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The Brian Lehrer Show

How Your Religious Leaders Responded to Saturday's Shooting

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Bryan, Politics, Arts, Npr, News, Wnyc, News Commentary, Nyc, Daily News, Lerer, New, Public, Radio, Media, York

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Listeners share how their churches or other religious communities responded to the deadly violence at the Trump rally on Saturday,

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0:00.0

Brian Lera on WNYC and in our last few minutes this morning we want to check in on how your religious

0:11.8

guides, let's say priests, pastors, rabbis, imams, or anyone of a religious

0:18.3

nature who you look to for guidance responded to the shooting of President Trump and three rally goers on Saturday

0:25.8

212 433 WNYC and especially for those of you who attend Sunday services.

0:33.2

We do this from time to time on one topic or another.

0:36.5

What did you hear in church or in synagogue or in mosque

0:40.6

over the weekend?

0:41.4

In this case, only church applies because the shooting was on

0:44.8

Sunday night I mean on Saturday night so we only have the Sunday services

0:50.2

although some of you go every day it doesn't have to be your religion Sabbath, but what

0:56.2

did you hear in your church pews primarily?

1:00.0

Was it addressed?

1:01.4

Were there messages of coming together of toning down the

1:05.4

temperature of political discourse, even on your own side, whatever side that is?

1:10.3

Was it ignored?

1:11.9

Call us 212 433, WNYC.

1:15.8

212 433 962.

1:20.6

And maybe one of you listening right now or more are among those who gave whatever message on Sunday.

1:28.0

If you are a Christian religious leader, if you said anything from the pulpit on Sunday

1:35.2

about the assassination and contextualized assassination attempt of course and

1:40.4

contextualized it in any way as a priest, as a pastor, or for that matter, those of you who might

1:49.0

be rabbis or imams or other religious leaders, even if you didn't have official organized services yesterday

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