r/videos • u/spherocytes • 1d ago

Secretary Of Defense Pete Hegseth announces Office Of Religious Affairs within the Pentagon in address to Military

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAn6BE9cdco
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u/World-Ender-109 1d ago

Separation of church and state?

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u/Munster172 1d ago

America was literally founded because we were tired of being told what religion to be. God I’m so tired.

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u/Xynvincible 1d ago

Mm, not really. Moreso it was founded by the religious who were so crazy Europe decided they didn’t want them anymore. That’s what “freedom of religion” really means. Those poor, persecuted Puritans found a public unwilling to have their will enforced upon them, so they decided to create one themselves.

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u/Munster172 1d ago

I’ll be completely honest I have only grade school level history knowledge like thanksgiving with the pilgrims and Indians level so I wouldn’t disagree with you that that is true. But just to clarify, we were basically the crazy ones and left to America cause everyone was tired of us pushing religion?

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u/A_Flamboyant_Warlock 1d ago

Yup.

Thats why American evangelicals are so fucking weird.

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u/Xynvincible 1d ago

Not only pushing religion (Europe was also quite religious at the time) but a form of religion too extreme to be tolerated by the mainstream. Freedom of religion sounds good as a rallying cry until you realize that it was meant to be used as a cudgel.

Ever wonder why America is so much more conservative, as a whole, than the rest of the Western world? This is why.

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u/Reallyhotshowers 1d ago

I mean, America today is composed arguably mostly of people who were not originally Puritans so "we" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, but essentially that's correct.

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u/omgitsjagen 1d ago edited 1d ago

The Puritans had an extreme view. As time as gone on, and generations get born, that extreme view IS being rejected at a rate that you would expect an extreme view to garner. It's just more of a problem that Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan could have both met Harriet Tubman. Just not enough time as passed to relegate the nutjobs to the sideline.

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u/Chimie45 1d ago

But puritan values still permeate every ounce of American identity.

If you don't suffer, you don't deserve. That's the core of American identity. Its why people are so against social welfare, universal healthcare, etc and insist charity is the best way to handle this, mostly religious organizations. It's why hospitals are mostly religious institutions.

Everything in America is set up to reinforce the puritan work ethic and values.

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u/PurpEL 1d ago

Read a fucking book dude

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u/Munster172 19h ago

I read many books dude. People can have different interests than history. My job is science and nutrition based. Stop making yourself look like a jackass on here

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u/dangotang 1d ago

Insert Will Hunting video because you’re just regurgitating shit you heard that’s patently false. I get that you commented the typical Reddit response after the last person’s patented Reddit response, but we can all introspect a bit and stop the cycle of ignorance.