Robert ReichMay 22, 2024

The Appeal to Heaven flag isn't just tied to Jan 6.

It's a Christian nationalist symbol.

Christian nationalists believe that the law of the land is not the Constitution, but instead the law of God as they interpret it.

Do you see the problem with Alito flying this flag?

Show threadThreadbaneMay 22, 2024
@rbreich
Speaking as an atheist, I see a problem with his being a Roman Catholic, an especially horrific and irrational version of Xianity. Our government was designed to be secular, and not a reflection of the will of the Vicar of Christ.
Show threadDan RileyMay 23, 2024
@Threadbane @rbreich the “man on the street” in 1789, or 1864, or even somewhat in 1960, was likely very suspicious or even hostile towards Catholics. The idea of a SCOTUS Catholic majority would have been horrifying. How do “originalists” cope with that, or are they just in on the Papal plotting?
(Recommended reading, see the “know nothings”).
Just asking for Millard Fillmore (he’s a local)
Show threadThreadbaneMay 23, 2024
@dan131riley @rbreich
The English had been against Roman Catholics since Henry VIII, the Archbishop of Canterbury and all that, but the writers of the Constitution were against the Divine Right of Kings itself, against ANY religious leader blessing the POTUS; instead we would elect our leaders, not have them given to us by divine birthright with the blessing of the Archbishop of the Holy See or of Canterbury. Because of the Divine Right of Kings, they were especially suspicious of the Vatican.
Show threadSimon Lucy

@Threadbane @dan131riley @rbreich

That's a fair old mangling of history. A considerable, if not a majority, of the population was Catholic still, see the reign of Mary. The Civil War was not a religious war but about authority bound to religious traditions.

The Civil War, the Commonwealth and the Restoration did away with the Divine Right of Kings and instituted the constitutional monarchy long before the War of Independence.

The 13 States was a continuation of 1381 & the Commonwealth.

May 23, 2024 at 9:47amTusky