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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[+] 141 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 116 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" -John Adams

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  • [–] 64 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    Anybody that thinks Trump is a Christian or has Christian values is a moron.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I mean Trump is a perfect representation of Christianity his voters, just fake posturing to look like a good person. If Jesus was alive today and lived in America the vast majority of Trumpist Christians would outright hate him for being a hardcore commie bastard. And that's assuming the police won't just shoot him.

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    [–] 61 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    "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

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago

    TST should bring their Baphomet statue.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Prayer explicitly as PR, rather than a personal relationship with God.

    These people never seem to have read Matthew 6:5-6.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [+] 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    We're gonna have to fight these bozos at some point, aren't we...

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion

    Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    “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
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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe they will say a word of prayer for the Epstein child rape victims as well, being Christian and all.

    /s

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    [–] 17 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    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?

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    [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Pretty sure they'd get burned and killed by the original Pelgrims whom were considered the ISIS of their time in Europe... Which was hardcore religious as it was already... So imagine those ppl going like 'wtf dudes, chill!!!'

    That rotten core lives on up to this day - and will keep festering as it's part of their cultural DNA.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    From the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli. Ratified by the Senate which had just recently approved the Bill of Rights, and signed by President John Adams.

    “As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religious or tranquility of Musselmen, and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (18 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    The left does not want religion gone. Some athiests do and another chunk would not mind if it did but that is not the entirety of athiests or the left. Now The large majority want freedom from religion which means it keeps its things with its followers at their private places and does not throw it into the public square (which ironically goes with some of jesus's teaching and should be supported by christians) . That is about god exists believe X, Y, Z, and not about preferential ways of govenoring or how how society works.. As you say working toward a society with robust social safety nets and common sense social welfare is just something non hypocrite christians should be doing.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..

    Kinda right there in the bill of rights actually.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    To promote bullshit

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Democratic church of America

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    [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    so I'm catching up on The Boys and I'm having trouble which inspired which, reality or fiction

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Why should non Christians keep obeying their laws they don't really have power to stop many of us

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Meanwhile religious extremists run iran

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Who. The fuck would this administration pray to!? Their idol is right there!

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