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As war in the Middle East enters its second week, U.S. military officers are holding “prayer meetings” at the Pentagon and telling soldiers that the war on Iran is a religious war mandated by God and intended to bring nearer the day of the “rapture.”

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Even before soldiers started coming out and talking about the lectures from Christian nationalist commanders, top officials in the U.S. government were employing appeals to Christian nationalists to grow support for an eventual attack on Iran. High up on that list was Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who told the press that Iran is run by “religious fanatic lunatics.”

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[T]he Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), says it is receiving emailed complaints from U.S. soldiers who say they have been told by superior officers that the war against Iran is intended to “cause Armageddon.”

MRFF said it has received numerous emails from U.S. service members who say they were told the war with Iran is meant to trigger Armageddon, which, according to Christian fundamentalists, will be a feature of the “end r/>
times.”

[...]The report in MRFF, picked up already by various media outlets beyond those normally associated with online conspiracy theories, explained that the commander had told the unit that Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.”

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Top civilian officials in the government [...] have clearly joined the effort.

Last month, Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, told right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson that it would be “fine” if Israel took “essentially the entire Middle East” because it was promised that land in the Bible.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, like Christian nationalists in the U.S., is deeply involved in using religion to justify war. He referenced the Torah recently to compare Iran with an ancient biblical enemy of the Jews, the Amalekites.

The “Amalek” are used to represent evil in some Jewish religious traditions, but are used by right-wing politicians in Israel today who compare them with modern-day Iranians.