Trump tells prayer breakfast he wants to root out 'anti-Christian bias' and urges 'bring God back'

That's great but any introduction of Christian anything into a government program needs to be accompanied by something from the Church of Satan.

I wonder how you can have a bias against a religion which is professed by some 70 per cent of the population. Does that mean most Christians hate themselves? (I mean, I can see the logic in that...)

The fact that he is a living breathing example of broken commandments seems to be lost on most people...

Finally, a leader who's willing to stand up against the BLATANT, systemic attack on Christianity that the Uber "Liberal"/"Progressive" mob and their globalist overlords have been pushing for decades. You just have to look at Hollywood today - Christianity is mocked, smeared, and erased, while every OTHER belief system, no matter how fringe or degenerate, is celebrated.

And isn't it telling that the same people who scream about "tolerance" are the first to cheer when Christian business owners are sued into oblivion, when churches are vandalized, or when Hollywood churns out YET ANOTHER anti-Christian propaganda piece.

The WOKE government has bent over backward for the last 4 years to protect every group except the people who built the US, and it's ABOUT TIME someone did something about it.

This is an awesome first step in calling out the hypocrisy, rooting out anti-Christian bias, and putting an end to the relentless assault on GOD, tradition, and the very foundation of Western values.

The future is indeed bright! PTL

That's great but any introduction of Christian anything into a government program needs to be accompanied by something from the Church of Satan.

Hardly surprising TINC that you would demanding equal government recognition for a group that exists purely to promote evil.

If the best argument you have is “Well, if Christianity gets a seat at the table, then my edgy, goat-sacrificing Devil-worshipping cosplay club should too," you might want to rethink your entire worldview.

JayToday 06:58 am JST

Hardly surprising TINC that you would demanding equal government recognition for a group that exists purely to promote evil.

They do not promote evil: they promote ending christian evil.

“I don’t know if you’ve been watching, but we got rid of woke over the last two weeks,” he said. “Woke is gone-zo.”

That should stop the hysterical types getting upset and wetting themselves because everything has been ruined by wokeness.

Thank Jupiter for that

Trump has sorted it.

Christian who believe Trump is a person of faith,are just as gullible as Trump call Christian then gullible

JayToday 06:54 am JST

The WOKE government has bent over backward for the last 4 years to protect every group except the people who built the US, and it's ABOUT TIME someone did something about it.

christianity didn't build anything representing the US. In fact the founders wanted to protect the country from state religion.

FAKE NEWS ladies & gentleman, this is what the Prime Minister should expect on his visit.

That's great but any introduction of Christian anything into a government program needs to be accompanied by something from the Church of Satan.

Attempt at failed humor? I don’t think this is a bad idea. Give people the option, no need for demonizing religion, if you want to believe in God, that’d your choice, if you want to be an atheist, then that’s your choice as well. Let people have a choice. Having choices in a democracy is a good thing.

Jay name one thing redemning about Trump, Trump say he has not to repent about

Christian who believe Trump is a person of faith,are just as gullible as Trump call Christian then gullible

Naw, let all people believe in what they want.

Trump tells prayer breakfast he wants to root out 'anti-Christian bias' and urges 'bring God back'

Is God going to reduce the price of eggs, maybe? Because apparently that's why Trump was elected. To reduce prices. Not implement a radical theocracy.

Give people the option, no need for demonizing religion

The only "demonized" religion in the US is Islam. All the other ones are respected and/or celebrated, especially christianity, in spite of what Fox news tells you to make you scared and angry.

You create you own heaven or hell on this earthly plain,no where else by you own devices

@TINC

They do not promote evil: they promote ending christian evil.

Alright, let's pretend all that garbage is true... so they're "fighting evil" by cosplaying as cartoon villains, throwing tantrums over Nativity scenes, and desperately trying to get attention from people they claim to hate. Yeah, nothing says "totally not evil" like naming your entire movement after Satan, the literal symbol of deception and destruction.

Clown-level idiocy.

Is God going to reduce the price of eggs, maybe? Because apparently that's why Trump was elected. To reduce prices. Not implement a radical theocracy.

OK, that has nothing to do with my previous statement.

The only "demonized" religion in the US is Islam.

Yes, considering their history towards the West over the last 25 years

All the other ones are respected and/or celebrated, especiallychristianity, in spite of what Fox news tells you to make you scared and angry.

