Jack Black is right about the Bible
All Christians pick and choose what to take from the Bible and how to interpret it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmDafl_kmqk
Tag: religion
Christian Denominations Split Over Slavery – Where are they Today?
Some Christians supported slavery enough that many denominations split over the issue and the Civil War, forming new denominations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP6xpcsyzZ8
When Washington Crossed the Delaware on Christmas 1776, It Wasn’t in the Name of Christian Nationalism
“Most people see America as an experiment in classical liberalism, whereby the founders created a system of limited government, religious pluralism and liberty. Religious leaders are free to spread their message through the culture—but not to take control of the levers of power and base lawmaking on their sectarian Bible interpretations. The Constitution protects everyone’s natural rights, with its main purpose limiting the sphere of government—not implementing rules to assure proper religious observance.
There really is no other way to seriously read our Constitution, but many religious people still argue the founders were Christians who envisioned a Christian nation. Some of the founders were indeed devout Christians and these folks cherry-pick Christian quotations from them.
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Christian nationalists often argue that America cannot survive as a multicultural, multi-religious nation. To which I’ll quote a 1788 rebuttal from George Washington: “I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.” As we approach the 250th anniversary of our founding, Americans must not let Washington’s brilliant legacy and the nation’s ideals get hijacked”
https://reason.com/2025/12/25/christian-nationalism-is-a-threat-to-americas-founding-principles/
Who were Cathars?
Christianity spread by the sword.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WajENTN0maM
Right-Wing Legal Strategy Is Working, And It’s Terrifying | Mark Joseph Stern | TMR
The Trump administration told Texas to gerrymander based on race. Texas did as asked. A judge said the gerrymander was illegal because it was based on race. The Supreme Court said that despite the detailed investigation by the lower court that showed a race-based gerrymander, they don’t think it was based on race. They based that opinion on very little, and overturning a lower court based on one’s opinions of the facts is illegal, unless the lower court decision was overwhelmingly erroneous, which it was not in this case. The Supreme court also said it is too close to an election to make a change even though the elections are a year out. This means state legislatures can illegally gerrymander half the years because House elections are every two years.
The Supreme Court is clearly ruling on freedom of religion cases in a way that is biased toward Christianity and that allows Christians to risk and hurt non-Christians as long as they consider it a part of their religion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31vNflImmtM
America’s Christian Death Cult
A version of Christian nationalism believes that Christianity is a pro-war religion that supports strong nationalist policies that protect Christianity and what it views as traditional life. It is more focused on defeating the enemy than on love. It is more about militaristic and capitalist ideology, than the words of Jesus in the Bible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wouIJDFarpU
From Many Christianities to One Church: The Rise of Orthodoxy
From Many Christianities to One Church: The Rise of Orthodoxy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0ttWsWF5PI
BREAKING: Global Anglicanism Split in Two Today
Anglicans just split. Some of them didn’t like the reform agenda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMxOLiS9DOo
Attack at a Mormon church in Michigan leaves at least 1 dead, 9 injured
“At least one person was killed and nine were injured when a gunman attacked a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints service in Michigan on Sunday morning, police said. The shooter was killed by police.
Authorities say the 40-year-old male suspect rammed his vehicle through the front doors of the church in Grand Blanc Township, about 60 miles northwest of Detroit, before exiting and opening fire with an “assault rifle” on the hundreds of worshippers inside.
Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye said investigators believe the suspect also deliberately set fire to the church, which appeared engulfed in flames in photos and videos shared on social media.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/28/nx-s1-5555970/multiple-people-shot-mormon-church-michigan-shooter-down
Trump says he’ll direct Education Department to protect praying in public school
“While religion is not banned in public schools, the Supreme Court ruled in 1962 that state-sponsored prayer in public schools violates the First Amendment.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/trump-says-hell-direct-education-department-to-protect-praying-in-public-school-00550550