In my 21 1/2 years of military service I don’t recall ever running into anything like this. This is fucked up beyond all recognition.
#FUBAR
“A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was ‘anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,’ according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.” - Jonathan Larsen
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the militaryJonathan Larsen (Jonathan Larsen’s Substack)
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"A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing...He urged us to tell our troops that this was “all part of God’s divine plan” and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the #BookOfRevelation referring to #Armageddon and the imminent return of #Jesus #Christ. He said that “#PresidentTrump has been anointed..
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...by #Jesus to light the signal fire in #Iran to cause #Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”. 👉 He had a big grin on his face...👈 " 1)
Contrast that with this #PapalBull of 1187, calling for the 3rd #Crusade:
"When we heard of the severity of the awesome judgment that the hand of God visited on the land of #Jerusalem, we and our brothers were disturbed by such a great...
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...horror, afflicted by such sorrows, ...
We promise full remission of their sins and eternal life to those who take up the labor of this journey with a contrite heart and a humble spirit and depart in penitence of their sins and with true faith...
In fact, because of the conflict which the 👉 malice of [#Christian] men👈 has recently brought on the land by the...
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I would not go this far. - This statement, which seems veracious to me, as a deep fake would have taken a LOT of work, was issued by a "mere" "combat-unit commander," not the "Commander-in-Chief".
That anyone would go this far on the battlefield, even knowing that quite a substiantial number of his/her (wo)men were destined to be non-Christian, is quite surprising and disturbing.
Please also note that I highly doubt that the commander in question will be...
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Fact check:
Thank you for the reminder. You are absolutely right: don't judge ab book by its cover:
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The articel states right in the beginning:
"The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night."
There are numerous further sources: [see below}
If this were a hoax, which I don't rule out completely, a tremendous amount of...
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...remprimanded for this.
I have a hunch that #Trump and #Hegseth will be gleefully chuckling inside...
The two most intelligent of the four, #SteveBannon and #JDVance for similar reasons.
#Trump, because it reinforces his #Messianian status and #Hegseth because as a potential successor as #POTUS this would also reinforce his potential standing-to-be, just as the #Apostles' in the #Christian #Church and...
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...#Mohamed's in the #Muslims' faith.
A partial #PR win among (hard-core) MAGA followers!
Also:
A equipment-intensive #Iran would greatly boost arms sales, one of the most lavish donor industries of #Trump and the [fascist] #Maga movement.
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...inspiration of the devil, Saladin approached those parts with a host of armed troops...
‘‘Gird yourselves and be powerful sons because it is better for us to die in battle than to witness the desecration of our nation and our saints’..." 2)
👉 Please do note:
The combat-unit commander is even more presumptious than Pope Gregory VIII:
-HE attributes the horrific deeds of Muslims to the wrath of God due to...
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...the sins of CHRISTIAN men,
-He does not claim that this was #Armageddon or that somebody is the reincarnation of Christ.👈
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Excerpts of an/the original text:
"Audita tremendi severitate iudicii, quod super terram Ierusalem divina manus exercuit...
Eis autem qui corde contrito et humiliato spiritu, itineris huius
laborem assumpserint, et in...
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Medieval Monday: Pope Gregory VIII, the Audita tremendi, and the Third Crusade - University of Pennsylvania Press
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...poenitentia peccatorum et fide recta decesserint, plenam suorum criminum indulgentiam, et vitam pollicemur aeternam...
Ex occasione quippe dissensionis quae malitia hominum ex suggestione diaboli facta est nuper in terra, accessit Saladinus cum multitudine armatorum ad partes illas,...
Accingimini, et estote filii potentes, quoniam melius est nobis mori in bello quam videre mala gentis...
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...nostrae et sanctorum"
Source:
Bull of Pope Gregory VIII,
"Audita tremendi" [Having heard of the terrible/dreadful thing],
Dated at Ferrara on the fourth Calends of November [October 29, 1187], the sixth indiction, calling for the #ThirdCrusade
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One of the most authoritative English translations by This excerpt from...
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...#Crusade and #Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation from #InnocentIII to the Fall of #Acre, 1187-1291," edited by #JessalynnBird, #EdwardPeters, and #JamesMPowell."
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