On a special season of "Journeys of Faith," ABC News' Paula Faris sits down with 2020 presidential candidates and other political figures to discuss how faith and religion have shaped their politics. In this episode, Paula speaks with presidential candidate Marianne Williamson.
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Here is Paula, in her own words, about the episode.
Democratic presidential candidate and author Marianne Williamson has fascinated many during her run for the White House. She's been described as a "celebrity spiritual adviser," "new age" and even an inspiration to Oprah.
On this episode of "Journeys of Faith," Williamson pushes back on all those monikers, revealing something far more fascinating behind the campaign headlines. She reveals how a set of books called "A Course in Miracles" made her own Jewish beliefs more applicable in her daily life, and explains her own unique perspectives and policies on everything from banning bullets as a solution to gun violence to paying the African-American community reparations for the devastating legacy of slavery in the U.S.
Throughout this episode, you'll hear how love is the driving force in Williamson's life and why she believes it is powerful enough to beat President Trump at the ballot box this fall.
She tells me that "love has the power."
"Love does not morally equivocate,” she says. “And that is what will defeat the president at the ballot box: enough people rising up and looking at something which has already stoked dangerous forces, and saying 'no.'”
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