they re intelligent. he said, i m not a believer. he made it sound as if the science around climate change is a faith claim, is an opinion, right? i don t believe it, right? so at that point what he s doing is he s rejecting the notion of evidence and fact and pulling it into the terrain of opinion, right? and so what we see over and over again is i believe mbs. i believe putin, right? and in each of those instances the belief trumps the fact, right? so in this moment what trump is doing is actually instantiating a post fact world. evidence no longer matters for him. facts no longer matter for him. climate change folk, what we re seeing is a reflection of our faith, of us being believers. aaron, general hayden has talked for many, many months about the president s assault on
this pregnancy is not going to make it. we should end it now to prevent infection. then the hospital administrator said, oh, no, wait, that s against catholic rules and they spent this poor women 08 miles away to tucson for treatment. that s not right. those kinds of stories conflict so fundamentally with the things that i love best about the catholic church, and not just about the catholic church but about catholic hospitals, which have often sort of stood in the gam for the poor, stood in the gap for underserved communities, but then when it comes up against a faith claim, suddenly medical care can t be provided. how do we reconcile something like that? we have to admit it s a possible tension and i think it s going to be a matter of what message you want to lead with and what s going to and whether you re going to kind of give the benefit of the doubt. i think for many years coming out of the second vatican council and whether the catholic church has always wanted to put its b
have this thing turn into a human, why not allow women to make the best choices that we can, with as many resources and options, instead of trying to come in and regulate this process. megyn: this thing, she said, as she s holding a model of an embryo. right, well, first of all, she s said so many things that are so empirically false in such a short amount of time. it s not true that the only people who oppose abortion oppose it because it s a faith claim. there are scientific reasons to oppose abortion, primarily it s a human being, it s a scientific fact, it is alive. that s also a scientific fact. it will also turn into a human unless something happens, but most the time it turns into something that looks a lot like the three of us eventually. so, what i think is more troubling is she sort of makes the argument and then sort of pushes it aside and saying, whether it is a human or not a
their lives, whether or not they drive an suv or don t want to wear a sweater, they are insulted and outraged. so i have experienced, just by the notion of being asked, and i think that part of it is as crucial as what are you talking about. when i think of the way faith plays out in my own life, it s precisely faith claims that would lead me to think that science is an absolute necessity, because faith leads to us ask the question, how do we build the most flourishing community we possibly can? and the space of civil discourse is necessary for that then absolutely, amen, that s a faith claim driving us to civic discussion, but i think in moments like now, part what we see with the rise of this religious language is a deeper sense from ordinary people that what they care about isn t heard, isn t listened to. u.s. a version of the 99.1, but getting expressed in very imoh