He spoke of “overwhelming force” and the U.S. military’s unmatched ability to rain “death and destruction from above” on its “apocalyptic” Iranian foes.
Then, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, standing in the Pentagon, issued a call to the American people for a specific kind of wartime prayer. He asked them to pray for victory in battle and the safety of their troops.
“Every day, on bended knee, with your family, in your schools, in your churches,” he said, “in the name of Jesus Christ.”
At a time when the U.S. and Israeli militaries are dropping thousands of bombs on a majority-Shiite Muslim nation, the explicitly Christian nature of Mr. Hegseth’s call stood out.
More than any top American military leader in recent history, Mr. Hegseth has framed U.S. military operations in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America as bigger than politics or foreign policy. Often he has imbued these actions with a Christian moral underpinning that suggests they are divinely sanctioned.
Mr. Hegseth speaks often of the important role that his faith plays in his life and, in his view, the life of the United States. He prayed to “King Jesus” in the White House at a February dinner for governors. Last month, speaking to a group of largely evangelical broadcasters, he described the United States as a nation founded on Christian principles. “There’s a direct through line from the Old and New Testament Christian gospels to the development of Western civilization and the United States of America,” he told them.
Such sentiments have long been common among Mr. Trump’s evangelical supporters, who at times have described themselves as combatants in a holy war that seeks to advance their values and restore America by reconnecting it to what some of them see as its Christian roots.
“We know that God loves. But did you know that God also hates?” Franklin Graham, the evangelist, said at a Pentagon prayer service in December, 2025.
“Do you know that God also is a God of war?” he continued, flanked by Christmas trees and a Hanukkah menorah. “Many people don’t want to think about that, or forget that.”
Of course, it was the false-Christian Billy Graham who started the brainwashing of U.S. Christians to bow down to the jews and give all the country's money and power to the jews and to the evil, imperialistic, genocidal, war-crimes-committing, thieving, lying religious state of Israel.
Real Americans don't believe in religious states whether they be a brutal jewish state killing all of their neighboring contries people as they seize their lands for 60 + years, or whether they be disgusting Arab islamic states polluting the Earth to death, and with their dirty fossil fuel profits feuling overpopulation and the spread of undemocratic Islam, weaponizing the Middle East, and sowing dissent and discord. Real Americans don't support Royalty or Kingdoms, either.
The truth is that there is no judeo-Christian tradition - there was judiasm and came along Jesus who said NO. I am the truth and the light. I am the Way. Thus was born Christianity, and Jesus threw the evil moneylenders out of the temple. Now the jewish moneylenders have been given, and sold at a nickel on the dollar, the United States of America, and all its power and assets, by a brainwashed group of false-Christians like Hegseth, the Bushes, and the Grahams and all of the MAGA religious "leaders". We don't even include Trump among them - because he's clearly a jew-Mobster and jew-monster of Russian origin and ancestry like many of his mobster cronies.
Evil Israel and U.S. and international jews have pushed America into decades of religious war - the worst kind of war - all for the benefit of a bad religion, judiasm and an even worse foreign religious state, the abominal Israel. No real religion needs weapons. Jesus would certainly agree with that - and Jesus would run away from Israel, Texas, and Trump followers as quickly as he could - shaking the very dust off his feet should he ever come into any unlikely contact with them.