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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[–] 66 points 8 months ago (1 child)

DO NOT OBEY ILLEGAL ORDERS

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Christo-Fascism. God's stupid army. Increasing atheism every day

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    I’ve said it before numerous times, and it looks like it’s panning out exactly as I was worried it would: Nationalist Christians are going to be the fucking death of us all.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    The zionists are bribing the influential christian ministers. Christian ministers are as whoring and bought out as the US government is.

    https://washingtonspectator.org/israeli-government-is-spending-millions-to-court-american-evangelicals-amid-plummeting-public-support/

    Its the zionists who will be the death of us all-- christians are just useful fools for them to hire out to do their dirty work.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    The "influential Christian ministers" are the Zionists, entirely for their own doomsday-cult purposes. Nobody gives a fuck about Jewish people themselves, except to herd them back to the "Holy Land" because that's what their fairy tale says is a precondition for getting "Raptured."

    I mean, sure, the Israeli government is happy to encourage that because it serves their own interests, but simple bribery doesn't even begin to explain Christian Zionists' motivations.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago

    Modern time crusades. "They don't believe in the same God as me, THEY MUST DIE!" Fucking religions!

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Not to get too personal. But the way I was brought up being forced to believe all this shit, brainwashed to the point that I was terrified my lack of faith had already damned me for eternity. I fucking tried to believe and be a good little Christian.

    Even though it seemed like a ridiculous lie, I hated church, was bullied by most of my peers, and it alienated me from so many social activities and opportunities. Fortunately the trauma I got through the church was only mental but even still I consider it to have stolen the life I could have had away from me.

    And now even though I walked away and have slowly been deconstructing all the things it did to me for almost 25 years, it’s still destroying the only life I get because they are all too fucking scared to accept that theres will end. Fuck Christianity, it’s the plague of plagues and has been one of the central spokes on the wheel of war, suffering, and death called western civilization since it first started rolling across the world leaving a raped planet and broken people in its wake.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    As someone who grew up as a fundamentalist Southern Baptist… it's fundamental/evangelical Christianity that's so bad.

    My dad was a preacher's kid, son of a Methodist minister. He's still somewhat conservative in some ways, but he's fine with LGBTQ+, and his philosophy is basically that while he believes in God, he can't make that choice for anyone else, so he doesn't really worry about it for anyone else, i.e. doesn't evangelize, etc.

    If all Christians were like my dad, I'd probably be okay still being a Christian instead of the atheist I am.

    Good on you for your journey, and I hope you continue to find peace <3

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Zeus really dislikes the persians but i doubt the christian and jewish god hates them. Afterall it was that kingdom that erected the temple in jerusalem once

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    A chilling turn? That's decades late...

    Watch the documentary Jesus Camp from 2006.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    This is bullshit. If human beings really cared about each other they wouldn't "cull the useless" as is seen here. If humanity is to survive, we need the refuse and fallen to populate the colonies.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

    This is the signs of the start of a civil war right here. Someone, will push back one day and kill a leader.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Trump pulling house of cards move to stop people talking about Epstein 😂

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    If it's "[their god Jehovah/Allah/Yahweh's] divine plan", why do they have to do anything?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Let's get those military leaders' names written down. For future reference.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I talked to buddha about it, and he said Hegseths god thinks his followers are a bunch of clowns badly in need of a good flooding. Maybe two, a double tap flooding this time.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    It is, just not in the way they think it is. 🕋☪️allahu ackbar☝️🧕

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    you mean god-emperors pedophelia DISTRACTION PLAN

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Projecting indecency with every vile syllable spewed from his slobbering maw.

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    [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Jim Jones would be proud.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

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

    Anyone have one?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months 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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    [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Do not listen to the non believer's words citizen, the office of faith has approved our holy war and the department of war is dishing out our divine justice. (/s)

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