Since becoming defense secretary, Pete Hegseth has found no shortage of ways to bring his strand of conservative evangelicalism into the Pentagon.
He hosts monthly Christian worship services for employees. His department’s promotional videos have displayed Bible verses alongside military footage. In speeches and interviews, he often argues the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation and troops should embrace God, potentially risking the military’s secular mission and hard-won pluralism.
Now the defense secretary’s Christian rhetoric has taken on new meaning after the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran, an Islamic theocracy.
“We’re fighting religious fanatics who seek a nuclear capability in order for some religious Armageddon,” Hegseth said of Iranian leaders. “But from my perspective, I mean, obviously I’m a man of faith who encourages our troops to lean into their faith, rely on God.”
i believe more that he is a man of spirits than faith.
As Johnnie Walker 2:5 says…
Holy projection… Pretty sure Iran would only want nukes for the protection a country gets by simply having them. I’ve never heard anything about them wanting nukes for a religious Armageddon.
On the other hand, Hegseth and others have been very fucking clear that this shit is about stupid biblical prophecy.
yeah, it’s the pot calling the kettle black on the gospel of nuke.
I think he is projecting what he wants to do: Using American nukes to cause the rapture.
playing the victim card, now in religion flavor
Just call it like it is. This is a crusade, just not sanctioned by the pope this time.
It’s Ya’ll-Qaeda’s crusade.
Hopefully the crusaders go into the desert, and never return. Alas, the likes of Pete Hegseth wouldn’t dare to set foot in any place where he could lose it.
If I recall, the first crusade was called because the Byzantine empire wanted help getting some stuff back from the Turks. Alexius Comnenus just wanted some military assistance, I don’t think there were crazy religious undertones at that point (at least not beyond what was normal for that time). Then the Pope got involved and some wackos in Western Europe took things WAY too far.
So we have American Christian zealots and Israeli Jewish zealots together fight Iranian Muslim zealots.
Meanwhile the rest of the world just watches this circus of idiots and wonders how we ever ended up here
Pete Kegsbreath is as Christian as Kenneth Copeland… which is to say exactly nill. It’s a facade. They’re both exactly opposite of Christian.
Anti-Christ.
I would argue he is more so, but only due to popular demand.
All these millions of Christians who believe what they believe and support them must be fake christians too, huh? Sure is lucky youre here to tell us who is and isnt a real Christian.
…and he sayeth unto them, “fight no more, you are brothers” was apparently lost on the lowly maggotty species of humanity…
That guy is anything but christian…
Wait, is the “Secretary of War” admitting it’s a war?
You’re drunk, Hegseth.
Religion is a mental illness and by far the greatest threat humanity is facing.
It’s pretty incredible how the promise of eternal paradise after death turns people into utter shit lords.
