“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.
The department, according to a copy of an internal cable obtained by POLITICO, will work with an administration-wide task force to collect information “involving anti-religious bias during the last presidential administration” and will collect examples of anti-Christian bias through anonymous employee report forms.
The cable was sent out to embassies around the world under Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s name. The instructions also were released in a department-wide notice.
What baffles me is like, if you have to set a theological standard for a government then you’ll have to persecute 99% of Christians too, cause this one flavor of evangigilical baptist or whatever that is leading the fray alienates all of the catholics and however many protestant denominations of Christianity. You cant have a Christian state and just assume all other Christians will fall in line behind your doctrine because Christianity itself can’t agree on the doctrine.
You’re missing the bigger picture of “selective enforcement”. If everyone is guilty, then there’s no need to manufacture a pretext fire them or to arrest them and throw them jail possibly in El Salvador beyond the reach of the rule of law).
Well, in regards to everyone is guilty, a large population of Christians believe in original sin, that everyone is inherently bad and you can only get into heaven by following the word of god to the letter… and if the state is the official word or God well, you better follow everything big brother says or you’ll spend an eternity in hell…
If we allow religious dogma (of any religion) to dictate public policy, I’d argue we’re already in hell.