Sorry, it has nothing to do with FOX no matter how you try and link it, it has everything to do with allowing people to believe whatever they want without being persecuted

what the hell is he talking about?

the correlation between religion and maga is interesting. both are based on belief without any shred of evidence, which is what belief is. belief in tall tales of virgin births, stories of magic, omniscient gods and angels, etc. all are the same in only their religion is right.

maga is like that — believers in tall tales, no matter what.

there are believers and there are thinkers.

Ironic, isn’t it, that the most anti-Christlike president you could think of wants to “bring God back.”

maga is like that — believers in tall tales, no matter what.

Liberals believe they still are in power, they can believe that, they have every right to believe it.

there are believers and there are thinkers.

True, very true.

Trump said Bondi would also work to “fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.”

Very good.

Freedom of and from religion is key in any country worth living in.

I’m sure that all who believe in this wouldn’t object to a say a Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist or atheist president.

Hopefully people have moved on from the days when some believed Obama was a closet Muslim and attacked him on those grounds.

I’m sure that bigotry has long gone.

OK, that has nothing to do with my previous statement.

Yeah. Because I wasn't talking to you. I was quoting the article.

Yes, considering their history towards the West over the last 25 years

And, pray tell, why does Islam have a bad history with "the West"? Did "the West" do anything to spur that, maybe? (Not saying that's an excuse, just that nothing comes out of a vacuum)

allowing people to believe whatever they want without being persecuted

Ok, give me 5 examples of christians being actively persecuted in the US.

And please, not something inane like "They forced someone to bake a cake for a gay wedding!", because that's not persecution.

Typical Trump - creating a bogeyman to keep his cult cowering. If it's not the scary immigrants, it's the hordes of Christian-haters who are ... doing what? Throwing bombs at churches? ...Or it's the woke crowd that makes you feel bad for being a racist.

No separation of Church and State. How many Americans are not Christians? 30%. And 60% do not attend churches.

31% of Americans have no religious affiliation.

"First Amendment specifically denied the federal government any power to enact any law respecting either an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise, thus protecting any religious organization, institution, or denomination from government interference."

How many non-Christians voted for Trump?

On a more practical level, how exactly does he intend to find this "bias" of which he speaks? Send his goons to your average small midwest town and arrest anyone who's not in church on Sunday morning?

Trump is expecting a run on his Bible sales.

“I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong,”

Agreed. It is lamentable that people would do that.

Isn't this the guy who couldn't name a single passage from the bible when asked?

Trump has not one ounce of mortality

21% of americans are illiterate. 51% of american adults have the literacy rate of 5th grade, or less. 21% of those are 4th grade or less.

if you can’t read, or comprehend what you read, you’re fodder for demagogues.

As a proud American, I concur. The nation has never been dumber.

He’s just using you Christians as useful idiots.

He is the antichrist.

Not being a christian it strikes me that in the US it is christians discriminating against all other religions that is the problem. It also strikes me that too many christians believe that they have some sort of right to impose the obligations and restrictions of their religion on non-believers. They call that "religious freedom" but to this non-christian it looks a lot more like religious tyranny. I should be able to live my life and enjoy all the rights of citizenship without my liberties being restricted by the tenants of a religion I do not believe in. Freedom to worship the religion of your choice also means the freedom not to worship or be bound by a religion not of your choice.

Yrral Today 08:04 am JST Trump has not one ounce of mortality

or morality, but i understood.

jt changed the coding so i can’t see any modifications to text, like quotes, italic, etc. not that anyone used an ipad…

Ok, give me 5 examples of christians being actively persecuted in the US.

https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/commentary/chief-who-was-fired-marriage-views-wins-major-first-amendment

https://adflegal.org/case/arlenes-flowers-v-state-washington/

https://www.frc.org/newsroom/frc-publishes-new-edition-of-hostility-against-churches-report-indicating-a-doubling-of-attacks

https://www.napalegalinstitute.org/post/how-big-tech-targets-faith-groups-for-censorship

https://www.usccb.org/committees/religious-liberty/Backgrounder-Attacks-on-Catholic-Churches-in-US

So no CHAMP, this isn't about "baking a cake." This is about a full-scale, systemic effort to silence, punish, and erase Christianity from public life.

Next.

