How a new Christian right is changing US politics - BBC News

Two people you should never trust: -A religious leader who tells you how to vote -A politician who tells you how to pray

It's so ironic how they don't realize that they're responsible for why people are turning away from Christianity.

As a non religious American, these people can keep their “faith” the hell out of my government.

As a lutheran protestant christian, this is hard to watch...

0:53 "We are the Christian Taliban." Just the fact that he even says that proudly and unironically is disturbing on so many levels!

The gullibility of people in this country is profoundly embarrassing.

“our kids don’t even know the 10 commandments” well who’s job is it to teach them?

Balance is the Key to Life. Life is not just Black and White.

"Those who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire-

We have a serious lack of critical thinking skills being taught in our schools here. This is what happens when you keep defunding education and stop teaching basic civics.

I am not a Christian. What I am is a democrat, a believer in a democratic system of government. It is, as yet, the best form of government we have. I'm not against people having Christian beliefs. If you wish to belief in a God thats your right, that's your personal business, believe in it. All I ask is that I be given the same right not to believe in a God. That I be allowed to live my life as I believe it is best for me, and for my family. I don't want Christian values forced on me. I don't want to be described as an enemy of my country because I am an atheist. I am not an enemy of my country, I am not your enemy. I am a democrat. A believer in the right of people to have freedom of choice, freedom to persue happiness and freedom from religion.

Their preoccupation with controlling others betrays their insecurities.

Since they don't want separation, can we start taxing them now?

As a German who has done an exchange year in East Tennessee, I’ve got to say that people there didn’t question things , my host family forced me to go to church with them even tho I wasn’t religious, and every time I looked around the church , people just sat there and believed everything that the pastor told them , one of the things was to vote for trump „because god said so”

Absolutely frightening and must be stopped.

Any church that takes political stances and literally talks about voting for specific political candidates should no longer have any sort of tax exemption

If church wants to play politics, TAX'EM like the rest of us!

If you've ever wondered about the Politics of Religion in the world, Here is a short list of the Results of Religious Differences and the approximate Death count: The Crusades: 6,000,000 Thirty Years War: 11,500,000 Spanish Inquisition: 5,000 French Wars of Religion: 4,000,000 Second Sudanese Civil War: 2,000,000 Lebanese Civil War: 250,000 Muslim Conquests of India: 80,000,000 Congolese Genocide (King Leopold II): 13,000,000 Armenian Genocide: 1,500,000 Rwandan Genocide: 800,000 Eighty Years' War: 1,000,000 Nigerian Civil War: 1,000,000 Great Peasants' Revolt: 250,000 First Sudanese Civil War: 1,000,000 Jewish Diaspora (Not Including the Holocaust): 1,000,000 The Holocaust (Jewish and Gay Deaths): 6,500,000 Islamic Terrorism Since 2000: 150,000 Iraq War: 500,000 USA Western Expansion ("Manifest Destiny"): 20,000,000 Atlantic Slave Trade (Justified by Christianity): 14,000,000 Aztec Human Sacrifice: 80,000 African AIDS deaths due to Catholic Church's opposition to condoms: 30,000,000 TOTAL: 195,035,000 deaths in the name of religion. And the "HITS" just keep on coming...

As a committed Christian, I find this report horrifying. The people that are speaking, do not appear to even read God's Word or know what Jesus taught.

"We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate." Those words were spoken by Ronald Reagan in 1982.