'No Separation Between Church and State': Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office

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Originally published at: ‘No Separation Between Church and State’: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office - TPM – Talking Points Memo

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is co-published with Fort Worth Report and The Texas Tribune as part of an initiative to report on how power is wielded in Texas. Texas Rep. Nate Schatzline’s energy was palpable as he gazed out from the…

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:nauseated_face::face_vomiting:

That is how I feel about religion. It would be slightly less nauseating if the “xtians” weren’t such complete hypocrites.

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Fort Worth-based megachurch Mercy Culture

Shouldn’t that be Merci Culture? As in “Merci pour votre argent, bande d’idiots”?

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So now we’re having American Crusades? Trump is now a potentate? I guess Mark Twain was correct: “History never repeats itself, but it often rhymes.”

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I must confess: tl,dr. As soon as I see that folks are supporters of donald trump, I discount their faith witness entirely. I contend that donald trump is a liar on a Biblical scale, that he speaks in the very spirit of antichrist. I contend that the truth is not in him, and that one cannot love truth and support donald trump.

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These ahistorical scolds don’t seem to understand that a state religion is the BEST way to get both overweening repression and numerous schisms leading to religious violence. Take a good look at Iran. If everything is bigger in Texas, apparently egotistic ignorance is too.

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As I (am proud of myself for having) told a coworker on September 12th, 2001 the only difference between the Republican’t Party and the Taliban was which book to use to run their theocracy. :thinking::face_with_raised_eyebrow::face_with_symbols_on_mouth:

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I’m with ya.

I don’t really gaF about your religion and “spirituality,” do your good deeds and all that, granted that Orcs like Mike Johnson and Vought and Bannon and Mace and the rest of the gang of liars and oathbreakers don’t do good deeds.

Bur do not try to convince me, convert me, impose on me, your beliefs, your indecipherable writings proclaimed as the word of God.

It’s bad enough we have to deal with the ignorance and stupidity and pure greed of that malignant oathbreaker squatting in the White House.

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