Hegseth hosts first meeting of what he says will be a monthly Christian prayer service at Pentagon

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Magats_Love_NHB said:
Doesn't know her holy book


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New International Version

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

New Living Translation

“When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth, that is all the reward they will ever get.​



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Not only is it bad taste to call FOX to insinuate how pious you are, but the leader of a Government agency shouldn't be making a public spectacle out of organizing prayer meetings on government property because it can be construed as promoting one religion in the public sphere.
 
Magats_Love_NHB said:
The US presidency and the papacy came together on May 3 when Donald Trump posted an AI-generated photograph of himself dressed as the pope to Truth Social. The image was then shared by the White House’s accounts.

Seated in an ornate (Mar-a-Lago-style) golden chair, he was wearing a white cassock and a bishop’s hat, with his right forefinger raised.

Trump has since told reporters he “had nothing to do with it […] somebody did it in fun”.

This image of “Pope Donald I” is of historical significance, for reasons of which, no doubt, the White House and Trump were blissfully unaware. It is the first ever image to combine the two most important understandings of the figure of the Antichrist in Western thought: on the one hand, that of the pope, and on the other, that of the authoritarian, despotic world emperor.

On April 22, the day after Pope Francis’ death, Trump declared “I’d like to be pope. That would be my number one choice”. On April 28, Trump told The Atlantic “I run the country and the world”.

So, both pope and world emperor.

The Imperial Antichrist​

In the New Testament, the First Letter of John says, before Christ came again, the Antichrist will appear: the most conspicuous sign the end of the world was near.

The Antichrist would be the archetypal evil human being who would persecute the Christian faithful. He would be finally defeated by the forces of good. As Sir Isaac Newton suggested, “searching the Prophecies which [God] hath given us to know Antichrist by” is a Christian obligation.

The first life of the Antichrist was written by a Benedictine monk, Adso of Montier-en-der, around 1,100 years ago. According to Adso, the Antichrist would be a tyrannical evil king who would corrupt all those around him with gold and silver. He would be brought up in all forms of wickedness. Evil spirits would be his instructors and his constant companions.

The antichrist instructs a man to put someone into a burning oven.

The Antichrist, left, is depicted as a king, in this image from a 12th century manuscript.Wikimedia Commons


Seeking his own glory, as Adso put it, this king “will call himself Almighty God”.

The Antichrist was opposite to everything Christ-like. According to the Christian tradition, Christ was fully human yet absolutely “sin free”. The Antichrist too was fully human, but completely “sin full”. The Antichrist was not so much a supernatural being who became flesh, as a human being who became fully demonised.

Influenced by Christian stories of the Antichrist, Islam and Judaism constructed their own Antichrists – al-Dajjal, the Antichrist of the Muslims, and Armilus, the Antichrist of the Jews. Both al-Dajjal and Armilus are king-like messiahs.

Over the centuries, many world leaders have been labelled “the Antichrist” – the Roman emperors Nero and Domitian were Antichrist figures, and the French emperor Napoleon was named the Antichrist in his own time.

There have been more recent leaders who have been likened to the Antichrist, among them former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein, King Charles III, former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, and Trump.

The Papal Antichrist​

In the year 1190, King Richard I of England, on his way to the Holy Land, was informed by the Italian theologian Joachim of Fiore (c.1135–1202) the next pope would be the Antichrist.

In the history of the Antichrist, this was a momentous occasion. From this time on, the tyrannical Antichrist outside of the Church would be juxtaposed with the papal deceiver within it.

That the Catholic pope was the Antichrist was the common reading of the pope in the 16th-century Protestant Reformation.

Martin Luther (1483–1546), the founder of the Protestant revolution, declared the pope “is the true […] Antichrist who has raised himself over and set himself against Christ”.

Just as all Christians would not worship the Devil as God, he went on to say, “so we cannot allow his apostle the pope or Antichrist, to govern as our head or lord”.

Oil painting: Luther stands proud in a unhappy crowd.
This 1877 painting depicts Martin Luther summoned by the Catholic Church in 1521, to renounce or reaffirm his views criticising Pope Leo X.Wikimedia Commons


As he was about to be burned by the Catholic Queen Mary for his Protestant beliefs, the Anglican bishop Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) declared, “as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ’s enemy and antichrist with all his false doctrine”.

