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BumRushDaShow

(168,401 posts)
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:09 PM Yesterday

Military Commander Tells Troops Bombing Iran Is 'Part Of God's Divine Plan'

Source: Huff Post

Mar 3, 2026, 11:42 AM EST | Updated 26 minutes ago


For some U.S. military commanders, the emerging war in Iran is part of a biblical plan to bring about the end of the world as we know it, according to complaints filed by over 100 service members. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received a litany of complaints about religious ideology seeping into military orders since the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran, independent journalist Jon Larsen first reported.

Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of MRFF, a nonprofit group established 21 years ago that focuses on ensuring constitutional protections for service members, spoke with HuffPost by phone Tuesday morning and illuminated some details of the complaints, which have come from more than three dozen military units situated in at least 30 different military installations.

“We started getting calls in the wee hours of Saturday morning from people saying their commanders were just jubilant about this and trying to tell people, ‘Don’t worry, it’s all part of God’s plan,’” Weinstein said. Weinstein said the “metric promised” in the Bible’s Book of Revelation is horrifying and should worry everyone.

“They are promised a 200-mile-long river that is four-and-a-half feet deep filled with nothing but the blood that their weaponized version of Jesus will spill at the Battle of Armageddon,” Weinstein said. “That’s a lot of blood.” Part of what makes the accounts so disturbing, Weinstein said, is that service members aren’t able to push back when they’re given orders that blur the line regarding the separation of church and state.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/troops-being-told-to-prepare-for-armageddon-in-iran_n_69a6ffe3e4b076ac5d63c82c?origin=home-latest-news-unit

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Military Commander Tells Troops Bombing Iran Is 'Part Of God's Divine Plan' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP
Gee, who could have seen that coming? twodogsbarking Yesterday #1
Was it on anyone's bingo card? vapor2 Yesterday #11
Lord, PLEASE rapture these people right now! jmbar2 Yesterday #2
"When the Rapture comes, can I have your M1 Abrams?" (nt) Pinback Yesterday #3
You can do a lot when you answer to an invisible man Blue Owl Yesterday #4
OMG, they have totally fucking lost it. They all need to be purged. Initech Yesterday #5
Religion and god are make believe. Why can't we just say it? Sibelius Fan Yesterday #6
Thank you, Sibelius Fan oberle Yesterday #14
I saw the headline and it took me a minute to figure out fujiyamasan Yesterday #7
Religiously Insane Military Commanders, Emile Yesterday #8
I'm pretty sure... 2naSalit Yesterday #9
Anymore i feel like these bastards KNOW just using the word GOD bluestarone Yesterday #10
right. the commanders don't have to believe what they are saying RussBLib Yesterday #12
Let Us Prey. twodogsbarking Yesterday #13

Sibelius Fan

(24,798 posts)
6. Religion and god are make believe. Why can't we just say it?
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:48 PM
Yesterday

No, we need to shuffle our feet in deference to the bullshit. Oh, it could be true, maybe. It’s possible, right? Constitutionally protected.

Yeah. So was slavery we got over it. Moved on.

Fuck religion. All religions and their fucking bullshit fictional gods.

fujiyamasan

(1,539 posts)
7. I saw the headline and it took me a minute to figure out
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 05:12 PM
Yesterday

It was an American that just spouted off a bunch of crazy religious martyr nonsense. I guess you can always use a dead prophet or mythical sky being to justify killing the other side.

Sounds like a mirror of the dead Ayatollah and his supreme council nut cases

Emile

(41,844 posts)
8. Religiously Insane Military Commanders,
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 05:32 PM
Yesterday

oh my, pretty scary shit.

Thanks to this crazy shit, I look for terrifying terrorist strikes across the United States.

bluestarone

(21,985 posts)
10. Anymore i feel like these bastards KNOW just using the word GOD
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 06:09 PM
Yesterday

Gets a bunch of IDIOTS to believe and follow them!! until the end of the world.

RussBLib

(10,532 posts)
12. right. the commanders don't have to believe what they are saying
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 07:12 PM
Yesterday

...as long as the soldiers believe what they are saying.

It really blows me away that we still have so many people out there who insist there is a sky god that wants us to win everything, and wants our enemies to die in the dirt.

But let's remember we have an overload of stupid people in America.

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