Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

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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  • Art3mis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    3 hours ago

    The perversion of religion maybe. None of the abrahamic texts justify this insanity.

    • Montagge@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      55 minutes ago

      Deuteronomy 20:16-17

      But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth

      But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee

      1 Samuel 15:3

      Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

      Hosea 13:16

      Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

    • Jack@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      44 minutes ago

      The perversion of religion maybe. None of the abrahamic texts justify this insanity.

      Have you ever read any of the Abrahamic texts?

      Deuteronomy 32:40-46 40. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 41. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. 43. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. 44. And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. 45. And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: 46. And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

      Quran 9:111 Lo! Allah hath bought from the believers their lives and their wealth because the Garden will be theirs: they shall fight in the way of Allah and shall slay and be slain. It is a promise which is binding on Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. Who fulfilleth His covenant better than Allah ? Rejoice then in your bargain that ye have made, for that is the supreme triumph.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      I mean, you can interpret them to justify pretty much anything.

      This isn’t even a hard case. The Israelites massacre people of other religions, and Iran is at a slightly higher latitude than Isreal so you can shoehorn it into gog and magog.

      • Art3mis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Im jewish. Im fully aware of the pervervions the Zionists have projected onto the Torah. However, there is a reason that a large portion of the Hassidic community is anti-zionist. The Torah explicitly states that if we have to break any of the rules of Torah to establish Israel, it will never last because it isnt true. That is why they are trying to cause enough chaos for the Messiah to come. And that is why they have been able to get western evangelical christians on board.