The Godcast

So who will you be in five years? Today SuperLutheran tackles the connection between anime subgenres and transgenderism... as well as how Christians and dissidents can prevent themselves from falling down the same pipelines.  Before the emails, he treats us to an anxious breakdown cover of Matchbox Twenty. Please don't ask why he did this. Stuff we talked about: The yaoi trap: https://genspect.org...

Nicaea II didn't settle the issue of icon veneration versus iconoclasm. Nope. In fact, the Western Church wrote up a pretty neat response, with Charlemagne's bishop Theodulf taking authorship duties. Since BOTH the iconodules and the iconoclasts are horribly wrong on everything, let's take a look at the proto-Lutheran correction now that it's FINALLY available in English. The Index Librorum Prohib...

Today SuperLutheran reads some recent news about dudes getting rolled up on for advocating stochastic/genocidal violence, and explains why you shouldn't believe in it or do it - from either a Biblical OR political point of view. Emails in the second half! Vanned:  https://youtu.be/uWu2f167kgY   The latest #vanlife influencer: https://nypost.com/2026/05/13/us-news/neo-nazi-cult-leader-commander-but...

Continuing in our biweekly series on the seventh ecumenical council, let's read opposing decrees. In the first half we cover the turd-stained declaration of the iconoclasts, which is dripping in bad hermeneutics. Then in the second we cover the turd-stained declaration of Nicaea II, where the bishops just assert the same thing over and over again. Turns out both sides sucked and should have been L...

"Hey Adrian....I mean, Konichiwa uh, Momoka." Today Myles and Super discuss the sleeper-hit anime Girls Band Cry, an ode to indie artists everywhere. Does the experimental animation style work? Do sell-outs really suck? Is this show gay or just teasing weirdos? Why does starting a band suck so much? Let's ask these questions as we review K-On for grownups. Girls Band Cry: https://www.imdb.com/titl...

Today Super responds to a claim made by one of the larger "skeptic" inflooencers that Evangelicalism is a heckin' psyop paid for by the CIA to...counter liberation theology? And that somehow this is a bad thing? Let's talk about evangelicals, spooks, commies, Catholics and the Cold War global chessboard. Do you hold all of your beliefs just because of some glowies in South America? Or is this guy...

What if the Trailer Park Boys wore clogs? What if Beavis and Butthead were into techno? What if you WANT to be a jongen to South Maaskantje while drinking your Grolsch in the Manta? Let's review New Kids Turbo , the Dutch White trash movie that broke Dutch box office records in 2010, and get that answer. New Kids Turbo:  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1648112/   Gabber subculture: https://en.wikiped...

As we continue our biweekly miniseries on the "Seventh Ecumenical Council," let's read more source texts. Before addressing the dogmas the council was pushing, let's read letters from Empress Irene, Pope Hadrian, and the session notes where goofball bishops tried to top each other in absurd declarations and horrible reasoning. Totally super serious and infallible guys, just trust Peter and Peter a...

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=X1X0Bejwn...

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:...

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 d...

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.*...

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 ar...

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 twent...

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.  Note: for us Sola Scriptura guys, absolutely NONE of our do...

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...

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 eso...

"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: h...

Join Super as he...um...can we call this a review? We found him in a dumpster with a voice recorder, and when we brought it in to the editing room we just didn't know what to make of it. He kind of argues with birds while talking about the sleeper hit documentary What Ravens Do for half an hour. That's the only way we can describe this episode.  What Ravens Do:  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt264216...

Join Super as he gives a 3.5 hour in-depth review of the fifth season of the smash hit series The Chosen , beginning with lots of positive things to say and...well by then end of it expressing his frustrations. Frustrations with the show's odd directorial shift, frustrations with the goofballs that either love or hate the show too much, and frustrations with recording at 2 in the morning.  The Cho...

Join Super as he kicks off a series of episodes on the conspiracy theories left untouched by Q posters. Joined by a resident of Skyrim named Lars (a long-time friend of the show), they introduce the broader topics of antediluvian history, nephilim conspiracies, mud floods and the people that talk about it all. Stuff we talked about - audience beware though, there be infohazardous monsters in these...

Today SuperLutheran is joined by the wise and eminent Magnus to reevaluate the QAnon phenomenon in light of the epstein files. What did the Q people get right? What did they get wrong? What happened, exactly? Without going for either light-switch position, let's do our best to be both respectful and critical. Here's Vice getting triggered about it: https://youtu.be/bsN96zE8FuE QAnon as "pseudo-Chr...

What's this? A Double Topic Deep Dive episode? That's right! Next week we've got a cool guest, but for now join Super as he answers two tough questions from our audience - one on Christian angst regarding hell, and another on Roko's Basilisk.  Roko's Basilisk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk The precursor post that puts the thought experiment in context: https://www.lesswrong.com/pos...

Hey have you ever seen those weird videos where crappy Eurotrash hard bass is playing and images of pyramids in a tundra start flashing before your eyes? Have you ever wondered why people are talking about Yakub living in Antarctica? Well, it all starts with Agartha, a made-up location with a dubious history... that had such great PR that it fooled the most RW of RW-ers.  Emails in the second half...

Now with ten times more shrill, Super starts up a miniseries on the second season of Gargoyles. Let's spend the first twenty minutes or so interviewing a key cast member, who graciously came out of retirement to offer her perspective on life and love. Because the second season of Gargoyles is really long, we're breaking this review up into two or three increasingly bonkers episodes. Enjoy my frien...