cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44506378
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.
Hegseth is “Christian” the way Olive Garden is “Italian.”
He has the JC viruss
Shouldn’t it? There’s no denying there’s at least a little bit of a christofascist imperialist aspect to a dude with “Deus vult” and Jerusalem cross tattoos and thoughts that leftists, progressives, and Democrats are the “enemies” of freedom and the US Constitution, and that there are irreconcilable differences between the Left and the Right in America.
Its the new Crusades, it’s a Holy war for the Holy oil.
