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The new Holy War Crusade

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Pete Hegseth, with his super-righteous interest in killing every non-Christian and driving the world into an Armageddon finale in which Christ can return to a conquered land, mirrors the state-sponsored criminals of history—men whose missing-a-screw minds have been allowed to lead the charge to root out and destroy “enemies of God.”

Motivated by a twisted view of God and a lack of respect for mankind and the value of life, he’s listening to an archaic reading of Christian/Judeo scripture that encourages—as did certain depictions of the god of the Old Testament—the destruction of non-believers…

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