“The Freedom From Religion Foundation denounces a new State Department directive that encourages employees to anonymously report alleged “anti-Christian bias” among colleagues.
This is a dangerous and unconstitutional move that promotes religious favoritism under the guise of protecting religious freedom. As reported by Politico, the directive is part of a broader executive order to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” from the federal government. The directive states that the department is soliciting reports of “anti-religious bias” on the part of the previous presidential administration. It specifically urges employees to come forward if they experienced repercussions for “refusing to participate in events or activities that promote themes inconsistent with or hostile to one’s religious beliefs” — language broad enough to include diversity trainings or inclusion efforts that were standard policy under the prior administration.
“This directive is reminiscent of the Red Scare or authoritarian regimes where citizens are encouraged to inform on each other, which creates fear, paranoia and the suppression of dissent,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “It is deeply antithetical to the values of a secular democracy and poses a direct threat to genuine religious liberty.”” – FFRF excoriates State Department’s chilling “anti-Christian bias” witch hunt.
Curious how Christians are the most “anti-christian” when it comes to attacking each other. I grew up watching protestants hating catholics, and catholics hating protestants, and them both hating JWs and mormons, etc. They still do this.
So it’s quite a circular firing squad when it come to christian hate. As I’ve said before, as soon as one christian version of the cult gets control, we’ll have an immediate religious war amongst them all.
And for your delectation, memes from christians attacking each other:
Club Schadenfreude 
Nothing surprises me regarding this dictatorship.
So, I can “anonymously” report someone for telling a joke about a Jew, a Muslim, and Jesus Christ walking into a bar?
The regime with a cavalier attitude about the nation’s secrets is worried because I think Christianity, along with all religion, is bull shit? (In agreement with most of those other religions.)
I have to wonder how that anonymous part works. And then what? A bad performance report? Fired? The rack? Stoned?
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exactly. waht is this meant to do? And it really shows how christains are simply cowards.
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I feel like this could be exploited. Can we file complaints about anti-Catholic bias from an Evangelical superior or something similar?
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I didn’t mean to add a “?”
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So, as an Atheist, what will happen to me if a Christian says God bless you after I sneeze, and I say that is not necessary as I’m a non-believer and then tell them there is no need to bless me ever again.
Or is this directive strictly for Muslims? How do the Jews fit into this? Or even the rest of em, Scientologists, Mormons, The Satanic Temple (and so on). This Directive really needs some clarification.
PS, I ignore all the God bless you statements I get. Mostly for the sake of not having to deal with ignorant religious types. I do not need the stress at my age. I do inform my closer co-workers I am an Atheist and drop it there. If someone persists, I keep pounding them with logic and science until their frustration takes over and they fall into their cognitive dissonance/willful ignorance mode. That result actually makes me depressed because it reveals their mind’s blindness, and that saddens me.
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Odd, the persecutors almost always seem to claim “they,” are the persecuted. Projection, all the way down.
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I don’t think any society can have true equality and egalitarianism. Someone must rule, and that means they will favor their own interests. As Jesus said:
Luke 11:23
23 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1989), Lk 11:23.
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Yep, the bible has that in it, and it’s just more humans inventing garbage to have power over other humans.
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I hear what you’re saying, but isn’t that what everyone is doing? Isn’t every group trying to gain power for themselves, and thus limiting the freedom of those who take the opposite view? Aren’t Atheists doing this? Secularists? Just think about what that organization is called, The Freedom From Religion Foundation, what does that tell you about the kind of policies they want to implement? Will they be policies that empower Christians?
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Unsurprisingly, it isn’t the secularists who are trying to force their beliefs on others. Theists can worship whatever they want, they just can’t force it on others by making it law. So attempts to claim “but they are just the same” is simply false. And why would they empower christians over anyone else? Why do christain need empowered since they keep insisting this is a “Christian country”? With how christains constantly attack each other, each doesn’t want the others to be “empowered”.
The freedom from religion foundation is set up to keep theists from forcing their beliefs on others. In schools, they keep christians from forcing one of many versions on others in a public setting. Christians. You might want to see what the FFRF mission is:
“What is FFRF’s purpose
The history of Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion.
In modern times, the first to speak out for prison reform, for humane treatment of the mentally ill, the abolition of capital punishment, women’s right to vote, death with dignity for the terminally ill, and the right to choose contraception, sterilization and abortion have been freethinkers, just as they were the first to call for an end to slavery.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation works as an umbrella for those who are free from religion and are committed to the cherished principle of separation of state and church. As FFRF’s principal founder, Anne Gaylor, noted, “To be free from religion is an advantage for individuals; it is a necessity for government.”
What is FFRF’s purpose?
The purposes of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., as stated in its bylaws, are to promote the constitutional principle of separation of state and church and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
Incorporated in 1978 in Wisconsin, FFRF is the nation’s largest freethought association with more than 39,000 freethinkers: atheists, agnostics and skeptics of any pedigree. FFRF is a non-profit, tax-exempt educational organization under Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3). All dues and contributions are deductible for income tax purposes.”
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