Trump has hardly ever been to church, barely knows the bible or songs, and probably doesn't believe in a higher power like God at all. The fact that some Christians want to treat him as a savior is baffling. He literally doesn't care about you or your beliefs. He pretends to do so to have his followers blindly worship him.

*So no CHAMP, this isn't about "baking a cake." This is about a full-scale, systemic effort to silence, punish, and erase Christianity from public life.*

So here's a thing.

Is there also an effort to "silence, punish, and erase" Islam from public life? There are around 4.5 million Muslims in the US, representing about 1.3% of the population. I don't hear anything about attempts to "silence, punish and erase" Islam. Or Buddhism. Or Hinduism. Or Judaism. Or Scientology, and that's a super-scam even by the standards of other religions.

Yet a religion which is claimed by 70 per cent of the country is "being persecuted"? Cry me a river.

Says the convicted felon.

there are believers and there are thinkers.

True, very true.

And as James Madison observed knowledge will forever rule ignorance. Do you want to be the educated thinker or the uneducated simpleton believing whatever because of social pressure to conform and belong?

What you have here is "Argument from incredulity".

I think it's nearer to "argument from fear that religion is becoming less and less relevant and that scares me because I won't have anything to hold onto".

and by the way, the constitution says this:

“ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”

the founding fathers were not theists. the word god does not appear in the constitution.

one of the major reasons for independence was the british requiring everyone to be members of a religion, the church of england.

here is where pup

This is about a full-scale, systemic effort to silence, punish, and erase Christianity from public life.

All sourced from very christian websites and organizations, of course, so devoid of any form of impartiality. One thing is for sure: Christians in America have a deep-seated persecution complex.

https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/are-american-christians-persecuted/

“immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI — terrible — and other agencies.”

So DEI for christians.

If you want to believe in it go for it. But keep it out of schools and government policy.

Making your own twisted bibles to sell, being afraid to swear on the bible in court and lying to the whole world is very anti-Christian

this is where purposive interpretation is important - what was the purpose or remedy of the text?

the remedy was to keep goverment out of religion. and that includes the executive branch.

Yeah. Because I wasn't talking to you. I was quoting the article.

I was responding to the article

And, pray tell, why does Islam have a bad history with "the West"? Did "the West" do anything to spur that, maybe? (Not saying that's an excuse, just that nothing comes out of a vacuum)

Or maybe Islam thinks that Christianity like Judaism is a gutter religion that needs to be snuffed out?

Ok, give me 5 examples of christians being actively persecuted in the US.

Now you’re responding to me?

And please, not something inane like "They forced someone to bake a cake for a gay wedding!", because that's not persecution

Yeah, you don’t get to decide what is and what not is persecution based on your personal opinion and approval. But yes, being forced to back a cake and to be doxxed and sued for refusing is religious prosecution without a doubt.

https://www.christianpost.com/voices/10-persecution-stories-that-gained-global-attention-in-the-last-decade.html

Remember when Christmas was banned and you weren’t allowed to say ‘merry Xmas’ anymore?

No, me neither despite hearing it from screeching fear mongers for years.

Says the convicted felon.

I think it's this which really makes the whole scene such a farce.

It's evident that you have to at least pretend to be religious if you're going to run for high public office in the US. You have to win the simpletons over, and there's no better way (besides wrapping yourself in the flag) than pulling the god card.

Now if, for instance, the late President Carter had come out with this statement, it would have at least had some level of integrity to it because, putting the Trump Evangelicals aside, most people seem to agree that Carter lived his faith and gave a very positive impression of Christianity.

After him, the most ethical president in terms of absence of political scandal, indictments, etc. was Obama, and a fair percentage of utter morons were convinced he was Muslim because of his middle name.

If we assume the tenets of Christianity include such things as humility, charity, empathy, morality, etc., then Trump is about as far from that as you could get. He makes Nixon look merely like a crook, and Clinton like a saint.

And the fact that the evangelicals would probably sacrifice their first born to him if he demanded it, tells us exactly what American "christianity" stands for.

Complete unoriginal nonsense, Pneil. the historical existence of Jesus is one of the most well-documented facts of antiquity, confirmed by multiple non-Christian sources like Tacitus, Josephus, and Pliny.

Perhaps we're going off on a tangent, because while there likely was an itinerant preacher by the name of Jeshua in 1st century Palestine, there are no extra-Biblical accounts from the era. All are later and refer to Christianity, except the Josephus reference which is regarded as a forged insertion.

