"American Christians can’t pretend we haven’t seen what our leaders have done this spring. Ours is no longer a government interested in haggling over the finer points of just war theory, a Scripture-shaped standard of ethical conduct in warfare, to defend a military intervention."
~ Justin R. Hawkins
#Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #war #WarCrimes #NuclearWeapons #genocide #morality #JustWar
/1
"It is instead flirting with dispensing with that standard altogether, using the language and symbols of our faith while ignoring its substance. …
Trump and Hegseth seem to want to wage war unencumbered by the task of protecting the dignity of human life. But that task is not about 'politically correct and overbearing rules' or any other boogeymen of Hegseth’s imagination."
#Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #war #WarCrimes #NuclearWeapons #genocide #morality #JustWar
/2
"Its source is the very Christian faith Hegseth has so often praised within the Pentagon. Just war theory is a distinctly Christian moral innovation that we must not discard."
#Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #war #WarCrimes #NuclearWeapons #genocide #morality #JustWar
/3
"Pope Leo XIV on Friday issued a sweeping condemnation of war, continuing to reject the idea that military action can bring about peace or freedom as the Trump administration and other leaders use religion to justify the U.S.-Israel war in Iran."
~ Finya Swai
#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #war #WarCrimes #NuclearWeapons #genocide #morality #JustWar
/4
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/10/pope-leo-condemns-war-divine-backing-00867250
“'God does not bless any conflict,' Leo wrote on X. 'Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.'”
#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #war #WarCrimes #NuclearWeapons #genocide #morality #JustWar
/5
“Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest."
#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #war #WarCrimes #NuclearWeapons #genocide #morality #JustWar
/6
"But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood."
As Emily Singer says, we all know who Pope Leo was talking about when he made that post yesterday on social media.
#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #war #WarCrimes #NuclearWeapons #genocide #morality #JustWar
/7
Pope Leo continues to refuse to be bullied into silence. He said the following in Rome today:
"Even the holy Name of God, the God of life, is being dragged into discourses of death. A world of brothers and sisters with one heavenly Father vanishes, as in a nightmare, giving way to a reality populated by enemies. We are met by by threats, rather than the invitation to listen and to come together."
#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism
/8
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/homilies/2026/documents/20260411-rosario-pace.html
William Lindsey 
samiamsam