President Donald Trump revealed on Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast an executive order instructing Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek out and prosecute "anti-Christian bias.""To confront such weaponization and religious persecution, today I'm signing an executive order to make our Attorney ...
  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    12 hours ago

    Yeah, a depressing amount of Americans believe this country was founded as a xtian one. 60%

    https://apnews.com/article/american-founders-christian-nation-conservative-beliefs-4ea388e8d80c54016a6a4460cbef9b82

    Six in 10 U.S. adults said the founders intended America to be a Christian nation, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center survey. About 45% said the U.S. should be a Christian nation. Four in five white evangelical Protestants agreed with each assertion.

    Which is just flat wrong, of course, and doesn’t really need any debate: it just was not founded as a xtian nation, and that was quite intentional. But that’s the level of stupidity we are dealing with.

    And something like 45% of the country WANT this country to be a xtian nation, which is also depressing.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 hours ago

      Half the founding fathers were closet atheists using ‘Deism’ as a fig leaf.