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EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been "inundated" with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus ... [image or embed]

-- Jonathan Larsen (@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social) Mar 2, 2026 at 8:54 PM

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Considering that Trump may be the anti-Christ there may be something to that, but still, you can't run a military on it.

#1 | Posted by Sezu at 2026-03-03 11:11 AM | Reply

Our Secretary of Defense has gone Full ------.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-03 11:12 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

God could create a Third Temple in Jerusalem out of the rocks beneath Hegseth's feet.

Vicious pencil-necks to imagining magic formulas won't move the needle one jot.

You can love religion or hate religion; believe in God or be an atheist; but at this moment in time, all of us are at the mercy of MAGA's stupid superstitions.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-03 11:12 AM | Reply

Reports are they're turning Tehran into Damascus / Gaza.

Indiscriminately blowing up the entire city and other major cities as well.

Killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

"War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse."

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-03 11:16 AM | Reply

Oh? We are doing Armageddon now?

Damn it! I wish they could have at least given U.S. citizens a heads up.

I still have stuff to do!

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-03 11:20 AM | Reply

ooooOO000OOooooo the quiet part outloud...

workin fer Jayzus... yippie!

I remember Turd2's folly into Iraq to get that man who tried to kill his daddy. The news was full of preachers in makeshift pools of blue tarps laid in a hole dug in the sand... for baptism...

Jayzus was on our side and we still lost two wars...

#6 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-03-03 11:24 AM | Reply

So, we are promising each dead American troop 40 virgins? It's hard to keep track of which sky daddy is which.

#7 | Posted by dibblda at 2026-03-03 11:29 AM | Reply

HEY POOR
You don't have to ve

#8 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-03-03 11:30 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

>So, we are promising each dead American troop 40 virgins?

40 incel virgins

#9 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-03-03 11:32 AM | Reply

40 incel virgins
#9 | POSTED BY JOHN_SAVAGE

Look at you! Offering yourself up.

Bravo!

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-03 11:34 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative."

Bill Maher

#11 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2026-03-03 11:38 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

MAGA "Christians" are all for this Armageddon stuff because, due to an incredibly poor reading of scripture in a likewise incredibly poor movie series called "Left Behind"... they get the F outta the way before any of the bad stuff happens!

Sorry, but that's not in the Story. Oh, there's an AC or two and an Armageddon and all, and the current world geopolitics and the current US Pres fit the description.... but one KNOWS the time, not even Yeshua, but only the Father.

SO, sometimes... "Sometimes You Bomb Iran"

[Chorus]
Sometimes you get out your B-2s
And go bomb Iran
Sometimes you get out your B-2s
It's all part of God's plan

[Verse 1]
Well, if you want that peace
You can't be quiet
When there's a picture of you hanging out on an island

So you best be getting your B-2s
And go bomb Iran

[Verse 2]
Politicians and preachers get hard as a bone
Talking holy war
It's two birds, one stone
Get your Ted Cruzes and your Huckabees
Somebody set ole Lindsay Graham free
Flip Miss Tulsi, get the war machine rolling

Where it's gonna stop
Ain't nobody knowing

[Chorus]
Sometimes you get out your B-2s
And go bomb Iran
Sometimes you get out your B-2s
It's all part of God's plan

Well, bomb 'em to hell
Every boy and every girl
Be the change in the regime
You want to see in the world

Sometimes you get out your B-2s
And go bomb Iran

[Verse 4]
Bomb 'em to hell
Beat all the thugs
That Palantir's one hell of a drug

Government contractors salivating
There's real good money in a liberation
Same playbook as 2003
Looks familar to you
Looks familiar to me

[Chorus]
Sometimes you get out your B-2s
And go bomb Iran

- Jesse Welles

www.youtube.com

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-03 11:53 AM | Reply

but NO one KNOWS the time (edit!)

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-03 11:55 AM | Reply

Cool!
This world sucks anyway, maybe something good will arise from the rubble.

