In a prayer delivered by US Defense Secretary Hegseth during a Pentagon worship service yesterday, he read the fake Ezekiel 25:17 verse from “Pulp Fiction" that Samuel L. Jackson’s character recited just before he shoots a man to death.

[kanamauna@sauropods.win]

@newsguyusa @aburka

Five, six. Middle Earth, Middle East. All the same.

[pamelabarroway@mstdn.social]

@newsguyusa WUT

[ninestonesclose@mastodon.social]

@newsguyusa this guy is such a fucking moron.

[noplasticshower@infosec.exchange]

@newsguyusa ha ha ha ha ha

[primetime@mastodon.social]

@newsguyusa These people.. My fucking god, what a shit show

[therandomjanitor@mastodon.social]

@newsguyusa This is my favorite story of the week.

[phf@dmv.community]

@newsguyusa "That motherfuckin' asshole is running his stupid-ass mouth ruinin' my favorite motherfuckin' movies. I want him off the plane!"

[phracker2art@mstdn.social]

@newsguyusa
None of these "Christians" have actually read the Bible.

[sister_ratched@toot.community]

@newsguyusa Hahaha...

[jeffcampo@mastodon.social]

@Phracker2Art @newsguyusa some say this is because they are not Christian, they are Evangelical White Supremacists

[phracker2art@mstdn.social]

@jeffcampo @newsguyusa
You could make the argument that Evangelism is effectively a separate religion from Christianity, since the respective tenets of those two ideologies have almost nothing to do with each other.

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@newsguyusa would be nice if hegseth could just be done and go walk the earth

[piggo@piggo.space]

@renardboy @newsguyusa as they are so into bible they should try 'dust to dust'

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(If anyone would like to read more on the apt Moloch comparison, I wrote about it here: https://courtcan.com/2025/10/30/lets-get-dark-for-a-bit-shall-we/ )

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@newsguyusa

#Pentagon #presssecretary prayer was “obviously inspired by dialogue in Pulp Fiction”... “Anyone saying the Secretary misquoted Ezekiel 2517 is peddling fake news and ignorant of reality.”

NO, YOU ARE🤪

#PulpFiction writer-director #QuentinTarantino reportedly drew from a scene in the 1973 #japanesefilm “Bodyguard Kiba” as the basis for Jackson’s monologue.

Hegseth channels his inner Tarantino with fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction

The defense secretary said his prayer drew on Ezekiel, but wording closely matches Quentin Tarantino dialogue

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Pete Hegseth Quoted A Bible Verse. Turns Out It Was A Rip-Off Of ‘Pulp Fiction.’

"When our leaders mix up God and a movie, in trying to suggest that God is behind them, that suggests the muddle we’re all in," one person commented.

HuffPost (www.huffpost.com)

[decapitae@mastodon.social]

@newsguyusa ...the two shall fall into a pit.....

[jeffcampo@mastodon.social]

@Phracker2Art @newsguyusa I prefer the term theocrat as it's just one word that is pretty easy to explain if one is called upon to do so, what do yall think?

[jeffcampo@mastodon.social]

@Phracker2Art @newsguyusa not to distract from your contribution, which is valid

[pascaline@mastodon.nl]

@linuxandyarn

Oh my gosh, this is all so crazy

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[agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social]

@newsguyusa To be fair, the first part of it is real. But few people are like me: I thought it sounded off, so I looked it up. Apparently the DoD never checks references, or targeting information. Both of these have bad outcomes on schools.