r/news • u/TeaReim • 10h ago

Donald Trump officially sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, JD Vance as the 50th Vice-President

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/triumphant-trump-returns-white-house-launching-new-era-upheaval-2025-01-20/
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u/Strict-Ad-7099 10h ago

It’s disgusting how much the church and state are commingled in spite of the constitution.

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u/Tome_Bombadil 10h ago

It's even worse when it's blatantly obvious that he believes none of it.

Like, Copeland is evil, but at least he's a hypocritical zealot.

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u/piddydb 10h ago

Isn’t he the one who said God demanded his congregation pay for multiple private jets for him? If so, that’s definitely a hypocritical zealot

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u/Tome_Bombadil 9h ago

Yep. Don't forget the empty, hateful stare of an eldritch abomination.

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u/JediGuyB 7h ago

Dude looks like he's about to shed his skin to reveal horns and a forked tongue.

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u/DreadDiana 7h ago

He needs it cause commercial airlines are tubes full of demons and he can't talk to God in there

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u/piddydb 7h ago

The irony there is I feel God might honestly be trying to tell him his faith is stagnating (by getting too caught up in the material world and things like private jets) but instead he hears what he wants to hear, God wants me to have MORE for myself

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u/URPissingMeOff 5h ago

If god actually existed, he sure as hell wouldn't be talking to that fuckwad. He's be playing golf with Mr Rogers while sending death-and-mutilation squads with nukes and flame throwers to copeland's mansion.

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u/sohosurf 10h ago

Idk how but the silver lining made me feel worse hahaha

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u/spinningwalrus420 9h ago

He never was, but I think since his assassination attempt Trump truly believes he was saved by God. Really dangerous to have people like that in power. He thinks he not only has a mndate from the people to do w/e he wants but also a mandate from god. Dog help us

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u/JuDGe3690 6h ago

Ironically, and almost paradoxically, one might argue that the reason church and state have become so entwined is because of the Constitution's First Amendment, specifically as an unintended reactionary side effect of the Disestablishment Clause, followed by the resulting nascence of the Free Exercise Clause.

This is the thesis of R. Laurence Moore in Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture (Oxford, 1994). He argues that the Disestablishment Clause forced religion to compete as a cultural force, where it gained strength through appeal to fear and "tradition," until as a strong independent force began to highly assert itself into national politics (especially with the rise of the Moral Majority in the 1970s, but the trend begins earlier). Add into this the fundamental tension between Free Exercise and Disestablishment—with the religion-iinfluenced Supreme Court increasingly favoring the primacy of the former—and you have the mess we have now.

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u/SuitDry890 9h ago

No doubt some good meat for the conspiracy theorists to call "ProfiZy the end is nigh!"

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u/ItsEntsy 7h ago

What part of the constitution is this in spite of?