“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” ― Steven Weinberg
The Founding Fathers deemed *ALL* religions unfit for modern, civil governance. The *1st Amendment's Establishment Clause* prohibits the government from making any law, _“respecting an establishment of religion.”_ This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion. *Constitution Article VI Supreme Law - Clause 3 Oaths of Office* _"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; _*_but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."_* This means nobody is ever required to swear to a god or on the Bible, or any other religious book for an oath of office. They may choose a god or religious book, but none is required. Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge did not use a Bible in their oath-taking ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt did not use the Bible when taking the oath in 1901, nor did John Quincy Adams, who swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution. _"In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, _*_it is our boast,_*_ that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States."_ *-George Washington* _“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.”_ *- John Adams* (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, Founding Father & 2nd president) _“...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."_ *-Treaty of Tripoli - June 7, 1797. Signed by President John Adams & Ratified UNANIMOUSLY, by the Senate June 10, 1797* ....only a few times in history the Senate unanimously agreed on anything. A 2018 Supreme Court Ruling re-affirmed this statement, from The Treaty of Tripoli. The Supreme Court released an opinion on May 14, 2018 in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U. S. (2018), Justice Thomas in his concurring opinion wrote: _"The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams. As such, it is a "legislated text" which must be read "textually". The lower courts in this case read a hypothetical legislative intention into the text by dismissing Article 11 as "a mere formality". _*_The language itself makes a clear direct statement that our government is not based on the Christian religion and any attempt by a government official to represent our government as Christian contradicts the text and the historical understanding of our founders."_*
After all Trump's accusations of Witch-hunts, maybe the best thing would be for him to ask Elon Musk to fit a jet pack on to his broomstick so he can fly off to the Moon and start a Real estate development firm up there, Put his For Sale signs in every crater he can find !!
@@xjarheadjohnsonthere is also the “free exercise “ clause you forget to mention. Or that a “religious test” for public office means a religious person cannot be barred from office for being, say, a Roman Catholic, like the current president. Little factoid for you: Thomas Jefferson made a gift of fifty dollars (in 1814) to the Virginia Bible Society, whose purpose was to provide a Bible to any household in Virginia that was too poor to buy one.
Any head of any religious sects are just extremists that use religions to control their followers for money and power. God way is for people to leave in harmony among others and taking care of mother nature, not turning it into a waste land by exploitation of its every resources to maximize greed.
@@keithbajema2358 40 years of stagnant wages and we are scratching our heads over a pandemic: that caused a huge bottleneck in our economy, that helped cause worker shortages, that caused inflation and more opportunity for the mega wealthy. The creator created it.
😊😅 you must not pay attention, Biden is losing to Trump in every poll , especially swing states , this is not 2020 , a lot of buyers remorse with Biden voters 🙄
@@christopherjavens3438 Satanist and False Idols and Sinners. God will judge these fake Christians accordingly, including your own lies and attempts to manipulate a false narrative for childish, selfish gain.
Most evagelical americans arent capable of sticking to that, they have to tell you how to live your life while at the same time screaming about resisting government interference.
Separation of Church and State is not written in the Constitution nor Declaration of Independence..... The Declaration states that unalienable rights/natural rights/ human rights come from God. Which can not be limited or taken away. If rights come from government, it is they who are your god. And the rights you have are nothing more than privileges which they can take away any time they wish. “...We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams , October 11, 1798, wrote to the Massachusetts Militia "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." - Patrick Henry, Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution. The Trumpet Voice of Freedom: Patrick Henry of Virginia, p. iii. The Why: Declaration of Independence - “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's GOD entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The How: The Constitution - 'God: He's on Both Sides of the Wall' And that’s what historian Eddie Hyatt explained Thomas Jefferson was talking about when he wrote the letter that first used the famous "wall of separation" phrase to a group of worried Baptists. "He said that the First Amendment had erected a wall of separation that would protect them from any intrusion of the government," Hyatt stated. "In Jefferson's mind, the wall of separation was a uni-directional wall, put there to keep the government out of the church; not to keep the influence of the church out of the government." "While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian." - George Washington, 1st U.S. President. The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343. "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever..." - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President, Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237. "Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. ... Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us." - John Hancock, 1st Signer of the Declaration of Independence. History of the United States of America, Vol. II, p. 229. "And as it is our duty to extend our wishes to the happiness of the great family of man, I conceive that we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world that the rod of tyrants may be broken to pieces, and the oppressed made free again; that wars may cease in all the earth, and that the confusions that are and have been among nations may be overruled by promoting and speedily bringing on that holy and happy period when the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and all people everywhere willingly bow to the sceptre of Him who is Prince of Peace." - Samuel Adams, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Father of the American Revolution As Governor of Massachusetts, Proclamation of a Day of Fast, March 20, 1797....
In the Handmaid’s Tale, abortionists are publicly hanged Gays are executed. Non-whites are shipped off to Africa, Asia, South America. The pseudo Christian government, using its own version of the bible, takes control of the banking system and cuts off money and credit. Reading is banned.
Maybe it's not a good idea for anyone in government to be claiming they're doing "god's will." Oh wait, that's precisely why the first amendment exists.
@@mile_high_topher I'm sorry, I'm lost. The first amendment exists because of gods will? They can claim they are all they want but that doesn't make it true.
The bible teaches nothing. Men wrote every line in that book so the bible contains all of our fears, all of our wishes, all of our good deeds, and all of our worst deeds. It wasn't new 4000 years ago and it's not new today. Faith in God is because of Fear of reality. It's why religion pops up all over the planet and for some reason, each time God looks a lot like the people in the culture who created it.
Any head of any religious sects are just extremists that use religions to control their followers for money and power. God way is for people to leave in harmony among others and taking care of mother nature, not turning it into a waste land by exploitation of its every resources to maximize greed.
Any head of any religious sects are just extremists that use religions to control their followers for money and power. God way is for people to leave in harmony among others and taking care of mother nature, not turning it into a waste land by exploitation of its every resources to maximize greed.
Sure there can be. All you have to do is stack SCOTUS with Christian Nationalists and they can Amend anything in the Constitution. We may have to fight to keep that from happening, Again. Mankind does not seem to be able to rid itself of the insanity of religions.
I am not an American. I find it mind-bending that these 'Christian conservative groups' can circle their wagons around the 'in plain view' moral and ethical values of Donald Trump, who uses morals and ethics as little more than transactional levers to further his own selfish aims and objectives.
The problem is that the american government is in violation of multiple constitutional laws. That is that both parties are complicit and the people are left unrepresented.
