A military watchdog has been “inundated” with complaints that officials are using end-times Christian rhetoric to justify war.

THE UNITED STATES is waging a religious war. This is, at least, how dozens of fanatical U.S. military commanders understand President Donald Trump’s illegal assault on Iran: a messianic battle to bring about Jesus Christ’s return.

“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” one military commander told his combat unit, which could be deployed to fight in Iran “at any moment,” according to a complaint reportedly filed by one of the unit’s officers to a military watchdog group.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation says it has been “inundated” with more than 200 calls across dozens of military installations, including 110 complaints filed between Saturday morning and Monday evening, from service members reporting their commanders have invoked similar extremist rhetoric of Christian Zionist messianism when justifying the unprovoked war on Iran.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I’ve said it before numerous times, and it looks like it’s panning out exactly as I was worried it would: Nationalist Christians are going to be the fucking death of us all.

      • grue@lemmy.world
        11·
        18 hours ago

        The “influential Christian ministers” are the Zionists, entirely for their own doomsday-cult purposes. Nobody gives a fuck about Jewish people themselves, except to herd them back to the “Holy Land” because that’s what their fairy tale says is a precondition for getting “Raptured.”

        I mean, sure, the Israeli government is happy to encourage that because it serves their own interests, but simple bribery doesn’t even begin to explain Christian Zionists’ motivations.