#263 Trump’s Blasphemous Meme Points To A Bigger Problem… - Joe Heschmeyer

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Joe discusses how Trump's blasphemous meme highlights a deeper spiritual issue in contemporary culture.

Joe examines how Trump’s blasphemous meme actually points to a more serious problem spiritually in our culture today, and it’s a problem that most of us struggle with. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and this Easter season has been a wild one for American Catholics, particularly in terms of the clash of church and state. On Easter Sunday morning, President Trump tweeted to the Iranians threatening to attack power plants and bridges and to open the bleeping straight, or they would be living in hell, signing off with a mocking praise be to...

People in this episode

Host: Joe Heschmeyer

Topics covered

• blasphemy
• spirituality
• culture
• Trump
• Catholicism
• church and state

Keywords

• Trump
• blasphemy
• spiritual problem
• Easter
• Catholics
• church and state

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Catholic Answers

Places: Iran

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