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.
I wonder how they are defining “anti-Christian” and “bias.”
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.
Well those are two very different things. Religious believers can be extremely hostile to rival religions, far more hostile than the relaxed kind of non-believer who just doesn’t sign up to any of it but doesn’t quarrel with any of it either.
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.
That’s good. It’s very helpful to have a secretary of state who picks sides in religious brawls.
The cable encourages State Department employees to report on one another through a tip form that can be anonymous. “Reports should be as detailed as possible, including names, dates, locations (e.g. post or domestic office where the incident occurred,” the cable reads.
Some State Department officials reacted to the cable with shock and alarm, saying that even if well-intentioned, it is based on the flawed premise that the department harbors anti-Christian bias to begin with, and warning it could create a culture of fear as the administration pushes employees to report on one another.
Spoiler: it’s not well-intentioned.
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Right, because Biden, the Catholic president, was so anti-Christian in his dealings. Sure. I really believe that. But then, I do tend toward gullibility. (not)
More woke Right nonsense… We’re dipping into anti blasphemy now.
Trump’s cordial relationship with former KGB operative (interrogator?) Vlad Dracula I mean Putin could pay off here. Putin could help out big time in the task of lidentifying dissenters, heretics, freethinkers and such; also in disposing of them.
@iknklast,
I mean, when have we ever had a Christian president?
Meanwhile, they’re quiet about places like Saudi Arabia where Christians are actually oppressed (along with anyone who doesn’t follow their particularly nasty form of Islam). Wonder why that is.
An executive order favoring Christians over any other viewpoint on religion? The government violating religious freedom.
Trump violates everything he gets the chance to violate.
Well Trump is probably our first obviously atheist president… But just because he thinks he’s the only being worthy of worship.
Of course neutrality or indifference towards Christianity will be interpreted as hostility. Anything less than Christianity being “centered” and “celebrated” will be deemed “anti-Christian” bias. Sound familiar?
And what happens when there’s a conflict between Christians, like Catholics and Protestants? Which of them is “more” Christian?
YNNB#8
Perhaps members of both denominations, as well as members of other denominations, can all be sent to El Salvador. That nation’s name means ‘The Saviour’, so it should be a happy solution for all.
From the MAGA Translation:
Blood Knight in Sour Armour #7 :
Clarence Darrow once referred to his opponent during the Scopes Trial, William Jennings Bryan, as “the Idol of all Morondom.”
I think Darrow’s insult, (while understandable), was unfair to the misguided Bryan, but would suit Trump perfectly.
Perhaps a campaign to flood the tip line with reports of Biblical Injunctions being violated?
Wearing blended fabrics.
Gathering firewood on Sunday.
About William Jennings Bryan…hmmm…my mother’s parents had him as a dinner guest this one time and found him utterly repulsive – a sort of Trump-type in fact.
I wouldn’t say that is so obvious. Superficially, there is little difference between a casual Christian and an atheist. It’s possible Trump is the first; maybe even probable. I suspect he follows prosperity gospel, believing he is rich because he is a superior individual favored by God.
But then, if he is an atheist, that brings up an interesting question. If an atheist declares himself to be god (like Trump did), does that mean he is saying he doesn’t exist?
The best you can say about Trump as a “believer” is that while he may not believe in God he thinks God believes in him.