That's not what is happening in America. This is what our corrupt media here in America is telling the people is happening, which is absolutely propaganda and is extremely effective at "helping" Americans form opinions. It's not just the left media like in this example, it's both sides. The right skews the story as well. It's disgusting. Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves. There is no "Christian wagon circling", and trump is not someone who pushes religion. He's being persecuted, attacked by every possible means of our current government many of which are absolutely unconstitutional and an abomination of what this country stands for. I don't even like Trump, didn't vote for him the first time. I will this time though, because he's light years better than the scum we have in office now.
You're mind is being bent by the media unfortunately, via propaganda. I am American, and that is a joke. What I'm more interested in is the fact that you think morals and ethics are a bad thing?
Media needs to stop calling these clowns "conservative". They are not. They do not take a conservative view of the Bible, the Constitution or anything else.
They follow the Seven Mountains Mandate. People should take this seriously because they want to control the seven parts of society. family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government.
The Christian Dominionist "Seven Mountains Mandate" plot is 50+ years old and has been pushed into democracies all around the world. It's taken over the PC Party in Canada via Stephen Harper and now Pierre Poilievre, Canada's version of Trump.
Trump’s unleashing the crazies has changed this country forever. The Christian taliban’s efforts in the last 10 years are driving more & more people away from their cause. I hope to see the day when less than 10% attend church & the total marginalization of these people. Leave people alone to live their lives!
Talk about hypocrites - Trump is as far away from Christianity as you can possibly get. Trump is the opposite of anything Jesus ever said. Its completely ridiculous.
@@StephenLewisful They can't give money to political organizations, but they have a right through their freedom of speech and press to influence others like all other groups do.
The same as any 501c3, current tax code allows churches' to advocate and/or lobby for policy matters and legislative issues as long as their efforts do not exceed some nebulous threshold where it would then comprise a "substantial part of their activities". There are, however, strict prohibitions against participating in any campaign activity for or against any candidate for any public office in any level of government.
@@spankyssurprise1361 Read Project 2025 - not hyperbolic nonsense. The extreme right wing has a plan. A written plan for American Fascism under a vengeful god.
@@spankyssurprise1361 Actually if you read a list of quotes and actions by the Republicans and Taliban there are some startling similarities. Keep denying it. It only hurts republicans more.
Let's be honest, if trump somehow magically gets back in, he will abolish any religion that doesn't idol him. Christians, beware of false idols.And, while I'm being honest, evangelicals christians are such easy marks, and trump knows it and plays them like a fiddle.
Jesus was more pro white ango saxon protestant but anti-Catholic italian/Hispanic/irish according to the US nationalist version of the good book. 😉 Hence why the historically accurate drawings or paintings usually portray him as a 6ft man, with light brown hair, milky white skin and blue eyes 😉
If you consider who is ruling the world at the moment, it makes more sense. “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.”-1 JOHN 5:19. Then there’s 2Timothy 3:1-5 that lists the pervasive mentality that marks the time we’re living in. Point for point it describes a narcissist. Notice the part about “having a form of godly devotion, but proving false to its power…”.
Jesus refused to get involved in politics and urged his followers to follow his example. “Christian Nationalists” is a contradiction in terms. A “Nationalist” cannot be a also Christian according to Christ.
This is the party for "Smaller Government, more Personal Freedoms, and Less Oversight" as the actively work to make plans directly against those claims. REMEMBER: It is easier to loose liberty than it is to gain it.
Even MTG calls herself a White Christian Nationalist so that's absolutely the correct term. Although it's just one of many fascistic groups that cling to a religion because they cannot accept reality for what it is.
They also have no clue about the constitution. The Founding Fathers deemed *ALL* religions unfit for modern, civil governance. The *1st Amendment's Establishment Clause* prohibits the government from making any law, _“respecting an establishment of religion.”_ This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion. *Constitution Article VI Supreme Law - Clause 3 Oaths of Office* _"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; _*_but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."_* This means nobody is ever required to swear to a god or on the Bible, or any other religious book for an oath of office. They may choose a god or religious book, but none is required. Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge did not use a Bible in their oath-taking ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt did not use the Bible when taking the oath in 1901, nor did John Quincy Adams, who swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution. _"In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, _*_it is our boast,_*_ that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States."_ *-George Washington* _“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.”_ *- John Adams* (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, Founding Father & 2nd president) _“...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."_ *-Treaty of Tripoli - June 7, 1797. Signed by President John Adams & Ratified UNANIMOUSLY, by the Senate June 10, 1797* ....only a few times in history the Senate unanimously agreed on anything. A 2018 Supreme Court Ruling re-affirmed this statement, from The Treaty of Tripoli. The Supreme Court released an opinion on May 14, 2018 in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U. S. (2018), Justice Thomas in his concurring opinion wrote: _"The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams. As such, it is a "legislated text" which must be read "textually". The lower courts in this case read a hypothetical legislative intention into the text by dismissing Article 11 as "a mere formality". _*_The language itself makes a clear direct statement that our government is not based on the Christian religion and any attempt by a government official to represent our government as Christian contradicts the text and the historical understanding of our founders."_*
The problem is, prohibition initially became the law of the land. If these crackpots win, it might not be as easy to get them out as it was to end prohibition.
@@jeremyeyring8256 You can pray all you want no worries. But you have no right to force your religion on anyone else. And you must respect other religions rights. As I stated it's been religion that has killed the most throughout history.
OMG, how on earth do any of these jokers have any say on anything? None of this has anything to do with Christianity. What is going on with society? Sad.
The number one cause for societal breakdown is economic stress on its population. Freedom of religion means you can practice any religion you choose, it does not mean only one religion can exist and it is incredibly harmful to attempt that which we historically claim to be what those who were not enslaved were escaping from.
They literally built a golden statue and rolled it out at CPAC three years ago. Talk about idolatry. Their very own Golden Calf. And - irony of ironies - it was made in Mexico.
