The idea of a Christian America means different things to different people. Pollsters have found a wide circle of Americans who hold general God-and-country sentiments.
But within that is a smaller, hardcore group who also check other boxes in surveys — such as that the U.S. Constitution was inspired by God and that the federal government should declare the U.S. a Christian nation, advocate Christian values or stop enforcing the separation of church and state.
For those embracing that package of beliefs, it’s more likely they’ll have unfavorable views toward immigrants, dismiss or downplay the impact of anti-Black discrimination and believe Trump was a good or great president, according to a 2021 Pew Research Center survey.
Why is apnews validating these lies? The constitution is very clear.
Attacking the messenger makes no sense at all.
It’s the framing
I agree.
For those embracing that package of beliefs, it’s more likely they’ll have unfavorable views toward immigrants, dismiss or downplay the impact of anti-Black discrimination and believe Trump was a good or great president, according to a 2021 Pew Research Center survey.
Immigrants from Latin America are very likely to be Christian and so are Black Americans.
“But we don’t want those kinds of Christians!”
🤔
Ridiculous article with ridiculous assertions. I don’t know any Christians that desire a ‘Christian America’, and I live in the Bible Belt. The reason is because Christians understand that Christianity comes in many flavors; Baptists don’t want Methodists making the rules, Catholics don’t want Protestants in charge, etc. Article is simple inflammatory click bait.
The article above, that you didn’t read, talks about the speaker of the house and surveyed Americans.
Just my experience but I know someone who is a lobbyist for a high profile brand and has said to me “the founders intended for this to be a Christian nation so making laws that reflect those values is okay” Not saying you are wrong but I have encountered at least one, and that one is in a very influential position.
Dominion Theology is damn near mainstream in the Republican Party. No one ever accused Christians of being logically consistent. All simply assume their bullshit interpretation will win out in the end because God.
Just because you have access to the internet doesn’t mean you should post your dumbass opinion.
If you honestly think you don’t know anyone who wants that, you’ve deluded yourself. It’s not the majority, but they absolutely exist, and they’ve absolutely captured the republican party.
You’re an idiot.
I’m sorry that you’re too blind to reality. I hope you eventually realize that and fix it.
You should look up the southern strategy.
You ever talk politics with many of the Christians you know?
You sound like the white people who say racism doesn’t exist because they don’t see it.
Many? No, not many, just a very loud minority.
Loud and powerful, with a shit ton of money behind them.
Oh, and private jets. Lots of private jets.
I also want it to be illegal for everyone to not be exactly like me
This article reads like Fox News click bait unsourced trash.
“Some are saying…”
“Many…”
Say no to theocracy!
Which flavor of Christianity?
There’s like 12 churches within a mile radius of my house, each a different denomination. They all seem to hate each other.
It’s not that I don’t fear an attempt to institute a national theocracy, I just think (and hope) that the infighting on what brand will keep them fighting among themselves before they can do any real damage.
Or it results in a holy war worse than any civil war as factions fight in their god’s name. I mean I hope that doesn’t happen, but I’m not going to say it can’t.
Fascism is ever shrinking circles. Once they make christianity law and genocide and imprison all non christians they will start to genocide and imprison all the “wrong” christians. Eventually all that is left is the dictator with his private security on one side and the population of slaves on the other.
So Russia…
Time for some Emo Philips:
Evangelists. The worst of the worst.
Actually I’d put Evangelicals (primarily Pentacostals) at the top of that list 'cause they’re the ones causing most of the issues … mainly a push to fundamentalism that is no different than what Iran is currently doing.
Donald Trump and his g̵o̵o̵n̵s̵ ̵loons stechschritting toward Gilead. smh
The funny thing is Actual Christian teachings would improve the country, not the conservatives ways of cherry-picking practices.
Only the cherry picked teachings you mean. Not the whole, you know, Bible.
