Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Rapture Prep at the Pentagon

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“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.”

That’s not a random guy on a street corner with a cardboard sign. That’s what a combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing on Monday, according to a complaint filed with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. He said it at a readiness briefing. For troops who could be deployed to an active war zone at any moment.

We are four days into a war with Iran. At least 787 people are dead. The Supreme Leader of Iran was killed in the initial strikes. The US Embassy in Riyadh just got hit by drones. The State Department is telling American citizens to leave 14 countries across the Middle East immediately. And military commanders across the country are telling their troops this is all God’s plan.

The MRFF has logged more than 110 complaints since Saturday morning from more than 40 different units across at least 30 military installations. Every branch. The complainants are Christians, Muslims, and Jews – one NCO filed on behalf of 15 troops, at least 11 of them Christian. These aren’t atheists with a grudge. These are service members watching their commanding officers turn combat briefings into Sunday school.

MRFF founder Mikey Weinstein – who is a Reagan-era Air Force veteran, not some lefty activist – described the complaints as an “inundation.” He said service members reported “unrestricted euphoria” among their commanders over this new “biblically-sanctioned” war. Euphoria. Their commanders are excited about how bloody this has to get in order to properly fulfill the Book of Revelation. That NCO who filed the complaint put it plainly: these comments “destroy morale and unit cohesion.”

Now here’s where the trail gets interesting. This stuff doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Pete Hegseth – who insists on being called the Secretary of War now, which tells you everything – has been running monthly prayer services at the Pentagon since last May.

Not quiet, personal prayer. Official events broadcast throughout the building on the Pentagon’s internal cable network. The invitations say “SECWAR’S PRAYER SERVICE” with a cross on them. The official military media page calls it the “SECWAR Monthly Christian Prayer & Worship Service.”

Two weeks ago, Hegseth invited Doug Wilson – a pastor from Moscow, Idaho who advocates for repealing women’s right to vote, believes homosexuality should be a crime, and wants the US to adopt a Christian theocracy – to lead the Pentagon’s prayer service. This was broadcast on the department’s internal TV network. Hegseth is a member of Wilson’s denomination and moved his family to Tennessee specifically to send his kids to a school in Wilson’s Christian education network.

Hegseth also attends a weekly White House Bible study led by Ralph Drollinger, a preacher who teaches that God’s promise to reward Israel’s allies and punish Israel’s enemies still applies today – the theological underpinning for the idea that America must support Israel militarily as a biblical mandate. Hegseth and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee are listed sponsors of the Bible study.

So let me connect the dots. The guy running the military is attending weekly Bible studies that teach God commands America to defend Israel. He’s hosting monthly Christian worship services at the Pentagon. He’s bringing in pastors who want a literal theocracy. And now – four days into a war with Iran launched alongside Israel – commanders at 30 military bases are telling troops this is the biblically prophesied end of the world and the president was anointed by Jesus to make it happen.

The Uniform Code of Military Justice prohibits commanders from injecting their religious beliefs into official military instruction. The Constitution prohibits the government from endorsing a religion. These aren’t suggestions. These are the laws that service members swore oaths to uphold. And the people responsible for enforcing those laws are the ones breaking them.

Weinstein noted that the MRFF gets a spike in these kinds of complaints every time something escalates with Israel in the Middle East. After the October 7th Hamas attack, an Air Force commander told troops at a briefing that the Israel-Hamas war had been foretold by the Book of Revelation and nobody could do anything about it. George W. Bush called the war on terror a “crusade” after 9/11 and had to walk it back after allies warned him it was playing directly into al-Qaeda’s framing of a holy war between Christianity and Islam.

We apparently learned nothing.

There are roughly 1.8 million active-duty and reserve service members in the US military. They come from every faith background and no faith background. When a commander tells his troops that this war is God’s divine plan and the president was anointed by Jesus, he’s telling every non-Christian in that room that their role is to serve as a foot soldier in someone else’s rapture fantasy. He’s telling every Christian in that room who doesn’t subscribe to end-times theology that their faith is wrong. And he’s telling everyone that the reason they might die isn’t geopolitics or national security – it’s because a 2,000-year-old fever dream about the apocalypse requires their blood.

The Pentagon hasn’t responded to the MRFF’s complaints. It remains unclear whether anyone in the department plans to address the situation at all. Which tracks, because the person who would normally be responsible for reining this in is too busy hosting worship services and getting mentored by a guy who thinks women shouldn’t vote.

JFC

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