#US #Defense #Secretary Pete #Hegseth is a member of the Communion of Reformed #Evangelical Churches - #CREC -
whose beliefs have been influenced by a 20th-century movement called Christian Reconstructionism - a theological and political movement within conservative Protestantism that argues society should be governed by biblical principles, including the application of biblical law to both personal and public life.

https://theconversation.com/what-is-crec-and-how-does-it-shape-pete-hegseths-religious-rhetoric-279637

https://theconversation.com/what-is-christian-reconstructionism-and-why-it-matters-in-us-politics-266915

Pete #Hegseth ’s #Iranwar messaging echoes sermons from his extremist #church

#Maga #priest want a #Christian #Sharia

#CREC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/pete-hegseth-iran-war-christian-extremism

Cos'è il CREC, la Comunione delle Chiese Evangeliche Riformate, e come plasma la retorica religiosa di Pete Hegseth?

Molti leader del #CREC chiedono l'attuazione della legge biblica e un stato teocratico strutturato su Patriarcato cristiano. Gli stati teocratici sono governati secondo leggi religiose, il che nel caso del CREC significa una comprensione evangelica conservatrice del cristianesimo.

https://theconversation.com/what-is-crec-and-how-does-it-shape-pete-hegseths-religious-rhetoric-279637

@politica

Are #Project2025 mofos jelly of Iran? I mean it would make sense...

Tl;Dr? They're basically #US #Taliban. #Dominionist and #reconstructionist ideology basically wants to centralize judicious and extra judicious powers into a clergy.

Let me tell you, yankie: you don't want that. Pop open a book of yee olde European history and see why that is a terrible idea.

What is #CREC and how does it shape Pete #Hegseth’s #religious rhetoric?
https://theconversation.com/what-is-crec-and-how-does-it-shape-pete-hegseths-religious-rhetoric-279637

Violence becomes the message

Pete Hegseth’s message is one of violence with a religious justification

April 2026

The message of our vigils, the 122nd of which was held on Saturday 4th, is one of peace in the region not violence which seems to be never ending. This is set against the speech (sermon?) given by the Secretary of State for Defense, Pete Hegseth, last week in the Pentagon. Hegseth belongs to the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a conservative network co-founded by the self-described Christian nationalist Doug Wilson. CREC pastors have appeared at Hegseth’s Pentagon services at least three times, including Wilson who preached there in February.

The US Constitution was clear that church and state should be separate. George Washington was himself a devout Anglican and was keen for religious tolerance to be available to all faiths. He and the founding fathers were also keen for the state to be distinct from religion – a lesson they had learned from Europe. Hegseth’s bringing his faith into the political sphere is alarming. In his latest speech he speaks of ‘ … overwhelming violence of action to those who deserve no mercy’ a quote from the Psalms.

Critics such as Ronit Stahl, author of “Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America,” said referring to God in broad language is not unusual in this context. “But the shift towards the specificity of Jesus Christ and therefore Christianity and in Hegseth’s case, a particular form of Protestant Christianity, is new, especially coming from the defense secretary.”

The tone of his speech is troubling and couching it in religious justification especially so. It can be seen here. For many, Christians or no, the appropriation of religious faith to justify the killing and destruction of country which is now largely defenceless is profoundly saddening. The Christian message is based partly on forgiveness not vengeance. The Guardian reported that Pope Leo spoke for many beyond the Catholic church at a Palm Sunday mass in Rome in forcefully rejecting attempts by zealots such as Hegseth to conscript Christianity. “No one can use [Jesus] to justify war,” he said, quoting Isaiah. War-makers’ prayers would go unanswered. “Your hands are full of blood.”

Over 30 attended the vigil and there was a pleasing number of ‘honks’ from passing motorists. A video can be viewed here and photos courtesy of Peter Gloyns.

Sources: PBS, CNN, Air Force Magazine (US), Guardian, HuffPost, The Independent.

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Why not roll back the #15thAmendment and #13thAmendment while they're at it!! WTF!

