If you say something about your religion, and youβre running for office, youβre disqualified in my eyes. Religion has no place in government, and it has no place in campaigns.
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I'm Christian, but Christians these days scare me, in that they ignore Jesus's teachings.
jul 29, 2025, 5:51 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Mine too!! Keep it to yourself!! Quit trying to force that shit on others!! ππ€¬πΏ
jul 30, 2025, 3:38 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Grow up.
jul 29, 2025, 9:51 pm β’ 14 0 β’ view
A-men!
jul 28, 2025, 5:17 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
If you volunteer it unasked then yeah. If asked about it, my opinion will be based entirely on the answer, but it's still not looking good.
jul 28, 2025, 6:04 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
President Kennedy made a campaign speech about his Catholicism. Nothing is wrong with faith and belief in God. Gov. Roy Cooper said nothing about giving it a "place in government." In fact, we should hear more about this other God that is not a Nationalist.
jul 29, 2025, 12:49 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Would you rather them just not talk about it or just not have religion?
jul 28, 2025, 5:11 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Thereβs nothing wrong at all with mentioning religion in campaigns. Itβs when ppl act like Kirk Cameron (among others) & use religion as an excuse to shield them from their shitty political opinions that go against Christ teachings that are a massive problem.
jul 28, 2025, 5:17 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Agreed!
jul 28, 2025, 4:36 pm β’ 4 1 β’ view
I criticised our Democrat senate candidate for that yesterday.
jul 29, 2025, 10:49 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
No kidding! I just got attacked by bible beaters for saying just that
jul 28, 2025, 4:56 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
Many have drifted over from the right because they actually have a few decent bones in their body, but theyβre bringing their destructive religion with them. I want no part of something that has been a bane of my existence for 50 years.
jul 28, 2025, 5:04 pm β’ 5 1 β’ view
I'm so damn sick of the spitting and sputtering because one might have a different opinion. This is the only social media I have, and it's about to go too
jul 28, 2025, 5:34 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
Same. Too many Democrats have become what I left Twitter to avoid.
jul 28, 2025, 5:36 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Longtime follower here. A non-party voter, i.e. Indy. What do you mean by "Too many Dems, etc." I left Xitter bc of the flood of hate, racism, violent misogyny, amplified, glorified, and normalized by Musk, et al. Curious re: what cross-over you see btw Dems=bad Xitter.
jul 29, 2025, 3:56 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Same. I imagine that since Iβm Canadian, Iβm not allowed to have an opinion in their eyes.
jul 29, 2025, 3:07 am β’ 2 0 β’ view
They're still bloviating about how we're a Christian nation. I can't stand it
jul 29, 2025, 11:47 am β’ 2 0 β’ view
I got attacked for daring to point out that we have a very different viewpoint on the relationship between religion and politics in Canada. They equate religion with morality. π€¦π»ββοΈπ
jul 29, 2025, 2:36 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
I know. It's twisted, organized religion is a cult of it's own. If it makes you a better person, than worship how you wish, but that's not been my experience
jul 29, 2025, 3:28 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
I think it's ok if a politician says they follow a particular faith, as long as they keep it to that. But if they want to use their faith to guide governance, or as some sort of evidence of higher moral standing over their opposition, etc. they can pound sand.
jul 28, 2025, 6:41 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
I totally agree. I am not an atheist. I am spiritual. But Iβve been in politics for 30+ years without anyone needing to know that.
jul 29, 2025, 12:45 am β’ 2 0 β’ view
Adult fairy tales. How is this still a thing?
jul 28, 2025, 8:53 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
Unbelievable but still necessary in federal and (probably?) most regional elections. Religion (mythology) has been the uniting force for humans for 10,000 years or more. Itβs hard and maybe impossible to shake off. It can change, but hard to coalesce without it.
jul 28, 2025, 4:59 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Here here!
jul 28, 2025, 6:15 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
if you're running for office and you mention you have a dog, you're disqualified in my eyes - ownership has no place in government
jul 30, 2025, 3:02 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Immediately.
jul 29, 2025, 1:35 am β’ 2 0 β’ view
Religion has no place anywhere. Ghosts π» don't exist.
jul 28, 2025, 7:23 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
I completely agree.
jul 29, 2025, 4:08 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
Absurd
jul 29, 2025, 5:25 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
jul 28, 2025, 4:34 pm β’ 35 14 β’ view
Cooper, assuredly what the thread is referring to, does in fact act like a Christian most - if not all - of the time. Kind of defeating your message.
jul 29, 2025, 10:39 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
I didn't reply to a thread about Cooper, keep up
jul 30, 2025, 1:22 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
I kinda feel this, but there are people who actually believe and attempt to live by the teachings of religious moral systems. If these people are calling out the hypocrisy of people who say they are religious but use it as a club to beat the less fortunate, they may be the people we need in office.
jul 28, 2025, 5:41 pm β’ 5 0 β’ view
Yeah, Iβve heard that for 50 years.
jul 28, 2025, 5:43 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
The United States Constitution agrees with you.
jul 28, 2025, 5:30 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Yes but a candidate's faith can be important to their identity, values and governing philosophies β and therefore their politics. As long as someone's not telling me I need to adopt their faith, or any faith, or trying to impose that faith on any citizen via government, I'm OK w them discussing it
jul 29, 2025, 12:17 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
Exactly right!
jul 28, 2025, 8:00 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
The only Universe where Iβm talking about religion is the one where Iβm trying to manipulate the masses and destroy their well being while they sit complicit and watch.
jul 29, 2025, 2:38 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
This goes for both sides of the aisle. Hakeem Jeffries religious tweets are fucking exhausting. Of course, it's even worse when the fascists try to pretend that they're following the mythical Christ.
jul 29, 2025, 4:28 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Unfortunately, Magats suck up all fake religious people.
jul 28, 2025, 4:51 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Hardly.
jul 28, 2025, 6:07 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Organized religion has become nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Devil.
