According to Mikey Weinstein, the founder of “Military Religious Freedom Foundation,” during a recent 48-hour interval, 110 complaints were logged from 40 different military units reporting that soldiers were being told by their commanders that the war on Iran was basically ordained “by God,” and that President Trump has been “anointed by Jesus” to carry it out.
Some expressed that this was leading to a war-euphoria that they found troublesome, to say the least.
Weinstein, who comes from a military family, graduated from the United States Air Force Academy. He worked as an attorney in the West Wing of the Reagan White House for three years, during which time he was named the Committee Management Officer of the Iran-Contra Investigation in his capacity as Assistant General Counsel of The White House Office of Administration.
In an interview with Good Men Project, Weinstein reported, “What we are seeing now is an effort to turn the military into a Christian nationalist force. That is the real war taking place, and they have largely succeeded.”
By his estimation, “Roughly twenty percent of senior military leadership—generals and admirals—are fully committed Christian nationalist MAGA adherents. Of the remaining eighty percent, most are pretending to comply because they do not want to jeopardize their retirement or their families. They rationalize their silence. The final group—about twenty percent—remain in service because they care deeply about their subordinates. They know that if they leave, they will be replaced by full-on MAGA leadership that would torment those under their command.”
He said that this is particularly alarming today because of the use of AI and robotics in modern warfare, which reflect the cultural biases of their programmers. “We have seen imperial collapse before. Neither the Romans nor the British Empire had artificial intelligence, robotics, or autonomous weapons. They could not encode dogma directly into killing machines. We do.”
There are now monthly prayer meetings and weekly Bible study sessions at the Pentagon, organized by Hegseth. One such meeting on February 18 caused a stir because private contractors were invited along with professional military personnel. Contractors reported feeling pressure to show up, regardless of religious belief, if they wanted to be assured of getting the contract.
The preacher for that particular session was Rev. Douglas James Wilson, who in his sermon actually called for reviving the Great Awakening of Oxford methodists Wesley and Whitfield, who deployed in the American colonies in the 1740’s to undermine the influence of Ben Franklin and Cotton Mather.
A 2004 article by LaRouche spokesman Harley Schlanger is quite relevant to understanding this phenomenon.