The Founding Fathers deemed *ALL* religions unfit for modern, civil governance. The *1st Amendment's Establishment Clause* prohibits the government from making any law, _“respecting an establishment of religion.”_ This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion. *Constitution Article VI Supreme Law - Clause 3 Oaths of Office* _"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; _*_but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."_* This means nobody is ever required to swear to a god or on the Bible, or any other religious book for an oath of office. They may choose a god or religious book, but none is required. Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge did not use a Bible in their oath-taking ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt did not use the Bible when taking the oath in 1901, nor did John Quincy Adams, who swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution. _"In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, _*_it is our boast,_*_ that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States."_ *-George Washington* _“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.”_ *- John Adams* (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, Founding Father & 2nd president) _“...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."_ *-Treaty of Tripoli - June 7, 1797. Signed by President John Adams & Ratified UNANIMOUSLY, by the Senate June 10, 1797* ....only a few times in history the Senate unanimously agreed on anything. A 2018 Supreme Court Ruling re-affirmed this statement, from The Treaty of Tripoli. The Supreme Court released an opinion on May 14, 2018 in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U. S. (2018), Justice Thomas in his concurring opinion wrote: _"The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams. As such, it is a "legislated text" which must be read "textually". The lower courts in this case read a hypothetical legislative intention into the text by dismissing Article 11 as "a mere formality". _*_The language itself makes a clear direct statement that our government is not based on the Christian religion and any attempt by a government official to represent our government as Christian contradicts the text and the historical understanding of our founders."_*
Russell Vought is only 47 years old and knows NOTHING about the 1960s because he never lived through them. This is typical romanticism of an era that was not as portrayed on the 1950s sitcoms. The "wives" on those shows were career women, by the way, at at least one of them, Donna Reed, was the co-producer with her then-husband Tony Owen on her sitcom. She was hardly the part she played. Women had jobs throughout the 1950s, and those who did stay home did so not just because they had been forced out of the labor force after the servicemen returned from WWII, but they could afford to because of strong unions and a large manufacturing base. These days, few dual-parent households can have only one wage earner, and our economy can't afford a return to the 1950s. Maybe somebody should knock Vought alongside the head for once.
Freedom of religion also means freedom FROM religion. I want that wall between church and state reinforced. If churches want to participate in our government, then they need to start paying taxes like the rest of us.
Anyone that tells you that they will maintain religious freedom while using government power to force their religion ON YOU is clearly dangerously lying.
The Most High gives us all free Will. Who are men to tell a Woman what to do with her own body. Tell men to take care of their children. Perhaps that will make Women want to be married and have children. Not be abused too.
It's so very wrong to me that I've been freer in my 55 years on this earth than my daughter has been in her 15 years. If we don't get it right in November, none of us will be as free as we once were.
It’s time to escape religious oppression again! I thought that’s how this country was founded….by people who escaped religious oppression, to find freedom here? Where shall we escape to now?
Despite how certain people/groups try to twist Bible passages to suit their narrative, basically cherry picking parts of the Bible. The Bible is pretty clear on “strangers”, in other words immigrants. Leviticus 19:34 “The foreigners residing among you must be treated as native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.” Exodus 22:21 - “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.” Deuteronomy 23:16 - “Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them.” Ezekiel 47:22,23 - “You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners residing among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. In whatever tribe a foreigner resides, there you are to give them their inheritance,” declares the Sovereign LORD.” I could go on, but you get the idea.
Um...right. There's much more to it than that: If the "stranger" wants to participate in the seder he must be circumcised -- he and "all of his males." "The same law shall apply to the native and the stranger." One implication: if the stranger wants to enter the land, and there are rules about how to enter the land properly, then he needs to follow those rules. See Exodus 12.43-49. Also, there is no obligation to let in "strangers" willy-nilly, and they remain on condition of good behavior. And right now "the stranger" is more likely to be treated better than the natives. Regarding Lev 19.34: No harm is done to a stranger by having rules which all must follow in order to enter a country prop. No one is being oppressed simply by being barred from entry on conditions. (How do you feel about Lev 18.22?) One relevent implication of the passages you have cited is that there is a territory, which has boundaries/borders. So it looks like borders are okay and it is permissible for nations to enforce them. Besides separation of church and state should prevent Christians from applying the passages you have cited to the issue on the southern border.
Something they don't seem to take into consideration is that one of the main reasons both parents work was because wages didn't rise with inflation. The average family cannot survive on a single income anymore. Fix that and you might have more people deciding to split who works and who stays home. They also need to get comfortable with the fact sometimes men do better staying home with the kids and the women working. The conventional "traditional" roles are no longer standard. Until they are willing to deal with that they don't have leg to stand on.
@GoldAndSilver555 Im not religious. I've been in christian schools for a big part of my life and my extended family are deeply religious actors of the christian faith. I've been schooled in the bible and i've read most of it myself. I don't claim to be an expert here, but i get the clue. Trump is a great example of what not to become and what we teach our children about how to behave. Trump goes against ethics and bible values in almost every detail.
@GoldAndSilver555 Pretty clear you're just here to troll. @Fastbikkel has been pretty clear; you're just prodding with empty nonsense. Contribute, or go away.
@@Gerryjournal he meant an allegorical sword dividing believers from unbelievers, predicting that unbelieving friends and family members would reject believers. Read the whole context, Bunky.
Jesus was not an open border person ??? That is news to me, or have I been reading the New Testament wrong for all these years. I have been to the Holy Land including the most famous places in Nazareth, Tiberius, Capernum, Jericho, Qumran, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and many others. Jesus was a migrant, plain and simple.
The Founding Fathers deemed *ALL* religions unfit for modern, civil governance. The *1st Amendment's Establishment Clause* prohibits the government from making any law, _“respecting an establishment of religion.”_ This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion. *Constitution Article VI Supreme Law - Clause 3 Oaths of Office* _"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; _*_but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."_* This means nobody is ever required to swear to a god or on the Bible, or any other religious book for an oath of office. They may choose a god or religious book, but none is required. Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge did not use a Bible in their oath-taking ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt did not use the Bible when taking the oath in 1901, nor did John Quincy Adams, who swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution. _"In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, _*_it is our boast,_*_ that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States."_ *-George Washington* _“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.”_ *- John Adams* (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, Founding Father & 2nd president) _“...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."_ *-Treaty of Tripoli - June 7, 1797. Signed by President John Adams & Ratified UNANIMOUSLY, by the Senate June 10, 1797* ....only a few times in history the Senate unanimously agreed on anything. A 2018 Supreme Court Ruling re-affirmed this statement, from The Treaty of Tripoli. The Supreme Court released an opinion on May 14, 2018 in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U. S. (2018), Justice Thomas in his concurring opinion wrote: _"The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams. As such, it is a "legislated text" which must be read "textually". The lower courts in this case read a hypothetical legislative intention into the text by dismissing Article 11 as "a mere formality". _*_The language itself makes a clear direct statement that our government is not based on the Christian religion and any attempt by a government official to represent our government as Christian contradicts the text and the historical understanding of our founders."_*
It is time to remove tax breaks from all religions especially those that want to involve themselves in the political movement.All property to be assessed at fair market value. All bank accounts pay money made like the rest of us.
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction ".- Blaise Pascal
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
― Steven Weinberg
Its because of Christians that you as a woman, have rights
@@lunarwuffy5299 Organized religion is the root of most of this world's evil.
You don't need any dogma to justify being kind, caring or generous. You only dogma to justify doing harm to others.
@@franevanisko8806 Don't need a book, we literally evolved to co-operate. It's the basis of human society.
"Keep the church and state forever separate." --Ulysses S. Grant, Sept. 29, 1875
Jesus Christ himself says church and state should remain separate so these guys really have no excuse. It isn't about religion, it's about control.
