Most horrific trump tweet ever

[angrychair]

Link to tweet

This is laying the foundation for a theocratic dictatorship when a president starts making direct ties to Christianity and your freedoms as an American.

[d_r]

1. I thought freedom wasn't free nt

[underpants]

4. I thought it was inalienable

[forgotmylogin]

19. Freedom is not a gift.

People fought and died for it. Generations of people don’t need to die to receive a gift.

[safeinOhio]

2. And wasn't that 30 year war about

which Christian sect was the real one worth killing over?

[MontanaMama]

3. JFC. This is terrifying.

I think Mike Pence just got a woody over it though...

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. It's complete insanity.

[Initech]

6. RIP Separation of church and state, 1781 - 2017. You will be missed.

[Achilleaze]

7. What about luxury gourmet golf outings for republican fat cats?

Are they a gift from God, too? I thought the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief was soaking America's hard-working taxpayers to the tune of $3 million a pop for his gala goofy golf outings.

Maybe this is good news. I mean, if deluxe republican golfing is also a GIFT FROM GOD, then republicans can refund to us taxpayers the millions upon millions they have already plucked from our wallets for their petty luxury amusement.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Well, all except for the founding fathers that knew the danger of government

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sanctioned religious persecution. Except for them, of course.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Which god?

Allah? Buddha? Jesus? God the Father? God the Son? God the Holy Ghost?

[lunasun]

14. As if. Unfortunately the crazy authoritarian RW mutated Jesus God who smites many

And thier prophets are profits
Trump/Pence
people were warned

[Kittycow]

10. Even as a Believer, this makes me very nervous.

I remember when Palin first came on the stage, there was a woman (whose name escapes me) frantically trying to get people to wake up about the 7 Mountains Dominionist movement.

They seem to be accomplishing their goals at the highest levels of government.

To be honest, I knew they had their feet in the door at local levels but overall thought It Can't Happen Here

[Initech]

15. That whole thing about "we worship god, not government" - what does that mean?

Do they think this is insulting? Do they imply that they want rule by clergy? I really want to know!

[WinkyDink]

38. It MEANS nothing. It FOOLS the base.

[SamKnause]

11. Prove that bullshit statement, or shut the fuck up !!!!!!!!!!!

SEPARATION of CHURCH and STATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep your gods out of my GOVERNMENT and VAGINA !!!!!!!!!!!!!

My country was not meant to be a Christian Theocracy controlled by corporations !!!!!!!!!!!

[Cirque du So-What]

12. We'll soon be hearing the cry, 'Die, heretic!'

Walking across a bridge one day, one man saw another man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So the first man ran over and said, "Stop! Don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" the second man said. The first man said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" "Like what?" the suicidal man said said. "Well, are you religious or atheist?" "Religious." "Me too! Are your Christian or Buddhist?" "Christian." "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?" "Protestant." "Me too! Are your Episcopalian or Baptist?" "Baptist!" "Wow! Me too! Are your Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord? "Baptist Church of God!" "Me too! Are your Original Baptist Church of God or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?" "Reformed Baptist Church of God!" "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915?" "Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915!" The first man said "Die, heretic scum!" and pushed him off.

[EarnestPutz]

16. Best thing that I've read today.

Right out of C.S. Lewis. The "Devil" wants us to parse our
beliefs carefully and reject others who do not conform to them.
It keeps us divided and hateful. Schisms expand on forever.

[Cirque du So-What]

17. Well, I suppose that puts me in the devil's camp

because where fundamentalist sects are concerned, the more schisms the better.

[EarnestPutz]

40. Wow. You're right of course. We (you, me and the Devil) want ....

fundamentalist sects to be small and unsuccessful. (Think ten
people in a barn handling poisonous snakes with a few getting
bitten every so often.) You and I want them to be powerless, I don't
can't speak to "the Devil's" motivation.

[Scurrilous]

30. LOL

I'm Catholic (WFO). Weddings Funerals Only.

[Cirque du So-What]

33. I'm a recovering Episcopalian

Catholic Lite. We're on such good terms with god that he gives us a pass on skipping church - even for many years.

[Freethinker65]

13. This over 50 nonbeliever is praying for political asylum if the time comes

[tiptonic]

18. Afraid

He's afraid he's losing, even the right wing god nuts now. So out he comes with this nonsense.

[TygrBright]

20. ut-oh... He left his Twitter Machine where Mikey could get at it... n/t

[sarge43]

21. Question, Moron

So it was god who wrote and passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, not members of a government?

