Freethought Dayton

05/16/2026

That’s sure to work 🤦🏼‍♀️

Montana is dealing with drought, wildfire risk, collapsing water levels, and the growing reality of climate instability, and the official response from the governor is basically: “Alright everybody, hands together, eyes closed, let’s see if the sky feels generous.”

Again, people can pray if they want. Nobody cares. Pray in your truck. Pray on your porch. Pray while holding a garden hose pointed at the heavens like you’re trying to negotiate with Zeus. But prayer is not a drought policy. It is not wildfire prevention. It is not infrastructure. It is not environmental planning.

You know what this feels like? One of those medieval villages where everybody’s starving and the king walks out wearing fifteen pounds of gold jewelry like, “We have consulted the monks and determined the dragons are angry.”

Meanwhile the forests are dry as tinder, rivers are shrinking, firefighters are getting hammered every summer, and housing developments keep expanding into fire-prone areas like humanity collectively decided, “Yeah let’s build a subdivision directly inside a campfire.”

And then this line: “Prayer is the most powerful tool we have.”

What are we doing here, Greg? Seriously. Are we running a state government or the tutorial level of a civilization game?

Reservoirs are more powerful. Modern infrastructure is more powerful. Forest management is more powerful. Science is more powerful. Fire mitigation planning is more powerful. Hell, a teenager with a shovel and a basic understanding of irrigation is currently contributing more to drought prevention than this proclamation.

And let’s be honest, if prayer alone fixed droughts, half the American West would look like the goddamn Amazon rainforest by now.

05/14/2026

When a public-school-day religious program tells children to be “obedient to the point of death,” parents are allowed to ask questions.

Families have every right to teach their children their faith at home, in church, and through private religious instruction.

But public schools should not be coordinating access to children during the school day for programs that teach obedience, submission, and religious doctrine to elementary students.

This is not about whether families may practice Christianity.

They can.

This is about whether public school systems should be used to normalize private religious instruction during the school day.

Public schools belong to all children; Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, agnostic, questioning, and every child whose family simply expects school time to remain school time.

Religious freedom requires neutral schools.

05/01/2026

04/30/2026

Acting Attorney General and Chair of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, Todd Blanche, on the report: “No American should live in fear that the federal government will punish them for their faith. As our report lays out, the Biden Administration’s actions devastated the lives of many Christian Americans. That devastation ended with President Trump. The Department of Justice will continue to expose bad actors who targeted Christians and work tirelessly to restore religious liberty for all Americans of faith.”

Read more: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/task-force-publishes-report-eradicating-anti-christian-bias-and-restoring-religious-liberty

04/19/2026

President Donald Trump will participate in a public Bible reading this week as the administration continues to integrate religion, particularly Christianity, into official business. https://cnn.it/4dRXecM

04/14/2026

04/04/2026

COME ON Department of Homeland Security
Two in one day!

The government is not a church.

When federal agencies promote one religion, it undermines the religious freedom of everyone else.

This is the same normalization strategy we are watching play out in public schools: blur the line, repeat it often enough, and hope people stop objecting.

We are not going to stop objecting.

03/03/2026

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God's plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was "anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth," according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.

From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations,

02/19/2026

This week Pete Hegseth invited the leader of his church, Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, to lead a prayer service at the Pentagon.

Wilson has argued that wives should submit to their husbands, women should be denied the right to vote and that Christians who enslaved Africans were on “firm scriptural ground,” and had the right to do so.

This is just another example of the Trump regime trying to force their authoritarian Christian Nationalist beliefs on our nation. These people don’t want democracy and they certainly don’t respect our Constitution.

02/07/2026

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