S02E14 Freddy was Fake - Church was Not

Send us Fan MailGrowing up Gen X meant two things were always lurking in the background:horror movies… and moral panic.We watched Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers slice their way through VHS tapes and late-night cable — and somehow, we understood the rules.It was scary.It was fun.And we knew it was fiction.Meanwhile, adults were losing their minds.Churches warned us that horror movies opened demonic portals, Dungeons & Dragons summoned Satan, and heavy metal music was basically a fast pass to hell. Welcome to the Satanic Panic — an era where grown adults couldn’t tell the difference between a movie monster and an invisible threat they insisted was real.In this livestream, I'm joined by:Robert from Skeptic Philosophyhttps://www.youtube.com/@UCnSO-OqK5dxeh6PoVMnuaog and Ed from The Rabyd Atheisthttps://www.youtube.com/@TheRabydAtheistWe’re taking a nostalgic (and occasionally sarcastic) trip back to the golden age of horror — and contrasting it with the fear tactics used by the church that followed so many of us long after the credits rolled.Because here’s the uncomfortable truth:We grew out of horror movies.A lot of us are still unpacking church-based fear.We’ll laugh, we’ll reminisce, we’ll talk moral panics — and by the end, we’ll ask the question Gen X eventually had to face:What if the real horror wasn’t the movies… but the fear we were taught to believe was real?#mightyphilbert #deconstruction #exvangelical #genx Video we reviewed:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVs80KsiFYw&t=132s