By James Cary2023-01-31T08:55:00
The new Channel 4 comedy series Everyone Else Burns portrays fundamentalist religion at its worst, but could it help Christians understand how outsiders view the Church?
Everyone Else Burns is a new Channel 4 comedy about the Lewis family who are devoted followers of a ‘puritanical Christian sect’ called the Order of the Divine Rod.
The dad, David (Simon Byrd), is a weapons-grade self-righteous pharisee, desperate to become an elder in the sect. He has been keeping his family in a permanent state of fear – of him and the judgement to come, which could be any day now.
In fact, the show begins with a midnight drill in which the family hike to the hills to watch everyone else burn. David’s son, Aaron, is sociopathically excited about this, being a young boy who is clearly very lonely and very angry.
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