Trump needs a bunch of people willing to believe anything told to then and the religious crowd seems to have an endless appetite for rage inducing bullshit.
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He doesn’t give AF about religion he’s no fucking moral centre. This is lip service to hud base
Since when have religion and morality had anything to do with one another?
Religion is a moral code. He doesn’t have a moral code
Religion is a control mechanism draped in fake moral superiority. People don’t need to believe in fairy tales to distinguish right from wrong. The evidence of those that do believe in fairy tales and can’t tell right from wrong is overwhelming.
ETA: In fact, I would argue that anyone that thinks they need some holy book or religious leader to tell them what’s right and what’s wrong has a serious problem.
Seriously. Anyone who says that without religion society would be rampant crime such as rape and murder is immediately suspect. They’re especially claiming that they’d be out there raping and murdering except their religion keeps them in check. When’s the last time you heard of an atheist committing horrible crimes? Stalin and Mao? We know that morality exists outside of a religious cage.
And for all Stalin did, Putin has more power than ever, partially because he brought religion back.
Religion is a tool for exploitative social control.
Religion can also be a WEAPONIZED moral code. And America has had a history of weaponizing it’s idea of morality. So nothing new here, just more extreme.
Nah, first Amendment trump’s Trump, regardless of his bullshit, he’s a citizen. He can hold an opinion, just like that can be a dead fucking wrong opinion.
Power changes the equation. There is power behind his words. Take him at them and respond accordingly.
All of this is spelled out in project 2025. If you want to know what’s coming next, just look at their website.
I’ve been warning people about the setup to martial law. That’s the final step of project 2025 that officially and completely destroys democracy. There will be no going back and no voting in the future. I keep being called an alarmist, but I was called an alarmist in late 2015 when he announced his run. It’s also perfectly spelled out and they’ve been doing every project 2025 has step by step.
Just wait until they start banning porn. It’s already started in some states tbh.
Canada almost had the same thing happen, but thankfully Poilievre didn’t win PM, and even lost his seat too as a bonus.
Yup. That’s the next step. Rip smut.
What’s the rationale behind this? Is it just pandering to religious freaks, or something else?
My guess is that it’s a step towards banning anything considered “sexual” or “deviant.” I.e., anything to do with LGBTQ people, sex ed, educating women about their bodies and rights, etc. Anything that the white patriarchy dislikes while also making it easier to subjugate the population through ignorance and propaganda.
My guess is that it’s a step towards banning anything considered “sexual” or “deviant.”
Which is just a step toward banning anything that doesn’t “glorify our dear leader.”
Which leads to uninformed teenagers becoming pregnant, being forced to carry the child, and being stuck in poverty and ignorance for the rest of their lives as a result. This gives us uneducated workers and soldiers.
Every live baby is a potential dead soldier. And the more education is destroyed the more popular that path will be.
Is it just pandering to religious freaks,
That and increasing their authorization grip on society.
well I am totally bored of the step brother genre.
If you’re bored of the same old, check out aliens, ware wolves, vampires and other species.
ware wolves
Like wolves selling knives door to door or more like a flea market run by wolves?
Underrated comment, lol
Get it, flea market? I crack myself up sometimes.
They literally can’t ban porn unless you turn off the whole internet.
In my day we made do with porn we found in a box in the woods.
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He’s in an intra-party dust up with Doug Ford, brother of the infamous crack smoking Toronto Mayor.
So its possible we’ll get a porn ban if Poilievre comes out ahead. But we could alternatively get pole dancing as an elective and weed in the school cafeterias.
I’m curious what will happen when they try to abolish the Federal Reserve.
…to investigate and present strategies to eliminate “threats to domestic religious liberty.”
Right, so this will be a group who will make sure that any other religious will disappear, and soon. Atheisrs will as soon as possible be persecuted
Tell me I’m wrong and why.
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
cant kill an idea, thats what matters most.
Lmao this dickhead who probably can’t recite a single Bible verse.
“the Bible. It’s great, you know that? So many verses, so many. Many that I know. You want verses? I could give you verses but I’m not gonna do that. Love the Bible.”
-Trump, probably.
It’s been proven on live television he cannot.
“so are you an old testament guy or a new testament guy?”
I wonder who paid him to say that. Trump is just a muppet.
I’ll give you 3 guesses, starts with “P”
Please don’t insult muppets like that. Trump’s a puppet, absolutely, but he lacks the warmth to be a Jim Henson creation.
