Project 2025 and Christian Nationalism raise the question: Should we become a theocracy?
The BBC has the best, most objective short summary of Project 2025. Project 2025: The Trump presidency wish list, explained (bbc.com) copy and paste in your browser if it does not link. The BBC errs regarding women's reproductive rights. It is as dire a plan as possible. Go to page 428 of the site of the full text and copy and paste the URL if it does not link. Much more follows the link on other issuesI saw a posting saying that even though God and other Christian-related words do not appear in the Constitution, the signers of our historical documents used the term to date it: "in the year of our Lord." That is how date was expressed in those days. That was not a sign of those agreeing to permit a theocracy. Now, please show me where the intent of the First Amendment was to establish a national religion or church, . You can't, and it was on purpose. Jefferson advocated the Age of Reason when men had the freedom to come to their own conclusions. Madison because religion had caused centuries of bloody wars in Europe and England and did not want to repeat that. https://theconversation.com/how-jefferson-and-madisons...
He tried it in his first term and failed. He is ready to do it in a second term.. (The fight to stop Schedule F, a cornerstone of Trump's 'retribution' agenda, is underway (nbcnews.com) He is ready to do it on day one of 2025; the plans are already funded and ready to go... on day one. Trump plan to gut civil service triggers pushback | Reuters.
The GOP's embrace of Project 2025, geared to go into practice on day one of a Trump presidency, has as its intent to establish a theocracy in America in practice, if not calling it in form. https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/project-2025-us-bishops-cant-stand-silently-political-sidelines#:~:t From the piece with which I agree: "Project 2025 operationalizes the tenets of white Christian nationalism on such issues as climate change, education, immigration, systemic racism, and abortion. Contrasting the scholars' policies with the bishops' positions on such high-profile concerns reveals what makes the Republican game plan so dangerous. https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/why-trump-only-needs-to-be-dictator-on.html
Christian Nationalists are jumping the gun: While the issue of posting the ten commandments in schools are being fought, Oklahoma has just one upped this: They order the Bible to be taught in classrooms. MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: Oklahoma to require teaching of the Bible in Classrooms. OMG
The agreement of two adversaries on that issue is not the only reason, but experience as colonies showed the danger of having a national religion. There was already a great deal of diversity, and where a colony attempted it, it was unwise and created problems more often than not. For example, Massachusetts was so puritan-dominated that a group led by Roger Williams split off and founded Rhode Island.
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