The Founding Fathers deemed *ALL* religions unfit for modern, civil governance.
The *1st Amendment's Establishment Clause* prohibits the government from making any law, _“respecting an establishment of religion.”_
This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion.
*Constitution Article VI Supreme Law - Clause 3 Oaths of Office*
_"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; _*_but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."_*
This means nobody is ever required to swear to a god or on the Bible, or any other religious book for an oath of office. They may choose a god or religious book, but none is required.
Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge did not use a Bible in their oath-taking ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt did not use the Bible when taking the oath in 1901, nor did John Quincy Adams, who swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution.
_"In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, _*_it is our boast,_*_ that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States."_
*-George Washington*
_“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.”_
*- John Adams* (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, Founding Father & 2nd president)
_“...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."_
*-Treaty of Tripoli - June 7, 1797. Signed by President John Adams & Ratified UNANIMOUSLY, by the Senate June 10, 1797*
....only a few times in history the Senate unanimously agreed on anything.
A 2018 Supreme Court Ruling re-affirmed this statement, from The Treaty of Tripoli.
The Supreme Court released an opinion on May 14, 2018 in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U. S. (2018), Justice Thomas in his concurring opinion wrote:
_"The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams. As such, it is a "legislated text" which must be read "textually". The lower courts in this case read a hypothetical legislative intention into the text by dismissing Article 11 as "a mere formality". _*_The language itself makes a clear direct statement that our government is not based on the Christian religion and any attempt by a government official to represent our government as Christian contradicts the text and the historical understanding of our founders."_*
After all Trump's accusations of Witch-hunts, maybe the best thing would be for him to ask Elon Musk to fit a jet pack on to his broomstick so he can fly off to the Moon and start a Real estate development firm up there, Put his For Sale signs in every crater he can find !!
"The United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." - Treaty of Tripoli signed in 1797 by The United States Congress
@@xjarheadjohnsonthere is also the “free exercise “ clause you forget to mention. Or that a “religious test” for public office means a religious person cannot be barred from office for being, say, a Roman Catholic, like the current president.
Little factoid for you: Thomas Jefferson made a gift of fifty dollars (in 1814) to the Virginia Bible Society, whose purpose was to provide a Bible to any household in Virginia that was too poor to buy one.
Centrally they want a united states version of Iran.
Theocracies are full of hate by their very nature!
Closer to ISIS, but fair enough.
And they will not get it.
Then how come Trump was so much harder on Iran than both Biden and Obama?
Any head of any religious sects are just extremists that use religions to control their followers for money and power. God way is for people to leave in harmony among others and taking care of mother nature, not turning it into a waste land by exploitation of its every resources to maximize greed.
“The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy".
(Frank Zappa in 1986!)
Frank was ahead of his time.
Nope, the biggest threat to America & the World today is Trump and his delusional & dangerous ideas...
Not too much of a surprise that this comment was made in 1986. It was clear that Ronald Regan was starting this movement to fascist theocracy.
@@keithbajema2358 40 years of stagnant wages and we are scratching our heads over a pandemic: that caused a huge bottleneck in our economy, that helped cause worker shortages, that caused inflation and more opportunity for the mega wealthy. The creator created it.
"I used to jog, but the ice cubes kept falling out of the glass."
David Lee Roth.
Quotes are fun.
RIP , republican party, unpopular , unwelcome , and unwilling , ... they won't be missed ,
and yet Trump is leading biden in every single poll.
😊😅 you must not pay attention, Biden is losing to Trump in every poll , especially swing states , this is not 2020 , a lot of buyers remorse with Biden voters 🙄
@@christopherjavens3438 No you won't. Take your idols and bouf them all you want but don't shove that nonsense on anyone else.
@@christopherjavens3438 Satanist and False Idols and Sinners. God will judge these fake Christians accordingly, including your own lies and attempts to manipulate a false narrative for childish, selfish gain.
@@christopherjavens3438 As opposed to your left? 🧐
Separation of church and state is for a reason. Enforce your beliefs on yourselves.
Most evagelical americans arent capable of sticking to that, they have to tell you how to live your life while at the same time screaming about resisting government interference.
You just replaced God with your religion of hating everyone who disagrees with your beliefs.
It's your god now.
The devil is on your side.
@@metalacop Aw, poor baby is triggered, so he has to make false equivalences. Tsk.
Separation of Church and State is not written in the Constitution nor Declaration of Independence.....
The Declaration states that unalienable rights/natural rights/ human rights come from God. Which can not be limited or taken away. If rights come from government, it is they who are your god. And the rights you have are nothing more than privileges which they can take away any time they wish.
“...We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
- John Adams , October 11, 1798, wrote to the Massachusetts Militia
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
- Patrick Henry, Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution. The Trumpet Voice of Freedom: Patrick Henry of Virginia, p. iii.
The Why: Declaration of Independence -
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's GOD entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The How: The Constitution -
'God: He's on Both Sides of the Wall'
And that’s what historian Eddie Hyatt explained Thomas Jefferson was talking about when he wrote the letter that first used the famous "wall of separation" phrase to a group of worried Baptists.
"He said that the First Amendment had erected a wall of separation that would protect them from any intrusion of the government," Hyatt stated. "In Jefferson's mind, the wall of separation was a uni-directional wall, put there to keep the government out of the church; not to keep the influence of the church out of the government."
"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."
- George Washington, 1st U.S. President. The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343.
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever..."
- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President, Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.
"Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. ... Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us."
- John Hancock, 1st Signer of the Declaration of Independence. History of the United States of America, Vol. II, p. 229.
"And as it is our duty to extend our wishes to the happiness of the great family of man, I conceive that we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world that the rod of tyrants may be broken to pieces, and the oppressed made free again; that wars may cease in all the earth, and that the confusions that are and have been among nations may be overruled by promoting and speedily bringing on that holy and happy period when the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and all people everywhere willingly bow to the sceptre of Him who is Prince of Peace."
- Samuel Adams, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Father of the American Revolution As Governor of Massachusetts, Proclamation of a Day of Fast, March 20, 1797....
Any American who has not yet read The Handmaid’s Tale needs to do so. Margaret Atwood told us back in 1985 this was going to happen. Here it is, folk.
In the Handmaid’s Tale, abortionists are publicly hanged Gays are executed. Non-whites are shipped off to Africa, Asia, South America. The pseudo Christian government, using its own version of the bible, takes control of the banking system and cuts off money and credit. Reading is banned.
This comment!!!
The corruption will be rife.
Read the sequel, The Testament, it's very satisfying.
Bidens out in 2024, that won't happen
Imagine the penal colony turning out better than the religious haven.
