O Quel Cul T’as: The Pat, The Politics and The Perfectly Fake Marriage
In 1969, Kenneth Tynan named a nude revue after a French pun about a woman's backside. In 2026, the forty-seventh president of the United States provided the perfect sequel. The gesture lasted less than a second. The politics behind it have been building for decades.
"Among those reasons should be their blatant attempt to 'establish' Christianity as the religion of the US military and their deliberate refusal to abide by the laws of war, the Geneva Convention, and the UN Charter."
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Hubbell:
"Religious leaders of every denomination should condemn Hegseth’s invocation of divine providence in an unholy war that is flouting the so-called 'stupid rules of engagement' that exist to protect civilians.
There are many grounds for impeaching and removing Trump and Hegseth."
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As Robert B. Hubbell notes, when Trump-Hegseth declared glorious victory in Iran, Hegseth stated,
"Our troops, our American warriors, deserve the credit for this day, but God deserves all the glory. Tens of thousands of sorties, refuelings, and strikes carried out under the protection of divine providence; a massive effort with miraculous protection."
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"Hegseth represents the Reformed/Calvinist wing, which is distinct from the charismatic evangelicalism practiced by figures such as the White House 'faith office' adviser, Paula White-Cain. A third camp are Catholic Integralists, who want to integrate church and state; adherents include Steve Bannon and the Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts."
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"The perverse moral consequences of combining militant masculinity with religious certainty can be seen in the way this movement consistently supported the most questionable uses of American military power. ...
The contemporary Christian nationalist movement in the US unites Christians from disparate denominations."
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"evangelicals invested psychically in a kind of chauvinistic religiosity that allowed them to reassert their dominance, at the very least within the home. Cheerleading the cold war and post-9/11 wars in the Middle East provided another realm to act out these fantasies of domination, usually without needing to get their own hands dirty."
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"by the early 21st century, the ideal evangelical man had morphed into something that looks a lot more like Hegseth. …
Du Mez argues that the transformation of the evangelical masculine ideal grew out of a sense of embattlement. Facing threats to their status from feminism, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, and broad economic shifts," (continued in /3)
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"In the aftermath of the second world war, a culture of militant masculinity developed among white evangelicals in the US, according to historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez. ... Whereas in the 19th century, the ideal of 'Christian manhood' would have been focused on virtues such as honor, dignity and gentlemanliness," (continued in /2)
~ Julia Carrie Wong
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"In the United States today, right-wing leaders claim divine providence is behind everything they do, from their destruction of the environment to their ever-expanding militarism. ...
America’s new warrior ethos, ripped more from video games than from real life, was on full display this week."
Edwin Eisendrath
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