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223 - Doug TenNapel - Christianity and Pop Culture

The Symbolic World

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The Story of Self Sacrifice

The idea of someone who has become very strong, very powerful, but then puts his his power and his strength to the service of the weaker is something that we do not see in western story telling. And even if they do it an anti hero, ther still saying it's an anti hero they like. Here's and here's an upside down version of what the real story is, which is this hero that sacrifices himself for others. The knight is the christian hero.

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