Trump vows to unite America under "one God"

[ApatheticAustrian]

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maybe someone should talk with him about the founding history of this country.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

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maybe someone should talk with him about the founding history of this country.

Full fascism achieved.  Congrats, Donald.  You're the first on a major ticket.

[Dr. Arch]

Little do they know he's referring to himself.

[Ronnie]

Compared to the many outrageous things he's done lately, this is a total nothingburger.  And I'm an atheist.

[kyc0705]

Little do they know he's referring to himself.

[JA]

Goes to Maine to advocate radical position on enforcing the Christian religion. Makes total sense...

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

This guy goes on about religious freedom... but what about atheists? Polytheists? Next thing you know, he'll be pushing the Affordable Faith Act through Congress, with himself as the public option.

[Person Man]

Goes to Maine to advocate radical position on enforcing the Christian religion. Makes total sense...

Little do they know he's referring to himself.

It might not be Christianity.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Little do they know he's referring to himself.

[Cashew]

Little do they know he's referring to himself.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Little do they know he's referring to himself.

[ProudModerate2]

Little do they know he's referring to himself.

[Crumpets]

People, can you hear it?

Trump is great.
Trump is great.
Trump is great.
Trump is great.
I acknowledge that there is no God but Trump.
I acknowledge that there is no God but Trump.
I acknowledge that Kellyanne Conway is the Messenger of Trump.
I acknowledge that Kellyanne Conway is the Messenger of Trump.
Hasten to #MAGA.
Hasten to #MAGA.
Hasten to #win.
Hasten to #win.
Trump is great.
Trump is great.
There is no God but Trump.

(I apologize to all Atlas Muslims.)

[MasterJedi]

Supports that freedom, as long as you give him all your money and worship him as God king on Earth.

[Speed of Sound]

"If Doritos had a god, he would have three sides and be orange."

[rafta_rafta]

Little do they know he's referring to himself.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Little do they know he's referring to himself.

[Badger]

nonesense yh'all.

It's Mammon

[Brittain33]

I thought he loves the Hindu and the India?

[bore]

This thread is kind of odd, especially compared to all the other trump stories and all the other terrible things republicans have said about atheists.

You don't really get more american and less like a worrying break with the past than using a formulation that appears in the Pledge of Allegiance and the most common form of the Gettysburg Address. What's the big deal?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Endorsed, as long as it's Veles

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

This thread is kind of odd, especially compared to all the other trump stories and all the other terrible things republicans have said about atheists.

You don't really get more american and less like a worrying break with the past than using a formulation that appears in the Pledge of Allegiance and the most common form of the Gettysburg Address. What's the big deal?

Because it is a break with the past. As Thomas Jefferson wrote,

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American obsession with The One True God is a comparatively recent thing - it was added to the pledge in 1954.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Eine Fahne. Ein Gott. Ein Reich. Ein Volk.

Ein Drumpf.

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

yeah we already knew that he wanted to shred the First Amendment. This isn't news

[bore]

This thread is kind of odd, especially compared to all the other trump stories and all the other terrible things republicans have said about atheists.

You don't really get more american and less like a worrying break with the past than using a formulation that appears in the Pledge of Allegiance and the most common form of the Gettysburg Address. What's the big deal?

Because it is a break with the past. As Thomas Jefferson wrote,

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American obsession with The One True God is a comparatively recent thing - it was added to the pledge in 1954.

I feel like you didn't really read what I said. For one thing the Gettysburg address which is where the "under God" line comes from (and yes while I know Lincoln probably didn't say under God at the actual speech, he wrote it in the most widely publicised version, which is the important thing) was a century before the Cold War, so not comparatively recent. For another even if we accept that the obsession with the One True God is a comparatively recent thing historically, it is still 60 years ago, meaning a candidate affirming it now is hardly a break with the past. It's like saying because Vermont has a very long history of voting for Republicans, and it's Democratic swing is comparatively recent, when Clinton wins it in a few weeks it will be a break with the past.

The Jefferson quote is rather silly as well, because the issue here is theism versus atheism not Christianity versus any other religion, and the Founders, while obviously wishing for a secular state and not being especially christian, came down firmly on the theism side with the whole "Endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights".

Look, you don't have to like that the pledge of allegiance says under God, or that the coins say "in God we trust", I certainly don't. But it's silly to pretend that it is the same issue as Christianity versus every other religion (obviously there are some similarities because Christianity is by far the largest theism, but it's not the same), and it's silly to pretend that Trump using phrases that go back in american history at least 150 years is anywhere near the top of a list of bad things he's done.