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

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

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

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      You forgot to mention the whole dictator plans, that’s the pressing concern here.

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        The fascism almost means less when you acknowledge that they are literally trying to destroy the world, well, other than that’s how they plan to do it. But that’s what they’re trying to do, destroy the world with fire like “god” said “he” would do. They are trying to force “god’s” hand by lining up all the prerequisites from their fucking fairytale. Religion is the worst cancer on the planet.

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    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.

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    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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      There’s no easy solution, because it’s like trying to treat a cancer that has already been growing for generations and is already metastasizing. Ironically, the best bet from a wide perspective is probably a combination of supporting religious diversity (more institutions who don’t share their views), and even moreso a healthy, science-respecting educational system. These groups thrive most in rural areas with the poorest access to education. They perceive college as a threat for good reason - because their entire worldview is a hot garbage house of cards that immediately crumbles under the slightest scrutiny.

      Free public college is the biggest threat to them.

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        Correction, the people that hold power are cynical bastards that are playing these mentally ill evangelicals and other religious crazies.

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    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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      Orange Jesus doesnt work anymore.

      The leader of the most powerful nation that sets off Armageddon, is the anticrist in their book.

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      25% or more of his base is evangelical, and believes war in the middle east will bring about the second coming of (angry,) Jesus, whom will bring the faithful to heaven and drown the world in lakes of blood and fire. Finally, right?

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    How much more stupid lies will the world accept? This is insanity.
    How many kids have to die for the lies of USA? For the lies of Israel?
    Bravo USA, Bravo Israel.

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    From Abraham’s first hallucinations that the god El promising him the Levant, to Moses admitting that a demon Yahweh impersonated El to fill Abraham’s head with such warmongering delusions, to King David’s victory took 1700 years. No matter how passionate your belief in every schitzos voices in their head’s call for war, when it takes that long to gain control, coincidence rather than divine power to make things/miracles happen, becomes a better argument than the existence of either divine intervention at all, or of a chosen people.

    Christianity, turned back into Divine right of Kings in first millenium. Criminal heresy to suggest that Jesus’s humanist points should ever contradict Empire’s warmongering or authoritarianism. That military hierarchy would rely on Old testament demonism is tradition that gives them more power.

    The only possible interpretation of Jesus defeating the forces of evil, is that the evil side is the Epstein warmongering regime. The punch line, is that demonic Abrahamic supremacists are converted to Jesus in the end, and so military should interpret this order as attacking Israel and their corrupt hierarchy.