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Rep. Mary Miller ― a Republican from Illinois who once praised Adolf Hitler ― wrote, edited and ultimately deleted a social media post decrying “a Muslim” speaking in Congress.

“It’s deeply troubling that a Muslim was allowed to lead prayer in the House of Representatives this morning. This should have never been allowed to happen,” she wrote Friday. “American was founded as a Christian nation, and I believe our government should reflect that truth. May God have mercy!”

The man leading the prayer was guest chaplain Giani Singh, a follower of the Sikh faith, not Islam. Miller’s Republican colleague Rep. Jeff Van Drew (N.J.) introduced him as such on Friday.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

He was Sikh.

She doesn’t even know what she’s racist against.

[–] [email protected] 285 points 1 week ago (5 children)

American was founded as a Christian nation

-- Every American Christian Bigot

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

-- First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States

🤔

[–] [email protected] 235 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Don't forget:

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

-- John Adams

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly who could say what they meant by that, it's such an open to interpretation remark.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good thing we know exactly what they meant in the second amendment.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes but they're going to go extinct if we cut off their arms.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religious or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslim peoples], and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.” - Treaty of Tripoli, signed 1797.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thomas Jefferson had his own personally edited version of the Bible that focused on the philosophies and stories in the Bible, and left out the supernatural mythology and fairy tales. There were parts of the religion he liked, but he was clearly uncomfortable with the actual religious parts of it.

And he actually WROTE the founding documents.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

TJ was Deist, not Christian.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It literally says "Congress," of which she is a member.

Every newly elected Congressional Rep and Senator should have to pass a difficult, graduate-level test on the history of the United States, and the Constitution, before being sworn into office. You can't be sworn in until you pass the test. These people are tasked with leading our country. Knowing the basics is the least we can demand of them.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Why the FUCK would I Care about the Constitution or Founders?

-Pro Life People who Defend MASS CHILD KILLERS because of the Second Amendment!

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[–] [email protected] 162 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Well you see, the thing about conservatives is that they are fucking stupid.

[–] FistingEnthusiast 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And they celebrate their ignorance...

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People of the land... you know... morons

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Well you see, the thing about conservatives is that they are fucking ~~stupid~~ self-serving liars.

FTFY

This bitch knows damn well America isn't a "Christian nation," but she'll shout it from the rooftops if she thinks she can get away with it in order to advance her hateful, bigoted agenda.

Do. Not. Give. Her. Any. Benefit. Of. The. Doubt.

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[–] lmmarsano 87 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s deeply troubling that a Muslim was allowed to lead prayer in the House of Representatives this morning. This should have never been allowed to happen

I believe our government should reflect that truth.

She's right: leading prayer in Congress at all should never be allowed. Government should reflect the truth of a secular government.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Yes. Government should be led by law not theology.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Dumbfuck can't even get her religions straight, and apparently she thinks America was founded to be a Christian theocracy. Astoundingly ignorant and misinformed, yet there she sits Congress, governing the nation with her 2 brain cells.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Her average constituent sees turban and thinks Muslim.

She represents her district in more ways than one.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (2 children)

America is not a fucking Christian Nation

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Sometimes I really wish the founding fathers were around to just say, “Yeah, we were all atheists when we did this America thing. It just wasn’t fashionable at the time. So this idea that American was founded on Christianity, is well, just bullshit”

I mean they were literally fleeing religious persecution. Why would they bake religion into what they were creating?

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This lady won with 73% of the vote in 2020, 71% in 2022, and unopposed in 2024. She is exactly what the people in that area want and that's sad. The US is like social media. It's not the platform it's the users that make it garbage.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

But the platform promotes garbage, too.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago

Pepperidge farms remembers when bigots were shamed away from talking not their target minorities.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Poor Sikhs always catching strays...

Also, yo, I kind of hate this country.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

“America was founded as a christian country”

You mean back when Christian people were so rabid that they thought of Catholics, the OG jesus folks, the way this lady sees any non-christian religion?

Maryland was created as the birthplace of religious freedom in this country specifically because catholics had nowhere else to go in the colonies without getting harassed. Ultimately, the concept of religious freedom would be elevated to a higher place of importance than christian snobbery by the time America was forming a country. Religious freedom was part of escaping the thumb of the King of England and other monarchs.

So, on the one hand, Miller is truly going old school by being a bigoted fuckhead. But on the other, she seems to have no idea that “America” would not exist if people hadnt been willing to tell the bigoted majority of protestants to shut the fuck up, and force them to live and let live

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yet another Sikh man misidentified as a Muslim (not that it would matter if they were) by some backwood dumb fuck using weaponized religion.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The US was founded as a secular state.. No getting around that. There were only a few devout christians in the original group of founding fathers. Most were deist. They had the recent memory of the thirty years wars where catholic and protestant armies had rampaged back and forth across Europe stealing the peoples food. Raping and burning out anyone who wouldn't convert. They did this to many who did convert. It was said at the time that they everyone kept two sets of bibles. They just hid one or the other depending on who had taken over at the time. That asshole regressive wouldn't ever be willing to admit that. Because she is too stupid to learn it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A secular nation shouldn’t be having in house prayers from any denomination.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Why does the House of Representatives even have prayer in the mornings to begin with?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seriously. When is the designated time for thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Mary Miller represents district 15 which surrounds but does not include both Springfield and St. Louis. It is 90% white, 2.9% black, and 2.8% Hispanic. There are basically no non-Republican elected officials above the county level and voted overwhelmingly for Trump. This district became home of the second resurgence of the KKK in Illinois in the 1920s and has stayed their home through resurgences in the 1950s and 1990s.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

My face when I found out the US has opening prayers in the house of government:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Do you not? And if so help, I'm stuck on a continent filled with nutjobs

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seperation of... What was it again? logic and reason?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It was founded as a secular nation you dumb cunt.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

These racist politician assholes should never ever be allowed to represent us in government.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (9 children)

GOP keeps saying 'this is a Christian nation', but they don't want understand separation of church and state.

There is no state religion. If you open a state body to prayer, then all prayer is allowed, not just the prayers you want.

Long live the satanic temple.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She 100% doesn't know that Muslims and Sikhs are different, and doesn't care.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Fucking idiot piece of shit jesu-fried fuckwit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it is far more troubling if the world's only superpower regularly has prayer sessions in their top leadership...

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