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applegrove

(130,334 posts)
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 03:30 PM Jul 2025

Trump Urges Federal Employees to Talk Religion at Work

Last edited Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:28 PM - Edit history (3)

Trump Urges Federal Employees to Talk Religion at Work

July 28, 2025 at 3:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 93 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/07/28/trump-urges-federal-employees-to-talk-religion-at-work/


“Federal employees can display religious items at work, pray in groups while not on duty and encourage co-workers to adopt their faith, according to guidance released Monday by the Office of Personnel Management, which manages the federal civilian workforce,” the Washington Post reports.


Applegrove:

So those who resist being converted, or who have a less right wing faith, will be reported on? Later: Also will there be a 'call to prayer' throughout Washington's streets for those who practice various forms of Islam? Because that would fit in with bells ringing.

Later still: will this be an opportunity to explain to evangelicals how most of Trump's policies hurt the poor?
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Trump Urges Federal Employees to Talk Religion at Work (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2025 OP
Uh, no...you nutjob A-hole... wcmagumba Jul 2025 #1
here is the actual original article Celerity Jul 2025 #41
that is a bunch of f'n BS! IzzaNuDay Jul 2025 #2
Holy mother of Christ, he is corrupt Renew Deal Jul 2025 #3
And that would count BaronChocula Jul 2025 #52
That's right. Give me a raise Renew Deal Jul 2025 #63
You dont hand me an opportunity like that gay texan Jul 2025 #4
Eventually those who do not comply will be imprisoned Eliot Rosewater Jul 2025 #5
Gulp BoRaGard Jul 2025 #32
Like Trump would, amiright? /nt bucolic_frolic Jul 2025 #6
"Trump Urges Federal Employees to Talk Religion at Work" J_William_Ryan Jul 2025 #7
Says the sinner in search of madashelltoo Jul 2025 #8
This won't end well . . . Johonny Jul 2025 #9
Air Force jonstl08 Jul 2025 #10
Not to mention your lack of right wing religion will be noticed and recorded on the Republican database of all Americans applegrove Jul 2025 #12
atheists, agnostic, pastafarians, scientologists, satanists, you are now free to harass co workers nt msongs Jul 2025 #11
Instead of the Epstein files. GoodRaisin Jul 2025 #13
Unless you start a new religion called Epsteinism! LiberalLovinLug Jul 2025 #50
Let me guess who has never held a real job, been in the military rurallib Jul 2025 #14
Time to bring out the pentacles and prayer rugs! Vinca Jul 2025 #15
Lead the way asswipe (tRUMP). Witness to JD and Pam-o-Kristulsi about those two Corinthians! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jul 2025 #16
Oh just another Constitutional violation purr-rat beauty Jul 2025 #17
The law suits edhopper Jul 2025 #18
Let's lead the prayer to Allah or Muhammad and see how that goes. Norbert Jul 2025 #19
I will start speaking about the Norse Gods. milestogo Jul 2025 #20
Oh yeah Rebl2 Jul 2025 #21
Fuck trump. SamKnause Jul 2025 #22
So i could preach about usedtobedemgurl Jul 2025 #23
Thou shall not kick the proselytizer in the ass! BidenRocks Jul 2025 #24
Well, I do worship the FSM and his noodly appendages. Hope to see his image on the wall, along with the ten suggestions. wcmagumba Jul 2025 #25
Wear a colander to work, and be hugely offended if anyone laughs. Timeflyer Jul 2025 #49
So, does "Mr Two Corinthians (it's actually second Corinthians) and the one who held the bible upside down iluvtennis Jul 2025 #26
I thought people were supposed to be working. Not shooting the breeze during work hours. Irish_Dem Jul 2025 #27
LOL. According to this I can get paid for spending my entire day walking around the office trying to convert everyone Native Jul 2025 #36
Right, bring some holy water so you can baptize them too. Irish_Dem Jul 2025 #37
and always carry your rosary beads! Native Jul 2025 #40
"Dear Donald, who art in the White House or maybe Mar-a-Lago" tanyev Jul 2025 #28
Shallow be thy name 2MuchNoise Jul 2025 #43
What if my religion is head-hunting....? lastlib Jul 2025 #29
hem AllaN01Bear Jul 2025 #30
if i am a follower of satan , will that allow me to display my religious icons ,etc? AllaN01Bear Jul 2025 #31
Is there an asterisk that says, except if you're a Muslim? Native Jul 2025 #33
If I worked in such a setting, I would want to pull out prayer rugs RockCreek Jul 2025 #34
Canada if you can hear us we are waiting to be annexed. Old Terp Jul 2025 #35
Yet Trump has never prayed in his life Picaro Jul 2025 #38
The encouraging co-workers to adopt your faith... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2025 #39
Probably a dumb question but is their a picture of "Allah" like there is of "Jesus"? walkingman Jul 2025 #42
I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist. no_hypocrisy Jul 2025 #44
So I can wear my Satanic Temple t-shirts to work? Alright! Timeflyer Jul 2025 #45
Talk religion Traildogbob Jul 2025 #46
Thought #2: You could be fired for refusing to join the office no_hypocrisy Jul 2025 #47
Voodoo Religious Practice 2na fisherman Jul 2025 #48
Get Out Your Chickens! Deep State Witch Jul 2025 #60
"!" Marcuse Jul 2025 #51
Exercising your beliefs Norrrm Jul 2025 #58
Pete Seeger/Old time religion cbabe Jul 2025 #53
I've noticed Chirstians don't like talking to me about Christianity. Gore1FL Jul 2025 #54
Talk about the two Corinthians Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 #55
Maybe they should watch South Park's episode from last week. BigmanPigman Jul 2025 #56
ALL FOR SHOW Jimvanhise Jul 2025 #57
How Big of a Statue Deep State Witch Jul 2025 #59
Is it permissible to 'outJesus' them? Norrrm Jul 2025 #61
Already has been a thing. Blue Full Moon Jul 2025 #62
Take a giant dildo to work. KentuckyWoman Jul 2025 #64
It was said to be the opiate of the masses -- and he is a pusher Hekate Jul 2025 #65
... Xavier Breath Jul 2025 #66

