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Your Religious Values Are Not American Values
The New York Times ^ | July 4, 2024 | Pamela Paul

Posted on 07/04/2024 5:19:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Christian nationalists aim to impose their beliefs on others.

Whenever a politician cites “Judeo-Christian values,” I find it’s generally followed by something unsettling.

Last month brought two flagrant instances. In both cases, Republican officials introduced state laws that formalize precepts of the Christian nationalist movement — in the words of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers (A.D. 2019), “doing everything we can to restore the Judeo-Christian foundation of our nation.”

On June 19, Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana signed legislation requiring public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, a practice struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1980. A rich endorsement came via Donald Trump, who crowed, “I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG???”

One week later, Landry’s fellow Christian soldier Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, announced plans to mandate teaching the Bible in public schools. Walters said learning the Bible is necessary to having “an understanding of the basis of our legal system.”

Forgive me for wondering: Is he referring to “an eye for an eye” or the stoning of disobedient children?

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Either way, for both Trump and true believers, it hardly matters that the First Amendment was intended to protect religion from the state, not to have the state impose a religion. (So much for originalism.) Their goal is to impose one form of religion, Christianity,...


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Christian nationalists aim to impose their beliefs on others.

The same way pervert supremacists aim to impose their mentally ill beliefs on others?

1 posted on 07/04/2024 5:19:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams


2 posted on 07/04/2024 5:22:52 PM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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Judeo-Christian ? It’s just Christian.


3 posted on 07/04/2024 5:22:56 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NY times spewing their Marxist dnc newest talking point


4 posted on 07/04/2024 5:23:11 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
same way pervert supremacists aim to impose their mentally ill beliefs on others?

Pervert supremacists. I’m gonna have to remember that one.

That’s pretty much my gut response- what, you think naked men dancing in public for a whole month is an ‘American value’?!

So many people who crow about ‘tolerance’ really need to go to Saudi Arabia, or China, or perhaps Gaza and learn a little bit…
5 posted on 07/04/2024 5:24:59 PM PDT by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Christians are scary

marxism is the way to go if you want American values


6 posted on 07/04/2024 5:24:59 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: markman46
Yeah, I ALWAYS go to a book review editor for intelligence.

Pamela Paul (born 1971 or 1972)[1] is an American journalist, correspondent, editor, and author. Since 2022, she has been a columnist for The New York Times. From 2013 to 2022, she was the editor of The New York Times Book Review, where her role expanded to oversee all New York Times book coverage including the staff critics and publishing news.

7 posted on 07/04/2024 5:28:37 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who is Pamela Paul anyway?

Does she outrank Paul of Tarsus ?


8 posted on 07/04/2024 5:28:52 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I consider Marxism a religion, so this New York Times Marxist can go to hell.


9 posted on 07/04/2024 5:33:36 PM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: Vision

The unashamed Christian nationalists who wrote the Constitutions ended by writing:

“...done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independance of the United States of America...”

the year of our Lord???

How dare they!!!!

Yes, I am a Christian nationalist, proud of the fact, and these anti-Chrisitan anti-nationalist parasites will not impose their perversions on me.


10 posted on 07/04/2024 5:34:02 PM PDT by odawg
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To: BenLurkin
"ANYONE SEEN YOGI AND BOO BOO?"

...just to keep things "fair and balanced".

11 posted on 07/04/2024 5:36:34 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What until she finds out that “In God We Trust” is on our currency and Biblical verses are engraved on multiple Washington DC monuments!

Christian nationalism!!11

She needs to define it, rather than parroting what she has been told.


12 posted on 07/04/2024 5:37:34 PM PDT by Hoboto (I blame Hippies.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LEFTISTS SEEK TO FORCE MARXISM ON ALL.


13 posted on 07/04/2024 5:38:15 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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>> Walters said learning the Bible is necessary to having “an understanding of the basis of our legal system.” Forgive me for wondering: Is he referring to “an eye for an eye” or the stoning of disobedient children?

Or perhaps forgiving whores... Pamela Paul


14 posted on 07/04/2024 5:38:43 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

American Immigrants from Europe have always been culturally Christian.


15 posted on 07/04/2024 5:46:28 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"The same way pervert supremacists aim to impose their mentally ill beliefs on others?"

Touche. Their anti-Christian hate is coming right out in the open.
16 posted on 07/04/2024 5:47:00 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: escapefromboston

Don’t forget this, but Jesus Christ was a Jew.


17 posted on 07/04/2024 5:47:43 PM PDT by rellic (rough)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The NYT is basically saying that Christians are un-American.


18 posted on 07/04/2024 5:47:52 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Meanwhile:

Biden is twisting and turning while lying to Americans!:

https://i.imgur.com/mxI3ZPc.jpg/JB-NoBrain600.jpg

https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1808982658468213055


19 posted on 07/04/2024 5:49:38 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ('I'm Only Senile Some Of The Time!" Our 6th Jan PROTESTERS stood up! )
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To: DoodleBob

where her main job was excluding any conservative bestsellers


20 posted on 07/04/2024 5:52:14 PM PDT by joshua c
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