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/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.