Hegseth Uses War To Promote Violent Christianity But His God Fails The Test

Pete Hegseth conducts magic rituals to protect American soldiers every day, to placate his violent Christian god of war.

Over and over, Hegseth’s magic powers of protection fail.

We are now in the second week of the war that the United States launched against Iran, unprovoked.

Every morning, we get a new press conference from Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.

At every one of these press conferences, Pete Hegseth makes sure to engage in an act of Christian religious ritual of prayer.

Hegseth is using this war to promote his religion through the U.S. Federal government. That’s pretty tacky, but it's also pretty ineffective.

Listen to what Pete Hegseth had to say 3 days ago during one of these press conferences:

I’ll close with scripture, drawing strength from Psalm 144.

Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle. He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge.

May the Lord grant unyielding strength and refuge to our warriors, unbreakable protection to them in our homeland, and total victory over those who seek to harm them.

Amen. God bless our troops and this mission.

The first thing we hear from Pete Hegseth is that the God of Christianity loves war, loves violence, so much that this God is apparently training people to go to war, training people to engage in acts of violence, training, fingers for battle, hands for war.

This is an all powerful, all knowing God. Why would any God with unlimited power encourage people to engage in acts of violence? This is not a loving God. This is not a peaceful God. This is a God who loves to kill and wants to have people go and kill each other on his behalf.

Beyond that terrible violent attitude from this Christian God, we see that there is actual impotence behind all of the bluster. We see that the Christian God has no power to actually control people.

How do we see that?

Pete Hegseth just engaged in a little magical ritual of protection for American soldiers, didn't he? He prayed to the Christian God that there would be unbreakable protection to American soldiers, from God, unbreakable protection.

We know, as of last night, that 4 more soldiers from the United States military were killed as a part of this war when their plane crashed, going from a refueling mission in Iran over to Iraq. So, this god of war, this Christian god of violence that Pete Hegseth worships, is totally unable to provide the kind of protection that Pete Hegseth asks for.

(*A tragic update to this story: It now appears that all 6 members of the US military that were on that plane have died as a result of their mission as part of the war against Iran.)

Why is Pete Hegseth up there, making these prayers, if these prayers don't work, if they don't actually protect soldiers?

You know why he's doing it. Pete Hegseth is using this war in Iran, and the attention that it brings, as an opportunity to spread his own religion, his religion of violence and war. Our country is not only losing soldiers, we are losing a billion dollars per day with this war, and we're losing our international credibility.

This war, and its incompetence, its lack of planning, its careless bloodshed, show just a hint of the kind of disaster we can expect when we mix religion and government. A