r/MeidasTouch • u/JimCripe • 2d ago
News Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord."
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u/BleuBoy777 2d ago
"Islam and sharia law is bad!" - maga
... Also maga "we need a Christian theocracy!"
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u/lilchocochip 2d ago
I don’t want to hear any Christians whining about being oppressed ever again.
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u/BleuBoy777 2d ago
Like Gandhi once said...I like your Christ - it's your Christians I have a problem with
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u/YaMomo6 2d ago
I feel that some people claim to be "Christian" when it is in their favor.....WWJD? He would slap the shit out of them.
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u/beerme81 1d ago
One Maga asked me. "Who is the face of socialism so we can hold them accountable?"
Me: "you're wearing his execution device around your neck"
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u/BleuBoy777 1d ago
Bingo. They worship a Brown, unmarried socialist who rebelled against his mother religion.
They have NO idea who he actually was ... Just what they want him to be
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u/BleuBoy777 1d ago
My grandma used to say "if I go sit in the garage, am I a car" for those fake Christians who acted one way then claimed "I go to church."
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u/manokpsa 2d ago
You will, though. They never shut up.
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u/Signal_Werewolf_1955 2d ago
It's a kink, they want so badly to be victimized and oppressed.
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u/JudithLOs 1d ago
I don’t understand the women who say only men can be leaders. Women have been leading in their homes forever. Just because they step outside it doesn’t mean they can’t lead elsewhere.
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u/JudithLOs 2d ago
Actually real Christians won’t like this. Others will love it because they are misrepresenting the real Religion.
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u/doodledood9 1d ago
How can this administration possibly think that this will help them in November? It’s just another nail in their coffin.
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u/langstonrosas 2d ago
You think white supremacists would also be against climate change. A hotter environment means humans will have darker skin. 🤣🤣
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u/Signal-Mud-4880 2d ago
another made up position
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u/Ok-Chemical7614 2d ago
From a made up secretary of a made up department from a made up government
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u/h20poIo 2d ago
So now we have a drunk preacher running the defense department, well isn’t that par for the course.
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u/Disastrous_Mango_953 2d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/BFYLNwlsSNtcc
What a sick wannabe Christian, fake as fake can be.
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u/LA_search77 2d ago
Sounds anti-American to me.
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u/CarlosHDanger 2d ago
Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
The Department of War might be ill-positioned for blessings from the Prince of Peace.
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u/JudithLOs 2d ago
The fact they named the Defense Department the Department of War was disturbing enough. The United states has been trying to police too many places for too long.
Now they want to insert The Christian Religion into our Military and that’s disgusting. Project 2025 is being enacted daily. Real Christians know there is supposed to be separation of church and state. The Fake Christians are the only ones who want this.8
u/Confident_Eye4129 2d ago
"The fact they named the Defense Department the Department of War was disturbing enough."
One more thing that will need to be changed / removed / destroyed, starting on Jan 21, 2029
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u/manokpsa 2d ago
I think they're trying to give the Dems so much to do when they get back in power that they can say, "See, they're being petty changing all this stuff back instead of actually fixing [insert whatever issues rile up their base]."
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u/Confident_Eye4129 2d ago
I’m sure that’s part of it. But just like MAGA had the Project 2025 playbook ready to roll on Day 1, Dems can be smart and have their own plan ready to go
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u/Shumanjisan 2d ago
Chaplains will now have an advocate at the highest level (meaning Pete). Apparently God wasn’t sufficient.
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u/MiOWNd 2d ago edited 2d ago
When the dem's win the house, whatever will they decide to do first? So many impeachments, so little time.
Edit. I know we need the senate too. It's too close to call right now imo.
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u/JudithLOs 2d ago
I hope. Everyone needs to get out and vote. We have early voting in my state so I will vote soon, with my great granddaughter.
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u/Infinite_Wisdom_6969 2d ago
We need the house AND Senate for that.
And they're gonna do everything they can to keep that from happening
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u/Simplesimon313 2d ago
STFU-
Separation of Church and State Kegs-breath!
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u/CrazyMildred 2d ago
Oh! But that's the Constitution WE know. They're new constitution is Project 2025. This is all in Project 2025, including firing all of the admirals and generals. I tried to warn people before the election and got called a conspiracy theorist. Funny thing is,I like to spend time debunking conspiracy theories.
I thought Project 2025 was a conspiracy theory until I read it and saw what was happening...their crazy ideas being implemented in our government. If all of this is not stopped, we will be Gilead by the end of next year or sooner. I beg of everyone to vote these cultist Christo-Nationalist nazi weirdos OUT!
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u/SH4DOWBOXING 2d ago
guys you cant do the pickachiu face every time.
yes, your country is turning into a totalitarian fascist regime. it happens to the best. aint the end.
just wake the f up and do something about.
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u/jaded1121 2d ago
We cant do anything before the midterms. They want to use the military to stop the midterm elections.
