The Biden administration waged war on Christian chaplains in the military.
One Biden appointee made it her personal mission to drive them out.
And military Chaplains were punished for mentioning Jesus under Biden for this awful reason.
Biden's LGBT activist put chaplains in her crosshairs
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth dropped a bombshell that exposed just how far Biden pushed God out of the military.
He ordered the Chaplain Corps to return to actual religious ministry instead of serving as glorified therapists pushing secular humanism.
Hegseth pointed to the 2025 "Army Spiritual Fitness Guide" as smoking-gun proof — a 112-page document that mentions "God" exactly once but talks about "playfulness" nine times.
Biden's Army literally spent more time on playfulness than the Almighty.
But that anti-Christian agenda didn't happen by accident.
Biden nominated Brenda Sue Fulton, a prominent LGBT activist, to oversee military chaplains as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs in 2021.
Fulton told The New York Times that chaplains who put God first should "get out of the Army."
"What people fail to understand is that chaplains give up some of their rights as ministers when they become military chaplains," Fulton said in 2017. "Some chaplains argue: 'My first responsibility is to God.' Well, if your responsibility is to God and not the Army, you need to get out of the Army."¹
Biden's pick to oversee chaplains openly said ministers whose first responsibility is to God don't belong in the military.
Republican Senators ripped Fulton apart during her confirmation hearing.
Senator Tom Cotton called her views "offensive" and "inflammatory" toward Bible-believing Christians.
"You are going to be in charge of military chaplains," Cotton said. "You have a long history of offensive, inflammatory accusations against Bible-believing Christians. I will oppose this nomination."²
Fulton had called Republicans "right-wing anti-everyone nutjobs" on social media and claimed "religious freedom" was "twisted to mean conservative Christians can dictate their views to the rest of us."³
Biden terminated Catholic chaplains during Holy Week
The anti-Christian persecution wasn't just rhetoric.
Biden's Department of Defense ordered Catholic chaplains at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to "cease and desist" performing their pastoral duties during Holy Week in 2023.
Catholics comprise the single largest religious demographic in the military, but Biden terminated the decades-long contract with the Holy Name College Friary that provided Catholic pastoral care.
The contract got handed to a secular defense contractor that couldn't provide priests for confession or communion — sacraments only Catholic clergy can administer.
First Liberty Institute blasted the decision for depriving "America's sick and wounded service members the life-saving care they need."
"To make this decision during Holy Week only pours salt into the wound," Michael Berry, Director of Military Affairs at First Liberty, said.⁴
Retired Army Chaplain Brad Lewis watched Biden's assault on faith for years before Hegseth's announcement brought him to tears.
"I felt like I was vindicated," Lewis told The Federalist. "And then, of course, that's all tempered with, 'I hope this actually happens,' because we've been let down so many times."⁵
One current chaplain recently ended a memorial prayer with "In Jesus' name" and got verbally reprimanded for not keeping it generic.
Another Christian chaplain shared during a suicide prevention briefing that his faith in Jesus pulled him out of depression.
He didn't preach conversion.
He simply said his relationship with Jesus helped him and encouraged troops to practice their own faith.
That chaplain essentially lost his career for mentioning Jesus.
Patton printed 250,000 prayer cards asking God to stop the rain
In 1944, General George Patton faced constant rain causing logistical nightmares for his troops.
He asked Chaplain James O'Neill to pray and ask God to stop the rain.
Patton had the prayer printed on 250,000 cards and distributed them to all servicemen.
The rain stopped.
"The Army paid for it to be distributed during a time of war," Lewis said. "Now, we're at a place where I can't mention Jesus in a suicide prevention brief."⁶
Lewis recalled his 2003 deployment when he suggested adding prayer after mission briefings.
He'd find scripture about fighting and success, about the Lord being with those who follow Him, then pray for protection and victory.
"The response from my soldiers was like, 'Oh, my word, Chaplain, we need that so bad. Please keep doing that. Thank you for praying for us,'" Lewis said.⁷
The American Humanist Association immediately attacked Hegseth's directive, claiming he "has no right to tell anyone what to believe or how to pray."
That's a lie.
Hegseth isn't imposing beliefs — he's reversing Biden's anti-Christian policies and restoring what George Washington established in 1775 when he created the Chaplain Corps as the "spiritual and moral backbone" of the military.
The difference between a religious chaplain and Biden's secular therapist matters when bullets start flying.
"When you start to adopt a spiritual footing, instead of a religious footing, the chaplain becomes a psychologist," Lewis explained.⁸
Without God, chaplains can only offer hollow reassurance — therapeutic pep talks about resilience and coping mechanisms.
But God is bigger than anything a soldier faces.
"Faith transcends immediate circumstances," Lewis said. "When the chaplain brings God to the fight, he brings something bigger for the soldier to hold on to."⁹
When a soldier's entire squad gets blown up by an IED, when they have to take a life, when they watch their brothers die in combat — they need more than psychology.
They need an anchor in something eternal.
"An atheist can't offer them that," Lewis said. "An atheist can say, 'Hey, look, don't worry about it. He is out of pain because he no longer exists. Don't worry about that kid. He had his time and it ended. Oh, well.'"¹⁰
Biden nominated an LGBT activist who said chaplains serving God first should leave, terminated Catholic priests during Holy Week, and created a "spiritual fitness" guide that barely mentioned God.
Hegseth understands what Biden's woke brass deliberately forgot — soldiers deserve chaplains who can speak about God without fear of punishment.
¹ James Dao, "Opening Doors at West Point," The New York Times, July 7, 2011.
² "Senators Tear into Pentagon Nominee to Oversee Chaplains as Being Anti-Christian," Military.com, October 7, 2021.
³ Ibid.
⁴ "Biden Administration's Military Cancels Catholic Chaplains During Holy Week," First Liberty Institute, April 12, 2023.
⁵ Beth Brelje, "Chaplains Punished For Mentioning Jesus Cheer Hegseth's Return To God-Focused Ministry," The Federalist, December 19, 2025.
⁶ Ibid.
⁷ Ibid.
⁸ Ibid.
⁹ Ibid.
¹⁰ Ibid.
