Top Trump administration officials will address a mass prayer meeting in the heart of Washington Sunday – an event organisers bill as reclaiming the country’s religious foundations, but critics say is a quasi-official rally for Christian nationalism.

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    I admire the teachings of Jesus 100%, they are for the most part, common sense stuff for people who care about other people and the earth, unfortunately he’s being retconned out of the bible by a lot of people. I grew up going to a Catholic school and let me tell you the shock of the difference of what people said they believed and how they acted in the real world is still an issue for me honestly.

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      It doesn’t help that immediately after the gospels are Paul’s angry, regressive, and authoritarian letters to all the congregations he was trying to dominate, followed by the late-first century anti-Roman millenarian fever dream of Revelations.