Secretary of Defense #PeteHegseth promotes repealing #WomensRightToVote

by Judd Legum
Aug 11, 2025

"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who oversees about 3 million military service members and civilian employees, reposted a video last week advocating repealing the #19thAmendment, which guarantees women the right to vote. The video is an excerpt from CNN anchor Pamela Brown's interview with #ChristianNationalist pastor #DougWilson, who Brown reports believes 'women shouldn't be able to vote.'

"Brown speaks to two pastors in Wilson's Idaho church who agree with Wilson. 'In my ideal society, we would vote as households,' pastor Toby Sumpter says. 'And I would ordinarily be the one to cast the vote.' (This is the model also advocated by Wilson.) Pastor Jared Longshore says he supports the repeal of the 19th Amendment because 'the current system is not good for humans.'

"Hegseth is a member of a church that is part of Wilson's network, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (#CREC), in Tennessee. When a CREC branch recently opened in Washington, DC, Hegseth attended. Longshore delivered the sermon.

"Hegseth's response to the video — 'All of Christ for All of Life' — is a Christian nationalist slogan used frequently by Wilson. It stands for the idea that Christianity should dominate all aspects of life, including government.
In response to media inquiries, the Pentagon reiterated Hegseth's admiration for Wilson and his ideology. 'The Secretary very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson's writings and teachings,' Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said.

Beyond repealing women's #VotingRights, what are Wilson's 'writing and teachings'? Let's review.

"Wilson argues that slavery benefited blacks and whites and was 'based on mutual affection'

"Wilson has sought to recast slavery in the pre-Civil War South as a mutually beneficial relationship in many cases. In a 1996 pamphlet co-written by Wilson, Southern Slavery as It Was, he argued that '[s]lavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity.' According to Wilson, '[b]ecause of its predominantly #patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence.' He asserts that "[t]here has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world,' which he attributes to 'the predominance of Christianity.'

Wilson claims that '[s]lave life was to [the slaves] a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes and good medical care.' He urges people not to 'overlook the benefits of slavery for both blacks and whites.'

"In Wilson's 2005 book, Black and Tan, he defends #SouthernSlavery as It Was, and writes 'that slavery was far more benign in practice than it was made to appear in the literature of the #abolitionists.'' He also claims that slavery was biblically justified, claiming that 'the Christians who owned slaves in the South were on firm scriptural ground.' "

Read more:
https://popular.info/p/slavery-patriarchy-and-pete-hegseths

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/GquRa

#ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism #WhiteSupremacy #USPol #HandmaidsTale #WelcomeToGilead #TheKnotsAndCrosses #Dystopia

The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a #Christian #nationalist church
that included various pastors saying #women should no longer be allowed to #vote.
The extraordinary repost on X from Defense Secretary #Pete #Hegseth,
illustrates his deep and personal connection to a Christian nationalist pastor with extreme views on the role of religion and women.

In the post, Hegseth commented on an almost seven-minute-long report by CNN examining #Doug #Wilson, cofounder of the "Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches", or #CREC.
The report featured a pastor from Wilson’s church
💥advocating the repeal of women’s right to vote from the Constitution,
and another pastor saying that in his ideal world,
people would vote as households.
It also featured a female congregant saying that she submits to her husband
https://apnews.com/article/women-hegseth-defense-secretary-religion-d962f472910fb47a0c66cd37b01f550d

Das beim Erdbeben in Bangkok eingestürzte Hochhaus wurde vom selben chinesischen Bauunternehmen errichtet, das auch den eingestürzten Bahnhof von Novi Sad in Serbien renoviert hatte.

Die China Railway Group Limited (CREC) ist teilweise im Staatsbesitz.

https://vreme.com/en/vesti/kinezi-koji-su-gradili-sruseni-soliter-u-bangkoku-radili-i-na-srusenoj-nadstresnici-u-novom-sadu/

#NoviSad #Bangkok #Thailand #Erdbeben #CREC #BRI #beltandroadinitiative #NeueSeidenstraße