newsHegseth literally believes that killing enough muslims will bring about the return of christ. Thats what this is. We are still engaging in holy wars in 2026....
Religious framing is ‘completely, totally unprecedented,’ experts say
It's really not. McKinley invaded the Philippines on the grounds that we need to bring (Protestant) Christianity to their savage (Catholic) nation. The Crucified Soldier was propaganda used by the US and Canadian governments to mobilize troops for WW1. Coolidge's backing of the KMT in China and Truman's support for the Rhee dictatorship in Korea both fell along religious lines (Western Christianity versus Marxist Atheism). As did the Eisenhower/Kennedy/LBJ/Nixon escalation in Vietnam. Hell, the whole "John Birch Society" and its advocacy for a global thermonuclear war was rooted in the apocryphal US military intelligence officer who went behind Japanese lines to bring Christianity to China (a thing that had already happened centuries earlier, but - hey - it doesn't count until an American does it).
FFS, George Bush Jr described the US invasion of Iraq as a Crusade.
Western reactionary governments love framing overseas military conflicts in religious language.
Tbf wrt the Philippines, McKinley and co. moreso pretended that the Philippines was the same as any group of non-christian people that held indigenous beliefs. But in spite of the several hundred years of catholicism being present in the country.
That said, there were also huge areas of the Philippines that were never colonized despite the Spanish being there for hundreds of years. So in some ways it was a half truth that many people there were not practicing christianity
Either way, still bullshit colonial behavior
~~Western~~ American reactionary governments love framing overseas military conflicts in religious language.
FTFY. No Western government has done that outside of the US since at least WWII. And while Hitler often used pseudo-religious rethoric, he certainly wasn't motivated by Christianity.
No Western government has done that outside of the US since at least WWII.
The French did it in Vietnam, before they were forced out in the 50s. "Defending Catholicism against the heathen communists" has been a rallying cry across Europe straight into the end of the Cold War.
Its not new at all from all from basically all 19th century wars blatantly to even the more recent ones though they religious angle has often but not always been subordinated to a "civilization clash" framework recently.
Look into Christian and Jewish eschatology. It makes sense. It matches up with peter theils ideas, as well as the trump admins actions.
When Peter theil says that people against the war are the antichrist, it's because he believes that are acting AGAINST the eschatology. In other words war is righteous if you are fighting for the prophecy of Christianity. The Jewish and Christian eschatology align up to "Armageddon". So what we are seeing now is Jewish and Christianity extremists speeding up the arrival of the prophecized armageddon, because they share that common goal.
It sounds fucking ridiculous, but seems more real than anything else we're told by the people that own our lives.
https://youtu.be/hKcELCdGGN0
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eschatology /ĕs″kə-tŏl′ə-jē/ noun
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A belief or a doctrine concerning the ultimate or final things, such as death, the destiny of humanity, the Second Coming, or the Last Judgment.
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The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
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The study of the end times — the end of the world, notably in Christian theology the second coming of Christ, the Apocalypse or the Last Judgment.
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The branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind.
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Here's another good video by that guy. I was trying to talk about the same thing this guy is explaining on reddit and got banned for it. And on lemmy people were calling me schizophrenic. Both sites removed my post. https://youtu.be/xrmERlHUqBk
Bush supposedly referenced Gog and Magog when trying to convince French president Chirac to join his crusade against Iraq. The only difference is that the Trump administration is more open about their religious motivations. So, no, it is not 'completely, totally unprecedented'. It's the status quo for Republicans.
Mother Fucking Fundie UK Cigarette Kegsbreath ain't doing SHIT in Iran.
"Unprecedented" prints newspaper in the country of King Richard the Lionhearted.