This isn't about religion.. This is about egotism. Nothing they are doing is ANYTHING that the Bible they claim to have faith in teaches..
Maybe it's not a good idea for anyone in government to be claiming they're doing "god's will."
Oh wait, that's precisely why the first amendment exists.
@@mile_high_topher I'm sorry, I'm lost. The first amendment exists because of gods will? They can claim they are all they want but that doesn't make it true.
@@Swnsasy The first amendment exists to keep religion out of government. Well, partially, at lest.
@@mile_high_topher Omgosh, duh!! Lol.. Sorry, had a brain fart 🤣Thanks for not teasing me 😝
The bible teaches nothing. Men wrote every line in that book so the bible contains all of our fears, all of our wishes, all of our good deeds, and all of our worst deeds. It wasn't new 4000 years ago and it's not new today.
Faith in God is because of Fear of reality. It's why religion pops up all over the planet and for some reason, each time God looks a lot like the people in the culture who created it.
I've read through the entire Bible several times, and Jesus never said word one about national borders.
Jesus definitely hated the desperate and starving though, right? He was all about building walls to keep them away from his stuff.
Any head of any religious sects are just extremists that use religions to control their followers for money and power. God way is for people to leave in harmony among others and taking care of mother nature, not turning it into a waste land by exploitation of its every resources to maximize greed.
And he definitely wanted to split up the unity of families - dispelling the myth of Christian family values.
In judges he talks about open borders in the violence that comes in with them
Jesus was over 30, not married, & hung out with 12 dudes ... 🤔
Freedom of religion... as long as it's Christianity.
DEFINITELY not Islam, even though republicans share most of their policies.
@@mile_high_topher Yet the American left loves Islam, and hates Christianity.
Not only that but their version of Christianity which is hardly Christ like at all
Henry Ford said that consumers were free to choose their Model Ts in whatever color they wanted, as long as it was black.
But which of 45,000 flavors? If they get their way, they will collapse the country fighting over whether baptism is dip, drip, dunk, or dry clean.
More like Christian Taliban…VOTE BLUE 🗳️💙🗳️
didn't Biden give $83 billion dollars worth of military equipment to the taliban?
This is a great analogy! Spot on!!
Any head of any religious sects are just extremists that use religions to control their followers for money and power. God way is for people to leave in harmony among others and taking care of mother nature, not turning it into a waste land by exploitation of its every resources to maximize greed.
That is exactly what they are
Christian Sharia.
More evil and cruelty have been perpetrated in the names of "God" and of "Jesus" than from any other cause in human history.
God and Jesus have been slandered by politicians. Jesus refused to get involved in politics and urged his followers to follow his example.
@@rhensontollhouse it isn’t possible to slander fictional characters.
Marxist ideas killed 100 million people just in a single century, and communism is a comparatively young religion.
Very true. The Catholic Church being the worst. None of that happens today though
Have you heard the name of “Muhammad” and Stalin?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." -- the text is pretty clear. There can be no "national religion."
Imagine if republicans respected the constitution...
@@mile_high_topher Who is trying to create a national religion? And since when do Democrat respect the Constitution?
Sure there can be. All you have to do is stack SCOTUS with Christian Nationalists and they can Amend anything in the Constitution. We may have to fight to keep that from happening, Again. Mankind does not seem to be able to rid itself of the insanity of religions.
@@willmont8258 Democrats have always respected the constitution. A Democrat wrote the US Constitution.
@@alphanerd7221 Yet they don't want to abide by most of it.
You guys are scary, History repeats, Germany 1930 's. Glad I'm Canadian
Other country's don't think it will be their sons and daughters spared either by stopping this to spread or; next in line?
Why don’t you focus on your own country? It seems like it’s falling down the drain just like ours 😅
You make us laugh! @@thattallguy9053
Hahahahah you’re not too bright are ya
I am not an American. I find it mind-bending that these 'Christian conservative groups' can circle their wagons around the 'in plain view' moral and ethical values of Donald Trump, who uses morals and ethics as little more than transactional levers to further his own selfish aims and objectives.
The problem is that the american government is in violation of multiple constitutional laws. That is that both parties are complicit and the people are left unrepresented.
That's not what is happening in America. This is what our corrupt media here in America is telling the people is happening, which is absolutely propaganda and is extremely effective at "helping" Americans form opinions. It's not just the left media like in this example, it's both sides. The right skews the story as well. It's disgusting. Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves. There is no "Christian wagon circling", and trump is not someone who pushes religion. He's being persecuted, attacked by every possible means of our current government many of which are absolutely unconstitutional and an abomination of what this country stands for. I don't even like Trump, didn't vote for him the first time. I will this time though, because he's light years better than the scum we have in office now.
@@geninji6117Best way to put it in one sentence.
You're mind is being bent by the media unfortunately, via propaganda. I am American, and that is a joke. What I'm more interested in is the fact that you think morals and ethics are a bad thing?
Media needs to stop calling these clowns "conservative". They are not. They do not take a conservative view of the Bible, the Constitution or anything else.
You want a nation under God? Preach the gospel! Not Trump!
Both terrible choices.
Trump a Christian a hole
Trump IS God to them.
Unconstitutional, either way.
@@TooBadThatDidntKillMe Trump is their False Idol of Satan and childish, selfish gain.
They follow the Seven Mountains Mandate. People should take this seriously because they want to control the seven parts of society. family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government.
I have never heard of that mandate, but everything I have observed shows that they clearly want to control those aspects of society.
The Christian Dominionist "Seven Mountains Mandate" plot is 50+ years old and has been pushed into democracies all around the world. It's taken over the PC Party in Canada via Stephen Harper and now Pierre Poilievre, Canada's version of Trump.
No😂
@@JudyStroyer-bk6fb Interesting way of intimating you're ignorant.
@@Lumi_Lumi13 It's simply not true. No further explanation is necessary or warranted.
Trump’s unleashing the crazies has changed this country forever. The Christian taliban’s efforts in the last 10 years are driving more & more people away from their cause. I hope to see the day when less than 10% attend church & the total marginalization of these people. Leave people alone to live their lives!
You may get your wish sooner than you think.
These villas is on your side.
That is the exact same way that I've felt about this movement.
Now they have changed the definition of "regular" church attendance to once a month. So that's good news, in a way.
Very few MAGA evangelicals actually attend church outside of religious holidays.
Stay pro choice! Say NO to conservative theocracy!
Talk about hypocrites - Trump is as far away from Christianity as you can possibly get. Trump is the opposite of anything Jesus ever said. Its completely ridiculous.
Tax the church.
If they want to influence policy, they can pay their fair share.
@@mile_high_topher Everyone gets to influence policy, doesn't matter if you are religious or not.
@@willmont8258 Then they deserve no tax exemption to help them carry out their political agenda.
