I am surrounded by morons. A group of 64 congressional Republicans sent a very testy letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking him if the Constitution still counts for anything in this country of ours, or if it's not OK for Senator Bernie Sanders to literally burn Christian nominees for government appointments at the stake just for stating the obvious truth that Muslims are bound for hell. They aren't saying that Sanders is trying to impose a Judeo-Secularist Anti-Theocracy in America, which of course he is; they simply want clarification on whether Sessions thinks the Constitution's prohibition on religious tests for office still applies after Sanders asked mean questions of a candidate for one of Donald Trump's nominees. If you ask mean questions about religion, surely you're applying one of those religious tests, aren't you? Yes, this is from the same crowd that worried about whether Barack Obama was secretly a Muslim and Mitt Romney was Too Mormon to be president.
I'm no Bible scholar like most of our red state congress people, but I have this vague memory of a passage in the 25th chapter of Matthew about feeding the hungry, visiting the sick and imprisoned, giving a drink to thirsty people, clothing the naked &c. If the good sister taught it right, it's the only place Jesus says what you go to hell for. Basically, if you do those things (called works of mercy) God likes you. If you don't, he kind of asks you to leave. Something like that...I'm paraphrasing. Anywho! I could be wrong. I'm not congressperson.
No.
How could that be? Last time I saw her, she and this other chick were heading for the Grand Canyon.
Religion is poison
I'm no Bible scholar like most of our red state congress people, but I have this vague memory of a passage in the 25th chapter of Matthew about feeding the hungry, visiting the sick and imprisoned, giving a drink to thirsty people, clothing the naked &c. If the good sister taught it right, it's the only place Jesus says what you go to hell for. Basically, if you do those things (called works of mercy) God likes you. If you don't, he kind of asks you to leave. Something like that...I'm paraphrasing. Anywho! I could be wrong. I'm not congressperson.
Morality is doing what's right no matter what you're told. Religion is doing what you're told no matter what's right.
No religious test No religious test You're the religious test!
i will not relitigate 2016, that is the past.
Sanders 2020!
We're gonna get a half million miles outta that story.
I would more than happy to relitigate 2016. What grounds do we have for suing Lil'Donnie?
Thanks, but I have all 5 books of the trilogy and 3 series of the radio plays.
It all strikes me as being a lot like the ol' wingnut standby, "Libtards are the real bigots, 'coz they won't tolerate my intolerance!"
Jesus was Semitic, too.
Not Cromwell. He didn't come to power until 1649. The Mayflower arrived in 1620. They were getting away from James I.
Or, as I often remark, stupidity is ubiquitous.
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So, you can only reject a bigot for a nomination if the bigoted things he says are in a secular context?