The US was founded as a secular state.. No getting around that. There were only a few devout christians in the original group of founding fathers. Most were deist. They had the recent memory of the thirty years wars where catholic and protestant armies had rampaged back and forth across Europe stealing the peoples food. Raping and burning out anyone who wouldn't convert. They did this to many who did convert. It was said at the time that they everyone kept two sets of bibles. They just hid one or the other depending on who had taken over at the time. That asshole regressive wouldn't ever be willing to admit that. Because she is too stupid to learn it.
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A secular nation shouldn’t be having in house prayers from any denomination.
She 100% doesn't know that Muslims and Sikhs are different, and doesn't care.
Terrified of all brown people, like half of America post 9/11
GOP keeps saying 'this is a Christian nation', but they don't want understand separation of church and state.
There is no state religion. If you open a state body to prayer, then all prayer is allowed, not just the prayers you want.
Long live the satanic temple.
There should be no prayer in a secular institution
It’s a place for running a government not magical thinking
Oh they understand perfectly well. Hence why they're trying to destroy the separation of church and state.
Every president has been Christian.
It is a christian nation.
It shouldn't be, but it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliations_of_presidents_of_the_United_States
Yes, all of them.
Lincoln was based, but still unfortunately Christian.
Yeah he went to church with Mary and the kids, believed in a higher power and talked about it often in his speeches he just disliked organized religion
Bet she doesn't even know the whitehouse holds a shill PR ramadan iftar event every year regardless of the party in power lol
Did it happen this year?
Yeah on March 28th
This is indeed deeply troubling. Whoever voted for that racist piece of shit should be ashamed
this is the conversation they WANT to have.
Tax exemptions for religion are in part to stop the majority religion from taxing minority religions out of existence.
Also taxation means representation. It’s not that churches should be taxed, they should be stripped of their status for political activity. I do not want any church having the right to representation in my secular government
What a cunt.
Ignorant cunt at that. Calling this a Christian nation is a joke to anyone who isn't a fascist hoping to use religion as a bludgeon.
Poor Sikhs always catching strays...
Also, yo, I kind of hate this country.
“America was founded as a christian country”
You mean back when Christian people were so rabid that they thought of Catholics, the OG jesus folks, the way this lady sees any non-christian religion?
Maryland was created as the birthplace of religious freedom in this country specifically because catholics had nowhere else to go in the colonies without getting harassed. Ultimately, the concept of religious freedom would be elevated to a higher place of importance than christian snobbery by the time America was forming a country. Religious freedom was part of escaping the thumb of the King of England and other monarchs.
So, on the one hand, Miller is truly going old school by being a bigoted fuckhead. But on the other, she seems to have no idea that “America” would not exist if people hadnt been willing to tell the bigoted majority of protestants to shut the fuck up, and force them to live and let live
This lady won with 73% of the vote in 2020, 71% in 2022, and unopposed in 2024. She is exactly what the people in that area want and that's sad. The US is like social media. It's not the platform it's the users that make it garbage.
But the platform promotes garbage, too.
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American was founded as a Christian nation
-- Every American Christian Bigot
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
-- First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States
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Disrespecting the religion seems to be fine with them though.
Don't forget:
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
-- John Adams
“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, religious or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslim peoples], and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan [Muslim] 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.” - Treaty of Tripoli, signed 1797.
You might also acquaint yourself with the actual religious beliefs of many founding fathers
I thought they were deists
Honestly who could say what they meant by that, it's such an open to interpretation remark.
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Thomas Jefferson had his own personally edited version of the Bible that focused on the philosophies and stories in the Bible, and left out the supernatural mythology and fairy tales. There were parts of the religion he liked, but he was clearly uncomfortable with the actual religious parts of it.
And he actually WROTE the founding documents.
TJ was Deist, not Christian.
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It’s deeply troubling that a Muslim was allowed to lead prayer in the House of Representatives this morning. This should have never been allowed to happen
I believe our government should reflect that truth.
She's right: leading prayer in Congress at all should never be allowed. Government should reflect the truth of a secular government.
I'd say that you are spot on and people in the West who want to believe in strange middle east cults can do so quietly at home and not bother anyone with their hokey faith. That goes for Muslims, Jews, Christians and the rest of them.
Yes. Government should be led by law not theology.
Well you see, the thing about conservatives is that they are fucking stupid.
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Dumbfuck can't even get her religions straight, and apparently she thinks America was founded to be a Christian theocracy. Astoundingly ignorant and misinformed, yet there she sits Congress, governing the nation with her 2 brain cells.
Her average constituent sees turban and thinks Muslim.
She represents her district in more ways than one.
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Pepperidge farms remembers when bigots were shamed away from talking not their target minorities.
These racist politician assholes should never ever be allowed to represent us in government.
Apparently she's exactly who her constituents want representing them. Take it up with those arseholes.
It was founded as a secular nation you dumb cunt.
The first openly atheist Congress member became open about it in 2007.
The second "non-religous" member was Krysten Sinema.
There was a Congressperson that came out as gay in 1987 but didn't admit he was an atheist until he left Congress.
You can say it was founded as secular, in theory, but in reality it's been basically Christofascist in fact for its entire history.
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