@@StephenLewisful They can't give money to political organizations, but they have a right through their freedom of speech and press to influence others like all other groups do.
The same as any 501c3, current tax code allows churches' to advocate and/or lobby for policy matters and legislative issues as long as their efforts do not exceed some nebulous threshold where it would then comprise a "substantial part of their activities". There are, however, strict prohibitions against participating in any campaign activity for or against any candidate for any public office in any level of government.
Seems to be very little difference between the GOP and the Taliban these days
Love the hyperbolic nonsense.
They are the American Taliban. That is the direction they plan to take US. Read Project 2025.
@@spankyssurprise1361 Read Project 2025 - not hyperbolic nonsense. The extreme right wing has a plan. A written plan for American Fascism under a vengeful god.
@@spankyssurprise1361 Actually if you read a list of quotes and actions by the Republicans and Taliban there are some startling similarities. Keep denying it. It only hurts republicans more.
@@spankyssurprise1361oh puhleassse the only difference between the two of you is what you call your imaginary friend.
tRump is out of his league
Agreed, but these “Christian” people are smoother and appear smarter than orangeade.
meanwhile brandons running into walls...face it you fascist leftards have destroyed america
"I'm sick and tired of smart guys!" - Joe Biden.
He is out of his mind.
@@roxyfer7233 is that why fascistube censors normal peoples comments?
Also. I feel like this should be wall to wall coverage on EVERY network.
You can officially refer to anyone still bowing down to their orange, false idol as, "Those who worship evil's might!"
" Buffet Christians" Pick and choose bible versus to fit your political agenda and ignore the rest.
And nearly every verse comes out of the OT, as Jesus' actual teachings are anathema to them.
Let's be honest, if trump somehow magically gets back in, he will abolish any religion that doesn't idol him. Christians, beware of false idols.And, while I'm being honest, evangelicals christians are such easy marks, and trump knows it and plays them like a fiddle.
Beware the golden trump statues. The gold isn't real.
Their golden bull will explode one day and it won't be a pretty picture😅meantime je will wear his golden sneakers😅😅
Like Putin is playing him.
@@andreebesseau6995which won't be available until after July 2024 even if you paid for them recently and upfront. 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
Wait. "Jesus wasn't an open border person." What does that mean?
Lol. Made me furrow my eyebrows that's for sure.
The author of that statement is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Jesus was an immigrant
He never said to open the Mexico border so he must have been against it. - Republican Logic
Jesus was more pro white ango saxon protestant but anti-Catholic italian/Hispanic/irish according to the US nationalist version of the good book. 😉
Hence why the historically accurate drawings or paintings usually portray him as a 6ft man, with light brown hair, milky white skin and blue eyes 😉
It baffles me why religious people think someone who has committed every sin can be their savior.
If you consider who is ruling the world at the moment, it makes more sense. “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.”-1 JOHN 5:19.
Then there’s 2Timothy 3:1-5 that lists the pervasive mentality that marks the time we’re living in. Point for point it describes a narcissist. Notice the part about “having a form of godly devotion, but proving false to its power…”.
Last I heard, these "Christians" say Jesus is too woke.
Best comment! 😅
Jesus refused to get involved in politics and urged his followers to follow his example. “Christian Nationalists” is a contradiction in terms. A “Nationalist” cannot be a also Christian according to Christ.
That’s not really true. JC wanted the Romans gone, that’s why they killed him. For fomenting revolution. He was very political.
Yes they can, the christ god is actually a narcissist creep, a "do as I say not as I do" god, they're just following his lead , it's an evil religion
Not true
@JudyStroyer-bk6fb Please explain to us why that statement is not true.
The Bible doesn't say that....and this isn't politics.....it's war....
This is the party for "Smaller Government, more Personal Freedoms, and Less Oversight" as the actively work to make plans directly against those claims.
REMEMBER: It is easier to loose liberty than it is to gain it.
Get the terms correct. It's not christian nationalism, it's christian authoritarianism or even christian fascism. It's the theocratic rightwing.
Even MTG calls herself a White Christian Nationalist so that's absolutely the correct term. Although it's just one of many fascistic groups that cling to a religion because they cannot accept reality for what it is.
That's literally what Christian Nationalism means.
@@StephenLewisfulWe used to call it the KKK.
In reality it means un-christian. They are in some ways saying the opposite of what Jesus taught.
We used to call it the KKK.
Talibangelist's still sippin the koolaid.
My body's nobody's body but mine
You run your own body let me run mine
Agreed!
What's your body count?
@@anuragchakraborty8766 A gentleman would offer his number first.
@@anuragchakraborty8766 None, but Trump does
@@nativekai Trump is a man
About time the MSM is reporting on the GOP's Christ Fascism...which has been going on since the 70's.
True. Many historians and journalists have written about it.
Reagan embraced it with everything he had and started the R party on this trajectory.
Religion and politics are to remain separate. What the evangelicals and maga world together are evil, vile and so much corruption
Kind of reminds me of the mormon thing when the western US was being settled. Has very little to do with the christian faith.
Separation of church and state means the state leaves the church alone.... This country was founded by christians
Religious fundamentalists should be banned from any political discussion. They are the real danger to any system.
Gilead here we come. Danger ahead in the USA.
These people have no clue! Being a Christian is helping people no matter how they look or what their religion! That’s not Christ! How dare they…!!
They also have no clue about the constitution. The Founding Fathers deemed *ALL* religions unfit for modern, civil governance.
The *1st Amendment's Establishment Clause* prohibits the government from making any law, _“respecting an establishment of religion.”_
This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion.
*Constitution Article VI Supreme Law - Clause 3 Oaths of Office*
_"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; _*_but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."_*
This means nobody is ever required to swear to a god or on the Bible, or any other religious book for an oath of office. They may choose a god or religious book, but none is required.
Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge did not use a Bible in their oath-taking ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt did not use the Bible when taking the oath in 1901, nor did John Quincy Adams, who swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution.
_"In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, _*_it is our boast,_*_ that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States."_
*-George Washington*
_“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.”_
*- John Adams* (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, Founding Father & 2nd president)
_“...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."_
*-Treaty of Tripoli - June 7, 1797. Signed by President John Adams & Ratified UNANIMOUSLY, by the Senate June 10, 1797*
....only a few times in history the Senate unanimously agreed on anything.
A 2018 Supreme Court Ruling re-affirmed this statement, from The Treaty of Tripoli.
The Supreme Court released an opinion on May 14, 2018 in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U. S. (2018), Justice Thomas in his concurring opinion wrote:
_"The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams. As such, it is a "legislated text" which must be read "textually". The lower courts in this case read a hypothetical legislative intention into the text by dismissing Article 11 as "a mere formality". _*_The language itself makes a clear direct statement that our government is not based on the Christian religion and any attempt by a government official to represent our government as Christian contradicts the text and the historical understanding of our founders."_*
Yeah. That's going to go over as well as prohibition did 100 years ago.
