What this will mean is any religious icons can be displayed.

The government isn't endorsing any particular one.

The way I see it, Trump is just saying it's not the government's place to suppress religious belief either.

Atheists have just grown accustomed to things working a certain way and now the situation has changed. The whole "tax payer funded offices" being a safe haven for atheists is no more.

I mean...you know there's a problem when atheists claim the government has a responsibility to enforce freedom "from" religion instead of freedom "of" religion.

Trump is kicking you know what.

Snoofy,

Better watch out.

Your obssession with conspiracy theories might get you a room in the new Trump hotel for those who have lost touch with reality.

Snoofy,

"final solution"

Wow...that's not a good choice of words, when you've just posted sounding paranoid atheists are under attack.

Alex,

"Trump is an atheist"

He says otherwise.

Maybe Trump is and maybe he isn't.

Not my concern there.

I like most of what I see regarding Trump's approach to freedom of religion and speech and will leave it at that.

Laura,

"Deal with it"

What's there to deal with?

You'll have to explain to me what I'm supposed to be dealing with?

Laura,

"Deal with it"

What's there to deal with?

You'll have to explain to me what I'm supposed to be dealing with?

Laura,

"That's you've been swindled into believing that Trump is a religious man"

I didn't vote for Trump because I believed Trump was religious. I believed he would not deliberately position himself as the enemy of Christ, the way democrats have been doing for many years now.

I voted for Trump because the Democratic Party is slipping into darkness.

Donner,

"Democrats are mostly Christians. All are believers in God in one way or another."

Beliefs aren't judged by applying vague labels. They're judged by the outcomes of actions.

For years, liberals have actively advanced policies that contradict core Christian doctrine and values on life, family, speech, religious freedom, and moral order.

They knew exactly what they were doing and have been using the courts with precision to accomplish their goals.

That positions them as the enemy of Christ.

Snoofy,

If I answer you, you'll just twist my words and build strawmen.

You rarely respond to what I actually write. Just your strawmen.

Corky,

Have I not said anything you do yet since taking a little breather?

Now I have.

Snoofy,

See? There you go.

You respond not to what I said, but to something I didn't even say, acting as if your logic has merit.

You say I have no specifics.

Your "proof" is, if I did I'd be "trumpeting them like Gabriel."

Lamp,

If you robbed a bank, the outcome would be getting arrested thus proving it is wrong to do.

Claiming you believed it was legal is immaterial.

What you believe about robbing banks has no merit.

Lamp,

"Satanic beliefs are OK?"

Here in this life, you're got a right to believe whatever you want. It's the actions you take, as a result of those beliefs, that you're judged by.

In the afterlife, as a Christian, I think your beliefs in this life are what you're judged by.

Have you got a point with this line of thinking?

Alex,

"He tortures immigrants by sending them to a terrible prison in El Salvador. How Christian is that?"

Are you saying the government should be run by Biblical standards?

Is that what you want, or do you cherry pick verses that help your argument?

If you're going to measure policy by biblical scripture, you'd need to apply all of it not and not just the parts that support your politics.

Dbt2,

"The Bible from cover to cover, OT to New is about how we treat each other, and especially about how we treat strangers and immigrants."

Your reduction of 66 books about God and His revelation to mankind is oversimplified.

Yes, it says a lot about how we treat others, including strangers. It also says a lot about sin, judgment, obedience, wrath, sacrifice, repentance, and eternal destiny.

How we treat others matters deeply. Compassion, justice, and mercy are all there. But reducing the entire Bible to an immigration policy is like reducing a full course meal to a jar of babyfood. Bland and easy to digest.

Alex,

The US has real, dangerous problems tied to lax immigration policies. We've empowered criminals and crippled law enforcement.

Liberal misguided priorities haven't helped.

When we ask, "How Christian is that?" maybe we should ask how Christian is it to enable lawlessness?

Laura,

"The vast majority of the Undocumented immigrants are law abiding people."

The moment someone enters or stays in the country illegally, they've broken the law.

That's not a moral judgment. It's a legal fact. Calling them "law-abiding" after that is like calling a shoplifter honest because they don't jaywalk.

Zed,

"Trump is setting the country up for a backlash against Christians and Christianity."

Let's be real. The backlash didn't start with Trump. The enemies of Christ have been on the offense for years.

Now they're just using Trump as their excuse, which only proves the point I've been making. Liberal ideology has positioned itself squarely against traditional conservative Christian belief, and they're getting bolder about it.

