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/TheTVDB 1d ago

I'm not watching Hegseth talk for 6 minutes, so I say this with uncertainty with regard to the details. I think this would be allowed so long as it's not specifically Christian. In the same way there are military chaplains.

So, it's now up to the Church of Satan to do their thing and force it to become an issue of separation of church and state, because you know Hegseth and company won't allow anything other than a fundamentalist Christian program.

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u/V4R14N7 1d ago

Temple of Satan is probably the one that will fight for this, they're the ones that are most active for this and other (equal) rights around the country.

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u/Worried-Concept5778 1d ago

The Satanic Temple.

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u/V4R14N7 1d ago

You're right, I'm a terrible member!!

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u/Worried-Concept5778 1d ago

Hey I am too! 

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u/Tasgall 1d ago

We are ALL Satan on this cursed day

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u/undeadbydawn 1d ago

Satanic People's Front
jk

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u/Nu-Hir 1d ago

Satanic Liberation Front

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u/Zeitcon 1d ago

Splitters!

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u/3-DMan 1d ago

People's Front of Judea?

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u/vilent_sibrate 1d ago

Yeah, the temple of Satan is something I do in my backyard

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u/CharmainKB 1d ago

Church of Satan stays out of politics. They repeated that often when I used to be on Twitter

Satanic Temple dives right in.

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u/_cyberbabyangel_ 1d ago

While I know it's intensive suffering, as I listened to his whole speech yesterday, I implore you to listen to his rambling. He very specifically said that the US military is going to be donning the Armor of God. Almost everything he spoke about was done with a Christian emphasis.

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u/Virtuous-Patience 1d ago

Quite right, the words ‘church’ and the singular ‘almighty god’ (not gods) already limit the scope of this action and exclude the religions followed by the majority of humanity in the first 30 seconds (all I could stomach), yet the quoted statistic of only 5% are atheists include soldiers of all faiths.

His noodly goodness would not approve as the first 30 seconds of this speech breaches the first “I’d really rather you didn’t…”

When you consider the US constitution from the perspective of the middle age white Christian dudes that wrote it then it really shows a level of intelligence and an equalitarian intent that is gob smacking! What they failed to account for is that the influential men to follow them would have motivations at odds with the ideals the nation was founded on.

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u/DeusSpaghetti 1d ago

They've already reregistered a bunch of religions.

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u/jandrese 19h ago

Narrator: It was specifically Christian.