President Donald Trump revealed on Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast an executive order instructing Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek out and prosecute "anti-Christian bias.""To confront such weaponization and religious persecution, today I'm signing an executive order to make our Attorney ...
  • IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
    361·
    6 months ago

    I mean he can sign it, it’s going literally nowhere. But if this ain’t proof that there’s a genuine desire to install a theocracy in the US, then I don’t know what will convince anyone.

    The fact that a President even suggests this is a clear tell that some want the US being Iran but with Jesus.

      • benignintervention@lemmy.world
        22·
        6 months ago

        Keep in mind that they also broke into the Treasury system and own the paychecks of every federal employee. If that’s not leverage, I don’t know what is

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, a depressing amount of Americans believe this country was founded as a xtian one. 60%

      https://apnews.com/article/american-founders-christian-nation-conservative-beliefs-4ea388e8d80c54016a6a4460cbef9b82

      Six in 10 U.S. adults said the founders intended America to be a Christian nation, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center survey. About 45% said the U.S. should be a Christian nation. Four in five white evangelical Protestants agreed with each assertion.

      Which is just flat wrong, of course, and doesn’t really need any debate: it just was not founded as a xtian nation, and that was quite intentional. But that’s the level of stupidity we are dealing with.

      And something like 45% of the country WANT this country to be a xtian nation, which is also depressing.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        6 months ago

        Half the founding fathers were closet atheists using ‘Deism’ as a fig leaf.