Gospel According to Pop Culture

This is a project I did for my Religion and Popular Culture class. It's a mini-documentary about how pop culture can work to perpetuate misconceptions about certain aspects in a religion.

I realize that the video and audio are off during the interview portions. The interviews were converted from analogue to digital, which is where I believe the problem occurred. I did what I could to fix most of it. The rest of the documentary does not suffer this problem.

Also, a typo in the credits: Gainex should be Gainax. If anyone catches any other errors in the credits, please let me know.

Edit: Another error in the credits. The opening song is "Mary, Mary" by Chumbawamba, not "Whatever Happened to Mary".

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• religion
• pop
• culture
• inverted
• cross
• lucifer
• education
• peter

[ownNWOnow]

Im a Catholic and I point out another misconception. Peter was not the first Pope that office did not exist then. He was the apostle that merged the centre of Christianirty with the centre of world power. 300 years later they would merge. He appointed Linus the first Bishop of Rome.

He had apostolic primacy through Jesus' decree/prophecy. His place of martyrdom and burial was vatican hill and further down the line that became one of the major centres for christianity. 1000yrs later came schism.

[ripvonchrist]

You are correct in that a more accurate term I could have applied to him was "bishop," instead of "pope," since there was no Catholic church at that time. I suppose I resorted to a more short-hand reference to him, to make it easier for those unfamiliar with Catholic history (and to prevent an irrelevant detour in the documentary).

Thank you for your comment; and I hope it will help bring clarification to others. :)

[vampire911]

wow this is really good! its funnny you put music from neon genisis lol

[ripvonchrist]

Well, I put an image from Eva.  But there's no Eva music. There is, however, some music from Cowboy Bebop, which is "The Ballad of a Fallen Angel".

I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

[dollpdx]

Well done!  I teach a course on pop culture and religion - may I use your video?

[ripvonchrist]

Sure thing. That's the kind of course it was designed for. ;)

[TrueProvidence]

And, evidenced by the description, you are making an unfounded claim against the work of someone who has studied religion extensively (that's what I assume anyway), so saying something as vague and absolute as that is rather foolish, I would think.

As for the title of Lucifer given to the entity of evil, I personally think that the passage in Isaiah could be used metaphorically for Satan, and therefore I think to call him Lucifer would be, perhaps not accurate, but merited. My unstudied opinion

[Malakodistudio]

Very good. It's amusing how a story that has been passed through countless generations, translated several times, and been subject to every form of interpretation by popular media is taken as absolute truth by many people.

I'm very glad that you took a hard look at it, and was surprised by what you found. 5/5

[thebookofdragons]

i would agree.

This is a very well put together piece, feel proud for yourself :D

[thebookofdragons]

i would agree.

This is a very well put together piece, feel proud for yourself :D