659: The Root of Racism is Greed Not Hate with Malcolm Foley

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Phil Vischer

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

After a made-for-T.V. meltdown in the Oval Office between President Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine, the administration cut all military aid to Ukraine and sided with Russia instead. Will this cause some evangelicals to rethink their support for Trump, and if so where will they go? Two popular Christian books are saying that empathy is manipulative at best, or downright sinful at worst. Phil, Skye, and Kaitlyn examine their arguments. Most Christians probably believe that racism is rooted in hate or ignorance, but historian Malcolm Foley says it’s really all about greed. Until we understand the economic origins of racism, he says, the church won’t be equipped to fight it. Also this week—name five things you did last week to justify your existence.

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0:00 - Show Starts

2:57 - Theme Song

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5:50 - Five Things to Justify Your Existence

9:24 - Zelensky and Trump

19:26 - Cutting Off Therapeutic Food

26:35 - The Divide of Politics and Personal Ethics

30:20 - The Sin of Empathy

40:35 - Misidentifying the Problem

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57:42 - Interview

59:50 - What Links Theology and Finance?

1:03:35 - How Greed Leads to Racism

1:18:00 - Love as a Material Relationship

1:30:52 - End Credits

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The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money in the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward by Malcolm Foley: https://a.co/d/cSlX28G

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Holy Post. After a made-for-TV meltdown in the Oval Office between President
0:05.5	Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine, the administration has cut all military aid to Ukraine
0:11.0	and sided with Russia instead. Will this finally cause some evangelicals to rethink their support of
0:16.6	Trump? And if so, where will they go? Then two popular Christian books are now saying that
0:22.0	empathy is manipulative at best or downright sinful at worst. We look at those arguments and
0:27.8	respond. Then most Christians will probably say racism is rooted in hate or ignorance. But historian
0:33.9	Malcolm Foley says it's really all about greed. And until we understand the economic origins of racism, he says the church will not be equipped
0:41.9	to fight it.
0:43.1	Also this week, name five things you did last week to justify your existence.
0:48.1	A quick reminder that we have a ton of new content for Holy Post Plus subscribers right now,
0:53.0	including new episodes of My Hill to
0:54.8	die on, getting schooled by Caitlin Chess, a new season of why I'm still a Christian,
0:59.9	and this week we have an extensive bonus interview with Malcolm Foley. So head over to
1:04.4	holypost.com to see all that stuff that you're missing if you're not a Holy Post Plus member
1:08.8	and learn how you can sign up today. Here is episode
1:12.4	659.
1:13.6	Hey there, welcome back to the Holy Post podcast. I'm Phil Vischer. I'm a little under the weather,
1:19.6	so my energy might be a little lower today because I fear if I try to keep it at my normal feverish pitch, I won't make it to the
1:31.2	end of the show. So I'm going to be a little more subdued if that's a tortoise and the hair today,
1:35.8	huh? You're going to go with the long game. Are those the only two options? What's in the middle
1:40.6	between the tortoise and the hair? What would be in the middle? Like a gerbil?
1:46.4	I guess.
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