Michelle Cottle
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2,005 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Sep
Michelle Cottle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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you know, kind of totally relate to his angsting about the Protestantism that he grew up in and all its emotion-based and the charisma and so much of it being based on whether you're having a very intense personal experience with God.
And I totally get how he wound up drawn to Catholicism.
But I'm coming at this as someone, obviously, who grew up in the hellfire and brimstone side of this.
I want...
take of you guys?
Because you're cradle Catholics, right?
Both of you?
Carlos, do you want to get theological before we dig more into the politics of it all?
I think probably we had some sermons on that when I was growing up.
I think what struck me, and obviously the intellectualism seems to be more what he's comfortable with.
He does mention that he grew up and learned to be very suspicious of emotion-driven experiences.
Yeah.
But also, as the child of dysfunction and abuse and had alcoholism and substance abuse in his family, and he saw all this kind of complete chaos, it makes very clear that he likes the structure of Catholicism, which is not – which is just –
Yards beyond what the Protestants can ever come up with, you know, like the ritual that there is a program toward working toward having your soul be ready for heaven.
It's not just that you that it happens in a flash.
And I totally get this.
I always found this a problem with the faith tradition that I grew up in.
And it's just crazy.
But it clearly was an issue for him as well, and he talks about how it isn't just a one-and-done sort of thing.
The Catholic Church kind of has a program and a ritual and some structure for everything.
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