The Christian Right is Taking Over; Joe Pardons Hunter - EVEN MORE NEWS AD-FREE
Added 2024-12-06 22:12:29 +0000 UTCHi. Talia Lavin, author of the new book “Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America," joins Katy and Cody to talk about Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter, the Supreme Court's apparent approval of laws targeting trans youth, and why the Christian Right is now an even bigger threat during a second Trump presidency.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpqtXXTd23k
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Just clarifying – do you mean that you would like to watch the video of this episode on the Patreon app? That is possible to do, but we stopped doing it for new SMN episodes since most patrons said they preferred watching on YouTube, and we didn't necessarily want to create multiple posts.
Some More News
2024-12-10 17:23:36 +0000 UTCIt would be lovely to have the video of those on Patreon. We love you too (much).
Bertrand Le Roy
2024-12-10 16:54:17 +0000 UTCYep, that's the 'American Taliban' for you. I've never had to interact with escatological types like these until I moved to the South a few years ago. It baffles me what comes out of their mouth.
Joseph A.
2024-12-09 15:53:51 +0000 UTCFirst hand feelings of Agreement with Talia - I was raised in the Evangelical community ("E-Free" sect that believed we were already in the "postmillennialism" aka we're in the "end times" waiting for the 2nd coming). The INTENSITY they brainwash within the religion of this active warfare is the very basis of the religion. They revere Jewish people yet believe they are misguided. The goal is to prostelatize and bend society towards their idea of "righteousness" to save as many christians as possible. They do not believe that most people will be saved, and they don't actually want many of them to be because they believe it's been predetermined who will already go to heaven before they were even born in most cases -your name is in the "book of life" or it is not and you are either supposed to come to God in your lifetime or you are not supposed to. They EXPECT violence to happen over religion and embrace the idea that war will wipe the earth and prepare to die for it. Many are pushing for rebuilding of Zion and the temple in Jerusalem and know that political domination will cause it as they believe this will cause the coming. I remember being taught as a child to "put on the armor of God", the pieces of armour would be listed on a poster in every Sunday school room. To prepare myself to be persecuted and eventually beheaded for an expected declaration of faith, as that would be the option if you weren't swept up in the rapture they were awaiting for already. Every moment was preparing you spiritually for rejecting secularism and grooming you to be a soldier of God. And this WAS NOT a small sect. This was the basis of the majority of baptist christian sects, some just more in line than others. Revalations is interpreted constantly for modern day events, and the digital revolution of the 90s is often seen as the awaking of the abilities of "the beast". That is their reality they live in, and that is the reality they vote towards. Violence is expected, war is wanted, and extremism is the path they believe will push them there. And quite frankly, they will hitch their wagons to any ability to push policy towards that, which is why they will overlook the moral qualms of many that they vote for with blind eyes. They do not see trump as the anti-christ, but instead as one of the great kings that will hasten in the 2nd coming. I very much look forward to picking up Talia's audiobook. Thank you for having them on the podcast.
Stephanie S
2024-12-09 04:01:55 +0000 UTC
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