The Nation correspondent Elie Mystal called Supreme Court justices Christian theocratic 'zealots' for their recent decisions on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” on Monday.
The Nation correspondent Elie Mystal claimed that the Supreme Court has promoted a "Christian fundamentalist" worldview that could reintroduce the Salem Witch Trials to society.A panel on MSNBC’s"The ReidOut" denounced the Supreme Court as being too religiously motivated on Monday, with one guest claiming"Christian fundamentalist belief" is being imposed on others.
"What’s really troubling to me is the use of prayer clearly for political influence here. You think about prayer, there’s the old adage that I grew up with: the family that prays together stays together. And that’s because prayer creates a kind of intimate connection of inviting the divine into a human relationship and it basically says we’re on God’s side together, and it’s only a half-step from that to say God is on our side.
"We have tried doing the new world the way Lauren Boebert suggests. You know where that got us? To the witch trials. You know what happened? People died. But with this court, we are not far away from that again. We’re not far away from one of these Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene type of people saying, ‘I saw Goody Mistal speaking with the devil and helping women across the border,’" Mystal said.
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