#14 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2026-03-03 11:56 AM | Reply

Epstein Fury cost tracker.

iran-cost-ticker.com

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-03 11:59 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

MAGA "Christians" are all for this Armageddon stuff because, due to an incredibly poor reading of scripture in a likewise incredibly poor movie series called "Left Behind"... they get the F outta the way before any of the bad stuff happens!

Always look at the bright side of Life!

When they get raptured we get all their stuff!

AND we don't have to listen to their hateful crap anymore!

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best

And
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the light side of life
If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing

When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing
And
Always look on the bright side of life
(Come on)
Always look on the right side of life

For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow
Forget about your sin
Give the audience a grin
Enjoy it, it's your last chance anyhow
So always look on the bright side of death
A just before you draw your terminal breath
Life's a piece of ----
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughin' as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you

...

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-03 12:00 PM | Reply

#16

thanks for the mammaries!

www.youtube.com

Monty Python

#17 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-03 12:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Reports are they're turning Tehran into Damascus / Gaza.
Indiscriminately blowing up the entire city and other major cities as well.
Killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
"War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse."
#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-03 11:16 AM | Reply | Flag:

"Reports" from where? Your usual sources that are always wrong?

#18 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-03-03 12:08 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

This bs has been part of military culture since Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld, at least.
Here's the payoff.
Having people in favor of the end of the world because it might validate their faith in an imaginary invisible sky guy in positions of power has always been a bad idea.

#19 | Posted by morris at 2026-03-03 12:13 PM | Reply

Religion is a disease.

#20 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-03 12:22 PM | Reply

------- lunatic religionistas

How is this any different from Iran's theocratic violence?

#21 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-03 12:25 PM | Reply

Your usual sources that are always wrong?

#18 | Posted by fishpaw

Says the alias who hasn't provided a legitimate source in over 16 years.

fishpaw

Seniority: 92

Private E-mail
No Home Page

Joined 2008/08/05

#22 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-03-03 12:27 PM | Reply

Religion is a f*&^ing disease.

Why can't people just believe their Bronze Age goat herder myths by themselves and with like minded people while leaving the rest of us out of it?

#23 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-03 12:32 PM | Reply

The Iranians are the ones who have been killing for almost 50 years based on religion. Trump is doing what the last 6 administrations have run on doing but didn't have the balls to do. Yes, I'm including Trump's first term. The difference this time is the other Middle Eastern nations are on board and that's a big difference. I'm and all of you should hope this ends quick and successful for the Iranian people and the rest of the world. But the usuals on the left will cheer for Hamas and the rest of the evil proxies and for failure for the US.

#24 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-03-03 12:42 PM | Reply

OpEd: Forget State of the Union sideshow, MAGA's real chilling message was delivered by Marco Rubio in Munich
www.inquirer.com

... The White House promotes unabashed white nationalist pseudo-Christian racism and law-bashing at home and abroad. ...

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-03 12:43 PM | Reply

#24 Sure, believe what the inquirer says or actually listen to his speech.

#26 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-03-03 12:46 PM | Reply

I'm and all of you should hope this ends quick and successful

#23 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

You said that about Iraq.

LET'S RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES AND END THIS WAR

#27 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-03 12:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#25

The Philadelphia Inquirer has been a good news source.

But I cited an OpEd, so there's opinions therein.


That aside,

VP Vance has similar comments at the Munich Security Conference.


#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-03 12:51 PM | Reply

"The Iranians are the ones who have been killing for almost 50 years based on religion."

Wanna know why?
Because Zionists have been killing based on religion for about a century now.

#29 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-03 12:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm and all of you should hope this ends quick and successful for the Iranian people and the rest of the world.

This is the line given every time Trump launches a new policy. And it never works out for the better for the average guy.

But the usuals on the left will cheer for Hamas and the rest of the evil proxies and for failure for the US.

#23 | Posted by fishpaw

Never happened and isn't happening now you stupid pile of s*&^.

