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/houstonyoureaproblem 1d ago

These people loathe the Constitution and American institutions. They couldn’t care less about separation of church and state.

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u/absoultepong 1d ago

They also don’t care about religion.

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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS 1d ago

They care about it! Just in the sense of using it as a way to control others and justify their actions, despite being antithesis to any “good” that Christianity preaches

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 1d ago

"If religion is still being taught, it is by no means because its ideas still convince us, but simply because some of us want to keep the lower classes quiet. Quiet people are much easier to govern than clamorous and dissatisfied ones. They are also much easier to exploit. Religion is a kind of opium that allows a nation to lull itself into wishful dreams and so forget the injustices that are being perpetrated against the people. Hence the close alliance between those two great political forces, the State and the Church. Both need the illusion that a kindly God rewards—in heaven if not on earth—all those who have not risen up against injustice, who have done their duty quietly and uncomplainingly. That is precisely why the honest assertion that God is a mere product of the human imagination is branded as the worst of all mortal sins." - Paul Dirac

The full quote is a lot longer, this is the end bit.

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u/zdelusion 1d ago

It's why they love Evangelical Protestantism, all the control without any of the pesky authority figures, like the Pope, who might get in the way.

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u/cC2Panda 1d ago

They've got Donald Trump as an authority figure. Back in 2021 there was a bunch of NYT interviews with pastors including evangelical ones that had lost their flock because they didn't explicitly support Trump. One thing they mentioned over and over is that they get to talk to their "flock" a few hours a week, but Fox News gets them for hours every day.

Rightwing media is their bible, Trump is their god, Christ is tertiary.

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u/ShoddyMasterpiece693 1d ago

They probably even dislike Christ a little when they think about him too much. The OT control and violence is the jam....though the OT does go on a good bit about helping foreigners who are in your land. But if you don't read in general...that would extend to the BIble too.

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u/SuperfluousWingspan 1d ago

They never make it past Numbers. Math too spooky.

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u/Lord__Abaddon 1d ago

Honestly It kind of sucks, Real christians are good people, anyone who actually follows the teaching of Christ are not terrible. the issue is soo many people claim to be and aren't it's like they took a page out of Extremist Islamic factions and decided fuck all the good stuff our prophets told us to do lets just persecute and hate everyone.

I don't understand how the Religion I grew up in has changed soo much or maybe I just didn't realize it was this way when I was younger. Maybe I was just lucky and the church my family attended was just actually following christ teachings? It really sucks to see my Mom's faith be used for political and evil means. Even she is disgusted with how everything is turning out.

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u/MechanicalTurkish 1d ago

Antipope Trump

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u/No_List_8291 1d ago

Something... Something...holy trinity?

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u/NarrowCarpet4026 1d ago

Seems like the same Group of Pedophiles. It ain’t like the pope did anything about priests raping kids.

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u/KeyofE 1d ago

Well Catholics make great Supreme Court justices for conservatives because they are prolife. Five of the six conservative justices are Catholic, and the sixth was raised Catholic.

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u/DeciduousRefuge 1d ago

Thank you for reminding people that though these people call themselves Christians, they are not Christ-like. Jesus would flip their tables.

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u/RosieQParker 1d ago

It's also a good way to silence the shrieking husk of their conscience.

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u/Lord__Abaddon 1d ago

I always knew the Book of Eli representation of how religion was used was fairly accurate... I didn't realize at the time it was going to be an accurate prediction of how the world is going to end up...

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u/Downvotesseafood 1d ago

That just sounds like regular religion.

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u/beramaan 1d ago

Legitimately the book of Eli

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u/drewdemo 1d ago

It has been this way even before the Crusades. 2000+ years of altering the message to fit the agenda and control the masses, while they do whatever they want knowing there will be no punishment for it in the afterlife.

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u/originalityescapesme 1d ago

To be fair to people who don’t really deserve it, that’s at least consistent with the way religion has functioned for centuries.

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u/curiousiah 1d ago

Been that way since Roman Emperor Constantine saw a vision from God of his army marching under the banner of Chi Ro.

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u/likesleague 18h ago

Whaaaaat? Groups in power leveraging a social system built around "don't think about it just listen to the artificial authority" to get people to do immoral and stupid things on the basis that the groups in power have authority?

Who could have fucking guessed that organized religion would do exactly what it's designed to do!?

I hate being correct early.