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.

[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'

[courtcan@mastodon.social]

@MakeAppPie @hszakher @baconandcoconut @newsguyusa @SQLAllFather

(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/ )

[six_grandfathers_mountain@mastodon.social]

@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.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/hegseth-pulp-fiction-ezekiel-prayer

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-hegseth-pulp-fiction-bible-verse_n_69e0e4d2e4b09c96f93e9391

[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

@newsguyusa

[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.

[divverent@misskey.de]

@SharonCrockett@toot.community @newsguyusa@flipboard.social Pope Leo already denounced this. But he probably does pay for MAGA to repent from their sins.

Not that it is gonna help.

[divverent@misskey.de]

@baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone @newsguyusa@flipboard.social pentagon, pentagram, same thing

[divverent@misskey.de]

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social @newsguyusa@flipboard.social Probably true, and also they probably used Grok.

[divverent@misskey.de]

@KanaMauna@sauropods.win @newsguyusa@flipboard.social They should sue the US government on grounds of unfair competition and antitrust.

[blazr@chaos.social]

@newsguyusa ...he cites a guy, that actually needs to get detailed instructions how to cleanup the mess he created in a car?

time to send in mr. wolf i'd say, the earlier the better.

[electricfusionq@muenchen.social]

@NatureMC „Herr, schmeiß Hirn oder Steine, aber bitte triff.“
(the saying you‘re looking for )

@newsguyusa

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@electricfusionQ Oh, die wunderbare Version kannte ich noch nicht! Muss ich mir merken!

@newsguyusa

[electricfusionq@muenchen.social]

@NatureMC
Dies ist immer anwendbar. Und wenn es nur mit einem freundlichen Nicken im Kopf stattfindet.