Episode 32: We Need to Talk About Amy

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Episode Notes

Today we will have an open discussion about Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett in, “Not Necessarily the Good News.”

And we will explore saviorhood, and how it does not apply to Donald Trump in, “The More You Know.

NOT NECESSARILY THE GOOD NEWS:

Judge Amy Coney Barrett is from the South and Midwest. Her career has been largely spent teaching while raising seven children, including two adopted from Haiti and one with Down syndrome, and living according to her faith. She has made no secret of her beliefs on divisive social issues such as abortion. A deeply religious woman, her roots are in a populist movement of charismatic Catholicism.

From her formative years in Louisiana to her current life in Indiana, Judge Barrett has been shaped by an especially insular religious community, the People of Praise, which has about 1,650 adult members, including her parents, and draws on the ecstatic traditions of charismatic Christianity, like speaking in tongues.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/us/politics/amy-coney-barrett-life-career-family.html

THE MORE YOU KNOW:

In a recent radio interview, Donald Trump Jr made this foolish statement about his father:

“He literally saved Christianity, there's a war on faith in this country by the other side. I mean, the Democratic Party, the far left, has become the party of the quote-unquote atheist, they want to attack Christianity, they want to close churches, they want to - they're totally fine keeping liquor stores open, but they want to close churches all over the country.”

Does he speak for Christianity? No.

*NOTE: we say Donald Trump Jr. But these quotes should have been attributed to Eric Trump.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/520090-eric-trump-claims-his-father-literally-saved-christianity

https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-trump-says-donald-trump-saved-christianity-2020-10

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