Since becoming defense secretary, Pete Hegseth has found no shortage of ways to bring his strand of conservative evangelicalism into the Pentagon.
He hosts monthly Christian worship services for employees. His department’s promotional videos have displayed Bible verses alongside military footage. In speeches and interviews, he often argues the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation and troops should embrace God, potentially risking the military’s secular mission and hard-won pluralism.
Now the defense secretary’s Christian rhetoric has taken on new meaning after the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran, an Islamic theocracy.
Religion exists solely to manufacture consent for authority. That’s it.
No...
It was a way to instill morals before public education existed.
We don't use religion for morals, and we don't use public education for it either.
And people still act fucking shocked people don't have morals.
They're not innate, humans aren't better than other animals.
And insisting that attempting to teach morals is pointless is only going to cause issues.
You might not need religion, I know I don't, but that's human variation. Some people fucking need it or they're problems for the rest of us.
Like, your comment is the most ironic thing I've seen in a very long time. You don't understand that your the problem and a complete lack of human empathy prevents you from understanding not everyone is like you.
It would be like someone with 20/20 vision spending their time trying to outlaw prescription eyeglasses.
You don't need it, and you just can't fucking imagine anyone is different than you.