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Rep. Mary Miller ― a Republican from Illinois who once praised Adolf Hitler ― wrote, edited and ultimately deleted a social media post decrying “a Muslim” speaking in Congress.

“It’s deeply troubling that a Muslim was allowed to lead prayer in the House of Representatives this morning. This should have never been allowed to happen,” she wrote Friday. “American was founded as a Christian nation, and I believe our government should reflect that truth. May God have mercy!”

The man leading the prayer was guest chaplain Giani Singh, a follower of the Sikh faith, not Islam. Miller’s Republican colleague Rep. Jeff Van Drew (N.J.) introduced him as such on Friday.

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[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago (2 children)

America is not a fucking Christian Nation

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sometimes I really wish the founding fathers were around to just say, “Yeah, we were all atheists when we did this America thing. It just wasn’t fashionable at the time. So this idea that American was founded on Christianity, is well, just bullshit”

I mean they were literally fleeing religious persecution. Why would they bake religion into what they were creating?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

In fairness a lot of the people "fleeing religious persecution" were the nutcases who thought there wasn't enough of it.

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[–] Sarek@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

While they were fleeing religious persecution, they were not atheists. The original Pilgrims were Christians who believed the church of England to be beyond redemption. All of the founding fathers were raised in some Christian belief system, and more or less practiced their respective branches of Christianity.

They were certainly more open-minded in accepting beliefs that deviated from their own, but also certainly not atheist.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The pilgrims weren't really fleeing religious persecution. In the UK they faced the consequences of their religion's actions after they took power during the interregum and were just the fucking worst, including banning Christmas. So they fled to the Netherlands where they were horrified to learn that religious freedom didn't give them the right to force their religious beliefs on others. So they fled religious tolerance to America where they were able to be as awful as they wanted

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Eh, some were about as close to atheist as the social norms of the time would really permit. If you look at Jefferson, he made his own version of "the" bible in which he excised all the superstition. In their day, the Inquisition was still going on (ended in 1834) and making your own version of "the" bible was exactly the kind of thing that would get you declared a "heretic".

And then there is Thomas Paine...certainly being a Deist is something likely to get you in trouble with the crazy Inquisition types...as well as the Southern Baptists today...

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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 11 points 2 days ago

the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion

-- Treaty of Tripoli, 1797

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

My face when I found out the US has opening prayers in the house of government:

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Do you not? And if so help, I'm stuck on a continent filled with nutjobs

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seperation of... What was it again? logic and reason?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Money and fools.

(We're the fools, they get the money.)

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, that's the really fucked up part of all of this. Being a USian, I knew this kind of thing, though.

This Karen is just miffed that xtianity is not given maximum unwarranted special privileges: "oh, we'll allow you people who have not opted in to our chosen lifestyle to exist (for now), but at every opportunity, we'll rub your noses in it that we think our chosen lifestyle's adherents are special little snowflakes that deserve praise for their lifestyle, and use the government to do it."

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The US was founded as a secular state.. No getting around that. There were only a few devout christians in the original group of founding fathers. Most were deist. They had the recent memory of the thirty years wars where catholic and protestant armies had rampaged back and forth across Europe stealing the peoples food. Raping and burning out anyone who wouldn't convert. They did this to many who did convert. It was said at the time that they everyone kept two sets of bibles. They just hid one or the other depending on who had taken over at the time. That asshole regressive wouldn't ever be willing to admit that. Because she is too stupid to learn it.

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

A secular nation shouldn’t be having in house prayers from any denomination.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I would take it one step further and say they (founding fathers) were possibly even atheists, or at the extreme, very agnostic theists with the idea that IF god does exist, he doesn’t care or bother about us (which of course is deism). It would have been very unpopular back then to say god doesn’t exist, so deism was a step in that direction. Just my theory.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In some cases sure. Hamilton was very religious. He was also tolerant of other. The main consensus among the founding fathers was tolerance of differing beliefs. Something these ignorant fools today never learnt or most probably ignore.

