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Losing the Fear of Evangelical Hell

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to ex-evangelical writer Chrissy Stroop, co-editor of “Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church,” about being raised in—and leaving—a fundamentalist discipline, what she learned in her religious school, Christian apologetics, where fundamentalism and authoritarianism intersect, and how she lost her visceral fear of Hell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the last response for these two days of question and answers to that that I got

0:06.2

from the president's team and that is let's just assume he did it so what.

0:12.7

Abusive power is an exceedingly difficult theory to use to impeach your president.

0:19.1

Judges says if the Congress can't enforce its subpoenas in court then what remedy is there

0:25.8

and the Justice Department of Lawyers' Responses? Impeachment. Impeachment.

0:32.4

You can't make this up.

0:37.3

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernin. As Adam Schiff and the rest of the

0:41.8

venerable House managers continues to present Shakespeare and James Baldwin to the duck dynasty

0:48.0

and pizza gate crowd. God these people. Their amazing rhetoric is lost on the GOP senators.

0:55.2

I'm still with Chuck Schumer. An acquittal of Trump if the Republicans keep refusing a real trial

1:02.7

will not acquit him. This will be like the OJ jury. You know the jury says not guilty for their own

1:09.4

jury nullification purposes but everybody knows he's guilty. He was guilty in the wrongful death case

1:17.0

and history judges him guilty and then OJ ends up in jail for other crimes. You know Brett Kavanaugh

1:24.4

the non acquittal acquittal. I might believe too piously that the truth always has the last word

1:30.2

but when the Republicans in the Senate refused to give the FBI one damn week to investigate

1:38.0

the evidence and testimony about Brett Kavanaugh's sexual misconduct they didn't even look at or

1:44.3

question his crazy demeanor in that trial. That to me was credible in the extreme. They put him on

1:51.4

the Supreme Court but under a cloud he didn't get a chance to clear his name and until history

1:56.6

brings all the facts to light he'll still be in the words of the Mueller report not exonerated.

2:03.8

Anyway that's my hope for this trial and Adam Schiff if you're listening I hope you can find

2:09.4

the 30,000 operating systems that are missing from each individual Republican senators heart

2:14.7

soul and brain. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.

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