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You'll have to forgive Benny. He's an idiot. He doesn't know the first damn thing about what America was.

The Founders quotes are clear enough. They are deists not theists. They created a country where religion was subordinated to people’s freedom. They knew all about the religious wars in Europe and wanted none of it.

Benny Jonhnon is the worst at being American.

The United States is a secular political entity, established under a secular constitution, and historically peopled by a large minority of religious-minded folk, who until the mid-twentieth century were given too much legal leeway at the state and local level.

the problem is there are six catholics in the court who are bending over backwards to make it seem true.

To the people who say we're a Christian nation: then act like one. You know, 'they'll know we are Christian by our love,' 'blessed are the peacemakers ...'

It’s not like they hadn’t heard of the Church of England. They knew how to intertwine religion and politics just fine. They chose not to.

He should acquaint with Jefferson. www.monticello.org/encyclopedia...

What an idiot. Benny Johnson, go back and read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. You’re really an ignorant fool.

They need to offer ESL classes to the Magats, they can't even define what a woman is correctly, let alone socialism or truth.

At some point, there needs to be a lawsuit against the federal government to tell us which god they trust. Surely not the christian genocidal god, which destroyed earth, populating earth a second time through incest and pedophilia, the christian way. Christians are not good people, project 2025.

2/2) However, it was during the Federal period, (post- Revolution War–our nation-building period,) that those theocracies began to be disassembled eventually resulting in the 1st Amendment. So, no, our nation has never been universally “Christian". The historic record puts this beyond dispute.

Benny hates America

God’s great! God’s Awesome! God’s people? Fuuuuck! Christian Nationalism is fascism.

I went to non-denominational Christian school from 3rd - 8th grade and even they taught me this country (after we stole it from Native Americans) was founded on FREEDOM of religion and people could practice ANY religion (or none) here.

Benny told two lies in a row

Is there a specific passage in the Bible that you have in mind?

Everyone who thinks this nation is a Christian nation has an IQ lower than a fucking ant.

Benny can go fuck all the way off. He always was and always will be an ignorant blowhard.

"If there is anything clear in the First Amendment, it is that the right of the people to pray in their own way is not to be controlled by the election returns." Hugo Black Supreme Court decision, Engel v. Vitale, 6/25/62

Williams eventually founded Providence, RI. He also said the King of England had no right to give the Puritans a charter for Native American lands...Thanks for your reply. The Pilgrims were better, more tolerant people..although they left Holland because the woman had too many rights there....

The Puritans of Boston were the real culprits. They banished Roger Williams... "There should be a general and unlimited toleration of all religions and for any man to be punished for any matters of his conscience was persecution." Roger Williams from Hutchinson, "General History of New England"

Can someone make a billboard of the Treaty of Tripoli for these idiots?

Americans rarely learn history beyond their borders, this is the result. They think that the refugees fleeing religious persecution wanted to perpetuate it. They know little of The Enlightenment that influenced the secular founding documents, and how the revolution affected The Enlightnement.

I resent the erasure of the Enlightenment.

I thing they partake of their own product.

Duh

They hate the constitution.

Also, which version of Christianity, exactly? Because I don't think the founders would recognize any of the Christianist cults currently dominating right-wing discourse as anything other than their worst fears of organized religion come true.

Bad grammar alert.

Go easy on Benny. Russia won't be able to pay him this month.

Benny Johnson is a paid operative for Russia’s intelligence services.

Correct

Why, yes. It is. And I'm hoping once we have a Democratic administration, we start investigating all of these individuals that have such strong ties to Russia. At the least, he should be registered as a foreign agent.

If they don't believe the constitution, maybe they should read Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli which spells out that the U.S. "is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion." But I know how reading hurts their feelings.

While the Rs repeat what the administration tells them to repeat: Every debate, every interview Dems will have opportunities to say this. "You guys can keep repeating this all you want, but it doesn't make it true." We should hear this response from Dems in a public forum several times a day.

There is a fine book, "Nature's God, The Heretical Origins of the American Republic," by Matthew Stewart that lays out all the various threads in our founding and it's definitely not christian by any stretch. There were blowhards back then too. How christian was the Slave Bible?