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Anthony, Nick, and E. Antony are joined by Louis de Bonald to discuss Progressivism and Millenarian movements. In part 1, they trace the memetic roots of contemporary Progressive culture to the hardliners of the Protestant Revolution, John Calvin and Huldrych Zwingli.
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Notes:
00:03:52 Introducing Louis de Bonald
00:07:30 Mass Media and the unprecedented import of the Pope
00:20:00 Pre-millennialism and it’s relationship with Moldbug’s theories
00:37:00 Revelations as fuel for hucksters and true believers alike
01:05:39 Calvinists and “Zwingli-ists” break with Church (and State) of England
01:20:13 Loss of church hierarchy and the rise of the charismatic preacher
01:29:44 The ties between temporal and spiritual power
Related Show Links
Music:
Opening Music: “Vial (Reprise) – The Cassini Projekt (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1318055/vial-reprise
Closing Music: “Fiore d’Inchiostro” – Mattia Vlad Morleo
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1305561/fiore-d-inchiostro
Throne and Altar, Bonald’s long-running site
https://bonald.wordpress.com/
The attempted Pope Bartholomew?
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/06/15/patriarch_bartholomew_arrives_in_crete_for_orthodox_council/1237416
Exploration of eschatological taxonomy
http://www.christianciv.com/eschatology_bs_Sect1.htm
The car that reduces your carbon footprint by killing you
http://www.onionstudios.com/videos/new-prius-helps-environment-by-killing-its-owner-1706
Revelation’s Addition into Canon
http://michaeljkruger.com/the-book-of-revelation-how-difficult-was-its-journey-into-the-canon/
Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli on the Real Presence
https://www.ewtn.com/library/Theology/Euchtheol.htm
Mary Dyer (NOT Anne Hutchinson, sorry) on Drunk History (only the end)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaDk0wG-HWk
The Millerites & the Great Disappointment
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2008/12/strange-and-curious-sects-iv/
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=etas
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In America Catholic is code word for Mexican, Irish and Italian. Since the 1850s Catholics in America have been a reliable foundation of support for leftism. It’s only in recent years that the Catholic left has began to wane but white Catholics still vote more blue than any other major denomination.
Catholics: always shitting up your perfect puritan democracy!!
The fruits of Catholicism are in Mesoamerica to all other peoples it’s a dying religion. Despite all the Protestant bashing Evangelicals are the only ones with their act together
Evangelicals… LOL.
If you get to trot out the Muh One Percent of Evangelicals that aren’t cucked, then I get to trot out the Muh One Percent Latin Mass Catholics.
Deal?
It’s always good clean fun to kick the Calvinists / Puritans (aka damnyankees) around. Good discussion, looking forward to Pt2.
The Pursuit of the Millenium: https://my.mixtape.moe/chgduo.pdf https://my.mixtape.moe/pzqybf.epub
Really interesting. I think this is one of the best AtT I have heard. I haven’t yet gotten around to part II, but wow, you covered the topic at hand in real detail and illustrated the thesis in ways that I had not really understood in depth before. Well done!
Thank you gentlemen for another episode. I have been playing catchup and just got to this one.
At the risk of sounding impertinent though I will say the echo chamber effect was a bit overpowering. There was quite a bit of generalizing and a few outright misrepresentations that detracted from the whole. I know a good many reformed scholars who would have taken some of your smug objections to the woodshed.
I have gotten about halfway through the second part discussing the Semitic influence and have enjoyed the Jewish guest. If only you could have found a worthy protestant mind to represent the other side.