But the key thing for debate is whether Christianity should be playing an increased role in a constitionally secular society. The answer must be no, please no. The country was established as secular for a reason - puritan extremists were trying to create a theocracy and dictate their values onto others.

But in various ways, Christian extremists have been inserting their values back into the civic life, through abortion bans, school book bans etc. This campaign against secularism needs to be resisted.

Trump is the worst advertisement for Christianity that has ever existed.

Rapist, endless divorces, sordid affairs, complete lack of humility, chronic liar.

Even Christian Ministers call him out in church services.

Make America God Again. MAGA.

More performative nonsense.

Well it's about time. People should devote their lives to evangelical proselytizing, the Ten Commandments and Intelligent Design/Creationism, NOT science-based silliness like evolution.

America has been bamboozled by logic and reason for far too long.

Buy the made-in-China trump bible!!!!

@Footage/Dagon 2.0

All sourced from very christian websites and organizations, of course, so devoid of any form of impartiality. One thing is for sure: Christians in America have a deep-seated persecution complex.

LOL @ "your sources don’t count because they come from people who ACTUALLY know what they're talking about." Classic.

Funny how that logic never applies when woke activists cite their own echo chambers as gospel truth. Well, if Christians in America supposedly have a "persecution complex," maybe it's because they're CONSTANTLY being sued, censored, fired, and ridiculed for daring be Christian - meanwhile, you play the victim because someone disagreed with you on JT.

Unfortunately, the REAL "deep-seated complex" here is the one that makes you incapable of addressing facts without immediately dismissing them based on who said them rather than what they said!

According to Wikipedia China has the 7th most Christians of any nation in the world.

Buy the made-in-China trump bible!!!!

It is the toxicity, the poisonous scourge, a caldron of religion and political meddlesomeness, the insistence that pious pulpit politics, associated with that horror show from Evangelical busybody Right Rev Mariann Budde is reason enough why politic/hideous religious fervour must be separated from Church and State.

Religious freedom must, always be a matter of personal beliefs, to if desired, for Sunday worship and parental choices.

Never mix politics and religion/ Church and state.

The middle east, the atrocities perpetrated from Islamic fundamentalism, sharia law, the repression of basic human rights is proof beyond any reasonable doubt of the dangers.

JT please allow me to post this full interview, totally uncut, gives an insight as to why US people have placed there trust in Donald Trump so convincingly

60 Minutes FCC Response: Unedited Video, Whitaker/Harris at the vice president’s residence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIxA8MF5r5Y&t=1s

Because this Donald Trump presidency, the subsequent dramatic change of direction of government, is due to a failure of the Biden/Harris 4 years in office refusal to listen to ordinary US working people.

How does the saying go? The devil is dangerous because of his ability to lie. The biggest lie is tricking you to thinking he's working for Christianity when he's working against it

LOL @ "your sources don’t count because they come from people who ACTUALLY know what they're talking about."

Yup. Sources about "christian persecution" from The Heritage Foundation website are not credible in the least.

Funny how that logic never applies when woke activists 

I'm not woke, nor an activist, so I can't help you there.

Well, if Christians in America supposedly have a "persecution complex," maybe it's because they're CONSTANTLY being sued, censored, fired, and ridiculed for daring be Christian -

"CONSTANTLY"? In all caps? Wow. How many cases of unwarranted firings and wanton trials per year, then? Must be several hundred thousand at least. Or maybe, just maybe, it's a minuscule occurence that your right-wing media bubble regularly blows out of proportions to make it seem like it's a generalized phenomenon?

I personally find it very hard to believe, from a purely mathematical standpoint, that a group that represents 65% of the US population, so a very strong majority, could somehow be "persecuted".

I'll make one observation here: the most openly religious people on this board do seem to be, by far, the angriest, the most provocative, and the most insecure in their beliefs...

Yeah. Apparently some very devout christians have never read Colossians 3:8:

"But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips."

How many cases of unwarranted firings and wanton trials per year, then? Must be several hundred thousand at least. Or maybe, just maybe, it's a minuscule occurence that your right-wing media bubble regularly blows out of proportions to make it seem like it's a generalized phenomenon?

Do you listen to yourself? "I don't think it's happening ENOUGH to matter." So apparently, discrimination is only real if it reaches some arbitrary six-figure threshold!

