Pete Hegseth said this prayer today at the Pentagon (THIS IS REAL) 04/15/26 02:26 PM
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For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship service at the Pentagon on Wednesday (April 15) to bless the U.S. war against Iran and call for “great vengeance and furious anger.” Hegseth also argued that what they hear in the worship service should impact the policy and military decisions they make — including decisions related to the war.
“Fifteen minutes ago, I was talking about blockades with Admiral Cooper, and now we’re going to study the Lord’s word. And may what we talk about, how we worship today inform the remainder of our day and the remainder of our week and who we are and how we conduct ourselves, no matter what we’re doing,” he said. “That’s why I just wanted to share briefly this morning what my devotion was from this morning, from this very morning.”
Standing at the podium with his Bible stamped with a Jerusalem Cross and “Deus Vult,” Hegseth then read from Luke 7, when John the baptizer sent a couple of his disciples to ask Jesus if he really is the Messiah. Jesus responded by reminding them of the miracles they saw and how “the poor have good news preached to them.” Jesus added, “And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”
“I’ve zeroed in on that last verse: ‘And blessed is the one who is not offended by me,’” Hegseth said. “I’m not a theologian, but I know there were a lot of expectations that people were putting on Jesus at that time: What he was going to come to do, what he would save people from. Most of it through our own lens, as we do all the time. It was a cultural lens. It was a political lens. It was a philosophical lens. And they wanted more urgently Jesus to do certain things.”
“And he lays out some of the ways in which he demonstrates who he is, and blessed is the one who is not offended by who I am and what the truth actually represents,” Hegseth added. “Everyone was looking for something else in Jesus’s time. We often look somewhere else and look at trials through the wrong lens, and Jesus understands what kind of recipe we need for his purpose.”
Hegseth added that reminded him of the prayer handed to him a couple of days ago that was “delivered from the lead mission planner of Sandy 1,” the head of the recent rescue mission that recently located and extracted Air Force crew members shot down in Iran. Hegseth then led those at the service in saying the prayer.
Pete Hegseth said this prayer today at the Pentagon (THIS IS REAL)