LINK Secretary Mike Pompeo Goes Full Christian on U.S. State Department Homepage | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos
The U.S. State Department has apparently gone full Christian.
At least that’s how it appears if you click on the website’s homepage, where you’ll find a photo of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo above the headline “Being A Christian Leader.”
If that isn’t creepy, I don’t know what is. Replace “Christian” with any other religious label and you can imagine FOX News covering nothing else for days on end....
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Pompeo was once asked if he believed that God made Trump president “to help save the Jewish people from the Iranian menace.” His answer was “It’s possible.” Pompeo has also said the wars plaguing the Middle East are a “never-ending struggle” until “the rapture.”
Really, this is so typical of evangelical Christians. They’re all fine with climate chaos, fanatical religious factions murdering innocent people all over the world, and the villainous and vile people like Trump running the world. Pompeo is no different.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I should qualify that and say his remarks were made at a conference so that is fine but it should not be on the website.
GreatNani
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Oct 15, 2019
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I actually have issues with a government official speaking AS a government official endorsing religious views as well. Christianity is not supposed to "inform" his position as Secretary of State. America is explicitly a secular nation, whereas he represents himself as a Christian in all his dealings and sees America as a Christian nation. Our position on the Middle East is affected by his explicit religious beliefs. We've given the green light to settlement building and moved our embassy because we are explicitly on Israel's side. We've basically given up on the peace process, we've decided the only peace is for Israel to own everything.
This is nothing new, it's been the case with former government officials (John Ashcroft, for example, anointed himself like King David- talk about crazy) but Pompeo's taking it to a level I don't believe we have seen before.
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