This is the John Fugel-Sang Podcast.

Welcome back.

So the only way you can follow both Donald Trump and Jesus is if you've never read either of their books.

And if you listen to this show, you know all about how right-wing politics has used a distorted version of Christianity

as a cloaking device for right-wing thudgery for generations

and in the last four decades criminalizing abortion has eaten and replaced

actual Christianity but kept its name and mutated into many ugly forms of fundamentalism which have nothing to do with the character of Jesus

Whether you believe in him is literal fact or not I want to talk about a movie that's not only the first great film of 2024

But it might already be the most important film

you will see in all of 2024 the new documentary God and country it looks at the rise

and the of people who are regulars on this show and Thea Butler,

Jemar Tisbee, Kristen Dumay, Andrew Seidell, Resa Aslan,

sister Simone Campbell, it's directed by Dan Partland who produced Welcome to the

Dollhouse and the Ballad of Ramblin Jag.

He won his Emmy for Best Non Fiction Series for American High.

It's produced by two friends of this show, Michelle and Rob Reiner. Rob is an old friend of

this show and one of America's finest artists, a man who knows how celebrity

can be repurposed in service of

society and he makes really good films they just screened it on Capitol Hill

we are thrilled to have them here Dan and Rob welcome to Sirius XM and thank you for

this movie. John thank you for this movie.

John, thank you so much for having us and you know we do go back and we have done, we've been on stage together and it's always a pleasure being around you John because you really do know this stuff

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