Come Out In Jesus Name (Premium E258)

The yoga bit is extremely unsurprising to me, because my best friend in 1st grade (late 90s) told me that doing the yoga pose and going "ommm" meant "I am greater than God" 🤪🤪

I forgot sometimes just how big a piece of shit Greg Locke is, fuuuuuck that guy

Jake discovers he's High Church

Imagine my surprise at seeing Pastor Vlad Savchuk show up in this episode. He's one of a few far right church leaders I have been keeping tabs on because of the combination of how unhinged his professed beliefs are and how large his following is. While he's obviously a homophobic grifter, the weird passion which with he speaks about witchcraft and demons makes me think he may actually believe in it. If for some reason you run out of upsetting things to look at in the QAnon world, check out his Youtube channel. Dude really is a piece of work.

There's a fascinating sense in which those who otherize in order to demonize take other cultures more seriously than those who commodify them

Nah Jake was absolutely right. You can make level 1 imps go away with a stern word and a wagging finger, but for Arachnotrons and Mancubi you're really going to want particle accelerators, gauss cannons and whatnot in the room.

I think this episode we learned that one could probably show up in a white van and abduct Jake, so long as they had put enough effort into the aesthetics and production value of the strangers that ask you to get in a van.

I worked on a documentary shoot were we interviewed Locke and also saw the baptisimal "trough" mentioned here when we shot a sermon. It was kind of wild and disturbing, and extreme MAGA. I had religeon in my life once decades ago (glad that it's gone), but it's still bothersome to me that so many Americans are holding such extreme beliefs (luckily they are diminishing in number, but not fast enough)

35:42 Jake hits it on the nose. There is a large subset of society that can't imagine that they are broken in any way, that it's not their fault, it's everyone else's fault. A "demon" automatically achieves the "it's not my fault" goal. Sounds like TFG sometimes - maybe he continues to be attacked by demons sent by the Unholy dems?

Dear Jake, I am Jewish so I am appealing to you. I am on the LAST PAGE of paper in my QAnon Anonymous journal. This journal is the only thing that keeps me sane. If a notebook is not popular merch, could we get a sticker so I can put it on a journal? Also, the pod continues to be fucking awesome. I have gone to the live shows in LA but always too embarrassed to say hi. Travis’s hair is just so intimidating. :-) thanks!

That ending almost buried the lead about how vile this guy is. Fuck this shit

Damn, that Auto-Q Content is absolutely unhinged. 9/11 truthing in his grifter congregation, just ticking all the conspiracy boxes.

This is some of the most vile, disgusting stuff you guys have covered. Very few episodes have left me with a worse feeling. These pastors spew nothing but hate and torment their own parishioners.

Locke just had his house shot up https://www.wsmv.com/2024/09/04/wilson-county-pastors-home-lit-up-by-gunfire-overnight/

The music sounds like it’s from a Dicovery Channel show about hunting Bigfoot or some shit

So Jake convinced me to get a PS5, but Julian just gave me a cursed DVD?

I'd love to get an Annie Kelly reaction to the very confused picture of the differences between Catholicism, mainstream protestant denominations, and non- denominational evangelical protestantism here.

Yeah, I grew up Lutheran (ELCA) and it’s highly centralized.

charles v really fumbled the bag by letting luther leave the diet of worms alive.

I’m 43 now, but up until I was around 20 I was a member of a church exactly like Greg Locke’s. I grew up protesting in from of abortion clinics. This brought back some memories I can laugh about now, gladly.

There are a lot of different Protestant denominations and some of them do have church hierarchies. The Anglicans (called Episcopals in the USA) are virtually Catholic in structure. Also there are Eastern Orthodox and Copts who aren't Catholic or Protestant. Also, morning wank before coffee is a great way to start the day.

I heard "incubus demon" and immediately started hearing "pardon me while I burst/intoooooooo flames" in my head i guess that's what happens in an exorcism? Sometimes?

Will you guys bring back the sold out merch? Really want the internet tee 😪

Jake is correct about Protestant churches having a clerical hierarchy that would potentially prevent its pastors from performing exorcisms, that just isn’t the case with these particular Protestants, because they are non denominational.

There’s an interesting article about the phenomenon of spiritual warfare, spiritual mapping, and all that by David Metcalfe. He goes into the way places like Walmart basically carry exorcism manuals right next to Harry Potter and the other “causes”of possession. https://modernmythology.net/satans-target-your-mind-supernatural-living-in-the-american-marketplace-c6c38c616778

Has your show covered Bob Larsen? Dude isn’t exactly the OG of performative Pentecostal “exorcisms” but he was definitely one of the first to offer them via webcam even pre-Covid. Also, if you haven’t already, watch the documentary Marjoe.

I love Jake saying the demon slayers need to wear uniforms and have more equipment like the Ghostbusters.

Looks like we need an episode on ed and Lorraine Warren so Jake understands that they too are charlatans

👋 Howdy y'all. I grew up in the Pentecostal church in the 80s and this shit isn't new. Dude could have been a Sunday morning guest speaker - he'd fit right in. "Unclean spirits" were cast out of people every Sunday ("I cast you out in the name of Jesus!. If you were lucky, you'd also be" slain in the spirit" i.e. passing out on the floor until you woke up.) These unclean spirits caused everything from bad behavior to terminal illness; having experienced a "religious healing" was celebrated. Jake expressed disgust about the yelling & jumping, etc. In the community, that is expected & explained by the speaker/healer being "fired up" while "doing the work of God". One more note - believing you were constantly performing miracles & saving people's lives could definitely create an ego. The dude may be a grifter but he also seems like he believes in his own hype.

