The Right's Fight to Make America a Christian Nation | CBS Reports

Freedom of religion is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. But the role that religious beliefs should play in public life has never been more contentious. As part of the Speaking Frankly series, this CBS Reports documentary explores the fusion of faith and politics in a movement that envisions the U.S. as a Christian nation.

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[DimplesGenX]

Never trust a Politician that tells you how to pray and a Pastor that tells you how to vote. PS or a tv station that gives it a platform!

[curtisthomas]

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
--John Adams

[tritondriver]

" For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel .."- Frederick Douglass

[gregwood]

I was raised a Baptist, and as soon as I was able to make my own decisions, I ran away as fast as I could. They were horrible hate filled people

[URFTBOUNDLIFE]

If your pastor asks "Who won the election?" Leave that church NOW!

[atlas]

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Attributed to Sinclair Lewis in some sources. A great quote regardless of who said it.

[thatmnkid]

The patriot church guy saying his church wouldn’t have “worked” without trump basically admitted he’s in it for the money

[noirgoon]

When you mix religion and politics.... it never never ends well for ordinary people!!!

[West_Coast]

I can't stand a person trying to push their beliefs on someone else. Where is the freedom in that.

[speedydog]

These people who want God in class would flip out if Muslims also had the chance to pray publicly in school. They would say Sharia Law is coming to the US.

[wolfgang]

Patriot preacher: “I would never say that I am a Christian nationalist.”

Proceeds to describe his Christian nationalist ideology.

[epaminon]

"All animals are equal - but some animals are more equal than others"

- Animal Farm

When I hear someone proclaiming that freedom of religion and American freedom are essential to their idea of a nation - but proceed to point out that Christian religion must take precedence before all other religions because of tradition, then I always wonder how a satire of Soviet Russia still rings true in modern America.

[lazlomattachine]

“We want unlimited religious freedom, but only for ourselves”. These folks don’t want ‘religious liberty’, they want to establish a theocracy. Btw, watching Donald Trump riff on ‘Christian values’ is both laughable and obscene.

[dusty]

The coach doesn't understand that he represents the school who hired him, and that he's not running a self-owned private team. Classic Christian persecution complex.

[justandhans]

Democrats aren’t trying to take away religion. We want fair laws that don’t affiliate to one belief system.

[rockthevote]

Ah Christians, those who don't know the difference between praying and preying....

[dwrussell]

I was born and raised in Alabama. Hardcore evangelicalism turned made me leave Christianity when I was 14. These people don't understand that they're just contributing to a faster decline of Christianity. The hate and hypocrisy that spews out of their faces is why the overwhelming majority of GOP conservatives are old and dying.

[mariahomfg]

"my beliefs are more important than everyone else's beliefs so feel bad for me" would have been a far more appropriate title.

[darthvirgin]

“we feel oppressed when we can’t oppress others.” - american christian

[apophis]

The founding fathers knew exactly what they were doing when they purposefully separated church and state.
You know, to get away from the grasp of the Church of England.