{"id":1072,"date":"2026-02-15T14:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmchuck.com\/m\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2026-02-15T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:21:07","slug":"cnn-misrepresents-2-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmchuck.com\/m\/2026\/02\/15\/cnn-misrepresents-2-15-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Misrepresents 2-15-2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><div class=\"pbs-main-wrapper\"><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>This is the CNN headline:<\/h3>\n<h1 id=\"maincontent\" class=\"headline__text inline-placeholder vossi-headline-text\" data-editable=\"headlineText\">Trump has chipped away at the long-standing wall between church and state. It\u2019s just the beginning<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 34px;\">But in truth the greatest threat to the separation between church and state is coming at the state level where states have been codifying antisemitic laws against Christians who don\u2019t believe a bunch of European Communist Atheist pretending to be Jews should continue be given special treatment just because they pretend to be Jewish. Those laws in fact are illegally attempting to establish a new religion at expense of both real Christians and real Jews who understand what Israel really is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 34px;\">And to be clear, if you look at a huge group of people, say at a concert, you can not tell what religion any of those people are which make the antisemitic laws that much more nonsensical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 34px;\"> But back to article\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmllajdlf00073b6pztpvd1os@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\">But then, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau\u2019s advisory board opened its proceedings in an unusual way: with a Christian prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmllajdlf00083b6p1fqy7lru@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\">The benediction was delivered by a White House official. \u201cThank you for your son, Jesus, who died for our sins,\u201d the official said at one point, according to two sources who attended the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\">That is one meeting.\u00a0 Nothing is codified.\u00a0 There is no law that says meetings have to open that way or that everyone at the meeting has to believe the prayer.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t hurt anyone.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have people arrested.\u00a0 However, CNN, no doubt, maybe there is doubt, maybe I am wrong, would like people who open with a prayer to be fired or worse.\u00a0 That would hurt people.\u00a0 That would be the persecution of Christians.\u00a0 So basically CNN has things a little turned upside down, if I am right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\">From article:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\">The changes \u2014 predominately Christian in character \u2014 have been welcomed by conservative organizations that have fought for decades against an increasingly secular government, while alarming longtime defenders of a separation between church and state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\">Ok, that part of the article is smartly written by trying to enforce the notion that Christians are mostly conservative without coming out and saying it.\u00a0 But the truth is that Christians are not overwhelmingly conservative and many Christian Preachers have come out against Trump.\u00a0 He has been criticized by Preachers while he is seated among the congregation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\">Later in the article they state that the agenda has in fact been pushed by interfaith leaders who include both Jewish and Muslim leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\">To be clear I am not a huge fan of the interfaith community because I think the movement has been a corrupting force on all religions.\u00a0 And I kind of agree opening government meetings with prayers is kind of asinine and in some ways is a mockery of religion which belongs in church and not your place of employment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\">But is Trump breaking down the separation between church and state?\u00a0 Not really.\u00a0 The question really is, is CNN, by attempting to create an issue, a debate, actually the one trying to break down the separation of church state with their propaganda.\u00a0 Because their response to what Trump is doing would be to actually hurt people because of their religion.\u00a0 And the article has a clear bias against Christians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This article contains opinion and if your opinion is different, that is cool.<\/p>\n<p>This article is not intended to be a source of authority but to inspire thought and other opinions.<\/p>\n<p>You might be interested in:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xNJUa8hcGC\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/sayata.net\/e\/product\/the-suspense-account-flame-by-the-sea\/\">The Suspense Account &amp; Flame By The Sea<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cThe Suspense Account &amp; Flame By The Sea\u201d \u2014 Charles Peters Digital Stories and Essays\" src=\"https:\/\/sayata.net\/e\/product\/the-suspense-account-flame-by-the-sea\/embed\/#?secret=TDPDC6P44Q#?secret=xNJUa8hcGC\" data-secret=\"xNJUa8hcGC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 34px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 34px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 This is the CNN headline: Trump has chipped away at the long-standing wall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-theory-thought-opinion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmchuck.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmchuck.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmchuck.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmchuck.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmchuck.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmchuck.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/mmchuck.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmchuck.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmchuck.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmchuck.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}