That view on miracles is sorta the view on magic and miracles that the Fate series satirizes as part of its evil wizard society. These guys are fate wizards. Presumably minus the worms

I just watched “The Deliverance” two nights ago and it was the first I’d heard of this kind of exorcism. Is this movie connected to these pastors? It claims to be based on true events. I’m a fan of exorcism stories. But yeah—These guys are just selling the same BS my aunts were sold back in the 80s-90s. They were raised Catholic in the 50s-60s. As a kid I once ended up at a Pentecostal service with my aunt and cousins and found myself in a dark room where all the children were speaking in tongues. I’ve always been game to try new things and respect others’ religions so I tried speaking in tongues. It felt like I was faking it so I eventually stopped and just watched everyone else knowing the Catholic version of Jesus was with me watching all these fools. I’m not religious at all as adult. But follow this stuff closely. As always QAA—Amazing stuff!!

I too have the demon on multiple sclerosis right on up in my brain, but listen here folks, every month, a sorceress instills the demon of tysabri at the service of biogen right into my veins and they duke it out. That is why I haven't had progression yet, demon battles 😈

The idea of an exorcism being a legal preceding is in line with exorcisms in some ashkenazi Jewish traditions. There’s a chapter about it in Abraham Rechtman’s “The Lost World of Russia’s Jews.”

It should have been a film version of Preacher

To Jake's idea take that these guys view the mere text of (Protestant) Christian scripture as the source of power for exorcism, and that such is lazy and sad, I was taught as a young fundamentalist that even the devil knows the scripture (pretty sure this is attributed to Jesus). It really is a wild way to go.

This was a seriously upsetting episode. All the clips featured a bunch of conscience-free bullies yelling at vulnerable people. So depressing.

As a childhood fundy, I had to shut it off periodically for religious trauma PTSD. But hearing the boys laugh at the ridiculousness is great! I was a brainwashed kid, but at least it’s just a memory now!!

The last two episodes of preachers screaming and ranting have been wildly off putting. I had to stop in the middle honestly because they really make me feel kind of sick to my stomach. Maybe I can revisit the eps some other time.

I’m now realizing all my problems in life have been caused by doing the ouija board at a sleepover when I was 12 after watching the craft. Sad :(

I have no problem with pornography ( as long as it's not children) but everyone doesn't watch porn. Porn is mostly for men. It holds no appeal to me.

This is what fills the gap in mental health care services and healthcare in a country with no affordable healthcare or nationalised health services.

I washed my wiener in Jesus blood and no longer have a masturbation problem!

“I know some of you men out there been admiring them big booties, lusting after that ass-uh! That ain’t no BBL mistuh, that’s a DDL, a demonic devil lift! That’s the devil in them cheeks!”

Listens to the autoqueue. Listens to Alex Jones. These are the same audio clips.

I'm very glad my priest just told me to see a psych this deliverance shit seems like a pain in the ass

For a movie ep based on related *good* filmmaking, I suggest Elmer Gantry (1960, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons) or Leap of Faith (1992, Steve Martin, Debra Winger)

Every time Julian mentions a person named (and I’m spelling this phonetically cause I dunno)” Cinderelli,” for some reason It reminds me of the Disney Cinderella movie where the mice who are Cinderellas only friends are making her gown for the ball and singing a song that’s just her name but instead of Cinderella they say like “cinderelli, cinderelli always working cinderelli!” That’s random I guess. Swear on my dog I’m not a Disney person so have no idea why my brain retained that reference. Oof.

The auto q is nauseating

The idea of associating afflictions with demon possession is common in Asian religions too, but what's interesting is that in Asia, the demon often comes from within, rather than without. It's the process of a human being inhuman.

My favorite part is talking about his initial experiences going viral, he uses the word “organic” to describe this sensation of god rewarding him for saying things that are controversial… like the algorithm that demon spirit zuckerberg built was “organically” rewarding him… this guys voice does serious psychic damage to me as someone that went to church in the south growing up.

allah lovers..!? that last clip is wild.

Reminded me of this article that recently came out about the cult in Kenya that killed hundreds of people The Cult in the Forest https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/the-cult-in-the-forest#:~:text=A%20pastor%20led%20his%20followers,have%20since%20been%20found%20dead.&text=Everyone%20hopes%20for%20a%20miracle,more%20followers%20he%20will%20gain.

Jake learning about Christianity has been my favorite part of the last two episodes.

Speaking of pagani, I hope that everyone is aware that Jerry Seinfeld was recently killed when his Pagani Zonda exploded in Tuscany. RIP Pop Tart guy

middle tennessee week on qaa 😎 dear president xi please free my ppl 🙏🏼

Every time I cum, it's for Jesus. ✝️💦

I love my 3 dads

Some of those “demonic thoughts” felt like OCD ruminations? Sad shit

Instagram keeps feeding me videos of a woman who prays away the demon of IBS, and tbh she kinda rules

What's frustrating is that many of the "afflictions" listed off are actually caused by the "demon" of... a lack of real community. What I notice in a lot of Christian communities is how God actually comes between people in the sense that everybody is hiding SO MUCH from each other that it preludes true connections with each other. They tend to be very anxious communities in my experience.

With all of this talk about Deliverance all I could think about was the 1972 Burt Reynolds’s Ned Beatty classic.

Wow, this movie is a must see. Might even replace Santa Claus Conquers the Martians as my favorite. Maybe after seeing it I'll let Jesus come in me. Hehehe

I used to think I was psychic but later learned it was just confirmation bias and unmedicated OCD but now I see it was demons

Yes Julian free me from this miserable coil with your magic Blu ray disc

We need to limit the number of movie episodes, maybe quarterly