Top Trump administration officials will address a mass prayer meeting in the heart of Washington Sunday – an event organisers bill as reclaiming the country’s religious foundations, but critics say is a quasi-official rally for Christian nationalism.
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“the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion” -John Adams
“If God truly does exist, then he more so loves the atheist who questions the world around him than the Christian who blindly follows.” -Thomas Jefferson
More than half of the Founding Fathers were atheists or agnostic.
And the rest were deists
What’s with the “quasi?” It’s an explicit endorsement of Christianity as the national religion they’re not supposed to have. It’s literally the first amendment to the constitution they love to rub all over their sweaty white bodies.
“Christian”
Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward! But whenever you pray, go into your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:5-7
Yeah, they should just own it and call themselves who Jesus was addressing: Pharisees, liars and hypocrites.
Nothing less in the path of true scripture than this administration.
TST should bring their Baphomet statue.
Prayer explicitly as PR, rather than a personal relationship with God.
These people never seem to have read Matthew 6:5-6.
Can you blame them? That shit works. Religious people aren’t the smartest tools in the shed, so no one ever wonders why people like donnie don’t know shit about their religion or how it comea that he’s never in church. All they see is performative stunts, and they love that.
They haven’t read a lot of things. One of the things that amuse me is seeing xtians tattoo various xtian things on their body, like Hegseth, for example:
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
They cherry pick from the OT whatever suits them. I’m fine if they ignore such rules from the OT with the argument that, like the food rules, it’s not relevant anymore thanks to Jesus. Cherry picking just the stuff you can use to justify hurting people, while ignoring anything that doesn’t suit your taste, is hypocrisy.
And then they invent stuff that’s not even in the Bible, like their stupid abortion ban.
We’re gonna have to fight these bozos at some point, aren’t we…
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There is no God. There is no karma. There is no universal justice.
There’s only what we do on Earth that matters.
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Well, there is dialectic. It ain’t karma, but sometimes it comes close.
But yeah, justice is something people do, not something the universe serves up.
the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion
Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11
“Hamanda acka acka racka deda backa sanda acka ambo osa cacka reeté eké banda acka riki dibi asha daaah”
- Paula White Cain, Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office
reclaiming the country’s religious foundations
Thomas Jefferson wrote specifically about the first Amenment in 1802, stating that the adopted amendment created a “wall of separation between the church and state.”
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison both strongly opposed the state supporting one specific religion. Per their beliefs, it is a violation of a natural right to religious liberty when you compel a citizen to support a specific faith.
Maybe they will say a word of prayer for the Epstein child rape victims as well, being Christian and all.
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More like praying for the Epstein perpetrators/ruling class
Oh, good! I was afraid the lack Christian leadership over the years might have created a vacuum.
We’ve only had Christian presidents for 250 years, after all.
I would love to run as a third party pagan animist just to break the trend.
I’ll try to douse the flames if it comes to it.
May the Sun and Earth bless you!
The current president is not. He’s made it pretty clear he’s only pretending for the votes.
Is this really a good time for the US to potentially violate the Treaty of Tripoli and risk the rise of piracy against US vessels in the Mediterranean / Middle East region?
Aren’t they already pillaging the middle east?
You know, Christianity was used for the left during the New Deal among other times, in fact the New Deal was put together on a coalition that included a broad base of Christians who believed it was essentially Jesus’s work to do so.
Today the left has so much spiritual trauma we dump on religion and want it gone, but really we need to embrace it and have a strong faith based arm that can speak this language to people. If America is a Christian nation than some immediate changes need to happen - universal healthcare being top priority. Also homelessness, poverty, food insecurity, war, etc. Amen.
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It doesn’t help that immediately after the gospels are Paul’s angry, regressive, and authoritarian letters to all the congregations he was trying to dominate, followed by the late-first century anti-Roman millenarian fever dream of Revelations.
If America is a Christian nation than some immediate changes need to happen
It’s not though.
Despite some of it being in the Bible, socialism and humanitarianism isn’t on the agenda for the major Christian players. There are absolutely some churches that do great work in their communities, but that’s tarnished by the bigger groups who use the power of religion to control the masses and are not interested in considering the softer sides of messages from Jesus.
And the US was founded by a mix of believers, with the intention of being secular for the protection of all beliefs. They knew first hand from history and their current situation what mixing religion and politics does, and also what drawing a line for some beliefs and not others does. Fighting about religion was often between sects of Christianity, and a secular protection helped everyone. It was idealistic, never was 100% and drifted a lot away from that goal, and how far it is seems to correlate with the problems we have.
The point is though, Christianity has influenced and given credence to progressive viewpoints at several junctures throughout American history, so we can sit here and wish upon a star that Jefferson’s vision for a secular America truly emerged, or we can acknowledge that it’s never been quite that simple and that we too can use Christianity for our purposes now just as we have historically. Religion is a weapon and a tool the left has simply given up, and now we’re like “I can’t believe the other side is successfully using this to hurt us.” Find the progressive faith communities, empower them, let them go do spiritual battle for us, see if we make more progress in winning hearts and minds - I bet we do.
I wish the better sides of religion would take arms against the ones using it for their own gain. I think they have that responsibility. They aren’t.
I get what you’re saying, use the same tools but for a greater good. I’d just like us to do things because they’re the right thing to do, and not because some book said or implied it. Because in the end even if you take the broad idea of loving and helping each other from a book, that doesn’t get into how to do that, and often times people with similar goals end up fighting over the details and undoing any progress simply because they can’t agree on the HOW.