Celerity

(53,705 posts)
41. here is the actual original article
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:28 PM
Jul 2025
Trump administration urges federal employees to talk religion at work

In a shift, the guidance from the Office of Personnel Management encourages religious expression among federal employees.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/28/federal-workers-religious-expression/

https://archive.ph/minzt



Federal employees can display religious items at work, pray in groups while not on duty and encourage co-workers to adopt their faith, according to guidance released Monday by the Office of Personnel Management, which manages the federal civilian workforce. In a memo titled “Protecting Religious Expression in the Federal Workplace,” OPM Director Scott Kupor said that the government workforce should be “a welcoming place” for employees who practice a religious faith.

“Allowing religious discrimination in the Federal workplace violates the law,” Kupor said in the memo. “It also threatens to adversely impact recruitment and retention of highly-qualified employees of faith.” Although the core of OPM’s guidance on religious expression differs little from past administrations, it “presents a substantial shift in that it encourages employees to express their religious beliefs in the workplace,” said Stefanie Camfield, associate general counsel and director of human resource services at Engage PEO.

Historically, Camfield said, employers have been advised to keep religious conversation at work to a minimum, noting that “the more religion is allowed into the workplace, the more likely it is that differences of opinion are raised.” “In the current political environment, these types of differences have a way of turning into arguments,” Camfield said. “” In some cases, it leads to outright hostility, which makes it more likely that an employee will feel singled out and discriminated against for their beliefs.”

In the memo, Kupor outlined various activities that should not warrant disciplinary action, noting that federal employees “may engage in conversations regarding religious topics with fellow employees, including attempting to persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views, provided that such efforts are not harassing in nature.” “Employees may also encourage their co-workers to participate in religious expressions of faith, such as prayer, to the same extent that they would be permitted to encourage co-workers participate in other personal activities,” Kupor stated in the memo.

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IzzaNuDay

(1,241 posts)
2. that is a bunch of f'n BS!
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 03:34 PM
Jul 2025

good thing I am not working in the federal government. If some religious nut job tries to proselytize me, and I’d reply with words worthy of going to hell. But I’m an atheist, so I’m not worried!

gay texan

(3,160 posts)
4. You dont hand me an opportunity like that
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 03:38 PM
Jul 2025

I will have a religious service for the 8-track.....

Eliot Rosewater

(34,282 posts)
5. Eventually those who do not comply will be imprisoned
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 03:40 PM
Jul 2025

Glad to see nobody thinks I’m exaggerating anymore but you can trace these kind of comments from me back to 2016 and it turns out none of them were exaggerations.

jonstl08

(541 posts)
10. Air Force
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 03:47 PM
Jul 2025

When I was in the Air Force in 1983 had a group of religious nut bags not like the fact I was catholic try to convert me to their version of Right Wing religion. When I politely told them I was not interested they did not take it to well. Followed me around the base and in the chow hall to preach to me that I was going to hell. One of them was a guy I worked with. Told him to have them back off and leave me alone. He told me no so I went to the squadron first sergeant who investigated. Other people in the barracks told him what was happening. First Sergeant called my coworker into the office and told him if these people did not stop harassing me he would be the one in trouble with the UCMJ. They stopped immediately and avoided me at all costs.

