Giving Grace and Buying Guns
Unholier Than Thou
Unholier Than Thou
4.7 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Now that the facism is ebbing, should the apologies be flowing? That's what Phill is hoping to glean from Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg. She walks us through the process of repentance and if you're required to forgive the MAGA hat wearers in your life. Next, Pastor Mike McBride joins to dissuade Phill from buying a gun to defend himself in the event of a rocky transition of power. Turns out firearms lead to violence, not safety! Who knew?
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| 0:18.0 | From Crooked Media, this is unholyer than now. I'm your host, Philip Picardy. By the time last week's episode aired, we still did not know the results of the 2020 presidential election. |
| 0:24.0 | So let me just say it here and now. Thank God! |
| 0:28.0 | Joe Biden is the President-elect of the United States. |
| 0:31.0 | To all of you who voted, organized, protested, and stress ate pints of ice cream on your |
| 0:36.0 | couch for the entirety of last week, I salute you. Well, last weekend was marked by celebration, |
| 0:41.5 | this week was marked by, well, the unknown. |
| 0:45.2 | As Republicans continued to mount their efforts to steal this election, by repeating claims |
| 0:49.2 | of voter fraud without evidence, and now by refusing to peacefully transition to the Biden administration |
| 0:54.0 | our good old friend existential dread is back with a vengeance. |
| 0:58.0 | 2020 it just keeps on coming doesn't it? So today I'm exploring two ends of this existential dread. on Black and Brown Gun Violence Prevention Consortium. |
| 1:12.8 | He'll be answering a question that maybe popped up on your group threads at some point this year. |
| 1:17.0 | Should we actually be scared? |
| 1:19.0 | And should we be arming ourselves? |
| 1:21.9 | But first, people of faith all over are tackling a question that may feel more |
| 1:26.0 | immediate? What do we do with the Trump supporters in our lives? Almost immediately, |
| 1:30.9 | Republican pundits and talking heads urged us to reach out to the Trumpies, |
| 1:34.7 | to feel their pain and not gloate, that the next few months should be marked with forgiveness. |
| 1:40.5 | Katie Perry, under fire over her push to get this, to reach out to her family members. Thank you |
| 1:45.0 | friends, if you know me, and I hope you're family members who supported President Trump, how dare she? |
| 1:48.0 | Well friends, if you know me, and I hope you do by now, |
| 1:51.0 | you know that didn't sit right with me at all. So I'm phoning a friend, the |
| 1:54.4 | Rabbi Dona Ruttenberg, to help me understand where we all go from here. |
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