Does CNN realize we are a Christian nation?

[Mashmont]

The whole reason the Puritans risked their lives to come to a frozen, barren, no-mans land on this continent is because they were being persecuted in England for not being the right brand of Christians.

The MAGA crowd has infected their religion with politics. This is a fatal mistake. Since Trump 1.0, church attendance nationwide has plummeted.

This same thing happened in Europe 200 years ago, and it nearly killed off religion there entirely.

Which is why our Founders did their best to make sure that did not happen here.

When you think of all the moral violations by Trump, and the acceptance of his degeneracy by his followers, and the decline in church attendance, one can certainly see why Tucker Carlson called Trump "a demonic force".

Satan could not ask for a better henchman on Earth.

That trend percentage-wise started long before Trump. It peaked in the 1950s and has been downhill from there, corresponding with radical left mores. Still, Catholic Church attendance has increased numerically over that time, both in the US and worldwide.

 

[initforme]

Married couples need NOT be open to procreation.

 

[Leviticus]

The first amendment of the Constitution disagrees with the OP. The fact that the majority of Americans happen to be Christians have nothing to do with the law or anything else in this country. The Constitution is very specific that religion and government are separate.

 

[g5000]

That trend percentage-wise started long before Trump. It peaked in the 1950s and has been downhill from there. Still, Catholic Church attendance has increased numerically over that time, both in the US and worldwide.

There has been a dramatic upswing in people entirely stopping church attendance since Trump 1.0.

People are turned off by so many Christians backing an obvious degenerate. Take a look at what happened to the red Never Attend line for church attendance after Trump's first election:

 

[g5000]

8 years after the Constitution was ratified:

Avalon Project - The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816 - Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796

ARTICLE 11.​

As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

 

[initforme]

There has been a dramatic upswing in people entirely stopping church attendance since Trump 1.0.

People are turned off by so many Christians backing an obvious degenerate. Take a look at what happened to the red Never Attend line for church attendance after Trump's first election:

Trying to include it in government drives people away.

 

[g5000]

Trying to include it in government drives people away.

Actually, it is the other way around. Infecting religion with politics drives people away.

As Alexis de Tocqueville explained the same phenomenon in Europe in 1834:

The unbelievers of Europe attack the Christians as their political opponents rather than as their religious adversaries; they hate the Christian religion as the opinion of a party much more than as an error of belief; and they reject the clergy less because they are the representatives of the Deity than because they are the allies of government.

In Europe, Christianity has been intimately united to the powers of the earth. Those powers are now in decay, and it is, as it were, buried under their ruins. The living body of religion has been bound down to the dead corpse of superannuated polity; cut but the bonds that restrain it, and it will rise once more. I do not know what could restore the Christian church of Europe to the energy of its earlier days; that power belongs to God alone; but it may be for human policy to leave to faith the full exercise of the strength which it still retains.

Democracy in America, Part I. by Alexis de Tocqueville

 

[Mashmont]

The first amendment of the Constitution disagrees with the OP. The fact that the majority of Americans happen to be Christians have nothing to do with the law or anything else in this country. The Constitution is very specific that religion and government are separate.

The Constitution says no such thing about separation of Church and State. It's is an impossibility anyway. Where the Constitution is in error is when it said the government may not establish a religion, because by not doing so, it is appointing atheism as the State religion. That was a grave mistake and should be amended. It should make Catholicism the state religion.

There has been a dramatic upswing in people entirely stopping church attendance since Trump 1.0.

People are turned off by so many Christians backing an obvious degenerate. Take a look at what happened to the red Never Attend line for church attendance after Trump's first election:

Per your graph: Weekly attendance went up under Trump, fell under Biden. Never attended was the same under Trump, spiked under Biden. Monthly attendees drpped during COVID. Never recovered under Biden. You made the case against Biden and for Trump.,

 

[initforme]

Actually, it is the other way around. Infecting religion with politics drives people away.

Agreed. 100 percent.

 

[initforme]

The Constitution says no such thing about separation of Church and State. It's is an impossibility anyway. Where the Constitution is in error is when it said the government may not establish a religion, because by not doing so, it is appointing atheism as the State religion. That was a grave mistake and should be amended. It should make Catholicism the state

Laughable. Fringe kook like.

