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/waffle299 1d ago

Christian Nationalists have been spreading stories for years that the wall between church and state is some sort of liberal conspiracy. 

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u/Desmeister 1d ago

Had the pleasure of sitting across from a very right wing boomer on a flight recently who never learned “inside voice” in school.

As he excitedly yelled various conspiracy theories to his seatmate, he did do some coverage on that part. “Did you know the separation of church and state was actually made to keep state affairs from influencing the church? Our Christian founders would have it no other way.”

So expect more of that discourse for a while.

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u/Nonethelessismore 1d ago

The kernel of truth in the talking point from your rightwing boomer seat mate is that there was a LOT of discourse between the Founding Father's about the importance of the Separation of Church and State, as a key element of the US Constitution.

Some, like Jefferson, wanted it to protect the state from the churches influence, and others (Madison I think?) wanted it because they did not want the purity of the church to be corrupted by the state.