Biden State Department caught promoting atheism abroad

American Thinker ^ | 8/12/23 | Monica Showalter

[CFW]

The Biden administration is out promoting religion through the State Department door to the locals in other countries, on our taxpayer dime.

That right there is illegal, because the First Amendment states that there is to be no state sponsorship of anybody's religion.

What religion is it? Why, the religion of Democrats, which generally speaking, is atheism.

According to Susan Crabtree at RealClearPolitics:

"Rep. Mike McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican who heads the panel’s human rights subcommittee, are reviving a nearly year-long inquiry into a 2021 State Department grant they say is designed to expand the influence of atheists and humanists in the Middle East and North Africa.

The GOP House members argue that the program could be violating the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, which bars the use of tax dollars to promote theocracy or a specific religion.

McCaul, Smith, and Rep. Brian Mast, a Florida Republican, last week sent a letter to Erin Barclay, the State Department’s acting assistant secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Affairs, and Rashad Hussain, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. The letter accuses both officials of “continued noncompliance” with their document requests regarding the atheism program.

“We write once again to ask why it is in America’s interest to promote atheism overseas and why the department refuses to provide certain documents that shed light on that misguided decision,” they wrote."

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The Dems have been doing this since Adlai Stevenson II was guest speaker at some atheist get together in the 1950s.

[Vaduz]

Democrats have always been atheists it’s why the party was formed.

Count the money

[Roadrunner383]

Our church sponsers missions to Malawi, one of the few African nations that is majority Christian. Digging wells is a major focus of the work in Malawi, they have a shortage of clean water, cholera is common, so that’s where a lot of money goes.

Local school officials and teachers encourage Christian missionaries to visit classrooms, hand out Bibles, and testify to the students about Christ.

Gov’t officials help missionaries organize rallies at soccer fields and stadiums.

Local gov’t officials arrange for Christian missionaries to use gov’t buildings for meetings.

Malawi is dirt poor, and could be called Third World, but they’re not the ones classifying Christians as terrorists and promoting atheism. So, who is civilized and who isn’t?

[bgill]

Demonrats make their own rules.

[unlearner]

They’ve been establishing the religion of LGBT wokism here and abroad for many years.