daftandbarmy
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Trump administration 2024-2028
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I decline to be an atheist, as it requires far to much faith to say "There is no god". I prefer to say: "It's unlikely that a superior being cares, if you wear a particular hat, or how many times you pray a day and did not write your book." However that being if they exist, may have encoded our DNA to do certain things or seek out them.
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I usually revert to the quote from Philip Caputo's A Rumour of War - "ambush is killing and killing is fun....", but that is a rather draconian tactic that I am realising does nothing to engender productive discussions.Since when did you start warning people?
Must be getting soft in your old age
Having said that, I still consider a throat punch (or implied threat thereof) to be a useful tool in meetings.....
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Well, it appears POTUS47's .... cooling a bit on Big Catholic Inc. ....
... while Big Catholic Inc. seems to be taking it in stride ...
Pope on board plane to Algeria: ‘I am not a politician, I speak of the Gospel' - Vatican News
During the flight to Algeria, Pope Leo XIV responds to questions regarding US President Donald Trump's recent statements, saying he is "not a ...
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Pope Leo XIV says he does not fear Trump in feud over Iran war - National | Globalnews.ca
U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV told reporters that the Vatican’s appeals for peace and reconciliation are rooted in the Gospel, and that he doesn’t fear the Trump administration.
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I agree. It is a common thread in American culture to 'wear things on their sleeve', including religion and politics, so is consistent with evangelical aspects of activism and outreach. Couple that with a widely held believe that the US is a 'Christian nation' and was founded on Christian values lends a fair bit of empowerment to the Christian nationalism movement.
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Or on their skin....
Pete Hegseth’s Tattoos and the Crusading Obsession of the Far Right
The symbols sported by Trump’s defense pick reveal how the medieval past is being reimagined by Christian nationalists, behind a shield of plausible deniability
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Nothing says commitment like self-mutilation.Or on their skin....
Pete Hegseth’s Tattoos and the Crusading Obsession of the Far Right
The symbols sported by Trump’s defense pick reveal how the medieval past is being reimagined by Christian nationalists, behind a shield of plausible deniability
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It was 'founded' by a significant number of fringe (at the time) splinter Protestants groups looking for 'freedom' to practice their unique beliefs away from the eyes of the majority and their governments.
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That describes the colonies.
The most accurate description of the religious aspect of the founding of the US is that it was founded with deist beliefs, and the deists were mostly flavours of Protestant.
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More like they were kicked out of Europe after trying to force their Puritan nonsense on everyone there and they had enough.
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Those 'Fringe Prots Escaping Censure' were always a bit too wishy washy for my liking.
"Oh... so your pal Cromwell got the chop so now you're deserting your country...." .... sheesh
For a proper, bad boy, kick ass proselytizer/colonizer give me a fanatical, Jesuit, 'Soldier of Christ' every time
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The Colonies became the US - did the religious make up of the 13 colonies change/alter in any meaningful way from 1776 to 1800? No it did not.
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They 'had enough' because it came down to leave or force to convert back or die.
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I was referring to everyone else having had enough of them.
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'Nowhere close..."
He won't be happy, as per SOP...
A US judge has dismissed a case against the publisher of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) over a story about ties the US president had to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump sued the American newspaper and its owners including Rupert Murdoch in a Florida federal court last summer, asking for at least $10bn (£7.4bn) in damages.
The president claimed the newspaper defamed him in a 17 July report that said Trump's name was in a "birthday book" given to Epstein in 2003. In that message, the Journal reported, Trump included a drawing of a woman's body.
Trump's lawyer told the BBC, that the president will refile the "powerhouse" suit.
US District Judge Darrin Gayles said Trump came "nowhere close" to showing the WSJ acted with actual malice towards him, which is the threshold for defamation cases in the US.
www.bbc.com
He won't be happy, as per SOP...
US judge dismisses $10bn Trump defamation suit against Wall Street Journal
A US judge has dismissed a case against the publisher of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) over a story about ties the US president had to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump sued the American newspaper and its owners including Rupert Murdoch in a Florida federal court last summer, asking for at least $10bn (£7.4bn) in damages.
The president claimed the newspaper defamed him in a 17 July report that said Trump's name was in a "birthday book" given to Epstein in 2003. In that message, the Journal reported, Trump included a drawing of a woman's body.
Trump's lawyer told the BBC, that the president will refile the "powerhouse" suit.
US District Judge Darrin Gayles said Trump came "nowhere close" to showing the WSJ acted with actual malice towards him, which is the threshold for defamation cases in the US.
US judge dismisses Trump defamation suit against Wall Street Journal
Trump sued the newspaper and its owners, including Rupert Murdoch, in a Florida federal court over a birthday book for Jeffrey Epstein.
www.bbc.com
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Lol, but that lot was RC through and through, no splintering among them.Those 'Fringe Prots Escaping Censure' were always a bit too wishy washy for my liking.
"Oh... so your pal Cromwell got the chop so now you're deserting your country...." .... sheesh
For a proper, bad boy, kick ass proselytizer/colonizer give me a fanatical, Jesuit, 'Soldier of Christ' every time
The list of the splinter Prod's going to the US is long and extensive
Quakers
Morvarians
Amish
German Pietists
Puritans
Mennoites
7th day Baptists
etc.
The Statute of Liberty phase - "Give me your tired, poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free" could have applied 150yrs earlier with only a slight modification - 'Give me your tired, poor huddled mass yearning to practice their religion free"
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Perhaps as humans age, they tend to think more about the Hereafter,.
From six years ago,
2020 PRRI Census of American Religion: County-Level Data on Religious Identity and Diversity
The 2020 PRRI Census of American Religion provides unprecedented county-level data on religious identity and diversity in the United States. Based on interviews with more than 500,000…
prri.org
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The colonies were already in many respects evolved beyond their seventeenth century characters.
The US founders were deists of Christian (mostly Protestant) traditions but not particularly forceful Christians (some barely so, by the standards of some of the people today making claims on the founders' religiosity). The aim was a country of religious freedom, not a Christian country. People claiming that the US is or was meant to be a "Christian country" are wrong. The Declaration of Independence invokes deism, at most - not Christianity. That is not accidental. There is one reference to "God" as "Nature's God". There is one mention of "Creator". There are no mentions of Jesus.