jul 29, 2025, 11:47 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Religion shouldn't even be mentioned during a campaign. If a reporter asks about it, refuse to answer the question.
jul 29, 2025, 1:51 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
THAT would be the only time imo it would b okay to mention religion; in response to a reporter's question
jul 29, 2025, 1:54 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Thank you!!! I get so much heat for making this very point. One can be religious, but donβt use it as your platform. Gross!
jul 29, 2025, 6:13 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
jul 29, 2025, 6:14 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Well itβs a good thing you donβt live in North Carolina.
jul 29, 2025, 1:12 am β’ 3 0 β’ view
It certainly has not served us well in the past or present
jul 29, 2025, 11:42 am β’ 1 0 β’ view
this is the horse you are going to ride? Seriously? The strength of the D party is its diversity... that includes all faiths or no faith.
jul 28, 2025, 5:29 pm β’ 47 0 β’ view
If white men need to sit our asses down because we're to blame (we are, yes, granted), then Christians should be doing the same. This is a mess that would not have happened without their religion, or if they had been able to keep their religion's crazy reigned in.
jul 29, 2025, 2:31 am β’ 8 2 β’ view
Who do you think are the Democratic Party's most reliable voters? What do you think their predominant religion is?
jul 29, 2025, 3:46 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
www.arizonachristian.edu/2024/11/14/d...
jul 29, 2025, 3:52 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Even left-wing Christians are more likely to vote Republican simply because of the abortion issue. Many have told me directly themselves that they do not support Democrats for that reason alone.
jul 29, 2025, 3:53 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
I wholeheartedly agree with this statement based on many conversations Iβve had (I live in the south).
jul 29, 2025, 4:19 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
So you're ignoring data for anecdotes (that you probably just made up, let's be honest here)?
jul 29, 2025, 3:55 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Youβve not brought any data to this conversation. Youβre just mad because some people donβt like your fake ass faith.
jul 29, 2025, 4:20 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
What's your point? That that somehow justifies kicking all the Black people out of the Democratic Party? Because that's the position you're defending.
jul 29, 2025, 3:53 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
What? Lol. Black people voted overwhelmingly blue. Christians on the other hand voted for Trump in a higher percent than even men. Wanna try a different word salad and see if it sticks?
jul 29, 2025, 4:12 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
What do Black people do on Sunday mornings more than any other demographic in the US?
jul 29, 2025, 7:32 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Your nonsensical reply which has nothing to do with what I said is clearly designed to try force a "gotcha" situation. I don't interact with bots. Bye.
jul 29, 2025, 7:52 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Is "Christians need to shut up and step back" a fair interpretation of what you said or not?
jul 29, 2025, 7:58 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Oh a race baiter trying to make it about Black people when no one said anything about kicking Christians out of the party.
jul 29, 2025, 3:54 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Just like the religious to conflate separate issues then use them against people.
jul 29, 2025, 3:55 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Complaining about "race baiting" like you're Rush Limbaugh, really not beating the white supremacist allegations *at all.*
jul 29, 2025, 7:33 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
That's exactly what was argued for, yes. Stop gaslighting us. We know what you want: for the Democrats to return to the whites-first whites-only party of the Solid South era.
jul 29, 2025, 3:56 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
It wasnβt, you just canβt read. But I am tired of the race baiting to win arguments. Doesnβt work with me anymore.
jul 29, 2025, 4:14 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Being of a faith and speaking about it on the political floor are two different things. It's one thing to physically represent diversity, and an other to declare your faith to a political body or use it to sway people.
jul 29, 2025, 2:37 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Maybe in some other reality, idk if youβve noticed but the people currently running our country into fascist hell are a white Christian nationalist organization. Context matters.
jul 28, 2025, 6:16 pm β’ 6 0 β’ view
How is Roy Cooper a Christian Nationalist?
jul 29, 2025, 5:03 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
How are you coming to that conclusion from what Iβm saying? Why is it so hard for yall to understand THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?! The white Christian nationalists IM referring to are the heritage foundation that have infiltrated our govt. We NEED boundaries between our govt & religion.PERIOD
jul 29, 2025, 5:08 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Conflation. They use anything to shut down the topic of separation of church and state.
jul 29, 2025, 5:10 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Thereβs a glitch! Iβm telling you there is a glitch in their brains when they reach a certain point of trying to understand nuance π
jul 29, 2025, 5:12 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
You don't have the slightest clue what that phrase means if you think it implies that religious people shouldn't be allowed to be politicians, or even that they should have to keep their beliefs under wraps.
jul 29, 2025, 5:53 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Nobody interpreted your nonsense as implicating the separation of church and state because that has literally nothing at all to do with any of this.
jul 29, 2025, 5:55 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Uh huh π΅βπ«
jul 30, 2025, 9:58 am β’ 1 0 β’ view
Wow lol
jul 30, 2025, 2:01 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Solid constitutional argument, you've convinced me!
jul 30, 2025, 4:12 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Iβm watching in real time as the Democratic Party allows a religious takeover of what should be a secular party. Fuck them. They can be religious without a lot of people like me.
jul 28, 2025, 6:17 pm β’ 8 0 β’ view
that isnβt happening though
jul 29, 2025, 3:31 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
Weirdo alert
jul 29, 2025, 12:25 pm β’ 8 0 β’ view
You are correct and I'm with you, fuck Christians
jul 30, 2025, 11:58 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Its absolutely not a take over
jul 29, 2025, 5:07 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
I don't know about your town or what you're observing, but I think you're incorrect/ahistoric. Religion has always played a strong role (Kennedy, Carter, Obama, Biden), but these days Evangelicals are almost all Republicans. (I'm atheist & Dem for many decades)
jul 29, 2025, 3:41 am β’ 9 0 β’ view
Questions 1) Do you think it is a NEW thing that the majority of Democratic Party leaders are people of faith? 2) Are you saying "people like" you should not vote for AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Ralphael Warnock, Andy Beshear, Illhan Omar, Josh Shapiro, or Pete Buttigieg if he runs for anything else?
