film: “Doc Hollywood”
• Film: “Cars”
• Weird Al Yankovic
• Documentary: “God Forbid” about Jerry Falwell, Jr.
• The Power Team
• Height of CEO’s in America
• Psychology Today
• Cracker Barrel
• Book: “The Divine Conspiracy” by Dallas Willard
• The Beatitudes
• Constantine
• IXTHYS fish symbol
• Book: “Do I Stay Christian?” By Dan McLaren
• Jairus’ Daughter
• Jesus healing the bleeding woman

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