This is why the separation of church & state are bedrock American principles. Americans are free to pursue any faith that calls to our hearts or not. ANY faith forced is false. When governments control & force religion upon people they become cruel & antithetical to freedom.
In one chapter, Hegseth mocks “democracy” (the quotation marks are his) as an American virtue held by progressives.
—Instead he wants a far-Right notion of Christian values embodied by Classical Christian education to dominate American culture and politics.