Episode 414: Religious Power vs. Religious Liberty with David French

The Holy Post

Phil Vischer

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

There are few public thinkers the Holy Post cites more often than David French, and he's finally here in person! (Well, in person via Zoom.) French is the Senior Editor of The Dispatch, a columnist for Time, and a pro-life conservative attorney. Although many Christians are worried about the erosion of religious liberty, French says, "We have never enjoyed more religious liberty than we do right now." The problem is that Christians are losing cultural power, and our attempts to retain it are often doing more harm than good. He helps us understand recent Supreme Court rulings about religious liberty and LGBT rights, why conservatives who are against face masks aren't really pro-life, and how both the Left and Right get racism wrong. French explains why he will not vote for Trump, and why evangelicals have gone from holding their noses to enthusiastic support of a president who lacks both character and competency. Plus, what is "David Frenchism" and should we be worried about it?

The Case for Religious Liberty is More Compelling than the Case for Christian Power - The Dispatch:

https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-case-for-religious-liberty-is

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0:00.0	Hey there. Welcome back to the Holypost podcast. This is Phil Bissier. I'm here with Christian Taylor.
0:04.4	A. Phil.
0:05.2	I Christian and Skyjitani.
0:07.3	Hi.
0:08.1	Hi, Sky. And we have, we have a special guest who I'm not going to introduce yet.
0:14.4	Same thing, special guest. Don't make a peep. They'll guess your voice.
0:18.0	Unless they're watching this on YouTube and then they'll actually have already seen your face and
0:21.2	they've Googled you on an image search and they know who you are and are tweeting about it right
0:24.6	now and are already getting angry at you.
0:27.0	Um, but we have a special guest and we're not going to do news. We're not going to do the normal
0:30.3	opening segment because we want to just take the whole time to talk to him because, you know,
0:33.8	it's going to be fun. So here's a theme song.
0:56.4	Our special guest is none other than David French, the journalist writer, author,
1:04.4	equestrian hunter of grouse and small game. I don't really have a good,
1:11.2	I don't really have a good bio. Do you, are you a hunter?
1:14.4	Yeah, he's the senior editor of the dispatch and a, and a, and a rack war vet and an attorney.
1:20.7	And I mean, come on Phil, give him some credit.
1:22.7	I just Googled real quick and it just, okay, David Austin,
1:25.5	French is an American attorney, political commentator and author,
1:28.3	the wiki, a fellow, yeah, is it wrong? Because for a while, my wicket,
1:32.5	P.D. entry said I worked for Amico as a truck driver.
1:36.6	No, people would actually introduce me on stage reading that.
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