Christian Nationalism is an enemy of democracy.

[BidenPresident]

How many modern (19th Century to the present let's say) nations have been destroyed, dehumanized, or rendered antidemocratic by Christianity and Christian religious practices? How many have been destroyed, dehumanized, or rendered antidemocratic by Marxism, Secularism, Socialism, and Leftist politics?

How many nations in that time have elected Christian theocracies to rule them? How many nations have had secular, totalitarian governments take them over?

The op ed writer is either an idiot, liar, and / or oblivious to history and reality.

Yes, you are smarter than everyone on the planet.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Islam and Christianity are branches of the same major religion. BTW there are Christian nations in Africa that have been destroying people's lives. Even Pat Robertson and others supported and donated to them.

No, they're not. They are two very disparate and different religions. Which "Christian nations in Africa" are you referring to? I don't know of any run by a Christian religion there.

 

[AProudLefty]

Marxism, Secularism, Socialism, and Leftist politics?

BTW, America is a secular nation, balanced with left and right politics. Do you see America being destroyed? No?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Yes, you are smarter than everyone on the planet.

Well, I'm smarter than you and the idiot that wrote that op ed. That's clear because you can't even defend your position with a single post. Instead, you immediately go to insults showing that you have no ability to articulate a rebuttal to my post.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

BTW, America is a secular nation, balanced with left and right politics. Do you see America being destroyed? No?

Until recently, religion had a very significant role in America even if it didn't intrude into politics particularly. And, yes, today America is being torn apart in part by increasing secularism.

 

[AProudLefty]

No, they're not. They are two very disparate and different religions. Which "Christian nations in Africa" are you referring to? I don't know of any run by a Christian religion there.

Nope. Not different religions. Even their word for God came from El Eloh, which is Aramaic or Hebrew. Muslims believe in Jesus as well. It seems to me that you don't know much about Islam.

Ghana and Nigeria would be two examples.

 

[AProudLefty]

Until recently, religion had a very significant role in America even if it didn't intrude into politics particularly. And, yes, today America is being torn apart in part by increasing secularism.

I'll bite... how?

 

[Tranquillus in Exile]

We fled those "other advanced countries" 2 1/2 centuries ago because they were fucked up, and people are STILL trying to get in here.

Okay, consider the Anglosphere. How many people from Britain, Canada, Australia or even Ireland are trying to get into the USA? A regular clamor, is it?

They want the "freedom" to tote their armories around town, pay through the nose to keep medical insurers in the style to which they are accustomed, and have lying dumbfucks like Trump represent them to the world. That must be it!

Among other things, America needs a responsible, tolerant, moderate conservative party like a grown-up country. It han't got one.

 

[saltydancin]

How many modern (19th Century to the present let's say) nations have been destroyed, dehumanized, or rendered antidemocratic by Christianity and Christian religious practices? How many have been destroyed, dehumanized, or rendered antidemocratic by Marxism, Secularism, Socialism, and Leftist politics?

How many nations in that time have elected Christian theocracies to rule them? How many nations have had secular, totalitarian governments take them over?

The op ed writer is either an idiot, liar, and / or oblivious to history and reality.

While bungling Joe Biden's "serve the Pope or die" Nazi economics as democracy versus rootin' tootin' Putin "serve the Pope or die" Russian economics; both preying with reductions in the human gene pool have SCOTUS "supreme swastika up Uranus kangaroo court" Nazi security of Mengele "Angel of Death" baptize thine eyes by urinations health care medical plan while stealing & burning US Constitutions for killing US Military personnel as the law of the land national religion Islamidiotocracy "death to the infidels" where their granting standing in Federal Lynching enforcements stealing & burning a recently purchased National Archives US Constitution in the assassination of JFK, stealing & burning a Navy Hospital US Constitution on a cross with Mengele "Angel of Death" baptize thine eyes by urinations as medical care in their killing of a Navy doctor where once is an accident, twice is a coincidence where there are no coincidences while SCOTUS Rehnquist's Federal Lynching KKK churchstate of hate fiedom baptize thine eyes by urinations in their stealing & burning a recently purchased National Archives US Constitution economic renumeration for those burning Bush's 9/11 Islam "death to the infidels" preceded by a Washington, D.C. born retired WW II Pentagon staff sergeant to Eisenhower as "one nation under God with equal justice under law" Christiananality pedophilia master race diatribe.

 

[NiftyNiblick]

Advocating theocracy is a sure, unmistakable sign that a "person" is not mentally competent to vote.

 

[Cypress]

“A worldview that claims God as a political partisan and dehumanizes one’s political opponents as evil is fundamentally antidemocratic.” He tells me, “A mind-set that believes that our nation was divinely ordained to be a promised land for Christians of European descent is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of religion and equality of all.”

If one is convinced God wants only one side to govern, then democracy falls by the wayside. That’s not even the subtext of the Meadows and Thomas messages; it’s out in the open.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ckson-hearings-reveal-politics-of-absolutism/

This I think is why MAGA is so in the thrall of Vlad Putin. He is perceived as a xenophobic, anti-democratic, white Christian nationalist.