The problem is, prohibition initially became the law of the land. If these crackpots win, it might not be as easy to get them out as it was to end prohibition.
That’s called a Theocracy.
It’s called 💩
No😂it's not.
@@JudyStroyer-bk6fb Yes. It is. Seems like they are using Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale" as a blueprint. Will you be a wife, an auntie, or a handmaid?
@@keithosmond5730 that's ludacris. You're detached from reality.
@@JudyStroyer-bk6fbin what way Judy? Because that's what it is.
How many have died over religion? Keep your religion to your self.
nope america is a christian nation and were gonna be praying loud everywhere and not keeping it to ourselves
@@jeremyeyring8256 Never was, never will be.
@@jeremyeyring8256 You can pray all you want no worries. But you have no right to force your religion on anyone else. And you must respect other religions rights.
As I stated it's been religion that has killed the most throughout history.
nah i dont gotta follow your bs orders or anyone elses besides gods@@chrisb7198
How many died just last century under communism and socialism? 120 million? Careful for what you wish for.
I'm guessing they are going to be met with fierce opposition in November.
Vote Blue💙
If they can not win by the vote; they will use a strategy of v olence
Absolutely horrifying.
"The United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." - Treaty of Tripoli signed in 1797 by The United States Congress
OMG, how on earth do any of these jokers have any say on anything? None of this has anything to do with Christianity. What is going on with society? Sad.
Some of them have quite a lot of money and they use it to get their politicians in office.
The number one cause for societal breakdown is economic stress on its population. Freedom of religion means you can practice any religion you choose, it does not mean only one religion can exist and it is incredibly harmful to attempt that which we historically claim to be what those who were not enslaved were escaping from.
Christians backing Trump made me lose my religion. I don't know if he's the most godless person in the country, but he's gotta be in the top 10.
'Religion is an advertising campaign for a product that does not exist.' : the late and greatly missed Clive James, Australian writer and broadcaster.
This isn't about loving God but about loving power. The Puritan streak shines bright still. Not freedom from oppression but freedom to oppress.
Didn't the bible have something to say about worshipping false orange idols?
I think it was golden sneakers
I prefer Orangen Calf.
All of the above
They literally built a golden statue and rolled it out at CPAC three years ago. Talk about idolatry. Their very own Golden Calf.
And - irony of ironies - it was made in Mexico.
And their leader cannot quote one verse from the Bible. it's all about control.
This is just plain awful!!! Church and State need to be separate. What is happening?
The Founding Fathers deemed *ALL* religions unfit for modern, civil governance.
The *1st Amendment's Establishment Clause* prohibits the government from making any law, _“respecting an establishment of religion.”_
This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion.
*Constitution Article VI Supreme Law - Clause 3 Oaths of Office*
_"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; _*_but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."_*
This means nobody is ever required to swear to a god or on the Bible, or any other religious book for an oath of office. They may choose a god or religious book, but none is required.
Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge did not use a Bible in their oath-taking ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt did not use the Bible when taking the oath in 1901, nor did John Quincy Adams, who swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution.
_"In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, _*_it is our boast,_*_ that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States."_
*-George Washington*
_“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.”_
*- John Adams* (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, Founding Father & 2nd president)
_“...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."_
*-Treaty of Tripoli - June 7, 1797. Signed by President John Adams & Ratified UNANIMOUSLY, by the Senate June 10, 1797*
....only a few times in history the Senate unanimously agreed on anything.
A 2018 Supreme Court Ruling re-affirmed this statement, from The Treaty of Tripoli.
The Supreme Court released an opinion on May 14, 2018 in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U. S. (2018), Justice Thomas in his concurring opinion wrote:
_"The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams. As such, it is a "legislated text" which must be read "textually". The lower courts in this case read a hypothetical legislative intention into the text by dismissing Article 11 as "a mere formality". _*_The language itself makes a clear direct statement that our government is not based on the Christian religion and any attempt by a government official to represent our government as Christian contradicts the text and the historical understanding of our founders."_*
What would Trump’s core belief be,
The source of his great piety,
What verse best serves,
As the faith he observes…
‘It’s all so unfair, woe is me’?
He's an ATHEIST but he's able to fool those shoe size IQs.
Russell Vought is only 47 years old and knows NOTHING about the 1960s because he never lived through them. This is typical romanticism of an era that was not as portrayed on the 1950s sitcoms. The "wives" on those shows were career women, by the way, at at least one of them, Donna Reed, was the co-producer with her then-husband Tony Owen on her sitcom. She was hardly the part she played. Women had jobs throughout the 1950s, and those who did stay home did so not just because they had been forced out of the labor force after the servicemen returned from WWII, but they could afford to because of strong unions and a large manufacturing base. These days, few dual-parent households can have only one wage earner, and our economy can't afford a return to the 1950s. Maybe somebody should knock Vought alongside the head for once.
Freedom of religion also means freedom FROM religion. I want that wall between church and state reinforced. If churches want to participate in our government, then they need to start paying taxes like the rest of us.
Religion is viewed as true by the common people, false by the wise, and useful by the rulers.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anyone that tells you that they will maintain religious freedom while using government power to force their religion ON YOU is clearly dangerously lying.
“Vengeance is Mine,” says the Lord.
The american version of the ayatollahs.
Biden
@christopherjavens3438 Biden is not trying to force anybody to live by Catholic rules.
@@christopherjavens3438 christian nationalists.
And thank god for christian nationalists@@samuelarvizu7648
The Most High gives us all free Will.
Who are men to tell a Woman what to do with her own body.
Tell men to take care of their children.
Perhaps that will make Women want to be married and have children.
Not be abused too.
Praying for Trump and the West! 🙏
It's very funny, when you think of how promiscuous Stinky has been his whole life.
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.” - John Adams
I'm sure the clear-minded, intelligent women of this country are going to embrace this wholeheartedly. 🤣😂🤣 VOTE 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
We want red! ❤️❤️🗳️🗳️
This is the "... and carrying a cross" part of how fascism will come to America
It's so very wrong to me that I've been freer in my 55 years on this earth than my daughter has been in her 15 years.
If we don't get it right in November, none of us will be as free as we once were.
Every day you hear more news as to why this election in November will be so critical to the future of our country. Vote, whatever it takes.
First and foremost reason to vote blue! 🌊💙💙💙💙
And holy crap, Jesus isn’t an open border person?? Seriously?? These people are verrrry scary.
Has this "woman" ever read the declaration of independence?
