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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 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’.
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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.
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.
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.
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
Big Skydaddy loves him some mountain oysters.
I understood that reference! 👌
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…
Well, they also don’t like the natives, or themselves, so honestly good work keeping true to the book. 🙃
how very constitutional
Ah shit here we go again
That’s rich coming from a bunch of fucks who would pay money to line up to waterboard their own savior.
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.”
Fellas, is this DEI?
Just start reporting cops.
and I thought all the previous reporting/tip lines were ripe for abuse. brava, you dipshits have really outdone yourselves.
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.
There is no place for religious believes in a workplace or anwhere outside basically. You have a job to do that should be defined. Where does god come into this? If you believe god forbids to do xy on the job then the job is not for you. Just quit.
You know, I totally agree people are free to believe whatever they want and obviously I know and am friends with/family with people who are religious and I don’t necessarily think poorly of them on an individual basis.
However, my belief on a personal level is religion is fucking stupid and an artifact of humans from a bygone age when we were significantly dumber, unintelligent, and didn’t know anything about the world and universe. I hate religion and wish I could live long enough to see it die. It makes me so happy knowing that overall religious individuals, at least in the US, are declining year over year.
Hear hear. People are trying to live their lives and grapple with the universe in a way that they can cope with. But the institutions themselves are evil, barbaric relics that belong in history books.
100%, I’ve made my distaste for religion clear but I’m honestly jealous of them sometimes. How nice would it be to truly believe there is a heaven or after life of some kind, that would be a nice feeling indeed.
You could always choose to believe in a scientifically plausible religion! Here’s one of my favorites:
Imagine a far future utopian society. Something Star Trek or better. No one wants for anything, even aging is cured.
However, utopia has a problem. How do you raise children in paradise? In a world where your every whim can be conjured up for free, how do you raise children without them turning out to be a bunch of spoiled sociopaths?
Simple. Don’t even try. Raise them in a simulation. Choose the environment carefully. Raise them in a simulation of an earlier historical era. Far enough back that they will experience some struggle, but not so far back that they’ll be living as slave in ancient Rome or something. You want to educate people, not torture them. And ideally in a period that has a concept that the future can be far more advanced than the present. Ancient societies didn’t really grok the concept of technological advancement. The 21st century is a great era to build an ancestor simulation around.
And, just like that, there’s your religion. When you ‘die’ in this life, you just wake up in the real world. Maybe there’s even a judgment component there. Maybe you have to go through several lifetimes if you don’t live a good enough life in the simulation. Are you a sociopathic billionaire in this life? Back in the tank with you, you’re going around the wheel again until you learn not to be an asshole. When you’ve shown you can live a just, noble, and compassionate life, only then are you allowed to graduate from school and enter into the real world. You’re biologically immortal, so you can just keep spinning on the wheel as long as necessary. Oh, and you’ll be reunited with all your departed family and friends, once they graduate as well.
There. A completely scientifically plausible religion that requires zero supernatural forces or entities. It rewards the virtuous, punishes the wicked, provides for the resurrection of the dead, and promises eternal paradise. No God or gods required. It’s a hybrid of Christianity and Buddhism packaged in a techno utopian wrapper. I call it “The Church of Graduation.”
Thats a fun thought, thanks for sharing
Wouldn’t that like…fuck with one’s psyche at a fundamental level? You die, a traumatic experience, and then you wake up and you’re literally in the “afterlife”? Wouldn’t that just be a massive confirmation bias to the individual, despite being entirely fabricated by the people who run this hypothetical program?
Am I overthinking this?
Sure. But how I think of it is most people go through several virtual lifetimes. Your memories are temporarily suppressed during each one. In the end, they all come together, and you have the wisdom of several lifetimes to guide you. A mindfuck, yes. But utopia has some really good psychologists. And they wouldn’t just dump you from the tank out onto the proverbial sidewalk. There would be a lengthy orientation and education process. There’s no rush. You have all the time in the world to come to terms with things.
I don’t know if you’ve ever read the short story “The Egg” by Andy Wier, but if not, I think you’d like it.
Yup! This is a similar idea, just grounded entirely in our physical universe.
The institutions are shaped by people too. Hear hear, there are nice people and scumbags.
It has limits though - people can believe whatever, but they still shouldn’t harm others.
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.
I’m not particularly anti-religious, but this is essentially the “not all men” argument in clerical robes.
Sorry, maybe I did a bad job at explaining myself - I think all of the religious institutions are bad because they take advantage of the people, not just some of them. I just wanted to extend that to other non-religious ones that do the same.
If that’s not what you meant, do you mind explaining why this is a “not all men” argument?
The problem is the institutions and persons that take advantage of people’s faith.
This is the fundamental reason that religion is a problem in the first place though. Someone starts a religion based on what they believe, they get into a position of authority, and soon they’re asking for more from their followers: more money, more resources, more women… Etc, etc.
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Religion is a big fuckin sham. At best it’s brainwashing people to fawn over fictional characters and at worst it’s a disgusting grift to get rich (tax free not to mention) by taking advantage of people’s fear and insecurities. The world
could useneeds more secularism.We are cursed to live in a society where most grown ass adults still believe in magic.
Religion, AI, living forever, etc. The people at the top of american society are quite possibly among the most gullible rubes to live on this planet. 45 years of low taxes has cooked our society
Well, Secretary Rubio is among the least christian people in the state department, so…
Christian Nationalists leading the downfall
Took them a while, but the south finally rose again.
And fucked us all without lube.
Ah yes. Internal purging. Fascist checklist is moving real fast.
I would abuse the shit out of this.
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
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
