Rep. Jared Huffman on Trump... rededicate America as a "Christian Nation

[IcyPeas]

Huffman and a few other Reps. with quotes from history on the separation of church and state.

5 minute video.

This weekend, Trump is trying to rededicate America as a "Christian Nation". How about we rededicate ourselves back to reality? 

250 years ago, our founders created America to be free from religion. And my colleagues in the Freethought Caucus have the receipts.

— Rep. Jared Huffman (@rephuffman.bsky.social) 2026-05-15T18:23:20.981Z

[Lovie777]

1. Not really...................

it's more of Satan's power, ya sick fuck.

[Girard442]

3. Yeah, do we really think that, for example, Jim Jones was "born again"?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. The Founders NEVER "dedicated" this country to Christendom.

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Most of them were Deists and refused to personally dedicate themselves to ANY God and/or ANY religion.

[paleotn]

8. The 30 Years War. The French Wars of Religion

And innumerable massacres were relevant, relatively recent history for them. They viewed the United States as a fresh start, free from the religious turmoil that still roiled Europe. No state religion. Do whatever you like. Just don't hurt anyone in the process. That's their thoughts in a nut shell. And they were smart enough to know all that magical stuff, talking snakes, burning bushes, zombies, was all bullshit. Jefferson cut all that clap trap out of one of his copies of the KJV leaving a pretty good blueprint to live by.

Unfortunately, ignorance and tribalism are damn tough to kill.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Can't wrap my head around this.

The majority of Americans hate this idea.

[GiqueCee]

5. The Founding Fathers...

... were quite vociferous in their condemnation of claims that America was a "Christian" nation.

"Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry."
– Thomas Jefferson

"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
– James Madison

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
– George Washington

I could go on, but the point is made. The United States of America is not a theocracy, nor should it ever be. A person's religion, or lack of it, is their own decision to make, not one to be dictated by sanctimonious charlatans whose only goal is total dominion over the lives of others by whatever ruthless and depraved measures they deem necessary. Monsters have always wrapped themselves in the blood-soaked cloak of über-religiosity to justify their savagery, and the world around us right now is no different. But thoughtful people needn't let it happen. A government controlled by religion isn't, wasn't, and never will be for the good of the people, only for the furtherance of the malign purposes of its perpetrators.

[erronis]

6. Karl Rove: We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

[GiqueCee]

7. Yo. Turdblossom...

... how's that workin' out for ya?
What we're "studying" now is how to repair the harm done by the current crop of delusional devotees of your diseased "philosophy".
The witless skidmark presently defiling the Oval Office epitomizes what the dregs of conservatism can wreak on a productive society.
Karl, sweetie, baby, cookie, honey, you and your like befoul the Earth by your presence. You're a washed up has-been that even your former cohorts no longer have any use for, so just slither back into the cesspool that spawned you and shut the fuck up.

[dlk]

9. Enough with the religious zealots working to remake our country to their preference

The mainstream media is normalizing their pathological narcissism to the detriment of us all.

The founders put freedom FROM religion in the Constitution for a reason.

[ColoringFool]

10. Trump Doesn't Believe A Word He Says, On This Or Any Other.....

Subject.

And he is certainly not religious!

[multigraincracker]

11. So you say this is a Christian Nation?

Then which Christians. Sure the majority may be Christians, but if you are going by that, the largest sect of Christians is Roman Catholic. So does that make us a Catholic Nation? Make the Pope the final word? Do we become like historical Europe and have wars to decide? Then break up into states for each one, including a secular one?
I’m fine with what our Founding Fathers wrote. They seemed pretty smart.

[Seinan Sensei]

12. How about we re-dedicate "America" to what it was BEFORE 250 years ago

You know. Let’s re-dedicate “America” to the 500+ tribes of First People who were here first — to their religions, cultures, art, literature, governance, and commerce.

To start continental history at 250 years ago is egocentric, ethnocentric, and arbitrary.

Otherwise, “rededicating ourselves back to reality” is a nonsensical phrase.

[BH liberal]

13. Christian-Phistian!

Both the religion and the idea that our Screaming Bird of Freedom would ever be pictured carrying the New Testament in its talons...

[City Lights]

14. Yeah, no.

Hard pass on that.