Michelle Bachmann wants the Treaty of Tripoli abrogated with the Barbary States

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In a recent address to Congress, Bachmann spent five minutes whining about how Barack Obama asked for religious symbols to be covered when he spoke about the economy at Georgetown because the US is a secular nation.

She also indicated Abraham Lincoln and George Washington were God fearing presidents unlike Obama. Of course, Lincoln is one of Obama's favorite presidents, too. Bachman also wondered what the United States would be without Jesus.

Would anyone be surprised to learn that Obama demanding the religious symbols be covered up for his Georgetown speech wasn't true? He just asked to have a simple backdrop that covered everything behind him. Amazingly, the story was reported in the Washington Times. Bachmann said "It was reported, so it must be true."

Well, it was reported. but wasn't true. She had clearly not fact-checked the story.

Rightardia (RI) asked Michelle Bachman (MB) about her recent comments in an interview.

RI: You have said the US is a Christian nation. Why do you believe that?

MB: All of the Funding Fathers were Christian and liked their churches. They said nice things about Christians.

RI: Have you seen Bill Mayer's movie, Religulous?

MB; Oh, Good Lord, no! That is a secular movie that was directed by a Godless atheist.

RI: Did you know that John Adams said, "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."

MB: Oh, that must be taken out of context.

RI: Franklin also said, "Lighthouses are more useful than churches."

MB: Well, Franklin was a scientist and very secular.

RI: Thomas Jefferson said, "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."

MB: Well, he was a liberal, wasn't he. He even committed heresy and even worse wrote his own Bible.

RI: Yes. the Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, was Thomas Jefferson's effort to extract the doctrine of Jesus by removing sections of the New Testament containing supernatural aspects and misinterpretations he believed had been added by the Four Evangelists.

MB: I am an evangelical so Jefferson had to be wrong.

RI: You think a Founding Father was wrong?

MB: He had to be.

RI: In your biography, you attempted to make children learn the 12 principles of Christianity in a charter school in Minnesota. These principles were a lot like the 10 Commandments.

MB: What is wrong with that?

RI: Are you aware of the First Amendment and the legal doctrine that has arisen form it?

MB: What are you talking about. The US is Christian nation.

RI: Actually, there is a legal doctrine on the Separation of Church and State. It is based on nearly 50 district and Supreme Court cases.

MB: What is this, gotcha journalism?

RI: This is what Jefferson about the clergy. ."The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man."

MB: That is why the US is a Christian nation.

RI: Well, Jefferson believed this is why a firewall was needed between church and state. This is why there are no "official religions" in the US.

MB: Well, you'll have to prove that to me (laughing)!

 

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