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Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?

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Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?
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Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?
October 5, 2020 at 4:07 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?
October 5, 2020 at 4:13 pm
Yes, they are. But it doesn't have to be a "theocracy", Stalin and Hitler pandered to a majority Christian base to gain power. And even Cuba is a Catholic majority even today. Religion is always useful to the powerful.
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RE: Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?
October 5, 2020 at 4:30 pm
Since when have they NOT tried to turn the US into a theocracy?

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RE: Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?
October 5, 2020 at 4:33 pm
*looks at Amy Coney Barrett*

Yes?
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RE: Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?
October 5, 2020 at 5:01 pm
Christards want nothing less.
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RE: Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?
October 5, 2020 at 5:06 pm
Ever seen The Handmaids Tale?

Scary shit, that....
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RE: Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?
October 5, 2020 at 8:04 pm
(October 5, 2020 at 4:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Since when have they NOT tried to turn the US into a theocracy?

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The Nixon era?
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RE: Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?
October 6, 2020 at 12:32 am
There's never been much distance between us and a theocracy.
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RE: Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?
October 6, 2020 at 1:18 am
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RE: Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?
October 7, 2020 at 4:27 pm
....trying?
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