Since becoming defense secretary, Pete Hegseth has found no shortage of ways to bring his strand of conservative evangelicalism into the Pentagon.
He hosts monthly Christian worship services for employees. His department’s promotional videos have displayed Bible verses alongside military footage. In speeches and interviews, he often argues the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation and troops should embrace God, potentially risking the military’s secular mission and hard-won pluralism.
Now the defense secretary’s Christian rhetoric has taken on new meaning after the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran, an Islamic theocracy.
A fake christian who just uses it to manipulate. I’m not christian but I recognize a manipulator and the soft brained snowflakes who blindly follow anyone making the right grunts and hoots of their faith.
My brother in Baphomet, they’re all fake. Religion exists solely to manufacture consent for authority. That’s it.
Religion, government, business, a non profit, it doesn’t matter what it is, people will assume a position of authority in whatever power structure that has space, and corrupt it. It’s not unique to religion. It’s only because religion has been corrupted by people desiring power, that people hate religion. But in that same vein, the fight should be about dismantling power structures and creating equality. Which, would be in line with some religions, ironically.
No, in your list only religious people told me I was going to hell when I was 12 because I wouldn’t disown my lesbian parents. The kind of corruption and evil entitlement that people get is indeed unique to religion.
What role did religion play when my sisters ex partner, who was an atheist, beat the shit out of her and raped her? Please explain, as my life experiences are clearly limited.
What does that have to do with anything I said? Nobody was talking about domestic abuse.
I’m sorry, I thought we were interjecting personal experience as conjecture.
In direct response to your original comment, you have proven my point exactly. People who were in a position of power/authority abused it. It doesn’t matter what the modus operandi is when the fundamental consequence is the same. People want power, people get it, people abuse it. It’s not inherently unique to any one thing in humanity, it’s ubiquitous.
You made a list. I was commenting on the list elements vs each other, not anything that wasn’t on the list. My comment was not intended to prove or disapprove any point since yours and mine were both opinions.
You started off your comment by saying no. This indicates a negative position. Since you responded to my comment, I can only assume you are taking a negative position against my comment.
Then you followed that position up with anecdotal evidence, not responding to the key position I maintain; that this is not unique to religion, but every structure in which power and positions of authority exist. If it exists, it can be corrupted. Again, modus operandi, does not matter, since that is inherently a key part of my position.
If you were just commenting a personal experience, then why did you start off with, “No”? What is your position in this debate? Because, I am finding myself further, and further lost.
Nope, my MAGA coworker hates gay people and is staunchly Athiest.
Ask him if he’s also pro life? If he is he has to support gay people. They get less abortions than anyone!
I’m sure he’d pivot away to something else, considering that he pivoted from talking about trans rights to try and say “I shouldn’t have to worry about walking with my daughters down the street and walking into two dudes making out.” Basically suggesting that gay and trans people are the source of moral decay in the U.S.
The guy is the literal poster child of boomer moral decay, by the way. Digustingly obese, entitled, racist, MAGA.
To be fair, I wasn’t being serious. That’s a Cliff Cash joke
Well, I’m an idiot and sometimes I need help 😂
No…
It was a way to instill morals before public education existed.
We don’t use religion for morals, and we don’t use public education for it either.
And people still act fucking shocked people don’t have morals.
They’re not innate, humans aren’t better than other animals.
And insisting that attempting to teach morals is pointless is only going to cause issues.
You might not need religion, I know I don’t, but that’s human variation. Some people fucking need it or they’re problems for the rest of us.
Like, your comment is the most ironic thing I’ve seen in a very long time. You don’t understand that your the problem and a complete lack of human empathy prevents you from understanding not everyone is like you.
It would be like someone with 20/20 vision spending their time trying to outlaw prescription eyeglasses.
You don’t need it, and you just can’t fucking imagine anyone is different than you.
Absolutely stunning.
Honestly, that’s it in a nutshell. The complete lack of human empathy is the issue. Whatever tools are available for someone to take advantage of, will be. Humans are animals. We like to act like we’re some superior species, advanced so far, but in the grand scheme of the universe and knowledge, we’re so young. We know absolutely nothing. The arrogance of humanity.
No, the problem is there is no innate human empathy for humans…
Just for “us” which was likely the reason every species close to us, isn’t around anymore.
Oxytocin is pivotal neurotransmitters for group bonding, it’s why we get lonely, fall in love, and think babies are adorable despite being disgusting.
But oxytocin also makes us hate “them”
Where “them” is anything we weren’t exposed to as toddlers.
Racism/bigotry is baked into humans, and it takes effort to teach every generation that “us” is a very very wide group. Where “them” is basically just billionaires and people doing their building. That’s already where the wealthy have been drawing the line for centuries.
It’s like socializing a puppy around cats so that when the puppy grows up it doesn’t have a prey instinct kick in and chase cats.
We need to socialize kids so that when they grow up they don’t freak out over diversity.
And we’ll never be able to stop, every single generation till the end of humanity will need that step
No true Scotsman.
Chuckles in all religions
Can’t miss out if you dedicate yourself to all the religions!
Then you die and find Anubis weighing your heart and he’s all “Surprise, Motherfucker!”.
And I’m like, “Huh, I figured pirating was gonna weigh something but that seems a little much”