Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. It is Ali Suki. This is CRTV's relatable. Today I am going to talk to the editor in chief of the Babylon B. If you don't know about the Babylon B, it is a satire site that highlights either quirks of Christianity or the outright hypocrisy of some people in our faith.

It is a really effective and I think a clever job of making Christians really think about what they believe the teachings that they follow and some of the habits that they might even have.

We talk about what the Babylon B is, its mission, how it actually fills a void, a very serious void in Christianity and some of the biggest problems in the church today.

I really love talking to him and I think that you are going to find his insight really helpful and really enjoyable. And then after that, I am going to answer one question that you all have been asking me to address over and over again.

And that is the question of homosexuality within the church. I thought that this was a good time to address it considering the Pope's recent comments.

So you will want to stick around for that at the end. But first my conversation I recorded yesterday with Kyle Mann. Here it is.

Kyle, thank you so much for joining me. I'm really glad that you're here. I've been wanting to talk to you for a long time.

So first, can you tell the audience who you are and what you do?

Yeah, I am my next Kyle Mann. I'm the editor in chief of the Babylon B, which is a Christian news satire site.

So we do satire and comedy on everything from Christian culture, church culture to current events, politics, world views.

So we kind of run the whole gamut in terms of what we talk about, but it's a Christian news satire site.

And how long has Babylon been around?

It launched in March of 2016. So we're a little over two years old and it kind of blew up right away. So, yeah, it's been getting more and more popular since we since we launched two years ago.

And I've been with it since pretty much day one.

Okay. And what was the impetus for the Babylon B to begin? How did I come up with this idea?

Well, my friend Adam Ford launched it and I joined up within a couple of days of the launch, but he was kind of noticing that there wasn't really anybody doing satire from a Christian world view, which, you know, a Christian world, you definitely mean all kinds of things.

You know, basically all the, all the satire that was out there, especially news satire was being put out from a very kind of secular viewpoint, a very, very liberal viewpoint, you know, not that we want to pigeonhole ourselves into being like the conservative alternative, but that we wanted to be able to do a more balanced fair satire from a Christian perspective.

Why do you think that is that satire and really a lot of good humor in general is pretty non-existent or it feels non-existent within mainline Christianity?

Yeah, you know, Christians, Christians a lot of times we have a hard time laughing at ourselves because you know, a lot of things, a lot of things that we care about, you know, are really important.

You know, so there's a lot of things within Christianity that are sacred and our problem is that we take, we take our respect for the sacred and we kind of extend that to everything that we do, you know, we kind of, we kind of end up saying that everything that we do and all the assumptions that we have and all the opinions we have and all our funny tendencies are off limits for satire when really yeah, there are topics that are, that our off limits for satire that we wouldn't, we wouldn't put that in the way that we would be.

We wouldn't put in a silly light, you know, important things that we talk about, but at the same time, you know, we need to be able to laugh at ourselves and we need to be able to separate the silly from the sacred.

But it's not only self-deprecating humor that I think the Babylonian is so good at. You guys also go after political issues and like you said, not just conservative issues, not just liberal issues.

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