Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. 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.

From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.

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  • setsubyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    1 day ago

    The rapture already happened, that’s why people are calling themselves Christians but never actually following Christ’s teachings. The actual believers are long gone.

      • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        It was a very small event on November 3, 1973. Interestingly one of the three raptured made big news, but it was covered up. He was a pilot.

        • lad@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          23 hours ago

          I don’t know if you hinted on this, but the story is wild:

          A passenger on National Airlines Flight 27 was blown out of the window of an airplane at an altitude of 39,000 feet (12,000 m) over the U.S. state of New Mexico, after the number 3 engine on the Douglas DC-10-10, exploded and fragments penetrated the fuselage. The jet had been en route from Houston to Las Vegas when the accident happened at 4:40 in the afternoon, and made a safe emergency landing in Albuquerque, New Mexico. According to the subsequent NTSB investigation, the cockpit voice recorder showed that the engine explosion happened immediately after the first officer asked the captain “Wonder— wonder if you pull the N1 tach will that— autothrottle respond to N1?” and the captain replied, “Gee, I don’t know.” The first officer then said “You want to try it and see?” Thirty-four seconds later, the explosion happened. An extensive search was unable to locate the passenger, machinist George F. Gardner of Beaumont, Texas, who had been sitting by the window in seat 17F.

          Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1973#3

          • LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zipEnglish
            8·
            20 hours ago

            I read the Wikipedia article and it looks like the NTSB concluded that conversation and the subsequent “test” they did were inconclusive as the root cause of the engine failure. That specific engine had numerous problems reported prior to the flight and had been taken off and replaced before having even more reported after. It seems to be just coincidental. What’s just as wild to me is that the passenger that was ejected from the plane was even wearing his seatbelt. Explosive decompression still said nuh uh and ripped him out the window.

          • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            21 hours ago

            I was actually talking about Pan Am flight 160 the same day. This would have been a better story. Wow, that’s crazy. Looks like 2 of them made the news.