Trump announces task force to ‘eradicate anti-Christian bias’

[DeluxAuto]

More big government interference into our freedom of speech and all that.

President Trump announced plans Thursday to establish a task force and a presidential commission to protect Christians from religious discrimination.

Trump addressed the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., where he laid out multiple steps he planned to take to address what he described as attacks on religious liberty and on Christians in particular.

“While I’m in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares,” he said. “And we will bring our country back together as one nation under God.”

Trump said he would establish a presidential commission on religious liberty that “will work tirelessly to uphold this most fundamental right.”

The president also said he would sign an executive order to make Attorney General Pam Bondi the head of a task force to “eradicate anti-Christian bias.” The task force will aim to stop “all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government,” Trump said.

He also said he would create a White House Faith Office, led by Rev. Paula White, who has served as a religious adviser to Trump for several years.


Pandering to the Christian right is White Christian Nationalism on display.

 

[73Seahawks]

More big government interference into our freedom of speech and all that.

President Trump announced plans Thursday to establish a task force and a presidential commission to protect Christians from religious discrimination.

Trump addressed the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., where he laid out multiple steps he planned to take to address what he described as attacks on religious liberty and on Christians in particular.

“While I’m in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares,” he said. “And we will bring our country back together as one nation under God.”

Trump said he would establish a presidential commission on religious liberty that “will work tirelessly to uphold this most fundamental right.”

The president also said he would sign an executive order to make Attorney General Pam Bondi the head of a task force to “eradicate anti-Christian bias.” The task force will aim to stop “all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government,” Trump said.

He also said he would create a White House Faith Office, led by Rev. Paula White, who has served as a religious adviser to Trump for several years.


Pandering to the Christian right is White Christian Nationalism on display.

This will get reversed by the next Democratic President.

 

[Lathanar1]

Lol, "presidential commission on religious liberty" talk about doublespeak.

 

[Bray123]

He's not a Christian anyway. It's about the only thing going for him.

But I thought that he was going to slash the wage bill, not hire more bureaucrats.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Lol, "presidential commission on religious liberty" talk about doublespeak.

I'm sure he's talking exclusively about Muslims and Allah.

 

[rainsol]

More big government interference into our freedom of speech and all that.

President Trump announced plans Thursday to establish a task force and a presidential commission to protect Christians from religious discrimination.

Trump addressed the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., where he laid out multiple steps he planned to take to address what he described as attacks on religious liberty and on Christians in particular.

“While I’m in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares,” he said. “And we will bring our country back together as one nation under God.”

Trump said he would establish a presidential commission on religious liberty that “will work tirelessly to uphold this most fundamental right.”

The president also said he would sign an executive order to make Attorney General Pam Bondi the head of a task force to “eradicate anti-Christian bias.” The task force will aim to stop “all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government,” Trump said.

He also said he would create a White House Faith Office, led by Rev. Paula White, who has served as a religious adviser to Trump for several years.


Pandering to the Christian right is White Christian Nationalism on display.

Maybe you forget the FBI investigation of the catholic church? Why didnt the FBI investigate BLM and antifa? Maybe they ought to tone down the anti Trump rhetoric from the media? Maybe you shoud check out the perves are us at the White House during the Biden administration. Plenty of room to find bias there by the Nazi s that ran this country

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Maybe you forget the FBI investigation of the catholic church? Why didnt the FBI investigate BLM and antifa? Maybe they ought to tone down the anti Trump rhetoric from the media? Maybe you shoud check out the perves are us at the White House during the Biden administration. Plenty of room to find bias there by the Nazi s that ran this country

Great question. Why isn’t Trump ordering investigations into those groups?

 

[Saint_Ann]

A meaningless gesture to placate the base. All you Christian haters need not worry. You probably won't be crucified.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Why didnt the FBI investigate BLM and antifa?

Are you talking about their riots during the first trump reign of error?

 

[MajorRewrite]

Fat Demented Old Fart Said Something Moronic for 325th Day in a Row; Sets Record … News at 11.

 

[DeluxAuto]

He's who the felon is trying to protect.



Fat fuck would definitely need protection from me.

 

[UltraChad]

More big government interference into our freedom of speech and all that.

Persecution of Christians isn't covered in your freedom of speech,

Aren't you pro-censorship anyhow?? LOL fucking hypocritical douche bag.

 

[Bray123]

Persecution of Muslims was a policy under the felon's first term, has he seen the light?

