Quote of the Day: The United States is the Most Warlike Nation on Earth

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4 responses to “Quote of the Day: The United States is the Most Warlike Nation on Earth”

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   June 25, 2019

   ObstacleChick

   President Carter, it aggrieves me that a former POTUS has bought the lies that the USA is a Christian nation. We were established as a secular nation that offered freedom to practice one’s religion without government mandating a state religion.

   But yes, we do stick our weapons into other countries’ business.

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      June 25, 2019

      Bruce Gerencser

      I think he uses the phrase as I do: we are a Christian nation in the sense of the outsized place Christianity has in public/private lives.

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   June 25, 2019

   ObstacleChick

   Bruce, outsized place, yes. The majority of Americans do identify as Christian. But….our Constitution was designed to be secular. And I do get touchy about the fundamentalist Christians trying to force their particular version of Christian ideas/rules on the rest of us just because historically the majority of the population identified (even nominally) as Christians. It’s one of the things that gets me up on my soapbox (which is good exercise I guess).

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   June 25, 2019

   maryg

   the right wing religion in our government has created disaster for over 50 yrs now. it accelerated in the 70s and 80s w/the likes of jerry falwell and his ilk running our govt. we currently give Israel millions to wage war on their neighbors w/no accountability because American Christians believe the bible says so. we ignore our poor and wage war all over the world because the bible says so. the American church believes such rubbish yet they are still ruining our nation. why are we still allowing this? why are us taxpayers still subsidizing religion? I don’t object to a basic decent form of generic Christianity, but this mess we have running things must be stopped. the only way I know is to educate our kids and vote every time.

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