THIS:
Alabama justice who ruled embryos are people says American law should be rooted in the Bible
“Tom Parker, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, expressed his support for the Seven Mountains Mandate, a once-fringe philosophy that calls on evangelical Christians to reshape American law and society based on their beliefs.”
Must-Read Twitter Thread:
Must-Watch:
This is both sad and scary!
Sad:
This is what Christian Nationalism looks like:
American Christianity Is on a Path Toward Being a Tool of Theocratic Authoritarianism
“As nonevangelical faiths lose adherents, it won’t be too long before the vast majority of Christians in America are seriously right wing. This is not good.”
Conservative Cringe-ianity
Baptist leader speaks out: ‘Christian nationalism is not Christianity’
Americans are growing more accepting of Christian nationalism
“In an interview with the conservative Next News Network in June, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said, “I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists.” While the sentiment may seem uncontroversial, academics and extremists use the term Christian nationalism to refer to an ethnocultural nationalist ideology — in this case, defining American identity as exclusively White and Christian, and aiming for a government that favors that group’s beliefs. Such a government would be at odds with liberal democracy.”
The Heresy of Christian Nationalism
An ‘imposter Christianity’ is threatening American democracy
A sledgehammer Supreme Court attacks the wall dividing church and state
“These rulings portend trouble for our nation’s public schools.”
Jefferson Letter to Danbury Baptist?
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html
June 21, 2022:
This is scary:
If only Trump knew about Engel v Vitale and the Lemon Test…
Trump Said He’ll Double-Down On Prayer In School And Give More Federal Tax Money To Religious Groups
STATE DEPARTMENT’S PROMOTION OF ‘BEING A CHRISTIAN LEADER’ ON WEBSITE CRITICIZED FOR POTENTIAL VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTION
We were NOT Founded as a Christian Nation!
America is not a “Christian” nation
First Amendment
Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause
The Establishment Clause
The Free Exercise Clause
No, Pastor Jeffress (and others), America is not a Christian nation. And here’s why it matters
The message that “America is a Christian nation” is flat-out false factually, legally and practically. The consequences of this theocratic message taken to its fullest extent pose grave dangers for religious liberty and justice for all in the land that we love.
Searchable Constitution:
The Constitution of the United States
Search for “Christ” Zero Results! “God” ? Zero Results! Muslims in America?
Enslaved and Freed African Muslims: Spiritual Wayfarers in the South and Lowcountry
Islam In America
A brief history of Islam in America
Our Religions when we wrote our Constitution?
America’s True History of Religious Tolerance
Benjamin Franklin and Catholicism
Benjamin Franklin and the First American Bishop
“Franklin advised the Archbishop that the American Congress had no power over any religion in the United States.”
Treaty of Tripoli?
The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816
Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796
ARTICLE 11.
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
Religion In America: Religious Landscape Study
