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PEL To Become Full-On Born-Again Christian Podcast From Here On Out

April 1, 2014 by Mark Linsenmayer 14 Comments

Much like rockers Brent Bourgeois, Neal Morse, and Dan Peek, doing this PEL thing, with all the sex and drugs that has come with it, has over the last year brought me to rock bottom, as I found myself reading Ayn Rand and Jacques Lacan by choice, and after spending a night rolling in my own puke, I saw a light, and the light spoke to me, saying:

Too long has secular philosophy permeated our culture. You can't even turn on the TV these days without hearing "Descartes this" and "Quine that" and "You Kant!" It's time for you to turn the PEL ship to the task of promoting that nearly unknown, vastly underfunded, underrepresented figure, Jesus Christ Our Lord And Savior.™

While in the case of all those musicians listed above whom you probably had to click the wiki links there for to figure out whom I was talking about, they had to leave their very famous bands to do the work of the Lord, in this case, I brought the other PEL guys about me and said:

Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

At first they were sore afraid, but lo, when I showed them how much traffic Bible podcasts get compared to ours, they were totally on board. Why, Seth actually started speaking in tongues, which I thought was kind of weird, but hey, that's cool.

So from here on out, PEL will only be covering proper topics, unlike that dastardly transhumanism, which is the devil trying to give us monkey butts.

Also, episodes will be only 4 minutes long, as we'll pretty much read a scriptural passage for the first minute and then spend three minutes in silent contemplation, each of us touching the Divine in our own way. So there's that.

Also, happy April something or other.

-The Holy Host of PEL

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  1. Wayne Schroeder says

    April 1, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    Finally!

    Reply
  2. Seth Paskin says

    April 1, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    I would like to add that as I have not accepted Jesus Christ into my heart, I will be leaving to form a new long format podcast covering only Libertarianism and Objectivism. For next time I will be doing a one-hour dramatic reading from Atlas Shrugged followed by 5 hours of commentary.

    Reply
    • Geoff Edwards says

      April 1, 2014 at 6:48 pm

      1 hour? So what, like 1/10 of a Galt-ologue per pod?

      Reply
      • Seth Paskin says

        April 1, 2014 at 11:13 pm

        Roughly, yes.

        Reply
  3. Leo says

    April 1, 2014 at 3:05 pm

    : D
    Looking forward to the new podcast format. It will be fun to watch your sliding relapse into alcohol, philosophy, and leftist political views.

    Happy April Fools everyone.

    Reply
  4. Alexander says

    April 1, 2014 at 3:54 pm

    Glad to see you’re not taking the April fools thing too seriously. I’m one of those who can’t stand it when they actually try to fool you with something vaguely plausible; I don’t like deceit nor Nazism.

    Reply
  5. qapla says

    April 1, 2014 at 4:57 pm

    Awesome!! But instead of us all being “born again” how about we all just finally grow tf up ?!?!?!

    much respect Mark

    Reply
  6. Sean Dansberger says

    April 1, 2014 at 7:12 pm

    Curses! If only I had read this before subscribing to a new militant Buddhism podcast…

    Reply
  7. Christopher Frederick says

    April 1, 2014 at 11:40 pm

    Fredbo here and I think it’s time to start a PreHumanist Movement. We need to embrace genetic technology to bring back our tails, and, though tricky for the shoe industry, feet with thumbs is where it’s at. A two hour podcast by you guys of just guttural grunts, shrieks and howls would be brilliant! It would be interesting and amusing to compare each of your mating calls…

    Reply
  8. Jonathan says

    April 2, 2014 at 5:42 am

    Might confuse you to know that you have a Catholic libertarian that loves your podcasts that also found this very funny.

    keep up the good work guys.

    Reply
  9. Fredbo says

    April 2, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    Re-read this… Love the TM!

    Reply
  10. Leland Gregory says

    April 3, 2014 at 7:48 pm

    You’ll have to change the name to the “very partially examined life.”

    Reply
  11. Constantine says

    April 4, 2014 at 7:32 pm

    Mark, have you ever had your head dipped into molten lava?

    Reply
  12. Makhno says

    April 7, 2014 at 12:57 am

    I feel that what must be tackled is Mikhail Bakunin’s ‘god and the state’:

    https://libcom.org/library/god-and-state-mikhail-bakunin

    Reply

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