I mean, on principle yeah, but was this ever actually enforced by the IRS? Seemed like every year you'd hear of preachers ain't political stuff in front of their congregations and nothing ever happened.

(February 2, 2017 at 1:52 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I mean, on principle yeah, but was this ever actually enforced by the IRS? Seemed like every year you'd hear of preachers ain't political stuff in front of their congregations and nothing ever happened.

But now you'll get to see billboards with Pat Robertson's smiling face saying, "vote trump or burn in hell".

Christians eat that up.

Ah well, the country's been an effective theocracy for decades now. May as well start making it official.

The sucking continues unabated.

My deeply held religious views demand trump should be tied to a nuke and launched towards the sun

I, for one, welcome our new Christian overlords. :p
Welcome to the new Dominion, all.

I'm pretty sure this ain't gonna be good for religion.

Politics have already corrupted the evangelicals and the fundamentalists. Having the religious folks stray even further from their piety in search of votes will count as a 'win' for atheism.

I think "Citizen's United" could be cited as a precedent of sorts, so Trump or not, the rule was quite likely to be found unconstitutional at some point regardless.

LOL, I've read enough of Ehrman by now to not be much impressed with any argument made from the Christer camp about anything these days. I had been of the mindset that while still false, Christianity as a whole was going to be better thought out than Mormonism.

Boy was I wrong about that !!

If the US Christers want to embrace politics, it is just one more way they have of dividing themselves further.

First Church of Jesus Christ Repentance Democrat , of Canton Ohio, anyone ?

As atheists, we have many things of greater import to concern ourselves with.

Sorry Vorlon, corrupted religion is not a win for atheism. When church and state get intertwined, people don't leave the churches more rapidly, they stick harder.

This is an attempt to return to the Dark Ages.

Next he'll proclaim watersports as the nations official past time.