God in Our Governments: Raw Footage

The UpTake's "We Need God in Our Governments" video of fundamentalists in Lynchburg, Tennessee has generated a firestorm of interest and discussion. Here's almost all of the raw footage, where I ask them about the separation of Church & State, and the fact that our country was founded upon religious freedom.

As I've stated elsewhere: These are good people - some of the nicest folks I've ever met in my life.

Their views are often misguided or worse, and they seem almost impervious to information outside their close-knit religious community, which is frightening. However, piling hatred on them, or dismissing them as ignorant hicks, does no good.

These folks believe they're doing what's right for them in the context of their moral framework. Of course that's miles away from the progressive moral framework. Perhaps someone should give the young girl a laptop with an EVDO card so she might have access to other ideas outside the bubble of Lynchburg, TN.

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• lynchburg
• fundamentalist

[DarkAnderebu]

Oh, I forgot to mention something important about this video. "In God We Trust" wasn't put on U.S. coins until 1864 and paper money in 1957 I believe? Don't quote me on exact years, I'm better with estimated times. Now considering the revolution technically started in 1776... That's quite a huge time difference... am I wrong?

[DarkAnderebu]

@DarrelfromZeeland #1 Fascism is on the right side of the political spectrum. Nazis were Fascist. That's why Hitler and Stalin hated each other. #2 Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli starts by saying "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"

[warwithwords]

@DarrelfromZeeland lol no, the Constitution was *not* based on the Bible.

[SniperViper1000]

@DarrelfromZeeland The Constitution ahtes the bible. Just as the founder's did!

[yuothineyesasian]

@DarrelfromZeeland

Not completely true, The Nazis were politically and economically syncretic. They set production standards but still allowed large sectors of the economy to be run by owners, how they see fit.

[DarrelfromZeeland]

@warwithwords The Constitution was based on the Bible.

[DarrelfromZeeland]

@yuothineyesasian Fascists were fucking socialists. The Nazis were national socialists.

[yuothineyesasian]

@DarrelfromZeeland I hope you are joking.

The Nazis were racist occult fascists. Go read some facts...

[benjkamu]

These people are a lost hope

[floridaimmigrant]

@warwithwords Oh, okay :^)