Weekly Roundup: Constitutional Originalism and Biblical Literalism

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Dan briefs us on the dueling presidential town halls before he and Brad explain the tenets of Constitutional Originalism, a legal philosophy Amy Coney Barrett claims to hold. They compare it to a separate, but related issue--biblical literalism. In both cases, conservative actors claim to hold the "original" meaning of the text in order to combat social and cultural progress. But, as Dan and Brad explain, a century of philosophy and hermeneutics has shown both to be untenable. From there they discuss the voter suppression efforts the GOP has waged in TX, CA, and GA. They wrap up by analyzing the shocking comments from pastor John MacArturthur, who claimed recently that God made Earth a disposable planet for humans to use and then discard. For Brad, this signals a creeping turn to authoritarianism and scorched-earth (literally in this case) politics. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Skidmore College, and here are with my co-host today.
0:21.0	I'm Dan Miller, Associate Professor of Religion and Social Thought at
0:26.3	Landmark College. Brad, it's good to see you here in California where I think it's a
0:30.0	lot hotter than it is today in Massachusetts.
0:33.1	One of those times when the temperature difference
0:35.6	is probably pretty striking way of the heat wave.
0:37.5	We're worried about more fires,
0:38.7	so it's going to be in the 90s today.
0:40.6	And I think you're probably getting close to freezing.
0:43.3	Does that sound right?
0:45.0	Yeah, I think tonight actually
0:46.4	is supposed to be our first night where we get down to freezing.
0:48.5	There you go.
0:49.5	There you go. I'm all about it.
0:51.9	So we're both in the teeth of the semester. I know everyone out there is
0:55.8	tired. I know a lot of you are on online school, online helping kids with
1:01.1	their school, everybody's working online life.
1:05.0	And those of us who are lucky to, you know, have jobs and be making our way in the economy this way where we are lucky but I also know that it's it's tough and everyone's struggling in various ways so
1:18.6	Got a bunch of things I want to talk about today Dan
1:21.7	Principally the ongoing Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings and this idea of originalism. But before we get there, two town halls last night, two competing town halls.
1:34.8	I think a lot of eye rolling from the American public
1:37.2	of just like what is going on here.
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