Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has hosted a monthly Christian prayer and worship service at the Pentagon, the first since the Iran war began.
      • innermachine@lemmy.world
        6·
        22 days ago

        There isn’t a religion on the planet that hasn’t been manipulated and misconstrued to encourage violence against others.

        • AlexLost@lemmy.world
          2·
          22 days ago

          “a way of thinking”. It’s not just religion that gets people blood thirsty. It is human nature unfortunately. We need to rise above our animal selves

          • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
            4·
            21 days ago

            Yeah, but when a way of thinking is based from the outset around letting authority figures dictate your beliefs it becomes a hell of a lot easier to manipulate. Other ideologies have to at least pretend to be logically coherent. Religion doesn’t have that limitation.

            • shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              21 days ago

              Other ideologies do not have to pretend to be logically coherent. Phrenology and Eugenics were fairly widely accepted by colonial era Europeans and had no logical coherence. White supremacy continues to be a worldview/ideology for a not so small minority even today and has no real logical coherence.

              Any ideology can gain widespread adoption if it fits with what people want to believe.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      22 days ago

      When you encourage violence against others, you invite it on yourself. It would normally destroy me if I caused grievous harm to another, but Nazis? I could off them and sleep with a clear conscience.

  • leadore@lemmy.world
    19·
    21 days ago

    Did he consider that if his prayer was granted, he’d get a lightning bolt right up his own ass?

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
      2·
      21 days ago

      “Ouch! That felt kinda like divine judgement! But can’t be that the good lawd would ever object to putting His name on my atrocities. . . I guess this gosh darned electric butt plug must be acting up again.”

  • nosuchanon@lemmy.world
    16·
    22 days ago

    This is a religious war for these people. They believe they are sending the next wave of the crusades.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      5·
      22 days ago

      Well crusades always work out great. Let’s read about a famous one!

      A boy began to preach in either France or Germany, claiming that he had been visited by Jesus, who instructed him to lead a crusade in order to peacefully convert Muslims to Christianity. Through a series of portents and miracles, he gained a following of up to 30,000 children. He led his followers south towards the Mediterranean Sea, in the belief that the sea would part on their arrival, which would allow him and his followers to walk to Jerusalem. This did not happen. Instead, two French merchants promised to take some children across the sea to the Holy Land. However, the children were either taken to Tunisia where they were sold into slavery by the merchants, or shipwrecked on San Pietro Island off Sardinia.

  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
    16·
    21 days ago

    “My god is the god of love and compassion, and if you don’t believe in him, fuck you, I hope he kills you before I do.”

  • tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world
    12·
    21 days ago

    His words are antithetical to Jesus’s teachings. Diametrically opposed even. Perhaps even a smidge Anti-Christ-ian to anyone with morals or brains or a shred of bravery to stand against this? Hmmm?

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      21 days ago

      It irks me when people try and counter this kind of stuff by arguing that Jesus was all about love and peace and kum-bah-yah blah blah blah. Because

      1. Trying to mount arguments based on logic with these people is an exercise in futility
      2. If you’ve read the book, he kinda really wasn’t
      3. His “teachings” are either the fanciful musings of some illiterate shepherds, or state-sanctioned propaganda, and either way, are kind of worthless from a philosophical or moral standpoint
      4. Most importantly, religion has absolutely no place in government, and that’s what we should be saying every time something like “the monthly Pentagon Christian religious service, headed by one of the highest officials in the federal government” crops up in the news, instead of this pedantic attempt to paint Jesus as some peaceful figure
      • Arcanepotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        21 days ago

        So, your argument is “he kinda really wasn’t” peaceful and that it’s more important to oppose religion in government then it is to say they are doing religion wrong?

        Wow it must be hard to be so enlightened.

        • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          21 days ago

          I mean, yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. It’s not hard at all to be enlightened enough to think religion and government have no business mixing lmao