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[–] chrischryse@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So I occasionally check the Fox News site just to see what the idiot commenters say because I find it sad yet entertaining...anyway for the article that was posted about htis issue several people were like "this is a good thing, because sepration of church and state isn't in teh constitution" like bruh have you read the constiutuion? It's literally stated in teh first amendment xD

Amendments aren't part of the constitution... except the 2nd!

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

Well then Allah be praised!

/S

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 255 points 2 days ago

How about go fuck yourself.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

"Our Country." Is just his White America/Klansmen base. We need that separation more than ever.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.)

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 207 points 2 days ago (3 children)

As if the fucking Christian indoctrination wasn't already bad enough here.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 47 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You haven't seen anything yet. They're trying to build their own Saudi Arabia.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is hope that the backlash from this will be brutal. It will take half a generation to get here. But overall Christianity is not gaining more net followers, especially not the asshole flavors that so vocally seem to represent it.

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 59 points 2 days ago

No. It's the woke that was doing the indoctrination.

Now, against the wall so we can inspect your purity.

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[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 96 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I'm all for the separation of Trump's head and body.

[–] 18USCode2381@infosec.pub 131 points 2 days ago (11 children)
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[–] LuckyPierre@lemm.ee 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Religion is more powerful in countries with low education standards.

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

A shame to see America go so regressive so quickly.

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[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

"Under His eye. "

[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 85 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

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

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

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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Lmao this dickhead who probably can't recite a single Bible verse.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"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.

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[–] freeman@feddit.org 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He doesn't give AF about religion he's no fucking moral centre. This is lip service to his base

[–] overworkedandundersane@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Since when have religion and morality had anything to do with one another?

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American Christians will martyr themselves for their silly beliefs. But not before murdering a bunch of people.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (3 children)

hope this project 2025 is as successful as his casinos

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