we live in the penthouse over the crack house.[ canada] stupid is as stupid does. if they don't attack anyone it is all good

@WurstenReturns how would you describe the difference between Britain First and Trump's base?

That misconception bothers me also. I believe our founding fathers went to great lengths NOT to reference Christianity. The Declaration of Independence mentions the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" and mentions an ambiguous "Creator" and that's it, period. No mention of Jesus or the Christian faith. I think most of them were Deists and not necessarily Christian, though they were probably raised Christian and incorporated some of the (better) principles of the faith and rejecting the dogma.

One thing many of us Americans counter with is that several of the Founding Fathers were deists, so while they may have professed to faith of their times, they by no means founded the U.S. as a Christian nation. Many of us were also taught that the original 13 colonies were a mix of places such as Puritan Massachusetts, Rhode Island, founded by those who left oppression or banishment from Massachusetts, Maryland, which was more of a safe haven for Catholics, and Virginia, where Thomas Jefferson authored the Virginia Statutes of Religious Freedom, which offered freedom of religion to all faiths, not to be confused with establishment of religion. That being said, I was able to attend public schools that stuck with established tenets of American History and in a part of the country that was not under the control of a more faith-oriented school board that would have influenced school text publishing.

Doesn’t the U.K. have an official national religion? As I understand it, like here in the US, more and more Brits identify as secular. My experience has been, the more vocal people are, the more extremely they speak, the smaller their minority. People here do believe our country was founded on Judeo Christian beliefs. Not everyone, but a good chunk. But you are correct about the polarizing. The Internet has given people the freedom to spout their extremist views among friends. It’s a frightening development.

This is what I was taught. And, now, the fact denying Religious Right, with tRUMPf as their god incarnate, is worse than ever at making up their own facts. The death knell has been sounded for these types, and they are desperate to maintain their (unconstitutionally) favored status in this country.

Why is it that the most adamant “Christians” are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-choice, anti-human rights? When apparently their Jesus was none of those things. A very strange phenomenon.
And why does the pledge of allegiance in school have “under god” in it when church and state are supposedly separate?
Why ask why?

The Orange One encourages this rhetoric. I also feel extremely uncomfortable and as if we have went backward very quickly but I don't know what to do but vote and protest and encourage others to do the same.

It makes me angry when they talk about the US being a Christtian country. We have to vote Republicans out of Congress come November.