00:00I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs.
00:04Starting today and for secretaries of war after me, the Office of Religious Affairs will report straight to the top.
00:10No staff filters, no bureaucratic dilution, a direct line to the secretary.
00:16This is not going to be a paper-pushing shop.
00:19It's going to have real teeth.
00:21It'll protect budgets, demand infrastructure, and strengthen religious support.
00:25The experts, our chaplains, will finally have an advocate at the highest levels.
00:30Policy and resources will serve the mission, not smother the mission.
00:37As Psalm 3312 extols us, blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
00:46It's a game you don't want to play.
00:48As you said, wish with God any way you choose.
00:52Just don't make it policy.
00:53And that's what my concern is also.
00:55If you're not a Christian, and by Hegstaff's definition, you're not quoting the Bible every five seconds, you're not going
01:03to get promoted.
01:04And that's the danger.
01:05No, you can please worship God.
01:08I'd love you to worship God.
01:09But it's not coming on the battlefield.
01:12Although everyone gets religion on the battlefield, by the way.
01:15The bullet doesn't care if you're Jewish, Protestant, Christian, or Catholic.
01:19It doesn't care.
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