If we trusted in God, we would spend a lot less on the military because God is our defense. We would spend a lot less on ICE and the border patrol because God would only bring the people to America he wanted there. The firearms industries' sales would be a lot lower.
If we trusted in God, there would be no billionaires. The wealthy would be compelled to contribute to the poor man's well-being trusting God that he would always have enough for his family.
America does not trust in God. We trust in violence, in power, in wealth.
You're speaking blasphemies against your alleged god, Congresswoman.
Not just blasphemies but absurdities, never mind an outright falsehood. Yahweh might as well be the security guard who has someone else punch in and out for him while he naps or watches roller derby while drinking a beer, or doing anything other than HIS JOB.
It's been said many times: the ONLY redeeming character of the god of the bible is the fact that it doesn't exist.
That right there fits the problem. Miller and her ilk erroneously assume that Christianity and its god are somehow synonymous with the gamut rights that are central to a modern democractic society such as are own, when in reality there is virtually nothing in the Bible that pinpoints to that objectively.
The Bible specifically demands compulsive obedience. There’s no freedom involved. All the instances of people expressing any sense of freedom they are quickly and thoroughly punished, for eternity even.
Here we go again. Someone (Hint: her initials are "MM") either forgot about or purposefully ignored that little issue about: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Shall we also mention that the money needed inscribing IGWT on ALL federal buildings could go to a LOT better causes?
Of course not, because Mary and her kind are far more interested in appearance rather than substance.
Well, that money might go toward a ballroom we don’t need. Or a giant Triumphal Arch. A golden statue. Another round of cryptocurrency. Cell phones that never arrive. Bibles, shoes, teddy bears. I mean, there’s thousands of better options, or so I’m told.
Her God sat out the Holocaust and never intervened to prevent a member of the clergy from raping a child. I suspect he was too busy worrying about the impure thoughts of young boys to take action. So, I’ll pass. God is the last mythical creature I would ever put any trust in.
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, while wiser people are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell.
In her mind, there are only four religions: Christianity (the right religion), Judaism (the wrong religion for white people), Islam (the wrong religion for brown and black people), and Atheism/Communism/Satanism (the catch-all category for people she can't easily stuff into the others).
Hate has blinded her. Hate motivates her. If she stopped hating, her entire sense of self would crash.
If her afterlife was real, Jesus would shove her in the express elevator to the hot zone for failing to do what he told his followers to do: help people with real needs.
She is so much worse than can be imagined. Her communications to constituents are shot through with Christian propaganda. She’s the worst representative I have ever had.
I looked up her district. I have distant relations in Washington County. (In fact, long ago I located what I believe to be the gravestone of my first ancestor to die in the US. Late 1840s.) I’m fairly certain they wouldn’t have a Dem friendly yard sign.
Republicans are headed for a bloodbath at the midterms, yet they'd rather commit suicide by not breaking from Trump. Unfortunately, those suicidal Rethuglikkkans would take everyone else down with them.
Assuming that the midterms are not canceled or postponed due to a “NATIONAL CRISIS” of some sort!
I am willing to bet that there will an incident and Trumpyboy will postpone the midterms due to “safety concerns”, and then keep postponing it until the public short attention span goes somewhere else!
I hope not, but with this administration you never know!
30% of U.S. residents classify themselves as “nones”…no religious affiliation. What about the treaty of Tripoli? It spells out that the U.S. is NOT a christian nation…ratified by Congress! And nones are growing exponentially. Also, “under god” was added to the pledge of allegiance in 1954…same era during Eisenhower’s presidency. I think the phrase was added to paper money in 1954 as well.
It was recited over the PA system when my children were in high school. But apparently students rarely recited it. Still it doesn’t even belong on the PA system.
Same in our schools. The high school kids apparently just play on their phones or talk. My friend says they don’t stand up either. Im guessing the younger kids would be more compliant. But I am heartened that compliance wears off by high school. And maybe earlier.
I can recall all those times when we never said the Pledge when I used to go to school. When the bell rings and the whole class quiets down we got right to work with our lessons for the day. No pledge. Heck. I can recall the times when I, myself remained seated during the pledge and no one batted an eye.
Times certainly have changed, isn't it? With stores about teachers losing *%$# the moment they see a student not standing during reciting of the Pledge.
I remember a teacher going over to a black student and forcing him to stand for the pledge even if he didn’t want to recite it. I think that would get a teacher fired today.
