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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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Listeners share how their churches or other religious communities responded to the deadly violence at the Trump rally on Saturday, Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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

0:11.1

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

0:19.0

look to for guidance responded to the shooting of President

0:23.0

Trump and three rallygoers on Saturday, 212-433 WNYC, and especially for those of you who

0:31.6

attend Sunday services. We do this from time to time on one topic or another. What did you

0:37.0

hear in church or in synagogue

0:38.8

or in mosque over the weekend? In this case, only church applies because the shooting was on

0:44.6

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

0:50.9

of you go every day. It doesn't have to be your religion Sabbath.

0:55.4

But what did you hear in your church pews primarily?

0:59.7

Was it addressed?

1:01.3

Were there messages of coming together, of toning down the temperature of political discourse,

1:07.9

even on your own side, whatever side that is?

1:10.8

Was it ignored? Call us 21 212-433, WNIC,

1:15.8

212, 433-969-2. And maybe one of you listening right now or more among those who gave

1:25.8

whatever message on Sunday. If you are a Christian religious leader,

1:31.6

if you said anything from the pulpit on Sunday about the assassination and

1:36.6

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

1:49.1

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

1:55.1

services yesterday or since the shooting, what have you been saying to your flock?

2:00.3

212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-92. We only have a few minutes for this at the end of the show,

2:10.2

so call right up. You'll basically get right on. The Washington Post looked nationally at how some

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