jul 29, 2025, 4:47 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
jul 29, 2025, 3:51 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Oh for fuckβs sake. One guy mentioning prayer isnβt βa religious takeoverβ. Besides that, like it or not itβs a Christian-majority country. If you donβt want Christians in your party, then you donβt want to win elections or govern. And if thatβs the case, the Green Party is that-a-way.
jul 29, 2025, 12:36 am β’ 53 0 β’ view
As if Iβm talking about one guy. You can scream all you want and cry about what I said, but the minority Dem House leader told the country that God was in charge. And a little comprehension before you go off would be great since I never said I donβt want Christians in my party.
jul 29, 2025, 3:44 am β’ 3 0 β’ view
And trump said he is the chosen one⦠Remember?
jul 29, 2025, 10:31 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
And no, itβs not a Christian majority country. The majority of Americans are not Christian. This isnβt 1980.
jul 29, 2025, 3:45 am β’ 2 0 β’ view
The US is absolutely a majority Christian. www.pewresearch.org/religious-la...
jul 29, 2025, 3:42 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
Wonder if they polled Muslim and Jewish populations as equally as they did Christianβs.
jul 29, 2025, 4:13 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
The way people are rabidly flocking to comment is proof how fanatical Christianβs are lol.
jul 29, 2025, 4:33 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
as of March 2024, 68% of Americans identified with some Christian denomination.
jul 29, 2025, 4:49 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Factually incorrect. You sound like a religious fundamentalist, relying on belief alone.
jul 29, 2025, 3:49 am β’ 6 0 β’ view
I'm a Christian. I'm very left of center on just about every issue. Do you really not want me in your party?
jul 29, 2025, 5:38 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Is this Roy Cooper? I agree, but. If someone is going to fight fascists, then Iβm ok. Weβre partly in this mess because weβve allowed the GOP the exclusive right to command what is βreligiousβ. If we could articulate the ethical and moral teachings of Jesus in the context modern society, it would be
jul 29, 2025, 12:31 am β’ 2 0 β’ view
a good thing and it might actually get rid of the GOP and their hate and dismantling of the social welfare safety net. I mean, for fuck sakes, I think you could argue Jesus would advocate for communism.
jul 29, 2025, 12:31 am β’ 1 0 β’ view
intolerance goes nowhere.
jul 28, 2025, 6:21 pm β’ 13 0 β’ view
jul 28, 2025, 6:22 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
"Christian" != "Intolerant". The loudest ones sure are, but believe it or not, christianity is more than just evangelicals.
jul 28, 2025, 8:48 pm β’ 10 0 β’ view
When will the βmore than evangelicalsβ start fighting the evangelicals to take back their religion? Bc it kinda looks like theyβre are ok with how itβs going.
jul 28, 2025, 9:34 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
the 12 year old rape victim didn't fight back hard enough so it kinda looks like she was ok with it.
jul 28, 2025, 9:36 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
OK, a 12 yo rape victim is in no way comparable to different sects of Christianity, I wish yall were better at making comparisons.
jul 28, 2025, 10:03 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
JFC that was awful
jul 28, 2025, 10:06 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
Tell that to your faith.
jul 28, 2025, 11:54 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
this is the opinion of a 13 year old
jul 29, 2025, 5:17 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Sorry. As an atheist, I donβt like your unconstitutional attitude. I donβt believe in a religious test to hold public office. I just donβt want a lawmaker using their religion as the reason behind every bill they support. Weβre fighting fascism. This is a waste of anger. A loser philosophy.
jul 29, 2025, 5:47 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
What
jul 29, 2025, 5:24 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Are you five years old? or are you a recent transplant to the US with no knowledge of Cooper or politics at all? Why are you this ignorant?
jul 29, 2025, 4:19 pm β’ 13 0 β’ view
found the white supremacist
jul 29, 2025, 3:45 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
How is this in any way white supremacist? If anything religion (SPECIFICALLY white Christian nationalism) has been used for centuries to colonize and propagandize POC.
jul 29, 2025, 4:11 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Cutting out religion, and specifically Christianity, means cutting out Black people, the most reliably churchgoing and religious demographic in the US.
jul 29, 2025, 7:31 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
starting to sound like you don't really know anything about the Black population of the Carolinas
jul 29, 2025, 5:12 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
OMFG do you think Black and Indigenous Americans were christian prior to colonization???? JFC.
jul 29, 2025, 6:14 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
I mean, how else could it happen in 6000 years?
jul 29, 2025, 6:17 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
are we talking about BIPOC in the context of Cooper's run for Senate or BIPOC prior to colonization
jul 29, 2025, 6:17 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
No youβre not.
jul 29, 2025, 1:18 am β’ 4 0 β’ view
So religious Dems like Warnock are white Christian nationalists in disguise?
jul 29, 2025, 3:57 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
The mental gymnastics required to come to that conclusion from what I said, is fucking OLYMPIC level. Be an idiot somewhere else.
jul 29, 2025, 4:10 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Explain to us how white Christian nationalist fascists on the right mean that Christian Dems are a problem. How is that "context" relevant at all?
jul 29, 2025, 5:07 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
This is like replying to someone saying something positive about Dems being accepting of vegetarians with "Hitler was a vegetarian. Context matters!"
jul 29, 2025, 5:11 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
You don't want transparency? "The Supreme Court has ruled that the 14th Amendment (ratified in 1868) requires states to guarantee fundamental rights such as the First Amendment's prohibition against the establishment of religionThe Constitution!"
jul 28, 2025, 6:18 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
You think the amendment BANS speaking about religion? It doesn't. It GIVES freedom from prosecution while practicing a religion. JFK was Catholic. He didn't try to convert the nation to catholicism! He allowed MUSLIMS to practice Islam.
