Episode 133 - Consumer Games

The Gospel Underground Podcast

Books Referenced

- Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites - New Religions for a Godless World https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/tara-isabella-burton/strange-rites/9781541762510/

- Slouching Towards Utopia an Economic History of the 20th Century. https://bookshop.org/p/books/slouching-towards-utopia-an-economic-history-of-the-twentieth-century-j-bradford-delong/17984370?ean=9780465019595

- Tom Nelson, The Economics of Neighborly Love, https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Neighborly-Love-Communitys-Compassion/dp/0830843922/

Links Referenced

- The Gospel Underground Annual Report https://www.gospelunderground.org/s/Annual-Report-2022-V3.pdf

- The Cult of Mac - https://www.cultofmac.com/about/

- The Kings Loot - https://kingsloot.com/pages/secret-story

- The Mindscape podcast episode 209, Brad DeLong Why the the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/09/05/209-brad-delong-on-why-the-20th-century-fell-short-of-utopia/

Scripture Referenced

Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Ecclesiastes 2:24 So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that these pleasures are from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 [18] Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. [19] Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God. [20] For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

1 John 3:16-18 [16] By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. [17] But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? [18] Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Ephesians 4:28 [28] Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need..