Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brings Christian language into the Pentagon as the U.S. and Israel wage war against Iran.

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.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 month ago

      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.

          • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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            1 month ago

            I’m sure he’d pivot away to something else, considering that he pivoted from talking about trans rights to try and say “I shouldn’t have to worry about walking with my daughters down the street and walking into two dudes making out.” Basically suggesting that gay and trans people are the source of moral decay in the U.S.

            The guy is the literal poster child of boomer moral decay, by the way. Digustingly obese, entitled, racist, MAGA.

        • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Your coworker being the religious equivalent of a log cabin Republican doesn’t change anything as far as I can see, the MAGA movement is still fueled by Christian overtones.

          • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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            1 month ago

            The kind of corruption and evil entitlement that people get is indeed unique to religion.

            That sure as hell sounds like goalposts shifting to me.

            • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              1 month ago

              I’m not goal post shifting. Nor am I interested in having a conversation about whose asshole opinion stinks worse. Have a good day.

              • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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                1 month ago

                You absolutely did, but let’s take your statement to its logical conclusion.

                Roughly 85% of the world is religious. By your definition, they are simply all evil. So why then would you care about Venezuela being bombed, Iran being bombed, literally anywhere being bombed — they’re evil! Anywhere that has religious people is fair game, because religion is evil.

                It’s almost like making blanket generalizations about most of the world is just fucking stupid. Weird how that worked out.

            • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              1 month ago

              You made a list. I was commenting on the list elements vs each other, not anything that wasn’t on the list. My comment was not intended to prove or disapprove any point since yours and mine were both opinions.

                • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                  1 month ago

                  Disagreement isn’t proof or disproof or even an attempt at such. At this time I’m completely lost as to your point. You didn’t say every structure, you made a list and I felt that one of those things was not like the others. That one of those things does have a unique form of evil attached to it. I really don’t understand why you’re trying to add more to this conversation than actually exists.