Correction: This article’s headline originally stated that People of Praise inspired ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. The book’s author, Margaret Atwood, has never specifically mentioned the group as being the inspiration for her work. A New Yorker profile of the author from 2017 mentions a newspaper clipping as part of her research for the book of a different charismatic Catholic group, People of Hope. Newsweek regrets the error.
Whoops! People of Hope, People of Praise, whatever.
Speaking of erroneous BS. Earlier this evening some Freeper posted without any source whatsoever, that the Judge that is said to be at the top of the Presidents list is a believer and practitioner of Speaking in Tongues.
The Freeper intimated that this will sink Barret’s nomination. When challenged by me for an authoritative source for the post I got crickets.
There are a good many people that oppose Trumps likely nominee for a myriad of reasons. Many of those reasons appear to be very dubious.
I think the “Hand Maiden’s Tale” tells you more about the Democrats than anything they want to point at. They are hung up on sex, substituting it for some quasi religious experience where they defy morality and their father — that oppressive patriarch — and the Father above (God). Yes, the Democrats have an issue with this tale and they keep pulling it out maybe thinking one day they will understand their attraction to it. It borders on neurotic hatred where the father should be in chains confined to a Burning Lake of Fire like Satan. The Democrats have issues with “freedom FROM”: Freedom from their dads. They can only destroy and not create, they are the barren ones not the women. Their lack of freedom from their fathers also demands that everyone not be free. This is a sordid Hand Wringing Tale and the Democrats are not Maidens. They are hen pecked husbands who want cuckoldry on every level, sex at every opportunity, as a religious escape from their oppressive “Puritan” dads. If the Democrats had freedom TO (rather than freedom from) they would be able to create, they would have freedom to chose creative options. Good grief, as it is they should get some counselling and save us, and themselves, from this tiresome embarrassment.
My conjecture is that the popularity of playing "dress up" fulfills a secret desire of these women to be impregnated and bear children. And why not? It is a natural desire for fertile young women.
Dressing up as "handmaids" helps them live their fantasy of having children and a family. In their social circles, expressing such a desire outside of costume would bring shunning, derision, and hateful reprisals.
We have one chance and only one chance to get an originalist on the court before the election. We all know that this is a red herring, but the RATs will seize upon it and turn hearings into a circus.
We are far better off to pick anyone else and start preparing the battlespace for Barrett during DJTs second term.
Sometimes life isn't fair, but we need to win this one.
If the RATs can prevent a confirmation it will be a blow to his re-election chances and quite possibly an opportunity wasted. Not a good thing.
Doesn’t matter - they did their job. Now most of the Left permanently believes this.
We knew several home schoolers in Illinois who belonged to “People of Praise”, and took our children to their Halloween parties a couple of times.
Frankly, they are lightly charismatic, intelligent, and generally pleasant and optimistic. A little more charismatic in orientation than I care for, but far from anything I would call extreme or cultist.
FAKE NEWSWEEK.
The Senate should vote Monday morning without hearings.
Actually i always thought the author was prescient and that the HANDMAIDS TALE foreshadowed the rise of ISLAM in the West.
Barret belongs to this group, https://peopleofpraise.org/about/who-we-are/covenant/
Feel free to read all the various About pages. Not a group I would join but different strokes for different folks. It’s kinda commune like imho. Under FAQs is “Can a covenanted member leave the People of Praise?”
Odd question.