This is a complete upheaval of the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment of the Constitution per Wikipedia’s entry on Separation of church and state:
Jefferson and the Bill of Rights
In English, the exact term is an offshoot of the phrase, “wall of separation between church and state”, as written in Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. In that letter, referencing the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Jefferson writes:
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.[6]
Jefferson was describing to the Baptists that the United States Bill of Rights prevents the establishment of a national church, and in so doing they did not have to fear government interference in their right to expressions of religious conscience. The Bill of Rights, adopted in 1791 as ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States, was one of the earliest political expressions against the political establishment of religion. Others were the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, also authored by Jefferson and adopted by Virginia in 1786; and the French Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789.
The metaphor “a wall of separation between Church and State” used by Jefferson in the above quoted letter became a part of the First Amendment jurisprudence of the U.S. Supreme Court. It was first used by Chief Justice Morrison Waite in Reynolds v. United States (1878). American historian George Bancroft was consulted by Waite in the Reynolds case regarding the views on establishment by the framers of the U.S. constitution. Bancroft advised Waite to consult Jefferson. Waite then discovered the above quoted letter in a library after skimming through the index to Jefferson’s collected works according to historian Don Drakeman.[30]
As an atheist that agrees more with Buddhism and Paganism than any organized religion this infuriating. I went to Catholic Church and school for 18 years of my life, I know what it’s like to be “forced” to believe in something you don’t.
Are they going to keep records of who goes to what churches and arrest people if they don’t go to the correct church at the correct time and day?
I don’t give a shit what anyone believes as long as they are not an asshole, that’s their own business. I’ve had people try to shove their religion on me and it’s not fun. If I had the financial means to leave this country I absolutely would now even if I was a Christian and went to church every Sunday.
This is REALLY freaking dangerous and scary on top of all the REALLY freaking dangerous and scary other bullshit Orange Man and his Disciples of Dumbasses have been doing since January 20th.
Pro tip: he doesn’t give a shit about the rest of what’s in the 1st either. (Freedom of religion, speech, and the press)
He should forget about 4 year terms. He can be removed at any time.
Donald: That one from Pulp Fiction is pretty good.
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.
I am a religious person even and this is insane. Do these people not read the Good Book? Trump is clearly the antichrist. And still all these chodes have… simp-pathy for the devil (because they simp so hard. I tried really hard to make that joke work this is the best I can do.)
Unfortunately, this is no joke. This needs to stop, or it will end very poorly.
100%, but gallows humor is my favorite kind
there’s a lot going on in this article, but this part in particular is… uhh … a really special form of religious virtue…
Easy to forget that Bush and Reagan also had these Faith Based Initiative and religious themed cabinet positions. And they were also primarily about funneling state money to religious demagogues. And then Clinton/Obama kept them around because they didn’t want to offend the religious extremists.
The large network of Crisis Intervention Centers that effectively exist to abuse young people with poor grades, substance abuse issues, and non-conforming gender/sexual preferences were all originally bankrolled by Reagan/Bush Era pilot programs and church kickbacks.
Leaning into grifting. Like always. He is just dipping into the Christian side of the grift.
Only a matter of time until he declares himself Holy Roman Emperor. And silly me was under the impression, he’s trying to emulate an entirely different era of German history.
I wish had no scruples because then I could sell people angels for $1,000
I love how the most devout Christians are always always complete shitheads
It’s not just “no scruples”. Lots of people run these scams. Only a few of them succeed.
Given the shitheads who’d actually buy that crap, I’d say this is one group of people to scam the shit out of without fear of compromising one’s scruples.
The people who buy that crap are victims. Uneducated by the state and propagandized into eternal fear by the media and religion.
They’re going to send their money off to scammers anyway. Might as well redirect it somewhere were it won’t be used by straight up evil people doing straight up evil shit.
I’m also not sure how much I believe in their “victim” status. I was raised in a conservative Southern Baptist household in Mississippi, and I figured out that stuff was bullshit after a few Sunday School sessions.
I figured out that church was bullshit at a young age too. I was raised in West Virginia in shitty schools. We were still victims, even though we had the luck of being born perceptive enough to limit our victimization. Imagine if all the wasted hours we spent in school and church, we were learning instead.
I had a science teacher in fifth grade who was a preacher as well. When we got to evolution all he had to say was “If we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys, ever think about that?” And refused to teach the material. We skipped it.
Ugh, I had a biology teacher who was very similar. We briefly went through what the textbook had to say on evolution, then spent the next week or so watching stupid videos of this nutjob ranting about how current species with symbiotic relationships couldn’t have evolved separately or some drivel. Knowing what I know now about my rights as a student in a public school, I wish I could go back just for the opportunity to tell him I’d be doing my own independent study time in the library during his class periods while he was showing his blatantly illegal proselytizing propaganda.
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.
“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.
Nor if you are a Muslim a Buddhist, a Mormon or a Catholic
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.
Time to get to work Satanic Temple.