Care for the sick and poor, sure, but this is being orchestrated by billionaires who want to reinstate slavery. No law will be made with respect to religion, if they want to take that out the constitution so goes guns. This article is disgusting and should be removed.
I’m Jewish. My daughter is Jewish and queer. This shit terrifies me.
Somewhere a republican just had an aneurysm.
Just one? That’s… okay. I guess.
You get an aneurysm, you get an aneurysm! Everyone gets an aneurysm! Yay!!!
It’s a good start.
Hmmm. Maybe talk her into becoming a teacher or a librarian? That might up the body count.
I think her librarian mother would love that, but at this stage, I think she’ll be an artist because that’s where her talents lie (at 13 anyway).
The thing that has made me sad and I’ve tried to steer her away from is that she has said a couple of times that she thinks she should go to a business school so she can make a lot of money. Her mother and I both decided that being happy was far more important than making money. We were pretty poor for a while because of it, but we were not very stressed because we were happy in the thing we spent all day doing. And now we’re doing fine. I’ve had jobs that paid better, but out of my wheelhouse that were so stressful that I started doing things like developing bad dandruff.
I absolutely believe that doing what makes you happy is far more important than doing what makes you wealthy and I really want to pass that value on to her. Especially if she thinks that working for some soul-crushing corporation is the path she should take in life.
Hey, I was a full time potter for a few years but now will soon be entering IT after going back to school. I think you should kind of reconsider. I agree that soul crushing corporations and grinding for pay are a bummer and I think she should go into something she’s engaged and interested in but you should reconsider this opinion.
Being an independent artist is essentially running a small business with a heavy focus on branding and marketing. Many arts programs poorly cover business topics. If she is already skilled in art it may be better for her to attend college for business administration or marketing. The only potters I knew that thrived ran a good business plan.
If she decides to go an alternate route like graphic design or teaching. That’s fine although it can be just a soulless and crushing as a business career.
So yeah, while I agree and admire that your were able to pursue your happiness at the behest of some degree of money. I would worry that you might push her away from a path that is not a bad as it seems and I hope I didn’t overstep.
I will be returning to pottery when everything stabilizes for me as a hobby or side business and my business IT program has given me some new ideas. My career should help stabilize my life so I can pursue my art, layoffs willing.
Yeah I couldn’t agree more. I’m with you. I hope she sticks with the art.
I do too, thanks.
It’s okay. These people need you to exist to help bring about the apocalypse and the Rapture. Pretty much the only reason they support Israel.
Yes, but they need me to be in Israel. They’re going to have to force me to go.
I’m sure the basket of deplorables would be happy to make it happen.
Fucking brain dead idiots.
i believe they’re all heretics who should be burned, where’s the Inquisition when you really need one
Yeah these are the same folks arguing that if the authors of sec 3 of the 14th amendment wanted to specifically prevent a former president that engaged in insurrection they would have, so we can conclude they didn’t want that. So, if they had every opportunity to write religion into the constitution and didn’t do it, what now?
Then when you notice that they specifically wrote in the first amendment the establishment clause- and then you realize that Jefferson explained its purpose to be creating a wall of separation between church and state, what now again?
They don’t care about internally consistent logic. If they did they wouldn’t be religious.
I’m a Republican and I need someone to shoot up an Elementary School QUICK so I can pretend to care about the Constitution again!
Please watch God Forbid the sex scandal that shocked America (hulu)
Shiny happy people (prime)
The family (netflix)
Even if the “smaller hard-core group” sounds inconsequential, a lot of those people are the ones with power and/or influence.
I think there is a fourth I’ve seen that covers similar grounds and forget atm, plus I’m sure many more that I don’t know so please respond if you know others. As you may notice all mine are drastically different subjects on the surface. They have the common thread though of fundamental religious men in power AND the institutions being involved in American politics.
There’s no gay agenda. There is ABSOLUTELY a Christian agenda.
There is a gay agenda if you consider wanting to be treated like humans an agenda.
Oh shit… THAT is what they want? Fuck that’s deplorable
