re: Mamdani preaching Islam in New York City Hall

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How do you piss off a jihadist?
Tell them every virgin waiting for them on the other side will be gay.
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You misspelled tranny.

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Ha! Some "more than meets the eye" irony!

“…Islam, a religion built upon a narrative of migration?”

With a sword in one hand right? That is conquest, not migration.

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Look around the world and you will see that many cultures cannot handle freedom.

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This is really ironic considering that you are the one advocating for shitcanning the 1st Amendment so that the government can endorse a particular religious viewpoint.

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Freedom of religion was never intended for muslims or hindus or any other heathen religion.

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Got a link?

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Bet you got wedgies in high school.

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Nope.

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You must young because you exhibit signs of extremely short term thinking.

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Explain what you mean by this. I’m not a cranky old man like you, that’s true.

Where are the leftists screaming about 'separation of church and state'?

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So you want the USA to amend the First Amendment, removing the Establishment of Religion Clause, and then you want the FedGov to pass laws that actively promote your Reformed Covenanter Church religion to the exclusion of all other denominations and religions?

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I didn't say that, did I?

While I would support the government promoting the Reformed Covenantor church religion specifically, I don't think it's necessary for the government to be that particular. I'm only arguing for the Christian religion being promoted, not any particular denomination or flavor of it. As another poster said in response to you, the 1st amendment was created initially to be broad in its acceptance of Christianity, not intending to support Muslims or other religions that were not a threat to the Christian cultural context of America at the time. That has actually become a big problem, in that moving from non-discrimination between Christian sects to non-discrimination between all religions has allowed political and ideological threats like with Islam to flourish under the protections of religion.

All nations should bow to Christ Jesus as the King of kings and Lord of lords. I'm not surprised that you are against basic Christian principles.

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That's exactly what John Calvin did in Switzerland! He established a Governmental Theocracy.

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You show your ignorance of history yet again. I find it ironic how one of the biggest advertisements Catholics make for their beliefs is that you all are steeped in history, and yet the more I learn of what you believe and the history of the church, the more I see that you make false claims about it, and are actually quite ignorant of church history, and twist history to support your unbiblical teachings. That's for another conversation, though.

Calvin was actually instrumental in the Reformed distinctive of the separation of church and state in terms of authoritative spheres. Up until the Reformation, the Catholic church forced all nations to submit to the Pope and the Catholic church. Kings and Emperors persecuted Protestants at the behest of the Catholic church precisely because church and state were so co-mingled. It was the Reformation that led to church and state operating as separate spheres that worked together, and that's what Calvin taught in particular: that the state was to be a helper to the church, but separate from her.

As another poster said, a theocratic government is not necessary for it to promote the Christian religion. You can have Christian monarchies, Christian democracies, and Christian republics (our own republic was actually heavily influenced by Presbyterian church polity). Governments do not have to be theocratic, but they should not be functionally atheistic: all rulers and nations are required by God to give glory and honor to Jesus Christ.