Moral is the military is part of the federal government. We hear all the time about christians in the military preaching to the troops illegally and feel with this new policy the religious nuts will be emboldened. It could be a career killer if you rebuff them.

applegrove

(130,334 posts)
12. Not to mention your lack of right wing religion will be noticed and recorded on the Republican database of all Americans
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 03:50 PM
Jul 2025

And if you try to get a job with a corporation you will not get it. IMHO

msongs

(73,086 posts)
11. atheists, agnostic, pastafarians, scientologists, satanists, you are now free to harass co workers nt
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 03:48 PM
Jul 2025

rurallib

(64,556 posts)
14. Let me guess who has never held a real job, been in the military
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:01 PM
Jul 2025

and thinks religion is something to use as a control mechanism? Hint: this person is orange

Rebl2

(17,416 posts)
21. Oh yeah
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:34 PM
Jul 2025

because he talks religion all the time-NOT. One of the least religious presidents we have had.

SamKnause

(14,709 posts)
22. Fuck trump.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:50 PM
Jul 2025

Fuck all the people licking his ass.

Fuck all the double cultist that are trump humpers and Christian Nationalists.

Fuck religious discussions in the work place.

BidenRocks

(2,788 posts)
24. Thou shall not kick the proselytizer in the ass!
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:54 PM
Jul 2025

I would give them one warning before I got biblical on their ass!

Please turn the other cheek so I can smack that one too!

You can tell chump never was in the workplace. Or grocery store, gas station,...

wcmagumba

(5,660 posts)
25. Well, I do worship the FSM and his noodly appendages. Hope to see his image on the wall, along with the ten suggestions.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:55 PM
Jul 2025

Timeflyer

(3,688 posts)
49. Wear a colander to work, and be hugely offended if anyone laughs.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:41 PM
Jul 2025

Last edited Mon Jul 28, 2025, 07:31 PM - Edit history (1)

Or dress like a pirate. Watch the movie "I, Pastafarian," 2019, for an in-depth look at how the noodly appendages of the Flying Spaghetti Monster have touched people throughout the world.

iluvtennis

(21,470 posts)
26. So, does "Mr Two Corinthians (it's actually second Corinthians) and the one who held the bible upside down
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:55 PM
Jul 2025

at a photo op in DC during his first admin talk religion at work?? I think not as he is a KNOW NOTHING about Christianity or any religion for that matter.



Native

(7,303 posts)
36. LOL. According to this I can get paid for spending my entire day walking around the office trying to convert everyone
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:12 PM
Jul 2025

Irish_Dem

(79,902 posts)
37. Right, bring some holy water so you can baptize them too.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:15 PM
Jul 2025

Sing some hymns, sprinkle the holy water, say some prayers.
Trump will give you a bonus per soul saved.

tanyev

(48,675 posts)
28. "Dear Donald, who art in the White House or maybe Mar-a-Lago"
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:59 PM
Jul 2025

I think that’s what he calls religion.

lastlib

(27,569 posts)
29. What if my religion is head-hunting....?
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:02 PM
Jul 2025

I FIRMLY believe that head-hunting is THE ONLY path to salvation. I urge allyou non-believers to impale your neighbor's head on a sharp stick, and feel the peace of salvation come over you! Then you will be delivered to your salvation!


( .... JIC it's necessary.....)

AllaN01Bear

(28,617 posts)
30. hem
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:02 PM
Jul 2025

my late mom had a priciple att work who kept trying prostlize her and others . shed remind him that she had a faith and what he was doing , voiolated the constitution and they had a memorandum of understanding. again . hem

AllaN01Bear

(28,617 posts)
31. if i am a follower of satan , will that allow me to display my religious icons ,etc?
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:04 PM
Jul 2025

being devils advocate here .

RockCreek

(1,323 posts)
34. If I worked in such a setting, I would want to pull out prayer rugs
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:08 PM
Jul 2025

And set calls to prayer loudly on all of my work-located electronic devices.

Picaro

(2,335 posts)
38. Yet Trump has never prayed in his life
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:15 PM
Jul 2025

Pandering much?

