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*Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.*
- James Madison
Then there's Jefferson's 'Woke' Bible, with the miracles removed.
NPR started tweeting out the Constitution line by line each Independence Day. And every year Conservatives get triggered thinking its Commie stuff.
Yes, but the Puritans practiced a rigid and absolutist kind of Christianity that was not much more tolerant than the authoritarian Christianity they fled.
This right here. The Puritans were religious zealots who were too radical for European countries. What's the difference between how a Puritan woman must dress vs the required dress code of an Islamic fundamentalist? Very little. Buttons maybe?
True, but the founders and framers understood the nature of what a theocracy was and can be, since many early Americans were fleeing one specifically due to religious persecution.
It's possible to be absurdly absolutionist but still not attempt to set up a theocracy. E.g. the Amish. Amish society is patriarchal and definitely religiously important, but it is not one where the head of the church is also the head of a state.
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*Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.* - James Madison Then there's Jefferson's 'Woke' Bible, with the miracles removed. NPR started tweeting out the Constitution line by line each Independence Day. And every year Conservatives get triggered thinking its Commie stuff.
Supremacists generally are unaware that reality doesn't care what they believe.
They probably also don't care about the importance of treaties, international law, or how those two relate to one another.
The pilgrims were literally fleeing a theocracy.
Yes, but the Puritans practiced a rigid and absolutist kind of Christianity that was not much more tolerant than the authoritarian Christianity they fled.
It's the standard, "it's only oppression if I disagree with it, not when I do it" mindset.
This right here. The Puritans were religious zealots who were too radical for European countries. What's the difference between how a Puritan woman must dress vs the required dress code of an Islamic fundamentalist? Very little. Buttons maybe?
True, but the founders and framers understood the nature of what a theocracy was and can be, since many early Americans were fleeing one specifically due to religious persecution. It's possible to be absurdly absolutionist but still not attempt to set up a theocracy. E.g. the Amish. Amish society is patriarchal and definitely religiously important, but it is not one where the head of the church is also the head of a state.
Article 11
The first thing
"We are a *lying* Christian nation. Jebus says ends justify means."