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FFRF: Minneapolis violence shows deadly reality of religious authoritarianism

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is horrified by the senseless, brutal slaying of ICU nurse Alex Pretti and warns that the tragic deaths of Pretti and Renee Nicole Good are the result of a federal regime increasingly shaped by Christian nationalist authoritarianism.

From the White House to the Department of Homeland Security, the Trump administration is framing immigration enforcement as a divinely sanctioned mission, a narrative that dehumanizes immigrants and protesters, excuses brutality and undermines constitutional limits on state power.

President Trump made that worldview explicit last week during a White House press briefing, boasting that God approves of his presidency and his immigration policies.

“I think God is very proud of the job I’ve done, and that includes for religion,” Trump said. “We’re protecting a lot of people that are being killed. Christians, Jewish people, lots of people are being protected by me that wouldn’t be protected by another type of president.”

FFRF warns that such statements are not merely rhetorical excess but core features of Christian nationalism — the claim that the U.S. government exists to serve a particular religious identity. State violence becomes justified when its promulgators claim “God” is on their side.

That ideology permeates DHS itself. In July, the agency posted multiple promotional videos on its official social media accounts featuring bible verses, militarized imagery and artwork glorifying “Manifest Destiny.”

One July 7 video showed helicopters launching as a narrator quoted Isaiah 6:8 — “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? … Here am I. Send me.” Another video, posted on July 28, depicted Border Patrol agents in tactical gear as Proverbs 28:1 faded onscreen: “The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.” Other DHS materials celebrate “Manifest Destiny,” invoking the religious mythology used to justify westward colonization and the violent displacement and slaughter of Native Americans.

“Quoting Christian texts to frame immigrants and asylum seekers as ‘wicked’ strips people of their humanity,” FFRF wrote in an August letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

“What we are seeing is authoritarian Christian nationalism: state violence wrapped in scripture, enemies labeled as ‘wicked,’ and enforcement cast as righteous,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “When the government starts to claim God’s endorsement, watch out.”

In Minneapolis and elsewhere, ICE operations have terrorized communities and their actions have led to deadly outcomes carried out by agents implicitly told they are soldiers in a moral crusade rather than public servants bound by our secular Constitution.

Authoritarianism relies on this dehumanization. It tells agents that cruelty is righteous and violence a virtue.

The cruelty was on full display as ICE officers surrounded, threw to the ground, beat, pepper-sprayed and then shot Pretti in about the space of one minute, simply for trying to aid a female protester being thrown to the ground by an ICE agent.

Adds Gaylor, “Pretti was murdered, yet our vice president claimed the agents have ‘absolute immunity’ and Trump administration officials once again began defaming a good citizen as a ‘terrorist.’”

Noem’s own record underscores the danger. She has repeatedly claimed to be divinely called to office and has openly stated that her biblical beliefs guide her governing decisions. On her first full day as governor of South Dakota, she sponsored an explicitly Christian worship service inside the state Capitol. She has promoted school prayer, endorsed Trump’s Muslim bans and dismissed the constitutional principle of state/church separation.

What is unfolding now is a warning sign.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation calls on the public to recognize the Christian nationalist component of the rising authoritarianism for what it is: a threat to civil rights and the First Amendment, public safety, true religious freedom and democracy itself, and to demand a federal government that answers to the Constitution, not to claims of divine approval.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with over 41,000 members and several chapters nationwide, including more than 800 members and two chapters in Minnesota. FFRF’s purposes are to defend the constitutional principle of separation between church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.

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Trump twists Religious Freedom Day proclamation into Christian nationalist manifesto

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is condemning President Trump’s recent Religious Freedom Day proclamation as a sweeping distortion of American history and a direct attack on the constitutional separation between religion and government.

Trump’s proclamation repeatedly invokes “God-given rights,” declares the United States a “Nation under God,” and pledges to “restore America as a Nation of prayer,” language that flatly contradicts the secular principles on which the country was founded.

Religious Freedom Day commemorates the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, passed on Jan. 16, 1786, which rejected government-sponsored religion and affirmed freedom of conscience for believers and nonbelievers alike. Trump’s proclamation has turned that historic achievement on its head by promoting government favoritism toward religion, particularly Christianity.

The statute, authored by Thomas Jefferson, was revolutionary precisely because it severed religion from state power. It guaranteed that citizens would not be compelled to support religion, attend worship, or suffer civil consequences for their beliefs or lack thereof. That principle later became the cornerstone of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, and its wording was borrowed by a majority of states in adopting their state constitutional bill of rights.

Trump’s proclamation presents a mythologized version of American history that elevates religious faith as the defining force of the nation while ignoring the Founders’ explicit rejection of religious authority in government. Jefferson himself warned that government involvement in religion produces “hypocrisy and meanness” and insisted that religious belief must remain entirely voluntary. Jefferson’s wording repudiated the idea of “fallible and uninspired men” assuming “domination over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as only true and infallible, and … endeavouring to impose them on others.” This, he maintained, has “established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world.”

Comments FFRF Co-President Dan Barker, “Yet this is precisely what the Trump administration is seeking to do — imposing a branch of Christianity upon other Americans.”

Jefferson also wrote that for the state “to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelievers, is sinful and tyrannical.”

Of particular concern is Trump’s celebration of policies aimed at injecting religion into public schools and government institutions, including his directive to “protect” prayer in public schools and his creation of a federal task force focused exclusively on alleged “anti-Christian bias.”

“Public schools are not churches, and the government has no business encouraging prayer or faith as a civic duty,” Gaylor adds. “That is not religious freedom. That is government-sponsored religion.”

Trump’s call for families to gather at places of worship to commemorate Religious Freedom Day further underscores the exclusionary nature of the proclamation. Nearly one in three Americans today is nonreligious, and millions practice minority faiths. Religious Freedom Day belongs to all Americans, including atheists, agnostics and religious minorities, not just those who worship a particular god.

True religious freedom means the right to believe, not believe, change beliefs, or keep beliefs private, all without government pressure. The moment the government starts urging prayer, praising faith as a national duty, or privileging one religion over others, it betrays that freedom.

FFRF urges Americans to remember the real meaning of Religious Freedom Day by recommitting to the constitutional wall separating church and state, the very safeguard that protects religious liberty for everyone.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to defending the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters relating to nontheism. With about 42,000 members, FFRF is the largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics and humanists) in North America. For more information, visit ffrf.org.

The post Trump twists Religious Freedom Day proclamation into Christian nationalist manifesto appeared first on Freedom From Religion Foundation.

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