 

[Leviticus]

The Constitution says no such thing about separation of Church and State. It's is an impossibility anyway. Where the Constitution is in error is when it said the government may not establish a religion, because by not doing so, it is appointing atheism as the State religion. That was a grave mistake and should be amended. It should make Catholicism the state religion.

Per your graph: Weekly attendance went up under Trump, fell under Biden. Never attended was the same under Trump, spiked under Biden. Monthly attendees drpped during COVID. Never recovered under Biden. You made the case against Biden and for Trump.,

"The state shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion"

This essentially means that the United States does not have an official religion and no religion dictates the law in the United States.

 

[g5000]

Per your graph: Weekly attendance went up under Trump, fell under Biden. Never attended was the same under Trump, spiked under Biden. Monthly attendees drpped during COVID. Never recovered under Biden. You made the case against Biden and for Trump.,

Look at the red line. Never Attend. Skyrocketed during Trump 1.0. Leveled out in 2022.

We'll have to see what happens during Trump 2.0.

 

[whutTHEYsay]

And yet you think it's fine to force your atheism on Americans. How did that work out in North Korea, China, Nazi

I am not an atheist. You are a liar.

I am a rational theist more like Jefferson than Adams.

 

[PeterPilot]

Israel is no more above criticism than any other nation, and the fact that so many Jews are very critical of Israel and Netanyahu's Likud regime demonstrates that antipathy toward Israel does not equate with anti-semitism.

I agree completely, but the point is that criticizing the Israeli government and/or its countless crimes is a criminal offense in about 30 states and proposed federal statutes, and that means that your claim that Israel is not above criticism does not comport with reality.

 

[BlindBoo]

Perhaps I'm wrong but, if we are a Christian Nation where is "The Christ" mentioned in the Constitution? Is this supernatural being the religion is based on even mentioned once in our founding document? Iran certainly is not shy about naming their deity in their Constitution. So if the FF considered us a Christian Nation why didn't they mention "The Christ"?

 

[schmidlap]

No government entity demands that I give to the charities I wish to contribute to.

True, that.

Christians need to stand up to MAGA depravity.

The Archdiocese of Miami is condemning a controversial migrant detention facility in Florida — which state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” — calling it “unbecoming of public officials” and “corrosive of the common good.”​

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In a strongly worded statement posted to the archdiocese’s website, Archbishop Thomas Wenski criticized both the conditions at the remote detention site in the Everglades and the rhetoric surrounding it.​

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He wrote: “It is unbecoming of public officials and corrosive of the common good to speak of the deterrence value of ‘alligators and pythons’ at the Collier-Dade facility.”​

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Wenski’s statement also highlighted humanitarian concerns, noting the isolation of the facility from medical care and the vulnerability of the temporary tent structures to Florida’s harsh summer weather and hurricane threats. He also called for chaplains and ministers to be granted access to serve those in custody.​

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Miami archbishop slams Everglades immigrant detention site as 'unbecoming' and 'corrosive'

Archbishop Thomas Wenski criticized the remote location of the detention site called "Alligator Alcatraz" and the rhetoric surrounding it.

www.nbcnews.com

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[schmidlap]

Perhaps I'm wrong but, if we are a Christian Nation where is "The Christ" mentioned in the Constitution? Is this supernatural being the religion is based on even mentioned once in our founding document? Iran certainly is not shy about naming their deity in their Constitution. So if the FF considered us a Christian Nation why didn't they mention "The Christ"?

No deities are evoked anywhere in the U.S. Constitution.

Insipid efforts to reduce and demean the nation by perverting it into a theocracy must be resisted by all patriots - whether Christian or not.

 

[Redfish]

In this country of ours, being a Christian is a good thing. In this country of ours, being a nationalist is a good thing. CNN tries to paint this as if it's a bad thing.

---White Christian nationalists are poised to remake America in their image during Trump’s second term---

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/12/us/white-christian-nationalism-du-mez-cec/index.html

Does CNN realize that it has no viewers?

 

[Redfish]

No deities are evoked anywhere in the U.S. Constitution.

Insipid efforts to reduce and demean the nation by perverting it into a theocracy must be resisted by all patriots - whether Christian or not.

"Endowed by their creator" you are dumber than a roadkill toad.

 

[Lisa558]

That’s true….but that does not mean Christian.

Many of the FF were deists - but not believers in Jesus.