Ben Myselish

to justify war crimes and genocide and to say, and I went into the church and I heard a great sermon and that's what tells me that we need to go to war.

Let's play the first clip of Hegseth right here from this morning.

Let's play it.

This past Sunday, I was sitting in church with my family and our minister preached from the book of Mark, the third chapter.

And in the passage, Jesus entered a synagogue and healed a man with a withered hand.

the Pharisees came to watch.

And as the scripture reads, they came to see whether he, Jesus, would heal him or he would heal him on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him.

You see, the Pharisees, the so-called and self-appointed elites of their time, they were there to witness, to write everything down, to report.

but their hearts were hardened.

Even though they witnessed a literal miracle, it didn't matter.

They were only there to explain away the goodness

in pursuit of their agenda.

So Pete Hegseth comparing the press to the Pharisees, Donald Trump is Jesus.

And he's saying that Donald Trump worked miracles in Iran by blowing up elementary schools and killing little girls.

And the fact that the press would dare report on war crimes and genocide about what's happening place.

is the same thing that Jesus confronted when Jesus, in the telling of the scripture, as he says, was working miracles.

That's what the Trump regime was doing this morning.

It's such a perversion of religion, and it's really just disgusting to even see this being invoked at all from the Pentagon and being used to justify this war that has killed so many innocent people.

And so I completely understand why the Pope is speaking out against this sort of rhetoric.

But I do find it interesting that the Pope doesn't often even mention Donald Trump by name, really, unless he's asked directly about it, like he was by the press the other day.