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Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, attributes the rise in extremism at the Pentagon to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who \u201chas created a template that the only approved member of the U.S. military is to be straight, Christian, nationalist and male.\u201d Weinstein warns that \u201cwhenever you attach an extremist aspect of any religious faith to that machinery responsible for war \u2026 we end up with one thing: oceans and oceans of blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingshiftnews.com\/?p=58\">\u201cFraud on the Court\u201d: Even as DOJ Drops $1.8B Settlement Fund, Judge Reopens Case over Collusion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. military commanders have reportedly been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric to push war on Iran, selling the conflict to American troops as an existential \u201choly war\u201d in apocalyptic language that experts fear could exacerbate the violence and death toll of military operations. 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