EP128 - The Stolen Week — What Happens When a Culture Forgets Its Holiest Days
About this episode
Reggie and Brian discuss the cultural implications of Easter and Holy Week, exploring themes of institutional capture and cultural idolatry.
America spent $23.6 billion on Easter last year — 92% on candy. Only 45% of celebrants planned to attend church. Good Friday isn't a federal holiday, but DEI calendars list hundreds of observances with detailed guides while Easter gets a footnote. After ten episodes tracing institutional capture across education, science, tech, and media, Reggie and Brian arrive at Holy Week and see the calendar itself as evidence of everything they've been unpacking. They walk through the events of Holy Week as the original institutional capture story — the Sanhedrin manipulating Roman authority, the information vacuum of Saturday, and the resurrection that answers all of it — then reflect on what the series revealed personally. Holy Week is the rubber meeting the road. KEY TOPICS: • Good Friday not a federal holiday — only 12 states recognize it • $23.6B Easter spending vs. 45% church attendance • DEI calendar asymmetry: hundreds of observances vs. Easter as a footnote • Holy Week events as the original institutional capture narrative • Progressive Christianity: knowing God is real vs. being aligned with Him • The golden calf pattern and cultural idolatry • Series reflection: principalities…
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