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In reply to the discussion: Pete Hegseth quotes fake Pulp Fiction Bible verse during Pentagon sermon - what a fucking tool. [View all]
Seinan Sensei
(1,586 posts)42. Someone should've handed him Twain's sardonic 'War Prayer'
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells;
help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead;
help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;
help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire;
help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief;
help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail …
help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead;
help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;
help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire;
help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief;
help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail …
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Pete Hegseth quotes fake Pulp Fiction Bible verse during Pentagon sermon - what a fucking tool. [View all]
Native
Yesterday
OP
What does one expect? It's not as if he's familiar with the bible. He is familiar with substance abuse ...
marble falls
Yesterday
#1
I know all those Old Testament prophets had "call signs," but which one was "Sandy"?
sop
Yesterday
#5
Why doesn't he just pray: "Lord, smite my enemies, smashing them into tiny bits. In thy mercy, Amen.
surfered
Yesterday
#6
You nailed it. Noticed this a.m., during the everlasting Pentagon update, that Pete moves
allegorical oracle
Yesterday
#12
Hegseth is obviously an ignorant person who doesn't bother to check anything before speaking publicly.
ChicagoTeamster
Yesterday
#13
Why don't they just go ahead and put an effin' steeple on the Pentagon and be done with it? Penta-gone fundie.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
Yesterday
#17
Actually, these quotes are in the Bible. Elon's Grok AI Translated Bible.
Midnight Writer
Yesterday
#18
The funny thing is this verbiage is not accurate. The movie director took poetic license. n/t
PatrickforB
Yesterday
#26