"We are the church and we run the state."

[Nevilledog]

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Georgia Republican candidate Kandiss Taylor goes full theocracy explaining her “Jesus, guns, and babies” slogan:

“Don't talk to me about separation of church and state.”

“We are the church and we run the state.”

“[Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists] don't get to silence us.”


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9:21 AM · Apr 9, 2022

[Initech]

1. No! That's not how this works! That's not how any of this works!

Fuck theocracy!

[peggysue2]

14. But that is the way the theocrats, the dominionists and other religious zealots . . .

Want it to work. For them. At the exclusion of everyone else.

This is why we fight. This is why we must fight.

[wontbeoppressed]

20. Unfortunately, That IS how it works in some states

In places like TX, and most of the South, that is how it works.

Only the courts, on occasion, keep it from working that way all the time.

[PatSeg]

2. They don't even try to pretend anymore

Meanwhile, someone needs to go back to school.

[SmallFry]

3. She has a lot of company.

She just said the quiet part out loud.

[MineralMan]

4. Uh, no, Kandiss. You're not the church.

And you're not running shit. Besides, you forgot all of us godless atheists out there.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Thoughts bounce around inside her head like multi-ball in a pinball machine.

[lastlib]

19. Thoughts??

She has thoughts? Methinks you give her too much credit.

[BrightKnight]

6. Her psudo Christian tribalism is not the Church. nt

[maxsolomon]

7. Such a twisted interpretation of the Founder's intent.

They're not "The Church", either. There are a multitude of Christian sects who've been at each other's throats historically.

Plus, everyone knows the RCC is "The Church".

[electric_blue68]

8. That dog don't hunt, theocratic nitwit!

[milestogo]

9. No you dont.

[2naSalit]

10. That girl's had too much koolaid.

It's done rotted out even the solid parts of her brain.

[spanone]

11. Find your own country, lady.

Fuck these fucking fucks.

[Stuart G]

12. This person defines the word..."Stupid"

[keithbvadu2]

13. Which church?

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.

[lindysalsagal]

15. This is real.

Scary.

[Chainfire]

17. What is really scary is that that is the direction we are moving. The pace is accelerating.

It is a hell of a time we are living through.

Her real message was that if you are Jewish or Muslim, you can worship,(today) just not within sight or sound of me. Us Christians run the state and you are allowed only as long as we allow you.

[struggle4progress]

16. ... A new poll .. finds .. for the Republican nomination for governor .. Kandiss Taylor ..

would claim 2 percent ...

https://thehill.com/news/campaign/3260567-georgia-incumbents-kemp-raffensperger-lead-trump-backed-challengers-poll/

[Evolve Dammit]

18. Stupid spewage and potentially dangerous for the Christo fascists who gobble up spewage.

[MagickMuffin]

21. And by those same standards you cannot silence the Jews, Muslims, Buddhist, Pagans, Atheists

Or any other group you condemn.

Quit trying to cram your religion down our throats!

Quit trying to indoctrinate us!

Quit abusing your religion and cherry pick your bigotry!