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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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[-] jontree255@lemmy.world 390 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 36 points 2 months ago
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[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 164 points 2 months ago

These people are mentally ill

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[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 142 points 2 months ago

Jesus fuck can these arseholes just get raptured already ..

[-] PineRune@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

They're trying to, and they want to take us all with them.

[-] setsubyou@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 23 points 2 months ago

The actual believers are long gone.

All three of them!

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[-] tyrant@lemmy.world 127 points 2 months ago

Is this dude on substack a legitimate source? Honest question. We live in the times of lies

[-] falidorn@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

I have similar concerns.

[-] ptu@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] KindnessisPunk@piefed.ca 83 points 2 months ago

Even the Bible says no human will know the hour or the day.

Who an I kidding, no one involved here read the Bible.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 45 points 2 months ago

The Bible also says life begins at the first breath and has instructions for an abortion ritual.

[-] foxwolf@pawb.social 25 points 2 months ago

It's okay lots of people who believe in God believe they can trick god.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

When I reflect back on my evangelical upbringing this always stands out. Somehow they think their omnipotent deity can be tricked by a loophole in his own rules which in and of itself would at least prove he’s not omnipotent

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[-] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 66 points 2 months ago

What could be worse than incompetent, racist lunatics? Incompetent, racist lunatics that are also religious fanatics.

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[-] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago

Really wish these death cults would get on with it and leave the rest of us the fuck out of it.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

I'd be happy to make them some Kool-Aid

[-] ninjabard@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago

"No one knows the day or the hour except for my Father. And this orange pedophile who shits himself. That's gonna make sense in a few thousand years." - Jesus, probably.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 60 points 2 months ago

So they admit that Trump is the Antichrist?

[-] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Religious fundamentalists in a death cult vs Religious fundamentalists in a death cult

The common people should just send all these lunatics to Mars.

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[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 59 points 2 months ago

I've been saying for a while now that the biggest threat facing humanity isn't climate change but religion. By far.

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[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

At least these psychopathic Christian evangelical Zionists are being honest about their goals. They want the Rapture or end of the world because they think that forcing ww3 will make Jesus return. This is why Christian evangelicals support Israel no matter how depraved their policies because they believe they will start ww3 and that’s what they want. Christian nationalism is dangerous. It’s been bad for a long time and people like Mike Huckabee have been working towards this goal for decades. We used to regard these people as crazy but now we put all the crazies and narcissists in charge and that’s why everyone sane is depressed with crippling anxiety.

[-] radio@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 months ago

God is all powerful. Also, God needs you to commit war crimes to win this illegal war that he really wants to win. Like, you're the only way he can win this war. Do it for our all powerful God.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago

Why does God need a starship?

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[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 46 points 2 months ago

This is what cultists do when they see their reckoning coming. Rev Jones made his followers drink Kool aid (flavor aid actually) when US Senators visited and found he was keeping people against their will. Trump and his crazies will do the same. Remember ... Trump could have just been impeached, or not elected in the first place.

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[-] possumparty 41 points 2 months ago

I really hope this photo is real.

[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Tiny hands confirmed

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[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

Religious people are so easy to manipulate lol

How they don't see it, when their "pastors" are driving Porsches and living in manions while telling you if you don't skip a meal so that you can donate to the church you're gonna go to hell... it's beyond me.

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

Yay! Death cult is doing death cult things!

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago
[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 33 points 2 months ago

People still underestimate the role of christian fundamentalism in this ongoing trainwreck. When you have a religious institution whose image of God is quite literally an abusive father, who all worship power above all else, whose church policies are to spread as far and wide as possible and systematically "train"(ie., abuse) their own children into actively seeking out every position of power possible to force their worldview onto everyone - it was only a matter of time before this all happened.

These are people who genuinely believe the war on terror is a holy war. Their entire social network is meticulously designed to draw a dichotomy between themselves (apart from the world), vs everyone else (the worldly), to isolate their own against outside views, and indoctrinate their children throughout their entire lives to vigorously proselytize on the one hand, and be ready to eliminate anyone who opposes their worldview on the other. And many of them are bloodthirsty.

[-] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

American Djihad

[-] johsny@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

Killing girls going to school. Good plan, God. Well done, you fuckin idiot.

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 24 points 2 months ago

Don't pin it on God, he doesn't exist. This is purely human levels of evil.

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[-] chaotic_ugly@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 months ago

It's a doomsday cult.

[-] eru@mouse.chitanda.moe 29 points 2 months ago
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[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

What the actual fuck?

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

So about that authoritarian religious regime...

[-] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 28 points 2 months ago

I mean we have adults who identify as MAGA and believe anything Orange Jesus tells them, so I am not surprised some of them found their way into the military

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[-] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 27 points 2 months ago

For those who haven't seen the depths of christian nationalism, check out Jesus Camp which came out 20 years ago (those kids are adults now)

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[-] Stampy@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 months ago

I guess the billionaires finished their bunkers…

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[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

I am trying to think of how we would have responded to this when I was in the military

We already had a 1st Sergeant who used soldiers to pick up trash at his church and gave soldiers on extra duty the option to go to his church on Sunday to avoid extra duty

That 1SG got forced retirement pretty quick

But a commander? Not sure how to handle that one

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