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- aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.
The department, according to a copy of an internal cable obtained by POLITICO, will work with an administration-wide task force to collect information “involving anti-religious bias during the last presidential administration” and will collect examples of anti-Christian bias through anonymous employee report forms.
The cable was sent out to embassies around the world under Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s name. The instructions also were released in a department-wide notice.
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My job is working in government. I also happen to be Christian.
But at church I’m not a government employee, and at work I’m not a Christian, because one has nothing to do with the other. Separation of church and state is good for both institutions.
Fellas, is this DEI?
Just start reporting cops.
Ah yes. Internal purging. Fascist checklist is moving real fast.
Do they mean like when their leadership is revoking student visas, going Leviticus 19:34 states: “You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself”.
Leviticus is from the Jewish part, though, and is therefore inherently less valuable to Christians unless there’s anything in there about murdering gays or treating women like property.
And what about the book of James which says the same thing in different words?
Bible says everything if you look hard enough. There’s no point in argumenting this way.
Man, these guys would love Islam.
so which part did jesus read then?
He was probably heavily influenced by the Essenes, so stuff very similar to the Dead Sea Scrollls.
I think the book of Tobit was also influential to historical Jesus’s thought, and maybe even 1 Enoch. If he didn’t read those texts himself, I think at least you can make the argument that he was influenced by the kinds of thoughts/movements those texts were associated with.
Authors don’t read their own books.
um. ok. you’re clearly a theological scholar.
and you shall love him as yourself
Wait, does this mean I’ll have to jack off strangers?
Do you hate Donna in accounting for wishing you a “happy holidays” in 2021? Now you finally have the opportunity to get back at that god-hating bitch! Rat her out to HR and send her ass to El Salvador!
/s
What baffles me is like, if you have to set a theological standard for a government then you’ll have to persecute 99% of Christians too, cause this one flavor of evangigilical baptist or whatever that is leading the fray alienates all of the catholics and however many protestant denominations of Christianity. You cant have a Christian state and just assume all other Christians will fall in line behind your doctrine because Christianity itself can’t agree on the doctrine.
You cant have a Christian state and just assume all other Christians will fall in line behind your doctrine because Christianity itself can’t agree on the doctrine.
You’re missing the bigger picture of “selective enforcement”. If everyone is guilty, then there’s no need to manufacture a pretext fire them or to arrest them and throw them jail possibly in El Salvador beyond the reach of the rule of law).
Well, in regards to everyone is guilty, a large population of Christians believe in original sin, that everyone is inherently bad and you can only get into heaven by following the word of god to the letter… and if the state is the official word or God well, you better follow everything big brother says or you’ll spend an eternity in hell…
… and if the state is the official word or God well, you better follow everything big brother says or you’ll spend an eternity in hell…
If we allow religious dogma (of any religion) to dictate public policy, I’d argue we’re already in hell.
Took them a while, but the south finally rose again.
And fucked us all without lube.
Well, Secretary Rubio is among the least christian people in the state department, so…
How’s that first amendment working? No? How about the second, then?
Christian is a really OK guy, he shouldn’t be bullied.
i’m ready to purge every single fucking christian from this country. scorched earth. dgaf if you’re one of the ‘good ones’. ACAB.
Alright bet.
So…
The entire fucking GOP, all of project 2025?
Let’s ask the fuckin Pope, shall we?? Put up or STFU. This administration is such a pathetic display of cowardice.
This has always been the next step. They go after gays and transvestites first. Then it’s atheist and any non-Christian person. The Christian fascist are taking over. Arm yourselves
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