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Christian Nation? (Original Post)
Mr.Bee
3 hrs ago
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RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,378 posts)1. MAGA: Make Atheism Great Again!
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mahatma Gandhi
GiqueCee
(4,949 posts)3. America has never been a "Christian" nation, and never should be...
"The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
George Washington
[There must be a] "wall of separation between church and state."
Thomas Jefferson
[Combining church and state is a system] "set up to terrify and enslave mankind."
John Adams
"Religion & Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
James Madison
Thomas Paine vehemently opposed ANY collusion between church and state.
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States forbids the establishment of an official state religion, and furthermore, grants everyone the right to worship as they see fit.
Article VI of the Constitution bans any religious test as a qualification for holding public office.
Christian nationalists are a diseased sect intent on imposing their religious views on everyone else in the country. They push that bullshit at their peril.
George Washington
[There must be a] "wall of separation between church and state."
Thomas Jefferson
[Combining church and state is a system] "set up to terrify and enslave mankind."
John Adams
"Religion & Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
James Madison
Thomas Paine vehemently opposed ANY collusion between church and state.
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States forbids the establishment of an official state religion, and furthermore, grants everyone the right to worship as they see fit.
Article VI of the Constitution bans any religious test as a qualification for holding public office.
Christian nationalists are a diseased sect intent on imposing their religious views on everyone else in the country. They push that bullshit at their peril.
They love trump because he can read bible passages off a teleprompter!
Listen, I love Star Trek, The Who and Led Zeppelin, but I don't advocate people must too!