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man every time I read a post from you it causes me to freak for a min thinking Biggie is back

man every time I read a post from you it causes me to freak for a min thinking Biggie is back

Does Trump's election signal the end or decline of religion in public life? Typically you have candidates from both parties pay lip service to the place of religion in their personal lives, and within the past 25 years or so it's generally been the republican candidates being more vocal and demonstrative than their democratic counterparts. Obviously the 2015-16 primary process shattered that norm with republican voters ignoring a slew of more outwardly religious candidates (Carson, Cruz, Huckabee, etc.) in order to nominate possibly the most irreligious candidate ever.

Will Trump's election have any affect on future debates over the role of religion in public life? Typically the election of the republican candidate is celebrated by more religious voters and passive religious observers, but this time around those same folks are going to find it difficult to reconcile their religious views with the conduct and character of the republican president. Does this now mean that you have a path to the White House as a republican that doesn't involve being as outwardly religious as previous nominees? Also, does Trump as POTUS mean the longstanding debate about the role of religion in public life is now sidelined because Trump cannot be a serious/credible voice for those who tend to be in favor of religious symbolism/presence/etc. in politics and society?

I don't think so. You still have the influence of Pence. And Trump had to nod to the wacky evangelicals to get elected as a Republican. For example, I don't think Trump personally gives a fuck about abortion, but he probably couldn't get nominated as a pro-choice Republican or even as a guy who just avoided the issue all together.

Does Trump's election signal the end or decline of religion in public life? Typically you have candidates from both parties pay lip service to the place of religion in their personal lives, and within the past 25 years or so it's generally been the republican candidates being more vocal and demonstrative than their democratic counterparts. Obviously the 2015-16 primary process shattered that norm with republican voters ignoring a slew of more outwardly religious candidates (Carson, Cruz, Huckabee, etc.) in order to nominate possibly the most irreligious candidate ever.

Will Trump's election have any affect on future debates over the role of religion in public life? Typically the election of the republican candidate is celebrated by more religious voters and passive religious observers, but this time around those same folks are going to find it difficult to reconcile their religious views with the conduct and character of the republican president. Does this now mean that you have a path to the White House as a republican that doesn't involve being as outwardly religious as previous nominees? Also, does Trump as POTUS mean the longstanding debate about the role of religion in public life is now sidelined because Trump cannot be a serious/credible voice for those who tend to be in favor of religious symbolism/presence/etc. in politics and society?

It has been declining, I'm sure it will continue to do so. How many millennials you know go to church?

The vast majority of Evangelicals voted for Trump, at least the ones who understood that Hillary Clinton could ruin the Supreme Court forever.

There's probably going to be a lot of mental gymnastics during sermons across the country over the next four years in trying to justify that.

Churches generally do not preach political sermons as some believe that pastors should not preach anything partisan from their pulpits because the churches are funded by tax deductible funds. So a political sermon would be more in terms of discussing a topic according to what the Bible teaches on a subject rather than the views of a political party.

The left wing people have fake moral outrage. They don't believe in absolutes until they see someone like Trump who they believe threatens their liberal utopia. So it's like saying you don't believe in the devil, but then Trump comes along and you can't vote for him because he is "the devil."

It's a good trend.

George Washington said: “Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government,” and “Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people.”

Benjamin Franklin said: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”

James Madison stated: “To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical [imaginary] idea.”

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and … their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice … These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”

Samuel Adams said: “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue.”

Patrick Henry stated that: “A vitiated [impure] state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.”

John Adams stated: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

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George Washington said: “Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government,” and “Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people.”

Benjamin Franklin said: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”

James Madison stated: “To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical [imaginary] idea.”

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and … their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice … These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”

Samuel Adams said: “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue.”

Patrick Henry stated that: “A vitiated [impure] state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.”

John Adams stated: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

that is pretty good.

George Washington said: “Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government,” and “Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people.”

Benjamin Franklin said: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”

James Madison stated: “To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical [imaginary] idea.”

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and … their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice … These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”

Samuel Adams said: “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue.”

Patrick Henry stated that: “A vitiated [impure] state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.”

John Adams stated: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

George Washington said: “Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government,” and “Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people.”

Benjamin Franklin said: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”

James Madison stated: “To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical [imaginary] idea.”

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and … their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice … These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”

Samuel Adams said: “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue.”

Patrick Henry stated that: “A vitiated [impure] state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.”

John Adams stated: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

The vast majority of Evangelicals voted for Trump.

Yes. Evangelicals voted for a thrice married philanderer, who fantasizes about fucking his own daughter. MANY have been exposed as the hypocrites and frauds that they have always been.