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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Blah blah blah.
They would have really been scared of the people that started this country.
God given rights are in the way of their atheistic communistic takeover
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57825309
In contrast, Biden has highlighted his faith. “Kennedy was more a Catholic, in the background, whereas it’s very much in the forefront of President Biden’s life,” says Drew Christiansen, a Jesuit priest and Georgetown University professor.
Well it is a useful tool when needed..................
This dumb because they use the word “force”. Lefties always say “Christian’s want to FORCE it on me”. What they really mean is “I want to be free from ever HEARING about Christianity’.
Putting up 10 Commandments in school isn’t FORCING anything on anyone. You cannot FORCE somebody to be a Christian.
What they need is a good example of FORCE, like a Muslim putting a blade to your throat and saying “convert or die”. THAT is FORCE.
The other absurdity, they demonstrate a clear lack of understanding of the role of religion and the resulting concept of ‘good’ in a culture - which ends up defining your LAW. If it weren’t for Christianity, our country as we know it, as this liberal idiot knows it, would not exist...but has no understanding of the roots he’s trying to rip form it.
"Judeo-Christian" is another way of saying the Law and the Gospel, which are the two sides of the coin of salvation.
Plus there were a massive number of Jews who came to America for the same reason the Christians came, and who fought for a moral and religious society with a free republic (where have we heard that phrase before?), something that cannot be said of any other religion that has been brought here over the centuries.
>NY times spewing their Marxist dnc newest talking point
And their oldest. They started out degrading Christian values by this tactic, and promptly forgot it whenever the religion making demands was pagan, Muhammedan, wokist, or anything *other* than Christian.
Now that their religion of dirt-worship and communism is losing ground, they go back to the prior attack.
Jews are free to worship Jesus Christ just like everyone else should.
Now where do those unalienable rights come from? From the NYT opinion page?
Have you noticed liberals have evolved in the past decade or so and look a certain way? One can spot a liberal simply by how they look, their facial structure, hair, the eyes, etc. It did not use to be this way - it was not that easy to tell the difference between liberal and conservative women in the 1970s or 1980s.
It's probably due to their diet. Liberals are more likely to be vegans.
So it’s okay to teach children about the Koran, but not the Christian Bible or the Hebrew Bible?
The regime running this country isn’t worried about the Muslim religion because they are both satanic. And they certainly don’t mind having Hamas views forced on children.
Jews and Christians cannot be brainwashed. That is why the regime hates us. The regime currently running this country is not and never will be our god.
The regime knows this and they hate it.
Huh? Why would they want to? They have their own religion to follow. And why "should" everyone else want to, either? You are totally and irrationally "JCCentric".
Everyone should be Christian.
These people claim to be opposing fascism, but these sorts of smears are the same sort of things other fascists used against Jews and other dissidents. The opponents are then censored and deplatformed so they cannot offer corrections to the lies they face. Pamela, you are a very good example of a fascist in action.
Gentiles are grafted in to the Jewish Olive Tree of YESHUA, but the natural branches will be cast out, if not grafted in to the Olive Tree of YESHUA.
That’s nice.
You are a moron and a bigot.
“On June 19, Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana signed legislation requiring public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments”
Costing his state taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not a few million in legal time/fees/fines.
“Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, announced plans to mandate teaching the Bible in public schools.”
Costing his state taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not a few million in legal time/fees/fines.
All I can figure is that they are stupid. Well meaning, but stupid.
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