"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" -John Adams
this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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Why should non Christians keep obeying their laws they don't really have power to stop many of us
We're gonna have to fight these bozos at some point, aren't we...
“Hamanda acka acka racka deda backa sanda acka ambo osa cacka reeté eké banda acka riki dibi asha daaah”
- Paula White Cain, Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office
TST should bring their Baphomet statue.
American Taliban
Y'all Qaeda
Talibrand
Yokel Haram/Broke-o Haram
ICEis
WhyDF
What’s with the “quasi?” It’s an explicit endorsement of Christianity as the national religion they’re not supposed to have. It’s literally the first amendment to the constitution they love to rub all over their sweaty white bodies.
Anybody that thinks Trump is a Christian or has Christian values is a moron.
Most people in the US who self identify as Christian are in fact morons. There's a reason there are so many grifters promoting Christianity, it's practically free real estate.
I mean Trump is a perfect representation of Christianity his voters, just fake posturing to look like a good person. If Jesus was alive today and lived in America the vast majority of Trumpist Christians would outright hate him for being a hardcore commie bastard. And that's assuming the police won't just shoot him.
Nuke it
From orbit.
It’s the only way to be sure.
It's amazing they don't all burst into flames, if there was a just god...
There is no God. There is no karma. There is no universal justice.
There's only what we do on Earth that matters.
Hear hear, be kind.
You know, Christianity was used for the left during the New Deal among other times, in fact the New Deal was put together on a coalition that included a broad base of Christians who believed it was essentially Jesus's work to do so.
Today the left has so much spiritual trauma we dump on religion and want it gone, but really we need to embrace it and have a strong faith based arm that can speak this language to people. If America is a Christian nation than some immediate changes need to happen - universal healthcare being top priority. Also homelessness, poverty, food insecurity, war, etc. Amen.
I admire the teachings of Jesus 100%, they are for the most part, common sense stuff for people who care about other people and the earth, unfortunately he's being retconned out of the bible by a lot of people. I grew up going to a Catholic school and let me tell you the shock of the difference of what people said they believed and how they acted in the real world is still an issue for me honestly.
It doesn't help that immediately after the gospels are Paul's angry, regressive, and authoritarian letters to all the congregations he was trying to dominate, followed by the late-first century anti-Roman millenarian fever dream of Revelations.
If America is a Christian nation than some immediate changes need to happen
It's not though.
Despite some of it being in the Bible, socialism and humanitarianism isn't on the agenda for the major Christian players. There are absolutely some churches that do great work in their communities, but that's tarnished by the bigger groups who use the power of religion to control the masses and are not interested in considering the softer sides of messages from Jesus.
And the US was founded by a mix of believers, with the intention of being secular for the protection of all beliefs. They knew first hand from history and their current situation what mixing religion and politics does, and also what drawing a line for some beliefs and not others does. Fighting about religion was often between sects of Christianity, and a secular protection helped everyone. It was idealistic, never was 100% and drifted a lot away from that goal, and how far it is seems to correlate with the problems we have.
The point is though, Christianity has influenced and given credence to progressive viewpoints at several junctures throughout American history, so we can sit here and wish upon a star that Jefferson's vision for a secular America truly emerged, or we can acknowledge that it's never been quite that simple and that we too can use Christianity for our purposes now just as we have historically. Religion is a weapon and a tool the left has simply given up, and now we're like "I can't believe the other side is successfully using this to hurt us." Find the progressive faith communities, empower them, let them go do spiritual battle for us, see if we make more progress in winning hearts and minds - I bet we do.
I wish the better sides of religion would take arms against the ones using it for their own gain. I think they have that responsibility. They aren't.
I get what you're saying, use the same tools but for a greater good. I'd just like us to do things because they're the right thing to do, and not because some book said or implied it. Because in the end even if you take the broad idea of loving and helping each other from a book, that doesn't get into how to do that, and often times people with similar goals end up fighting over the details and undoing any progress simply because they can't agree on the HOW.
The left does not want religion gone. Some athiests do and another chunk would not mind if it did but that is not the entirety of athiests or the left. Now The large majority want freedom from religion which means it keeps its things with its followers at their private places and does not throw it into the public square (which ironically goes with some of jesus's teaching and should be supported by christians) . That is about god exists believe X, Y, Z, and not about preferential ways of govenoring or how how society works.. As you say working toward a society with robust social safety nets and common sense social welfare is just something non hypocrite christians should be doing.
"mass" prayer event.
The article doesn't load. I'm confused; when they say "mass" do they mean a whole bunch of people will be praying, or that it's a Catholic service?
Meanwhile religious extremists run iran
Yep and we put them there. Operation Apex 1953.