Pete Hegseth Just Erased Atheists from the Military

Remember this is a Christian nationalist who wants to push his version of religion on everyone else.  He has denied promotion to women and black people.  He is a radical religious crusader, which I know because he has a crusader tattoo.  Years of trying to make the US military of which I was one and my dog tags read pagan for religion more inclusive are being destroyed by an administration that is filled with people who are driven to promote and push a religious domination on the military and country.  It has long been known that religious zealots infected the Air Force Academy and were pushing the evangelical version of the Christian religion.  In Germany I had to spend an uncomfortable 8 months when a fundamentalist religious group in our unit decided that as it was an open secret in the unit I was one of the gay members of the unit that was more open about it they needed to save me from my sins.  Every time I went to the chow hall one of them cornered me at a table and started to preach at me.  Not talk to me, not to offer friendship, but to tell me all about hell and how horrible I was and that their god hated how I was and  that I was in willful disobedience to their great deity.  They could save me from their already determined fate if I just joined them and gave my life to their god instead of the heathen sin some demons had infected me with.   

I got so damn frustrated with them.  Then my friends who had started eating with me to drive them away came up with a plan.  We created a religion based on greek mythogoly that we called the “House of Aphrodite”.  We drew up a few tenets of the region, one of which was that it was a sex religion and to worship everyone needed to do so with each other nude.  The last time they saw me at the chow hall and several of them tried to sit with me and my friends, my friends sprung the trap.   They told the guys we would gladly go to their church meetings and pray with them but only if they went to one of our religious meetings first.  They did not know we were religious they claimed but we assured them we were very devout.  Thinking we were talking about a “liberal” church they readily agreed and then my friends sprung the trap.   They told them about our religion The House Aphrodite and the tenets.  My friends emphasized how we all worshiped in the nude and some rituals enacted required people to touch each other even on their sexual organs to honor the goddess.  My friends played it up and I could hardly keep from laughing at the horrified looks on their faces.  Needless to say they declined our invitation to join us in worship.  But after that they never bothered me again.   Hugs