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magicarpet

(18,864 posts) Thu Apr 16, 2026, 06:33 PM Thursday

Kegseth uses violent quote from Pulp Fiction,...

... Pete claimed the quote came from the Bible.

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Pete Hegseth - always ready to get medieval on someone's ass - quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction while leading a prayer service at the Pentagon on Wednesday.

The Secretary of War cited an iconic and not-actually-biblical monologue from Quentin Tarantino's beloved 1994 film. It's the speech given by fearsome hitman Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) to his victims right before he murders them.

Hegseth sets up the quote by saying it was a prayer recited by Sandy 1 - one of the US Air Force Combat Search and Rescue teams involved in the rather extraordinary rescue of a U.S. Air Force airman who was trapped behind enemy lines in Iran earlier this month.

"They call it CSAR 25:17, which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17," Hegseth told his audience (video below). "It reads - and pray with me please - ‘the path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of camaraderie and duty shepherds the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother, and you will know my call sign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Amen."

Ezekiel 25:17 actually just reads, "And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them."

Sourced from MSM,.. more at link below,..

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/pete-hegseth-pulp-fiction-bible-quote-1236566414/¿

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Kegseth uses violent quote from Pulp Fiction,... (Original Post) magicarpet Thursday OP

As much as I'm enjoying Hegseth making a fool of himself Vogon_Glory Thursday #1

Now I think I understand Sowhat13 Thursday #2

Vogon_Glory

(10,316 posts)

1. As much as I'm enjoying Hegseth making a fool of himself

Reply to magicarpet (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 07:09 PM

Thursday

I’m still a little sad that the fictitious expanded Ezekiel quote was a Tarantino add-on and not what was actually in the Book of Books. I remember searching for the quote first in the Bible, then in the Torah, then tried to search in any apocrypha and finding out that it wasn’t there.

Sowhat13

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2. Now I think I understand

Reply to magicarpet (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 07:58 PM

Thursday

I think I get it now. Trump is not upset for the Pope calling out his use of religion to justify violence.
Rather, trump prefers the use of movie scripts, instead of bible verses. So maybe we could share some
for the Pope to plagiarise?

Radio Show Moderator: I have to be honest, Dr. Kelley. I find some of the conclusions in your book quite unbelievable. You were dealing with the Nazis, who you must admit are unique people.
Douglas Kelley: They are not unique people. There are people like the Nazis in every country in the world today.
Radio Show Moderator: Not in America.
Douglas Kelley: Yes, in America. Their personality patterns are not obscure. There are people who want to be in power. And while you say they don't exist here, I would say I'm quite certain there are people in America who would willingly climb over the corpses of half the American public if they knew they could gain control of the other half.
Radio Show Moderator: Doctor, please.
Douglas Kelley: They stoke hatred. It's what Hitler and Göring did, and it is textbook. And if you think the next time it happens we're going to recognize it because they're wearing scary uniforms, you're out of your damn mind.

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Hermann Göring: My friend, your hypocrisy is stunning.
Douglas Kelley: My hypocrisy?
Hermann Göring: You think American bullets and bombs don't kill people? You vaporise 150,000 Japanese at the touch of a button and you presume to stand in judgement on me for war crimes?
Douglas Kelley: We had every right to defend ourselves.
Hermann Göring: How do you defend yourself on someone else's soil?
Douglas Kelley: There's a difference between us bombing war factories and civilians dying as collateral damage and you building 1200 human slaughterhouses designed to exterminate an entire race. And you know it!
Hermann Göring: What do you think war is?
Douglas Kelley: Not what I thought today.
Hermann Göring: What do you think the Russians do to German prisoners of war? You have your freedom and I am a prisoner because you've won and we lost. Not because you are morally superior! This trial will be a farce in 15 years. Great conquerors and not thought of as murderers. Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great...
Douglas Kelley: You're not Alexander the Great! You are a fat man in a cell. And you knew.....

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