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Unholier Than Thou

So, is this Karma?

Unholier Than Thou

Unholier Than Thou

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7903 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week, Phill takes a deep dive into what’s been on all of our minds: Is Donald Trump finally experiencing the karmic retribution he deserves? Former Buddhist monk, author, and meditation teacher Jason Siff explains a little bit about the philosophy of Karma—and what we in the West tend to get wrong about it. Then, the ACLU’s Chase Strangio joins Phill for a follow-up discussion about the Supreme Court, and how “religious freedom” disputes could potentially push the justices to overturn marriage equality in the future.


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0:18.0

From Cricket media, this is unholyer than now. I'm your host Philip Picardy. We've got a lot of ground to cover today thanks to our living in a general hellscape.

0:22.0

And a little bit later on, we'll be talking to the ACLU. thanks to our living in a general hellscape.

0:22.6

And a little bit later on, we'll be talking to the ACLU's Chase Strangio

0:26.0

about a renewed threat to gay marriage

0:28.0

under so-called religious freedom laws heading to the Supreme Court.

0:31.4

But first, a slightly more pressing matter.

0:34.3

Last week we asked a timely, in fact maybe too timely question, is it a sin to hate Donald

0:40.3

Trump?

0:41.4

And then the very evening before our episode aired, the news broke.

0:44.7

Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19.

0:47.7

This stunning news, the President of the United States now confirming to the world that he and the first lady of the United States

0:55.5

have both tested positive for the coronavirus and they will quarantine. The

1:00.8

president tweeting out just moments ago here in the United States.

1:04.5

Immediately the discourse abounded from liberals and conservatives alike, many of whom urged

1:09.3

prayer for the president and the president's

1:15.0

the president's diagnosis and subsequent plummeting in the polls has prompted all sorts of

1:19.3

spiritual questions but the one I'm most interested in has to do with a little something called

1:23.9

karma and then a plot again at the very end of the debate but if you could if you could

1:28.8

keep your, restrain your enthusiasm between those two times, I'd appreciate it.

1:34.0

And if you could send me a little good karma, that would also be appreciated, but quietly.

1:38.8

Most of us know about karma from the age-old phrase, what goes around, comes around.

1:43.4

But is it really that simple?

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