Avoiding Babylon
Avoiding Babylon was started during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. During these difficult and dark days, when most of us were isolated from family, friends, our parishes, and even the Sacraments themselves, this channel was started as a statement of standing against the tyrannical mandates that many of us were living under. Since those early days, this channel has morphed into an amazing community of friends…no…more than friends…Christian brothers and sisters…who have grown in joy and charity.
As we see it, our job here at Avoiding Babylon is to remind ourselves and those who enjoy the channel that being Catholic is a joyful and exciting experience. We seek true Catholic fraternity and eutrapelia with other Catholics who, like us, are doing their best to live out their vocation with the help of God’s Grace. Above all, we try to bring humor and joy to the craziness of this fallen world, for as Hillaire Belloc has famously said:
“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!”
Avoiding Babylon
Latest Episodes
Marvel Jesus? What Happened to The Chosen
That new trailer moment where Christian TV starts to look like superhero cinema is the kind of thing that makes us pause and ask a serious question: are we being entertained into believing the wrong things about Jesus? We react to The Chosen’s ...
Marvel Jesus? What Happened to The Chosen (Full LOCALS Show)
A new trailer drops and suddenly you can see the whole problem with modern Christian entertainment: it doesn’t just “add backstory,” it can quietly change how people imagine Jesus. We dig into The Chosen trailer beat by beat, why invented dialo...
When Everything Becomes A Performance (Full LOCALS Show)
Something feels off right now, and it’s not just politics. The moment we saw a tired dad get prank “robbed” for a livestream clip, we knew we were looking at the real story: a performative culture colliding with an exhausted public that can’t t...
You Can See Everything: The Art of Manipulating Reality (Nathan Fielder & Elizabeth Holmes)
A single word can flip a villain into a victim, and that’s what sent us down a rabbit hole after watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary. What bothered us wasn’t just Theranos or Holmes’ “character,” but the feeling that the film is actively ...
You Can See Everything: The Art of Manipulating Reality (Nathan Fielder & Elizabeth Holmes) (Full LOCALS Show)
A well-made documentary can leave you feeling informed while quietly rearranging your instincts and that’s exactly what sent us down the rabbit hole. We start with the Elizabeth Holmes story, but the real hook is Nathan Fielder’s style of “real...
Fan Mail
What is this new text message devilry? Happy New Year to you guys! Thanks for being (mostly—except Nick is trying to be Mr. Super Scholar) just real, down-to-earth guys trying to figure out this whole modern Catholic boondoggle. Love y’all.
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