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I cannot respect any "Christian" that voted for Trump. Least Christ like person on the planet, quite possibly.
He's literally the antichrist. I'm not being hyperbolic, he fulfills most of the prophecies. I'm no christian, but it's honestly creepy.
A common theme of MAGA is inventing problems that they can solve.
The idea that Christianity in the US is under threat and needs additional protections, is some epic persecution complex.
A common theme of MAGA is inventing problems that they can solve
That they can pretend to solve.
I am a religious person even and this is insane. Do these people not read the Good Book? Trump is clearly the antichrist. And still all these chodes have... simp-pathy for the devil (because they simp so hard. I tried really hard to make that joke work this is the best I can do.)
I'd like to just forget about the church altogether
Well okay, trump is an adulterer and we have clear instructions about what we need to do about that.
The people who claim that America is a "Christian" nation don't ever read anything about the values the founders had. Most of them followed a deist philosophy.
And Thomas Jefferson went out of his way to emphasis the separation of church and state.
I'm starting to feel that Donald Trump might not entirely live up to the bar set by Thomas Jefferson.
The final form of conservative regimes always resorts to imposing religion and rigid moral codes in order to suffocate any form of dissent. Conservatives have been painting themselves as the "rebels" in their manufactured culture wars and the warriors of freeze peach, but in the end it always funnels back to this: Bible authoritarianism. They will use this argument for push for more censorship, information control, stripping away rights and oppressing every community they deem against their dogmas. The writing has been on the wall for a decade now.
I am hoping that America's new implementation of this "Christian state" proves to be grotesque enough to serve as a warning for the rest of the world that even had the fleeting thought of going down this route. And I while am not very hopeful for Americans, I wish they find the strength to resist and revolt against this movement.
Yesterday I watched the documentary "Hail Statan?", about The Satanic Temple. Not a bombastic documentary but shows a bit what they are, what modern satanism is and what they do in the US. They do mostly require an intact legal system to fight christian overreach so maybe its over for their legal battles
Oh lovely, a christian theocracy. How long before they start talking about having morality police?
This is a complete upheaval of the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment of the Constitution per Wikipedia's entry on Separation of church and state:
Jefferson and the Bill of Rights
In English, the exact term is an offshoot of the phrase, "wall of separation between church and state", as written in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. In that letter, referencing the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Jefferson writes:
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.[6]
Jefferson was describing to the Baptists that the United States Bill of Rights prevents the establishment of a national church, and in so doing they did not have to fear government interference in their right to expressions of religious conscience. The Bill of Rights, adopted in 1791 as ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States, was one of the earliest political expressions against the political establishment of religion. Others were the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, also authored by Jefferson and adopted by Virginia in 1786; and the French Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789.
The metaphor "a wall of separation between Church and State" used by Jefferson in the above quoted letter became a part of the First Amendment jurisprudence of the U.S. Supreme Court. It was first used by Chief Justice Morrison Waite in Reynolds v. United States (1878). American historian George Bancroft was consulted by Waite in the Reynolds case regarding the views on establishment by the framers of the U.S. constitution. Bancroft advised Waite to consult Jefferson. Waite then discovered the above quoted letter in a library after skimming through the index to Jefferson's collected works according to historian Don Drakeman.[30]
As an atheist that agrees more with Buddhism and Paganism than any organized religion this infuriating. I went to Catholic Church and school for 18 years of my life, I know what it's like to be "forced" to believe in something you don't.
Are they going to keep records of who goes to what churches and arrest people if they don't go to the correct church at the correct time and day?
I don't give a shit what anyone believes as long as they are not an asshole, that's their own business. I've had people try to shove their religion on me and it's not fun. If I had the financial means to leave this country I absolutely would now even if I was a Christian and went to church every Sunday.
This is REALLY freaking dangerous and scary on top of all the REALLY freaking dangerous and scary other bullshit Orange Man and his Disciples of Dumbasses have been doing since January 20th.
So I occasionally check the Fox News site just to see what the idiot commenters say because I find it sad yet entertaining...anyway for the article that was posted about htis issue several people were like "this is a good thing, because sepration of church and state isn't in teh constitution" like bruh have you read the constiutuion? It's literally stated in teh first amendment xD
Amendments aren't part of the constitution... except the 2nd!
Christian here.
Trump can fuck all the way off with that bullshit.
The separation of church and state protects the church from the state at least as much as the state from the church. Christians should fear a "Christian" state.
This. All the Christians that support a theocracy need to stop and realise that there's no guarantee that their particular denomination is going to be the one running said theocracy. The whole concept of freedom of religion depends on the separation of church and state.
Well then Allah be praised!
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Maybe if they bring back the church into politics he will learn who this Jesus guy is who everyone is talking about. Might be surprised that he was a "radical leftist"
White supply-side Jesus is different from biblical Jesus which is different from historical Jesus.
What the ever loving fuck?!!!!
If your god loving right now punch your balls for me. You did this. And for what? I don't see me believing in your fucking Jesus anytime soon when you keep fucking around with my science. I much rather you not take advantage of any science so you can be pure to your stupid fucking retarded ways:
Drop this phone carefully so others can use it.
Cancel every single subscription.
No LEDs, LCDS, chips of any kind for you
No refrigeration for you.
No cars for you.
No glass for you.
No insulation for you.
No plastics or fuel for you... You may burn animals or wood.
So take off your clothes fucker, you're wearing animal skins wool or silk and you're paying for that shit.
No elevators for you, you asshole!
No metal parts of any kind, all those use science.
Prescription glasses? Not for you fucker. Taken off...
No aspirin or meds of any kind. Make some tea you asshole, maybe Jesus will heal you.
Cement? Asphalt, nope, you're gonna go chop wood by hand using a piece of flint to cut it and you'll live happy because that's what Jesus did for a living.
No electricity or batteries, those things are based on science... No motors or lights, no compass or GPS. No.mosquito repellent or shark repellent or bear repellent or sun screen or bicycles or telescopes or microscopes. And here's your covid back asks Jesus if he wants you dead a little to the left or a little to the right.
I'm totally fine if you want all that for yourself.
That's because Trump thinks that he is god
well he does also want to become pope. maybe he wants to multi class but what we really wish is if he dual classed.
"Our Country." Is just his White America/Klansmen base. We need that separation more than ever.
I'm gonna teach about how church molests everything it touches. I'm going to teach how religion uses "peace and love" as a rouse to get you to trust them, like a predator. I encourage the state to do this
It's incredible that the U.S. is having this discussion again. What's the point—bringing creationism back to schools or stoning prostitutes?
Trump needs a bunch of people willing to believe anything told to then and the religious crowd seems to have an endless appetite for rage inducing bullshit.