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I am the Senior Advisor for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives at the White House. My job is to maintain the Evangelical coalition. The coalition is currently at 74%. My job is to keep it there. I have a master's in divinity from Duke. I can parse Koine Greek. I can tell you the difference between the Nicene Creed and the Apostles' Creed. I can identify Christ-as-healer iconography from a campaign graphic at 50 paces. I have never once been asked to do any of this. Here is what I have been asked to do. I maintain a faith advisory board. It has 314 members. 1 of them asked his congregation to buy him a $65 million private jet. 1 of them fabricated his military service, his college degree, and his fraternity membership. He is still on the board. 1 of them laughed on live television when asked about the election results. Not a chuckle. A sustained, involuntary, unblinking laugh. He is a billionaire who lives in a lakefront mansion and tells his followers that God wants them to tithe instead of pay rent. I did not recruit these men. They were pre-vetted. Pre-vetted means they were already willing. I do not perform spiritual background checks. A spiritual background check is not a real thing. If it were, it would not be in my portfolio. In 2016, I wrote talking points after the candidate said "Two Corinthians" at Liberty University. He meant Second Corinthians. Every Christian in America knows you say "Second Corinthians." He had never opened the book. We called it "relatable authenticity." In 2020, I coordinated the faith-based photo opportunity at Lafayette Square. Law enforcement cleared the churchyard with tear gas so the President could stand in front of St. John's and hold up a Bible for the cameras. He held it like a man who had been handed a Bible for the first time, because he had been handed a Bible for the first time. We called it "a powerful symbol of national healing." In 2024, I managed faith-community outreach for the $59.99 God Bless the USA Bible. Lee Greenwood's name on the cover. The Constitution and the Pledge of Allegiance tucked inside, next to Leviticus. We called it "patriotic scripture." It sold very well at rallies. In January 2025, the President took the oath of office. Melania held 2 Bibles. His personal Bible and Lincoln's Bible. He raised his right hand. He did not place his left hand on either Bible. 2 Bibles. 0 hands. The man who sells a $59.99 Bible would not touch one under oath. I was not consulted on this. I learned about it from C-SPAN like everyone else. We called it "a personal choice." In 2025, after Pope Francis died, the President posted an AI-generated image of himself as Pope. White robes. The papal hat. I prepared coalition messaging within the hour. We called it "a lighthearted tribute." Last Sunday the President posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ. White robe. Healing hands. Light radiating from his palms. Glowing orb. The Statue of Liberty and fighter jets in the background. 5 centuries of Christ-as-healer iconography, rendered in whatever app generates the most engagement. He said it was supposed to be him as a doctor. I drafted talking points confirming the doctor interpretation and sent them to 314 faith leaders within the hour. We called it "visual metaphor." I want you to understand the trajectory. In 10 years we went from "doesn't know how to cite the book" to "holds the book as a prop" to "sells the book for $59.99" to "won't touch the book under oath" to "is the Pope" to "is Jesus Christ." Brand evolution. I have a slide deck. 3 days before the Jesus image, on Divine Mercy Sunday, the President called the first American Pope "WEAK on crime and terrible for Foreign Policy." 8 Cabinet members are Catholic. The Vice President is Catholic. He converted in 2019. He was baptized at St. Gertrude in Cincinnati. He chose it. The Vice President watched the President post an AI image of himself as Christ on the holiest weekend on the Catholic calendar. He watched the President call the Pope weak. He watched the President use "Praise be to Allah" as a taunt on Easter. He went on Fox News and said the Vatican should "stick to matters of morality." I filed that under interdenominational bridge-building. The Vice President filed it under career management. In the Catechism, blasphemy is a grave sin. In the West Wing, it is a communications challenge. The Vice President appears to operate under the West Wing Catechism. On Easter the President posted "Praise be to Allah" as a taunt while threatening to destroy civilian infrastructure in Iran. His spiritual advisor compared him to the risen Christ. She said that like Jesus, the President was "betrayed and arrested and falsely accused." She said that because Jesus was victorious, the President "will be victorious in all you put your hand to." I scheduled her for 3 more events. That's stakeholder engagement. Last month, the Secretary of War stood at a Pentagon podium, opened his Bible. The one stamped with a Jerusalem Cross and "Deus Vult." The Crusaders' battle cry. He led a room of military officers in prayer for "great vengeance and furious anger" against Iran. He cited Ezekiel 25:17. I recognized it immediately. Not from Ezekiel. From Pulp Fiction. Samuel L. Jackson says those words right before he shoots an unarmed man in a Quentin Tarantino film. The Secretary of War says them right before 100 officers bow their heads. The words are nearly identical. The context is technically different. Here is what most people don't know about that scene. At the end of the film, Jackson's character has a crisis of faith. He realizes the passage means he should stop killing. He walks away. The Secretary quoted the first half of the character arc. The half where he shoots people. Not the half where he stops. I did not flag this. Last month the Secretary prayed for "overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy" and asked God to deliver "wicked souls to eternal damnation." The month before that, he paired scripture readings with footage of airstrikes during military briefings. The month before that, he compared the extraction of a downed pilot to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I flagged none of it. Flagging is not in my portfolio. My portfolio is the coalition. Here is my week in faith-based strategic communications: Monday. Memo: "Re: Whether Quoting a Tarantino Screenplay at a Pentagon Worship Service Constitutes Scriptural Interpretation." Conclusion: it constitutes spiritual improvisation. Tuesday. Updated interdenominational outreach strategy to account for the Pope calling us blasphemers. Reclassified the Pope as a "legacy stakeholder." Wednesday. Coalition talking points on why an AI rendering of the President as Christ is about healthcare access. Cross-referenced with the 2025 Pope image and the 2020 Lafayette Square photo for "visual faith consistency." Thursday. Reviewed "Faith-Based Implications of Crusader Branding on the Secretary's Personal Bible." Recommended no changes. Recommended we never recommend changes. Friday. Sent the weekly Faith & Values newsletter to 11,400 pastors. Subject line: "A Week of Spiritual Renewal." I have a classification system. It has 4 tiers. Tier 1: Doctrinal Imprecision. "Two Corinthians." Manageable. Standard coalition maintenance. Tier 2: Symbolic Appropriation. Lafayette Square. The branded Bible. Selling faith-adjacent merchandise. Standard. Tier 3: Identity Substitution. Pope image. Jesus image. Requires rapid-response pastoral outreach and a visual metaphor brief. Tier 4: Active Theological Warfare. Monthly Pentagon worship services. Scripture over airstrike footage. Prayers for the eternal damnation of enemies. Quoting a Quentin Tarantino film as the word of God. We are currently operating at all 4 tiers simultaneously. I have never seen that before. I also have never reported it. I have a master's in divinity from Duke. I can tell you the actual text of Ezekiel 25:17. I can tell you that it's about the Philistines, not Iran. I can parse the Catechism's position on blasphemy. I can explain why praying for the damnation of your enemies is, in the technical theological term, Satanic. I choose not to. Choosing not to is the job. The coalition held at 74%. The metric held. The metric is the faith.

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