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

[Lionfish]

I can't imagine what the fuck makes you think that you're even entitled to an opinion, Milquetoast Macaw.
You're a devolved mutant.
Your god obviously didn't think very highly of you when it made that your fate.

Commies are a nasty lot.

 

[Lionfish]

Top is mentally ill

Guano is a racist.

 

[Lionfish]

Betcha anything if EE showed up and challenged Libhater on his TrumpWorship, Libhater would hate him too. Well, not anything. lol

 

[Lionfish]

There's no point in giving you a rational answer because you are far too dumb to get it. Let's see if you're really a Christian. Can you give us the Bible verses where Jesus told us to speak privately to the Father? Do you recall where he said to give in secret and don't be like the Pharisees (you) on the corner, loudly proclaiming their charity and virtue. Of course you can't. You violate both of these edicts every. single. day.

 

[Lionfish]

So you "help" women who cannot afford a child or who have health issues by making sure women do not have access to contraception? I bet you think Jesus approves of this. I do not. As I said you're a faux Xtian.

My contribution to help people in poverty is to provide what they need, whether through supporting local food banks, and donating to agencies who provide for them. Oh, and I vote for politicians with compassion, empathy, and the power to support our public welfare, even for the least of these You know, like Jesus did.

You vote for amoral sociopathic "businessmen" who worship only themselves and mammon.

 

[Lionfish]

It's a sign! A sign from Dog!!

 

[Dutch Uncle]

 

[NiftyNiblick]

Nanny software, Nifty?

It only happens on this site.
Maybe Damo put it on mu account.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

It only happens on this site.
Maybe Damo put it on mu account.

When a word is a hyperlink it looks almost invisible

 

[Dutch Uncle]

It only happens on this site.
Maybe Damo put it on mu account.

When a word is a hyperlink it looks almost invisible

Good point. It depends upon the "style" settings. The default is "JPP Shades of Blue". Changing colors might help.

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/account/preferences

 

[NiftyNiblick]

When a word is a hyperlink it looks almost invisible

Maybe a different color scheme from the one I'm using would help.

post script. Now I see that Oom has already suggested that.

 

[Taichiliberal]

Isn't just fascinating how the "religious right" that has inundated the Republican party since Reagan lifted that tent flap is:

1. Pushing for a near theocracy DESPITE the Constitution expressly forbidding such?

2. Joined with the neocons/teabaggers/MAGA in screaming bloody murder about impending "sharia law" after 9-11, yet they have NO problem setting up a similar system that reflects their brand of worship.

3. Wants federal dollars to fund parochial schools, but does not want to abide by federal education guidelines for it's students.

4. Are consistently wailing like banshees about "trans" people, yet STILL support an international religious organization(st) that aided and abbetted sex abusers and pedophiles for decades.

5. Support an orange faced wanna-be authoritarian who cheated on ALL his wives and uses his own version of "The Bible" to hawk on-line ... yet he cannot reference or quote ANYTHING from said book.

6. Has a generational presence in our military as they've participated in bogus invasion/occupation and lied in order to involve this country in wars that killed countless thousands of American soldiers and service men/women.

There's more, but I think you get the point.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

More interesting perspective from the Non Christian Non American... And at least one who sold their soul...

^^^^^^^^^^

Goofy old goyim

 

[Guno צְבִי]

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Just bow to the statues Earl, just bow to the statues

 

[Guno צְבִי]

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, 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”.


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.

Oh that Goyim bible, so much crazy high jinks

 

[Diesel]

I'm pretty sure that moon is a britlandish Muslim who abandoned Palestine in favor of the west, takes advantage of all the benefits of the western culture, but still gets angry that his own folks simply cannot get it together and that he had to move in with the infidels to find a good life.

It claims to be a female, and it's an evil, anti-Semitic bitch. I have never seen it comment on anything on JPP except Jew stuff. She bores me to tears.

 

[Diesel]

Why do we need worship services of any kind at the office, esp. a govt. office? Don't the employees have their own pastors, churches at home?

You nailed it. It's virtue signaling. When the fat, rich mind controllers fake to be Christian, the fat, poor idiots who vote RepubliKKKan believe them.

 

[Diesel]

What does this have to do with "need"? People have a right to their religions, even while they are at work. As I already stated, Muslims pray 5 times per day at that same place. Telling folks that they should "stay home" violates their first Amendment rights, which even people in office have.

This is the same as arguing that the 2nd Amendment is about hunting... or asking "why do you need to arm yourself"? It isn't about "need".

Are you claiming that federal employees who are Muslim take 5 paid breaks a day to pray? You poor, simple fucktard.

 

[Diesel]

Cynical, I get that. Hence my... "Is it unconstitutional?" If no then > *yawn* and move on. However, I would like to do my experiment. To see if Owl is right. I believe that rightwingers would welcome prayers from folks outside of Christianity, Owl thinks they'd be angry, especially if Ilhan Omar suddenly decided that praying for our troops was a great idea and showed up to lead the prayer.

I'd like to see which of us are right.

Then ask Omar to schedule it. Motivate your contacts to do the same. You MAGAts will shit your Depends diapers when Muslims lie down on the National Mall.

 

[IBDaMann]

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.”

He probably coordinated with the Armed Forces Chaplain Board, i.e. the board that ensures spiritual services are available to US military Christian, Jewish and Muslim worshipers throughout the world. This includes the Pentagon.

The service, which Hegseth told the audience would be a monthly event, was held in the Pentagon auditorium

Any non-SCIF room in the Pentagon can be reserved for any event if properly coordinated.

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.

It might be a first, but it's not improper in any way.

A former Pentagon lawyer who left the department in April called the service “incredibly problematic.”

There is no problem.

They added that the “core of the Establishment Clause is the state not endorsing a particular religion,

Disingenuous. Making spiritual services available to those who wish them is not endorsing any particular religion. The US Armed Forces has had chaplains since the US Revolution.

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

Anyone can "host" any event as long as it is properly coordinated. There is no violation to see here. Move along, move along.