Church and State

If you thought Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” was a fictive dystopian novel, read it now as a survival guide.

Any claim of a supposed ‘separation of Church and state’ is nothing more than a fraudulent platitude in the service of Christian nationalism.

How does a country, founded on the notion of separation of church and state, keep finding itself under the tyranny of a rich, power hungry, religious society?

Newly uncovered audio from conference calls reveal how White House officials – including advisers Paula White and James Dobson – helped funnel cash into Trump’s evangelical base.

Even though they aren’t really churches, various organizations are taking advantage of tax laws to hide expenditures and salaries from the public.

Conservative evangelicals and Catholics are claiming anyone who disagrees with Trump is in league with Satan – and AG Bill Barr sides with them.

For this administration, there’s an impenetrable wall between “mosque and state” and “synagogue and state,” but not for “church and state.”

In actuality then, how “separate” are religion and government in the United States? Where is the peoples’ right of freedom from religion?

The call from some of the extremist religious fanatics to make homosexuality illegal, and subject to criminal prosecution, is rightly being condemned as a return to the Dark Ages, when superstition was used to justify the killing of people who were thought guilty of rejecting the religion in any of its aspects.