Pete Hegseth’s Christian rhetoric draws renewed scrutiny after the US goes to war with Iran
3 months ago by MicroWave to c/politics
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.
My brother in Baphomet, they're all fake. Religion exists solely to manufacture consent for authority. That's it.
No, in your list only religious people told me I was going to hell when I was 12 because I wouldn’t disown my lesbian parents. The kind of corruption and evil entitlement that people get is indeed unique to religion.
Religion exists solely to manufacture consent for authority. That’s it.
No...
It was a way to instill morals before public education existed.
We don't use religion for morals, and we don't use public education for it either.
And people still act fucking shocked people don't have morals.
They're not innate, humans aren't better than other animals.
And insisting that attempting to teach morals is pointless is only going to cause issues.
You might not need religion, I know I don't, but that's human variation. Some people fucking need it or they're problems for the rest of us.
Like, your comment is the most ironic thing I've seen in a very long time. You don't understand that your the problem and a complete lack of human empathy prevents you from understanding not everyone is like you.
It would be like someone with 20/20 vision spending their time trying to outlaw prescription eyeglasses.
You don't need it, and you just can't fucking imagine anyone is different than you.
Absolutely stunning.
The complete lack of human empathy is the issue
No, the problem is there is no innate human empathy for humans...
Just for "us" which was likely the reason every species close to us, isn't around anymore.
Oxytocin is pivotal neurotransmitters for group bonding, it's why we get lonely, fall in love, and think babies are adorable despite being disgusting.
But oxytocin also makes us hate "them"
Where "them" is anything we weren't exposed to as toddlers.
Racism/bigotry is baked into humans, and it takes effort to teach every generation that "us" is a very very wide group. Where "them" is basically just billionaires and people doing their building. That's already where the wealthy have been drawing the line for centuries.
It's like socializing a puppy around cats so that when the puppy grows up it doesn't have a prey instinct kick in and chase cats.
We need to socialize kids so that when they grow up they don't freak out over diversity.
And we'll never be able to stop, every single generation till the end of humanity will need that step
Chuckles in all religions
No true Scotsman.
“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…
Jameson 3:16.
3:17, St Pats and all
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
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.
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
Wait, is the "Secretary of War" admitting it's a war?
Whenever I hear some "leader" start extolling any religious nonsense, I immediately conclude that they are either a lying conman, or have a lukewarm IQ. There can't be any in between.
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A fake christian who just uses it to manipulate. I'm not christian but I recognize a manipulator and the soft brained snowflakes who blindly follow anyone making the right grunts and hoots of their faith.
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