jul 28, 2025, 6:18 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
He allowed Jews to practice Judaism. See how this works?Freedom from religion AND freedom to be any religion AND speak about it.
jul 28, 2025, 6:18 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Lol. Every politician talks about religion. So good luck and welcome to politics.
jul 29, 2025, 3:43 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
North Carolina is different - I have no problem with anyone's faith, as long as it's not hypocritical. These days, I know, the two go hand in hand almost all the time
jul 28, 2025, 8:24 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Separation of church & state!
jul 28, 2025, 4:31 pm β’ 3 1 β’ view
I feel the same way and itβs because religion is the driving force behind us losing our constitution.
jul 29, 2025, 1:20 am β’ 14 0 β’ view
Voters ignore that many elected Democrats and Republicans go to church together. To the same church. Part of the same faith family. And after watching people of faith operate for some time, I doubt I can be convinced theyβll put secular governing before that faith, esp topics their faith addresses.
jul 29, 2025, 1:33 am β’ 8 0 β’ view
Jimmy Carter was open about his religious beliefs, went to church every Sundsy & taught Sunday school. Remember what MLK's day job was? What monsters, am I right?
jul 29, 2025, 9:54 am β’ 12 1 β’ view
And look where we are now, glory. Maybe take stock in whatβs happening around you.
jul 29, 2025, 2:32 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
It didn't happen because Carter was a believer in Christ, dear. That's *extremely* specious reasoning.
jul 29, 2025, 3:12 pm β’ 5 0 β’ view
It happened because people like you allowed religion to start infiltrating government. You put your religion in your faith before the people of the United States. Youβre an enemy of the constitution when you do that.
jul 29, 2025, 3:24 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
And donβt call me dear, you condescending pric
jul 29, 2025, 3:26 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Like out of curiosity, what way has Ilhan Omar "allowed religion to infiltrate the government"? The insidious way Fox News keeps telling us?
jul 29, 2025, 3:33 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Look at white people again, bringing up a religion that has literally zero political power, or any influence on our government. Always.
jul 29, 2025, 3:37 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
That you listen to Fox News says so much.
jul 29, 2025, 3:38 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Is your argument that everyone does it? I donβt understand why you are posing an accusation as a question. I never named names. I donβt think attire is religious as much as cultural and independent preference. Iβm unaware of her praying at work because you didnβt provide a source for that.
jul 29, 2025, 3:36 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
My argument is that she's not "doing it" at all. And unless you have an example of a person "doing it", then the line of argument is useless and invalid. That's the point. Someone *having* a religion and saying so is not in itself a violation of church.
jul 29, 2025, 3:53 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Why are you arguing about something with yourself? No one mentioned her. No one accused her of doing anything. As far as providing sources that they are praying in congress, have you been under a rock?
jul 29, 2025, 4:05 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
In addition, someone NOT having a religion is not, in and of itself an indication of their moral character. As we've seen here, it's not even an indication on how unbearably self-righteous they'll be about something.
jul 29, 2025, 3:55 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
No it happened because people wanted power and to subjugate other people. Separation of church and state certainly did not stop people from doing *that*, that's for sure. So unless you have an anecdote of whoever you're talking about doing such a thing, it really has nothing to do with anything.
jul 29, 2025, 3:29 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
No, it happened because people like you allowed religion to filter into government because you thought it was a good thing. You went against the constitution and now you put us in this place.
jul 29, 2025, 3:35 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Separation of church and state has been trampled on throughout our history. I think you mean the rule doesnβt stop it from happening. Both sides did it already for over two hundred years. Both sides argue that itβs ok as long as their side is the one doing it.
jul 29, 2025, 3:32 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Again. Belief and faith are not the issue. Bringing to work when you work in government is the issue. What is good for one is weaponized by another.
jul 29, 2025, 3:15 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
I really donβt understand the disconnect from r discourse on this topic. Do we uphold the constitution or argue how it should bend? Bending it cause it to snap.
jul 29, 2025, 3:17 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
This entire discussion has made it very clear that Christians, left or right, do not care about the constitution when their faith is involved.
jul 29, 2025, 3:25 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
It runs deep and isnβt owned by one faith or political group.
jul 29, 2025, 3:27 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Thatβs a great slippery slope argument. Just look what happened. The separation of powers, and of church and state, were supposed to prevent this from happening. But, if the parties chip away the constitution, even for a good reason, it opens the door for fascism.
jul 29, 2025, 11:48 am β’ 6 2 β’ view
That separation of powers was conceived and codified by people of faith. Reason, yes, but also faith.
jul 29, 2025, 12:18 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
Faith is not the issue. Praying on the job is the issue.
jul 29, 2025, 12:21 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
If someone tells me they have to pray to something I donβt even believe exists to find out how to govern me, I have a huge problem with it.
jul 29, 2025, 2:43 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
π― Faith doesnβt require context or knowledge of facts. It requires no reasoning or critical thinking. This is why religion loves common sense.
jul 29, 2025, 2:58 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Etymologically, faith comes from latin fides, meaning fidelity. As in, fidelity to a process: it could be fidelity to empirical science, to the law, to a supernatural deity, or to abstract principles of Reason. When someone is unfaithful to their spouse, they have lacked fidelity in their marriage.
jul 29, 2025, 3:38 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
That isnβt how it is used in religious practice in the evangelical churches. I was raised in them and I know. They define and teach faith as blindly following the leader, even if they are harming yourself your others, because itβs godβs plan. Of course itβs only godβs plan if they agree with it.
jul 29, 2025, 4:01 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Common sense is also void of facts and reason.
jul 29, 2025, 2:59 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
No oneβs saying candidates have to be non-theists. Just that faith is a private, personal matter that doesnβt belong in govt. Which is how most of the founders behaved.
jul 29, 2025, 12:43 pm β’ 13 1 β’ view
People of faith cannot bring themselves to even think about this point of view. The reactions to my post proved my whole point. Their faith comes first. Before our constitution. Before their fellow citizens. Every time.
