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

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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.