by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:
The entrenched deep state, with Donald J Trump at the helm, is waging war on the American people unlike almost any puppet president of the duopoly before him. Constitutional violations abound, with brazen disregard for due process of law, checks and balances on the executive branch, and increasingly dangerous rhetoric targeted towards everyday Americans, just to start.
It’s no secret for anyone paying attention that this administration has a disdain for a large section of the American people. The president himself refers to portions of his own countrymen as “the enemy within”. We are constantly seeing escalations of divide and conquer rhetoric among the ruling class and their most adherent sycophants. And while, in recent years, much of the attention has been torn between the manufactured outrage of distraction psyops and the overarching agenda of implementing technocracy, one aspect of societal contention has become increasingly volatile.
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There’s been no shortage of Christian nationalist influence to inflame the current administration: from claims that “God saved Trump” during the false flag assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, to rallies in the nation’s capital, behind-the-scenes groups such as Ziklag, and the Heritage Foundation — infamous for their Project 2025, an outline to radically reshape the American government under a far-right agenda — it is clearly evident that Christian nationalism is seeping into the mainstream of American right-wing politics. Bringing with it real concerns of those of non-Christian faiths.
To be abundantly clear, the United States is not—and has never been—a “Christian nation.” Rather, it is a nation where one is free to be a Christian or follow any other religious persuasion. The views of the Founding Fathers expressly clarified that any attempt at a theocratic rule of government was antithetical to the founding principles of our nation. Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the most vocal, contended unequivocally that absolute religious freedom was a necessity essential for a functioning republic.
James Madison, too—author of the United States Constitution as well as the Constitution of Virginia—was equally as staunch an advocate of religious liberty as Jefferson, understanding this principle to be a basic, fundamental human right to be enshrined in the highest law of the nation. (Note the previous link authored by the Heritage Foundation, circa 2001—an irony that shouldn’t go without mention, considering the foundation’s current hostilities against the very liberties they once promoted.)
All in all, a pluralistic, religiously diverse nation where all peoples are free to believe in whatever they wish so long as they do not hamper or harm the freedom of belief of others is one of the core principles our country was founded upon, and that principle is continuously under threat by those who wish to reimagine history to fit their own authoritarian inclinations.
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