US tells government employees to report on one another for "anti-Christian bias"

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...". George Washington stressed freedom of religion as a fundamental American principle even before the First Amendment was ratified. Welcome back to the Inquisition. Or perhaps rebirth of the Blockwart ? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Blockwart

And having successfully evicted all Muslims, Jews, Atheists, and "non-Christians" from government, we can then get back to what this country is really about: Protestants fighting over power with Catholics, Anabaptists, Presbyterians, Mormons, and so forth.

You ain't seen nothing yet.

    The [State] department ... 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.

This aligns with the WhiteHouse' order to eradicate attacks on all faiths, as long as they are Christian.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/erad...

Somebody having for their own reasons flagged the other post, I will have to write it again: this article was submitted as this input from the current adminstration seems relevant in those times when attempts at knowledge engineering (in the form of LLMs) are greatly concentrated in the USA.

As written in the other post, aspects of the action in question seem to suggest a potential for the reduction of "debate" to low standards. It is a drive that could be concerning not just in general, but especially in light of the historic efforts abovesaid.

The original post should be still visible for most - it just says the same in other terms. (Note: it was already heavily hit before I encouraged the silent attackers to grow speech and fingers - then it got flagged.)

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Addendum: furthermore, a factor with consequences will remain a sense of distrust towards the institutions. Very rightfully, as the article said, one part notes that «targeting anyone for their religious beliefs is discriminatory and is contrary to the Constitution». But other parts will be afraid that «in reality, it will weaponize a narrow understanding of [etc.]». There have been many signals that bring to doubt that matters will be treated with all respect to complexity - point that was strongly made in the original post.

25% of the Swedish population migrated to the US during the 1800s. A large portion of those were very christian. Essentially they migrated because their christian beliefs were "too extreme" for the state protestant church here at the time.

I've always wondered if that's how Sweden ended up mostly agnostic/atheist and part of the explanation for why the US ended up being so very religious.

sigh 1379 days...

It is scary that this could be used for... nearly anything? "Omg I am oppressed because this person has rights". Someone bad that someone else got a promotion and just looking for a "justifiable" reason to be upset that removes any personal responsibility or an easy explanation of "why".

I honestly don't even know how to respond to this anymore.

I feel like we are weeks away from Trump trying to actually make an official religion or some other crap like that.