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Jon Stewart: “Doesn't it allow people an ability to weaponize their faith…”

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Senator Raphael Warnock - Faith, Politics, and "The Crooked Places Made Straight" | The Daily Show

Published | Video Starts at 12:28

And does that open the door to other Christians going, well, let me show you this other quote that gives me a justification. Let's say it's the story of Ham to keep people enslaved. Doesn't it allow people an ability to weaponize their faith for whatever policy they think is right? There is no question that people have often weaponized faith or faith language in service to slavery, human oppression. The favorite one during the Christian Slavocracy. What an oxymoron. (12:28–12:36)

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