A group of conservatives visited the Oval Office on Friday and announced they want to remove a key safeguard for religious freedom in America ― the separation of church and state.
But of course, the main takeaway on social media was how Donald Trump appeared to fall asleep during the meeting.
Members of the Religious Liberty Commission, an organization made up almost entirely of conservative Christians, showed up at the White House to suggest that there should be “bridges” between religion and politics rather than “a wall of separation,” as Thomas Jefferson once wrote.
A group of conservatives? More like a group of nut-jobs. What’s the difference between this group an d jihadis? Asking for a friend.
Are we really arguing that we should force all Americans to live according to the rules of a delusional death cult that worships torture, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and zombies? Their logo is literally their imaginary spiritual leader being tortured to death.
They want our children to be indoctrinated into their sick perverse cult in the earliest stages of public education, but they are deathly afraid that those children will go on the Internet and discover that boys and girls have different genitalia.
For your sins, according to them
Yeah, I once asked about the “dying for our sins” part, since that never made sense to me. How does another guy dying thousands of years ago, forgive MY sins? Or anyone else’s sins, for that matter.
As a historian, who always emphasizes context as the first step to understanding historical issues, I should have anticipated the answer. The reason is that because at the outset, the Abrahamic religions, like many or even most religions at the time, strongly believed in offering sacrifices to their God(s). After all, the entire Abrahamic branch (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) is totally based on Abraham’s intended sacrifice of his son. Christianity is actually based on TWO sacrifice fables - Abraham’s, and Jesus’. Sacrifice was important to those neolithic goat herders, since it took food directly out of their own mouths, and the HUMAN sacrifice of Jesus resonated strongly with them. “He offered Himself up for sacrifice? That’s serious and important.”
Over the years, the concept of offering a sacrifice was deliberately suppressed, to the point that today it is more associated with pagan spirituality. And yet, the central fable of Christianity, Christ’s crucifixion, is still a tale of HUMAN SACRIFICE, in order to convince God to forgive all the sins of mankind. Whatever.