Trump Calls For "Christian Day Of Visibility", AKA Every Fucking Day

[Cristiano]

Brought to you by the same pieces of shit who cry that they need white pride parades and white history month.

Not to be outdone by Trans Day of Visibility, Trump weirdly declares ‘Christian Visibility Day’

<p>The former president appears to be banking on manufactured outrage by right-wing extremists.</p>

www.advocate.com

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Trump pandering to his base.... and it will work. Never mind he's very obviously not really a Christian.

...and obviously the Christian Majority isn't visible enough with Christmas season taking up so much of the year.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Oh, yeah? Well, I'm weirdly declaring Christian Invisibility Day! It will be the day after Christian STFU Eve.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

What is Christmas then? Chopped liver?

Christian Day of Visibility? I'd be down with that, if they could limit themselves to one. Give up the rest of December, and lots of March and April.

 

[Free]

What is Christmas then? Chopped liver?

There's a war on Christmas, baby. They need to smudge that out first.

 

[Noodles]

What is Christmas then? Chopped liver?

Christian Day of Visibility? I'd be down with that, if they could limit themselves to one. Give up the rest of December, and lots of March and April.

I think you mean, "Happy Holidaysmas" buddy.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I think you mean, "Happy Holidaysmas" buddy.

I'm still hoping some right winger takes offense when I say "happy holidays", so I can fire back with "oh! In that case, Merry Christmas... And go f**k yourself for New years!"

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

Personally, I wish some of the non-Evangelical Protestant Christians were a lot more visible, so that we didn't get painted with the same brush. Not to mention that for most Orthodox Christians - Christmas is January 7, and most years Easter (Pascha) is on a different day. This year Pascha is on May 6. We've all seen the Simpsons meme of the guy standing in front of the Greek Orthodox Church holding a sign saying, "This is our Palm Sunday." And going back to Christmas - we have St Nicholas Day about 2 weeks before Christmas - traditionally, that used to be when gifts were given with Nativity being a strictly relgious holiday.

 

[Sid]

we have St Nicholas Day about 2 weeks before Christmas - traditionally, that used to be when gifts were given with Nativity being a strictly relgious holiday.

We have St Nicolas day (December 6th) in NL for the presents (in fact we have 3 St Nicolas weeks) and because the whole world has Christmas for presents, we have presents there too. Best not start with St Nicolas day.

 

[Isabeau]

On a religious note, someone called me today concerning an apartment that’s available in the building. Anyway, he says he’s calling for his brother in law and tells me he has a job and is a good person because he’s very religious - evangelical.

Me:

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

We have St Nicolas day (December 6th) in NL for the presents (in fact we have 3 St Nicolas weeks) and because the whole world has Christmas for presents, we have presents there too. Best not start with St Nicolas day.

I like St Nicholas Day.

One year when I was home for western-Easter, I asked my mom if she wanted to come to church with me for Lazarus Saturday. My step-father asked WTF is Lazarus Saturday - I explained it as the Holy Week Pre-Game Show. This year one of my nieces asked the priest at the Anglican Church my sister's family attends why they don't have Lazarus Saturday, and told him it's the Holy Week Pre-Game Show. She has also respectfully asked me why we say the Creed different - she caught that during a Christmas Eve Carol Sing I went to with them. She also asked why Easter is usually a different day for us. Because she's 1) my niece, and was 2) respectul and asking from a legitimate curiousity I explained it to her as best I could. The dude at Hub's Quaker Meeting who asked about Easter being on different days - because of how he asked - I told him to mind his own business and don't worry about it.

On another curious note - we've had a sudden influx of young men in our parish - not young families - young single men. Like the back two rows of our church are filled with young men who look like they're all in their 20's. They're not a problem - all very nice young people as far as I can see - but I find it curious that they're all apparently single men.

 

[Rose Karuna]

This seems like a good thread to post this in.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Donald Trump, a 77-year-old Bible salesman from Palm Beach, Florida, has emerged as the nation’s most prominent Christian leader. Trump is running for president as a divinely chosen champion of White Christians, promising to sanctify their grievances, destroy their perceived enemies, bolster their social status, and grant them the power to impose an anti-feminist, anti-LGBTQ, White-centric Christian nationalism from coast to coast. That Trump doesn’t attend church and has obviously never read the book that he hawks for $59.99, seems of interest exclusively to his political opponents.

What might catch the attention of some evangelical conservatives, however, is that Trump’s ostentatious embrace of White Christian militantism coincides with a precipitous decline in religious affiliation in the US. According to the Public Religion Research Institute, one-quarter of Americans in 2023 said they were religiously unaffiliated. “Unaffiliated” is the only religious category experiencing growth. In a single decade, from 2013 to 2023, the percentage of Americans saying that religion is the most important thing, or among the most important things, in their life plummeted to 53% from 72%.

And this, although I think that the general populations claiming that they are unaffiliated with religion has been increasing since the militant religious right started their shenanigans to take over the Republican party back in the 1970's.

 

[Govi]

This seems like a good thread to post this in.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

And this, although I think that the general populations claiming that they are unaffiliated with religion has been increasing since the militant religious right started their shenanigans to take over the Republican party back in the 1970's.

I forget where I read it: that the USA is a more Christian (and more generally more religious) country than European countries has been attributed to the separation of church and state in the USA. Having government (or Donald Trump claiming he's still president <eyeroll> ) semi-officially thrusting religion at one is a total religious turn-off for many people. Only the fanatically converted seem to disagree and to want government to support their unique religion so they can use government to force others to conform to their religion.