2023 Year in Review - The God Squad
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In part 2 of this holiday special Year in Review - John has a group discussion about religion with author and former pastor Keith Giles; author, poet, spoken word artist, and former pastor Desimber Rose Wattleton; and writer, theologian, and permaculture enthusiast Dillon Cruz. They chat about the rise of Christian Nationalism and discuss the revoltingly fake Christian of the year, the resolve of Israel-Hamas War, and the most encouraging story of the year.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fugel-Sang Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome, I'm John Fugel-Sang. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome, I'm John Fugel-Sang. |
| 0:12.0 | We're going to be hearing a lot of 20-23 year and review shows |
| 0:16.1 | and a lot of big media stories we've all heard about Harry and Megan or The Titan Submersible |
| 0:21.1 | or how Ozempic is going to save us all or how Elon Musk destroys a once amusing |
| 0:26.2 | website. But this hour is going to be about the year of Christian nationalists who drove our politics, who slowed our progress, |
| 0:36.6 | and who dominated our news over the past year, usually for all the wrong reasons. |
| 0:42.3 | Donald Trump became the first president indicted for a crime, |
| 0:45.0 | 91 charges and four jurisdictions, but right-wing Christians became even more obedient to him. |
| 0:50.9 | The Baltimore Catholic Archdiocese filed for bankruptcy, but right-wing Christians warned us, |
| 0:56.3 | drag queens wanted to groom our kids. Title 42 expired and the federal government tried to handle all the migrants but right-wing Christians |
| 1:04.7 | continued to not welcome the stranger but call the Christian refugees at our border |
| 1:09.4 | illegals. Summer 2023 was the hottest on record so hot Hawaii caught on fire but |
| 1:15.1 | right-wing Christians continued to sneer at science to sneer at the concept of |
| 1:19.8 | being a caring steward of the earth. The most right-wing speaker of the house in our lifetimes |
| 1:25.2 | was elected, one who's never fought for an actual teaching of Jesus but supported the |
| 1:29.6 | child torture that is gay reparative therapy but right-wing Christians cheered and |
| 1:34.2 | Robert Bowers was found guilty on all counts in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting |
| 1:39.6 | trial but the great replacement theory that inspired him remains free and walks amongst the right-wing Christians. |
| 1:47.5 | I'm really proud to be a part of a very different 2023 year in review special, |
| 1:52.0 | the year in creepy Christian nationalism with three of our |
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