The United States Department of Defense now holds monthly evangelical Christian worship services, which is a sentence that exists in 2026. At the most recent one, Secretary Pete Hegseth — who prefers the title “Secretary of War,” which is not a real title but here we are — opened his heart to the Lord and asked Him to get involved in the Iran conflict.
Hegseth quoted Psalm 144:1, praised the “chaplain who oversaw the Maduro raid,” and prayed: “Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation.” He also requested “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy” and asked that God’s enemies be “delivered to the eternal damnation prepared for them.”
This is the Secretary of Defense, at the Pentagon, in the year of our Lord 2026. The prayer was broadcast. Legal experts described the monthly services as “unprecedented.” Two dozen congressional Democrats requested a DOD investigation after uniformed officers alleged commanders had told them that Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.”
It should be noted that Hegseth also told CBS News that “the providence of our almighty God is there protecting those troops.” God, apparently, has RSVP’d yes.
We have no theological commentary to offer here. The Pentagon has a prayer calendar and that’s just the world now.
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