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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”.
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.
Man, these guys would love Islam.
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.
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.
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’.
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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.
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.
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.
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. ;)
Ah yes. Internal purging. Fascist checklist is moving real fast.
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.
how very constitutional
That’s rich coming from a bunch of fucks who would pay money to line up to waterboard their own savior.
Fuck religion, brain dead morons
I’m an atheist, but I don’t think we should hate on other people based on their religion, tbh. The problem is the institutions and persons that take advantage of people’s faith.
People are free to believe whatever they want to believe, that’s none of our business, imho; but… to whoever exploits people’s beliefs and vulnerabilities, fuck them worthless pieces of bloody shit to the infinity. Again, imho.