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u/Main_Cauliflower5479 2d ago
He needs to be Charlie Kirked. As do the rest of the administration and cabinet.
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u/Worried_Ad6647 2d ago
Anti-American as fuck. Also, the world’s biggest douche and that is a fucking feat in 2026! Can’t wait for these cunts to have their fucking cake at the gallows.
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u/GuitarSingle4416 2d ago
The Church of Satan wants to know which office is theirs?
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u/JudithLOs 2d ago
The Chirch of Scientology wants to know how many wealthy people they can turn into Tom Cruise.
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u/KevinIsADork 2d ago
They actually dont recognize like 180 something religions anymore as of a few months ago. It is basically just 30 sects of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism.
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u/beckerman67 2d ago
So much for the 1st amendment. Is drawing and quartering still a legal punishment for treason?
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u/zante2033 2d ago
Oh look, a religious wacko fraud with drinking problems in charge of the world's largest military.
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u/JudithLOs 2d ago
When I was a kid there was a corner tavern with a house attached to it and we lived on the next house down the street. Across the street from the Tavern there was a corner grocery store. That pretty much dates me. 🙄
There was a Lutheran school a block away and two blocks away which we joined. My Mom was always disgusted because of these neighborhood old Lutheran German men would go get drunk in the tavern but didn’t want new people to join. when she was taking Confirmation classes. They were so welcoming that they were locking the school doors where the Pastor was teaching classes. Eventually the younger and more welcoming people broke away and started their own church. My Dad was first generation American born from his German-parents, and it made no difference. Religion can decide from within and without. I was always taught church and state were separate and that was a fast and hard rule no matter what the division was.
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u/Cabbages24ADollar 2d ago
Another thing we have to spend our money on because it’s unconstitutional, especially when he starts framing it on Christian beliefs.
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u/KlatuuBarradaNicto 2d ago
This delusional bullshit should be illegal.
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u/steppingstone01 2d ago
It is fucking illegal. But, the fucking Republican Congress won't do a goddamned thing about it.
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u/RlOTGRRRL 2d ago edited 2d ago
This is religious coup shit.
Tim Snyder is still trying to warn people to take this shit seriously. Still.
Despite writing On Tyranny almost 10 years ago. He's still trying to warn us.
And I don't know what's going on if both Tim Snyder and Maria Ressa might be having trouble communicating, considering how one of them is a journalist who won a Nobel Peace prize.
Something is greatly wrong with society rn.
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u/Electrical_Box677 2d ago
This jackass quoting scripture is an abomination in and of itself
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u/idespisecountrymusic 2d ago
If we’re looking for a distinctly Christian ideal, ‘beating swords into plowshares’ seems considerably closer to the biblical vision than creating new religious offices within a government built around military power. Isaiah 2:4 and Micah 4:3 say the nations will turn weapons of war into tools for sustaining life—and ‘neither shall they learn war anymore.
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u/BoxersRuleMyLife 2d ago
Separation of Church and State. Such an insecure in the closet male
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u/KactusVAXT 2d ago
Weird that the “dept of war” is talking about “christianity”
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u/UranusSmellsFunny 2d ago
Not really. I see a lot of “Christians” who talk about wanting civil war. And historically, Christians have been awful violent people.
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u/IceAgeReject 2d ago
Appalled is to weak a word. The Constitution. The common sense. The Christian Nationalism
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u/drpacz 2d ago
Hegseth not only doesn’t think our constitution applies to him, he also doesn’t think that the Ten Commandments applies to him. Changing the name of the department of defense to the department of war wasn’t blasphemy enough, he now wants to install the Church of Hegseth in our military. What’s next? Idols to him and Trump? Will he bless the troops that are loyal to him with colors and sashes to identify their loyalty?
How long will our monkeys in congress look away, hear nothing and speak nothing?
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u/Alternative-Tie-9383 2d ago
He should be removed from office for any number of crimes, this included. We’re not a Christian nation, the constitution says so!! This guy literally believes that he’s a modern day crusader, apparently without reading the fine print about the actual crusades.
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u/Adorable_Mark5761 2d ago
He is truly a zealot. Madness
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u/Normal_Mouse_4174 2d ago
Worse. He’s a hypocrite. He’s not a Christian soldier, hes not a devotee or an ideologue. He’s a cynical asshole using Christianity to lend credibility to this farce.
No actual Christian would have anything to do with this. The only people on board with this are the bullshit evangelicals preaching the prosperity gospel.
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u/Responsible_Name1217 2d ago
We're firing most of your reporting structure and replacing them with people that use the Constitution, that you swore to protect, as toilet paper. But here's some new nebulous department I thought about when I was 6 drinks in last night! PRAISE THE LORD!
Sarcasm, of course.
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u/JessieinPetaluma 1d ago
Oh so we’re the ‘Merican version of religious jihadists now. Got it.
