They tried to make video games for Jesus… and accidentally invented demon-possessed animatronics instead. Turns out the road from Christian propaganda to FNaF horror mega-hit is shorter than expected.

Before creating Five Nights at Freddy’s, Scott Cawthon spent years making christian movies and video games designed to glorify god. Critics said his characters were too creepy… so he leaned into it and launched one of the biggest horror franchises in gaming history.

From there, things get weird.

This episode explores the strange world of Christian video games, the moral panic around gaming, and the not-at-all hypocritical outrage over pixels, boobs, violence, and Satan.

This week, we’re digging into:

• The FNaF origin story: how a scary animatronic beaver led to Freddy Fazbear
• The Scott Cawthon controversy: politics, donations, and reputation detonation
• The “holy” hustle: the rise and collapse of Left Behind Games and Digital Praise (including SEC fraud allegations)
• Bizarre moral logic: why gaming violence is “silly” but a cartoon boob is a one-way ticket to hell
• “Seducing children”: decoding Satanic panic rhetoric from Christian game CEOs
• The Hollywood factor: what the Josh Hutcherson movie gets right about child murder

Whether you're here for the FNaF lore or the spectacular failure of the Christian video game industry, this one’s for you.

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Aleister Crowley — occultist, poet, mountaineer, possible spy, lifelong drug addict, and self-declared Beast 666. Depending on who you ask, he was either a visionary spiritual thinker… or a deeply unserious man doing sex rituals in the desert and calling it enlightenment.
In this episode, we dive into Crowley’s own words — from The Book of the Law to Magick in Theory and Practice — and try to figure out what the hell he was actually on about (chemically and philosophically).
Along the way:

• “Do what thou wilt” — self-actualisation or just terrible advice?
• Sex magick, demon summoning, and the world’s least convincing “guardian angel”
• The invention of Thelema (aka start your own religion, get laid)
• Crowley’s obsession with Satan, symbolism, and sounding profound
• The connection between occultism, ego, and modern New Age nonsense
• Why conservatives AND spiritual grifters both end up accidentally agreeing with him
• And how a heroin addiction + imagination = “spiritual revelations”

We also look at how Crowley helped shape modern occult culture, conspiracy thinking, and the long tradition of people mistaking confidence for truth.
Because at the end of the day, Crowley didn’t discover hidden knowledge… He just said weird shit loudly enough that people wrote it down.

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If you've ever been told you're going to hell, you're going to feel right at home!

Not a chat show. Not safe for church. Definitely not normal. This is a loud, weird, structured comedy podcast that takes aim at religion, conspiracy theories, superstition, and the general stupidity of the universe.

This 3-minute trailer gives you everything you need to know — what the show is, what it isn’t, and whether you’re the kind of person who should probably keep listening.

Satan Is My Superhero is a fast-paced, blasphemous, satirical comedy podcast for atheists, skeptics, scoffers, heathens and unbelievers. Expect sketch comedy, original music, fake ads, bad accents, and heavily researched deep dives into Satanic panic, biblical nonsense, cults, pseudoscience, and moral hysteria.

If you make it to the end of this trailer without being offended, you're one of us.

If you enjoy this teaser, try one of these next:

• Satan In The White House (Episode 1 - Remastered)
• Large Hadron Collider or the Modern Prometheus (Ep. 14)
• Homophobic Demonization Part 1: Biblical Origins (Ep. 15)

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Is there such a thing as too much Satan in a video game? From the demon-slaying chaos of Devil May Cry, to the time EA faked a Christian protest and sent reviewers Rick-rolling “bombs,” we’re diving into gaming’s unholy obsession with Hell.
This week, Judas and Lexi unpack why developers keep turning the afterlife into a boss fight — including how a bored Resident Evil 4 development team accidentally created the Devil May Cry franchise, why EA relied on fake outrage to sell Dante’s Inferno, and the deeply normal world of Shin Megami Tensei, where God and Lucifer basically run competing apocalypse cults. We also uncover The Turtle Truth: why Bowser is technically a Japanese “Great Demon King” and what that means for your childhood.
If you loved this episode, check out these deep dives:
Episode 6: Gamer Satan
Episode 123: DOOM, Demons and Moral Panic: The Game They Tried to Ban
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What if Heaven had a strict guest list… and you’re probably not on it?

