'Jewish ideas poison people,' State Department official writes on Christian nationalist blog

[Behind the Aegis]

A U.S. State Department employee named Fritz Berggren has been moonlighting as a blogger devoted to attacking Jews and promoting white Christian nationalism.

“Jesus Christ came to save the whole world from the Jews — the founders of the original Anti-Christ religion, they who are the seed of the Serpent, that brood of vipers,” Berggren wrote in an Oct. 4, 2020, post on his website titled “Jews are Not God’s Chosen People. Judeo-Christian is Anti-Christ.”

Later in the post he writes, “Jewish ideas poison people.”

Berggren has been sharing his extremist and anti-Semitic views under his real name for years while working as a mid-level civil servant. Politico first reported the connection on Friday after being tipped off by current and former State Department officials.

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[Elessar Zappa]

1. What's up with all these nut jobs?

Hope he can be fired ASAP.

[Ocelot II]

6. Probably a Civil Service employee - might be hard to get rid of

unless he's violated a specific agency policy (which he might have done, but I don't know if they have specific rules about being a right-wing bigot on social media).

[bullimiami]

10. If thats not cause there is none. He should be gone today.

[Ocelot II]

13. I agree. He shouldn't have been there in the first place

and I hope he can be gotten rid of quickly. He has no business representing our State Department in any capacity.

[crickets]

17. Absolutely.

It's a wonder he ever got a job in the State Dept to begin with.

[gratuitous]

2. His name is "Fritz"?

Rather on point, that.

Fritz and I read the Bible very differently.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[Hekate]

20. If that photo is in any way associated with his vile "other life" I see good cause for ...

...severe disciplinary action, up to and including termination from his job.

[tblue37]

4. Someone should tell him that Jesus was a Jew.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. According to a few, he apparently wasn't REALLY a Jew.

To be honest, I am not really sure how the narrative goes, though I have heard it a few times, I usually glaze over from the person's stupidity. From the left, there are those who claim he was a Palestinian in order to "cancel" his being a Jew; not sure how that works, and there are a few who claim he was both, but that is something else. Those on the right, claim he wasn't a "real" Jew, therefore not a Jew. Not sure how they define "real" and the others claim his being born a Jew was "a test" and he was the first real Christian. Honestly, it gives me a headache trying to figure out their "logic". Maybe someone who has come out of that cultish thinking can explain it.

[Sur Zobra]

15. The right-wing wacko christianists also

ignore the good things Jesus preached and make things up about him to mold him into the hellfire warrior of their sick dreams.

Of course, worshipping a human is the first mistake the believers make, but the the philosophy of Jesus, whether he was an actual person, a myth, or a fictional creation of various writers is mostly one of compassion. The right-wing christianists totally reject compassion.

[triron]

18. That's why I said to myself when 12 years old: Fuck this bullshit

I was brought up until then as a Baptist. Surprisingly my parents never really gave
me much static about it. Guess maybe they hadn't totally drank the koolaid yet themselves.

[Sur Zobra]

23. I was raised Catholic

and became an atheist starting when I was 15. Yeah, it’s a lot of bullshit

[EndlessWire]

5. See ya, Fritz

Oh, Joe, can you take a look at this, please?

[dalton99a]

9. +1. They ought to look at the shit he's preaching:

[intheflow]

14. Wait. Aren't "Anti-BLM activists" already our beat cops?

Must have been a Freudian slip.

[bullwinkle428]

8. State Department official? This is totally foul and unacceptable.

[uponit7771]

11. omfg

[bronxiteforever]

12. Kick and recommend for visibility of this creep.

[struggle4progress]

16. This can't help the US internationally

[treestar]

19. What are "Jewish ideas?"

Nutcase. Even nutcase Christians recognize that Jews are the "Chosen People." The Bible says so. Dumbass.

[ChubbyStar]

21. Ideas delivered by Jewish Space Lasers?

These crack pots are scraping the bottom of the barrel of their minds.

[Hekate]

22. This vile piece of crap needs to be outed to his department head

Wonder if he affiliates with the 1/9 Insurrectionists?

[leftyladyfrommo]

24. Well, throw the Bible out the window. Just make up your

own shit.