Originally published at: The ‘Christian Nation-ist’ Set To Take Control Of The Federal Government
Russ Vought wants to make America Christian again. And he has put quite a bit of thought into what that might look like. Across public speeches, little-noticed interviews, and secretly made recordings, the Trump functionary-turned-MAGA policy influencer has spent several years enunciating his belief: America was founded as a Christian nation, and is intended to…
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America was founded as a Deist nation and is intended to be governed that way.
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I’ll keep that in mind for the next month while dodging Christmas decorations in shopping centers, listening to Chrismas music played outdoors in the downtown area of my town, operating the lighting booth for my community theater’s Christmas play, and watching the Christmas parade with no fewer than four five churches on its one-mile route.
ETA: I forgot to count the Catholic church.
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I’ve shared this video before. It lays out the church attendance data in the US in 1776.
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The trouble is, which Jesus? The one who said to pray in a closet, not on a street corner? The one who blessed the poor and the meek? The one who was Jewish and famously celebrated Passover? — he sure as hell didn’t celebrate Christmas or Easter.
Maybe the Jesus they like is the one hovering in the background of Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” – those folks,the Inquisition, thought they were Xtians and proclaimed it loudly and incessantly, and not in closets.
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“America was founded as a Christian nation…”
In 1776, only 17% of Americans were members of any church.
Gore Vidal: “We are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.”
ETA:
That’s not the trouble.
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So sick of this horseshit. Clearly I will die still hearing it and fighting it. I’ll never understand the emotional detriments of so many that causes them to glom on to cult nonsense.
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That low rumble you hear is the founding fathers rolling in their graves.
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Eff this guy in the face with a brick.
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America was founded as a Christian nation, and is intended to be governed that way.
Pretty sure there’s a 6-3 majority that approves this message and has been ruling that way for the past 10 years. (see, Burwell v Hobby Lobby, et seq)
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Fuck these ignorant fucks. I swear to their fictional Christ I will punch every one of these motherfuckers in the face, then ram the First Amendment up their clenched little asses.
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Dear Lord my maternal Grandfather’s immigrant ancestor and family came to this country was a English minister, sorry don’t remember the denomination. He didn’t come to the colonies to preach, he came for the free land.
And I seem to remember the founding Fathers had more than one conversation over Religion and Government when writing the constitution.
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These dipsticks need to take “Judeo-” out of their mouths. There is nothing Jewish about their agenda.
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To be fair, I’m not clear on the “Christian” part of their agenda either.
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“Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst.” – C.S. Lewis
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If the United States fails to understand its Christian heritage, Vought said, it is in for destruction.
Case in point, Donald Trump, who knows nothing about any religion. Make him understand it first.
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Bureaucratic Himmler
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… [Vought] argued that the Bible demands drastic limitations on legal immigration and mass deportations.
Does Vought covet Pharaoh’s role?
Will he be drowned by the Red Sea?
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Yes, I believe it would be better for everyone concerned if Vought would devote himself to first persuading everyone in his life to accept Vought’s faith.
It could keep him busy and out of trouble for decades.
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Russ Vought wants to make America Christian again. And he has put quite a bit of thought into what that might look like.
Across public speeches, little-noticed interviews, and secretly made recordings, the Trump functionary-turned-MAGA policy influencer has spent several years enunciating his belief: America was founded as a Christian nation, and is intended to be governed that way.
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This guy needs to read the Constitution. Church and state are separate … or it was initially set up that way. And I do not appreciate this guy cramming his religion down my throat
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