Even in 1988, as Pope John Paul II addressed the European Parliament, the Northern Ireland hardline Protestant leader Ian Paisley roared, “Antichrist! I renounce you and all your cults and creeds” – to which, we are told, the pope gave a slight bemused smile.

Except among the most extreme of Protestant conservatives, the idea of the papal Antichrist no longer has any purchase. The papal Antichrist has vacated the Western stage for the imperial Antichrist.

The Antichrist and the end of the world​

In the history of Christianity, the idea of the Antichrist was a key part of Christian expectations about the return of Christ and the end of the world.

In the final battle between the forces of good and evil, the Antichrist would be defeated by the forces of Christ. In short, the rise of the world emperor who was the Antichrist was a sign that the end of the world was at hand.

In the light of the Western history of “the Antichrist”, the image of the imperial and papal US president is a powerful sign that the global order – at least as we have known it for the last 80 years – may be at an end.
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Thanks, this is really interesting. (y)
 
Guno צְבִי said:
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosted a Christian prayer service on Wednesday at the Pentagon for employees that included a sermon by his hometown pastor who said President Donald Trump had been “sovereignly appointed.”

The service, which Hegseth told the audience would be a monthly event, was held in the Pentagon auditorium and broadcast live on the department’s internal TV network. Current and former defense officials told CNN it was highly unusual for the secretary to host a religious event during the workday for a particular religion.

A former Pentagon lawyer who left the department in April called the service “incredibly problematic.” They added that the “core of the Establishment Clause is the state not endorsing a particular religion, but having a broadcast event is obviously an endorsement even if they don’t officially say, ‘this is a Pentagon event.’”

The event and Hegseth’s sponsorship of it is a “clear violation” of the Establishment Clause, VanLandingham added.

“I think it’s sponsorship in the true sense of the word, outside of funding – he’s advocating for this, he is putting his weight of the official Office of the Secretary of Defense behind a particular religious event and inviting someone to the Pentagon to conduct it,” she said. “That’s wrong.”

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Hegseth hosts first meeting of what he says will be a monthly Christian prayer service at Pentagon

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosted a Christian prayer service on Wednesday at the Pentagon for employees that included a sermon by his hometown pastor who said President Donald Trump had been “sovereignly appointed.”
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So instead of the yearly Memorial Day celebration of this Christian Nation killing its citizens in the Catholic Church tradition of memorializing mass murder it’ll be a daily survival of the fittest fascists sociopsychopathilogical homicidal human farming as Christian Nation SCOTUS Rehnquist “what is 9/11 ?” rhetorical Freudian slip….
 
Damocles said:
Again. You are misunderstanding, and largely incorrect. Hearsay is generally inadmissible in court, unless it falls under specific exemptions.
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Hearsay is admissible in court, so long as it is presented as hearsay evidence.
Damocles said:
I listed one of those, a dying utterance, say the person was dying and said, "Me and Jakey killed that girl" to a cop, that would be admissible. Other exemptions. If they said one thing during questioning or in another court case and now as a witness changed it (conversely it is also admissible to say he has been consistent in his story if the defense or prosecution says he is "now lying"), and finally reporting by the several witnesses present during a lineup.
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No exemptions.
Damocles said:
However, you telling a story of what someone told you that an eyewitness told them? No. Not admissible.
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Yes it is, so long as it is submitted as hearsay evidence.
Damocles said:
This wasn't just hearsay, it was hearsay of hearsay. Some few folks writing down the story told to them of someone else telling them what they saw... this isn't just inadmissible, it would be laughable in a court.
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The Bible is not in court (other than something to swear by).
Damocles said:
Especially when you got to the part of the "he was invisible except to some specific folks that God wanted to see him"... That does not make it a better hearsay of hearsay or even a better eyewitness story. They saw the invisible man... That's the story we get of what they told to the person being interviewed for the actual "book" being written.
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The Bible is not on trial in court.
Damocles said:
Anyway, this is evidence and not proof, and sketchy evidence at best.
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Sketchy is an opinion, but you are correct that the Bible is not a proof. It is evidence only.
 
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