“Praying for Armageddon"
Several years ago, I granted permission to an international film crew shooting a striking new documentary movie called “Praying for Armageddon” to fly out here to my residence in Albuquerque and interview me for their movie. Venerable Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) Advisory Board Member Col. (Ret.) Larry Wilkerson was likewise interviewed for this film. The theme of this documentary movie was to focus on that End Times-obsessed, tortured version of Christianity, which lusts in an unbridled and totally unrestrained manner for the world to end in the impossibly violent and bloody hellscape as described quite vividly in the Book of Revelation. (Indeed, many adherents to this extremist version of fundamentalist Christianity revel endlessly in the fact that they are promised a 200 mile long river, 4 1/2 feet deep filled with nothing but the blood of those that their version of savage-Jesus has slaughtered at the Battle of Armageddon.)
The movie made its American debut almost exactly at the same time that Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. I'd been invited to the Hamptons in New York for that debut and participated in the ceremonies for same.
America Attacks Iran
As I write this, it has not yet even been 48 hours since the mentally ill, two year-old sack of shit tRump authorized the strike by American forces against Iran. I'm not going to opine on the wisdom of this strike in this Opinion Editorial. It is incontrovertible that Iran is clearly a malign actor in the Middle East and on the international stage. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the ramifications, repercussions, and consequences for this preemptive attack, I will leave it for many others who are currently so opining.
U.S. Military Leadership Craves Armageddon
However, almost immediately after word of these American strikes became public Saturday evening, June 21, 2025, our foundation became inundated with military members who were caught in the same bloodlust by their chains of command eagerly watching the cataclysmic events unfolding. Why were these military superiors gleefully observing so fervently? For the same reason they rejoiced at the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war. It is because such sudden warfare, which could explode according to the experts even into World War III, substantiates and adds credibility to the lubrication of the exigent return of their wretched version of AR-15 carrying "Weaponized Jesus" and the infamous Battle of Armageddon. What, you don't think that the alcoholic, womanizing, Christian nationalist, Crusader-tattooed, proselytizing Jesus freak little Petey Hegseth isn't TOTALLY getting off on all of this for the very same reason?!
MRFF does not eat Christians for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks in between
Please keep in mind that there is nothing “anti-Christian” about the Military Religious Freedom Foundation in any way shape or form. Indeed, MRFF currently represents just under 100,000 military members and veterans as well as members of the 18 national security agencies, the Coast Guard (DHS) and the US Maritime Service (DOT). About 95% of them are Christians themselves. Approximately 84% of our staff of nearly 1,200, both paid and volunteer, are also Christians. This isn't about Christianity per se at all. It's about a fundamentalist extremist version of that faith system known as “Christian Dominionism” becoming inextricably intertwined with the indescribable destructive power of the weapons systems of the United States armed forces and our Department of Defense. We have been fighting this noxious version of Christianity for over 20 years and you may have heard about some of our most shocking and horrifying stories.
The message of outcry from an active duty military officer and his wife: “My Commander and his wife are celebrating the American-Iranian-Israeli fighting as the beginning of Armageddon”
The e-mail below from an active duty, junior military officer serving in a combat unit speaks for itself. If, after reading it, you do not see the indescribable danger of a military combat commander, such as the villainous subject of the e-mail, subordinating his or her oath to the U.S. constitution to their own personal, twisted, and tortured version of brutal and barbaric bloodlust as outlined in their eschatological interpretation of the prophecies of the Book of Revelation, then I truly pity you.
For you 77 million MAGA Americans, who voted for this orange piece of human filth and, thus, his governmental supporters and enablers at all levels, are you not effing entertained?!
BEHOLD what your limitless ignorance, hubris, arrogance, bigotry, hatred, and prejudice have wrought for America and The World!