jul 29, 2025, 2:33 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
And they can say they are all they want, but people who react like that are not the βgoodβ Christians.
jul 29, 2025, 2:40 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
That's because many of them live in a fear-based vertical morality paradigm, so they're accountable ONLY to their god. The people around them are only relevant insofar as it matters to god.
jul 29, 2025, 5:33 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
To a lot of christian extremists, murder isn't wrong because it hurts people, it's wrong because only God has the authority to take life. But if god has granted you that authority (say, under christian nationalism), then it's OK because god said you could.
jul 29, 2025, 5:37 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
As an atheist, you're not being reasonable. This is a majority religious country. What you're asking for is not going to happen in our lifetimes.
jul 30, 2025, 12:50 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
That's...not "bringing religion into government." Do you actually HAVE any evidence that the person you are complaining about is doing so?
jul 29, 2025, 3:19 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Positively far more impactful issues to deal with, and if you think a Senator is winning in NC without some level of connection to the church you are joking yourself. I wish it were another way, but I am also living in reality
jul 28, 2025, 5:34 pm β’ 5 0 β’ view
White Christian nationalism is why weβre where we are.
jul 28, 2025, 6:14 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Separation of church and state 100%!!
jul 28, 2025, 4:47 pm β’ 49 7 β’ view
My people came here to escape barbaric western white Christian Europe generations after Africans arrived. The unholy union of church and state there was intolerable.
jul 31, 2025, 12:48 am β’ 1 0 β’ view
The toxic unions of church and state in barbaric, white Christian western Europe is why my people came to America (generations after the kidnapped Africans).
jul 28, 2025, 5:03 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
I feel I have no choice at this point but to leave politics alone, stay to myself, and rely on my white male status to keep me safe from bigots. Democrats arenβt doing it. I cannot stand the religious right, and I donβt trust the religious people on the left to do whatβs best for everyone.
jul 28, 2025, 4:57 pm β’ 22 2 β’ view
Don't leave. Don't stay by yourself. We'll get thru this. It's probably gonna be a longer battle than we think. Let's concentrate on smaller elections and the mid terms. π
jul 28, 2025, 10:39 pm β’ 2 2 β’ view
So you helped elect Trump π‘
jul 29, 2025, 4:07 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Democrats literally have ZERO ABILITY TO DO IT because we took away ALL of their power.
jul 28, 2025, 10:15 pm β’ 5 0 β’ view
As long as we have First-Past-the-Post elections, doing anything OTHER than voting Democrat (e.g. voting green, or staying home) is the same thing as voting for the nazis. If you think otherwise, that's copium.
jul 28, 2025, 10:16 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
Youβre a piece of sht
jul 28, 2025, 11:44 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Take a break! I have to take breaks from time to time for my mental health. It will take all of us, including you to fight for our democracy.
jul 28, 2025, 7:45 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Without you, thereβs less of us Indy and I agree with your views on politics all the time. Thereβs a place for you. I promise. π
jul 28, 2025, 4:58 pm β’ 8 0 β’ view
I canβt be alone, and Iβm feeling pushed farther and farther away from the Democratic Party by the voters.
jul 28, 2025, 5:08 pm β’ 10 0 β’ view
Iβm 63 and have been a Democrat since high school. This crop of Dems in congress is limping aimlessly through the biggest attack on American soil since the Civil War. Theyβre failing us. All I know to do is fight back & keep hoping someone will grow a pair and lead the resistance to victory.
jul 29, 2025, 4:44 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Hi.. I hear you. And I see youβ¦ with all of my heart. Sometimes, when itβs easiest to walk away, is the time to push forward for the result you want. Donβt take it from me - that was my therapistβs recommendation 10 years ago. And without it, I would never have met you. π
jul 28, 2025, 9:20 pm β’ 6 0 β’ view
Iβve never felt more hopeless than I do today. Thanks though. Love you, too.
jul 28, 2025, 9:31 pm β’ 6 0 β’ view
Rest as needed. Stay in community. Hydrate, eat healthy, & try to find some joy. Do, at least, 1 thing that makes you happy everyday. Laugh as much as you can. We are with you, friend.
jul 29, 2025, 1:51 pm β’ 5 1 β’ view
Beautiful π. And move towards happiness if you're not. You don't have to stay anywhere.
jul 29, 2025, 2:03 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
Stay with me, my friend. πππ
jul 28, 2025, 10:13 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
What is the alternative?
jul 28, 2025, 11:49 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
We push back Indy. π
jul 28, 2025, 5:33 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
There's a *lot* of Christian atheists in the world. But you're pretty annoying, so I can understand why you wouldn't want to hang out with each other.
jul 28, 2025, 6:14 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Thatβs the stupidest thing Iβve ever read.
jul 28, 2025, 10:19 pm β’ 5 0 β’ view
You should read some of the things people rebelling against their specific Christian upbringings say
jul 28, 2025, 10:23 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Yes, you are inbred. lol
jul 28, 2025, 10:25 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
"Do What Thou Wilt!" ooh you're so wicked. what a rebel.
jul 28, 2025, 10:27 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
youβre sad
jul 28, 2025, 10:44 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Okay now I'm curious. What's a Christian atheist? Isn't that a contradiction?
jul 28, 2025, 10:45 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Religion is people. You can belong to a congregation and broadly share their beliefs, even accept the historicity of a Jesus figure, but still reject the idea of a biblical "God"
jul 28, 2025, 10:50 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
This is something a lot of atheists raised in a Christian tradition struggle with, especially in America, where Christian Nationalists have made it an all-encompassing social system. Religion is about ordering the world and our relationships with each other. A *lot* of non-god things fit that bill
jul 28, 2025, 10:52 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Not sure I agree with that. Religion seems very "God-ish" to me, and about an idea not about people really. Thanks for answering though.
