(October 15, 2020 at 4:14 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: It does paint her as a dogmatic person - but as she and the FFRF have crossed swords before - you really wouldn't expect an unbiased opinion.......
Anything from any law review mags or other groups with less bias?
Let me ask you, do you think that ffrf is wrong when they claim that:
- Barrett is hostile to reproductive justice and the right to safe abortion access
- Barret wants to strip health care from millions of Americans
- Barrett supports Christian Nationalist efforts against immigration
- Barrett opposes giving First Amendment litigants their day in court
And is there any other reason she could be all that that is not because of religious dogma?
And when it comes to other publications, the articles about her are "Well, we're not sure. Maybe she's serious and maybe she's not all that serious, you decide."
Like this article from wp
Quote:The story behind Amy Coney Barrett’s little-known Christian group People of Praise
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee, is a hero of some religious Americans, but others view her connection to a little-understood faith group with deep suspicion.
Some view People of Praise — which calls for members to seek guidance in many aspects of their lives from a personal spiritual guide — as having a potentially inappropriate sway over a judge’s decision-making. Even Pope Francis in 2014 warned lay-led groups such as Barrett’s about “usurping individual freedom” and delegating “important decisions about their lives to others.”
When Barrett was confirmed as a U.S. Circuit Court judge in 2017, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) angered some Catholics by bringing up Barrett’s Catholicism. “You have a long history of believing your religious beliefs should prevail,” Feinstein said to Barrett. “When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you. And that’s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for years in this country.”
Feinstein’s oddly worded phrase that “the dogma lives loudly” became an instant meme among some Catholics, who said it showed outright bias, and they put it on coffee mugs and T-shirts as a sign of pride.
Thomas Csordas, an anthropologist at the University of California at San Diego who is a leading scholar on Catholic charismatic groups, said the same communal impulse that generated the hippie communes of the 1960s fueled religious groups such as People of Praise at the same time. “They were looking for that sense of community. They took it in a direction that was conservative, authoritarian and patriarchal,” he said.
Massimo Faggioli, a church historian and theologian at Villanova University, a Catholic school, studies these lay-led movements — also called “renewal” groups — that began popping up since Vatican II. They are, he says, considered both engines of innovation and energy within the Catholic Church but also potentially of concern, because in some cases they lack transparency and can be “very militant. They are like Christians of the second and third century. They devote everything to the mission.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/...y-barrett/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"