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Military Leaders See Iran War as “God’s Divine Plan” — a Chilling Turn for Trump’s Fascism (theintercept.com)

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THE UNITED STATES is waging a religious war. This is, at least, how dozens of fanatical U.S. military commanders understand President Donald Trump’s illegal assault on Iran: a messianic battle to bring about Jesus Christ’s return.

“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” one military commander told his combat unit, which could be deployed to fight in Iran “at any moment,” according to a complaint reportedly filed by one of the unit’s officers to a military watchdog group.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation says it has been “inundated” with more than 200 calls across dozens of military installations, including 110 complaints filed between Saturday morning and Monday evening, from service members reporting their commanders have invoked similar extremist rhetoric of Christian Zionist messianism when justifying the unprovoked war on Iran.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Jim Jones would be proud.

[–] undrwater@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I tried but failed to discover who these (this?) military commander(s) are, or a direct quote.

Anyone have one?

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I've read that nazis had, in German, "in God we trust" on their coins.

Whatever "Jesus" Hegseth's worshipping, with his maximal-blood & maximal-destruction, it seems to be demonic.

Same as the inquisitors, who also invoked the guy who was infinitely more "woke" than any leftist.

Here's some evidence of what the actual-Jew was like written by Pontius Pilate, to Tiberius Caesar: https://www.scriptural-truth.com/PDF_Apocrypha/Pilates_letterTo_Caesar.pdf

There is NOTHING in that guy that Hegseth would value.

( that is incredibly eye-opening, btw, for any Empiricist who wants to get past the church-doctrine )

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