And Another Day
Andrea Junker 
I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. — Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.
Geoff Berner@Strandjunker I'm telling you, you are in fact a nation of Crusaders.
@Strandjunker it's, um, crucial that people understand just how embedded Christianity is in their Christian nation's culture. Like for instance, the word crucial.
Fuzzy Soft@Strandjunker Puritanism: free to choose your religion, as long as it's a Christian denomination. That's really what they meant when landing on American soil.
B. D. SintAnd wasn't that kind of the whole point of the founding of the US?
Noir Dame (extra crispy)@bd_sint @Strandjunker
The charter to found Roanoke was as much to create a base for privateers.
Along with the Saints (those escaping religious persecution) there were Strangers (non religious workers) aboard the Mayflower. John Alden was a cooper / barrel maker and Myles Standish there for military support. Plenty of adventurers and men with skilled trades signing the Mayflower Compact. A few decades later Pennsylvania was founded for political and religious freedom for all.
The charter to found Roanoke was as much to create a base for privateers.
Along with the Saints (those escaping religious persecution) there were Strangers (non religious workers) aboard the Mayflower. John Alden was a cooper / barrel maker and Myles Standish there for military support. Plenty of adventurers and men with skilled trades signing the Mayflower Compact. A few decades later Pennsylvania was founded for political and religious freedom for all.
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Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ@Strandjunker There was only one election between the ratification of the Bill of Rights and the ratification of the Treaty of Tripoli.
A minimum of 2/3 of the senators that ratified one ratified the other.
The latter explicitly states that United States is NOT a Christian nation.
End of message.
A minimum of 2/3 of the senators that ratified one ratified the other.
The latter explicitly states that United States is NOT a Christian nation.
End of message.
enoch_exe_inc@Ralph058 @Strandjunker This is my go-to document to cite as a direct example of George Washington himself explicitly stating that the United States is not, in any way, a Christian nation.
Unfortunately, this has not stopped the hopelessly brainwashed from dismissing it as fabricated Deep State history propaganda. That’s right—the people who claim to be True American Patriots™ believe a document written by a Founder to be “liberal communist propaganda”.
TomasHradcky@Strandjunker Sometimes I want to scream ‘Get this’.
RRB@Strandjunker Yet. I see Gilead approaching full speed.
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and yet Scalia warned us Not Freedom From It..of course he was all for that
and yet Scalia warned us Not Freedom From It..of course he was all for that
Brokar@Strandjunker That's not what the politicians say. "Nation under god" bla bla. Where does the abortion ban come from? Right, from Christian radicals. I wish all governments would stick to the strict separation of church and state. But the only way you could accomplish that is to have all government officials being atheists or agnostics. And since we're all free to believe what we want and the law forbids selection based on religion this will never happen. Look at the dollar: "In God We Trust".
Gatekeeper..
Stargeezer Smith@Strandjunker
It is simple. Many people don't get it though it is simple. It says something about them.
It is simple. Many people don't get it though it is simple. It says something about them.
@Strandjunker Christo-fanatics are insane. They are incapable of having a compelling discussion. The GOP is a cult of morons and terrorists.
@mickymorse @Strandjunker Over the last twenty years, the United Stated has enacted a whole lot of blatantly unconstitutional legislation and created whole new departments analogous to the NKVD ostensibly for counterterrorism purposes…so there should be no excuse on the part of the government to use these state apparatuses to stop the GOP takeover.
@Strandjunker Why would we be a religious country if we have Separation of Church and State?
Just because some idiot politician failed School House Rock doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
RegiGirl@Strandjunker amen sister!! (Pun intended)
Michael@Strandjunker ... “We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian.” ... Love this. Thank you.
SearingTruth"We did not have to swear allegiance to their god, but only live as if we had."
SearingTruth
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Freedom of religion should include the freedom to not have one.
Freedom of religion should include the freedom to not have one.
I am Jack's Lost 404My religion is disbelieving all the other ones.
You are welcome to worship me if you like.
Do I get a tax break now?
Nicole ParsonsImposing your will on the unwilling is key to the Republican mindset.
Evangelicals don't want undesirables joining their faith.
They want to establish worldly dominance.
There's a difference.
Sashin@Strandjunker They are shamelessly going to keep saying it over and over again.
David W. Jones@Strandjunker
Hmmm, if we *were* a "Christian" nation, we wouldn't be idolizing oligarchs and Trump.
@sidsadler
Hmmm, if we *were* a "Christian" nation, we wouldn't be idolizing oligarchs and Trump.
@sidsadler
Chuck Berray
Optimist@Strandjunker 👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍
Bumper sticker,
“This is our country.
Not your church.”
JamesGrowing up in Pennsylvania, from a long linen of people who moved to Pennsylvania, to the New World, for religious freedom, I had always thought that was a given.
Turns out not.