Pro-Trump Pastor Rails Against Church Being Kept Out of Government

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Pastor Mark Burns, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump and a Republican congressional candidate in South Carolina, said that the separation of church and state should come to an end in the U.S.

He made the remarks as he spoke at the Trump-headlined American Freedom Tour at the FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Florida, on Saturday. The right-wing evangelical Christian televangelist spoke in the morning, along with a number of other pro-Trump conservatives, before the former president took the stage in the afternoon.

"Trump won!" Burns yelled, leading the crowd to chant the slogan, according to a video shared to social media. This was an apparent reference to false claims that President Joe Biden only defeated Trump in the 2020 election due to widespread voter fraud.

"We need to replace God at the center of American politics. The separation between church and state was not designed to keep the church out of the government, it was designed to keep the government out of the church," Burns said, continuing his remarks, the Miami Herald first reported.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pro-trump-pastor-rails-against-church-being-kept-out-of-government/ar-AAVgVg3

[Blue Owl]

1. Who the hell do they think they are?

[RKP5637]

7. Oh, they think they are the chosen ones in the universe by their god almighty.

I say F them!!!

[RKP5637]

2. So much endless bullshit from these guys. He's an example of why it must always be separate. n/t

[wnylib]

9. He's an example of sheer stupidity.

If the church gets involved in government, it will be an inevitable 2 way street, with the government involved in the church, too.

Ignorant fool.

[sakabatou]

3. A crazy theocrat? Who could've known?

[Cartoonist]

4. God lost

You all claimed Trump was chosen by God.

[wnylib]

11. .

The Chosen One got unchosen.

[Solomon]

25. (snort)

I don't see it any other way, either.

[MacKasey]

5. What a load a crap

His church should be taxed

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition . . . . . .

[CurtEastPoint]

8. gurl please....

[Zorro]

10. The founding fathers recognized the perniciousness of religion in government

And these pastors don't even know the history of their own country, and how colonists emigrated from their home countries to escape state supported religion. A pox on all these religious fanatics.

[Karadeniz]

12. Yeah, because Christian leadership has always proved beneficial to those under it. Who was in

charge producing the Dark Ages? Who produced conflicts by inciting Crusades, killing first nonCatholics in France and then inhabitants in the Near East? Who destroyed the Moorish civilization in Spain and then created an Inquisition to focus on Jews. Christianity, when given power, has never, that I know of, practiced the teachings of Jesus. This pastor's congregation must be idiots.

[GoCubsGo]

13. First Amedment, Schmirst Schmamendment.

He should try reading it. It doesn't say what he thinks it does.

[badhair77]

14. Then get ready to pay those taxes, Pastor Mark.

That could affect the bottom line.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. Which church?

What if it's not mine? I read this crackpot's Wiki entry, it doesn't even say what religion he is except that he's evangelical.

What a stupid idea. This country is too diverse for this suggestion to work, let alone be inclusive of all Americans.

[Mariana]

18. People like this always assume

that their particular flavor of Christianity is the one that will be forced upon the population. It never seems to occur to them that a Christian denomination they don't agree with might end up running the show.

[atreides1]

16. Why not

But, before we make such a major change...they'll have to prove that they are the chosen of "God"!


First we immerse the good Pastor, and anyone else who thinks as he does, in jellied gasoline...we then nail them to gas soaked railroad ties using railroad spikes...and light them on fire!!!

If they come through unscathed then they truly must be the chosen ones...

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. Look at his church as a business, then his appeal makes sense.

American businesses saturate our political system with their lobbying with appeals for tax breaks and inputs for legislation or budgets.

Burns' bullshit is just part of that noise......

[keithbvadu2]

19. What will they say/do when it is not their version of Christianity in charge?

What will they say/do when it is not their version of Christianity in charge?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/?no-ist= ;

Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.
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[keithbvadu2]

20. Dominionists. Theocracy. We have plenty of folks who want to be the Christian Ayatollah of America

[I_UndergroundPanther]

21. Maybe we should

Tie weights to thier feet and throw them in a lake.. there are plenty of ways to torture and kill,that christians did to make other people prove they were innocent.

They've been begging for another burning time, lets give it to them.

Hell why not throw in bundy and a bunch of fascists,and the trump family and fry them too.

See if god sez they are innocent .

[raccoon]

22. Y'all wake me up when it's over.

This idiot (and many others). Proclaiming that Trump won.

[struggle4progress]

23. "We need to replace God" is indeed their philosophy

Turn around!
Go back down, back the way you came!
Terror is on every side: Lord, the leaders are dismayed.
All those who put their faith in fire? In fire, their faith shall be repaid!

[Wounded Bear]

24. Without freedom FROM religion, there is no freedom OF religion...nt

[Hotler]

26. The Christian Right is Americas Taliban. nt

[MagickMuffin]

27. Funny, I thought they were already enmeshed in our government

Every politician has some form of religious affiliation.

The church groups have plenty of allies in Congress to push their agendas.

We are seeing it played out currently with the constant attack on women!