Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would create a White House faith office and direct Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead a task force on eradicating what he called anti-Christian bias within the federal government.
Trump delivered remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the U.S. Capitol and used his speech to call for “unity”, telling lawmakers his relationship with religion has “changed” after a pair of failed assassination attempts last year.
At a second prayer breakfast in Washington, Trump struck a more partisan tone, took a victory lap for getting “rid of woke over the last two weeks” and announced steps to protect Christians from what he said was religious discrimination.
“The mission of this task force will be to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI and other agencies,” Trump said.
He vowed his attorney general would work to “fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.”
Me too. Their fundamental exclusive nature makes them essentially prejudicial.
The problem is that religious people believe they have the right to judge others by their personal beliefs, which are founded on imaginary characters.
Atheism has never had a need for an Inquisition. That is a religious invention!
I have posted thisbefore, but it bears repeating as a warning to all secular minds.
"The 1578 edition of the Directorium Inquisitorum (a standard Inquisitorial manual) spelled out the purpose of inquisitorial penalties: … quoniam punitio non refertur primo & per se in correctionem & bonum eius qui punitur, sed in bonum publicum ut alij terreantur, & a malis committendis avocentur (translation: “… for punishment does not take place primarily and per se for the correction and good of the person punished, but for the public good in order that others may become terrified and weaned away from the evils they would commit”).
Do you see the inherent permission in that statement? You can be innocent of any crime, yet be punished just to set an example. And punishment usually ended in death…
Some Christian, couldn’t even bring himself to touch the Bible during his inauguration.
The real question is how did the ugliest of ugly American cartoon characters because such a national symbol - seem to be We The People got pretty rotten to the core, for so many to have been con’ed by so little.
Why, why, why? Doesn’t any one point out that we create our own gods and for god sake to start lightening up with the chest thumping - because it’s not God Almighty speaking, it is our own Ego’s speaking.
What’s most amazing is that there was no question of what a totally dishonest, agreement breaking, lying, unAmerican criminal slob that trump character and his overlords are.
Project 2025 was there for all to see and read, but America once again fell asleep, oh but sorry. I forgot, rule one these days, no ill is to be spoken. We’re doing just fine. Call me cynical.
Maybe those billions from Saudi Arab, and millions from our home grown billionaires, actually did rig this election, could it be? Why else was the pig so smug, they had it all worked out weeks ahead of time? I know, it doesn’t matter at this point.
The problem is too few care too little to seem to be able to do anything about any of it, but talk, while they act.
Hollywood Nation, too much suckling on the boob-tube.
Oh, and you forgot about that pervading apathy.
George Orwell did a good job of exploring what we have become,
He should be dated by now, but with MAGA his books have become like a spring shower, and his life and thoughts once again relevant.
George Orwell: A Life in Pictures is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell. Chris Langham plays the part of Orwell. No surviving sound recordings or video of the real George Orwell have been found.
If you can attract all of the evangelicals.
If you can gather all the racists.
If you can convince those struggling to survive that only you can fix their lives.
If you can create a gun loving culture and scare them that their guns are endangered.
If you can create anxiety over the trans 1% while ignoring the mega wealthy 1%.
If you can pack courts.
If you lack compassion.
And he has also forgotten : If you can convince people that the rule of laws, their rights, their guaranties are an obstacle to their happiness
About the trans in sport i am of two minds
There are sports where strength is useless, as shooting.
Beyond that :
Nowadays, women are less strong than men. A woman who change to male and want to compete with men, nice for her. But look at the records. women records are under men’s ones.
And d’ont tell me that’s because women are discriminated or train less.
Some golfing women have qualified to play men’s competitions. the play as well as men. but the cannot send the ball as far as a man and that’s make a difference.
About a man becoming a woman, i am more reserved. I would say that it is a question of individual case.
A man who has began his transition before puberty has no advantage. A man who change sex well after it has a big advantage over women in some sports.
Warning: i am not saying that a trans is changing sex psychologically or mentally, bu i am talking about hormones and surgery.
Right, the list is certainly not exhaustive. Lack of compassion covers a lot, but I also like your statement about laws.
And I include the trans topic simply to point out that it is about a very small number of people who have very little power. I left out any judgement. The 1% mega rich have the power. And now they are gaining control over everyone and everything.
State of mind such as gender identification should have nothing to do with actual physical gender identification.
If a person is born male, then for the rest of their lives they can partake in male sports. If a person is born has a female body , then they can partake in female sports.
Elective surgery is irrelevant.
Where is the problem?
As to Trump’s belated conversion, he will be judged by his deeds, not his words.
I specify that the following is true for 99 % and more of the individuals, there are exceptions I do not ignore them, I do not despise them.
Each human being is born with a genetic sex, man or woman,
Each human being is born with a sexual, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual or asexual orientation,
Each human being has a psychological sex, feels man, woman, or “gender fluid”
And the genre?
The genre results from a social construction, it includes all the characteristics, character traits, feelings, attitudes, expected behaviors in a given society, for its members, according to their biological sex.
The first difficulty is that, in the current vocabulary, the word genre has become the equivalent of other words.
Contrary to what naturalists have long explained, homosexuality is common in animals.
I’m going to repeat myself again, what the conservatives call LGBT propaganda is education for tolerance and acceptance of the other. They are against because in fact, they are homophobic and transphobic.
Indeed, for them, what they believe to constitute the natural order of things, represents a well-tidy whole, where everyone occupies an unchanging place, whereas in fact, it is a social construction.