From: (Active Duty U.S. Military Officer/MRFF Client's e-mail address withheld)
Subject: My Commander and his wife are celebrating the American-Iranian-Israeli fighting as the beginning of Armageddon
Date: June 23, 2025 at 12:33:39 PM MDT
To: Information Weinstein <mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org>
Hello Mr. Weinstein and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
My wife and I appreciate you Mikey taking our call last evening after what happened with my Commander and again being fully available for my and my wife’s follow up call this morning on the same urgent matter.
You have assured me that my identity other than how I decide to identify myself in this email and that of my wife will stay confidential at all times and we completely trust you. This is our first time being clients of the MRFF but many of our fellow military members have been MRFF clients and some for many years.
I'm a junior active duty officer in a combat unit. My wife and I were raised in Christian families and consider ourselves Christians. When we got assigned to this combat unit over (number withheld) months ago it was made clear in the many ways I have described you in our phone calls that our Commander was a very deeply evangelical Christian who proselytizes everyone under his command. He puts constant pressure on all of his staff and unit members to attend and actively participate in his weekend Bible studies which are hosted always at his residence on post by himself and his wife. If you don't show up he notices it and repeatedly asks (in other words “orders”) you to attend future Bible studies. It's obvious to all combat unit members that if you don't do it you're going to jack up your career and that is exactly what has happened to so many who don't fall in line with the Commander's Christian religious desires here.
I am now ashamed to say that my wife and I succumbed to this pressure and have been unwilling members of this Bible study of our Commander and his wife for most of the last year. However, after what happened yesterday afternoon at this weekly event, we intend to resign from this Bible study within the next 24 hours. This decision my wife and I have made is why we have become clients of the Foundation.
Simply put, the Commander and his wife spent most of the Bible study yesterday in excessive and extreme glorification and overall celebration of the sudden attack on Iran by American forces and all of the other matters connected to the Israeli attacks on Iran. This includes the Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza, the Ukrainian-Russian war, the tensions with North Korea and China and between India and Pakistan and a number of others. They had big fat grins on their faces as they assured us that the “End Times" were now here just as heralded and predicted in the New Testament Book of Revelation.
My wife and I were shocked by this obvious happiness in the face of warfare and the bloodshed of its victims being shown by our Commander and his wife and a number of the other attendees at this weekly Bible study. Our Commander made it clear that there was "little time left" to get "everybody into the Kingdom of Christ". He then said that this should be the "top priority" for every military member under his command because if you are not "in the Kingdom" you will be justifiably lost to burn in hell for all eternity as a consequence.
I tried to say something about not offending the rights of others who decide not to become active proselytizing Christians and to respect their rights under the constitution but my Commander then made the statement that shocked my wife and myself. He said "the only constitution recognized by our God is whether or not a person has fully surrendered to his Son, who is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ". It was clear that our Commander supported "getting everyone into the Kingdom" by any means possible even if that means doing so in direct defiance of the constitution to which we have all sworn an oath.
I don't need to go into the implications of a senior, field grade, American, military combat unit Commander enthralled by the death and destruction in the Middle East. Made even worse by his and his wife's hope that this is just the leading edge of the blood and guts massacre to come as laid out specifically in the last book of the New Testament.
Thank you Mr. Weinstein and the MRFF for being willing to help my wife and I draft our resignation letters from the Commander's Bible study. We were at first reluctant to even send this email in to the MRFF but I now feel it is critical. It is especially important since you have advised us that the Foundation is receiving a very large influx of similar messages for advice and relief from other Armed Forces personnel.
We swore an oath to defend, protect and serve our constitution. I am fine with my Christian faith, but we should never be in a position where we use our military rank and its authority as a threat to our subordinates to usher them into our Commander's version of, as you say Mr. Weinstein, "Weaponized Christianity”.
Again please keep our identities confidential. Thank you and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation for being the advocacy outlet we can go to for help. If we experience any blowback from our Commander and/or his wife, we will come right back again to ask for your help. It means the world to us that you all at the MRFF have our backs.
(Active Duty U.S. Military Officer/MRFF Client's name, rank, unit, MOS/AFSC/SFSC, and installation withheld)
