• Jhex@lemmy.world
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    I thought Hegseth had quoted Pulp Fiction and the issue was that it’s blasphemous to do so by a gov official and such… but no, it totally looks like this idiot did not know this was not an actual Bible quote

    The lesson here is “if you think they cannot possibly that dumb, forget about it and double down”

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      it totally looks like this idiot did not know this was not an actual Bible quote

      He knew it wasn’t an actual Bible quote, but he did think it was a modified version of Ezekiel 25:17. Which it definitionally is. The actual string is:

      Ezekiel 25:17 –> (edit: Bodyguard Kiba modification) –> Pulp Fiction modification –> USAF modification

      Whereas he thought it was:

      Ezekiel 25:17 –> USAF modification

      I think that’s understandable if you’ve never seen Pulp Fiction (because you just assume the Pulp Fiction stuff was the USAF’s addition), but it’s still pretty funny.

      The actual problem here, as usual, is separation of church and state being trampled over to make way for Abrahamic prayers in the US federal government.

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        25:17 is a small segment of the “verse”… Pulp Fictions rendition is made up all in except the “great vengeance and furious anger…” Part…

        E.g. fake bible verse.

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          E.g. fake bible verse

          You mean “i.e.”, and yeah, he said that it’s “reflecting” Ezekiel 25:17.

          “They call it CSAR 25:17, which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17.”

          He literally never said it’s an actual Bible quote or even all that close to one.

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            Yup. It’s not giving an example so “e.g.” doesn’t make sense

            For example fake bible verse