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Subject line is of course my interpretation, but see if you agree.
Hegseth says he'll recenter military Chaplain Corps on faith (UPI via Yahoo)
Hegseth announced in a roughly four-minute video posted to X what he called a "top down cultural shift" that he said would put "spiritual well being on the same footing as mental and physical health." The announcement by Hegseth reflects his focus on culture war issues at the Pentagon and follows other initiatives by the Trump administration to give religion a greater role in public life.
Hegseth said that recent cultural shifts had changed the role of the Chaplain Corps, which he said was "part of the ongoing war on warriors."
"In recent decades, its role has been degraded in an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism, chaplains have been minimized, viewed by many as therapists, instead of ministers," he said. "Faith and virtue were traded for self-help and self-care."
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Executive summary: Getting rid of Democrats.
Solly Mack
(96,284 posts)NotHardly
(2,557 posts)Can hardly wait to see what his version of Chaplaincy is all about.:/
Ocelot II
(128,834 posts)He wants Christian evangelicals and conservative Catholics only, whose "faith" is secondary (or completely contradictory) to MAGA politics (forget Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, etc.). All of the major religions and belief systems embrace the concept of altruism expressed in the Golden Rule. They all advocate loving your neighbor, feeding the hungry, welcoming the stranger, etc. Spiritual well-being is essential to mental and physical health, even if your spirituality isn't tied to any religious belief system. A significant aspect of seminary training in most faiths is some form of psychological counseling; if all a chaplain ever does is advise a person to pray harder or say a few more Hail Marys, they aren't doing their job. But I guess Manly Man Who Doesn't Like Woke Jesus just wants chaplains who'll tell people to stop whining and stop sinning. If the chaplain learns that the person is struggling with their sexuality, said chaplain must tell them to stop being gay or trans if they don't want to go to Hell, and then turn them in to their superior officer so they can be kicked out of the service.
NCDem47
(3,315 posts)Why are you so damaged and void of any decency?
keep_left
(3,143 posts)...at EWTN--that last paragraph might as well be a direct quote of the kind of crap seen and heard daily from the radtrad media machine (EWTN, Relevant Radio, etc.). I'm sure Raymond Arroyo will have Hegseth on his execrable World Over nightly "news" show for a lengthy interview in the coming days.
Dave Bowman
(6,535 posts)clevergrrrl
(122 posts)Trumpism is a Maoist doctrine.
drmeow
(5,892 posts)to see that man executed for crimes against humanity.
get the red out
(13,943 posts)It will be unofficially required, and only in a specific Christian version. Adherence to one interpretation of one ancient religious book (which is impossible to prove true) will be considered equal to physical and mental health.