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I saw there was a bonus episode and I thought it'd be Conclave related, whomp whomp.

Maybe if the pope wanted us to do more papal content he should have retweeted us when he had the chance

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10/10 dad joke

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Hey what’s up it’s a surprise bonus ep where we went to Bible mini golf

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Yes

Medieval Scooby

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This seems fine. We’ll all be crabs eventually

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Once again Chris and Benito spend some time talking about religion and video games in a conversation that will hopefully scratch your Apocrypals itch

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Because Catholicism and by extension Christianity are so big and normal I don't think a lot of people consider how strange the Vatican is just conceptually. Like yeah in the capital of a long-dead empire there's an opulent temple district that acts as it's own sovereign nation, still speaking the dead language of that empire for their rituals, ruled by a prophet-king chosen by a secret conclave of the high priesthood. Yeah his followers eat a lot of fish in the spring.

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Chris also doesn���t like the fact that the archangels are saints, but if you understand that saints are simply holy beings who we can be reasonably certain are in Heaven and thus able to intercede before God on our behalf, then it (imo) makes more sense

As for questions of angelology, you’re never going to find consistent answers about that stuff, because it’s all material that developed over centuries across increasingly divergent sects and denominations. Even if you strictly look at the canonical Bible you’re not going to find consistent representations of angels, because the various texts were written across centuries during different historical periods with the influences of different outside religions helping to shape cosmology and philosophy and so on. Also there’s very very little about angels, demons, and Satan in the canonical Bible, especially the relatively abridged Protestant 66-book version

Anyway, lots of stuff about angels on our podcast

trying to understand the angels-venerated-as-saints lore

Angels have free will?????

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Are books like Philippians and Colossians on your pod horizon?

Eventually, yeah. I don’t know when, though. It’s hard to convince Chris to read Paul (even pseudo-Paul)

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Matt Murdock vs Frank Castle

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"Girl Dinner"

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So the trick there is that while the cherubim and ophanim are later retconned into being classes of angels by both Jews and Christians, they are never identified as angels in the Bible, merely different divine creatures. The only things that ever are explicitly called angels look like regular dudes

[extremely smug voice] "and by what exegesis is the angel biblically accurate?"

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As a Kentuckian I have to vote Northern cardinal, our state bird

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Nobody wants to hear this but actual biblically accurate angels just look like dudes

[extremely smug voice] "and by what exegesis is the angel biblically accurate?"

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Stolen from reddit kjjjj

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This is pretty good but I’m waiting for the good Top Christ-Following Man memes when the smoke blows white

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“95” is always the giveaway, gang

The Steven Universe fandom might be “cringe” and “bad” but imagine a fandom so bad that a bunch of fandom members had ran a scheme to say “if you pay us money, your blorbo will know you’re valid” and the fandom permanently split over a 95 paragraph callout post of these people.