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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.

Gog and Magog all over again I guess. How many times is it now? At least twice, you think Christians would realize they’ve seen this one before.

Hegseth has been working overtime to normalize it, recruitment videos pairing the Lord’s Prayer with fighter jets. christian nationalism has always been part of the military but it’s a prereq now.

Mikey Weinstein from MRFF puts it bluntly: “Hegseth makes it clear, ‘Here’s the template that we want.’ That fully encourages one of those Christian nationalists, commanders and members of the chain of command—whether they believe it or not. They know it’s a way to get ahead, to try to rationalize [the mission]”

So when a commander stands in front of troops and says Trump is “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran,” they’re not operating in a vacuum. They’ve watched their Secretary of War do exactly that for months without consequence.

That said, well over 200 complaints across 50+ installations show it’s not isolated to a few weirdos. Hegseth’s project has given them permission to say the quiet part out loud.

https://mst.military.com/daily-news/2026/03/03/military-officers-accused-of-framing-iran-war-biblical-mandate.html

The complainants themselves are mostly Christians. They’re not objecting to faith in the military. They’re objecting to commanders using their rank to push specific apocalyptic theology.

Some of these commanders are genuine believers, Some are opportunists but at this point it’s a distinction without a difference, because the result is the same either way: troops being told it’s prophecy.

Considering most of the complaints are from formal briefings, it’s at least rampant in the command structure. Best case? We’re looking at years of investigations, reassignments, and quietly shuffling people out.

The only silver lining is Keg Breath is so uncharismatic that most of the top brass hate him specifically.

Heavily suspected sure, but it would be nice to have proof.

You seem to think I disagree with you, which I don’t, I was more just adding nuance to the point for other people.

Then your second comment made it feel defensive with the clarification that’s all.

Seems needlessly defenseive especially with your clarification edit to the original message but go off.

My apologies it wasn’t intended to be condescending.

I should probably clarify that I understand that a lot of things predate Trump, and at the US political apparatus work to defeat through leftist movements.

My only issue is that these things need to be complimentary.

You started out by saying that America wasn’t a democracy, while technically true, is pedantic at best and dismissed the nuance of the original comment.

Then when I point out your lack of nuance and boiled down their argument so you could understand it, you explained it as “pointing out misinformation” and perhaps innocent, it seems like dismissal when taken with the original comment I don’t see how a reasonable individual wouldn’t know they were using it informally to refer to their Congressional system.

That’s awesome that you want people to be involved in activism but activism does not and should not proclude voting for progressive candidates and perpetuating that it’s a lost cause will not win any battles.

Everyone in my circles is pissed I guess that’s the difference between a government and it’s people though.

Again, talking past someone. It’s not close, engaging in war without Congress, using the purse without Congress are drastic and alarming departures from the norm.

You’re using sweeping generalizations to vindicate doing nothing.

This is not useful. You again dodged their meaning and avoided engaging. No where is completely free and the road between democracy and fascism is a spectrum. They obviously articulated that this administration is stripping away freedoms.

It’s non-deterministic nature is honestly the scariest thing about vibe coding. In it’s early days when I was experimenting with several llms it quickly became apparent that I would spend 10 times as much time cleaning up its code as I would writing it myself because it would just put in completely nonsense code that did nothing.

I will say that while most of these models are non-deterministic their training data was very similar so if you did something like this I can guarantee you if you churned out enough you would start to see the common threads.

I do not support any military action by the sitting US president at this time. They have extensively outlined a plan to use war as a means to dismantle democracy.

So even if I agreed with the need for intervention, which I don’t, the president’s office cannot be held accountable to spearhead that action.