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Top Trump administration officials will address a mass prayer meeting in the heart of Washington Sunday – an event organisers bill as reclaiming the country's religious foundations, but critics say is a quasi-official rally for Christian nationalism.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

Funny if the FSM smites them all al dente.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Prayer explicitly as PR, rather than a personal relationship with God.

These people never seem to have read Matthew 6:5-6.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 12 points 2 days ago

Can you blame them? That shit works. Religious people aren't the smartest tools in the shed, so no one ever wonders why people like donnie don't know shit about their religion or how it comea that he's never in church. All they see is performative stunts, and they love that.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They haven't read a lot of things. One of the things that amuse me is seeing xtians tattoo various xtian things on their body, like Hegseth, for example:

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

They cherry pick from the OT whatever suits them. I'm fine if they ignore such rules from the OT with the argument that, like the food rules, it's not relevant anymore thanks to Jesus. Cherry picking just the stuff you can use to justify hurting people, while ignoring anything that doesn't suit your taste, is hypocrisy.

And then they invent stuff that's not even in the Bible, like their stupid abortion ban.

[–] treehugger6@lemmy.world 83 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Y'all Qaeda

Talibrand

Yokel Haram/Broke-o Haram

ICEis

WhyDF

[–] stardustsystem@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

President of MAGAstan

[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" -John Adams

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"If God truly does exist, then he more so loves the atheist who questions the world around him than the Christian who blindly follows." -Thomas Jefferson

More than half of the Founding Fathers were atheists or agnostic.

And the rest were deists

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion

Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

First step on becoming a King. A state religion.

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

reclaiming the country's religious foundations

Thomas Jefferson wrote specifically about the first Amenment in 1802, stating that the adopted amendment created a “wall of separation between the church and state.”

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison both strongly opposed the state supporting one specific religion. Per their beliefs, it is a violation of a natural right to religious liberty when you compel a citizen to support a specific faith.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Is this really a good time for the US to potentially violate the Treaty of Tripoli and risk the rise of piracy against US vessels in the Mediterranean / Middle East region?

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Anybody that thinks Trump is a Christian or has Christian values is a moron.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] Janx@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

My mother is a great person. She's caring, she helps the sick and the poor, she acts with integrity... And she prays every day for Donald Trump to drop dead. That's a real Christian...

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[–] JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"Christian"

Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward! But whenever you pray, go into your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:5-7

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

Yeah, they should just own it and call themselves who Jesus was addressing: Pharisees, liars and hypocrites.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Oh, good! I was afraid the lack Christian leadership over the years might have created a vacuum.

We've only had Christian presidents for 250 years, after all.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

The current president is not. He's made it pretty clear he's only pretending for the votes.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I would love to run as a third party pagan animist just to break the trend.

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 22 points 3 days ago

TST should bring their Baphomet statue.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 10 points 3 days ago

From the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli. Ratified by the Senate which had just recently approved the Bill of Rights, and signed by President John Adams.

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religious or tranquility of Musselmen, and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”

[–] Janx@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who. The fuck would this administration pray to!? Their idol is right there!

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We're gonna have to fight these bozos at some point, aren't we...

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[–] gdtf@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Democratic church of America

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago
[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I knew these fuckers didn’t know any history.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

It's amazing they don't all burst into flames, if there was a just god...

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[–] Rusticus@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe they will say a word of prayer for the Epstein child rape victims as well, being Christian and all.

/s

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

More like praying for the Epstein perpetrators/ruling class

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..

Kinda right there in the bill of rights actually.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 10 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure they'd get burned and killed by the original Pelgrims whom were considered the ISIS of their time in Europe... Which was hardcore religious as it was already... So imagine those ppl going like 'wtf dudes, chill!!!'

That rotten core lives on up to this day - and will keep festering as it's part of their cultural DNA.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

“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
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