I saw an interesting article at Substack today titled U.S. Troops were told Iran was was for Armageddon, return of Jesus. It was written by Jonathan Larsen. I print it here in part:
A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.
From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).
The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.
The MRFF is keeping the complainants anonymous to prevent retribution by the Defense Department. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to my request for comment.
One complainant identified themselves as a non-commissioned officer (NCO) in a unit currently outside the Iran combat zone but in Ready-Support status, deployable at any time. The NCO said they were Christian and emailed the MRFF on behalf of 15 troops, including at least 11 Christians, one Muslim, and one Jew. (Full email printed below.)
The NCO wrote to the MRFF that their commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”
The Iranian regime are admittedly major fundamentalist assholes and perpetrators of all sorts of nasty activities, not limited to suppressing and sometimes killing homosexuals and women and fomenting aggression throughout the region.
But framing this as a religious war is not a ticket to success in this particular area. The people there do not like being dictated to in matters of theology, they never have. They sometimes fight for hundreds of years over slight religious deviations and martyrdom is an olympic sport in the region.
So good luck with the Jesus thing.
3 comments:
Religion is a huge problem, when will people realize that nothing 'supernatural' exists. Each and every thing - literally - is natural. Please quit killing each other, and justifying it as 'God's will'. Wake up stupid humans!!!
'The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.
The MRFF is keeping the complainants anonymous to prevent retribution by the Defense Department. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to my request for comment.'
Yeah, right...so we can make up anything we want and it is Gospel.
When I worked at Coca Cola LA in the early 70s before art school a fellow worker was just back from 'Nam and told me he led a platoon into a firefight killing about 8 VietCong...and the report went to the company commander, his report went to another
and thence to CincPac in Hawaii. When he read about it in Stars and Stripes it was 40
dead. This sounds like more of the same...whoever MRFF is.
Hanoi Jane
And your very reflexive voice says that it can't be true, based on exactly what John?
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