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Dennis Donovan

(30,289 posts)
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 02:14 PM 19 hrs ago

HuffPost: Housing Secretary Lets Staff Go Home Early For Easter To Reflect On Jesus

HuffPost - Housing Secretary Lets Staff Go Home Early For Easter To Reflect On Jesus

“We go into this holy weekend with freedoms that the world has never known,” reads a department-wide email from Scott Turner’s chief of staff.

By
Jennifer Bendery
Apr 18, 2025, 01:39 PM EDT

WASHINGTON – Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner told his thousands of federal employees that they can leave work early Friday in honor of Easter and Passover, sending them a brazenly religious message declaring “all men are endowed by their creator” with certain rights and referencing a time when “Jesus broke bread and drank wine with his disciples showing that sacrifice can truly change the world.”

Turner informed HUD workers in an internal email Wednesday night that they can leave work four hours early Friday to begin their religious rituals.

“America’s founding fathers proclaimed that all men are endowed by their creator with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — this declaration rang true as the Jews fled Egypt and found freedom in the Holy Land, and it rang true once again when Jesus broke bread and drank wine with his disciples showing that sacrifice can truly change the world,” reads the email sent on behalf of Turner via his chief of staff, Andrew Hughes.

He encourages government employees to head into the “holy weekend” reflecting on the freedoms they have “that the world has never known.”

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HuffPost: Housing Secretary Lets Staff Go Home Early For Easter To Reflect On Jesus (Original Post) Dennis Donovan 19 hrs ago OP
Snort. Solly Mack 19 hrs ago #1
Not gonna lie, I'd leave in a heartbeat and not care about why... Shipwack 19 hrs ago #2
As a Christian, I think this is a GREAT idea... regnaD kciN 19 hrs ago #3
I would like time off to reflect on the one true god, Bastet. Sky Jewels 19 hrs ago #4
The fact is if Jesus was found walking on an American street he'd be asked for proof of citizenship and Vinca 18 hrs ago #5
The fake Christians today would never even recognize Jesus were he walking out streets today elocs 16 hrs ago #11
Which Jesus? Ping Tung 18 hrs ago #6
You stupid fuck. SamKnause 18 hrs ago #7
With mirrors? NewHendoLib 18 hrs ago #8
LOL! Happy Hour starts four hours earlier!! 🍺 madinmaryland 18 hrs ago #9
The Jesus as written in the Bible would claim he doesn't know these pseudo-Christians elocs 16 hrs ago #10
Riiiiiight..."freedoms" to be cruel etc... The real Jesus would condemn you for so violently ignoring his Sermon on... electric_blue68 15 hrs ago #12
didn't that Jesus guy onethatcares 18 sec ago #13

Shipwack

(2,594 posts)
2. Not gonna lie, I'd leave in a heartbeat and not care about why...
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 02:48 PM
19 hrs ago

Though granted religious messages shouldn't be sent on department-wide mail.

regnaD kciN

(26,965 posts)
3. As a Christian, I think this is a GREAT idea...
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 02:51 PM
19 hrs ago

I can’t think of a more fitting activity than for them to meditate on how the most powerful empire in the world, headed by a self-proclaimed “divine” Caesar, tortured and executed God come to earth, because they couldn’t tolerate his message of nonviolent love and compassion toward “the least of these”…

…and how the empire wound up losing in the end.

Sky Jewels

(9,066 posts)
4. I would like time off to reflect on the one true god, Bastet.
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 02:59 PM
19 hrs ago

It's obvious that Cat Worship is the only religion that makes a lick of sense (get it?). The major monotheisms are convoluted, myopic, science-denying women-hating patriarchal mythologies made up by primitive goat humpers who made males the only main characters in their stupid stories about nonexistent magical sky beings. It's astonishing that even one modern person still buys this abject nonsense.

All Hail Our Kitty Overlords!



Vinca

(51,903 posts)
5. The fact is if Jesus was found walking on an American street he'd be asked for proof of citizenship and
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 03:05 PM
18 hrs ago

then flown off to the prison camp. If Trump had existed when the crucifixion was taking place, he would have sold ad space on the cross. The Bible thumpers need to read their own instruction manual.

elocs

(24,043 posts)
11. The fake Christians today would never even recognize Jesus were he walking out streets today
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 05:11 PM
16 hrs ago

and they would curse at him and tell him to get a job.

SamKnause

(14,192 posts)
7. You stupid fuck.
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 03:10 PM
18 hrs ago

We are not gaining freedoms we are losing them.

You must be talking to all male, all white, all Christian Nationalists and fascists.

Fuck you !!!

Side note: Not everyone celebrates zombie day.

elocs

(24,043 posts)
10. The Jesus as written in the Bible would claim he doesn't know these pseudo-Christians
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 05:06 PM
16 hrs ago

and that they have no part in him. He would be completely ashamed of them.

electric_blue68

(20,848 posts)
12. Riiiiiight..."freedoms" to be cruel etc... The real Jesus would condemn you for so violently ignoring his Sermon on...
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 06:45 PM
15 hrs ago

...The Mount.

Mercy, Good Works.

onethatcares

(16,778 posts)
13. didn't that Jesus guy
Sat Apr 19, 2025, 10:02 AM
18 sec ago

toss some bankers out of the temple- for turning his house into a den of thieves?

He also said somethings about rendering unto the government the things that are theirs.

Perhaps Scott Turner should spend some time reflecting on those passages.

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