Christian Nationalism Is Execution By Firing Squad Livestreamed To America’s Children
Christian Nationalist Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is demonstrating that the military will violate the Constitution in the name of Jesus.
Nothing that this movement of religious violence does can be trusted.
Welcome back to Stop Christian Nationalism. This episode is going to be really short and not so sweet, sour.
When this podcast began back in 2022, it discussed what could happen if we had unrestricted Christian nationalism in charge of this country, and now we are heading down the path to some really really bad stuff.
We see what's happening with Christian nationalism, most directly in the form of Pete Hegseth, who has been put in charge of our nation's military. Pete Hegseth has decided that there is going to be a public execution by firing squad, live streamed to the entire world on the internet.
I want to acknowledge straight up that the person who's going to be executed is not any kind of moral example to anybody. This is a U.S. Army psychiatrist who grabbed a gun and shot and killed a whole bunch of people, and they were soldiers. It doesn't really matter who the people he killed were, though, does it? In the end, nobody deserves to get killed.
We can ask all kinds of questions like how does a U.S. Military psychiatrist get so crazy that they open fire and end up killing a large number of their comrades?What's going on with that?
The point we have to deal with is that in December, there is going to be a firing squad execution that is going to be live streamed to the public, and that Pete Hegseth has approved this from the top, has pushed for it, as a matter of fact, at the same time that he's claiming that the United States military is there for Jesus, that it is a Christian organization.
So we now have to conclude that Christianity is for public executions, online, for children to watch people getting shot to death. You know that's what's going to happen. They're not going to have any kind of restriction that is going to stop little kids from watching a person get shot to death.
They want the spectacle. They want to revel in the violence.
This is now part of public Christianity in the United States of America.
The United Nations has warned the United States that this is a human rights abuse. The Christian Nationalists in the United States of America are not listening to that.
The Constitution of the United States of America explicitly forbids this. Let me read to you the 8th Amendment from the Bill of Rights, which is part of the Constitution. It says: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel, and unusual punishments inflicted.”
I don't see how anyone can argue that a public execution live streamed online to all kinds of people, including children, is not cruel and unusual, a firing squad.
It's barbaric. It's medieval. It's a very Christian thing to do.
This is what happened all the time back when Christian nationalism was in charge of medieval Europe. They had public executions in order to impose morality.
How is it Christian? It's not forgiving, but you know, Christianity often isn't forgiving.
Christianity is often just a matter of imposing authority because God has authority, and then God chooses human beings to put into positions of authority, and when those peoples authority is questioned, they have to do what they have to do to smack it down.
I mean, Christians talk about all the time about God imposing punishments, about God putting diseases on people, curses on them, killing people, as punishment.
God is a terrible moral example. God does not follow the 8th amendment of the Constitution.
You could make an argument that, hey, you know, the Constitution doesn't apply to the US military, but there is nothing in the Constitution of the United States of America that says that the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution does not apply to the military. In fact, it is the Constitution that creates the military as a legal force of violence.
The 8th amendment is not saying that this shouldn't be imposed just in civil courts, it's imposing this restriction on any aspect of the U.S. Federal government at all, including the Pentagon, including the U.S. Military, no cruel or unusual punishments, but Pete Hegseth, appointed by Donald Trump, as a Christian nationalist doesn't care at all about the Constitution.
Soldiers, including Pete Hegseth, may go ahead and swear an oath, “so help them God”, whatever that means, to uphold the Constitution. Obviously, that's not going to stop them from violating the Constitution.
So now the question you've got to ask yourself is this: When are they coming for you? When are they coming for you? When will you be tied to a post and shot in public?
With the execution live streamed to America's children, to teach them what happens when you disobey.