A SCOTUS Opening

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(10-27-2020, 11:16 AM)PhilHos Wrote: Like I said, I think if it was true, there'd be real world examples to point to. 


Let's be honest here. Cult has a negative connotation and is thrown at many religious groups with the sole purpose of belittling that group or members of that group and/or religion as a whole. 

What do you mean by real world examples? 

There are reports from former members such as this that claim the group expected her to speak in tongues and, when she failed to do so, blamed her inability to do so on her sins. They have a recent history of belief in exorcisms, prophecy, expecting their members to take in people and work for the group free of charge and instilling a sense of obedience into the women from a very young age.

I grant that this may just be a scorned former member situation, but doesn't that sound like a cult to you? And doesn't it also sound like something that the government wouldn't do anything about even if true? At the very least, it should be viewed with skepticism when discussing the confirmation of a lifetime role for a judge who can meaningfully affect millions of people's lives with her opinions.

As the article states:

Quote:Massimo Faggioli, a professor of theology at Villanova University, said that even if senators declined to question Barrett about her faith, the issues deserved to be aired in other forums because groups like People of Praise, he said, do reject a secular view of separation between church and state.

“I don’t think we should put her Catholicism on trial, but the Catholic conservative legal movement is putting liberalism on trial. They want to change a certain understanding of the liberal order of individual rights, and that is coming from the religious worldview of Catholic groups,” he said.