This nation began on the foundation of religious fascism. I am not talking about the formal declaration of separation from Britain. I am talking about. the original settlers. I am talking about those religious purists who deemed the inhumane burning of those who observed any belief other than their concept of christianity as witches and doomed to death by fire. From the beginning these religious zealots have always taken comfort in the notion that their god approved of violence against non-white indigenous people, women of any race who didn’t practice the faith the Pilgrims departed England for the freedom to observe.
Now 422 years since the Pilgrims landed on the North American continent, zealots, now-a-days referred to as the ‘Christian Taliban’, are attempting to accomplish in law what the ‘Founding Framers’ of the Constitution prevented, allowing the newly formed US Government to prohibit the adoption of a national religion…”Madison’s original proposal for a bill of rights provision concerning religion read: The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretence, infringed.
1 The language was altered in the House to read: Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or to prevent the free exercise thereof, or to infringe the rights of conscience.
2 In the Senate, the section adopted read: Congress shall make no law establishing articles of faith, or a mode of worship, or prohibiting the free exercise of religion. . . .
3 It was in the conference committee of the two bodies, chaired by Madison, that the present language was written with its somewhat more indefinite respecting
phraseology.4 Debate in Congress lends little assistance in interpreting the religion clauses; Madison’s position, as well as that of Jefferson, who influenced him, is fairly clear,5 but the intent, insofar as there was one, of the others in Congress who voted for the language and those in the states who voted to ratify is subject to speculation.”
But now there are Conservative efforts to overturn and rewrite the constitution to make the racist Christian Nationalism the governing principles and policies of our country. This philosophy is basically a return to the notion that only authoritarian minded “Christian Whites’ should be allowed to vote, or maybe even breathe the air……”A movement is rising to revive Christian domination of public and private life, and it is a movement fueled by racists. It is specifically opposed to the separation of church and state, and it seeks to destroy public education, ban abortion, censor teaching about race and racism, as well as gender and sexuality.
This movement was behind Trump’s election and used this irreligious man as their instrument to gain power and control of the Supreme Court.
The article begins:
Three weeks before he won the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano stood beside a three-foot-tall painted eagle statue and declared the power of God.
“Any free people in the house here? Did Jesus set you free?” he asked, revving up the dozens before him on a Saturday afternoon at a Gettysburg roadside hotel.
Mr. Mastriano, a state senator, retired Army colonel and prominent figure in former President Donald J. Trump’s futile efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, was addressing a far-right conference that mixed Christian beliefs with conspiracy theories, called Patriots Arise. Instead of focusing on issues like taxes, gas prices or abortion policy, he wove a story about what he saw as the true Christian identity of the nation, and how it was time, together, for Christians to reclaim political power.
The separation of church and state was a “myth,” he said. “In November we are going to take our state back, my God will make it so.”
Mastriano, the Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, participated in the January 6 Insurrection.
Mr. Mastriano’s ascension in Pennsylvania is perhaps the most prominent example of right-wing candidates for public office who explicitly aim to promote Christian power in America. The religious right has long supported conservative causes, but this current wave seeks more: a nation that actively prioritizes their particular set of Christian beliefs and far-right views and that more openly embraces Christianity as a bedrock identity.
Many dismiss the historic American principle of the separation of church and state. They say they do not advocate a theocracy, but argue for a foundational role for their faith in government. Their rise coincides with significant backing among like-minded grass-roots supporters, especially as some voters and politicians blend their Christian faith with election fraud conspiracy theories, QAnon ideology, gun rights and lingering anger over Covid-related restrictions.
Their presence reveals a fringe pushing into the mainstream.
“The church is supposed to direct the government, the government is not supposed to direct the church,” Representative Lauren Boebert, a Republican representing the western part of Colorado, said recently at Cornerstone Christian Center, a church near Aspen. “I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk.” Congregants rose to their feet in applause.
Some states may become inhospitable for non-Christians and for Christians who don’t believe in compelling everyone else to worship their way.”
A Reasonable Point of View 