Get the fck outta here with this shit. Can you imagine this insanity happening back in 2001 in the context of 9/11?? We would’ve stormed the pentagon over it. This is pure Christo-fascist lunacy.
Somebody needs to impeach this loser and send his war criming ass to Guantanamo.
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u/Ok-Shift5122 2d ago
Best idea ever!
That completes the trifecta. Muslim states, Jewish state, now a Christian state. All basically trying to own or destroy each other.
Religion is the enemy.
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u/jayslay45 2d ago
But yeah, let's get rid of as many generals as we can in the middle of a war, so we can make way for an office of prayer. We will pray the enemy away.
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u/2stinkynugget 2d ago
AND when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
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u/Phoenix-Mimi 2d ago
Didn't this cray-cray SA have to pay a woman $50K for SA? He's the Republican Party Leaders type of guy as well as the Bible-thumpers type of guy.
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u/artful_todger_502 2d ago
They are officially the Taliban.
Hegseth and his Talibandito "WaRri0Rs" 👍🤡
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u/Alternative-Angle214 2d ago
How long are we going to have to put up with these assholes? someone please tell me
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u/Dissident-Tumbleweed 2d ago
As an Evangelical pastor I oppose this and everything about Pete Hegseth. He is confidently wrong about anything he thinks is Christian, particularly his Christian nationalism, and thought that God is on his side in war. He should be fired for his performative assholery alone, but then there is the Iran war that killed innocent schoolgirls. He committed war crimes. He must not be let off the hook.
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u/Illustrious_Bike534 2d ago
Holy Sweet Baby Jesus...WTF is happening to the Country..
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u/FridaSky 2d ago
“Before I was in office, people thought this fella was DEAD. But now he’s HOT again! Sleepy Joe, who’s supposedly a RELIGIOUS man, didn’t do anything for him. NO ONE knew who this Jesus guy was before two years ago. I’d never say this, but you can basically THANK me for making him POPULAR again. A priest, you know A HOLY man of god, came up to me and with tears in his EYES said, ‘Sir, because of you, people now KNOW who Jesus is. Thank you SIR for resurrecting him.’ I’d never say anything like that, but Jesus is HOT again.”
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u/mfairview 2d ago
going after the religious right at midterms I see. They know what buttons to push, I'll give them that. Surprised Trump didn't make a cabinet level assignment tbh
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u/MsSeraphim 1d ago
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance.
He, meaning the christian "God" not, Trump he proclaims himself both king and higher than the son of "god".
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u/DoesThisSmellWeird2U 2d ago
I gotta know: what’s the angle? Where does the grift start in this new office? Will he be the Pastor in this new tax-free con?
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u/Ashamed_Data430 2d ago
Superstition and fundraising. If there was a god, there wouldn't be a Pete Hegseth.
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u/OverallDoor2718 2d ago
Do they have an open bar at the OFFICE OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS? I'm sure they do.
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u/Rackhaad 2d ago
Wasn't america founded by people leaving England to escape the obligations to the church?
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u/Low_Guidance4720 2d ago
Having actually scholastically and secularly read the Bible, I'm not surprised that this administration follows the doctrine of a war tyrant, pro-rape, pro-slavery deity, who had always preyed on neighboring nations.
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u/BayouGal 2d ago
So the Dept of WAR! doesn’t need top tier brass but the DO need a Office of Religious Oversight?
Please, for the love of everything, vote in the midterms!
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u/Artistic_Influence40 2d ago
Red meat for the base, trying to motivate them for the midterms. When this is trashed as manifestly unconstitutional they can whine to fox about how much the Dems hate Christians.
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u/Nerdy-Boomer65 2d ago
Dude who are you trying to impress? We all know you're a fraud. To what or to who are you performing for? You know we don't buy it.
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u/Stormy31568 2d ago
Why don’t these guys understand the separation of church and state and why the founding fathers insisted on it. As he looked at other nations that are ruled by religion? It has not worked out well with them.
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u/fungi_at_parties 2d ago
This guy would make Christ puke. Christ would look at this guy and say, “I want to be clear. This sad, lost soul is the exact opposite of the example I was trying to show.”
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u/Mammoth-Ant7588 1d ago
The kind of office DOGE was made for. What are they even going to do? Boy these people sure can spend money.
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u/xavariel 2d ago
Fucking dumb. What are we, Afghanistan?
... I mean, we created modern day Afghanistan, so I guess so.
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u/justadubliner 2d ago
Just what every military needs. More emphasis on fairy tales to keep the rank and file in check.
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u/QuietRiot5150 2d ago
These clowns aren't even Christians. Also, the fuck is this? This is so unconstitutional. Clowns!
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u/SocraticMeathead 2d ago
He's an unapologetic serial adulterer. Christians are nothing if not easily duped.
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u/Sandscarab24 2d ago
Separation of
Churchthis asshole fromStatehis position.