from the holy-shit dept

The injection and prioritization of religion into government institutions, specifically Christianity, is a very real thing. This sort of Christo-fascism shows up in a variety of ways. Attempts to inject Judeo-Christian icons and messages into public classrooms . Pete Hegseth’s attempt to create a “ Religious Affairs ” office at the Pentagon, likewise trying to claim that this office wouldn’t favor any particular religion, which is obviously bullshit. The GOP’s general insistence that the IRS should not be targeting any particular group over its ideological or religious stances, when they are all too happy to target all sorts of other groups for their own ideological stances.

The desire to wrap the flag in faith is a longstanding tradition among authoritarian governments.…