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As a man of faith, I find Pete Hegseth's twisting of Scripture abhorrent. Hegseth has been citing the Bible to justify Donald Trump's illegal war, but those very same scriptures say something quite different. Let's take a look. (link below)

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Heg; "Dear g-d, please let us kick-ass wherever we want. I can't get the images of war video games out of my head and beg you let me kill mercilessly and above the law." g-d: "Are you a General?" Heg: "no g-d, a captain of national guardsmen" g-d: "you're bloody joking! NO you clownish pretender!"

Funny how you never hear these right-wing Christian pretenders quote Matthew 5:38-39 or the Sermon on the Mount. They cherry-pick the passages they need to demonize others, but otherwise look and act nothing like Jesus

By all means, let’s start and fight a war and justify it by quaking a 2500 year old book written by primitive superstitious people who thought flys came from meat. Makes total sense

Have you noticed that none of these performative cross clutchers ever quotes Jesus? They’d be more comfortable had Jesus been ripped from the manger, said nothing, performed a miracle or two in concert with the Roman Empire, and was crucified.

Ah yes, *this* instance of hypocrisy from the proponents of organized religion will surely be the piece that finely takes it down once and for all…

The Bible has a LOT to say. Much of is contradictory, outdated, or just plain bad. Digging through the Bible for morality is like digging through shit for corn: sure, you might find some, but was it worth the effort and mess?

Atheism Because we don't knock on your door unannounced, uninvited and unwelcomed Just to inform you that you are following the wrong imaginary diety. ..sanity.. sanctity

I read your article & agree w/ your opinion 100%. I’m a woman of faith & I get so angered & stressed about Hegseth, T, Bibi using the Bible to justify their evil works. Should I pray for them? Ask God to forgive them? Hate them? Call them out like you? In any event, I agree w/ you. Let’s sow seeds.

It is important to note, and despite not being religious myself, that it is totally appropriate for anyone who does understand the gospels in the scripture to throw it back in their faces when they misuse it. Make them look like the hypocrites they are.

I think he belongs to one of those extremist religious denominations where women are chattel and the man is the king of his castle. He’s fucking delusional in more ways than one.

Who gives a good goddamn what the scriptures say? They are irrelevant to federal governance in the US, according to the Constitution. How about focusing on that primary point? This lawless regime’s utter disregard for the Constitution is blatant, indisputable, and completely illegal.

As an agnostic, people like Pete Hegseth piss me off. And he should piss off any Christian This country was founded on practicing your own religion and not intruding on mine. And I get so tired of this Christian Fascists who are trying to jam their religion down my throats.

I am friends with Christians and I respect them. Because they stick to their religion and don't jam their values down my throat like these Christian Fascists try to do.

Hegseth is a danger to this country. We don't need to argue how he interprets scripture. We need to remove him from office. Focus.

This is how a theocracy is run , 77m voters don't care how big of a criminal magas are as long as the holy rollers believe God is running the country, they've wanted this since Reagan and Falwell gave them recognition in the 80,s poor white downtrodden Christians

Obviously, Hegseth is one of many Bible quoting Republicans, including Mike Johnson, who are not men of faith. God fearing people do not incur the wrath of God.

He belongs in a psychiatric hospital. He has so many issues about masculinity that I think he is truly just a coward and a bully striking out at anyone who is truly a man. Something he will never be. But I really do believe he is psychotic and dangerous. Too much alcohol destroyed his brain.

How can someone have to much false bravado and delusional confidence and not realize what a fucking loser he is when he looks in the mirror. The man is so fucking clueless he is seen as an insecure idiot.

Fact on Hegseth, is he sees his own inferiority, reflected back @ him, yet he still refuses 2 emotionally grow, as w/ all misogynists, so he insults/attacks/harms, others, in his anger, 2 avoid his own self growth. Typical MAGA. That said, he needs 2 B prosecuted 2 the fullest, on all his crimes.