[AtheistCrusader]

22. Trying to shore up his numbers with red meat to the evangelicals, after his Gold Star call fuckup.

That's all this is.

He's such a predictable piece of shit.

[Stonepounder]

23. The very first clause in the very first Amendment to the Constitution:

Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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The US is doomed. We will never make it to the 2018 elections and, even if we do, the GOP, the Oligarchs, and the Russians will make sure that their toadies keep control.

Citizens United has surpassed Dred Scott and the absolute worst SCOTUS decision in the history of the Court.

[Thrill]

24. When was the last time this clown stepped foot in a church

[Snake Plissken]

25. Trump speaking to a room full of old White people, who would have ever guessed?

[Enoki33]

26. Everything the traitor does is aimed at dividing us for his benefit.

[LuckyLib]

27. Trumpster, when did you get religion?

Was it between your first and second marriage? Your fifth and sixth bankruptcy?

[Irish_Dem]

28. If freedom is a gift God gave us, why aren't we all free?

[angrychair]

31. Again

No finger touching nose emoji to fit the situation

👃👈

[C_U_L8R]

29. Live free or whatever

Go away Trump, you fucking moron.

[kacekwl]

32. WOW, I heard el-Rushbo say that exact same thing on his

radio show Tuesday. Exactly word for word. Does president Moron have a new advisor ?

[ProfessorGAC]

34. Dumb Beyond Dumb

The Declaration (written by the same folks who wrote the Constitution) clearly says the right are inalienable. Nowhere has anybody ever said the rights are bestowed by the gov't. In fact, the whole Bill of Rights was put in place to show what the gov't COULD NOT do to infringe on these "inalienable" rights.

This is just red meat for his undereducated and willfully ignorant followers.

[area51]

35. Heard this particular sentiment on Houston rightwing talkradio in the '90s. n/t

[Martin Eden]

36. Then why does God not give this gift to everyone?

Apparently the Founders needn't have bothered creating a constitutional government and that silly Bill of Rights.

God will take care of everything.

[WinkyDink]

37. Doesn't mention Christianity.

[angrychair]

39. Maybe I misunderstood your post

Hopefully I didn’t misunderstand you post but he does mention Christianity. He states in his own tweet “freedom is a gift from god”. This clearly ties our ability to be free to a grace from a Christian god and disregards the hundreds of years of civics, hard work and blood it took to not only get those freedoms but to keep them.

[Hortensis]

46. The religious right he's speaking to emphatically disagree.

Of course it's about Christian reconstructionism. As in reconstruct the meaning of the constitution and the structure and purpose of our entire nation to serve their god.

PUERTO RICO

DISMANTLING OF THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION

NEW COLD WAR WITH RUSSIA

TAX BREAKS TRANSFER OF WEALTH AND POWER TO THE ULTRARICH

DISMANTLING OF NEW DEAL

[Blue_true]

41. A reference to God is not a reference to Christianity except under one case.

That being the case of Christians. I believe in a God, but I view Christ as a moral teacher instead of a savior. There have been other moral teachers on Earth, Budda, Mohammed, ect.

[angrychair]

43. Not sure of your point

Saying that our freedoms are a “gift from god” is an unambiguous Christian reference coming from him.

While Islam, Judaism and Christianity all have the same “god” the context and that a Christian god is the object that grants us that grace is clear.

I find it repugnant that the hard work, blood and tears of millions, from our Founding Fathers to protesters in the street today, are disregarded in a single sentence “freedom is not a gift from government” and the praise is attached to a Bronze Age fairy tale, disturbing.

[Blue_true]

44. Look, I see your point, but.

Christianity is but one of many religions, that was my point.

Trump is a supreme conartist, he is talking to his base of rightwing evangelicals.

[angrychair]

45. Ok, I understand

I don’t disagree that comments like this are red meat for Christian evangelicals and baseless pandering on his part but it is no less troublesome and a direction our government should not be going in.

[Blue_true]

47. Have you been listening to republicans the last 40 plus years?

Ever since that party climbed in bed with rightwing evangelicals post 1973, it has become more and more theocratic. Where do you think people like Roy Moore came from.

Roe v Wade caused the religious right to look for political power and republicans gave them that party. They have been going more extreme since. My moral compass causes me to have qualms about abortion, but I also feel that decision is to be made by the woman carrying the fetus and no one else. My Moral compass also causes me to work to feed hungry kids by any means, a view that many on the religious right hate, they think that the mom that they force to have a child that she can't feed is responsible for her situation, if only she had kept her legs closed they say, at least until one of their teen daughters get knocked up.

[MoonRiver]

42. PSYCHO....nuff said