And They Call It Faith While They Prepare the Fire
When faith is weaponized, what burns first is freedom
By Dino Alonso
There is a kind of lie that hides behind stained glass and silence.
And now it walks the halls of the U.S. State Department.
They have asked their employees to report each other for “anti-Christian bias.”
Think on that. Let it settle. Let it burn.
They did not say “religious discrimination.” They did not say “faith-based harassment.”
They said: Watch your colleagues. And tell us if they offend the Church of the State.
This is not about God. This is about control.
It is the language of tyranny dressed up as theology.
And it is not new.
We have seen this before—when power is failing, legitimacy is cracking, and leadership no longer inspires loyalty, it demands obedience. And obedience requires fear.
What better tool than religion?
The President—who lies as easily as he breathes—now wants us to believe he is the defender of faith. But the only altar he has ever served is the one where power kneels before itself.
And now, they are calling for names in the name of that false altar.
They want your colleagues. Your teachers. Your critics. Your conscience.
Dissent in this new regime is no longer a disagreement. It is blasphemy.
They are not protecting Christianity—they are desecrating it.
They are using the name of Jesus to silence the questions he would have asked, to punish the people he would have stood beside, to crucify those who do not kiss the ring of this modern Caesar.
And I tell you this:
When the state begins to police your soul, it is not salvation they are offering. It is subjugation.
This is not about protecting believers. It is about punishing the unbelonged.
The women. The gay. The trans. The doubters. The thinkers. The teachers. The ones who refuse to play their assigned role in the performance of power.
What we are witnessing is not governance.
It is the slow resurrection of theocratic authoritarianism—by executive order, by anonymous tipline, by holy inquisition dressed in a suit and badge.
And the horror is not just in the policy.
It is in how familiar it feels, how quiet the hallways remain, and how quickly fear teaches people to whisper again.
This is not just a threat to freedom of religion. It is a threat to freedom of thought, of speech, of imagination itself. And if you think they will stop with the State Department, then you do not understand the hunger of men who mistake power for divinity.
They will come for the schools.
They will come for the libraries.
They will come for the pulpits that do not preach the gospel of the state.
They will come in the name of righteousness.
And they will bring a flag in one hand and a blacklist in the other.
So let me ask you, as someone will:
What will you say when they ask what you believed?
And what will you say when they ask why you stayed silent?
Because if this is what America now calls faith,
then God help us all.