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someone: maybe the church and state should remain separate. america has some issues, and religion shaping politics isnt a good thing 🤔 someone without critical thinking: THEN GO TO AFGHANISTAN AND SEE HOW MUCH YOU LIKE IT!!! WE NEED CHRISTIANITY!!!
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Anonymous 22h

Afghanistan is exactly why we should keep religion out of politics

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

Keep Islam out of politics*

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14h

Our country was founded as secular because Christians had spent the last 400 years of European history murdering each other for being the slightly wrong kind of Christian

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13h

Real af thank you for saying it bluntly

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13h

Except almost all founders were Christians and most states had state churches after 1776.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13h

Thomas Jefferson made a bible with all the magic stuff removed. He was a Deist. They were enlightenment era liberals who recognized that religion needed to be out of government to stop people from murdering each other over religion.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13h

Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams in 1796 and ratified unanimously by the U.S. Senate

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