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Performative christians should get double hell.
Thats all of them though.
I think the pope is restoring something I lost a long time ago. So I will say protestants, but not all Christians.
Yeah, nothing performative at all about the chap in the robes and the funny hat chanting incantations in a dead language in an art gallery while swinging incense around the place.
Hard to hate the dude when he's on the right side of history.
I thought Hegseth had quoted Pulp Fiction and the issue was that it's blasphemous to do so by a gov official and such... but no, it totally looks like this idiot did not know this was not an actual Bible quote
The lesson here is "if you think they cannot possibly that dumb, forget about it and double down"
it totally looks like this idiot did not know this was not an actual Bible quote
He knew it wasn't an actual Bible quote, but he did think it was a modified version of Ezekiel 25:17. Which it definitionally is. The actual string is:
Ezekiel 25:17 –> (edit: Bodyguard Kiba modification) –> Pulp Fiction modification –> USAF modification
Whereas he thought it was:
Ezekiel 25:17 –> USAF modification
I think that's understandable if you've never seen Pulp Fiction (because you just assume the Pulp Fiction stuff was the USAF's addition), but it's still pretty funny.
The actual problem here, as usual, is separation of church and state being trampled over to make way for Abrahamic prayers in the US federal government.
25:17 is a small segment of the "verse"... Pulp Fictions rendition is made up all in except the "great vengeance and furious anger..." Part....
E.g. fake bible verse.
E.g. fake bible verse
You mean "i.e.", and yeah, he said that it's "reflecting" Ezekiel 25:17.
“They call it CSAR 25:17, which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17.”
He literally never said it's an actual Bible quote or even all that close to one.
Yup. It's not giving an example so "e.g." doesn't make sense
For example fake bible verse
There are so many layers of what the fuck going on with this. A veritable dagwood of blatantly wrong decisions over the course of decades, relentlessly stacked upon one another and pinned together with the twin toothpicks of true faith and true grift. This is the culmination of a soul destroying amount of failures.
Tv guy prays to movie quote. You can probably figure out which AI he used by asking them all for the verse.
Can we just talk about the fact that this "prayer" has the word 'aviator' in it and this moron in charge of our destructive power either didn't notice or didn't care?
"Pentagon Prayer Service"
Oh good lord we are dooooooomed
for years, I smugly thought our military was past this crap. what a dummy i was, no wonder everything is so fucked
I haven't been to a lot of churches, but I have been a part of a few church congregations, and they have been without exception bat-shit crazy.
terrifying
The fact the military has chaplains still…
Separation of a church and state or nah? How is this allowed?
That went out the window long ago
Was it ever really a thing though [in the US]? Like aren't presidents sworn in on a Bible or something? And it says something about God on the money? And the pledge of allegiance? (The USA is a cult, btw)
Before the Civil War, there was more separation. Things really started going out of wack in the 1950s (that's when "God" was printed on paper money). The swearing on the bible thing is a tradition from England. At US's founding 17% of the population were church members. In the the 1950s, 70% were. Now it's < 50%.
That all changed during the “Red Scare” in the 1950’s. Swearing in on a bible is optional and lower offices have used e.g. a Quran in the past.
Well, it's technically not part of any religion since it's a verse from a movie.
Are you telling me that Tarantino fans aren't a religion?
I'm not sure what irks me more. The existence of a "Pentagon Prayer Service" or this idiot quoting invented bible verses.
That's easy! All Bible verses are invented.
“The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of camaraderie and duty shepherds the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother, and you will know my call sign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Amen.”
Dude probably prompted ChatGPT with the words Bible, badass, and US military and than asked it to replace some words with the rescue operation. That's my guess as some of the word replacements make no sense.
How has this guy not had his ass beat for being cringe yet?
🤣 at least the end of the world is funny
These guys are such incredible losers. This guy in particular.
Could be worse, he could have called upon Brother Maynard to read from the Book of Armaments...
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