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“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.
Fuck religion, brain dead morons
I’m an atheist, but I don’t think we should hate on other people based on their religion, tbh. The problem is the institutions and persons that take advantage of people’s faith.
People are free to believe whatever they want to believe, that’s none of our business, imho; but… to whoever exploits people’s beliefs and vulnerabilities, fuck them worthless pieces of bloody shit to the infinity. Again, imho.
You know, I totally agree people are free to believe whatever they want and obviously I know and am friends with/family with people who are religious and I don’t necessarily think poorly of them on an individual basis.
However, my belief on a personal level is religion is fucking stupid and an artifact of humans from a bygone age when we were significantly dumber, unintelligent, and didn’t know anything about the world and universe. I hate religion and wish I could live long enough to see it die. It makes me so happy knowing that overall religious individuals, at least in the US, are declining year over year.
I’m aggressive about it here because this is the internet and those are my true feelings. But ya irl it would be pretty scummy to be so hostile and rude to someone based purely on their religious beliefs
Hear hear. People are trying to live their lives and grapple with the universe in a way that they can cope with. But the institutions themselves are evil, barbaric relics that belong in history books.
100%, I’ve made my distaste for religion clear but I’m honestly jealous of them sometimes. How nice would it be to truly believe there is a heaven or after life of some kind, that would be a nice feeling indeed.
You could always choose to believe in a scientifically plausible religion! Here’s one of my favorites:
Imagine a far future utopian society. Something Star Trek or better. No one wants for anything, even aging is cured.
However, utopia has a problem. How do you raise children in paradise? In a world where your every whim can be conjured up for free, how do you raise children without them turning out to be a bunch of spoiled sociopaths?
Simple. Don’t even try. Raise them in a simulation. Choose the environment carefully. Raise them in a simulation of an earlier historical era. Far enough back that they will experience some struggle, but not so far back that they’ll be living as slave in ancient Rome or something. You want to educate people, not torture them. And ideally in a period that has a concept that the future can be far more advanced than the present. Ancient societies didn’t really grok the concept of technological advancement. The 21st century is a great era to build an ancestor simulation around.
And, just like that, there’s your religion. When you ‘die’ in this life, you just wake up in the real world. Maybe there’s even a judgment component there. Maybe you have to go through several lifetimes if you don’t live a good enough life in the simulation. Are you a sociopathic billionaire in this life? Back in the tank with you, you’re going around the wheel again until you learn not to be an asshole. When you’ve shown you can live a just, noble, and compassionate life, only then are you allowed to graduate from school and enter into the real world. You’re biologically immortal, so you can just keep spinning on the wheel as long as necessary. Oh, and you’ll be reunited with all your departed family and friends, once they graduate as well.
There. A completely scientifically plausible religion that requires zero supernatural forces or entities. It rewards the virtuous, punishes the wicked, provides for the resurrection of the dead, and promises eternal paradise. No God or gods required. It’s a hybrid of Christianity and Buddhism packaged in a techno utopian wrapper. I call it “The Church of Graduation.”
Thats a fun thought, thanks for sharing
I don’t know if you’ve ever read the short story “The Egg” by Andy Wier, but if not, I think you’d like it.
https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
There is no place for religious believes in a workplace or anwhere outside basically. You have a job to do that should be defined. Where does god come into this? If you believe god forbids to do xy on the job then the job is not for you. Just quit.
I’m not particularly anti-religious, but this is essentially the “not all men” argument in clerical robes.
https://images.app.goo.gl/vhxTKcKhbYjdP9qW7
It has limits though - people can believe whatever, but they still shouldn’t harm others.
Religion is a big fuckin sham. At best it’s brainwashing people to fawn over fictional characters and at worst it’s a disgusting grift to get rich (tax free not to mention) by taking advantage of people’s fear and insecurities. The world
could useneeds more secularism.We are cursed to live in a society where most grown ass adults still believe in magic.
Religion, AI, living forever, etc. The people at the top of american society are quite possibly among the most gullible rubes to live on this planet. 45 years of low taxes has cooked our society