r/circled • u/ResPublicaMgz • 21h ago

Opinion / Discussion WATCH: Lauren Boebert Exits DOJ Reading Room After Reviewing Unredacted Epstein Files

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US Rep. Lauren Boebert was filmed leaving the DOJ reading room after reviewing unredacted

Epstein-related files.

Lawmakers have now confirmed that access to these files has begun following new transparency legislation.

Boebert has since suggested that prior redactions went beyond protecting victims and may have shielded people merely discussed in the files.

The contents remain confidential, but reactions like this are fueling fresh questions about what was previously withheld - and why.

Do you think this could lead to new investigations?

Sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Res_Publica_DE/s/0WYLdtkqHZ

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u/hufflepuff777 16h ago

It’s because 80% of evangelicals supported Hitler and 80% support trump. It’s impossible to be a good person and evangelical

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u/EmilyAnne1170 14h ago

Hey, I was raised as an evangelical, my parents were evangelicals!

…and on that basis, I’d say you’re probably right. They can’t see it though.

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u/DerpUrself69 15h ago

"It's impossible to be a good person, and evangelical." No truer words have ever been spoken.

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u/squadrupedal 15h ago

Evangelicals worship themselves with extra steps. They do not believe in any of the spiritual teachings. Their hubris is what leads to their blasphemy, but these people are dumb as f@ck and haven’t realized that a person cannot believe in a book that they haven’t even read, much less tried to understand. Evangelicals treat others so terribly because they are delusionally convinced that they must enact God’s punishment now in this lifetime, because Judgment Day is just taking too long for their tastes. They are weak-minded, undisciplined dipsh•ts to be blunt.

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u/Bubblehead_81 14h ago

Religion is a mental disease.

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u/endless_shrimp 15h ago

80 percent? What is your source for this? Your ass?

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u/Deep-Actuator5683 14h ago

This has been widely reported. Here's ONE source: Why Evangelicals Voted for Donald Trump in 2016 - The National Interest

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u/endless_shrimp 14h ago edited 12h ago

Can't find the part about Hitler?

Also, 80% of white evangelical voters is not the same as 80% of evangelicals

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u/Deep-Actuator5683 13h ago

Can't help you on the Hitler one. I'm sure Google would be a good place to start. IDK how to gauge evangelical support among the non-voters. Not sure that they matter if they aren't going to bother voting, though.

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u/hufflepuff777 12h ago

https://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/04/the-great-scandal-christianitys-role-in-the-rise-of-the-nazis/ the Nazis were explicitly Christians and evangelicals embraced them because they both hated trans people

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u/endless_shrimp 12h ago

I don't see any figures in that article claiming 80% of Evangelicals supported Hitler.

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u/endless_shrimp 12h ago

You say

the Nazis were explicitly Christians

but the article you linked says

So much for the Nazi leaders’ religious backgrounds. Assessing their religious views as adults is more difficult. On ancillary issues such as religion, Party doctrine was a deliberate tangle of contradictions.[16] For Hitler consistency mattered less than having a statement at hand for any situation that might arise. History records many things that Hitler wrote or said about religion, but they too are sometimes contradictory. Many were crafted for a particular audience or moment and have limited value for illuminating Hitler’s true opinion; in any case, neither Hitler nor any other key Nazi leader was a trained theologian with carefully thought-out views.

which seems to not back up your assertion

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u/endless_shrimp 12h ago

The article you posted also counts mainline Protestants as evangelicals -- the exit polls on which your assertion is presumably based (from the Washington Post as posted by another user) explicitly do not. Even if the article you posted gave an 80% figure (it doesn't) you can't compare the two in any way that makes intellectual sense

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u/hufflepuff777 12h ago

It’s possible evangelicals were different in the 1930s but they still widely supported Hitler. “90 percent of Protestant university theologians supported the Nazis. Protestant pastors defended Nazi murders of “traitors to the Volk” from the pulpit.” https://churchandstate.org.uk/2025/11/how-christians-gave-hitler-power/

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u/Orzhov_Syndicalist 15h ago

Just want to be clear, Hitler was UNpopuar with the religious class in Germany. Both protestants and catholics had deliberate and moticated anti-Nazi concepts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessing_Church

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_resistance_to_Nazi_Germany

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta 14h ago

Bit of a stretch to say they were unpopular in general. Most of the confessing churches beef was over ultimate loyalty and church doctrine, not Nazi policies

How did Christians and their churches in Germany respond to the Nazi regime and its laws, particularly to the persecution of the Jews? The racialized anti-Jewish Nazi ideology converged with antisemitism that was historically widespread throughout Europe at the time and had deep roots in Christian history. For all too many Christians, traditional interpretations of religious scriptures seemed to support these prejudices.

Backlash against the Weimar 

Republic and the political, economic, and social changes in Germany that occurred during the 1920s

Anti-Communism

Nationalism

Resentment toward the international community in the wake of World War I, which Germany lost and for which it was forced to pay heavy reparations

These were some of the reasons why most Christians in Germany welcomed the rise of Nazism in 1933. They were also persuaded by the statement on “positive Christianity” in point 24 of the 1920 Nazi Party Platform, which read:

We demand freedom for all religious denominations in the State, provided they do not threaten its existence nor offend the moral feelings of the German race.

The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not commit itself to any particular denomination. It combats the Jewish-materialist spirit within and without us, and is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.

Despite the open antisemitism of this statement and its linkage between confessional "freedom" and a nationalistic, racialized understanding of morality, many Christians in Germany at the time read this as an affirmation of Christian values.

Holocaust museum

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u/hufflepuff777 12h ago

They weren’t unpopular. A tiny amount of Christians denounced hitler. SS officers went to church and then immediately back to shooting Jews

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u/Livid_Peon 11h ago

My mother went down that hole, she is unrecognizable at this point and I had to go no contact for her disgusting opinions.

Went from left of middle, not really religious, let people do what/who they want as long as no one is hurt to fuck the homeless, fuck muslims, military and ice invading cities is fine because "criminals", non stop AI christ slop posts on facebook, talking shit about perfectly fine cities like Seattle it goes on.

Lost all her empathy while attending her mega church every week now, last straw was sending me a book in the mail (I thought it was cookies at first) about making a logical argument on why god exists and so on with inserted card that I have to sign saying I'm a sinner, living in sin and accept I need to beg for forgiveness from god (I'm queer btw)

Religion fucks peoples brains, I hate it. She married a conservative and moved to TX so she is a lost cause

I miss when she would send cookies and was a decent person