Paula White - Cain, pastor of the reformed Pentestostical Church, individual spiritual advisor Trump:
"Opposition to president Trump is opposition to God, and the White home is Holy Land".
After those words, I returned to an article that I put in full.
Kuba Danecki - Trump "anointed by Jesus". Soldiers complain
The American spiritual Freedom Foundation in the Army revealed more than a 100 complaints against commanders who had warmed soldiers to war with Iran the imagination of the upcoming Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ. According to them, president Trump was to win the election due to the fact that he was anointed by Jesus to bring the faithful to the end of times and resurrection.
The messages that soldiers are complaining about are part of the worldview of the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Hegseth has a tattoo of "Deus Vult," "God willing." It is simply a phrase of connection to Christian fundamentalism, referring to medieval crusades. It is popular among the far right and fascist movements. In 2020, in his book, the future Secretary of War called for holy war. Book title? "American Crusade".
Today, Hegseth organizes prayer for soldiers in the rite of Protestant evangelicalism. In February of that year, he invited the Pentagon preacher Douglas Wilson, a man who supported, among others, the removal of women's voting rights.
From Europe's perspective, this sounds incredible, but the imagination of the American Army as God's tool that will aid bring the planet to an end begins to be an authoritative part of American defence policy.
Important: Protestant evangelicalism is something different from Evangelical churches. The erstwhile is simply a term-parasol for respective fundamentalist Protestant denominations that are most popular in the US. The second straight prosecute the European Lutheran tradition and are known alternatively from liberal, humanistic principles.
It's not the only spiritual controversy in Trump's administration. A week before the attacks on Iran, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, sparked a scandal. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, he said he saw no problem with Israel's territorial expansion from the Nile to the Euphrates - the imagination of large Israel. At that time, respective countries of the region were officially protested - from Turkey to Pakistan.
The American Evangelians believe in literal explanation of the Scriptures. In Genesis, God promises Abraham lands that include Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq today. This is very crucial in the context of Israeli expansion and the war with Iran - due to the fact that the imagination of large Israel is popular in Tel Aviv, and the aggression on neighbours emphasizes the willingness to implement it.
It is believed by national safety minister Itamar Ben Gwir and finance minister Bezallel Smotricz. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, although he did not support her directly, openly says he is "strongly attached to her". Similarly, the leader of the Israeli opposition, Jair Lapid, expresses himself. During the February press conference, he said, "Zionism is based on the Bible. Our right to the land of Israel is biblical, so Israel's borders are the limits of the Bible."
Besides the political aspect, the Evangelical kind of religion is possibly 1 of the more visible symbols of American culture. Mega-churches the size of stadiums. The clergy who allegedly cast out Satan’s people on phase or cure illness by slapping the believers. Programs on television, which match teleshopping of the 1990s, but alternatively of appliances, call for the acquisition of an airplane to the church leader.
Faith in the End of Time: From the Settlement Parish to the White House
One of the most crucial elements of Evangelical doctrine is the apocalyptic belief in the return of Jesus Christ in our lifetime. 63 percent of white evangelicals believe that. In their vision, there will be a period of war or suffering followed by the resurrection of Christians and the creation of God’s Kingdom on earth. And it's not a niche conviction. It reaches to the White home itself.
In 2003, before the invasion of Iraq, president George W. Bush wanted to convince the president of France, Jacques Chirac, to join the coalition. He told Chirac that events in the mediate East reminded him of Gog and Magog's actions. And that the attack on Iraq could be a fulfillment of a Bible prophecy.
Chirac didn't truly realize what we were talking about. He turned to the French Protestant Federation, but there he besides met with consternation. A professor-library was involved. It was a alternatively brief passage in Ezekiel, which is of small importance to most Christian religions. Apart from Evangelicalism - where the subject of battles and the end of time draws large attention to the faithful.
The communicative of Gogu and Magog has long been burning the souls of American fundamentalists. Ronald Reagan believed that Gog was Russia, and his spiritual and historical work is to face her. In 1984, Reagan said that the mediate East looked like a place shortly to scope Bible Armageddon.
When Christian Zionism Wins
In this context, it is worth mentioning what specified Armageddon would be, especially in the context of Christian Zionism. due to the fact that the support of this environment for Israel has a second bottom.
Although visions disagree in detail, Evangelians presume that the crisis ahead of God’s Kingdom on earth must happen in Israel. It is 1 of the sources of their support for intervention in the mediate East and for conducting wars there - they simply see a chance to save themselves. And while Israel is needed for this, people who last the conflict against the Antichrist will gotta convert.
John Hagee, founder of CUFI, the largest Christian-Zionist organization, which brings together 10 million members, assumed that Jews would gotta convert to Christianity to be saved. Others will gotta die. According to reports from his associates, he was to praise Hitler, reasoning that he could be the reason for Israel, an indispensable component of the end of the world.
It is an component of belief, which is rightly criticized as anti-Semitic, including by theologians - due to the fact that it treats Judaism as a tool for achieving the apocalyptic goals of the Evangelines, not as a full-fledged religion in itself. There is no concern about the Jews there to support Israel. erstwhile Jesus comes back, they'll gotta disappear.
But this ideology and religion, which is increasingly affecting U.S. policy, helps to accomplish the political goals of the right. It combines fundamentalism perfectly. Everyone will find something for themselves. any believe that they apply themselves as crusaders to the establishment of God’s Kingdom on earth. This is tempting especially for political Islamophobia. Others are counting on the realization of a imagination of a forceful conversion of Jews, so it is attractive to anti-Semitic environments. Others will find reason to conquer the promised lands of Abraham in the Torah, simply believing that the Bible should be an global law.
And the secular political hawks of any option can prosecute a policy towards Iran that will guarantee the dominance of Israel and the US in the region.
Soldiers complain
The only problem? As can be seen from the complaints of soldiers who, without asking for their opinion, put in the armor of a crusader, do not all want to participate in the Holy War. Complaints came from nearly forty units in 30 different bases. These were not isolated cases. They were reported by soldiers of respective denominations, besides believing Christians.
In 1 of the complaints, we read that the unit commander spoke of Donald Trump as "anointed by Jesus to light a flame in Iran and origin Armageddon, marking Jesus' return to Earth." The complaints besides afraid "unlimited euphoria" of the commanders who read Bible verses. They were to quote the Book of Genesis, focusing on descriptions of rivers filled with blood and trying to calm the soldiers by claiming that it was God’s plan.
Some have received individual invitations to the officers’ homes to participate in the Bible reading together.
One soldier spoke openly about the decline of morale and the consistency of the individual, due to the fact that this kind of usage of religion is contrary to the constitution and military oath he made.
Pete Hegseth and the Trump administration did not address the controversy. There is small indication that they plan to change their approach. The plan of any commanders could inactive be the apocalypse".
