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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