In this episode, we dive back into the chaotic fever dream of the Book of Revelation - specifically Chapter 7 — where John of Patmos introduces one of the Bible’s weirdest and most misunderstood ideas: the 144,000 “chosen ones.”

You’ve probably heard of the Rapture.
You’ve probably been told Christianity is “open to everyone.”
Yeah… about that....

Catch up on our previous Book of Revelation episodes here:
Ep. 00 | Ep. 01 | Ep. 02 | Ep. 03 | Ep. 04 | Ep. 05 | Ep. 06 |

This chapter reveals:

• A limited-capacity Heaven (yes, really — 144,000 seats)
• God’s forehead-marking system for divine protection
• A bizarre mix of exclusive salvation + mass destruction
• And the introduction of concepts that would later fuel rapture theology, end-times panic, and modern grifting

If you’ve ever wondered:

• What is the 144,000 in Revelation?
• Where did the Rapture idea come from?
• Is Heaven actually exclusive?
• Why is Revelation so unhinged?

…you’re in the right place!

----New here? Welcome! We’re Judas and Lexi — Aussie/Kiwi hosts of Satan Is My Superhero, a comedy podcast blending satire, research, original music, and aggressive skepticism. We take religious stories, conspiracy theories, and moral panics… and poke them until they fall apart.

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Why was DOOM so controversial — and why did politicians, pastors, and parent groups try to ban it?
In 1993, DOOM didn’t just invent the modern first-person shooter — it also sparked a full-blown satanic moral panic. Banned in Germany, blamed for youth violence, linked to Columbine, and accused of promoting demonic symbols and devil worship, this gore-soaked trip through Hell turned Doomguy into a 90s counterculture icon.

Created by id Software — including John Romero and John Carmack — DOOM spread across university networks via dial-up, crashed office servers, and became the poster child for debates over violent video games. From pixelated demons to real-world panic, we unpack how a video game ignited fear in churches, legislatures, and living rooms alike.

If you loved this episode, check out our earlier deep dive into gaming and religious paranoia: “Gamer Satan” – where we unpack how Christians decided controllers were gateways to Hell and why imaginary demons keep getting blamed for very real human behaviour. (Find it wherever you’re listening now.)

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If your church has a battle plan, colour coded demon maps, and something called a “prayer army”… you’re not dealing with metaphor anymore.

We track Spiritual Warfare into the modern era — where “principalities and powers” become the New Apostolic Reformation, Dominionism, Christian Nationalism, and strategic-level spiritual warfare inside the charismatic and evangelical movements. What started as an internal struggle with sin now fuels prayer armies, spiritual mapping, Christian Surveillance, and open talk of taking back governments for God.

From Michael Harper popularising the term in 1970, to C. Peter Wagner and Cindy Jacobs outlining multi-level battle strategies, we unpack how charismatic leaders reframed demonology as political action. Ground-level prayer. Occult-level enemy hunting. Strategic-level warfare against nations.

Yes. Nations.

We break down:

• The three levels of spiritual warfare
• Prayer warriors and prayer armies
• Spiritual mapping and identifying “enemies of God”
• Idol burnings and real-world destruction
• The rise of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)
• Dominion theology and Christian supremacy
• Why this theology aligns so neatly with MAGA politics

When the enemy is everywhere, dissent becomes treason.
When you believe you’re fighting Satan, violence feels righteous.

If you enjoy religious history, evangelical deconstruction, exposing authoritarian theology, and laughing at holy LARPing, you’re in the right place.

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If your god is all-powerful, why does he need backup? Somewhere between “not against flesh and blood” and organized christian exorcism, the idea of spiritual warfare turned a metaphor about personal temptation turned into a full-blown cosmic battle plan — complete with the Armor of God from Ephesians 6!

In this episode we trace how our old mate Paul’s language about “principalities and powers” evolved into demon panic, virtue cosplay, holy war rhetoric, and modern evangelical spiritual warfare and culture war politics. From Origen’s internal battle with sin to Bunyan’s allegorical demon politics to 17th-century Catholic exorcism manuals, we unpack how spiritual warfare became a theological Swiss army knife — used to explain temptation, demon possession, dissent, minorities, skepticism, and culture war Christianity. When the enemy is invisible, it could be anyone.

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Sauces: Ephesians 6, Origen’s inner battles, Prudentius’ virtue cosplay, a Vatican-approved exorcism handbook (1614), a Protestant demon engraving (1623), and John Bunyan naming his villains things like “Incredulity.”
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