Christian nationalist theocracy update: Things are now critically bad -- the purge starts

Various sources are reporting about a 5-page Christian nationalist (CN) memo the OPM (Office of Personnel Management) released that allows de-facto Christian discrimination against non-Christians in the federal government. The memo allows federal employees to pray and discuss religion, including efforts to “persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views.”

The OPM memo says that public employees are permitted to pray and discuss religion, including attempting to persuade others of their religious views, but it emphasizes that such religious expression should not be harassing or disruptive. That subtly implies that endorsement of a specific faith is permissible as long as it does not amount to harassment, however that may be defined. The memo does not define it. This wording is an intentional strategic ambiguity or sophisticated sleight of hand designed to maintain a veneer of neutrality. This Christian nationalist memo claims religious freedom, but is compatible with and promotes Christian supremacy. Non-Christian beliefs through tolerated or encouraged evangelization within the workplace.

The CN memo does not bar an employee from saying “Christianity is the only true faith” or from inviting colleagues to a specific church. The only curb is the general anti-harassment proviso and a requirement to stop proselytizing if the listener objects.

This Christian aggression tactic came from an effort involving Russell Vought, architect of Project 2025. It directly reflects CN's theocratic agenda. Christian theocrats can legally leverage this policy to advance Christian supremacy without explicitly endorsing a specific Christian denomination. At the same time, it allows CN propagandists to maintain plausible deniability about discriminatory intent. This will foster discrimination against non-Christians. Historical precedent, and the administration's anti-Christian bias task force initiatives are evidence of CN aggression.

The memo provides specific examples including supervisors posting invitations to Easter services on bulletin boards, park rangers leading tour groups in prayer, and Veterans Affairs doctors praying over patients. Federal employees are also permitted to display religious symbols, organize prayer groups during off-duty time, and engage in religious discussions with members of the public.

While framed as protecting religious expression, the CN memo amounts to government endorsement of Christianity by permitting supervisory proselytization and religious activity in public-facing roles. The federal government is overwhelmingly dominated by Christians, not Muslims, Jews, atheists, socialists, or communists.

In the past, the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) has consistently held that religious proselytizing can constitute unlawful harassment if it creates a hostile work environment. The memo's vague standard - requiring only that efforts not be "harassing in nature" without defining harassment - provides little to no protection for non-Christians. Trump-aligned Christian nationalist EEOC officials (and this) have degraded the EEOC into a political function that pursues the White House's culture-war agenda at the expense of its historic mission to protect vulnerable workers. That agency will not raise any objections.

Pxy comments: 

The OPM memo represents one component of a comprehensive strategy to capture federal institutions for Christian supremacist purposes 14. This approach, developed by organizations like the Heritage Foundation and Center for Renewing America, seeks to embed Christian nationalist values throughout government operations 53. 

The strategy operates through multiple vectors: 
1. Personnel: Installing Christian nationalist loyalists in key positions 15
2. Policy: Implementing "biblically based" regulations and guidance 19
3. Procedures: Creating mechanisms to monitor and enforce Christian conformity 13
4. Precedent: Establishing legal foundations for expanded religious privilege 28

Russell Vought has explicitly described this as requiring federal employees to be placed "in trauma" to break resistance to Christian nationalist transformation 39. The combined effect creates institutional pressure for religious conformity while marginalizing dissenting voices 9.

The administration's approach demonstrates classic authoritarian techniques for implementing ideological transformation 55. The anti-Christian bias task force creates surveillance mechanisms encouraging employees to report colleagues for insufficient religious enthusiasm 9, 13.

This surveillance apparatus operates alongside expanded evangelization privileges to create a coercive environment where religious conformity becomes practically mandatory for career advancement 24. The combination mirrors authoritarian regimes' use of ideological enforcement mechanisms to control institutional behavior.

If the 2026 elections are either subverted and rigged or voters keep Republicans in power, or voters just vote to keep them in power, our democracy, rule of law and civil liberties are toast for the foreseeable future, maybe decades (personal estimate ~70% likelihood or "high probability"). 

We are in deadly serious trouble. The USSC is not going to save us and neither can the Democrats. The rest of the federal government has been subverted and neutralized. We are well and truly screwed.