Bonus Sample: Imaginary Children: “God’s Word on Spanking”

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This is the second episode in “Conspirituality and the Imaginary Children,” an occasional series on how children, as symbols (but not persons with their own internal lives) are at the center of conspirituality anxiety and discourse. The title is taken from a pamphlet published by Ralph Drollinger, a former professional basketball player from San Diego who founded a 501c3 called Capitol Ministries in 1996 to facilitate prayer meetings and study guides for congresspeople in Washington, and state legislators in more than 40 states. Drollinger’s crowning achievement was to initiate a weekly Bible study group in the White House during the Trump administration. The 60-90 minutes were regularly attended by ten Trump cabinet members. Like many evangelicals, Drollinger argues that spanking children is mandated by the Bible But he also goes a Trumpian extra mile—explicitly connecting the virtue of child assault in the home to the state’s monopoly on violence. Matthew walks through what this looks like and how Drollinger justifies it through narrow and dishonest readings of scripture. Show Notes God's Word on Spanking [text] God’s Word on Spanking [youtube] 194: The Power Worshippers (w/Katherine Stewart) — Conspirituality How the Trump Cabinet’s Bible Teacher Became a Shadow Diplomat - The New York Times White House Bible Study Led by Pastor Who Is Anti-Gay, Anti-Women and Anti-Catholic - Newsweek Is God Judging America Today? by Ralph Drollinger Ralph Drollinger | GLAAD Exclusive Interview with Ralph Drollinger: Meet the preacher who teaches the Bible to the US Cabinet - WELT Capitol Ministries 2023 revenue Jordan B. Peterson’s Support of Corporal Punishment for Children: A Critique - Mad In America Shepherding a Child's Heart — Tripp Shepherding a Child's Heart (a short critique) — DonOwsley.com Ministry Versus Political Activism by Ralph Drollinger Text of the Spencer Spanking Plan Misused Scripture: Jeremiah 17:9. HEBREW WORD STUDY – Deceitful and Wicked אנשׁ עכב | Chaim Bentorah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to Conspirituality where we investigate the
0:06.8	intersection of conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover
0:10.6	cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism.
0:14.0	I'm Matthew Remsky.
0:16.0	We're on Instagram and threads at Conspiruality Pod
0:20.0	and you can access all of our episodes ad free,
0:23.2	plus our Monday bonus episodes on Patreon,
0:25.6	or just our bonus episodes via Apple subscriptions.
0:29.4	We've got a book out.
0:30.3	It's called Conspiratoriality
0:32.0	How New Age Conspiracy Theories became a health threat.
0:35.0	It's in print, e-book, and audiobook format narrated by me.
0:40.0	Okay, so this is the second episode in an occasional series called Conspir spirituality
0:46.4	and the Imaginary Children. At the end of March I released an introduction to
0:51.0	this series so you can scroll back through your
0:52.8	Patreon feed and look for that before jumping in here. To recap that intro, this
0:59.0	series will be looking at how children as symbols but not persons with their own internal lives are at the
1:05.9	center of conspiratoriality, anxiety, and discourse. I'll be looking at two types of
1:11.5	imaginary child in this landscape. One is an object of dread and the
1:16.8	other is an idol of aspiration. Now the first episode that I produced in this series back in the spring it started in that
1:26.4	dread category with the title being fetal remains and it was about how two men both leaders in the anti-abortion movement invested real fetal
1:36.0	remains with passionate but imaginary desires that obscured from them how much harm
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -246 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.