The “Religious Liberty Commission” executive order reads like a bloated Sunday sermon disguised as policy—an unconstitutional conflation of government authority and religious agenda that molests the First Amendment with a smile. Beneath the hollow piety and cherry-picked historical citations lies a thinly veiled Trojan horse designed to smuggle sectarian dominance into federal governance under the pretext of “freedom.” In reality, this Commission functions less like a safeguard of liberty and more like a theocratic steering committee.
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The Founding Fathers would vomit in unison at the grotesque parody of their intent. Jefferson’s “wall of separation” between church and state is not an optional fence to be scaled by evangelical appointees looking to sanctify legislation. It was a barrier built with the mortar of Enlightenment rationalism to protect both church and state from mutual corruption. The very order quotes the First Amendment as if invoking a spell, then proceeds to undermine it with every following paragraph.
The creation of advisory boards made up of clergy, laity, and legal loyalists looks like a modern-day Sanhedrin wielding federal power instead of spiritual guidance. Stacking commissions with religious leaders hand-picked by the President—who simultaneously campaigns on “Christian nationalism” and fantasy-fueled moral panic—transforms the federal bureaucracy into an altar for politicized faith. Allowing them to advise the White House Faith Office (a euphemism for theocratic lobbying) completes the trifecta of disaster: ideologues, with no accountability, whispering policy into the ears of the executive branch.
This is not about protecting faith. It is about weaponizing it.
The Commission’s “mission” oozes rhetorical sanctimony while targeting rights that conflict with Christian-right orthodoxy: LGBTQ+ protections, reproductive healthcare, public education free from religious coercion, and scientific mandates like vaccines. Each of those so-called “emerging threats to religious liberty” is code for rolling back modernity under the cloak of piety. “Debanking of religious entities”? Translation: banks dropping groups identified as funding extremism or skirting financial regulations. “Conscience protections in the healthcare field”? Translation: enabling pharmacists and doctors to deny service based on religious prejudice. “Time for voluntary prayer and religious instruction at public schools”? Translation: backdoor evangelism disguised as freedom.
This is state-sanctioned sanctimony on the taxpayer’s dime. The Constitution forbids any establishment of religion. But this order performs a hostile merger between state and altar, then markets it as pluralism. If the government created a “Secular Liberty Commission” designed to protect atheists from religious coercion, conservatives would scream bloody murder. That hypocrisy is the pulsing heart of this initiative.
The executive order doesn’t promote religious freedom. It deforms it into a one-way privilege pipeline for the President’s preferred theological base. Faith becomes a cudgel, and liberty becomes a slogan repurposed to punch down. The real danger here isn’t religion. The danger lies in the state baptizing one set of beliefs while others stand outside the communion rail of power.
This order tramples the Establishment Clause with a Sunday-school smile. The Constitution is not a prop for ideological cosplay. It is a contract of limits—especially limits on the kind of messianic overreach encoded into this Commission. One must ask: if religion needs a taxpayer-funded federal commission to survive, how strong is the faith to begin with?
Theocratic policy by executive order is not liberty. It’s heresy against the Constitution.
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The executive order establishing the Religious Liberty Commission aligns disturbingly well with the core objectives of the Seven Mountain Mandate (7MM)—a dominionist ideology that seeks to impose a specific brand of Christian theocracy across seven key spheres of society: religion, family, education, government, media, arts and entertainment, and business. Though the order does not name the Seven Mountains directly, its language, structural design, and policy intent mimic the blueprint almost verbatim. Here is how it maps:
1. Religion – The Primary Mountain: The executive order reifies religious voices—especially conservative Christian voices—as not just equal participants in the public square, but privileged actors entitled to federal protection, advisory roles, and influence on government policy. The creation of religious advisory boards embedded in the executive branch exemplifies 7MM’s goal of institutionalizing religious leaders in positions of temporal power. The structure echoes the mandate’s insistence that Christian “apostles” should “reclaim the mountain of religion” and then govern the others through it.
2. Government – Dominion by Design: The order embeds religion into the heart of federal governance. Creating a White House-endorsed “Commission” to enforce and elevate religious perspectives represents a blatant incursion into the governmental mountain. Under 7MM, the Church is not meant to influence politics from outside; it is meant to control it from within. This executive order is a dry run for that power grab. The President, in naming religious figures to public commissions and directing Cabinet-level attention to “religious liberty,” acts as a conduit between Church and State rather than as a wall separating them.
3. Education – Indoctrination by Law: Sections referencing “parents’ authority to choose religious education,” “voluntary prayer in public schools,” and “religious instruction” invoke longstanding dominionist efforts to undermine secular education. Under the Seven Mountain Mandate, education must reflect “biblical truth.” That truth, as defined by dominionists, is not pluralistic. The push to allow prayer and religious curriculum in public schools is the rebranding of forced religiosity as “freedom.”
4. Business – Sacred Capital: The reference to “debanking of religious institutions” reframes consequences for financial mismanagement, extremism, or discriminatory practices as religious persecution. Dominionists within 7MM argue that Christian business leaders must “take back” the financial sector from secular corruption. Protecting their access to capital, subsidies, and tax-exempt status under the banner of religious liberty is an economic flank in a broader cultural offensive.
5. Media and Arts – Narrative Warfare (Implied): Although not explicitly mentioned in the executive order, the language of victimhood, “attacks on houses of worship,” and “erasure of religion from public life” mirrors dominionist rhetoric used in Christian media ecosystems to prime audiences for “spiritual battle.” The Seven Mountains strategy relies heavily on controlling narratives in media and entertainment to condition the populace toward theocratic norms.
6. Family – Control by Doctrine: The order’s fixation on “parents’ rights” aligns with dominionist talking points about government overreach into family matters. Under 7MM, the family must conform to biblical structure—heteronormative, patriarchal, and resistant to civil oversight. Invoking religious liberty to shield faith-based parenting from scrutiny (including anti-vaccine ideology or anti-LGBTQ indoctrination) advances that doctrinal goal.
7. Arts and Entertainment – Not yet explicit: This is the only “mountain” not clearly reflected in the executive order. However, the 7MM strategy often seeks to influence culture by controlling the aesthetic and moral framing of public spaces—something that may emerge in later efforts through statues, monuments, or government-sanctioned performances tied to religious nationalism.
Conclusion: The executive order is not a benign act of pluralistic accommodation. It represents a methodical advancement of the Seven Mountain Mandate by embedding theological authority within government functions. It retools the machinery of secular democracy to function as scaffolding for a slow-moving theocracy—disguised as “liberty,” powered by grievance politics, and structured through commissions, advisory boards, and taxpayer-funded pulpit access.
The 7MM goal of dominion is not a fringe aspiration. It is now shaping federal orders—publicly, proudly, and without apology. If unchecked, the mandate that once operated as prophecy in charismatic circles now risks becoming policy from the Oval Office.