#30 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-03 01:01 PM | Reply

40 incel virgins

#9 | Posted by john_savage2

That's what they call a trump rally these days.

#31 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-03 01:16 PM | Reply

#24 Sure, believe what the inquirer says or actually listen to his speech.

#25 | Posted by fishpaw

Hey Pedo,

The "complaint" is from literally over 200 complaints across at least 40 different units from 50 different installations now.

They were logged with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Some of the complaints are on their site.

There are additional complaints that were sent to others media organizations. It's even on Baptist News Global.

EVERYONE is reporting it.

Fox News and Newsmax will ignore them so they can remain your safe space. They won't even touch it to denounce it (which means its true.)

MAGA Pedos sure are stupid.

#32 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-03-03 01:17 PM | Reply

"War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse."

Not true.

War?
You have two things to worry about. Bring alive or being shot.

If you're alive, don't worry.

If you are shot, you have two things to worry about.

Minor or serious injury.

If it's minor,you'll be OK.

If it's serious, you have two things to worry about. Is or is not life threatening.

If it's not life threatening, don't worry.

If it is, you only have two things to worry about.

Are you going to heaven or hell?

If heaven, you are fine.

If not, you only have two things to worry about

Original or Extra Crispy.

#33 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-03-03 01:17 PM | Reply

Flag:

The Iranians are the ones who have been killing for almost 50 years based on religion. Trump is doing what the last 6 administrations have run on doing but didn't have the balls to do. Yes, I'm including Trump's first term. The difference this time is the other Middle Eastern nations are on board and that's a big difference. I'm and all of you should hope this ends quick and successful for the Iranian people and the rest of the world. But the usuals on the left will cheer for Hamas and the rest of the evil proxies and for failure for the US.

#23 | Posted by fishpaw

Trump is doing EXACTLY what he said obama would do to fix his terrible approval ratings and distract from the epstein files, and you fall for it because you really are that stupid.

#34 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-03 01:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Reports" from where? Your usual sources that are always wrong?

#18 | Posted by fishpaw

Who won the 2020 election?

My sources said biden did. What did your sources say?

#35 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-03 01:19 PM | Reply

"The Iranians are the ones who have been killing for almost 50 years based on religion."

People have always used their mythical sky fairy to justify killing in the name of peace and love.

Why should today be any different?

People have always been chock full of hate and bigotry and have always used their all loving and all powerful Gawd to attack and kill people who did not believe the same as them.

We are barbarians who are constantly finding new ways to murder people without ever stopping to look at how we are more alike than different.

We won't stop until we destroy everything.

#36 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-03-03 01:19 PM | Reply

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA....you've all gone full circle nuts.

Saw another great video a few minutes ago...

women reporter on state tv.....was giving all the 'great leader' will rise again mumbo jumbo,

and how Alla would protect them all.....the picture shook and the ceiling fell

in just as she escaped....unfortunately...

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

almost as good as watching irainians doing the 'donald dance ' to YMCA

while you grunts ---- here about something someone told someone who whispered to this guy

who told his cousins next door neighbor something they heard from an anonymous source.

#37 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-03-03 01:25 PM | Reply

#23 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

OFFICIAL TOTAL of the irainains murdered in the streets by their supreme leader has now topped
33,000.
They were slaughtered for protesting.

but here's the irony in all of this.

---"protesters are protesting the death of a leader who killed protesters.....for protesting.

leftists are so stoooopid.

#38 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-03-03 01:29 PM | Reply

The Iranians weren't killing people "based on religion" when the Shah of Iran was in power.

Iran started helping the Lebanese after Israel invaded them in 1982.

Iran hasn't invaded another country since the days of Xerxes II and the Battle of Thermopylae.

The Jewish community has lived in Iran for 5,000 years.

Muslim Iranian security forces arrested and shot more Muslims than Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians during the US and Israeli-inspired protests, thanks to Felon Musk's smuggled Starlink systems.


#39 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-03 01:30 PM | Reply

I'm and all of you should hope this ends quick and successful for the Iranian people and the rest of the world..
#23 | Posted by fishpaw

You can't even define what success is.

