Cont: The Trump Presidency 11: Insert something funny

[Skeptic Ginger]

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But I see this as more of a fund raising letter. Have to justify their existence and donations.

Also not mutually exclusive with: paranoia, Satan behind every bush, seeing everything as evolving around their Christian beliefs. There is no secularism, only God and Satan.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Yeah, these people concern me too. They are not going to get anywhere with this. But they might raise a lot of money.

Every study I've read about religiosity is that it's been waning steadily for the last 100 years. It's a generational decline. My parents were both Christians but we never went to church very often although they sent my brother and I both to Bible Camps every summer where I learned not to believe. My brother says he's a Christian, but I doubt he has stepped foot in a Church outside of his wedding in the last 30 years and none of his kids have more than a few times.

What America has is a lot of people that say they are believers, but not a clue about the religion they say they believe in. Few of them go to church outside of special occasions. Most of them see it about just being a good person.

I see a lot of this as 'last gasp. A desperate attempt to hang on to the past.

It doesn't worry me that much. Let's see them actually win some court cases and then I might get nervous.

And yet the Evangelicals are now in control of much of the government including working behind the scenes for decades to take over the judiciary. They picked a puppet to head the country and they could because politicians know there is a significant Evangelical voting block. That Pence is VP is testimony to legislators courting that voting block.

 

[Polaris]

Trump Tweets

A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live. It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?

Perhaps someone should clue him in that SNL isn't a news program, for starters. And that it doesn't matter either way, because of that document he's been wiping his ass with for closing in on two years now.

And yes, you colluded Don-boy, you talking pile of pig ****.

 

[acbytesla]

And yet the Evangelicals are now in control of much of the government including working behind the scenes for decades to take over the judiciary. They picked a puppet to head the country and they could because politicians know there is a significant Evangelical voting block. That Pence is VP is testimony to legislators courting that voting block.

Yes, but I bet this case goes nowhere. I find it amusing that a group promoting prayer in public schools is saying that secular mindful meditation is unconstitutional. It is secular. It doesn't include ANYTHING religious. And even if they accomplish preventing this from being taught in schools, (which I doubt) they are no closer to overturning a 56 year old precedent in Engel v. Vitale in getting school prayer back in the classroom.

In fact, if anything, the decision they seek banning meditation because they are saying that it is religious only pushes their goal further away. They are in fact arguing against a different kind of school prayer. You got to find that ironic and self defeating.

 

[dudalb]

Meditation stripped of all religious message corrupts your eternal soul. Interesting...

I might actually have some sympathy for this suit if I did not know the people bringing it would support Christian Prayer in public schools in a New York Minute....

 

[dudalb]

Trump Tweets

A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live. It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?

It tweets like this that remind me why I break with my liberal bretheren when it comes to gun ownership.

 

[fuelair]

The Trump Presidency 11: Insert something funny like, say, a white hot godemiche?!?!?!

 

[dudalb]

Yes, but I bet this case goes nowhere. I find it amusing that a group promoting prayer in public schools is saying that secular mindful meditation is unconstitutional. It is secular. It doesn't include ANYTHING religious. And even if they accomplish preventing this from being taught in schools, (which I doubt) they are no closer to overturning a 56 year old precedent in Engel v. Vitale in getting school prayer back in the classroom.

In fact, if anything, the decision they seek banning meditation because they are saying that it is religious only pushes their goal further away. They are in fact arguing against a different kind of school prayer. You got to find that ironic and self defeating.

I can make an argument that some of the philopsohy behind meditation is inherently religious, but the hypocrisy of the group making the suite is truly incredible.

 

[fuelair]

Trump Tweets every time he breaks wind since he swallowed that party toy tooter...…...

 

[LSSBB]

I understand answering a higher ethical position, but inspector javert had the decency to throw himself into the Seine for it.

Interesting work of fiction.

 

[fuelair]

What a big fat crybaby.

Actually trumpf supporters seem to always have their widdle feewings hurted

(as in special snowflakes and the like)!!!!!!! Long may their heartbeat rates rise higher and louder.

 

[fuelair]

What a big fat crybaby.

Yeah but his supporters consider whatever the trumpf says to be writ in gold by the angels. - on official gold leaved tp.

 

[LSSBB]

I might actually have some sympathy for this suit if I did not know the people bringing it would support Christian Prayer in public schools in a New York Minute....

I wouldn't have any sympathy for it. Islamic scholars developed much of math - does algebra corrupt our youth?

 

[fuelair]

I might actually have some sympathy for this suit if I did not know the people bringing it would support Christian Prayer in public schools in a New York Minute....

Yes, yes they and all their ilk are raving ********!!!!!

 

[BobTheCoward]

Interesting work of fiction.

My favorite

 

[acbytesla]

I can make an argument that some of the philopsohy behind meditation is inherently religious, but the hypocrisy of the group making the suit is truly incredible.

There is something called the Lemon Test:
Have a secular purpose;
Must neither advance nor inhibit religion; and
Must not result in an excessive entanglement between government and religion.

While I understand that religions use meditation, meditation in of itself is not inherently religious.

This has a secular purpose.

If Buddhism is not mentioned by teachers, I can't see how meditation advances the religion of Buddhism which is a religion that is hardly a religion.

I can't see the entanglement between the government and religion.

 

[Cl1mh4224rd]

This is the kind of incident Presidents in the past wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole. Trump is continuously undermining the judicial system and it doesn't matter if that is civilian or military.

It's consistent with his anti-Muslim and pro-military rhetoric. It's also consistent with his desire to wield absolute power.

 

[dudalb]

Missed SNL last night, but I saw the skit that pissed off Donnie on You Tube.
I did not think it was all that funny,.It was another "It's A Wonderful Life" parody,the idea being Alec Bladwin as Trump being shown how much better the world would be if he had not been elected President..a couple of laughs, but overall not one of SNL's better efforts.
But it just shows how much of a snowflake Trump really is.
Compare it to Bush Sr reaction to being poked fun at by SNL< were he went on the show and did a pretty funny imitation of Dana Carvey imitating him.

 

[Brainache]

There is something called the Lemon Test:
Have a secular purpose;
Must neither advance nor inhibit religion; and
Must not result in an excessive entanglement between government and religion.

While I understand that religions use meditation, meditation in of itself is not inherently religious.

This has a secular purpose.

If Buddhism is not mentioned by teachers, I can't see how meditation advances the religion of Buddhism which is a religion that is hardly a religion.

I can't see the entanglement between the government and religion.

I agree. I also wonder if anyone has pointed out to the Evangelicals that there is no reason why meditation can't also be Christian: just call it "contemplation". Problem solved.

...There is no clear-cut boundary between Christian meditation and Christian contemplation, and they sometimes overlap. Meditation serves as a foundation on which the contemplative life stands, the practice by which someone begins the state of contemplation.[73]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_contemplation

Maybe it's too "Catholic"...

 

[acbytesla]

It's consistent with his anti-Muslim and pro-military rhetoric. It's also consistent with his desire to wield absolute power.

But it's not pro-military. The Army opened a second investigation of the incident involving Major Matt Golsteyn near the end of 2016.

This is a military court, not a civilian one.

I do agree he is using this to appeal to a group of people who are racist and believe that a military officer has the right to execute and burn the body of a prisoner without due process.