It have to be mentioned that there’s such a factor as Crackpot Christianity. Crackpot Christianity is Christianity that leaves the teachings of Jesus out. Teachings like “love your enemies,” “blessed be the peacemakers” and different beatitudes, “love your neighbor as your self,” “do onto others as you desire to performed onto you,” “do it to the least and also you do it to me,” and many others.
Crackpot Christianity is invests in spiritual hypocrisy. Christian Nationalism is actually Crackpot Christianity. So is idolatry of Donald Trump or every other political chief wherever.
America at the moment has a director of the Protection Division, now known as the Warfare Division, who could be very a lot immersed in Crackpot Christianity.
Pete Hegseth has been known as “a really harmful individual” who “revels within the carnage of Iran Warfare.” An article in The Guardian—a media supply I like to recommend over the media that has bought its soul to MAGA—calls the pinnacle of the protection division these very issues within the title of a latest article. The subtitle provides: “Critics say brash, bombastic Fox Information host out of his depth to information US navy by way of murky new Center East battle.”*
What received Hegseth named head of the protection division within the first place? Donald Trump, who watches Fox Information day and evening, nominated him for the place. Fifty Republican senators and one vice chairman voted him into workplace.
Reality to inform, Hegseth was not even that vital at Fox Information—he had the lowly place of being a part-time weekend commentator. The newest information about Fox Information is that it purposely lied to its many viewers by intentionally distorting its protection of the return of the our bodies of six troopers killed within the Iran Warfare.
The occasion is historically known as “dignified switch” however guess who wore a white baseball cap with a nickname to the ceremony and didn’t take it off when saluting the caskets? There was a loud response to this insulting act of the president from each the correct and the left.
Fox Information lined up for Trump and when caught, apologized—however pointedly did not run the proper footage that reveals Trump in his marketing campaign hat disrespecting the fallen troopers.
The Guardian described Hegseth at a latest Pentagon press convention as “brash, bellicose” and sounding “extra like a cartoon bully than a sombre statesman” who “bragged about loss of life and destruction from the sky all day lengthy…We’re punching them whereas they’re down, which is precisely the way it must be.”
It’s mentioned that the Pentagon is now “the staging floor for an ideological and non secular campaign” being led “with machismo, Christian nationalism and callousness towards the lives of US troops.” Hegseth goals his TV appearances towards “sating Trump’s need for a warmonger worthy of the manosphere.”
Included within the press look was a “lurid social media video” that included Hollywood footage from Braveheart, Gladiator, Superman and Prime Gun alongside “actual kill-shot footage of the assaults in Iran.”
Hegseth’s personal mom, Penelope, in 2018 wrote him the next: You might be an abuser of ladies—that’s the ugly reality and I’ve no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps round, and makes use of girls for his personal energy and ego. You might be that man (and have been for years) and as your mom, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, however it’s the unhappy, unhappy reality.
Hegseth promised “to dispense with ‘silly guidelines of engagement”—guidelines designed to limit assaults on civilian populations. Maybe that helps clarify America’s complicity within the assaults on oil depots round Tehran I mentioned in yesterday’s DM.
To be continued.
* David Smith, “‘A really harmful individual’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran conflict.” The Guardian, March 8, 2026.
Banner picture: “Protest towards the conflict in Iran, close to the White Home, 3/7/26.” Photograph by Victoria Pickering on Flickr.
Queries for Contemplation
Do you acknowledge Crackpot Christianity in immediately’s MAGA world and America’s Mideast conflict? What can we do about it?
Associated Readings by Matthew Fox
Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Presents for the Peoples of the Earth.
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.
Trump and the MAGA Motion as Antichrist.
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul & Society.
Charles Burack, ed., Matthew Fox: Important Writings in Creation Spirituality.
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Therapeutic of Mom Earth and the Start of a World Renaissance.
Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient for a New Technology.