The Ayatollah is dead.
Why isn't this war over?
You have no idea. Nor do you care.

#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-03 01:41 PM | Reply


Wanna know why?
Because Zionists have been killing based on religion for about a century now.

#28 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

By that logic the US, given the birth of its US navy was to stop Muslim slavery against Americans in the Med, theres nothing wrong with attacking Iran or any other muslim country.

So why do you complain about it so much?

#41 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-03 01:43 PM | Reply

its interesting ....

Lumpers complained if Jesus did come down he wouldn't be accepted today.... and now Lumpers are admitting they wouldn't accept him.

I am willing to bet this is all fake, "someone said something" ...

#42 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-03 01:47 PM | Reply

its interesting ....
Lumpers complained if Jesus did come down he wouldn't be accepted today.... and now Lumpers are admitting they wouldn't accept him.
I am willing to bet this is all fake, "someone said something" ...
#41 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

You still plagiarizing other people's opinions without crediting them?

Very clever with the use of "lumpers".

#43 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-03 01:50 PM | Reply

One has to wonder why our Chinese immigrant cares about Jesus.

#44 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-03 01:51 PM | Reply

Trump is doing EXACTLY what he said obama would do to fix his terrible approval ratings and distract from the epstein files, and you fall for it because you really are that stupid.

#33 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-03 01:18 PM | Reply | Flag:
(Choose)
| Newsworthy 1

Obama's foreign policy with Iran? Are you that stupid? Yes! Obama added to the Iranian problem. "Let's pay them off and they will be nice to us."

#45 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-03-03 02:01 PM | Reply

One has to wonder why our Chinese immigrant cares about Jesus.

#43 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-03-03 01:51 PM


#46 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-03 02:02 PM | Reply

I'm and all of you should hope this ends quick and successful for the Iranian people and the rest of the world..
#23 | Posted by fishpaw
You can't even define what success is.
The Ayatollah is dead.
Why isn't this war over?
You have no idea. Nor do you care.

#39 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-03 01:41 PM | Reply | Flag:
(Choose)

Same as what the Iranian people want, woman can live in peace as well as the average Iranian Joe. And the funding of proxies like Hamas stops which exist to kill. Did you ever think why other Muslim nations in the region have come around to support the US in causing regime change in Iran? Think about that one.

#47 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-03-03 02:09 PM | Reply

#23 | Posted by fishpaw

Trump is doing EXACTLY what he said obama would do to fix his terrible approval ratings and distract from the epstein files, and you fall for it because you really are that stupid.

#33 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

Trump in 2011: "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective." and "Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin -- watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate."

Trump Sept 7, 2016: "In a Trump administration our actions in the Middle East will be tempered by realism. The current strategy of toppling regimes with no plan for what to do the day after only produces power vacuums that are filled, simply, by terrorists. Gradual reform, not sudden and radical change should be our guiding objective in that region."

#48 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-03-03 02:14 PM | Reply

#47 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

glad to see you're holding people to previous comments.

reporter: " Madam speaker....You're saying that [OBAMA] did not need authorization initially and still

doesn't need authorization to strike Libya?"

Pelosi : "yes"

CSPAN
defense secretary Gates final Briefing live 3 pm.

#49 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-03-03 02:30 PM | Reply

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.

The anointed, brain dead------------------- is so far gone he doesn't even know which country his klansman father was born in.

www.rawstory.com

#50 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-03 02:33 PM | Reply

President Obama did not require Congress's approval to
launch attacks in Libya, nor does he need congressional authorization to keep
U.S. forces there, the top House Democrat said Thursday.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the White House
violated neither the Constitution nor the War Powers Resolution when it
launched military operations in the war-torn African nation in March without
Congress's endorsement.

thehill.com

#51 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-03-03 02:37 PM | Reply

wow! we sure dodged a bullet by not electing Harris and her damned predictability and competence, eh?

