Posted on 10/26/2023 1:54:28 PM PDT by Mariner
The most dangerous movement in American politics today is not Trumpism. It is Christofascism. With the election of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the organized effort to impose the extreme religious views of a minority of Americans on the entire country, at the expense of many of our most basic freedoms, took a disturbing step forward.
Despite Speaker Johnson’s claims of being a constitutional “originalist,” via his elevation by a unanimous vote of his Republican colleagues he has moved America closer to having precisely the kind of government America’s founders most feared.
Thomas Jefferson said he viewed with “solemn reverence that act of the whole of the American people” which established “a wall of separation between church and state.” George Washington approved a treaty that explicitly stated, “The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” The very First Amendment in America’s Bill of Rights states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” The principal author of the Constitution, James Madison, in his treatise, “Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments,” described 15 reasons why the U.S. government must avoid backing any religion.
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he is thier enemy, hes conservative
“Pagan religions and Islam sanctify murder, rape, theft, and dishonesty. They sanction polygamy and sex with children. They do not believe in equal justice under the law, a key part of the judeo/Christian ethical system.”
In order to tear down the United States the Left preaches that all religions and all cultures are of equal values - which is patent nonsense.
The same liberals who obsess over separation of church and state also claim that Jesus was a socialist, so all Christians should support socialism.
It's really pretty simple, if the Founders ultimately wanted a separation of church and state, they would have written something about a separation of church and state in the Constitution.
Rothkopf [the author] was born in Urbana, Illinois to a Jewish family. His father escaped the Holocaust while three dozen of his relatives did not.
Yeah, we were. It was not an official state church if that is what you mean. But it was utterly steeped in Christianity from it’s very founding. It’s disingenuous to pretend America was not a Christian nation in character and did not continue as such until the modern era.
Amusing how this uber-lib schmuck extensively quotes the Founders in a weak attempt to bolster his argument, as if he’s a fan of them and our Constitution.
Do you know what people used to call “the extreme religious views of a minority of Americans”?
NORMAL.
I am a normal man, who follows the only God. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar and a fool.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Huh ...
And he’s a democrat. So he learned nothing from the death of his ancestors.
“The writer is Christophobic.”
That is the term everyone should be applying over and over.
What the Founding Fathers feared MOST was mob rule, which is where the left will take us until they get the mob to hand them complete control. Then it will be a pure dictatorship of the globalist oligarchs.
The title makes me so happy, I’m not going to read the article.
Johnson is about to find out.
Let me know when he's been arrested, prosecuted, impeached, spied on, phones tapped, criminally undermined, compromised, and had his home raided by armed members of the police state.
“Worse than Trump !”
Confiscatory levels of taxation will be combined with regulatory strangulation, with carve-outs and subsidies for big corporate supporters of the regime, of course.
Picture a $299 rainbow Nike sneaker crushing a human face forever.
Yes: they always leave that clause out as though it means you can believe what you want in your head and perform religious rites hiding in your basement.
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