She's got the bleach blonde hair, but no giant jesus torture device around her neck, and she really needs to work on her Merd-A-Lago face. I think she's a RINO.
America was NOT founded as a Christian nation, for fuck's sake. The Founders were VERY clear about this, having witnessed there centuries of religious warfare in Europe culminating with the loss of over a third of the population of Germany. They knew VERY well that Christians of different stripes had a bad habit of killing each other over which version of Christianity is the "right" one, and sectarian warfare would be completely avoided if they wrote in the very FIRST Amendment "Congress shall make NO LAW regarding the establishment of religion."
What part of "NO LAW" are these people unclear about? Forcing every Federal building to engrave "In God We Trust" on the front is EXACTLY the kind of creeping Christianity that must be fought, tooth and nail. Because it excludes HIndus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and of ESPECIALLY atheists.
Sadly, Mary isn't listening. She's too busy territory-marking. It's just possible, though, that the Freedom From Religion Foundation or Americans United might just manage to catch her ear on this one.
“In God We Trust.”
If we trusted in God, we would spend a lot less on the military because God is our defense. We would spend a lot less on ICE and the border patrol because God would only bring the people to America he wanted there. The firearms industries' sales would be a lot lower.
If we trusted in God, there would be no billionaires. The wealthy would be compelled to contribute to the poor man's well-being trusting God that he would always have enough for his family.
America does not trust in God. We trust in violence, in power, in wealth.
You're speaking blasphemies against your alleged god, Congresswoman.
Not just blasphemies but absurdities, never mind an outright falsehood. Yahweh might as well be the security guard who has someone else punch in and out for him while he naps or watches roller derby while drinking a beer, or doing anything other than HIS JOB.
It's been said many times: the ONLY redeeming character of the god of the bible is the fact that it doesn't exist.
She’s Republican. This is a normal weekday for their kind.
"Freedom?" Under YOUR tryannical god, Miller? I think not.
That right there fits the problem. Miller and her ilk erroneously assume that Christianity and its god are somehow synonymous with the gamut rights that are central to a modern democractic society such as are own, when in reality there is virtually nothing in the Bible that pinpoints to that objectively.
Historically, the Christian churches seldom met a right-wing dictatorship they didn't love.
The Bible specifically demands compulsive obedience. There’s no freedom involved. All the instances of people expressing any sense of freedom they are quickly and thoroughly punished, for eternity even.
Certainly not if you’re a woman! (Or LGBTQ+, or the wrong colour, or the wrong flavour of Christian, or….🤬)
Here we go again. Someone (Hint: her initials are "MM") either forgot about or purposefully ignored that little issue about: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Shall we also mention that the money needed inscribing IGWT on ALL federal buildings could go to a LOT better causes?
Of course not, because Mary and her kind are far more interested in appearance rather than substance.
Well, that money might go toward a ballroom we don’t need. Or a giant Triumphal Arch. A golden statue. Another round of cryptocurrency. Cell phones that never arrive. Bibles, shoes, teddy bears. I mean, there’s thousands of better options, or so I’m told.
Health insurance for poor peo….
Sorry, what was I thinking?
Val ... sometimes, you are just WARPED! 😁
In NOGODZ We Trust
:)
In DARTH SIDIOUS WE TRUST. I have more trust in the fictional Sith Lord than in anyone from the Trump administration!
It’s a very very very low bar.
Her God sat out the Holocaust and never intervened to prevent a member of the clergy from raping a child. I suspect he was too busy worrying about the impure thoughts of young boys to take action. So, I’ll pass. God is the last mythical creature I would ever put any trust in.
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, while wiser people are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell.
Which god, Mary? There are a pantheon of gods to choose from and all as valid as your invisible friend.
𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑟𝑢𝑠ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔.
In her mind, there are only four religions: Christianity (the right religion), Judaism (the wrong religion for white people), Islam (the wrong religion for brown and black people), and Atheism/Communism/Satanism (the catch-all category for people she can't easily stuff into the others).
Hate has blinded her. Hate motivates her. If she stopped hating, her entire sense of self would crash.
If her afterlife was real, Jesus would shove her in the express elevator to the hot zone for failing to do what he told his followers to do: help people with real needs.
Surprised she doesn't wear a pin that reads GOTT MIT UNS. From another country that placed its trust in Almighty God.
https://youtu.be/eIrhWkKE3J4?si=2gli_bo-0uusLTY6
Check her belt buckle!