#52 | Posted by e1g1 at 2026-03-03 02:41 PM | Reply

The disgusting orange chomo cares more about drapes than he does about the American troops he just got killed.

#53 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-03 02:42 PM | Reply

So I need to add, "Rapture," to the designation, Evangelical pedofascists?

So be it, Evangelical rapturepedofascists it is.

#54 | Posted by chuffy at 2026-03-03 02:43 PM | Reply

STD,

Obama also droned an American citizen. Those of us on the liberal side of the aisle actually DID criticize him for that. Are you saying that you're willing to hold FDT to account as equally as you are willing to blame Obama for doing illegal things? Or is your point just whataboutism to avoid having to say even one unkind word about your glorious leader in Christ, the king himself?

#55 | Posted by chuffy at 2026-03-03 02:47 PM | Reply

SCOTUS ruled that official acts, i.e. attacking Libya, for instance, provide Obama with immunity.

#56 | Posted by chuffy at 2026-03-03 02:48 PM | Reply

MAGA Pedos sure are stupid.

#31 | Posted by Sycophant

Worse, they think they're the ones who have it all figured out, too.

#57 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-03 02:51 PM | Reply

#53

Yeah, pretty much:

www.google.com

In the story, much of the Church falls away (apostasy) from Yeshua and towards the AC (aka, 'the man of sin' or 'the lawless one') as we see in this country with Trump.

#58 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-03 02:54 PM | Reply

"In the story..."

Keyword in bold.

Imagine the absurdity of being forced to watch the world burn down because a bunch of idiots believe a Bronze Age goat herder myth about a dead guy coming back to whisk them away to a fairyland place called "heaven."

We're going to be stuck (assuming we survive, of course...) sitting in the smoldering ruins of humanity and its civilization listening to these dumbf*&^s chirping "he'll be here any day now, I know it!" because they're too stupid to know its not going to happen.

#59 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-03 03:00 PM | Reply

Maybe a Christian could answer this question,

If Man was created before Woman then why do men have nipples?

#60 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-03-03 03:13 PM | Reply

#58

Aw, well, at least we now KNOW THE TRUTH!

Stalin used "militant atheism" as an excuse to wipe out at least 12 million people:

www.google.com

So let's not get all self-righteous now.

Plus, the bible story has a pretty good history of it's predictions coming true:

www.google.com

#61 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-03 03:16 PM | Reply

Pedo 47 is hoping Armageddon will make folks forget about the 53 missing pages from the Trumpstein Files that detail his rape of a 13 year old.

#62 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-03 03:19 PM | Reply

-If Man was created before Woman then why do men have nipples?

To make sure BJ is happy either way?

;;

("Men have nipples because all human embryos begin with a shared, default development plan that forms mammary structures before sex chromosomes trigger differentiation into male or female around week 6-7. Nipples are essentially a "pre-installed" feature of the mammalian body plan, and for men, they are a vestigial byproduct rather than a functional necessity.")

#63 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-03 03:19 PM | Reply

Aw, well, at least we now KNOW THE TRUTH!
Stalin used "militant atheism" as an excuse to wipe out at least 12 million people

Pssst nobody ever cares about militant atheism as you cluck around chirping about it every single time as if it's not a massive non sequitur.

What we do know is that countless people have gone down this road throughout history. Not a single one got it right.

This one won't either.

"Proponents"

Wait wait wait...you mean idiots who believe this superstitious crap...think it's true?!?! GTFOOH!!

Don't worry, corky, when they burn the world down to try and force their superstition into reality, the internet wont' be here for me to tell you, "I told you so."

#64 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-03 03:27 PM | Reply

Men have nipples because all human embryos begin with a shared, default development plan that forms mammary structures before sex chromosomes trigger differentiation into male or female around week 6-7.

Female is the default developmental pathway. Without Y chromosome gene expression to turn on testosterone production, you're female.

In other words, women come before men (with me, at least they do...).

Chalk up a big ol' L for Genesis, eh?

#65 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-03 03:29 PM | Reply

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