FACTS: Christians face far too many documented cases of workplace discrimination, lawsuits, censorship, and government overreach every year. The fact that it's not hundreds of thousands doesn't magically make it "minuscule" buddy - by that logic, hate crimes against any group would be irrelevant unless they reached pandemic levels. LOL!

I personally find it very hard to believe, from a purely mathematical standpoint, that a group that represents 65% of the US population, so a very strong majority, could somehow be "persecuted"."

You don't hear about mass firings of Muslims, Buddhists, or Hindus for their beliefs, do you? You don't see endless lawsuits forcing them to violate their religious convictions.

Nope. It's Christianity. Why? Because it's the one faith standing in the way of their (your) radical secular agenda. Sorry, but if you need "mathematical" proof to accept reality, maybe start by counting the times Christianity is openly attacked versus how other religions are handled. Spoiler alert: it ain't even close.

Rapist, liar & thief.

Comical, isn’t he?

There is NOOOO such thing as "anti-Christian" in America, Never was Never will be.

Mr. Trump must be Hallucinating.

Do you listen to yourself?

No, because I don't read what I write out loud.

You don't hear about mass firings of Muslims, Buddhists, or Hindus for their beliefs, do you?

No. And you don't read about mass firings of christians either. So we agree then!

Sorry, but if you need "mathematical" proof to accept reality, maybe start by counting the times Christianity is openly attacked versus how other religions are handled. 

Islamophobia is provably vastly more prevalent in American culture and society. Antisemitism is equally rising.

There was never any moral panic about a president being "secretly christian" in the US. And no protest anywhere with people chanting "Christians will not replace us".

Jay

You don't hear about mass firings of Muslims, Buddhists, or Hindus for their beliefs, do you? You don't see endless lawsuits forcing them to violate their religious convictions.

Well Trump enacted a Muslim-ban in his last presidency. Just one example of other religions being persecuted.

You cannot be fired from your job because of your religion. You can be fired from your job if you use your religion as an excuse to express bigotry and racism.

Trump is so godly. So Christian. He may be even more Christ-like than Christ.

Jesus taught us to hate those who don’t kiss your backside, cut off aid to starving children, and force people off their homeland so that your son-in-law can build beachfront properties for the wealthy.

That too, lol. No need to worry too much daddy Trump

There are few things more cringy in our contemporary world than actuals adults calling a politician... "daddy". Not even mentioning the Freudian implications.

Christian who believe Trump is a person of faith,are just as gullible as Trump call Christian then gullible

Judge not lest ye be judged, is what Christians would know

bass4funkToday 07:11 am JST

That's great but any introduction of Christian anything into a government program needs to be accompanied by something from the Church of Satan.

Attempt at failed humor? I don’t think this is a bad idea. Give people the option, no need for demonizing religion, if you want to believe in God, that’d your choice, if you want to be an atheist, then that’s your choice as well. Let people have a choice. Having choices in a democracy is a good thing.

Really? You are okay with Baphomet statues and the seven tenets of Satan on the wall of the local elementary school? That's quite progressive of you. Unfortunately your compatriots are not so tolerant:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-destroyed-satanic-temple-altar-iowa-charged-hate-crime-law-rcna136688

A nation of bat crazy hypocrites has elected the baddest bat crazy hypocrite in the nation

What would Jesus say about supplying 2000 lb. bombs that indiscriminately kill babies, children and old people ?

Christianity starts with Christ, not the Old Testament with all the incest and smiting.

FACTS: Christians face far too many documented cases of workplace discrimination, lawsuits, censorship, and government overreach every year.

Which country? Japan?

this is why discussing religion or politics is banned in the officers mess on ships.

Cute , but no real need for joyful little woke

Oh wait! Wokeness is finished. Trump said he ended it. The walls have closed in on it.

Read the article.

Just watched the prayer meeting.

Lashings of syrup on that one.

And they gobbled it up - licking the plate clean.

The classic lines for me were -

Deep in the soul of every patriot is the knowledge that God has a special plan and a glorious mission for America. And that plan is going to happen. It’s going to happen. I hope it happens sooner rather than later. It’s going to happen. 

Like wow - now we have Nationalist Pastor Don. Creating the perfect Them and Us. And we know whose side God is on don't we!!!