Mit Gott für Drumpf und Vaterland
A red scare tool of xtian oppression. Typical of a nazi like Fraulein Miller.
She is no fraulein! She has 7 kids and 23 grandkids to prove she is eine Frau!
I will correct my statement: she is a walking womb.
If this shit passes, it’ll be another ridiculous phrase we have to pry off buildings along with Trump’s name. Good thing I’m handy with a crowbar.
Her trust in a god is misplaced
She is so much worse than can be imagined. Her communications to constituents are shot through with Christian propaganda. She’s the worst representative I have ever had.
Thanks for the local flavor. Safe red district, I assume?
Absolutely. One other Dem. friendly yard sign in 2024 in my neighborhood.
I looked up her district. I have distant relations in Washington County. (In fact, long ago I located what I believe to be the gravestone of my first ancestor to die in the US. Late 1840s.) I’m fairly certain they wouldn’t have a Dem friendly yard sign.
Republicans are headed for a bloodbath at the midterms, yet they'd rather commit suicide by not breaking from Trump. Unfortunately, those suicidal Rethuglikkkans would take everyone else down with them.
Assuming that the midterms are not canceled or postponed due to a “NATIONAL CRISIS” of some sort!
I am willing to bet that there will an incident and Trumpyboy will postpone the midterms due to “safety concerns”, and then keep postponing it until the public short attention span goes somewhere else!
I hope not, but with this administration you never know!
I’m sure he’ll try, assuming he doesn’t shuffle off this mortal coil before then.
The GQP are in such dire straits that their current efforts in redistricting won’t be enough to save them.
Let hope so, but we MUST keep fighting the Christian fascism no matter what!
The GOP Congresscritters are behaving in somewhat baffling ways, in my opinion.
30% of U.S. residents classify themselves as “nones”…no religious affiliation. What about the treaty of Tripoli? It spells out that the U.S. is NOT a christian nation…ratified by Congress! And nones are growing exponentially. Also, “under god” was added to the pledge of allegiance in 1954…same era during Eisenhower’s presidency. I think the phrase was added to paper money in 1954 as well.
And even having a pledge of allegiance is too militant for my taste. School students should never be reciting allegiances!!
My friends who are high school teachers tell me that the kids pretty much don’t say the pledge.
ETA: I do wonder about the younger students. My circle of friends doesn’t include teachers at those grades.
It was recited over the PA system when my children were in high school. But apparently students rarely recited it. Still it doesn’t even belong on the PA system.
Same in our schools. The high school kids apparently just play on their phones or talk. My friend says they don’t stand up either. Im guessing the younger kids would be more compliant. But I am heartened that compliance wears off by high school. And maybe earlier.
I can recall all those times when we never said the Pledge when I used to go to school. When the bell rings and the whole class quiets down we got right to work with our lessons for the day. No pledge. Heck. I can recall the times when I, myself remained seated during the pledge and no one batted an eye.
Times certainly have changed, isn't it? With stores about teachers losing *%$# the moment they see a student not standing during reciting of the Pledge.
I remember a teacher going over to a black student and forcing him to stand for the pledge even if he didn’t want to recite it. I think that would get a teacher fired today.
And the only reason it was added was as a giant "Fuck you" to Communism.
She's got the bleach blonde hair, but no giant jesus torture device around her neck, and she really needs to work on her Merd-A-Lago face. I think she's a RINO.
Could also be a HINO - Human In Name Only. 😝
She's a pod person.
America was NOT founded as a Christian nation, for fuck's sake. The Founders were VERY clear about this, having witnessed there centuries of religious warfare in Europe culminating with the loss of over a third of the population of Germany. They knew VERY well that Christians of different stripes had a bad habit of killing each other over which version of Christianity is the "right" one, and sectarian warfare would be completely avoided if they wrote in the very FIRST Amendment "Congress shall make NO LAW regarding the establishment of religion."
What part of "NO LAW" are these people unclear about? Forcing every Federal building to engrave "In God We Trust" on the front is EXACTLY the kind of creeping Christianity that must be fought, tooth and nail. Because it excludes HIndus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and of ESPECIALLY atheists.
Sadly, Mary isn't listening. She's too busy territory-marking. It's just possible, though, that the Freedom From Religion Foundation or Americans United might just manage to catch her ear on this one.
Why you could almost call this "virtue signaling", couldn't you?
I think you just did ... accurately!
Like a dog pissing on a powerpole...