During a recent press conference at the Pentagon, he also quoted Psalm 44 by saying, 'Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.'

At the national prayer breakfast, Hegseth emphasized his belief that America is a 'Christian nation' and needs to defend that identity."

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"Hegseth talks often about how God is on his side and has said that Iran shouldn’t doubt the US’s resolve because it is backed by God. He said, 'Our capabilities are better. Our will is better. Our troops are better. The providence of our almighty God is there protecting those troops, and we’re committed to this mission.'”

~ Benjamin Cremer

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https://benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/there-is-a-dime-for-peace-and-a-dime-for-war

With about half of Americans supporting some version of Christian nationalist ideology, it's impossible to ignore the centrality of that ideology to Trump-Hegseth's war against Iran.

As Zachary B. Wolf says,

"Hegseth has long wanted to reprogram the country.

'America was founded as a Christian nation,' he said at a recent National Prayer Breakfast."

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https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/politics/hegseth-iran-israel-war-american-crusade-analysis

"When Christianity becomes publicly associated with nationalist aggression and eagerness for war, it presents a face to the world that is, by any honest reading of the New Testament, a misrepresentation of the faith."

~ Michael Mellette

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https://wordandway.org/2026/03/12/the-enemy-within-apocalyptic-nationalism-and-the-corruption-of-christian-witness/

(continued from /4)

"the latter seeks to impose that faith, by law and policy, on the rest of us. ...

religious nationalism has no interest in civility. Its nature is authoritarian; it does not learn from civil debate."

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"It’s that goal of privileging Christianity in law and government that I think marks the line between personal politics (potentially based in faith-informed values) and religious nationalism. The former is an individual value set that may or may not influence particular policies, but still allows for freedom for others to move religiously within the subsequent law;" (continued in /5)

~ Sarah Stankorb

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https://sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/we-must-call-christian-nationalism

"They came out and just said that directly because it does not come anywhere near meeting the preconditionsfor anything that could be called a just war that Christians can endorse. … That's a big deal."

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"We have two cardinals in the US actually this week calling out the administration for violating those conditions [of Catholic teachings about the morality of war] — Cardinal Robert McEkroy of Washington DC and Cardinal Blaise Kubic of Chicago saying this war is not morally legitimate."

~ Robert P. Jones

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLGvipuW6pA

"When Christianity becomes publicly associated with nationalist aggression and eagerness for war, it presents a face to the world that is, by any honest reading of the New Testament, a misrepresentation of the faith."

~ Michael Mellette

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https://wordandway.org/2026/03/12/the-enemy-within-apocalyptic-nationalism-and-the-corruption-of-christian-witness/

(continued from /36)

"Do you support internment camps for undocumented immigrants where they should be rounded up until they can be deported? Even when we put that language into a question, we've got a majority of Republicans [and white evangelicals] now saying, yeah, I'm down with that."

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"And this is the America that we're living in, that we literally are having internment camps. And we've polled on this. And what we're finding is that, again, it's a majority of Republicans and a super majority of white evangelical Christians who actually, even when we say to them, internment camps," (continued in /37)

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Then Robbie adds:

"The big, beautiful bill, let's just make sure everybody remembers, has got money already in it for like $50,000 plus beds at internment camps that they're already trying to open all over the country, probably one coming to an abandoned warehouse near you."

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Robbie replies:

"Well, you know, I do tend to use those words all together, right? White Christian nationalism, because that really is the only way to understand what it is in our context, right? Now, there is religious nationalism in other parts of the world, but in America—our issue is white Christian nationalism."

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" Within Democratic circles, mainstream circles, corporate media circles, they are averse to using the word white Christian nationalism because, number one, they don't want to piss off Christians. And number two, they don't want to piss off white. I say, no, no, no. The data says that this is a white Christian nationalist problem."

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