3mo ago

Donald Trump says America should "forget about" the separation of church and state

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Donald Trump says America should "forget about" the separation of church and state - LGBTQ Nation

Trump said that instead of a separation of church and state, he will bring "religion back to our country."

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.”

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3mo ago

Donald Trump says America should “forget about” the separation of church and state

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Forget…good thing we have it written down in a document.
- Because that has mattered so much to this administration and those sitting on the SCOTUS bench.
- A document that is being ignored
  It's in dire need of an overhaul anyway
  But as it stands, it's still the law. The Tangerine Toddler doesn't care about the law though, nor do his cultists
  
  It's in dire need of an overhaul anyway
  Monkey's paw curls
- if only that mattered to republicans. Heck they don't even respect things their own party did previously like fighting to free the slaves or the national parks.
- They are just as selective with that document as they are with the bible.
Homie is basically trying bring back everything American colonists rebelled against. Kings, state religion, massive tariffs. The only missing piece is tea.
- So why aren’t the colonists rebelling?
  
  They kinda are. Do you think every single colonist was out in the streets rebelling? No it was a percent. And there is a healyhy percent protesting right now. The revelution also didn't happen overnight. It took time to build momentum.
- That’s the one good piece. :(
- ... liberation of slaves...
We need to get religion out of society altogether
- I agree with you, but i would just remove the harmful ones that indoctrinate from birth, promote segregation, treat humans as property and have legal immunity just because the justice system doesn't want to meddle with the mess that is Christian paedophilia and familial abuse. The ones that don't intend to force their belief system onto people and trust that their existence will bring people that are interested, rather than unsolicited house calls or screaming at strangers about their idea of a deity. That's attractive...
  
  Here ya go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
What a fucking hypocrite! Fuck that turd!
How many deadly sins is he the embodiment of? Let alone how many commandments has he broken?
- He checks every box for the antichrist. Turning the middle east into a resort would technically be peace.
  It's the reason the evangelicals love him.
  
  And this is not a joke either. It's literally every box for the antichrist
  It's actually really uncanny just how much he fits the bill, and doubly so regarding how many christians follow and support him
I said to a mate a while ago that I thought that trump, (really the republicans), were possibly trying to overturn the enlightenment, and make the country in to a feudal society. Restore the world of gods and kings.
At the time it was a bit of a joke, but increasingly I'm more concerned about it.
Oh fuck no.
Trump's actually great at good governance. All one has to do is carefully listen to his suggestions and then do the exact opposite, and before you know it: Presto! Well-functioning highly-educated modern country with a balanced budget and booming economy.
- All through Soviet times people have been making jokes pretty much exactly like this. It's wild.
- Blessed be the fruit
  Actually that's more Elon's shtick
  
  Mr we have birthrate issue and proceeds to have sons.
  Actually a good meme there.
I knew it was going to be bad, but I wasn't expecting them to go "the founding fathers were woke" so soon, they must be really confident about their grip on their brainwashed base.
@MicroWave America should forget about Donald Trump. The fascist pig...
I'm an exvangelical atheist and I do find myself wishing this whole administration would go rot in hell, so I guess you could say in some small way they've brought religion back to my life.
But seriously, this is fucked.
Where's the church of Satan when you need them
- Republicans have a lot in common with the church of satan. It’s the satanic temple you probably want.
Traitor
Burn him!
- Yeah it's a shame that they don't bring back burning heretics. USA would be fucked.
TBF this is nothing knew*. Who put God on the USD?
though he seems determined to stop even keeping up appearances
I’m waiting until some DOGE or other trump goon just literally destroys the Constitution papers, or at least attempts to.
Ooops, we were installing a trump shrine and moving some old documents we didn’t need people to see anymore and it just kinda fell apart.
Fascism is its own religion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
Did they ever remember that part in tge first place?
Why does this new Religious Liberty Commission have an expiration date of July 4, 2026?
And DOGE does too.
You never had separation of church and state.
Only on paper.
- Yeah it's kinda wacky how people believe in this kind of civil mythology.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
  
  Americans especially love their civil religion.
  Their events and memorials are cringe AF.
  Bombastic, pretentious and grotesque narcissism drenched in a sauce of cheap sentiment.
  Where the population can come together and celebrate their Americanness masturbating to an enormous stars and stripes.
If anyone is making 300k a year then Canada would love to pay you 60k a year

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