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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.
From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).
The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.
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On the plus side maybe we can finally put the whole Revelations part of the Bible into the trash can where it (and the rest of it, frankly) belongs
Lolwat?
Is this dude on substack a legitimate source? Honest question. We live in the times of lies
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation demands that all personnel in the Department of Defense (not “War") remember and fully internalize that the oaths they swear are not to the narcissistic, sociopathic, orange, POS tRump, nor to little Petey ‘Kegseth’ nor to Jesus Christ.
This made me think that MRFF might not be reporting objectively about this
That, and the MRFF site uses AI generated photographs, which always makes me question the veracity of everything associated with it. It’s not an unbelievable claim for me, I’ve been hearing people call for holy war since 9/11, but the way it’s being presented is setting off all kinds of red flags.
It just feels like I’m eating the onion here.
You’re not wrong, but the only thing there that’s not arguably correct is calling hegseth little and I guess misspelling his name.
I have similar concerns.
What are you looking for? Direct quotes? This has been the MO for decades
According to the authors profile he’s worked at a bunch of known places in the past
I’ve heard of a bunch of known places…
You can look at it yourself, lazy
“I’m an independent journalist whose reporting is made possible by reader support. As a former executive producer at MSNBC, I helped create Up w/ Chris Hayes and previously was a senior producer on Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann.”
I‘m not seeing mention of this on the MRFF site.
People like this are literally going to cause the end of the human race with their “beliefs”. We have a bunch of religious fanatics killing at the behest of a demented pedophile and his genocidal buddy.
Religion is a cancer.
Religion can certainly be problematic but I think its worth bringing up how monotheism specifically acts as a mind virus at its worst. It’s inherently exclusivist and closed minded, priming people to see those that don’t believe in their god as not human and can even act as justification to bring pain, suffering and death upon nonbelievers. It’s also inherently centralized and authoritarian which is why it to works synergistically with oppressive forms of governence.
Polytheism is riddled with mystical thinking but, generally, beleiving in more than one god makes it more difficult to use it as a justification to hurt people that don’t believe in your god. By having a wide variety of divinities it is naturally decentralized.
Christianity wiped out Roman polytheism with relative ease and ushered in a millenia long dark age. Politicians/Rulers of long past and even today recognize the coercive and unifying power of monotheism and are often keen to wield it to stamp out dissent and concentrate power.
Monotheism is also effective at priming people to accept autocracy. If you believe in one supreme all knowing deterministic god then it’s not that hard to believe in a human ruler wield absolute power as god’s chosen one.
Democracy and monotheism in many way incompatible phiosophies. It’s why the Greeks, South Asian and indigineous confederacies were able to arrive at democractic systems at various periods in history (they were not monotheist) and also why the West had to institute seperation of church and state to become democratic.
I say this not to disparage spirituality as a whole. I personally have been made better by it and believe that it’s core to the human experience but acknowledge that some do not feel a need for it. What we need to be wary of is monotheism. It has brought great civilizations to ruin and promotes conformity of thought which stifles human ingenuity.
At what point does it become socially acceptable to say to these people, “Fuck your god”?
Since the creation of the “God hates gays” picket signs. Probably before then.
A little before that, i think? Maybe since The Crusades?
I’m not sure when that point was but it’s solidly in the past.
Someone needs to interrupt these fucking monsters and tell them nobody cares about their imaginary friends
They are not religious people. Unless you take paedophillia as a form of religion. I mean, they seem to have been in some crazy paedocult.
Of Catholicism isn’t a pedocult idk what is
I would never conclude something as reductive as this, but certainly, the Catholic church won’t get any apologetic comment from me.
America is cancer
Yeah definitely no religious fruitcakes in any other parts of the world.
There was a really interesting article posted the other day about the Antichrist. Religious folks are really wacky.
That’s a very interesting article but does 2019 qualify as “the other day”?
They probably meant it was posted on lemmy the other day, not that the article was released the other day.
*Insert Saving Private Ryan Meme here*
Those were better times …
Lol! I didn’t even look at the date. It was posted in another instance just yesterday or the day before…I can’t remember which.
Jesus fuck can these arseholes just get raptured already …
The rapture already happened, that’s why people are calling themselves Christians but never actually following Christ’s teachings. The actual believers are long gone.
The actual believers are long gone.
All three of them!
It was a very small event on November 3, 1973. Interestingly one of the three raptured made big news, but it was covered up. He was a pilot.