jul 28, 2025, 11:15 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
So he's not completely full of shit, he was just being an asshole by using it as a weapon against someone he assumed it applied to. Let me see if I can do better, as an ex-christian. When you move out of religion, you do a lot of "unpacking." Realizing your religion caused you to view... /2
jul 29, 2025, 3:25 am β’ 3 0 β’ view
It sounds like you were raised in a specific Christian culture and haven't thought much about what other religions believe. Religion is fundamentally a relationship of people to each other and the world, and that only sometimes has a "god"
jul 28, 2025, 11:18 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Have you considered that the Democratic party is not for you? Maybe you are more aligned with Democratic Socialism?
jul 29, 2025, 4:29 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Someone mentioning their own religious beliefs doesn't violate that.
jul 29, 2025, 3:22 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
I get it and generally agree but my exception would be state Rep Talarico from Austin, TX. Very Christian and speaking out against nationalism. As an atheist I respect what he's doing.
jul 28, 2025, 5:51 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Speaking out against it is one thing, promoting any form of it is another.
jul 28, 2025, 6:14 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
He has been very clear in every speech. Iβve heard him speak that his religion, which he relies on solely for personal guidance has no place in his government. He has it right. Not somebody who tells me that heβs praying on whether or not he should run.
jul 28, 2025, 6:15 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Sounds good, idk of him until now. My only experience is Jeffries quoting scripture back at MAGA as if thats some how an βownβ.
jul 28, 2025, 6:19 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Jeffries or any Christian like him has no business in leadership. He told the people of America that God was in charge.
jul 28, 2025, 6:20 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
Talarico is not Jeffries. I'm not a Jeffries fan myself. Give him a look. He's gaining recognition for the right reasons. youtu.be/ao3BmA1pt54?...
jul 28, 2025, 6:32 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
I agree.
jul 28, 2025, 6:33 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Sorry. . . folks got a right to their religion. . . . It might be helpful to ask more specific questions. . . . such as, does the candidate let his/her understanding of his/her religion dictate policy. The constitution says "no religious test"; that means "no religious test".
jul 29, 2025, 7:11 am β’ 5 0 β’ view
No one here is saying folks canβt practice a religion or that people of a particular religion canβt hold office. Theyβre saying religious practice doesnβt belong in politics.
jul 29, 2025, 12:49 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Sorry. . . constitutionally protected. Ask more specific questions.
jul 29, 2025, 2:26 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Itβs not constitutionally protected to mix politics with religion. In fact, itβs anti-constitutional. Ask more specific questions about the parts youβve missed.
jul 29, 2025, 2:30 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Now you are beginning to ask more specific questions.
jul 29, 2025, 3:20 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Like most religious people, youβre annoying as fuck and believe youβre righteous.
jul 29, 2025, 5:27 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Like many irreligious people you make rash assumptions about who I am based on no evidence.
jul 29, 2025, 5:32 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
The evidence is your stupid replies which say nothing. Also, Mr My-religion-knows-everything, Iβm not irreligious.
jul 29, 2025, 5:36 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
sorry .. . . you can't say something is "evidence" when you don't even bother to read what I have said. You only see through your filters, and your filters could use a good cleaning.
jul 29, 2025, 5:40 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
I think you've missed the part where @indyrefugee.bsky.social said an overtly religious candidate is disqualified "in [their] eyes." I and many others here agree.
jul 29, 2025, 5:24 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
If a candidate makes their faith a selling feature of their campaign, they're highly unlikely to get my vote. The government may not be able to prevent a religious person from running, but I'll do my part to prevent them from winning,
jul 29, 2025, 5:25 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
If a candidate makes their religion an issue then I'd say 99.9% of the time they really don't hold their religion, they're just using it.
jul 29, 2025, 5:36 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
And since we all know we're talking mostly Christians here, you of all people should know that the bible is NOT univocal on what Christianity entails. *Every* Christian negotiates with the text to find meaning, which - shocker! - usually confirms what they already inclined to believe.
jul 29, 2025, 5:50 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Scripture should always be interpreted in context. Without context the conclusions will just support one's ego.
jul 29, 2025, 5:53 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Oh no no no...no sir. Just because you don't agree with how someone lives their religion, doesn't mean you can disavow them or pass judgment on the validity of their practice. Religious extremists are no more or less Christian/Jewish/Muslim/etc than their low-key, open-minded counterparts.
jul 29, 2025, 5:46 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Someone who claims to be a Christian, while completely eshewing the teachings of Jesus, is no Christian.
jul 29, 2025, 5:52 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
You don't get to determine that, though. If someone professes Jesus as their savior, is baptised, accepts the bible as their holy book, etc., they're as much a Christian as you are. They're just not the kind of Christian you approve of. And to many of them, you're not a real Christian either.
jul 29, 2025, 7:08 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
There are objective standards for being a Christian.
jul 29, 2025, 11:07 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Go back to France
jul 28, 2025, 10:32 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
No candidate should campaign on their religion, but I think it's reasonable when discussing issues where MAGA is using religion to push extremism to point out that their faith doesn't agree with those interpretations.
jul 28, 2025, 6:32 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
I feel like having to find a case where it IS arguably appropriate to talk about religion is kind of like finding the exception that proves the rule.
jul 29, 2025, 2:27 am β’ 1 0 β’ view
It has no place in the world period.
jul 29, 2025, 8:55 am β’ 2 0 β’ view
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jul 29, 2025, 6:00 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Thatβs absurd
jul 29, 2025, 5:25 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
I prefer the constitution to your feelings.
jul 29, 2025, 5:26 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
The Constitution doesnβt say that a belief in God makes someone ineligible for office
jul 29, 2025, 5:26 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
The constitution demands separation of church and state. You allowing religion to infiltrate the government in any way is anticonstitutional. Your feelings donβt matter here.
jul 29, 2025, 5:28 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
epic reddit atheist takes stand
jul 29, 2025, 9:44 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
That seems really stupid. He's not running on religious grounds, he's just a religious guy. He's not running to install religious legislation, nor is he making any promises on the basis of his faith. He said the word pray. Something extremely normal. I think you're very abnormal.
