cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56224006
Troops have logged more than 110 complaints about such comments with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
Without any clear message coming from the White House with regard to the purpose of the Iran war, U.S. military commanders have turned to Jesus, apparently telling American troops that the war is “biblically sanctioned.”
The U.S. joined Israel in striking Iran early Saturday morning. By Monday evening, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, or MRFF, was “inundated” with complaints, receiving more than 110 grievances from U.S. military personnel stationed at dozens of sites across the Middle East, reported independent journalist Jonathan Larsen.
One such note included an anecdote from a noncommissioned officer, who reported that their commander had “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 Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”
The NCO’s complaint was lodged on behalf of 15 troops, including 11 Christians, one Muslim, and one Jew, according to Larsen. The officer stated that such remarks “destroy morale and unit cohesion and are in violation of the oaths we swore to support the [C]onstitution.”
How convenient that [unpopular war] is sanctioned by God.
It really seems to me that when rich white men say something is because God wants it, it’s really because THEY want it. Calling your actions ordained by God is an extreme megalomaniacal projection.
I can’t believe people fall for this shit.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
-Susan B. Anthony
Is that REALLY limited to “rich white men” tho? That just seems like all religions across the board.
Certainly not, but in the USA I find that group tends to truly believe it more than others.
I have a theory I call “televangelist syndrome” where someone tells a lie that makes them so successful that they begin to believe it themselves, and it becomes integrated into their personality; the lie becomes part of them because they’ve so adapted to it that to believe or do otherwise becomes impossible.
It does not benefit the actor or the audience to dismantle the performance and expose it for what it really is. But, when that performance is for politics and religion, that is when this form of untruth creates mass surreal insanity like we’re seeing now.
For instance: when some rich white asshole tells us to die in a war with Iran so God can bring about the apocalypse. Fucking. Bonkers.
I can’t believe people fall for this shit.
I was always aware of stupid people, but the revelation over the last decade of just how many there are and how stupid they actually are has been shocking.
It’s honestly amazing humanity made it this far. Obviously on the backs of a small percentage of very intelligent people over the millennia.
Born too early to die in the crusades
Born too late to die in the crusades
Born just in time to die in the crusades
I somehow didn’t expect this to turn into a Christian Armageddon ploy. I thought we all agreed all that matters is oil
I am no theologist nor have more than cursory knowlege of the Bible, but isn’t Armageddon “started” by God himself, not an emissary, against the gathered armies of Satan?
And err … the only ones who gathered armies are trump and bibi (who try to lure in others to join them…)Is maga turning a blind eye again to the fact that this announcement of trump bringing about Armageddon points to trump being Satan’s plaything?
If they try to proclaim trump as being God himself then there is a whole other level of delusion going on.
Christianity is not a religion of peace.
Never was.
Jesus would despise Christians.
Trumageddon
Trying to get the christofascists on board, just so there is some domestic support.
