No place for atheist in Trump's America

[edhopper]

From the SOTU:

In America, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of American life. The motto is “in God we trust.”

Like immigrants, atheists and agnostics are apparently not welcome in his version of America.

But it's Christians who are oppressed, right?

[MineralMan]

1. And yet, here we are, and here we will remain.

I'm sure we're inconvenient, though. Atheists are people who ask difficult questions, generally. That can't be popular with many folks.

[TexasProgresive]

2. Theres an autotheist at the top

They all have to adore and worship the twitting god on the throne.

[MFM008]

3. Because he has led

Such a Christian life.

[NeoGreen]

6. Well based on the new Christian Mulligan Theology*...

...what is in the past doesn't matter...


https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/23/tony-perkins-evangelicals-donald-trump-stormy-daniels-216498

Tony Perkins: Trump Gets ‘a Mulligan’ on Life, Stormy Daniels

Donald Trump is still the answer to many conservative evangelical leaders’ prayers. Or at least to their continuing grievances.

They embrace Trump the policymaker, despite being uneasy about Trump as a man, says Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a prominent evangelical activist group.

Perkins knows about Stormy Daniels, the porn actress who claimed, in a 2011 interview, that in 2006 she had sex with Trump four months after his wife, Melania, gave birth to their son, Barron. He knows of the reports that Daniels (real name: Stephanie Clifford) was paid off to keep the affair quiet in the waning weeks of the 2016 election. He knows about the cursing, the lewdness and the litany of questionable behavior over the past year of Trump’s life or the 70 that came before it.

*Limited supply, not available to atheists.

[trotsky]

8. No Christian is perfect. n/t

[Mariana]

9. Indeed.

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3 : 23

[NeoGreen]

4. Isn't the base in Guantanamo...

...technically part of the US?

[edhopper]

5. I see what you did there

[NeoGreen]

7. I'll try to be...

...more subtle next time.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

10. And yet so many people have told me that "In God We Trust" wasn't a big deal

and that I should just get over the fact that our government uses it. We have bigger fish to deal with. Even when I indicated it was a bad sign of a creeping theocracy, I was told I was being divisive. But, here we see our current President telling people that you need to believe in god to be a good American. Seems like a hollow victory for me to say "I fucking told you so," but I fucking told you so.

The sad thing is that a lot of theists just won't give a shit.