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[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow just the fact that she feels emboldened enough to dribble out this poison and post it online is telling.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Who's doing anything about it? Nobody is marching on their representative's homes and offices. No letter-campaigns, we can't even be bothered to vote as a country without it turning into the apathy-olympics.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The thought path of a short-minded individual: Turban->Muslim.

I'm all for a minimum IQ to enter politics. This would probably disqualify 50% of Congress & Senate. And 100% of the cabinet.

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

I heard somewhere that one of the first hate crimes against Muslims following 9/11 was against a Sikh person...

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

IQ is a poor metric (for just about anything).

We do need to work on election reform so that our elected representatives are more representative. Getting more people to vote (turn out in the U.S. is fairly low), avoiding partizan gerrymandering, using something other than FPtP.

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And here come all the nuts feeling brazen about open christian nationalism in a budding theocracy.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (9 children)

GOP keeps saying 'this is a Christian nation', but they don't want understand separation of church and state.

There is no state religion. If you open a state body to prayer, then all prayer is allowed, not just the prayers you want.

Long live the satanic temple.

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There should be no prayer in a secular institution

It’s a place for running a government not magical thinking

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Oh they understand perfectly well. Hence why they're trying to destroy the separation of church and state.

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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 304 points 3 days ago (8 children)

American was founded as a Christian nation

-- Every American Christian Bigot

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

-- First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States

🤔

[–] hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 257 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Don't forget:

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

-- John Adams

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 88 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Honestly who could say what they meant by that, it's such an open to interpretation remark.

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religious or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslim peoples], and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.” - Treaty of Tripoli, signed 1797.

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thomas Jefferson had his own personally edited version of the Bible that focused on the philosophies and stories in the Bible, and left out the supernatural mythology and fairy tales. There were parts of the religion he liked, but he was clearly uncomfortable with the actual religious parts of it.

And he actually WROTE the founding documents.

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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She 100% doesn't know that Muslims and Sikhs are different, and doesn't care.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago

Terrified of all brown people, like half of America post 9/11

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

LOL, she should change her name to Karen.

JFC.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 165 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Well you see, the thing about conservatives is that they are fucking stupid.

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 101 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It’s deeply troubling that a Muslim was allowed to lead prayer in the House of Representatives this morning. This should have never been allowed to happen

I believe our government should reflect that truth.

She's right: leading prayer in Congress at all should never be allowed. Government should reflect the truth of a secular government.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 66 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Poor Sikhs always catching strays...

Also, yo, I kind of hate this country.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 31 points 3 days ago

“America was founded as a christian country”

You mean back when Christian people were so rabid that they thought of Catholics, the OG jesus folks, the way this lady sees any non-christian religion?

Maryland was created as the birthplace of religious freedom in this country specifically because catholics had nowhere else to go in the colonies without getting harassed. Ultimately, the concept of religious freedom would be elevated to a higher place of importance than christian snobbery by the time America was forming a country. Religious freedom was part of escaping the thumb of the King of England and other monarchs.

So, on the one hand, Miller is truly going old school by being a bigoted fuckhead. But on the other, she seems to have no idea that “America” would not exist if people hadnt been willing to tell the bigoted majority of protestants to shut the fuck up, and force them to live and let live

[–] LemmyIsReddit2Point0@lemmy.world 77 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This lady won with 73% of the vote in 2020, 71% in 2022, and unopposed in 2024. She is exactly what the people in that area want and that's sad. The US is like social media. It's not the platform it's the users that make it garbage.

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[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 days ago

Ignorant cunt at that. Calling this a Christian nation is a joke to anyone who isn't a fascist hoping to use religion as a bludgeon.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 75 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Dumbfuck can't even get her religions straight, and apparently she thinks America was founded to be a Christian theocracy. Astoundingly ignorant and misinformed, yet there she sits Congress, governing the nation with her 2 brain cells.

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[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 64 points 3 days ago

Pepperidge farms remembers when bigots were shamed away from talking not their target minorities.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is indeed deeply troubling. Whoever voted for that racist piece of shit should be ashamed

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