Pete Hegseth is imbuing violence with a religious righteousness

Sadly this is the kind of diabolic evil expected from someone so wrapped up in far right "Christian" Nationalism.

Violence and Religion, name a more iconic duo

It's not the first Crusade Christians have lost in the middle east, and probably won't be the last.

As they say, there is no hate like christian love.

I love how different the narrative is when it's Christians instead of Muslims.

Of course he is. He's a fascist. Fascists worships violence, which they see as strength. They are also reactionaries, who reduce questions of morality to identity. Who is doing things to whom is more important than what is being done when your self-image depends on your position in a "natural" social hierarchy that is also a moral one. Hence their propensity for action for action's sake. They have to do something to seem decisive and strong, morality does not apply because everything they do is justified because they are doing it, so they end up doing violence to everyone they look down on *just because they can*. Note too that this is simply an extension and extrapolation of the broader dynamic within right wing political thought (or feeling). Which is why all the self-proclaimed moderates go along with it as long as they think they get something out of it and the bad things are going to happen to other people. Their politics used to be fancy ideas to justify selfishness and inequality, then they evolved to stupid slogans to justify selfishness and inequality, and now they have arrived at stupid slogans to justify violence and oppression. This particular fish didn't rot from the head down. It is the product of decades of indulging and empowering the worst people and their worst impulses, telling them they were special and good regardless of their behaviour.

This is why the military dumped his sorry ass for being a risk, and then he gets handed the keys to his wet dream of fascism and racism.

The man need help or he should be in prison.

Methinks, pete hegseth is imbibing "spirits" with a religious fervor.

Yeah, because Jesus was all about violence and intolerance. Not.

This is the reason for the separation of church and state.

Send Kegbreath back to FOX where his ass belongs

>Pete Hegseth is imbuing violence with a religious righteousness This is nothing new to religion. Duly noted, now move along, nothing to see here, just remember to get Trump and his theocrats out of government next time you vote.

Probably at about the same rate he's imbuing his liver with alcohol.

Gee...if only the crusader tattoo was a clue

Nobody should be surprised by this. The guy literally put out a memoir where he espoused a bunch of dangerously far-right beliefs, ranging from Crusader rhetoric and calling for war in the Middle East to both enforce American hegemony and trigger Armageddon, to saying that liberals are an internal enemy that will need to be dealt with. He fully believes in using the power of the state to enforce a radical, fundamentalist version of Christianity on everybody. The "lol they hired a dumb Fox News host" reaction to his appointment really missed the memo.

Alcoholism and killing people isn't what I learned in church.

F****** Prambo. He's such a man-child he probably has his own army themed bedroom at home ("No girls aloud!"). And I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if it later came out that he had his own personal sophisticated ground control station specially installed in there as well, allowing him to remotely control his own exclusive and private MQ-9 Reaper "hunter killer" drone from the comfort of his pillow fort. Indeed, like someone playing Call of Duty for an hour before crashing out for the night, I can easily see Hegseth spending an hour or two each night, pissed out of his thick skull, remotely piloting his drone, identifying and killing any Iranians he thinks look "suspect"... until he finally fills his daily murder quota and therefore feels he's done enough today in the Holy War to feel worthy enough to pray to Republican Jesus and ask him to hasten the eschaton and *please hurry up* and return to Earth for the second coming, *please*? F****** Prambo.

Just like the government of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc...

His god demands human sacrifice. He's given it \~150 Venezuelans, \~3000 Iranians, and 13 Americans that we know of.

Christianity is a death cult, always has been.

Moving on to Slap the other cheek? 

"Deporte eos. Novit enim El Salvador qui sunt eius." >!"Deport them all; let El Salvador sort them out"!<