Evangelist Franklin Graham urged participants at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday to “do everything” they can to try to get President Donald Trump reelected.
Graham, who is president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and a longtime Trump supporter, told the audience, “I love him [Donald Trump]. And we will only have one chance at this. We will never get another president like Donald Trump, never.”
He continued, “That’s why it's important we do everything that we can to try to get him re-elected. He stands not only for religious freedom, he stands up for Christians, like no president we’ve ever had.”
https://www.newsweek.com/cpac-crowd-urge...d-11743902
Pete Hegseth isn’t just blurring the line between church and state — he’s turning the Pentagon into a command center for a holy war.
Picture of Jesus Christ Firing a Mortar Allegedly Found at Army Base
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An active-duty Army noncommissioned officer who requested anonymity for fear of retribution has alleged that they, along with two other NCOs, were working at their installation headquarters when they "discovered a poster of Jesus firing a mortar round that was left over by the previous unit that we rotated in to replace."
The NCO, according to an email originally sent on Thursday to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) and shared with Military.com, said the building in which the poster was discovered formerly served as the headquarters for that previous unit. It has prompted trepidation about why it was there in the first place, and whether it is correlated with language describing the military campaign abroad.
“This really concerned me that the previous unit would have something like [this], especially considering the reports of commanders in the Middle East telling there [sic] soldiers that the war with Iran is a holy war and God has anointed Trump to bring about the apocalypse,” the NCO wrote in their email, concluding by saying the military should not be “taken over by these Christian nationalists.”
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Graham, who is president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and a longtime Trump supporter, told the audience, “I love him [Donald Trump]. And we will only have one chance at this. We will never get another president like Donald Trump, never.”
He continued, “That’s why it's important we do everything that we can to try to get him re-elected. He stands not only for religious freedom, he stands up for Christians, like no president we’ve ever had.”
https://www.newsweek.com/cpac-crowd-urge...d-11743902
Pete Hegseth isn’t just blurring the line between church and state — he’s turning the Pentagon into a command center for a holy war.
Quote:At Pentagon Christian service, Hegseth prays for violence 'against those who deserve no mercy'
He read a prayer he said was first given by a military chaplain to the troops who captured then-President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela.
"Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation," Hegseth prayed during the livestreamed service. "Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy."
Hegseth frequently invokes his evangelical faith as head of the armed forces, depicting a Christian nation trying to vanquish its foes with military might.
"I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and did not turn back till they were consumed," he read from the Psalms on Wednesday.
During the expanding Iran war and global conflicts, Hegseth's Christian rhetoric has drawn renewed scrutiny, including his past defense of the Crusades, the brutal medieval wars that pitted Christians against Muslims.
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Picture of Jesus Christ Firing a Mortar Allegedly Found at Army Base
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An active-duty Army noncommissioned officer who requested anonymity for fear of retribution has alleged that they, along with two other NCOs, were working at their installation headquarters when they "discovered a poster of Jesus firing a mortar round that was left over by the previous unit that we rotated in to replace."
The NCO, according to an email originally sent on Thursday to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) and shared with Military.com, said the building in which the poster was discovered formerly served as the headquarters for that previous unit. It has prompted trepidation about why it was there in the first place, and whether it is correlated with language describing the military campaign abroad.
“This really concerned me that the previous unit would have something like [this], especially considering the reports of commanders in the Middle East telling there [sic] soldiers that the war with Iran is a holy war and God has anointed Trump to bring about the apocalypse,” the NCO wrote in their email, concluding by saying the military should not be “taken over by these Christian nationalists.”
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026...-base.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