Although I guarantee you that if MAGA fat asses ever actually attended an Eastern Orthodox service they would percive it as practically as voodoo and mysticism.

 

[Jarod]

lib'ruls demonstrate their ignorance ranting about things that do not exist......

Like Cancelling Dr. Seuss?

 

[leaningright]

Like Cancelling Dr. Seuss?

Who wants to cancel Dr. Seuss?

 

[Jarod]

Who wants to cancel Dr. Seuss?

Nobody, but many went on a rage pretending that "the liberals" were cancelling him.

 

[leaningright]

Nobody, but many went on a rage pretending that "the liberals" were cancelling him.

Ok.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Nobody, but many went on a rage pretending that "the liberals" were cancelling him.

so being angry at lib'ruls is Christian nationalism?.......I remember when we used to call that common sense.....

 

[Tranquillus in Exile]

This I think is why MAGA is so in the thrall of Vlad Putin. He is perceived as a xenophobic, anti-democratic, white Christian nationalist.

That's it in a nutshell! But then why does moon root for Putin? (moon would deny it, although to most people it's obvious).


And another thing: when Putin talks about uniting the East Slavs, does he really mean that or does he mean "I want to restore the Great Russian Empire"? It's like saying that England, the Netherlands and Germany should be one nation because they all have Germanic languages (in the case of English, well disguised ).

 

[T. A. Gardner]

While bungling Joe Biden's "serve the Pope or die" Nazi economics as democracy versus rootin' tootin' Putin "serve the Pope or die" Russian economics; both preying with reductions in the human gene pool have SCOTUS "supreme swastika up Uranus kangaroo court" Nazi security of Mengele "Angel of Death" baptize thine eyes by urinations health care medical plan while stealing & burning US Constitutions for killing US Military personnel as the law of the land national religion Islamidiotocracy "death to the infidels" where their granting standing in Federal Lynching enforcements stealing & burning a recently purchased National Archives US Constitution in the assassination of JFK, stealing & burning a Navy Hospital US Constitution on a cross with Mengele "Angel of Death" baptize thine eyes by urinations as medical care in their killing of a Navy doctor where once is an accident, twice is a coincidence where there are no coincidences while SCOTUS Rehnquist's Federal Lynching KKK churchstate of hate fiedom baptize thine eyes by urinations in their stealing & burning a recently purchased National Archives US Constitution economic renumeration for those burning Bush's 9/11 Islam "death to the infidels" preceded by a Washington, D.C. born retired WW II Pentagon staff sergeant to Eisenhower as "one nation under God with equal justice under law" Christiananality pedophilia master race diatribe.

 

[Callinectes]

Okay, consider the Anglosphere. How many people from Britain, Canada, Australia or even Ireland are trying to get into the USA? A regular clamor, is it?

They want the "freedom" to tote their armories around town, pay through the nose to keep medical insurers in the style to which they are accustomed, and have lying dumbfucks like Trump represent them to the world. That must be it!

Among other things, America needs a responsible, tolerant, moderate conservative party like a grown-up country. It han't got one.

Okay, consider the Anglosphere. How many people from Britain, Canada, Australia or even Ireland are trying to get into the USA? A regular clamor, is it?

Yes, let's consider the anglosphere. The total population of which is 131,128,049. A little more than a third of the population of the U.S. Canada alone has less people than the entire state of california. I’ve said it before, the pure democracy you so long for works for these low population countries you love. It would be a recurring nightmare for this country, I offer into evidence the 2020 election. This is the closest you’ve ever gotten to that pure democracy (aka “mob rule”), with those damn mail in ballots. And look what it got you, an incompetent demented turnip whose biggest issue is what flavor ice cream to have after he mumbles through a nonsensical press conference. How I long for the days when you wanted to invoke the 25th amendment over Trump’s “covfefe” tweet.

They want the "freedom" to tote their armories around town, pay through the nose to keep medical insurers in the style to which they are accustomed, and have lying dumbfucks like Trump represent them to the world. That must be it!

I’m a (mostly) law abiding American military veteran. If I want to “ tote my armory around town”, I’ll do it, and chances are you wouldn’t know about it anyway. My health insurance is through my employer, it is very good and my co-pays are reasonable, not to mention I do not feel entitled to free health care.

If Trump ever lied about anything, #1, it didn’t affect me personally and #2, it didn’t significantly (or even insignificantly) alter the path the nation was on, which was a damn good path. And do you seriously believe ’tater head is representing YOU to the world in a positive light? He’s the first clown out of the clown car in this circus.

Among other things, America needs a responsible, tolerant, moderate conservative party like a grown-up country.

No it doesn’t. This country needs different things at different times. Right now it needs resolved, constitutional, confident and sane management, because I refuse to be “led” by a boob the likes of joe fucking biden.

 

[Taichiliberal]

All this BS got started when Eisenhower inserted "under God" in the pledge of Allegiance and gave Billy Graham a node and platform in his misguided attempt to thwart burgeoning communism from the USSR. The final kibosh was when Reagan opened the tent flap and gave the fringe evangelicals a seat at the table. Hell, even Nixon warned that letting these clowns in would hurt the party.

And here we are.