Anonymous ID: a9091d Sept. 26, 2020, 3:04 p.m. No.10801623   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Amy Coney Barrett & The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Claim Explained

 

Updated Sep 26, 2020 at 5:11pm

 

Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who is Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Supreme Court, belongs to a religious group known as the “People of Praise” that assigns advisers who were once called handmaids and heads to members, according to The New York Times, which interviewed current and former members of the organization.

 

As a result of the term handmaids being used previously by the group, some news organizations have said outright that People of Praise inspired Margaret Atwood’s famed novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. However, is this true? The author herself has said she’s not sure, and there’s evidence she previously claimed inspiration from a different Catholic group, not People of Praise.

 

A spokesperson for the People of Praise told Heavy the term handmaid was used by the group to mirror Mary, Jesus’s mother, calling herself “the handmaid of the Lord” in the Bible, but the group changed the term for female leaders because its meaning has shifted in culture.

 

Did the sect inspire Margaret Atwood’s famous book The Handmaid’s Tale? Even the author isn’t sure.

 

Atwood told Politico she wasn’t sure whether People of Praise helped inspire her book because her notes are at a university and she can’t get them due to coronavirus. “Unless I can go back into the clippings file, I hesitate to say anything specific,” she told Politico, which added that Atwood, when writing her book, “read news reports about women’s rights and religious fundamentalism, including a report about another charismatic Catholic group in New Jersey that used the term ‘Handmaiden.'” People of Praise no longer uses the term.

 

https://heavy.com/news/amy-coney-barrett-handmaids-tale-margaret-atwood/

Anonymous ID: a9091d Sept. 26, 2020, 3:28 p.m. No.10801874   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1901

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