Trump: I got people 'using the word God again.' And he helped me (VIDEO)
Source: Source Politics
As anyone who has taken a civics class knows, the First Amendment which grants everyone in the United States freedom of speech and religion is a cornerstone of American democracy.
Which is what makes Trump's claim at the National Day of Prayer Service on Thursday that people can finally say the word "God" again now that he's president absolutely ridiculous.
"One of the things that Mike [Pence] and I were discussing just a little while ago, people are so proud to be using that beautiful word, 'God,'" Trump said in a speech in the White House Rose Garden. "And they're using the word 'God' again, and they're not hiding from it, and they're not being told to take it down, and they're not saying we can't honor God."
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Yup. He sure has ME using the word God again.
"God damn it, what an idiot."
"How in God's name did we elect such a douche?"
yaesu
(8,020 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts)Initech
(100,063 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I was always skeptical of that Antichrist stuff. It always seemed ridiculous that someone so transparently evil could ascend to that level of power. It didn't seem possible. Yet, here we are.
bluestarone
(16,906 posts)Scary times for sure! We better be ready to do whatever it takes!
hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)Maxheader
(4,372 posts)And point it at stumpy...
Aristus
(66,316 posts)Every politician ends every speech with "God Bless America" for this precise reason. They don't want to get called out by the shit-flinging Jesus-monkeys. Not mentioning God every other word while in public office is a good way to ensure electoral defeat.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Doesn't know how to pronounce the chapters of the Bible.
Anathema to everything Jesus Christ stood for.
Would probably catch fire if he set foot into a church.
But, yeah, he's a good Christian.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,393 posts)From last year:
On this National Day of Prayer, let us remember Jefferson's prayer, shared with Madison.
Post #5, in I wonder what jefferson would say about the media these days, maybe change his mind?
The comments going back and forth in Trump v. Clinton look like a tea party (you know what I mean) compared to the discourse back then.
Jefferson and Madison just detested Patrick Henry.
Ken Cuccinelli Once Filed An Amendment To Change Virginia's State Song To The Beatles' Taxman
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Patrick Henry wasn't quite as opposed to taxes as Cuccinelli made him out to be. Though it is not widely known now, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison absolutely detested Patrick Henry. Why? Because Patrick Henry wanted to tax citizens to pay the salaries of clergymen.
I've heard that Thomas Jefferson detested Patrick Henry.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=334609
For Religious Freedom Day: What Jefferson Really Thought of Theocrat Patrick Henry
http://freethoughtblogs.com/rodda/2012/01/16/for-religious-freedom-day-what-jefferson-really-thought-of-theocrat-patrick-henry/
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by Chris Rodda
So, today {January 16} is Religious Freedom Day, the anniversary of the passage of Thomas Jeffersons Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. No, Im not going to post Jeffersons statute; Im going to post something cooler than that one of my favorite lines ever written by Jefferson.
The background: Jefferson drafted his religious freedom statute in 1777 and introduced it in 1779, but it didnt go anywhere. It wasnt until 1786 that Jeffersons statute was passed. Jefferson was in France at the time, so it was Madison who reintroduced the religious freedom statute. This was right after James Madison defeated Patrick Henrys bill to tax everybody in Virginia to support teachers of the Christian religion.
Jefferson couldnt stand Patrick Henry and his theocratic agenda, and made this quite clear in one {of} his letters to Madison while Madison was battling Henrys bill for a Christian religious tax. When Madison wrote to Jefferson asking what they should do about Henry, Jefferson replied:
While Mr. Henry Lives another bad constitution would be formed, and saddled for ever on us. What we have to do I think is devoutly to pray for his death
Of course, the Christian nationalist history revisionists either ignore this line from Jefferson, or claim it is made up by evil secularists to impugn the character of our very Christian founding fathers.
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{This is} from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to James Madison on December 8, 1784, and can be found on pages 353-354 of The Republic Of Letters, The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 1776-1826, Volume I.
Patrick Henry was the first governor of Virginia, and Thomas Jefferson was the second. We really got off to a great start, didn't we?
If only Cuccinelli knew Virginia history.
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.
no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,306 posts)Is that the problem at the base of the Republicans - that they have no shame, in either being so selfish, or electing such a transparent fraud and narcissist to lead them?
When a Democrat does something vaguely wrong, the party agonizes over it. When a Republican cheats, lies, screws up or does things just to hurt someone, they redefine their ethics to make it 'admirable'.
Was the answer to "at long last, have you no shame?" just "only for the next decade or so".
mac56
(17,566 posts)Botany
(70,490 posts)The man lies about everything.
Hekate
(90,645 posts)onetexan
(13,036 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,731 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)Otherwise dirty donnie would have been on the receiving end of a lightning bolt a long time ago.
Vinca
(50,261 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,293 posts)"God, what a fucking idiot!"
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Donald J. Trump; the republicans' Messiah who ridicules Holy Communion.
Trump: Drink my little wine, have my little cracker
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/08/13/donald-trump-religion-serfaty-dnt-erin.cnn
sinkingfeeling
(51,445 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Folks praying and singing and various other kinds of religious carrying on feeling all bad about not being able to pray, sing, and preach.
Until Trump came along.
Idiots and perpetual victims.
bluestarone
(16,906 posts)THIS God say GET YOU GUNS!! What a crazy bunch of BASTARDS out there!
Paladin
(28,252 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,783 posts)Panich52
(5,829 posts)I read title.
marble falls
(57,077 posts)patphil
(6,169 posts)He is not familiar with the word "God".
As in:
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
And he doesn't read the inscription on our money:
In God we Trust
And he doesn't know the words to America the Beautiful that say:
America, America, God shed his grace on thee.
Also, apparently Pence hasn't noticed that the Chaplin of the Senate opens up each daily session with a prayer.
As does the Chaplin for the House of Representatives.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)He may be right for once.
3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)Goddamned Donald Fucking Trump.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Marcuse
(7,479 posts)IronLionZion
(45,427 posts)Oh my God, no one can be that stupid.
God help us get through his presidency
AnnieBW
(10,424 posts)God, please get rid of this Douchebag Dictator, soon!
saljr1
(273 posts)him down the escalator to the lower depths of Hell? I'm sure you will be rewarded by the free press and the American people.
MissMillie
(38,549 posts)"Dear God, please get rid of this nut job."
and
"Oh, God, what stupid thing has he done or said now?"
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)by a con who never goes to church. The devil incarnate.