“This is how we should order our lives together,” he said. “And frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you. If you don’t like it, I’m sorry, but this is good and right and just if it lines up with God’s standards, and I am going to enforce my morality on you in as much as our morality is God’s morality.”

“You should always check yourselves,” he continued. “Do I believe what God believes? Am I defending what God says is good?”

“And if it is, then you should have the courage to say, ‘This is how we’re going to run our town, this is how we’re going to run our county, this is how we’re going to run our state, and this is how we should run the United States of America by legislating the morality that we can find in the Bible.'”

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    Bullshit. Trump or his officials are not Christians. Dictator is cosplaying as christian but is secretly the anti christ

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      Stop this Obama-era “they go low, we go high” bullshit! It didn’t even work in those days, it’s just Mitt Romney was both a charisma vacuum, and unlike Trump didn’t hide his theocratic ambitions under multiple layers of post-irony.

      All this “they’re not real christians” bullshit led to is the disappearance of religious criticism, and the right immediately hijacking every talking points on what a “good christian” should look like, to further push their theocratic fascism. Secularism? Now it’s a radical christian ideology, because “Obama likes his neighbor”, so we have to accept theocratic fascism, because coMmON SeNsE. At worst this is being pushed so much into the extremes, that nowadays people think christianity was the first (!) religion to outlaw murder, pedophilia, etc.

      Are islamist terrorists “fake muslims”, who probably get drunk every day? Are the hindu extremists of India “fake hindus” for being awful to the muslim population? Was Stalin a “fake atheist” for persecuting the church? FUCK NO! All you’re doing is giving an excuse to religious extremists by excluding them from religion the moment they’re not adhering to the model religious person stereotype, so the next generation of them can continue the same fucking bullshit, all because “good christian Obama liked his muslim and atheist neighbor”, and we continue handling the power of irrationalism to theocratic fascists in the hopes of a second Obama.

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      In his book, “It Can’t Happen Here” (1935), Sinclair Lewis wrote, “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying the cross.”

      Only look like 80 years but gonna real, I didnt think the anti christ would be soo like obvious about it. Humanity had such a low bar to overcome.

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      They’re absolutely christian. Its just Christianity has many flavours of evil assholes.

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        I feel obligated to call it out lest stupid people believe their lies. Silence means compliance

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    Start with Trump I guess? Good luck forcing people into your lifestyle when your own people don’t even follow it.

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    And frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you

    No, you fucking ARE NOT.

    this is how we should run the United States of America by legislating the morality that we can find in the Bible.

    You can go ahead and go fuck yourself pal, because this is a secular nation. Besides, the “morality” in the Bible is a horrible model for morality, sorry.

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    Which God? Whose God?

    I for one think this man is a literal Devil-worshiper. If your religion leads you to hate, you’re worshiping Satan. Gay people exist because God wants gay people to exist. It is the height of hubris to dare to question the will of the Almighty. If God didn’t want people to be gay, he wouldn’t make gay people.

    This man is going to Hell. There he will join his master in the Pit.

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      Which god? Excuse me! The chaos gods must be served undivided! Trump represents all 4.

      Nurgle - i mean forget the health thing. Just look at him next to the greater demon of nurgle.

      Slaanesh - not even going there cause that’s a book

      Tzeentch - the burger lord plans are in and out. Ive never seen anyone with plans that represent the lord of change planning like him. Its like text book.

      Khorne - wars for everyone

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      Thw Christian god. The greatest source of misery and suffering in their own book.

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      From broad personal experience, anyone who often says “hail satan” is a better person than any religious fundamentalist, politician, or billionaire.

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      I remember a particular asshat on DP forums that would try to get me booted all the time, and always crying that there is no such thing as xtian Shariah Law and that calling xtianists talibangelicals was so very unfair and so mean, and oh my god, the civility of it all!

      The xtianists definitely have Shariah Law even if, sure, they don’t call it that, duh.

      Other than the days they worship and a few other differences about ritual and so on, explain the difference between backward dumbasses of the fundamentalist stripe of either of these Abrahamic religions?

      Both groups ache to subjugate women and murder infidels and gays, etc.

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    You mean their made up fake Christian values. If an actual Christian saw what these creeps consider Christian values, they’d be very upset. Pretty sure infidelity, bribery, cheating, fraud, name calling, mockery, gambling, false worship, casting out of strangers and all the rest is exactly contradictory to the book they claim to hold in reverence.

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    If they followed the teachings of Jesus I might not mind so much.

    — an atheist

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      That love thy neighbor guy must have really hated the minorities, women, gays, and trans. Thats great for me i wont double check or anything.

      -someone who never read the Bible and probably cant read in first place

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    Just imagine if Armageddon happens and God appears on Earth and they find out that God is a black trans woman with a furry girlfriend who is bisexual.

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    Christian values like pedofilia, trafficking children, committing genocide, embezzlement, Zionism, Treason, state sponsored terrorist gang to brutalize the stranger the Bible told you to protect, cutting food assistance, stripping healthcare from millions and actual baby murder? Hard pass

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        So someone else commented a long time ago that in america the age of marriage was 7 years old because thats how old someone is when they truly understand what sin is per the Bible.

        No idea if true but seems legit ppl would use the Bible to promote this behavior.

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      In times like this we must remember what the Bible says about things like marriage: One man, one hundred women.

      Also, selling daughters, because they’re property! Like slavery, which is also totally fine.