Government Workers Say They’re Getting Inundated With Religion
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“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    12·
    4 days ago

    In a sermon delivered before Christmas, Franklin Graham told members of the military that “God is also a god of war.” On Good Friday, the DOD hosted a prayer service only for Protestants. A Pentagon spokesperson later told HuffPo that the “Pentagon Chaplain Office’s priest is not in town.” Hegseth has repeatedly framed the US war in Iran as a “holy war,” calling Iranians “barbaric savages” and called on Americans to pray for victory “in the name of Jesus Christ.”

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lGCqv37O2Dg

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        5·
        4 days ago

        It’s pretty wild. You can find copies of the Ethiopian Bible in English, which is the most complete Bible, to date, although mistranslations are certainly in there as well, and it doesn’t contain the Book of Adam and Eve, and perhaps another book or two. It’s kind of difficult to properly translate without reading ancient Aramaic, as well. I had to give myself a hiatus from studying it because I don’t know Aramaic of any sort, and it’s a long, slow, tedious process. If time, money, and proper education aren’t factors, and one is interested, it’s worth the time, as it’s extremely fascinating.

        • TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com
          6·
          4 days ago

          Back when I was a clinic escort, we had a group of fundamentalist catholics we had to deal with. One of our escorts was a retired college professor who was fond of reading the early greek versions of the bible. Needless to say, there have been quite a few changes since then, and she always had fun with one of the picketers who liked to spout off bible verses, and she’d say, “Well, but it didn’t originally say that…”