Zeteo: Priest Says Pete Hegseth's Prayer For No Mercy To Iran Is 'Shockingly Un-Christian'

[AStern]

In an exclusive Zeteo Town Hall with Mehdi, Fr. James Martin, a senior Jesuit priest and editor-at-large of America Magazine, explains why the Trump administration’s attacks against the Pope aren’t just wrong – they’re “shockingly un-Christian.”

On Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s March prayer for violence against those “who deserve no mercy,” Martin tells Mehdi: “It’s a complete perversion of the gospel.” He adds, “To say that people don’t deserve mercy is about as un-Christian as you could get.”

Martin also believes that the Trump administration and the Republican Party’s brand of Christian nationalism is being weaponized to create an “us versus them” narrative to justify violence and determine “who’s American” and who’s not. It represents “the opposite of Jesus’s message,” he says.

[3catwoman3]

1. Pretty much everything about those I refer to as "squeaky wheel christians" (lower case 'c' intentional)...

...is shockingly un-Christian.

[ChicagoTeamster]

2. As a racist sex assaulting unrepentant alcoholic, Pete has a need to feel superior despite his obvious shortcomings

There's a lot of abusive self important failed jocks in the Christian Right. It attracts them.