Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.

From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.

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  • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I don’t know how much of a religious person i am, but i am also quite sure that none of this in the Bible, not at all. I should know i i own two versions of the text.

    • well we should say two translations. It’s a huge text and it’s worth mentioning that being a decent christian should just require the knowledge of the important parts and certainly not the whole of it. But even in the approcachable important parts, this isn’t there. I’m having such strong deja vu.

    Do you want to fight another ‘holy war’? I think not.