Pretty disgusting that a pedophile creep with felonies who is starting wars of invasion and bleeding the country dry for his own illegal greed is hosting a *prayer* rally with others attending that are also huge grifters.
A new poll that Pew Research Center has released in the shadow of the White House’s “large-scale revival” finds that a majority of adult Americans (52 percent) think “conservative Christians have gone too far in trying to push their religious values in the government and public schools.” A majority (54 percent) of Americans also say that the government should enforce the separation of state and church while 13 percent say it should stop such enforcement. Only 10 percent of U.S. adults have a favorable view of Christian nationalism.
Christian nationalists take the stage Sunday — expect plenty of nonsense
4) How much taxpayer money paid for this?
Americans deserve to know how much public money is being spent on this worship rally.Corporations and private sponsors have reportedly contributed to Freedom 250, the broader initiative surrounding the event. At the same time we know government resources are clearly involved, given the participation of top federal officials, musical performances by the bands of the armed forces and logistical support.
But the financial details remain murky.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has already submitted a Freedom of Information Act request and is sending additional requests to help discern the level of government involvement. It may take months before we find out the true cost of the event and who paid for it.
Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize Christian nationalist propaganda.
5) Does honesty matter anymore?
By the end of Sunday’s event, Christian nationalist leaders will almost certainly declare that America has been spiritually “rededicated” for the next 250 years.To get there, they will distort history, insert religion into whatever fits their narrative, erase religious diversity and ignore millions of nonreligious Americans entirely. They will present their preferred version of Christianity as synonymous with patriotism and treat dissent as un-American.
The United States is not unified under one faith or religion. It never was — and that’s the beauty of true religious freedom.
The United States was shaped by people with radically differing beliefs — and nonbelief. Our Constitution was designed precisely to prevent the government from elevating one religion, or religion over nonreligion. No amount of prayer rallies, political theater or nationalist propaganda changes that fact.
The list of speakers reads like a who’s who of Christian extremism: the Chancellor of Liberty University, the president of Hillsdale College, Paula White, Franklin Graham, and numerous others.
That the Department of Justice would use the list of those attending the meetings of a government commission to promote a purely Christian event highlights just how far this administration will go to push their extremism.
We will continue to shine a light on this administration’s abuses of power and its exploitation of our justice system to promote their White Christian Nationalist ideology.
Related – FFRF slams DOJ ‘Anti-Christian Bias’ report as politicized sham