jul 29, 2025, 10:38 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
If you have a religion that permits you to speak about it, it shouldn't matter if you're running for office. Religion has no place in policy, but religion is an important part of self governance. If you're running for office and have no religion that scares me bc you have no guiding principles.
jul 28, 2025, 4:35 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Oh brother. I'm an atheist and I have more guiding principles than ANY conservative Christian in my network.
jul 28, 2025, 5:20 pm β’ 6 0 β’ view
What an absolute pile of horse manure. You can't behave, so you need a smitey fake deity to run your life. I do not as I was raised properly. GTFO with your agenda
jul 28, 2025, 4:58 pm β’ 5 1 β’ view
Believing in fairytales is destructive to mankindβs future. I wish these people would mature.
jul 28, 2025, 5:02 pm β’ 5 0 β’ view
My deity is my self. So maybe your deity needs some work but I'm solid. If you were raised in America you were raised with mostly Christian morals regardless of your beliefs. But you don't have to follow other people's religion. Make your own.
jul 30, 2025, 3:48 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
I don't need one. Your deity is your ego
jul 30, 2025, 4:45 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Religious principals, good, bad and ugly, are human principals because humans created the gods.
jul 28, 2025, 4:42 pm β’ 5 0 β’ view
Pure, unadulterated BULLSHIT! Lots of moral people with absolutely no religion. Idiotic take on your part.
jul 28, 2025, 4:52 pm β’ 7 1 β’ view
Marge Greene and countless others are proof of this personβs idiocy.
jul 28, 2025, 5:23 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
Look in a mirror
jul 30, 2025, 3:46 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
You look into the mirror and recognize the religious bigot you really are.
jul 30, 2025, 4:26 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
so much undeserved piousness
jul 30, 2025, 4:29 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
You just defined yourself. Good job.
jul 30, 2025, 4:30 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
lol I was talking about the person we were replying to but OK.
jul 30, 2025, 4:31 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
My bad
jul 30, 2025, 4:31 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
lol
jul 30, 2025, 4:32 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Oops
jul 30, 2025, 4:31 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
This is the most offensive thing Iβve read recently. If you need a religion to tell you how to be good, youβre a weak person.
jul 28, 2025, 4:40 pm β’ 16 2 β’ view
my response to those door knocking jesus fvcks.....I have managed to be a part of society without the "added value of some ahole telling me how to act-think-be"
jul 28, 2025, 5:24 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
I donβt even know what itβs like to rely on someone or something else to tell me how to be a decent person. And I damn sure wouldnβt admit it.
jul 28, 2025, 5:28 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
You come up with your own morality without any reference to the people or society around you? So you like, a Jedi or what
jul 28, 2025, 6:09 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
How very reductive, Zota.
jul 29, 2025, 4:25 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Did Yoda give you your Jedi name, Pippi
jul 29, 2025, 6:00 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Are you 11 yrs old?
jul 30, 2025, 4:46 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Ohhh you want to have an adult conversation. Okay, Pippi. How do you think people decide what things they'd be willing to die for? Do they do it entirely in their own head without any concern or reference to society or the world around them?
jul 30, 2025, 4:57 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Your initial premise is flawed. One's religious beliefs impacting one's personality/character is inseparable from impacts of environment, education, circumstances, upbringing, and personal experience. It's not an either/or proposition. We all have choices. So, okay, zota (video game name)-
jul 30, 2025, 6:08 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
Religion isnβt the only reference.
jul 28, 2025, 9:07 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Dang you never had parents? I feel bad for you. That must have been a difficult struggle learning how to be a good person without any role models.
jul 30, 2025, 3:42 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
And yet you cannot control the weather. Religion is about more than just being told what to do. It's about knowing your limits. Even criminals are a part of society.
jul 30, 2025, 3:41 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
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jul 29, 2025, 1:48 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
If you feel the need to call someone weak for believing in something bigger than themselves I'd say you're the weak one lol. Sit with that for a bit.
jul 30, 2025, 3:39 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
That's 100% horseshit. Wanting to make life better for your constituents is a guiding principle that doesn't require religion.
jul 30, 2025, 12:49 am β’ 1 0 β’ view
That's why I said religion has no place in policy.
jul 30, 2025, 3:46 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
This is the part of what you said that's horseshit: "If you're running for office and have no religion that scares me bc you have no guiding principles."
jul 30, 2025, 4:15 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Apparently you have never met the Republicans in Congress. This statement is beyond ignorant and offensive. Anyone that needs any religion to guide their morality, humanity and charity should reevaluate their education, belief system and google terms like secular democracy and religious wars.
jul 30, 2025, 12:26 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
I personally canβt stand the religious references by politicians because it is 100% pandering but if North Carolina Dems want that itβs their choice. Itβs also why I will never live in North Carolina where religion has excused slavery, civil rights violations & patriarchy for 250 years.
jul 30, 2025, 12:26 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
It's actually scary that you think 'religion' is an important part of self-governance with the reality of: Spanish Inquisition, Crusades, Joel Osteen, violent MAGAt hypo-Christians, Gaza genocide, ICE concentration camps. Women bleeding to death in parking lots, etc, all in the 'name of God'
jul 29, 2025, 4:24 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
It is scary that religion gets out of control but that's mass religion. Religion itself is just the code we give ourselves to follow, like Gibbs from NCIS.
jul 30, 2025, 3:45 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
'Religion' and faith are, to me, separate. They can go together, but most often don't.
jul 31, 2025, 4:46 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
OK kingpervy
jul 28, 2025, 7:15 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
People don't need a god or gods to have guiding principles (or morals or ethics).
aug 1, 2025, 7:34 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Thatβs a terrible thing to say, there are atheists out there who are better people than any Christian.
