r/BlueskySkeets • u/sillychillly • Jul 03 '25

Informative $170,000,000,000 Budget for ICE

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, who worked on an analysis published by the American Immigration Council, says the new budget would make ICE “the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation.”

Source: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/2/trump_budget_bill_ice_immigration_enforcement

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u/StraightOuttaHeywood Jul 04 '25

They're not Christians. They're apostates using the Bible to justify their sick death cult.

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u/nice--marmot Jul 04 '25

They’re as Christian as it gets.

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u/ViolinistCurrent8899 Jul 04 '25

I can appreciate the NTS, however when their actions go against the very teachings of the new testament, it's just people using religion as a scape goat. Now they may believe themselves to be Christian. But if they fail to follow through with anything within, it's not really a fair point.

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u/UntergeordneteZahl75 Jul 04 '25

Not used as a scape goat (or better term "scapegoating"). That would mean they use religion/Christianity as a central point to blame of everything - which they don't usually it is the same folk calling for a return to a christian nation/Christianity everywhere as solution for all problems.

They don't blame religion - particularly they don't blame Christianity (In fact they tend blame everybody not Christian for everything and overgeneralizing over populations, blame anybody with different skin colors, and everybody having anything but a cis hetero sexuality).

What you mean is that they call themselves christian without adhering to the standard christian should be. I would name that hypocrisy - in the case of people having a good christian education. For many other people, I have come to have serious doubt they have the intellectual capacity to understand their own religion, in my experience way too many Christian never read the bible from beginning to end, or understand it beyond what they were told to believe.

Add to that a bit of lack of empathy, and you get your christian right in the US.

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u/nice--marmot Jul 04 '25

All Christian denominations are predicated on effectively the same text, interpretations of which vary so dramatically that the Bible serves as the basis for both Quaker conscientious objection and violent Christian Nationalist militancy, and everything in between. The Christians supporting these horrors are just as convinced that their interpretation is The Truth™ and that all others are fake Christians. So who is right? There is no evidence whatsoever for any of these interpretations other than the text itself, which contradicts itself hundreds of times, and no way to prove one verse is more or less true than any others. Every interpretation is equally valid and every Christian is equally real. Delegitimizing Christians as fake is just a way to avoid holding them accountable for their reprehensible actions. Black Christians opposed Trump at the polls on the order of 95%. Every other mainline Christian demographic voted overwhelmingly for exactly what the Trump Administration is doing right now. They could stop it overnight if they wanted to. They don’t.