"It feels patently ridiculous, but we have, you know, white Christian nationalists running the Pentagon. … They clearly haven't read the Bible because in Revelation, the people who start the war are the bad guys in that book. So it really does make you think a little bit how deeply they've thought this through."

~ Sam Osterhout

#Trump #Hegseth #MikeHuckabee #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #patriarchy
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A War To Spark Armageddon?! | It's The End! ... of the Week with Sam Osterhout & Max Burns

It may very well be the end with the ways things are going in Iran.

^{Sam Osterhout (Lincoln Square)}

"In the context of the broader Christian tradition, however, other expressions of Christianity would consider it an idol. And an idol is whatever Christians place their hope and trust in rather than God."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #violence
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"Do Christian nations rain down death and destruction all day long? Which part of Jesus’ ministry signals this sort of behavior is in line with his goals for his followers?

Violence, and the glorification of it, is a central cultural element of the Christianity of Christian nationalism."

~ Andrew Whitehead

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #patriarchy
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Would Jesus Condone "Death and Destruction from the Sky All Day Long"?

I guess this is a question we are being forced to ask in the current context.

^{Andrew Whitehead (American Idolatry)}

"The right to live that life freely and safely gets swallowed by the fundamentalist state religion and its function as an arbiter of the nation’s will to power."

#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #patriarchy #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"The rest of us, our rights, our lives, become collateral damage in this gruesome fantasy.

Christian nationalism and the Christian patriarchy that comes built in are direct threats to our basic freedoms: freedom of religion, freedom (for women) to vote, freedom for all of us to make basic choices about our own lives."

#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"As [Hegseth's pastor Douglas] Wilson said in the lead-in to his [Tucker] Carlson interview, 'there is no salvation without the shedding of blood. There must be a sacrifice. There must be a scapegoat.' ...

This is what Christian nationalism requires: a morality that is comfortable ending the world as we know it, so their sort of Christians get their day."

~ Sarah Stankorb

#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture
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Who Wins in a Moral Debate between Tucker Carlson and Douglas Wilson?

Not us

^{Sarah Stankorb (In Polite Company)}

"Here’s the inconvenient truth that American politicians and pundits choose to ignore: The most influential religious zealots driving the current conflict with Iran are not in Tehran. They’re in Washington."

~ Mehdi Hasan

#Trump #Hegseth #ChristianNationalism #war #Iran #armageddon #theocracy #HolyWar #rapture
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✝️ A Holy War Against Iran?

Mehdi on the Republican religious nutjobs pining for Armageddon in the Middle East. Plus: the latest on the Iran school bombing and, for once, a disgraced Republican is shamed into quitting politics.

^{Mehdi Hasan (Zeteo)}

"This is happening as there is a report that the United States military, that military leaders are telling troops that that the Iran war was anointed by Jesus to bring about Armageddon. This is a real report. A watchdog agency, a religious freedom, a military religious freedom organization called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says it has received widespread complaints" (continued in /10)

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #HolyWar
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