This is the chick that said believeing that your rights dont come from an earthly authority makes you a christian nationalist
These poor people have no idea what eternity has in store for them.
Complete Political B.S.! MSNBC needs to be Held Accountable!
It’s time to escape religious oppression again! I thought that’s how this country was founded….by people who escaped religious oppression, to find freedom here? Where shall we escape to now?
Despite how certain people/groups try to twist Bible passages to suit their narrative, basically cherry picking parts of the Bible. The Bible is pretty clear on “strangers”, in other words immigrants.
Leviticus 19:34 “The foreigners residing among you must be treated as native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”
Exodus 22:21 - “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.”
Deuteronomy 23:16 - “Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them.”
Ezekiel 47:22,23 - “You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners residing among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. In whatever tribe a foreigner resides, there you are to give them their inheritance,” declares the Sovereign LORD.”
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Um...right. There's much more to it than that:
If the "stranger" wants to participate in the seder he must be circumcised -- he and "all of his males." "The same law shall apply to the native and the stranger." One implication: if the stranger wants to enter the land, and there are rules about how to enter the land properly, then he needs to follow those rules. See Exodus 12.43-49. Also, there is no obligation to let in "strangers" willy-nilly, and they remain on condition of good behavior. And right now "the stranger" is more likely to be treated better than the natives.
Regarding Lev 19.34: No harm is done to a stranger by having rules which all must follow in order to enter a country prop. No one is being oppressed simply by being barred from entry on conditions. (How do you feel about Lev 18.22?)
One relevent implication of the passages you have cited is that there is a territory, which has boundaries/borders. So it looks like borders are okay and it is permissible for nations to enforce them.
Besides separation of church and state should prevent Christians from applying the passages you have cited to the issue on the southern border.
Something they don't seem to take into consideration is that one of the main reasons both parents work was because wages didn't rise with inflation. The average family cannot survive on a single income anymore. Fix that and you might have more people deciding to split who works and who stays home. They also need to get comfortable with the fact sometimes men do better staying home with the kids and the women working. The conventional "traditional" roles are no longer standard. Until they are willing to deal with that they don't have leg to stand on.
Women should NOT have to give up their financial security to raise kids
If Trump truly believes he is the messiah, I just happen to have two cross ties and some nails...
Next the orange messiah will be saying that he’s been more persecuted than Christ.
All you need to do to complete the mission is to continue drinking the orange kool-aid of the MSM and you will achieve your goal.
😂😂😂 what are you talking about?
The patriarchal quasi Christian death cults last gasp!
One cannot be christian and be pro-Trump.
The bible is very clear on the matter.
😂no
@GoldAndSilver555 Im not religious.
I've been in christian schools for a big part of my life and my extended family are deeply religious actors of the christian faith.
I've been schooled in the bible and i've read most of it myself.
I don't claim to be an expert here, but i get the clue.
Trump is a great example of what not to become and what we teach our children about how to behave.
Trump goes against ethics and bible values in almost every detail.
@GoldAndSilver555 "What are you yapping about"
Can you stick with context please? I explained myself pretty well, i expect the same from you.
@GoldAndSilver555 Pretty clear you're just here to troll. @Fastbikkel has been pretty clear; you're just prodding with empty nonsense. Contribute, or go away.
@GoldAndSilver555 You first!
Keep your God's and "their" values to yourselves and out of politics, school and work.
no god told us to witness all over the earth and america is a christian nation so we cant do that
They always want to talk about how people need to keep it in the bedroom when those creeps won’t stay OUT of peoples bedrooms.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony
Any God that would inflict these people on the rest of us isn't worth worshipping. And churches that go into politics like that should be taxed.
Vote blue and stay vigilant!
Locking Trump up and not allowing him to see the light of day since J6 would’ve solved all of this.
Jesus said to welcome the stranger, not to build a wall to keep them out!
He also said I come with a sword
Let the illegals stay at your home
@@Gerryjournal in a time of conflict, people seeking sanctuary are not an army.
@@asheronwindspear552 ?
@@Gerryjournal he meant an allegorical sword dividing believers from unbelievers, predicting that unbelieving friends and family members would reject believers. Read the whole context, Bunky.
Who better to proselytize Christianity than a man with more experience than practically anyone in violating the Commandments?
“The only lives that truly matter are those who respect the lives of others”.
Shaping policy around what people think an invisible being in the sky wants. Sounds totally sound, intelligent and logical. 🙄
Seeing as how he's always been such a devout Christian.
Dude literally named Vought.
So what’s next evil superheroes?
We’ll keep the first amendment but we’ll just ignore it?
Jesus was not an open border person ??? That is news to me, or have I been reading the New Testament wrong for all these years. I have been to the Holy Land including the most famous places in Nazareth, Tiberius, Capernum, Jericho, Qumran, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and many others. Jesus was a migrant, plain and simple.
The Founding Fathers deemed *ALL* religions unfit for modern, civil governance.
The *1st Amendment's Establishment Clause* prohibits the government from making any law, _“respecting an establishment of religion.”_
This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion.
*Constitution Article VI Supreme Law - Clause 3 Oaths of Office*
_"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; _*_but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."_*
This means nobody is ever required to swear to a god or on the Bible, or any other religious book for an oath of office. They may choose a god or religious book, but none is required.
Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge did not use a Bible in their oath-taking ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt did not use the Bible when taking the oath in 1901, nor did John Quincy Adams, who swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution.
_"In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, _*_it is our boast,_*_ that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States."_
*-George Washington*
_“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.”_
*- John Adams* (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, Founding Father & 2nd president)
_“...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."_
*-Treaty of Tripoli - June 7, 1797. Signed by President John Adams & Ratified UNANIMOUSLY, by the Senate June 10, 1797*
....only a few times in history the Senate unanimously agreed on anything.
A 2018 Supreme Court Ruling re-affirmed this statement, from The Treaty of Tripoli.
The Supreme Court released an opinion on May 14, 2018 in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U. S. (2018), Justice Thomas in his concurring opinion wrote:
_"The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams. As such, it is a "legislated text" which must be read "textually". The lower courts in this case read a hypothetical legislative intention into the text by dismissing Article 11 as "a mere formality". _*_The language itself makes a clear direct statement that our government is not based on the Christian religion and any attempt by a government official to represent our government as Christian contradicts the text and the historical understanding of our founders."_*
Just what we need, a Theocracy!
SARC (I Hope!)
I didn't know that Jesus 2000 years ago had strong feelings about Mexico.
Renewing into what? A handmaids tale?
Religion is very polite when they aren't in power. They will show their true colors the moment they get it.
It is time to remove tax breaks from all religions especially those that want to involve themselves in the political movement.All property to be assessed at fair market value. All bank accounts pay money made like the rest of us.