 

[Politruk]

He also said he would create a White House Faith Office, led by Rev. Paula White, who has served as a religious adviser to Trump for several years.

Paula White supports the mercenary Prosperity Gospel. Of course she's Trump's religious advisor.

 

[Politruk]

Persecution of Christians isn't covered in your freedom of speech,

Persecution of Christians is not a thing that is happening anywhere in the U.S. But a pathetically large number of them do appear to have a persecution complex.


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[TD]Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]—Ralph Waldo Emerson[4][/TD]
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Christian fundamentalists[edit]​

[TR]
[TD]“”We're conservative, we're Christian, and therefore we're being attacked.[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]—Jerry Falwell Jr.,[5] falling into Emerson's vulgar mistake[/TD]
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Christian fundamentalists in the Bible Belt and pretty much everywhere else love to imagine that they are persecuted or "oppressed" whenever they find someone who does not share their particular worldview (such as creationism, as pointed out in talk.origins's archive,[6] or their stance on abortion and LGBTQ issues) or mocks it. On closer examination of such claims, it's more commonly the case that claims of persecution are better explained as annoyance, fear, and/or anger at the removal of privilege or the curtailment of their ability to force their views on others. The controversy over classroom prayer is raised as a case of persecution to prevent Christians from observing their religious beliefs, when in reality the rulings made in the 1960s and 1970s forbade state schools from sponsoring religious observances.

Students are, in fact, perfectly free to pray of their own accord, on their own initiative, and in their own time (only faculty-led prayer being unconstitutional, as the faculty of public schools are government employees, who are required not to endorse or disfavor any one particular religion; creationism being taught as science is unconstitutional for the same reason). All that being said, it is easier for believers of conspiracy theories to bond if they can describe these rulings as being an attack on freedom of religion[note 3] for Christians rather than simply Christians being made to follow the same rules as everybody else. This perception of freedom of expression was well addressed by Oliver Wendell Holmes when he said "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." More recently, Fundamentalist Christians (particularly those in the US), will point to the growing prevalence of "Satanism" (ranging from a monument to Baphomet to pretty much anything that doesn't agree with them or their religion) in popular culture, and anti-Christian jokes made by comedians as "proof" of persecution.

Depressingly, most American Christians believe that they are persecuted, according to a 2016 Brookings/PRRI poll.[7] The closest thing to actual "persecution" that exists for American Christians in modern times is "hostility", which is expressed toward conservative Christians by about a third of respondents in the American National Election Study.[8]

The New Testament itself also has a fair bit to say about persecution:

• Matthew 5:10 says, "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
• John 15:18-19 says, "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."
• Romans 12:14 tells Christians, "Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them."
• 2 Timothy 3:12 says, "Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,"

Yet when Christians encounter real or imagined persecution, they scream for it to stop immediately, thus creating a paradox in which at the same time they don't want to be blessed, and they certainly don't want to bless anyone they think is persecuting them.

 

[UltraChad]

Persecution of Muslims was a policy under the felon's first term, has he seen the light?

Awwwww Terrorist sympathizer Bray likes Jihadis who kill Americans......how very Democrat.

 

[UltraChad]

Persecution of Christians is not a thing that is happening anywhere in the U.S.

Yea and Democrats aren't trying to take any guns from anyone......LOL lie to someone fucking retarded enough to ignore their lying eyes.

 

[Politruk]

Why didnt the FBI investigate BLM and antifa?

How do you know they haven't?

 

[Politruk]

Yea and Democrats aren't trying to take any guns from anyone......LOL lie to someone fucking retarded enough to ignore their lying eyes.

Name an instance of Christians being persecuted.

 

[Politruk]

the Nazi s that ran this country

You are an idiot.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Persecution of Christians isn't covered in your freedom of speech,

No shit, that's why I didn't say that, Bot.

Aren't you pro-censorship anyhow?

Where the fuck did your silly ass get that from?

hypocritical

Ascribes me a position I don't have and then calls me a hypocrite about it

Typical dumbfuckery from Bot.

 

[cdstefi]

In a country where it's basically illegal for a president to be atheist, agnostic or other religion than Christian. So much for separation of church and state (literally written into the constitution).

 

[Bray123]

This is a straightforward appeal to the MAGA base.

https://imgur.com/L53asYZ

 

[ChinoMoreno]

The people who are championing Trump as a Christian are the same people who called Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas?"

 

[Politruk]

Awwwww Terrorist sympathizer Bray likes Jihadis who kill Americans......how very Democrat.