"The rest of us, our rights, our lives, become collateral damage in this gruesome fantasy.

Christian nationalism and the Christian patriarchy that comes built in are direct threats to our basic freedoms: freedom of religion, freedom (for women) to vote, freedom for all of us to make basic choices about our own lives."

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"The right to live that life freely and safely gets swallowed by the fundamentalist state religion and its function as an arbiter of the nation’s will to power."

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"Do Christian nations rain down death and destruction all day long? Which part of Jesus’ ministry signals this sort of behavior is in line with his goals for his followers?

Violence, and the glorification of it, is a central cultural element of the Christianity of Christian nationalism."

~ Andrew Whitehead

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https://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/would-jesus-condone-death-and-destruction

"In the context of the broader Christian tradition, however, other expressions of Christianity would consider it an idol. And an idol is whatever Christians place their hope and trust in rather than God."

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"It feels patently ridiculous, but we have, you know, white Christian nationalists running the Pentagon. … They clearly haven't read the Bible because in Revelation, the people who start the war are the bad guys in that book. So it really does make you think a little bit how deeply they've thought this through."

~ Sam Osterhout

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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/a-war-to-spark-armageddon-its-the

Peter Wehner looks at Hegseth's "manosphere affect," "his delight in celebrating mercilessness, his talk of death and destruction raining down from the skies, his glee in 'punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.'"

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/03/pete-hegseth-briefings-iran/686260/?gift=_ZIU2b-u6NxEmt_0j2INZhTy61PDPqyziuCLgGDS-U4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

For Hegseth, it's all about strutting and freeting his hour upon the stage, engaging in displays of belligerent performative masculinity designed to hide the smallness and emptiness of his core.

But:

"America’s 'secretary of war' doesn’t approach matters of war and peace, of life and death, with even the slightest bit of reverence or humility."

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@wdlindsy

I still think, unlikely though it is to ever happen, R A Heinlein's thoughts made sense.
Any politician who calls for war should immediately be conscripted and sent to front line.
Part of the problem, that seems to have reached a crescendo with the current régime, is that those in charge think of war as if it's pretty much a video game.
I don't know of many ex service people clamouring for another illegal war.

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