A Trickster God and the Worst Wedding Ever
About this episode
The episode discusses Christian nationalism and the biblical implications of deception, alongside an analysis of the wedding banquet parable.
This week, Christian nationalist Joel Webbin says the quiet part out loud: lie to voters about your theocratic goals until you've got the power to enact them. It's grotesque and profoundly un-American — but is deception, weirdly, the one piece of the playbook that's actually biblical? Then we wrestle with the baffling parable of the wedding banquet, where a king burns a city, fills the hall with strangers, and casts one guest into outer darkness over a missing robe — a story Matthew, Luke, and even the Gospel of Thomas each tell differently, all while pointing the finger at a different villain. Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store: https://data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com/ Shop our classic collection before our old store closes: https://datadoverdogma.printful.me Watch every episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dataoverdogma Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod Threads —…
People in this episode
Hosts: Daniel McClellan, Daniel Beecher
Guest: Joel Webbin
Topics covered
- Christian nationalism
- theocracy
- deception
- biblical parables
- wedding banquet
- cultural critique
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Data Over Dogma, Gospel of Thomas
Books & works: The Bible Says So
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