Or the Number 1 ramble -

 .....But that event, like the tragedy last week, should remind us all that we have to make the most out of every single day that we have. Who would think that you’re in space and two things collide? The odds of that happening are so small, even without proper control. 

We should have had the proper control. We should have had better equipment. We don’t. We have obsolete equipment. They were understaffed, for whatever reason. I guess the helicopter was high, and we’ll find out exactly what happened. But the odds, even if you had nothing — if you had nobody, the odds of that happening are extremely small. 

    It’s like, did you ever see — you go to a driving range in golf and you’re hitting balls, hundreds of balls, thousands of hours. I never see a ball hit another ball. Balls going up all over the place. You never see them hit.....

Prayer meeting?

Keep it up Donny - stock up the fridge with kool-aid.

Rightfully so, a number of prominent Christians have spoken out against these mutterings.

Does the American Constitution name Christianity as the religion of the land ?

Or does it allow freedom of worship, as does the Australian Constitution.?

Trump has plans to build a Trump Tower Church.

Islamophobia is provably vastly more prevalent in American culture and society. Antisemitism is equally rising.

There was never any moral panic about a president being "secretly christian" in the US. And no protest anywhere with people chanting "Christians will not replace us".

Oh come on - while you clutch your pearls over so-called Islamophobia and rising "antisemitism", the fact that there's no hysterical moral panic about a "secretly Christian" president isn’t because faith is hidden, but because the Radical Left Uber "Progressives"' relentless crusade against Christianity is so brazen it's practically on display. Just look at the media bias and censorship campaigns... they may as well be shrieks of "Christians will not replace us!" This is the REAL existential threat to the foundations of the country.

this is why discussing religion or politics is banned in the officers mess on ships.

rightly so, nothing more divisive.

Meanwhile daddy Trump is taking care of business

Sounds like a man who's been spiritually reborn, full of grace and compassion.

led by Paula White-Cain, a longtime pastor in the independent charismatic world.

A televangelist fraudster who believes, and lives, the "prosperity gospel". Spiritually hungry people are conned into donating money, which Paula White uses to enrich herself.

Pretty similar to her boss.

This is the REAL existential threat to the foundations of the country.

sorry no, the real threat is marginalized bigots who feel the need to lash out at society in anyway possible including incessant posting about how much they hate the left.

relentless crusade against Christianity is so brazen it's practically on display.

Display for us this relentless crusade against Christianity.

You mean opposition to mandating the 10 Commandments in every classroom?

Jay

Oh come on - while you clutch your pearls over so-called Islamophobia and rising "antisemitism", the fact that there's no hysterical moral panic about a "secretly Christian" president isn’t because faith is hidden, but because the Radical Left Uber "Progressives"' relentless crusade against Christianity is so brazen it's practically on display. Just look at the media bias and censorship campaigns... they may as well be shrieks of "Christians will not replace us!" This is the REAL existential threat to the foundations of the country.

Oh come on. Christians have it easy. There is no persecution based on religion. Maybe based on actions, a misguided though that others should follow your faith.

Classic demagogue rhetoric. It is to America's everlasting discredit that so many of its people seem incapable of critical thinking, making them easy prey for this charlatan.

In the interest of your suggestion's fairness and equality however, the anti Trump marginalized bigots on some news website boards could also benefit from this advice and not lash out hysterically how much they hate Trump, MAGA and the right.

Yes true, emotions get the better of everyone.

Hate is such an ugly word and spreads like a cancer.

Here is John Adams assessment of christianity from his 1765 "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law"

" SINCE the promulgation of Christianity, the two greatest systems of tyranny, that have sprung from this original, are the cannon and the feudal law. The desire of dominion, that great principle by which we have attempted to account for so much good, and so much evil, is, when properly restrained, a very useful and noble movement in the human mind: But when such restraints are taken off, it becomes an incroaching, grasping, restless and ungovernable power. Numberless have been the systems of iniquity, contrived by the great, for the gratification of this passion in themselves: but in none of them were they ever more successful, than in the invention and establishment of the cannon and the feudal law.