jul 28, 2025, 4:47 pm β’ 6 1 β’ view
Lol, you are irrelevant statically as a member of the voting populace then. Like literally no one cares what you think because people like you donβt vote in sufficient numbers to make even a margin of difference.
jul 29, 2025, 12:17 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
jul 28, 2025, 7:09 pm β’ 7 1 β’ view
jul 29, 2025, 3:11 am β’ 3 0 β’ view
So AOC is also disqualified? Iβm sure sheβll be heartbroken to lose your support. ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/in-the...
jul 29, 2025, 2:58 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Does she scream it at her rallies?
jul 29, 2025, 3:04 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Who said anything about screaming? Did Cooper scream it at a rally? Jimmy Carter talked about his faith CONSTANTLY. As an atheist, I didnβt love it. But he didnβt govern in favor of the church, or weaken the separation of church and state, and thatβs what ACTUALLY matters.
jul 29, 2025, 3:07 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
Sorry I didnβt mean actually scream. Is it an active part of her campaign?
jul 29, 2025, 4:19 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Itβs not, but anti-constitutional Christians love to derail conversations with untruths.
jul 29, 2025, 4:21 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Seems that way. Not sure how they misconstrue being religious with campaigning off your religion as the same thing. But here we are.
jul 29, 2025, 4:24 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view
Once a Christian feels their faith has been insulted, nothing else matters to them but the annihilation of whomever insulted them.
jul 29, 2025, 4:25 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
You know⦠just like Jesus.
jul 29, 2025, 4:25 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
πππ sounds just like himβ¦
jul 29, 2025, 4:26 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
I can show you all the blocks from Christians since yesterday, because you know, blocking out what you donβt wanna hear is also part of that faith. Theyβre all so fake.
jul 29, 2025, 4:27 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Comments like these are what make anyone right of center sigh and gives them an excuse to not consider a Democrat
jul 29, 2025, 2:51 am β’ 0 0 β’ view
I don't agree with this entirely. It's totally fine to talk about how your faith motivates you. If you're religious I want to know what your beliefs are to make sure you don't hate me, and I don't want people sneaking their bigotry in the side door. That said...
jul 28, 2025, 5:03 pm β’ 9 0 β’ view
If you're someone who says that you're motivated to do Jesus stuff like feed the hungry, house the homeless, clothe the naked, welcome the stranger, heal the sick I'm gonna want to make sure you're cool with lgbt people. If you want god back in government I'm going to be suspicious, regardless...
jul 28, 2025, 5:03 pm β’ 7 0 β’ view
of whether I agree with what you say your religion motivates you to do. I need you to be enthusiastically pro-lgbt, pro-trans healthcare, supporting trans youth, and pro choice. There's a higher standard of scrutiny that needs applying.
jul 28, 2025, 5:03 pm β’ 6 0 β’ view
Do you think Roy Cooper is anti lgbtq????
jul 28, 2025, 5:07 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
I don't know anything about Roy Cooper so I'd need to look. There are plenty of pro-lgbt religious folks out there! The point is I want to check. I'm not going to jump to a conclusion either way until I know. People get the benefit of the doubt but I'll have questions before someone gets support
jul 28, 2025, 5:10 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Then check? He vetoed three anti lgbtq laws. Heβs an extremely popular governor of a state we have to win if we want to regain the senate
jul 28, 2025, 5:13 pm β’ 13 0 β’ view
Becky, genuine question: did I accidentally wander into a discussion about him? Because I haven't mentioned him and thought we were talking in general about religion and politics. As for what you said: that sort of action is what we need, and for my part, preferred to words.
jul 28, 2025, 8:11 pm β’ 4 0 β’ view
My impression of all religion in politics related posts today is that they came off the heels of Roy Cooper saying he prayed about it and is going to enter the North Carolina senate race. No one in this thread mentioned it specifically but it has been what prompted most posts today
jul 28, 2025, 8:28 pm β’ 2 0 β’ view
Thank you. I had no idea that that had happened. I will say that a lot of the posts that are happening then, are one person responds to the situation, and then the rest of us have no idea about the situation. With what little I have been able to google I have zero problems with Roy Cooper's faith.
jul 29, 2025, 3:30 am β’ 1 0 β’ view
Don't worry, it is a common mistake. We've successfully managed to nationalize politics at every level, so people continuously say things that are completely divorced from context.
jul 29, 2025, 5:26 am β’ 1 0 β’ view
I'll look into him when I have time because just based on what you've told me I already like him a hell of a lot more than Gavin from Cali. I prefer not being talked about by allies, because they make lots of mistakes that accidentally hurt us. Better that allies act in our defense and let us speak.
jul 28, 2025, 8:11 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
So if he's not talking nonsense but then acting on our behalf? That's pretty damned close to the gold standard. But I have to check for myself one, and I don't have time now. And two, I didn't realize this was about him if indeed it is about him.
jul 28, 2025, 8:11 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Hmm. People often ask me why I would run. I am inspired by my faith in the inherent dignity and worth of every person, and the capacity of any community to build a better world. Both of which are from my Unitarian-Universalism. Would pretending I came up with the ideas on my own be better?
jul 29, 2025, 12:10 am β’ 6 1 β’ view
My understanding of the Universal Unitarian Church is that it's not exclusive to a specific religious construct, i.e., Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddist, et al., is that right?
jul 29, 2025, 4:09 pm β’ 1 0 β’ view
Thatβs right: it invites people of many different beliefs to come together in community. It is a bit of an odd duck among religions, in that it has a religious commitment to pluralism & heresy. But its roots in Massachusetts run deep, back to the Unitarian Congregationalists of the 19th century.
jul 29, 2025, 4:21 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
jul 29, 2025, 4:02 pm β’ 0 0 β’ view
Religion has no place in government, it has no place in our schools. Religion has lost itself when it hovers around a pedophile in Congress. When they cannot call out pedophilia on our president. Who are they afraid of Trump or God?
jul 29, 2025, 12:38 pm β’ 3 0 β’ view