French Friday: Feckless Politicians & Fearful Churches
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
As the Supreme Court releases a slate of new rulings the justices appear to be sending a message: "Congress, do your job!" David French explains to Skye Jethani why congressional leaders are increasingly reluctant to take votes or pass laws, how this is making the presidency dangerously powerful, and why the courts are saying it's unconstitutional and harmful to democracy. Then, David tells why his former denomination canceled him—with some members even calling him a "heretic"—despite his full agreement with all of their doctrine and positions. Why are so many churches being driven by fear and non-essential beliefs?
0:00 - Theme Song
0:17 - Episode Starts
1:17 - Garland V. Cargill
5:34 - Trump Changing Statutes
9:20 - Obama Changing Statutes
13:50 - Congress Refusing to Pass Laws
20:33 - Why Congress Doesn’t Want to Pass Laws
29:51 - How Low-Information Voters Feed Into This Ecosystem
32:06 - The Right Thing to Do vs Appeasing the Mobs
42:05 - When Every Issue is Considered a Fundamental
49:16 - When Every Issue is a Foreground Decision
58:16 - What a Partisan Fears
1:01:20 - Capitulation is Not Peace, the Center Does Not Hold
1:07:23 - End Credits
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| 0:00.0 | Guess what day it is. |
| 0:03.0 | It's French Friday, it's French Friday, |
| 0:06.0 | so grab your prize and say hooray. |
| 0:09.0 | David French is here to play on French Friday. |
| 0:12.0 | It's French Friday. |
| 0:13.0 | It's French Friday. |
| 0:17.4 | Hey everyone, welcome back. |
| 0:18.6 | I am here for another French Friday with David French. |
| 0:21.1 | Hi David. |
| 0:22.4 | Hey Sky, great to see you. You too, I know it's a really |
| 0:25.3 | really busy season for you because you and Sarah over at the Advisory Opinions |
| 0:30.0 | Podcast are doing a lot of emergency pods about all the decisions coming down from the Supreme Court because what do they have two weeks left to issue the remaining decisions? |
| 0:39.0 | I mean we expect them by the end of next week. So by the end of June, a lot of big ones. |
| 0:46.6 | It's going to be a very busy several days. |
| 0:50.4 | Right, so we're recording this, what's the date today, the 20th? |
| 0:54.3 | So, yes. |
| 0:55.6 | When people actually hear this pod, |
| 0:57.2 | there may be some big decisions that have come down, |
| 0:59.0 | but a lot of them haven't yet. |
| 1:00.6 | I do want to talk about one decision that came out earlier this week or last week I can't remember. |
| 1:06.3 | Garland versus Cargill and I want to talk about it not because of the particulars of the case itself |
| 1:11.8 | but what it represents about the sort of dysfunction of our government today. |
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