Racist, bigoted, neo-Nazis, all of them. Every last member of the Trump Administration.
And if you identify as a Republican and you're not denouncing this shit, you are one of the Trumpist Nazi Party.
Nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution does it say that this is a Christian nation.
George Washington didn't proclaim this country to be Christian, far from it. He said that we are a nation of tolerance:
The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
This was reiterated several years later in the Treaty of Tripol, which declared that the United States was not founded on the Christian religion.
But none of that matters to the neo-Nazi government that so many of our deluded citizens voted into power.
We must correct this. We must shame and shove these religious tyrants and bigots back into the dark recesses from whence they came. Otherwise, they will continue to take our freedom and liberty from us.
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And the first five presidents wrote to that effect and here we are with religious nationalism. Populism never turns out well for the governed.
Well Cap'n (that was indeed a sigh of resignation), it is to be hoped that now that the belly of the beast has been exposed will we learn from it and progress to more enlightened society. But ... I long ago decided faith and insanity ~ doing the same thing repetitively hoping for a different result ~ were one and the same and it looks like my faith in the American people is insanity. These creatures are not very smart and things are both out of base instinct and out of hand. I fear things will get uglier before they get pretty
This could be a good time to go off on a tangent about Cain and Abel, afrensis and boisi, and how survival doesn't always fall to the fittest, smartest or best-provisioned; and how millions of years of evolutionary history can be packed into a few biblical passages. But (that was indeed a sigh of resignation), just think what an honor it is to watch it unfold in real time
Too bad they were led by the nose to it, the rest of us in wake ...
If these self-proclaimed Christians actually followed the teachings of Christ they would be much better people. And not what they are, using the word Christian like they do an American flag lapel pin. Don't believe in the meaning of either. Just some props to keep the proles and peons believing that they are all on the same team.
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ."
:Mahatma Gandi
There's some question as to whether he said this, but it certainly puts my feelings into words. I think my atheist ass lives a more Christ-like life than a lot of bible thumpers do.
More people have died in the name of god than for any other reason.
George Carlin
The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.”
Mahatma Gandhi
We are treating far too many poorly that deserve better.
Eck!
That and a group of people that believe, but don''t think, are
most dangerous thing.
Eck!
"Christian" nationalism is indeed NOT what Jesus taught.
Religions may wax and wane, but they will never vanish altogether, as long as human beings die.
Hence, anyone who wants to get rid of religion needs to find some end run around the Second Law of Thermodynamics that will permit the invention of immortality, because the majority of us talking apes are not capable of a serene Stoic acceptance of permanent personal extinction.
Selah.
So populism is flopulism?
There's a really good interview with Michael Penn on You Tube from just before the 2020 election where he answers a question about why he planned to donate the proceeds from his song "A Revival" to William Barber's poor peoples' campaign by saying that the opposite of right wing Christianity isn't left wing Christianity, it's Christianity.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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