I don’t know if you hinted on this, but the story is wild:
A passenger on National Airlines Flight 27 was blown out of the window of an airplane at an altitude of 39,000 feet (12,000 m) over the U.S. state of New Mexico, after the number 3 engine on the Douglas DC-10-10, exploded and fragments penetrated the fuselage. The jet had been en route from Houston to Las Vegas when the accident happened at 4:40 in the afternoon, and made a safe emergency landing in Albuquerque, New Mexico. According to the subsequent NTSB investigation, the cockpit voice recorder showed that the engine explosion happened immediately after the first officer asked the captain “Wonder— wonder if you pull the N1 tach will that— autothrottle respond to N1?” and the captain replied, “Gee, I don’t know.” The first officer then said “You want to try it and see?” Thirty-four seconds later, the explosion happened. An extensive search was unable to locate the passenger, machinist George F. Gardner of Beaumont, Texas, who had been sitting by the window in seat 17F.
I read the Wikipedia article and it looks like the NTSB concluded that conversation and the subsequent “test” they did were inconclusive as the root cause of the engine failure. That specific engine had numerous problems reported prior to the flight and had been taken off and replaced before having even more reported after. It seems to be just coincidental. What’s just as wild to me is that the passenger that was ejected from the plane was even wearing his seatbelt. Explosive decompression still said nuh uh and ripped him out the window.
I was actually talking about Pan Am flight 160 the same day. This would have been a better story. Wow, that’s crazy. Looks like 2 of them made the news.
It turns out that Harambe is the only who got raptured.
They’re trying to, and they want to take us all with them.
MAGA seem to be on a one way ticket to Jonestown and they are happy to take all of us with them.
I really hope this photo is real.
he looks like matt gaetz.
It’s not. Or at least it’s not a recent picture.
Proof: https://old.reddit.com/r/AngryCops/comments/1pj5ywm/angrymemereview/ “submitted 2 months ago”
And most probably was AI slop also back then.
Slop gonna cost elections
How is that link proof of anything?
It doesn’t matter anyways. If the Whorehouse can use AI to prove trump is a viral young soccer player, we can also use AI to prove he’s an unstable maciac who screams at Kegsbreath everyday.
Nothing is real, everything is permitted.
How is that link proof of anything?
I don’t understand your question. Can you elaborate? Are you implying that reddit fakes submission dates to protect Trump?
I don’t understand your question.
I’m not really surprised.
Tiny hands confirmed
Wow…what a way to divorce the US military from reality and play into a fantasy conspiracy that Israel is somehow central to some scheme by the Illuminati, the Jesuits, the Freemasons, and the Zionists.
Western leaders folks…these champions are losing their marbles all over the floor.
Labelling something as a definitive: “play into a fantasy conspiracy” is manipulative bias. You do not know with certainty either way.
a fantasy conspiracy that Israel is somehow central to some scheme by the Illuminati, the Jesuits, the Freemasons, and the Zionists.
I mean, I’m not convinced yet, but… Just saying, recent events have made me more open to the idea.
Seconding… Especially for those interested in esoteric/occult texts.
Religion is a cult. This is literal proof. Jesus was not real. The bible is fiction. Grow up.
Jesus most likely existed though.
“most likely” is not actual historical evidence. And there is no historical evidence that the ‘jesus’ referenced in the christian bible ever lived. As a matter of fact, he was called Yeshua (which translates to Joshua) in the bible stories. Jesus is a greek/latin translation. Finding historical facts outside of the bible is necessary to verify fiction from fact. We all know that Methuselah could not be 969 Years Old, humans cannot live that long, and 2000 years ago mortality rates were 20-45 years old, not 969.
The persona of jesus is more likely a representation of a variety of different characters from different stories and fables that were retold and well known at the time, as well as contemporary characters from the first few centuries AD.
Pretty sure that bit about rapture also mentions the antichrist proclaiming himself as savior, right?
Imagine being sent to the other side of the world so you can die in the hopes of fulfilling a Doomsday Prophecy from somebody else’s pedophile religion.
It’s just so stupid, so embarrassing. You guys need to get rid of these clowns ASAP.
These people need to be stopped.
Murricans always telling is we should be afraid of the mad militaristic, totalitarian theocracy
Tell me again what’s the difference between this and when you called “dangerous barbarians” to those islamic countries calling for a yihad?
Oh, right… they had the wrong color of skin and the wrong god…
Well… Pretty much the same god, the christians just deny the relevancy of the 3rd book in the series.
Trunp really did see all those god emporer memes.
