Unnamed US military officers #fundie #psycho middleeasteye.net
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF)[…]told Middle East Eye on Tuesday that it had received more than 200[…]complaints from personnel serving in the army, navy, air force, marine corps, and space force.
The complaints received by the MRFF, first reported by journalist Jonathan Larsen, have come from more than 40 units and span at least 30 military installations[…]
One combat unit commander told non-commissioned officers (NCOs) at a briefing on Monday that the Israeli-US attacks on Iran are part of God’s "plan" and that US President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”.
A US NCO who wrote to the MRFF said their commander had told them the war with Iran was “all part of God’s divine plan”. The commander referred repeatedly to the Bible’s Book of Revelation and to Armageddon, the story about the battle between good and evil[…]
The commander is quoted by the NCO as saying: “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”
“He had a big grin on his face when he said all of this, which made his message seem even more crazy,” the NCO wrote in his complaint. “Our commander would probably be described as a ‘Christian First’ supporter. He has been this way for a very long time and makes it clear that he desires all of us under him to become just like him as a Christian”
The Pentagon did not respond to MEE's request for comment at the time of publication[…]
Weinstein said that MRFF received similar complaints about fundamentalist Christian, end-of-the-world theology in the wake of the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023
Back then, the organisation reported a complaint about an air force commander who said at a briefing that the “war between Israel and Hamas has all been foretold by the Book of Revelation in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and no one can do anything about that”