Pentecostal “demon slayers” made a movie about the exorcisms they’ve been doing. More specifically, Greg Locke made a movie about how he graduated from QAnon promoter and COVID conspiracy theorist to self-aggrandizing general in the battle between God and Satan. We watched 2023’s ‘Come Out In Jesus Name’ and broke it down for our listeners.
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Welcome to the QAA Podcast, Premium Episode 258, Come Out in Jesus Name.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rokitansky, Julian Fields, and Travis View.
Good morning, listener.
Sorry for showing up to your door like this, impromptu and sweating profusely.
My hands are compulsively patting the sides of my frock and I refuse to break eye contact.
I've got some good news and some bad news.
The bad news is that you've got a demon in you.
The good news is that I've spent my whole life preparing for this day.
No, please don't close the door.
I wedge my foot in the jam.
You begin to panic slightly.
No, not that kind of demon, my friend.
Not a Catholic demon.
This is merely a demon correlating with mundane life problems you may be experiencing.
Did you sleep well last night?
Have you ever experienced mental illness?
Are you afraid?
Potentially, right now, of me?
Do you watch Disney movies?
Do you sometimes procrastinate instead of getting your work done?
No need to answer.
I already know.
I can sense it, you see.
That you're a human being with relatively ordinary problems.
That you aren't 100% satisfied with your life, your job, your relationships, your body, your thoughts, your home, your bowel movements.
I can tell there's a little crack in you.
Just a little sliver of vulnerability you've failed to hide.
Allow me to slip my foot in there, much like I've done with your door, and use it as a crowbar to pry you open.
You don't need to suffer any longer, see?
Because there's a solution.
My eye twitches involuntarily.
You keep glancing backwards.
More of your body weight shifts into holding the door so I don't barge in.
No, not an exorcism.
A deliverance.
I slide a blu-ray disc past you with the foot that isn't holding your door ajar.
Just watch it.
Just once.
I'll be back to check on you.
Slowly, my foot retreats.
My eyes go dull.
And just like that, I'm gone.
The door is closed.
And you are alone again.
You take a moment to gather yourself before picking up the Blu-ray disc.
On the cover, a girded metal cross, illuminated purple, rising against the night sky.
Arranged in a V around it are smiling figures, a relatively generic movie poster configuration.
In the foreground of this cast of characters, a man and his wife smile at you.
Greg and Ty lock.
Below them, the title, Come Out in Jesus Name, The Most Important Awakening in Church History Has Begun.
You check your locks twice before wandering into your living room, slipping the disc out of the box, and inserting it into the PlayStation 5 Jake convinced you to buy.
In retrospect, you didn't really need it.
You shake the intrusive thought and saunter into the kitchen to make yourself some popcorn.
From the living room, the sound of a title screen can be heard rising from the tinny television speakers.
That's funny.
You don't remember pressing play.
You hurry back into the living room, grab the remote, and jam your finger down on the pause button.
Nothing.
Dramatic music begins rising.
You press it again.
No effect.
You try to turn off the TV.
It doesn't work.
A voice that feels like it's coming from inside your skull erupts.
"Yellow big boy, cease your struggling.
Enjoy the show." You feel a great weight push you down into the couch seat.
Defeated, you let the movie play.
It doesn't feel great.
Soon, Pastor Greg Locke appears on the screen.
We've preached cute and motivational pop psychology sermons for years.
To people in our churches that are full of oppression, bitterness, unforgiveness, molestation, bondage, nightmares, panic attacks.
And we tell them they can have all the peace and joy in the world and they sit there wondering within themselves, well what's wrong with me?
Because that message doesn't resonate with me.
So I tell people, you can do anything you want to in chains, except one thing.
You can have chains, you can raise your hands and sing, you can drive a car, you can come to church, you can tithe, you can fast, you can pray, you can dance in the aisles.
The only thing you cannot do in chains is be free.
So, brothers, so nice to see you today.
Are you ready to be free?
I'm ready to remove the chains that have bound me to earth and step in to come out in Jesus' name.
I am ready to fire my therapist, my psychiatrist, and all mental health professionals surrounding me and accept this new free method of curing me of my woes.
Today, as you might have imagined, we are covering the movie Come Out in Jesus Name, which I keep miswriting as Get Out in Jesus Name.
Well, because it does feel like a Jordan Peele horror movie, so you're not wrong there.
Yeah, that's right.
So this movie came out last year in 2023.
It is Greg Locke's little masterpiece, you know, that assembles the demon slayers that we mentioned in the previous episode.
So if you haven't listened to that episode with Sam Kestenbaum, definitely go check that out and definitely read his article.
But we will be covering this quote-unquote documentary by Locke Media and some other associates that essentially tells the story of Greg finding out about a new form of exorcism that others are already kind of doing in foreign nations and, well, specifically in Brooklyn, and then applying it and taking over the scene and kind of
Recruiting the people who were already there to form a group of people called the Demon Slayers, the sort of avengers of what they call Deliverance, which is just their word for exorcism.
And being possessed by the devil or a demon in their language is being demonized.
Which they're really, I got to say this movie fucked with me more in terms of what it does to the English language than anything else, because everything is like, no, this is a totally new thing.
And then they just use like a slightly new word for something that already exists.
I know.
It is very clever because, yeah, you hear the word exorcism and, you know, you think projectile vomit and, you know, movie horror stuff.
You hear the word deliverance, it's like, well, that's just sort of like an uplifting general religious concept.
So yeah, it seems like they are using language in a way that's supposed to kind of like soften just the kind of crazy things they're talking about, which is basically, you know, people being possessed by demons and some sort of supernatural process to expel those demons.
Isn't there also some kind of complication with the church and its recognition of exorcisms at large?
They've always been kind of sticky about that, so this kind of frees this particular church, or this group of ministers, or this group of preachers, I guess, from having to maybe explain to the higher-ups, if there are any, what they're doing?
Well, to be clear, the Catholic Church has structure, right?
So they have their own exorcists and stuff and their own way of doing things.
We are talking about people who are firmly Protestant, which means there is no structure.
The Bible is a living document you should interpret at all times.
You have a personal relationship to Jesus.
And in the movie, he'll even say, you know, one of the biggest demons is the demon of religion because Protestants will often tell people they're trying to kind of recruit into their belief system that they don't actually have to embrace religion, they just have to embrace a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Yeah, they were very critical of the Catholic Church at large throughout the entirety of the movie.
Jake finding out why Protestantism exists.
It's like they don't like these Catholic people.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know a ton of the differences.
I learned about cessationists.
That was something I never heard of before.
What do you think the word protest in Protestant means?
I don't know.
They're protesting the Catholic Church, Jake.
Well, I don't know.
Don't make fun of me.
I'm Jewish.
I wasn't raised with any of this.
You said you loved the movie.
I didn't say I loved the movie.
I said I found the movie very interesting.
I've got him on his back feet.
He's already pissed at me.
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