FRENCH FRIDAY: The Great American Divorce

The Holy Post

Phil Vischer

Skyejethani, Society & Culture, Philvischer, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, 226012, Christiantaylor, Atheism, Veggietales

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🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Recent polling has found that a majority of Trump voters (52%) and a significant number of Biden voters (41%) support breaking up the country. Has our animosity and disgust for each other made reconciliation impossible? Are we heading toward a national divorce? Skye Jethani and David French discuss his recent articles about the rise of malice in our political divisions and within the church. Why have so many evangelicals embraced anger as a virtue, and how has our pragmatic theology contributed to the problem? Then, they debate the role of social media in the breakdown of national unity and the recent leak of the “Facebook Papers.” French is reluctant to blame social media companies for what is ultimately a problem with human hearts, while Skye says the tech giants must take more responsibility for the damage their platforms are inflicting.

Malice and anger in political division [00:28]
https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/personal-harassment-is-spiraling

https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/jd-vance-and-the-great-challenge

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10050039/More-HALF-Trump-voters-want-red-states-secede-union.html

Malice and anger in the church [20:34

]Social media and the “Facebook Papers” [38:11]
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/facebook-papers-democracy-election-zuckerberg/620478/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-algorithm-change-zuckerberg-11631654215

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0:00.0	David French, welcome back.
0:02.0	Oh, thanks for having me back. I appreciate it.
0:04.1	I was going to say welcome back to the Holy Post,
0:05.9	but this is officially now French Friday.
0:09.4	I love it. I love it.
0:11.2	You can lay in everything.
0:13.9	Yes, what day it is.
0:15.5	Oh, it's French Friday.
0:17.8	It's French Friday.
0:18.9	So grab your prize and say,
0:20.5	Hey, David French is here to play on French Friday.
0:25.4	It's French Friday.
0:27.2	You've been busy writing as always, and there's two pieces that you've written in October
0:32.2	that one October 5th was called Personal Harassment Is Spiraling Out of Control.
0:37.6	And then more recently, October 25th, you wrote J.D. Vance in the Great Challenge of Christian
0:42.8	Malice. So I saw these as somewhat related, and I thought it would be a good point for us to
0:48.8	start at. Let's begin with the J.D. Vance piece. For those who aren't aware of J.D. Vance, he's the
0:54.5	author of Hillbilly Elegy, which then became, it was the best-selling book, then became a movie.
1:00.3	You've interviewed him. You had positive things to say. I think about the movie as well.
1:04.0	Yeah, yeah. I liked the movie.
1:05.6	He's now a Senate candidate from Ohio.
1:08.8	Yeah. Talk a little bit just to get everybody up to speed on the same page.
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