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- politics@lemmy.world
“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”
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That’s what happens when you live in a christofascists world.
In a sermon delivered before Christmas, Franklin Graham told members of the military that “God is also a god of war.” On Good Friday, the DOD hosted a prayer service only for Protestants. A Pentagon spokesperson later told HuffPo that the “Pentagon Chaplain Office’s priest is not in town.” Hegseth has repeatedly framed the US war in Iran as a “holy war,” calling Iranians “barbaric savages” and called on Americans to pray for victory “in the name of Jesus Christ.”
I mean… yeah, technically true. The OG Yahweh, back before his cult peeled off and developed monotheism, he was a god of storms and war.
However, calling Jesus a god of war is a serious misstep. Pretty sure his most widely accepted epithet is ‘Prince of Peace’.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10%3A34&version=NIV
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
The context here is anti-family values Jesus bragging about getting family members to hate each other.
Depending on tradition, there are 72 names, but you’ll have to do your own research on that. Christians often invoke some aspect of the 72 names without apprehension of the tradition.
So what is to stop an ordinary employee from sending out a company wide email talking about their faith in Allah? Or 50 employees sending messages out about their religions?
Other than the fact that anybody who is not the director of the agency would be fired for expressing their religious views. Which means this is not at all about freedom of expressing religious views.