louisville police training included bible verse 'an avenger who carries out god's wrath'

[butters]

the Baptists are speaking out

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The police department that wrongly shot Breonna Taylor dead in her own apartment in 2020 had trained its officers just three years earlier that they are avengers who carry out “God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.”
New reporting by the Louisville, Ky., independent newspaper LEO documents that in 2017 Louisville Metro Police applied a Bible verse to a mandatory firearms training class. The verse from Romans 13:4 was superimposed over a “thin blue line” flag as the final image in the training slideshow.

Federal law prohibits the advancement of one religious ideology over others, which generally means government bodies may not use religious texts in their training, especially not as a justification for their work.

Not only is this a violation of the principles of church-state separation, it also illustrates a dangerous trend associating policing with a divine mandate, according to Aaron Griffith, assistant professor of history at Whitworth University and author of God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America. Griffith also serves as a Public Fellow with Public Religion Research Institute

https://baptistnews.com/article/lou...ficers-are-gods-agents-of-wrath/#.Yob1ufjMKUk

 

[butters]

they also carried a lead into this, from Religion Dispatches' article about not trusting alito's 'assurances'

The leaked first draft of Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson has sent shockwaves throughout the American psyche. This is a stunning reversal of women’s rights that have been in place for half a century. It was also a thorough repudiation of the idea that the court will honor stare decisis (deferral to precedent) and it ends the concept of an inherent right to privacy implied by the 14th Amendment. While some commentators have attempted to downplay the effects of this decision, the consequences are nearly impossible to overstate.

The first order effect is that abortion will become illegal in roughly half the US overnight, mostly without exceptions for rape, incest, non-viability, or extreme birth defects. The trigger laws in place theoretically protect the life of the mother, but in practice many hospitals will refuse to perform abortions even on non-viable, life threatening ectopic pregnancies (the number one cause of maternal mortality). Similarly, Louisiana is already moving to pass a fetal personhood bill, which would treat all abortions as homicide punishable by life in prison, including those necessary to prevent the death of the mother.

The US has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world already, and these bills will only drive it higher. The ethical questions posed by abortion are primarily answered by adherence to Christian doctrines within the US, meaning that these laws will force many Christians and non-Christians to die on behalf of someone else’s beliefs. Ethically, it’s little different than invading a country, pressuring the locals into your army, and using them as cannon fodder.

https://religiondispatches.org/dont-buy-alitos-assurances-heres-what-happens-next-after-roe-falls/

 

[anarchoMando]

Wow mask off

 

[pecksniff]

An Episcopalian is a Presbyterian with a trust fund.

A Presbyterian is a Methodist with a college education.

And a Methodist is a Baptist with shoes.

 

[KeithD]

Fully one-third of Americans are too brain dead to get and/or appreciate the concept of separation of state and religion.

 

[pecksniff]

Fully one-third of Americans are too brain dead to get and/or appreciate the concept of separation of state and religion.

It's worse than that. Many fundies insist the purpose of the 1A is to protect church from state, never the other way around.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Avenger who carries out God's wrath is my tagline and I'm gonna sue.

Besides "everybody be cool, its the avengers who carry outGod's wrath!" Just doesn't work. Gotta stick with cops and pigs.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Fully one-third of Americans are too brain dead to get and/or appreciate the concept of separation of state and religion.

We understand it, but we don't like it.

 

[pecksniff]

It is written, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; but I say unto you, do you feel lucky, punk?