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    14 days ago

    I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

    -President Trump, just this year.

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      14 days ago

      He never meant it. And all of the cons hate ACTUAL freedom. Meaning, the kind of freedom that includes freedom FROM religion. Not just the “freedom” to select from a set of talibangelical cults.

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    It’s really funny to me that all the “Christians” in government literally have none of the values Christ did. I’ll bet if I asked them what their favorite Bible verse was they couldn’t answer.

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    They’ll be all about “forgetting” about that separation, all the way up until someone opens Beezlebubs Intermediate School of the Damned - then they’ll be up in arms again.

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      By uniting church and state they can claim that “beezlebubs intermediate School of the Damned” goes against the official religious doctrine so it is banned but “holy Christ of the saints of Peter school for conservative belief” is allowed and gets taxpayer dollars

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    I wonder if any of the dumbasses that are still supporting donvict yet understand what this would mean?

    Log Cabin twats like Peter Thiel? These motherfuckers will come for YOU eventually, Einstein. Same for the likes of Tammy Bruce - an openly gay lesbian won’t be in a position of leadership, what kind of gawdly message is that going to send? The Libertarian dumbfuck techbros still underwriting this shit, that are also hard atheist? You too, motherfuckers! Fast talking fools like Ben Shapiro and Stephen Miller? You guys are Jewish! Are you kidding?

    The loudmouth uppity women like Beetlebert and Marjorie Trailer Queen and Kristi “dog murderer” Noem and Karoline Leavitt? You too - the Babble bangers won’t be having YOU ruling over men, what are you even thinking? Best you can hope for is marrying some powerful man that keeps a roof over your head while he bangs some younger handmaidens to raise a crop of kids with his superior genes.

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    Yesterday I watched the documentary “Hail Statan?”, about The Satanic Temple. Not a bombastic documentary but shows a bit what they are, what modern satanism is and what they do in the US. They do mostly require an intact legal system to fight christian overreach so maybe its over for their legal battles

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    14 days ago

    Something I’m confused about: if Republicans believe government policy should be based on Christian values, why are they against government programs helping the poor?

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    Religion is more powerful in countries with low education standards.

    With the US government actively dismantling its education system, this is part of that bigger picture of wanting a dumber population so they’re more easily controlled - through fear.

    A shame to see America go so regressive so quickly.

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    The people who claim that America is a “Christian” nation don’t ever read anything about the values the founders had. Most of them followed a deist philosophy.

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        I’m starting to feel that Donald Trump might not entirely live up to the bar set by Thomas Jefferson.

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              No, we’re describing a religion and what its followers behave like. Atheism isn’t a religion or a group. It’s a choice to refrain from belief in a god. Christianity has churches, pastors, and now presidents who lead their followers into morally reprehensible behavior. One is rotten fruit, the other is rejecting rotten fruit. It’s not the same.

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                  A good person doesn’t support their religion when their religion is creating fascism in their country.

                  A good person stands up and says to trump: Despite my beliefs, I denounce what you are saying and cast you out of my religion you heathen.

                  But this is not what we are seeing, is it? You are against trump, I assume, yet you still defend religion before you fight fascism. Maybe ask yourself why that is.

                  Good luck defending what trump does in the name of religion.

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    Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday establishing a “religious liberty commission” at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate and present strategies to eliminate “threats to domestic religious liberty.” During his comments on the order, Trump said that he doesn’t know if there’s a separation of church and state and that we should “forget about that for one time.”

    Words alone simply fail to adequately describe my disgust and rage at this travesty.

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      “Religious liberty commission”

      For some reason as a Jewish person I get the strong feeling that this commission wont help me freely practice my religion.

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          Also, even though the deluded right wing like to claim that “secularism is a religion”, and same for liberalism or any other ism they are skeered of, they won’t be letting anyone practice those, either.

          Meaning: free thought will be a thoughtcrime.