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“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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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”.
and you shall love him as yourself
Wait, does this mean I’ll have to jack off strangers?
Well, anything else just wouldn’t be Christian, you know. I’d hate to have to report you…
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.
I dunno about that, but there is a bit in there about burning bulls testicles to appease the lord god
Imagine being a supreme being, creator or the entire universe and everything in it, all life, the fusion in the stars, supermassive black holes sucking matter into them, dust clouds across the cosmos, and yet still for some reason being impressed by someone burning bovine gonads.
Musk has how much money and influence, but rages when people say a mean thing online. I see God as no different.
At one point he cursed the Phillistines with hemorrhoids until they made him some golden ones.
Big Skydaddy loves him some mountain oysters.
I understood that reference! 👌
I tried that, it works every time. The only problem is getting the bull’s testicles. They object to it surprisingly strongly. Quite challenging. The Good Book offers no warnings or advice about that part.
Protip: Remove them from the bull before burning them.
That’s a good tip, I’ll give that a try.
No the testicles are on the other end.
I’m confused, Ive been kicked in the head a few times, as you can imagine.
the bull might not like that either though
Man, these guys would love Islam.
I can hear it now
NOOOOOOO ALLAH BAD NO SUCH THING AS ALLAH NOOOOOOO
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.
Numbers 5:11 to 5:31 uh, fairly clearly explains that if a woman is suspected to be pregnant by ‘not her husband’, she is to undergo a ritual and drink a potion which will cause an abortion/miscarriage.
https://biblia.com/bible/esv/numbers/5/11-31
ESV uses a … too literal translation to result into ‘her thigh will fall away’…
https://biblia.com/bible/niv2011/numbers/5/11-31
But the NIV translators are capable of understanding context dependent modifiers and just directly uses ‘miscarry’.
https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/numbers/5/11-31
NLT ends up with ‘womb will shrivel/shrink’.
https://biblia.com/bible/nkjv/numbers/5/11-31
NKJ also goes for a very, word by word literal approach (what a surprise) and says ‘thigh will rot’.
…
So yeah, there you go, anytime you run into a bible thumper who proclaims that the ten commandments are the basis of western civilization, show them that the old testament also very clearly and explicitly … not just condones, but mandates abortion in certain circumstances.
If they then say that we are under the new covenant, throw this at them:
https://biblehub.com/matthew/5-18.htm
Matthew 5:18
Jesus, the man himself, says to follow the Law (ie, the old testament, or at the very least the first 5 books, the torah, which includes the entire book of numbers) exactly, precisely, to the letter, to the ‘jot and tittle’.
… Oh but also the Bible is inerrant and never contradicts itself, which must mean the old and new covenant have perfect agreement and never contradict, and are therefore identical, right?
Exactly. People who want to believe certain things will find them in the Bible and will disregard the rest that’s also written there. Belief is, unfortunately, irrational.
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.
Well, they also don’t like the natives, or themselves, so honestly good work keeping true to the book. 🙃
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.
Separation of religion from life is even better.
I get it, I’m on Lemmy and religious people, vehicle owners, and anyone who didn’t use Linux is bad on your eyes or whatever.
But if my free practice of my faith that doesn’t interfere with my professional or social obligations offends you, you can go right ahead and fuck off because I’m allowed to be as offensive towards you as I want so long as I don’t try to control your life.
This bullshit is why you assholes never achieve shit. If someone doesn’t perfectly fit your ideals, you dismiss them when you should see that they’re your ally on everything that actually matters.
If you decide that everyone is your enemy, you end up being correct.
Oh vey, someone got triggered hard. ;)
I’m on Lemmy and religious people, vehicle owners, and anyone who didn’t use Linux is bad on your eyes or whatever
Even though there are a lot of communities which share such views, I wouldn’t be so bold as to shove all users of Lemmy into the same drawer.
But if my free practice of my faith […] offends you
No. It doesn’t. I don’t know you. You could be an alright person for all I know. Although your reaction gives me the impression the other is the case. I didn’t address you specifically, did I? I made a general statement about religion.
Furthemore, even though not necessarily offended, I am usually concerned about religious people.
If you live it for yourself and keep it to yourself, I can tolerate it. But if you drag others into it or proselytising dangerous fairy tales, you will find me freely practising criticisim of that.you can go right ahead and fuck off because I’m allowed to be as offensive towards you as I want so long as I don’t try to control your life
What a marvellous religion it must be, which teaches such warm-hearted values. /s
This bullshit is why you assholes never achieve shit. If someone doesn’t perfectly fit your ideals, you dismiss them
Who doesn’t achieve anything here? Who are you talking about? You don’t really know much about me or other users on this platform.
Also, bold generalisation again. I for example, don’t dismiss someone for not perfectly fitting my ideals. And I would be surprised if the majority of users here would differ from handling it similarly.
you should see that they’re your ally on everything that actually matters
To me, personally, a world free of (organized) religion actually matters a lot.
If you decide that everyone is your enemy
Good thing, that I don’t then. ;)
Fellas, is this DEI?
Just start reporting cops.
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
Goddamn.
I don’t think the /s is appropriate. That’s like…gonna happen.
I didn’t want to get flamed by anyone that couldn’t immediately see it was a joke lol
Yeah but like… it’s not a joke
I don’t think this person actually thinks Donna is a bitch though. Or is actually encouraging people to do that.
Oh Donna’s sweet. This administration however - evil AF.
Donna fucking rules dude
My dude that is literally where we are at
how very constitutional
and I thought all the previous reporting/tip lines were ripe for abuse. brava, you dipshits have really outdone yourselves.
Well, Secretary Rubio is among the least christian people in the state department, so…
Ah yes. Internal purging. Fascist checklist is moving real fast.
Christian Nationalists leading the downfall
Took them a while, but the south finally rose again.
And fucked us all without lube.
State
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.
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.
So in case you didn’t get the memo, lots of evangelicals don’t like the pope because he’s too tolerant.
Yea, that’s all well and good.
That’s not how Catholicism works.
I don’t like Trump. Doesn’t mean dick.
Christian is not the same as Catholic though. Catholics are a minority in the US.
Christianity is the big tree that encompasses all faiths that believe Jesus is the savior, son of god, etc. Catholicism and Protestant are both branches on that tree.
Yes, but the pope is only the head of the Catholics. The other branches don’t care about him.
Yes, agreed… but not really relevant.
You have a point in here somewhere if we can just tease it out I’m curious
Should report trump for being an Antichrist
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Right. Rules for thee but not for me.
Let’s start that list of anti christian behavior of trump:
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It would be funny if everyone in the state dept. started reporting trump for all of his anti-Christian actions.
