Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s recent First Things essay, “Our Christian Nation,” may warm the hearts of Christian nationalists and confound historians and theologians who worry about continuing threats to the separation of church and state.

  • @[email protected]
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    181 year ago

    Fucking revisionist, fantasy bullshit, call it out for what it is and QUIT GIVING IT THE OXYGEN OF MEDIA ATTENTION.

    That’s how ya starve the beast.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun
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    131 year ago

    I’m reasonably certain that I can count on one hand the number of times Hawley or his GOP ilk have ever set foot in a church outside of a planned photo op.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      stats say a lot of the MAGA crowd really are churchgoers, its just the ones they go to are insane.

      • Hemingways_Shotgun
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        51 year ago

        Oh no doubt. In a way, that’s entirely my point.

        These GOP politicians don’t give a shit about “christian values”. They just lean hard into it in order to capture that voting block.

      • DarkenLM
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        21 year ago

        Make it six Astronomical Units. Yeet them into the Sun.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          That’s one AU, and might actually be harder to do than to fling something out six AU. lol

          Surely someone’s written up something what with the Parker Solar Probe getting real close to the sun, but it’s interesting how difficult it is to actually hit the sun.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Trump losing in November should just about do it. I don’t see how the GOP donors can keep pumping money into something that’s just not fucking working electorally.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 year ago

    Such bullshit. The left isn’t atheist. The left just says you can believe in whatever god you want, or no god at all, just don’t tell us we have to believe in your god.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      Exactly.

      And this mothefucker is the type to finally make me stand up. You can have whatever religion you like, UNTIL YOU FORCE ME TO PRACTICE.

      I will turn this nation upside down before I allow that to just happen and I’m sure I can count on everyone here to join in.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        I’ll tweak your comment just a bit, “until you force me to live by your religious beliefs”. Being forced to believe “their way” is almost irrelevant if they’re already punishing you for not doing so. The end result is the same: You will conform.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    Last time I remember seeing him he was running from the 1/6 “tourists”. He needs to become familiar with the guillotine.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    Missouri has the lowest life expectancy of any state. Good job there fuckwit, your constituents get to meet Jesus sooner than everyone else. YEE-FUCKING-HAW!

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Wait, there’s an option to die sooner? Fuck, I’m not really seeing a downside. How do I get in this express lane?

  • @[email protected]
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    571 year ago

    Dear Josh:

    Treaty of Tripoli, ratified by the US Congress 11/4/1796.

    “Article 11.
    As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims); and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan (Mohammedan) nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”

    • Flying Squid
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      281 year ago

      And to be absolutely clear, ratification of a treaty makes all the language therein U.S. law unless struck down by the courts.

      It has never been struck down by the courts.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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        Does that mean that the general aspects of a treaty become international policy? Like does the treaty of Tripoli act as legal precedent when establishing agreements with Brazil?

        • Flying Squid
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          Pretty much all international policy has been renegotiated. However, no one has renegotiated that treaty because the Barbary States no longer exist. As far as I know, that doesn’t make it any less law.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    I’m sure Jesus would be so pleased to know that his image is used to bring power to the American christofascists. 🙄

  • @[email protected]
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    411 year ago

    The same Josh Hawley who tried to overturn the 2020 election? The same who egged on insurrectionists outside the capitol on Jan 6th?

    I just want to make sure we are talking about the same Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley here, so there’s absolutely no confusion.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 year ago

        Like the 9 Oathkeepers that were convicted of seditious conspiracy, which is defined in Title 18 as:

        If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both

        ?

        Yah redundant muffin.

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          Still not an “insurrection”.

          Democrats love altering definitions to fit their warped reality. It’s propaganda 101.

          • @[email protected]
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            131 year ago

            That is literally the definition of an insurrection, genius. That is what you get charged with when you’re a part of an insurrection. Treason is a completely different thing, if that’s what your brain cell is struggling to get out.

          • GladiusB
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            Do you dress up in a uniform mommy gave you when play word police? Or is just like a mental thing?

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Is it though? Unlike Reddit, karma here has exactly zero value. They stand to gain nothing by making themselves out to be an idiot.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        You’re right, he wasn’t charged with insurrection. Among the four charges related to the January 6 events is conspiracy against rights, which is pretty much a stand-in for insurrection. His entire scheme to defraud US voters by setting up false slates of electors in swing states relied on Pence to halt the vote count and in so doing arrest the peaceful transfer of power. While people were breaking windows and dying, Trump, against the behest if multiple staff members refused to call in the national guard until the last minute. Why? Because he was on the phone the whole time trying to convince Pence to follow through with the scheme they had concocted. Fortunately Pence saw the light and understood the consequences. But thanks for your “akshually not charged with insurrection” profound perspective.

      • @[email protected]
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        We saw the videos. We know you are lying to conceal the election interference.

        My man has gone the full 2000 Mules.

        Give your boy-toy Dr. Hotze a kiss for us in prison.