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Podcast: Fantastical Truth
Episode: 55. Should Christians Embrace Cultural and Digital Enclaves? | with Austin Gunderson
Description: Cancel culture is making many Christian readers and creators feel unwelcome in “mainstream” culture. Christians may need to retreat and create separate, digital spheres. But what does that look like, and will it work?
Characteristics of cancel culture
Driven by safetyism and paternalism.
Powered by authoritarianism.
Enabled by militant secularism.
No presumption of innocence, due process, or transformation.
Results in purity tests and purges.
We have to look in more distant history for comparable movements.
Sun Tzu famously said that knowledge of the enemy is the most powerful asset in warfare:
“If you know t...