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The idea of a Christian America means different things to different people. Pollsters have found a wide circle of Americans who hold general God-and-country sentiments.

But within that is a smaller, hardcore group who also check other boxes in surveys — such as that the U.S. Constitution was inspired by God and that the federal government should declare the U.S. a Christian nation, advocate Christian values or stop enforcing the separation of church and state.

For those embracing that package of beliefs, it’s more likely they’ll have unfavorable views toward immigrants, dismiss or downplay the impact of anti-Black discrimination and believe Trump was a good or great president, according to a 2021 Pew Research Center survey.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Donald Trump and his g̵o̵o̵n̵s̵ ̵loons stechschritting toward Gilead. smh

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Say no to theocracy!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

meanwhile the white people who aren't retarded are all facepalming and going "look around, you stupid fuck". It's been an overtly christian nation for fucking ever now and that you don't have your sharia law equivalent here is a testament to the structure imposed by the founding fathers, and not the diarrhea you've covered it in. I wonder if they realize there are liberals just about as ready to kill them as they are to kill us. Probably not, "realization" is a magic word to the see no evil crowd.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Please watch God Forbid the sex scandal that shocked America (hulu)

Shiny happy people (prime)

The family (netflix)

Even if the "smaller hard-core group" sounds inconsequential, a lot of those people are the ones with power and/or influence.

I think there is a fourth I've seen that covers similar grounds and forget atm, plus I'm sure many more that I don't know so please respond if you know others. As you may notice all mine are drastically different subjects on the surface. They have the common thread though of fundamental religious men in power AND the institutions being involved in American politics.

There's no gay agenda. There is ABSOLUTELY a Christian agenda.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is a gay agenda if you consider wanting to be treated like humans an agenda.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh shit... THAT is what they want? Fuck that's deplorable

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah these are the same folks arguing that if the authors of sec 3 of the 14th amendment wanted to specifically prevent a former president that engaged in insurrection they would have, so we can conclude they didn't want that. So, if they had every opportunity to write religion into the constitution and didn't do it, what now?

Then when you notice that they specifically wrote in the first amendment the establishment clause- and then you realize that Jefferson explained its purpose to be creating a wall of separation between church and state, what now again?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

They don't care about internally consistent logic. If they did they wouldn't be religious.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I'm a Republican and I need someone to shoot up an Elementary School QUICK so I can pretend to care about the Constitution again!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Many incorrectly believe the founders wanted a Christian America. AP should know better than to make it seem like that is an opinion.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why is apnews validating these lies? The constitution is very clear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

i believe they're all heretics who should be burned, where's the Inquisition when you really need one

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