{"id":340005,"date":"2026-05-01T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trumps-crusader-in-chief-how-christian-nationalist-beliefs-drive-pete-hegseth\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:00:44","slug":"trumps-crusader-in-chief-how-christian-nationalist-beliefs-drive-pete-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/trumps-crusader-in-chief-how-christian-nationalist-beliefs-drive-pete-hegseth\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s crusader-in-chief: How christian-nationalist beliefs drive Pete Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/tN5nHyhPbQs\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Trump's crusader-in-chief: How christian-nationalist beliefs drive Pete Hegseth\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tN5nHyhPbQs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Pete Hegseth] believes that not only is the military at his disposal to use for his purposes but it\u2019s there to fulfil God\u2019s agenda for the world,\u201d said Doug Pagitt, a pastor at the progressive Christian group Vote Common Good.<br \/>\nSubscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s secretary of defence (or secretary of war, as Trump tries to call him) has been in the spotlight since the launch of attacks on Iran in March. Jack Reed, a Democratic senator from Rhode Island, opened the Senate armed services committee on Thursday by accusing Hegseth of \u201cdangerously exaggerating\u201d his statements about a US victory in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s also been Hegseth\u2019s persistent framing of the war, which is currently under a tenuous ceasefire, as divinely sanctioned that has drawn attention, says Julia Wong, a Guardian US senior reporter.<\/p>\n<p>After repeatedly invoking \u201cGod\u2019s almighty providence\u201d, Hegseth\u2019s \u201cdistinct combination of piety and bloodlust\u201d was most prominently on display at the 25 March worship service at the Pentagon, when he prayed for \u201coverwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy\u201d. The prayer was so shocking that it appears to have provoked a direct rebuke from Pope Leo, who preached on Palm Sunday that God ignores the prayers of those whose \u201chands are full of blood\u201d from making war.<\/p>\n<p>What all of this points to, Wong reports, is how militant Christian beliefs are driving one of the most powerful men in the US.<\/p>\n<p>#petehegseth #crusaderinchief #christiannationalism #trump #usa #politics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[Pete Hegseth] believes that not only is the military at his disposal to use for his purposes but it\u2019s there to fulfil God\u2019s agenda for the world,\u201d said Doug Pagitt, a pastor at the progressive Christian group Vote Common Good. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 Trump\u2019s secretary of defence (or secretary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[137512,143652,131414],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-340005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news","tag-believes","tag-hegseth","tag-pete"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump&#039;s crusader-in-chief: How christian-nationalist beliefs drive Pete Hegseth | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Trump&#039;s crusader-in-chief: How christian-nationalist beliefs drive Pete Hegseth for free, here on News ISC. 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