Would love to see someone set up a Santeria shrine in their office. Or a shrine to Satan. Or a shrine for the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

I’m sure the intent is to promote Christianity, but when you promote religion in the workplace you have to be prepared for people of all religions to pray and proselytize.

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,710 posts)
39. The encouraging co-workers to adopt your faith...
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:17 PM
Jul 2025

...is where it goes completely over the line. The rest of it has been permitted ever since I've worked for the federal government.

walkingman

(10,357 posts)
42. Probably a dumb question but is their a picture of "Allah" like there is of "Jesus"?
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:34 PM
Jul 2025

Without freedom from religion, there is no freedom of religion...

Traildogbob

(12,561 posts)
46. Talk religion
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:38 PM
Jul 2025

Ya mean like raping 13 year olds and forcing them to give birth. That kind of Moses Mike acceptance as Jeeebus behavior?

no_hypocrisy

(54,316 posts)
47. Thought #2: You could be fired for refusing to join the office
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:39 PM
Jul 2025

daily prayer meeting (likely fundamentalist Protestant Christian).

2na fisherman

(242 posts)
48. Voodoo Religious Practice
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:40 PM
Jul 2025

So what if someone sets up a shrine in their workspace with a Voodoo doll likeness of Trump with pins stuck in it and a noose around its neck and asks others to do the same? Just sayin'. Many Vodouisants around the world have most likely already done this.

Deep State Witch

(12,577 posts)
60. Get Out Your Chickens!
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 07:07 PM
Jul 2025

I would already make jokes about keeping chicken bones around to wave around my computer so that it would work.

BigmanPigman

(54,593 posts)
56. Maybe they should watch South Park's episode from last week.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:21 PM
Jul 2025

They want "religion" then give it to them in spades.

Same goes with Trickle Down theory for the economy. A LOT of people still buy into this BS...meaning they are getting rich off of it and duping the zillions of moronic Americans who can't think for themselves, do research, etc. Yet, these victims are always the first to bitch and cry over their own poor choices which contribute to their own demise. Americans are dumber than dirt. Social media and Fux Ruse won.

Fucking religious hypocrites. Half of the serial killers caught and convicted were very involved with religious activities while they murdered tons of innocent people.

Sure, go to church and on the way there kill someone and on the way home from church rape someone. Such moral behavior. Especially the "we love everybody equally" pedo priests. This is why people are finally waking up and saying "screw religion, it is BS". They have become the minority. The "moral minority".

Fuck you RAYGUN!! "Moral majority" my ass! IMMORAL MAJORITY is 100% accurate.

Raygun destroyed the US for 45 years and counting....

Jimvanhise

(563 posts)
57. ALL FOR SHOW
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:23 PM
Jul 2025

Trump is the least religious president in many years. The only time he has ever been seen near a church was when he stood outside one to create a stupid photo op. He claimed to have known people who died on 9/11 but was never seen at any of the funerals. This is the man Trump's cronies keep covering for.

Deep State Witch

(12,577 posts)
59. How Big of a Statue
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 07:05 PM
Jul 2025

Of Baphomet can I have in my cubicle? Or maybe the Goddess and God? I'll keep it SFW.

Seriously. I was never out of the broom closet when I was working. I told people that I trusted, because I had been burned early on in my career, during the later Ray-gun years. But if they had pushed Christianity in my face like this, I'd have gone full Witch-Bitch on them. Of course, I'd have probably been DOGEd already.

Norrrm

(4,033 posts)
61. Is it permissible to 'outJesus' them?
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 07:12 PM
Jul 2025

Proselytize (to?) them to convert to extreme religious views?

Make Westboro Baptist church look like slackers.
Emphasize put-to-death punishments as quoted in the Bible.
Emphasize divorce/remarriage/adultery consequences. That will hit home to many.
........... Jesus talked in detail about that.
Go into great detail on some of the seamier Bible topics.

Let them start off first.
That way, you are participating in their conversation, not harassing them.

Offer/insist that you help them in their mission to convert others.

Blue Full Moon

(3,180 posts)
62. Already has been a thing.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 07:21 PM
Jul 2025

I was put in for the job by the state representative. He told me once I started working there that I would come around and be a republican.
They would not hire you unless you went to church. So I went to the church du jour. As soon as I got my clearance and job. Told the church I couldn't go since my job schedule conflicted. I was put in for the job by the state representative.

KentuckyWoman

(7,374 posts)
64. Take a giant dildo to work.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 08:12 PM
Jul 2025

Open the morning huddle by praying to it.

When they complain just tell them you support the President's request to spread your religion at work.

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