From my perspective based on my age, experience, and observations, this hostility has been building for a long time. The difference now? It's become socially acceptable to openly condemn Christianity that focuses on the Gospel.

Trump didn't cause that.

Clown,

You either haven't been paying attention, or you're pretending not to.

The idea that liberals haven't been on the offense against traditional Christianity is laughable to anyone who's actually watched the cultural shift over the past two decades.

And let's not pretend liberal churches are some kind of enlightment. Many of them have gutted the Gospel entirely removing any talk of sin, redemption, or salvation.

What's left isn't Christianity. It's feel good moral therapy wrapped in progressive slogans.

Smoofy,

I don't answer rhetorical questions pretending to be genuine.

In your mind you already know all the answers.

Why bother?

Zed,

"You're not a Red Letter Christian, BILL. If I have to explain that to you then you are no Christian at all."

Jesus said,

"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword."
Matthew 10:34

Laura,

Zed seemed to show a higher regard for red letter words. Jesus said he will set fathers against sons and mothers against daughters. He will be responsible for causing enemies within families.

All this love and harmony peopke like to attribute to Christianity mostly exists on Hallmark cards and car window stickers.

Jesus said,

Matthew 10:34"36 (ESV)

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And a person's enemies will be those of his own household."

Donner,

"It does not mean they are going to use swords again each other"

People may not fight physically or they may depending on their culture.

Jesus recognized back at that time some people would take offense to His message of repenting for your sins.

People take great pride in seeing themselves in a positive light.

It would appear He predicted accurately.

People don't take kindly to someone telling them they're a sinner.

Corky,

Regardless of how you get there, you're right. Jesus said everyone is a sinner.

That's why I find it pointless when people waste time finger pointing and judging each other.

Following Jesus isn't about picking Bible verses that make good memes. It's a mindset. It's a way of seeing and living that sets you apart from those who don't share it.

Some people will hate for it.

You're not fit to judge them. But some of them will judge you and call you a hypocrite.

And honestly? They're not wrong.

Who really fills Jesus' shoes? No one. We just try to follow Him and that alone is enough to invite scorn.

Snoofy,

"The central message of Christianity is we are all born into sin.
You decided to take that message and apply it to your own psyche in a dramatically harmful way."

Me? I've accepted Christ as my Savior.

I'm forgiven. On my day of judgement Jesus will stand with me and say, "I know him".

My psyche is not harmed by this. It grounds me and gives me hope in a broken world.

You should be concerned about yours.

Snoofy,

"Your whole life is judging gays as morally wrong."

Over the line....step back.

Donner,

"The older I get and the more familiar I become with the laws of the universe and other religious belief systems humans have developed to try and explain existence, the weirder and stranger Christianity becomes to me."

Hey...try adding the possibility of non human life visiting or existing on Earth. I've posted about that, and the evidence is only growing stronger.

We're living on a round rock, spinning through a vacuum, in a universe that may be infinite. Just visualizing that is overwhelming.

Like you, the older I get, the more I'm amazed by the complexity of life. I've experienced multiple extraordinary "coincidences" that shaped my life in ways I can't explain.

Here's where we differ.

You seem to be moving toward the idea that the extraordinary is implausible. Belief in the unseen, including the spiritual, is too far fetched.

I'm going the opposite direction.

The older I get, the more I believe that what we don't yet understand or haven't personally experienced may still be entirely real.

In a universe this vast, with laws still beyond our grasp, how can we be so sure what's improbable?

Snoofy,

Step back....last time...I will stop responding to you again.

Dan,

"And then he'll ask why you kept lying about the efficacy of mail-in ballots, when NO ONE came forward with evidence of your complaint, even after five years. What will you answer?"

Since I'm going to be asking a God who knows all, I'd ask God who really won the election.

What is the final count if you factor out the ballot harvesting, adjust the numbers for lost and miscounted ballots. And fix the human error that occured but never found out. Since God is all knowing, He could do all that.

Using God's almighty power, what was the real final tally?

You asked how would I answer. That's it.

Dan,

"NO ONE has come forward saying their vote was stolen by someone they think voted for Biden"

That is a peculiar thing considering other elections there are numerous reported incidents.

Dan,

I'd ask God about that too.

Because it's big pill to swallow that a national election held in the middle of a global pandemic with massive rule changes, mail-in voting expansions, ballot drop boxes popping up overnight, and election workers stretched thinner than ever, was somehow cleaner than prior or past elections that weren't half as chaotic.

The idea that "everything went fine" in a situation where the odds of human error, confusion, or outright misconduct were higher than ever, is hard to believe, for anyone who still thinks.