Troops have logged more than 110 complaints about such comments with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
Without any clear message coming from the White House with regard to the purpose of the Iran war, U.S. military commanders have turned to Jesus, apparently telling American troops that the war is “biblically sanctioned.”
The U.S. joined Israel in striking Iran early Saturday morning. By Monday evening, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, or MRFF, was “inundated” with complaints, receiving more than 110 grievances from U.S. military personnel stationed at dozens of sites across the Middle East, reported independent journalist Jonathan Larsen.
One such note included an anecdote from a noncommissioned officer, who reported that their commander had “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”
The NCO’s complaint was lodged on behalf of 15 troops, including 11 Christians, one Muslim, and one Jew, according to Larsen. The officer stated that such remarks “destroy morale and unit cohesion and are in violation of the oaths we swore to support the [C]onstitution.”
“[The] Republicans are selling their soul to win elections. Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. The government won’t work without it. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.”
-Barry Goldwater (November 1994)Winning an election is a means to power. They aren’t selling their soul to win elections but to seize power.
JFC, between the treasonous racist pedophiles, and the whacked-out delusional religious freaks, who both have a pathological obsession to control every aspect of every citizen’s life, how do good, decent, moral people who only want to live a dignified life with their families, stand a chance?
So now it’s a Christian holy war. Just perfect, this will not end well for anyone.
Amen
Praise Jeebus
One such note included an anecdote from a noncommissioned officer, who reported that their commander had “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”
Anything can be “part of God’s divine plan” as long as some fundamentalist asshole wants to claim it is.
Was protecting pedophiles all part of God’s divine plan too, or were y’all just improvising? Guess we’ll all just have to wait and hear what God says. Probably sooner than any of us were expecting thanks to these
mentally I’ll murderous cunts“righteous angels” who walk among us.Nah fuck it let’s say it is God’s plan. Did they miss the part where, in the battle of Armageddon, the worldly armies all belong to the Antichrist? Unless these dipshits are literally descending glorified from heaven with actual physical Jesus leading them, they are on the Antichrist’s side.
Maybe they all expect to get raptured and leave the rest of us to deal with the mess they leave behind.
May be, but that’s as unbiblical a belief for them to have as the one mentioned above. What they believe in isn’t the Bible or Christianity, it’s a pack of malicious lies designed to make them think that not only is it okay for them to kill, steal, and destroy, but that God wants them to do it as his chosen people.
I’m starting to think this God guy isn’t a very good planner.
I mean who puts an amusement park next to a sewage system?
He definitely doesn’t think shit through.
It’s like Trump has to convince everyone he is the antichrist without actually saying it.
He’s convinced people to blindly follow whatever he does. MAGA is a cult.
Congress did not delacre war, making all orders to attack Iran, illegal. Soldiers are obligated to refuse illegal orders. Yet none are. Don’t put your hope in soldiers to prevent Trump admin from committing horrific war crimes, or lightning the constitution on fire and seizing power.
Yeah but the War Powers Act gives the president 60 days of war as a special treat.
More treason? Say it aint so
I fucking hate organized religion. I’ve hated it since first reading the history of its atrocities . I hate it even more now.
Christianity used to be responsible for many of mankind’s greatest atrocities. It still is, but it used to, too
Hey Commanders! Y’know when they said you had to ignore illegal orders? Passing on illegal orders counts.
Anecdotally, conversations with the terminally online type of leftists shows many to be still quite self-satisfied about not voting for Kamala, though.
Because, bOtHsIdEs would have started a religious war on behalf of a secular country.
You’re not wrong, and to be clear I voted for Kamala just like I begrudgingly voted for Biden in 2020, and if somebody wants to argue things would be just as fucking horrible right now with Kamala as president, I would assume they’re a troll or just a contrarian not worth arguing with.
But if we’re looking at this as a continuum of who is to blame if the world were to end today, I do have to say I think there are plenty of more blameworthy people than just those on the left who either fell for propaganda or refused to compromise their values, and honestly (if not naively) believed they were making the right choice.
Regardless, we can’t change that now, but if the world ends this way, as of this day I honestly would have to say the establishment Democrats are continuing to edge towards more complicit than blameless, even while knowing this is their chance to prove why they deserve any votes they don’t receive.
If I could do 2024 again, I would still vote for Kamala, but I have to say, it makes me more than just a little angry to see so little effort by establishment Democrats to consider their constituents before their donors.
Why Can’t Top Democrats Just Say “No War With Iran”?
It’s definitely not all Democrats, and there have been some (like Wyden) who have made their opinions very clear. Those democrats deserve every vote they can get. But shit like this from Schumer only helps to undermine democracy and public faith in the democratic party. It would be great to not have to constantly question who’s interests he actually has in mind.
Yes, I fully understand all the caveats and the frustrations with the Democratic Party. I think a great deal of Democrats are in the camp you describe, including me.
I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about what seems to be a relatively small (but very vocal and quite smug) subset of the left that offer no truly viable options and then go on to lecture about how America and the DNC/Democratic Party deserves this kind of thing…if I didn’t have a few of these types in my life, I’d think the online ones were an orchestrated campaign to throw elections to the right.
There are often several headlines per day that put the lie to how Republicans would be no different than the Democrats, and yet I’ve yet to see one of these types admit they were wrong or apologize for their claims. I mean, I get the fire in the belly - I was once a teenager, too. The sad part is that some of the people I know personally like this are way past the teen years.
When people are so quick to point an accusatory finger so frequently and unprompted towards them as you did commenting on this post is it any wonder that 3rd party and non-voters start to grow bitter towards their accusers? It would be far more productive of you to join their calls for a better Democratic party and not constantly chastise those with whom you agree on all except their choice to vote on their principles. Harm reduction is not a persuasive argument, it is a strategic decision to acknowledge your moral culpability in both action and inaction, informed by reality not ideals. It would be ideal if everyone understood this concept and voted to cause the least harm, but that is not the reality, and you will not convince them with finger-wagging and moralising. I am asking you to continue practicing harm reduction by keeping your frustrations with non-voters to yourself - knowing that voicing them only causes further harm - and instead direct them to dem electeds and primary candidates to be better at inspiring their vote.
The dem party leaders have complained about how this war was started, haven’t heard much actual opposition to the war itself from them
They probably wouldn’t have been so sloppy, but the messaging I heard was they would have backed up Israel unconditionally
Which is why we need anti-zionist liberals to run against them in the primaries. Find enough of those, I’ll vote for the ones I can vote for…the rest is up to the people.
Yes, because the US wasn’t sucking Israeli cock when Biden was president. It’s not guaranteed this exact situation would’ve played out if Harris was president, but fundamentally it’s Tel Aviv setting the schedule here, not DC. It’s more than likely a Harris admin would’ve just taken more care to manufacture consent first (and not call the affair a religious war, but secular bombs aren’t any better than religious bombs).
PS: Leftists unwilling to vote blue don’t exist in large enough numbers to skew any US elections.
Leftists too lazy to register to vote exist in large numbers.
🫠 ugggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Jesus about to go full Bobby Hill with how firmly he tells this administration he doesn’t know them
Who could have seen the United States becoming so fucked up evil? Unbelievable!
Everyone outside the USA.
Jesus.
Don’t want me for a Sunbeam.
Weeps.
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