Rededicate 250 - Washington, DC Prayer Rally

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtpCZn39LUY

 

Trump Says Religion Reduces Crime. Experts Disagree. | HuffPost Life

““Religion can have the opposite effect,” Adamczyk added. “We can think about murder and terrorism, and in some cases, religion is the motivating source for that.”  

Belief in heaven and hell doesn’t appear to deter crime, either. 

“Although there are people who choose not to commit crime in order to ‘go to heaven,’ empirical research does not indicate that is how religion generally works in reducing crime,” Jang said. 

This distinction is found in a 2021 study by the Percy Foundation, a nonprofit that studies religion and criminal justice. Researchers interviewed 526 inmates and found that the majority were religious believers prior to their arrests. 

Notably, 69.5% of sex offenders and 62.7% of the non-sex offenders said religious faith was “somewhat or very important” to them based on self-reported views prior to their arrests. While this is compared to 73% of adult men in the general U.S. population who say religion is “somewhat or very important,” according to a 2014 Pew survey, it’s still noteworthy that the majority of incarcerated men were religious before committing a crime. ”…

 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-religion-crime_l_6a0cd3c2e4b079e4ea33fd88

 

‘Christian supremacy’: WH blurs church and state with 9 hour prayer rally

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvxQ2vycz7I

The Trump administration is planning a prayer event on the National Mall. All but one of the speakers is Christian : NPR

Americans United for Separation of Church and State said the event will advance Christian nationalism rather than religious freedom, and on Friday, a group of progressive faith leaders will host a virtual press briefing that argues Rededicate 250 misrepresents how America's founders approached religious tolerance. 

As a counterpoint to the Rededicate event, Interfaith Alliance said it will team up with protest artist Robin Bell to project pro-religious freedom messages, including "Democracy NOT Theocracy" and "Reject Christian Nationalism," on the walls of the National Gallery of Art on Thursday evening…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/05/15/g-s1-122276/the-trump-administration-is-planning-a-prayer-event-on-the-national-mall-all-but-one-of-the-speakers-is-christian 

Why The Right Uses Thoughts and Prayers Magical Thinking #psychology

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QL7bmg_re0U

 

Heaven's IT Guy - Prayer not sending #comedy

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AVgLW6_XIC0

 

Hegseth's Gospel of War: How Old Testament Theology is Destroying America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9cCS-9PjMQ

 

Pete Hegseth's Pastor PRAYS FOR JAMES TALARICO'S DEATH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2LhGaW2C44

 

Trump’s Prayer Sparks Chinese Internet Jokes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iODlo5j3Xs

 

Pete Hegseth HOLDS CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST CHURCH SERVICES at Pentagon w/extremest pastor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90azeBTyUfQ

 

New Religion-biased Guidance by the Department of Education

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7aigUfWtS0g

 

Mark Twain "War Prayer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO0Uuhzti-U

 

Mark Twain's War Prayer: Recited by Hal Holbrook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzGu69C2wqc

 

Stopping Classroom Prayer

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OZ_YLQTmchY

 

The Religious War on America’s Kids (Andrew Seidel; One Nation, Indivisible podcast episode 029)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is running for Senate so he’s hitting the Christian Nationalism. Hard. Andrew breaks down his prayer push and the law it’s based on. Hemant Mehta at the Friendly Atheist took PragerU’s anti-woke teacher test for Oklahoma, Florida bans vaccine mandates, and more. 

Episode Show Notes:

• Ken Paxton’s Christian Nationalist press release. 
• Text of the TX law Paxton was ranting about. 
• Updated Axios story about DOJ leaving Dems and Liberals in Epstein docs. 
• Hemant Mehta at the Friendly Atheist takes PragerU’s Oklahoma teacher “test” and reports on it.
• BBC reports on FL vaccine mandate ban.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-du84f-2765bde2

Funny Prayer about Getting Old - Home Instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPFCn3itBFE

Texas AG Ken Paxton pushes for Christian prayer in public schools - The Washington Post

"In Texas classrooms, we want the Word of God opened, the Ten Commandments displayed, and prayers lifted up," Paxton said in a news release on his office's letterhead. "Our nation was founded on the rock of Biblical Truth, and I will not stand by while the far-left attempts to push our country into the sinking sand."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/04/ken-paxton-texas-school-prayer/

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick — like all government officials — shouldn't force people into prayer

We should all agree that the government should not be forcing people to stand for a prayer...

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-threaten-expel-stand-prayer-rcna225981 

 

US to allow federal workers to promote religion in workplace | Reuters

U.S. federal employees may try to recruit their coworkers to join their religion, the Trump administration said on Monday in a statement allowing workers to organize prayer groups during non-work hours. 

Agency employees may seek to "persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views" in the office, Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management, the U.S. government's human resource agency, wrote in a statement...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-allow-federal-workers-promote-religion-workplaces-2025-07-28/

 

SCOTUS Is Primed to Overturn a Landmark Church-State Precedent (Andrew Seidel; One Nation, Indivisible podcast Episode #021)

The Christian Nationalist legal outfits are bringing faith and football back to the Supreme Court. First Liberty Institute is asking the court to overturn a crucial church-state precedent, Santa Fe v. Doe, a 2000 opinion that prevented public schools from broadcasting Christian prayers at football games, thereby safeguarding the religious freedom and rights of every single person. The same Christian Nationalist group that brought the case of the football coach that imposed his Christian prayers on other people’s kids is back at the court. Will the court take the case? And can Brett Kavanaugh even hear this case? Or does his history show a serious bias?

Also, Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission wants to hear from you! “Share your reflections on the first hearing and religious liberty on social media, using our hashtag #ReligiousLibertyCommission. You are welcome to provide public comment to the Commission by emailing us at RLC@usdoj.gov. So if you watched that first meeting, consider sending some feedback.”
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-w8t4a-267e4318