He's an extreme evangelical fundamentalist who has more in common with those religious fundamentalist that control Iran. He is evil and extremely dangerous

I think ALL of you should keep your faith to yourselves and stop trying to indoctrinate the rest of us by constantly inserting your religion into all aspects of American life and government.

He didn't miss his calling, as a phony tv evangelist, because that's ALL he is. A complete 💯 phony, false prophet, liar, whatever you want to call it. Ppl should look up "reverand" Jim Jones or "prophet" David Koresh, Jim Bakker, all led their followers astray.

“A man of faith” is NOT something to be proud of, Adam. It shows you don’t have original thoughts, believe in imaginary bullshit because someone told you to. I prefer ppl that use their own brains, follow truth and understands that RELIGION is the ROOT of ALL things evil in this world.

The Heritage Foundation is running our government..Russell Voight is cutting all our tax funded programs, education, FDA, EPA, grants, food, housing, health insurance (not care), & now they're after SOCIAL SECURITY to privatize it with Trump accts. It's OUR F$%^ing $$ $$ taking it will cause a war.

They are all in a DEATH CULT!!! The Heritage Foundation Frauds spewing hate & racism in "god/Jesus's" name. I'm sick of them, it's NOT RELIGION, it's PREYING on the spiritual...Any "Christian" preaching one's desmise in "gods" name should be called out & questioned as to why "god" would want that?

Honestly adam if you are a quote "Man of faith" my sentiment is u should be more than used to christians twisting and contorting scripture to fit their whatever narrative. this world would be infinitely better off without y'alls silly ass scapegoat religions. god is a manmade construct!

The biggest brainwashing scam and biggest pedophile ring in history is religion and the church,so you are either brainwashed or a pedophile, you pick.

Seriously enough of using the bible. Everything is the bible says this. The bible says that. I’m so sick and tired of these degenerates using the bible at every turn. Didn’t this POS cheat on 3 wives?!?!

As an atheist born with the most basic understanding of right and wrong, I too find anything Pete Hegseth says abhorrent. This madness is on cowardly Congress for approving his appointment to head Department of Defense

False prophets proliferate. Young people shun any form of religion. Between the cruelty of these self proclaimed Christians, the wars in some God’s name like the current slaughtering of Palestinians, the sexual abuse by priests and preachers, you can’t blame em. I understand “Jesus wept” now

Here's another thought, Adam. Let's keep religion OUT of government altogether. You know, the way the Founders intended!

Hegseth is another dangerous lunatic proclaiming his religion commands him to wage war against non-Christians. He is no different than the dangerous lunatics claiming their religion commanding them to wage war against non-Islamists and infidels. Both are dangerous to peace and to our world.

As a man of no faith, I see the three abrahamic faiths as the ultimate problem humans must solve or else it will end us all. Ridding the world of culture rids it of war as well. Religion is culture. These fairy tales have hurt us enough, no progress without change

Christian Zionism is a very stupid incorrect reading of the book of Revelations. These people really believe that wars will and must be happening for Jesus to come back and everything to safely shepherd ALL jews back to Israel is also expected of US

Yet, those "jews" are the special "jews" righr? While all the other jews have been named evil & slaughtered. Jesus was a Palestinian, Muslim jew, so its insane to me how Isreal thinks there doing a "good" thing by killing Palestinians. I'd think Jesus would be pissed that they murdered his people.

And Muslims, like Christians, believe everyone SHOULD be what they are, sigh, Imagine Jesus comes back and is converted or "reverted" to Islam 😇 Then we would have the Muslim-Jew that all the Christians worship! HEY, we fixed it!

All I know is the Christian Zionists do not give a damn about Jews, they just want their incorrect prophecy fulfilled by getting all the Jews "back" to Israel. Israel does not give a damn about Christian Zionism except it works in their favor, for now. Deluded people united in dominance will end us.

Faith or not, every person witnessing someone wearing a religious symbol and spewing lies--especially while nastily and relentlessly attacking someone during a Congressional proceeding--should be appalled by such hypocrisy and persistently call it out.

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I am not a man of faith, I am versed in it to some degree but no theologian. Even as one lacking in the faith I also find it abhorrent.