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The Role of Crackpot Christianity in the Iran War & Defense Department By Matthew Fox 3/11/2026 |
It must be said that there is such a thing as Crackpot Christianity. Crackpot Christianity is Christianity that leaves the teachings of Jesus out. Teachings like “love your enemies,” “blessed be the peacemakers” and other beatitudes, “love your neighbor as yourself,” “do onto others as you would like done
onto you,” “do it to the least and you do it to me,” etc. |
Crackpot Christianity invests in religious hypocrisy. Christian nationalism is certainly Crackpot Christianity. So is idolatry of Donald Trump or any other political leader anywhere. America currently has a director of the Defense Department, now called the War Department, who is very much
immersed in Crackpot Christianity. Pete Hegseth has been called “a |
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very dangerous person” who “revels in the carnage of Iran War.” An article in The Guardian—a media source I recommend over the media that has sold its soul to MAGA—calls the head of the defense department those very things in the title of a recent article. The subtitle adds: “Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict.”* What got Hegseth named head of the defense department in the first place? Donald Trump, who watches Fox News day and night, nominated him for the position. Fifty Republican senators and one vice president voted him into office. |
Truth to tell, Hegseth was not even that important at Fox News—he had the lowly position of being a part-time weekend commentator. The latest news about Fox News is that it purposely lied to its many viewers by deliberately distorting its coverage of the return of the bodies of six soldiers killed in the Iran War. |
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| The event is traditionally called “dignified transfer,” but guess who wore a white baseball
cap with a nickname to the ceremony and did not take it off when saluting the caskets? There was a loud response to this insulting act of the president from both the right and the left. Fox News covered up for |
Trump and when caught, apologized—but pointedly did not run the correct footage that shows Trump in his campaign hat disrespecting the fallen soldiers. |
The Guardian described Hegseth at a recent Pentagon press conference as “brash, bellicose” and sounding “more like a cartoon bully than a sombre statesman” who “bragged about death and destruction from the sky all day long…We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.” It is said that the Pentagon is now “the staging ground for an ideological and religious crusade” being led “with machismo, Christian nationalism and callousness toward the lives of US troops.” Hegseth aims his TV appearances toward “sating Trump’s desire for a warmonger worthy of the manosphere.” |
Included in the press appearance was a “lurid social media video” that included Hollywood footage from Braveheart, Gladiator, Superman and Top Gun alongside “real kill-shot footage of the attacks in Iran.” Hegseth’s own mother, Penelope, in 2018 wrote him the following: You
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an abuser of women—that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. Hegseth promised “to dispense with ‘stupid rules of engagement”—rules designed to restrict attacks on civilian populations. Perhaps that helps explain America’s complicity in the attacks on oil depots around Tehran I discussed in yesterday’s DM. |
Queries for Contemplation Do you recognize Crackpot Christianity in today’s MAGA world and America’s
Mideast war? What can we do about it? |
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