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Episode 144: On Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' and 'The Hellbound Heart,' with Conner Habib

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The Perversity of Christianity

I think one of the interesting things as well that I'm talking about here is the revelation of the perversity of Christianity, which of course is something Jizek writes about quite a bit. And so like you were saying, the way you put it, that Stephen King would do centered around the object like we didn't word it. But actually, it's so inverted and perverse and crazed in its own way already. Yeah, you can't pervert it. You can only make it in some ways, it's truthful self or it's more horrifyingly relatable self in a way. In some ways, like the centivites are far more relatable than Christ,

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