Hegseth also has deep connections with the so-called TheoBros, a collection of ultra-conservative and extremely online millennial Christian men who follow an Idaho pastor named Douglas Wilson. Some of Wilson’s followers believe that the United States should, as Mother Jones’ Kiera Butler has written, “be subject to Biblical law.”
Interesting. The only difference between these guys and Islamic Fundamentalists who are in charge in places like Afghanistan are which book they want to use as the basis of their laws, and the color of their hats.
So… these guys are rejecting Jesus’ teachings to follow pharasitical law?
Or do they really plan to follow:
- Love the Lord your god with all your heart, mind, soul and strength
- Love your neighbor as yourself
- Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
Because the stuff in the Old Testament is the stuff that failed to accomplish its goal, which is the entire reason it’s included at all.
Or are they planning a global literalist interpretation of Paul’s instructions to various people? So, take a little wine, don’t let women speak or be uncovered in public, nobody wears jewelry or makeup or perfume, no same-sex sex, no familial sex of any kind, no behaving in a way that may cause another believer to sin, donate regularly to the Christians in Jerusalem?
If you haven’t realized the parallels of what is happening right now in the US and the Islamic Revolution of 1979…whooboy. It’s not light reading. These people are gunning for that outcome specifically.
It’d be super cool if they all had painful and protracted aneurysms.
