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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”
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In a sermon delivered before Christmas, Franklin Graham told members of the military that “God is also a god of war.” On Good Friday, the DOD hosted a prayer service only for Protestants. A Pentagon spokesperson later told HuffPo that the “Pentagon Chaplain Office’s priest is not in town.” Hegseth has repeatedly framed the US war in Iran as a “holy war,” calling Iranians “barbaric savages” and called on Americans to pray for victory “in the name of Jesus Christ.”
I mean… yeah, technically true. The OG Yahweh, back before his cult peeled off and developed monotheism, he was a god of storms and war.
However, calling Jesus a god of war is a serious misstep. Pretty sure his most widely accepted epithet is ‘Prince of Peace’.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10%3A34&version=NIV
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
The context here is anti-family values Jesus bragging about getting family members to hate each other.
That’s what happens when you live in a christofascists world.