BY the former of these, the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy, that ever was conceived by the mind of man, was framed by the Romish clergy for the aggrandisement of their own order. All the epithets I have here given to the Romish policy are just: and will be allowed to be so, when it is considered, that they even persuaded mankind to believe, faithfully and undoubtingly, that GOD almighty had intrusted them with the keys of heaven; whose gates they might open and close at pleasure—with a power of dispensation over all the rules and obligations of morality—with authority to licence all sorts of sins and crimes—with a power of deposing princes, and absolving subjects from allegiance—with a power of procuring or withholding the rain of heaven and the beams of the sun—with the management of earthquakes, pestilence and famine. Nay with the mysterious, awful, incomprehensible power of creating out of bread and wine, the flesh and blood of God himself. All these opinions, they were enabled to spread and rivet among the people, by reducing their minds to a state of sordid ignorance and staring timidity; and by infusing into them a religious horror of letters and knowledge. Thus was human nature chained fast for ages, in a cruel, shameful and deplorable servitude, to him and his subordinate tyrants, who, it was foretold, would exalt himself above all that was called God, and that was worshipped*."

The hypocrisy of it all … convicted felon and former Insurrectionist-in-Chief doesn’t have a gram/ounce of religion in him and never have … it’s just an act.

Oh come on - while you clutch your pearls

I don't wear pearls.

over so-called Islamophobia and rising "antisemitism", the fact that there's no hysterical moral panic about a "secretly Christian" president isn’t because faith is hidden,

It's because the idea of a Christian president isn't scary at all in a majority Christian country where Christians face no persecution. All modern US presidents have been Christians, including the ones the right hates with a passion. They're in churches all the time. But the idea of a president who is secretly muslim... why, that's terrifying! Even if it's completely fabricated and patently false, it keeps some people glued to their TV and pushes them to vote -ultimately against their own interests-.

Just look at the media bias and censorship campaigns...

I can't look at things that don't exist.

James Madison's argument in his speech to the Virginia Legislature regarding a proposed tax to support churches addresses Jupiters equally silly idea quite well

" 7. Because experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of Religion, have had a contrary operation. 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 the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution. Enquire of the Teachers of Christianity for the ages in which it appeared in its greatest lustre; those of every sect, point to the ages prior to its incorporation with Civil policy. Propose a restoration of this primitive State in which its Teachers depended on the voluntary rewards of their flocks, many of them predict its downfall. On which Side ought their testimony to have greatest weight, when for or when against their interest?

Because the establishment in question is not necessary for the support of Civil Government. If it be urged as necessary for the support of Civil Government only as it is a means of supporting Religion, and it be not necessary for the latter purpose, it cannot be necessary for the former. If Religion be not within the cognizance of Civil Government how can its legal establishment be necessary to Civil Government? What influence in fact have ecclesiastical establishments had on Civil Society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the Civil authority; in many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny: in no instance have they been seen the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not. Such a Government will be best supported by protecting every Citizen in the enjoyment of his Religion with the same equal hand which protects his person and his property; *by neither invading the equal rights of any Sect, nor suffering any Sect to invade those of another."

@Desert Tortoise

He was spot on. The unrestrained desire of dominion over others is what we must always guard against.

The Romans simply co-opted the christian movement to maintain their grip on European power and is still dominant today.

Religion itself is not bad, just the organizations/people that try to control it.

x.con is not a reliable news source

x.con quoting faux news, what is the world coming to

At Thursday’s prayer breakfast, she praised him as “the greatest champion” any president has been “of religion, of faith and of God.”

I had to laugh at that one. Trump knows nothing about Christianity. He hasn't even read the Bible. I remember when he was asked if there were any particular verses he liked; something every true Christian can say, he simply said "All of them". Just the sort of answer any kid at school would say to lie about reading something. He only says he is a true-blooded Christian and that he reads the Bible, and that he goes to Church every Sunday, to get the Christian vote, while hawking bibles.

Trump said at the Capitol that he believes people "can’t be happy without religion, without that belief. Let’s bring religion back. Let’s bring God back into our lives.”

Religion itself doesn't make you a good person. I've known people who don't believe in a God, but are the kindest and warmest people I've met. Yes, there are some concepts in the Bible that we should all follow, such as treating people the way you would like to be treated, but evil people will often twist the words in the Bible to meet their own selfish needs.

Trump attending a prayer breakfast is the same as Putin, Xi, and The Mullahs attending a pro-democracy event...

Given his life-ling history of flouting the teachings of Christianity, I'd never sit beside him when he starts ranting about the Bible - those thunderbolts aren't that accurate...