Posted on 04/16/2026 6:04:43 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth read a fake Bible quote from Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 movie Pulp Fiction during a prayer service at the Pentagon on Wednesday.
Discussing the Sandy 1 rescue mission of a downed pilot in Iran this month, Hegseth (as first flagged by A Public Witness, a religion-themed Substack) urged his audience to join him in a prayer, which he claims was delivered at the beginning of the mission.
“This prayer was recited by Sandy 1, which is one of the Sandies, to all Sandies, all those A-10 crews, prior to all CSAR missions, but especially this CSAR mission, which happened in real time,” Hegseth said. “They call it CSAR 25:17, which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17.”
He continued:
So the prayer is CSAR 25:17 and 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.”
While the prayer didn’t sound very much like Ezekiel 25:17, which — in the King James Bible — simply 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,” it did bear a strong resemblance to a fake version of Ezekiel 25:17 quoted by the actor Samuel L. Jackson in Tarantino’s 1994 crime movie Pulp Fiction, just before his character shoots a man to death.
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men,” says Jackson in the movie. “Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak 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 poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”
Tarantino himself poached the fake Bible verse from the 1970s Japanese martial arts movie Bodyguard Kiba.
Nah he’s just nasty and maybe butt hurt somehow.
I’m not defaming him. I’m just saying he lacks intelligence.
I have watched Major Pete give press conferences. I have read his book.
I have also read Kleon’s posts on FR.
I judge Major Pete to be much more intelligent that Kleon.
Apparently you lack intelligence to comprehend my comment. I said: "You're defaming the crews that took the movie quote and made some changes to it, to suit a prayer for their own special needs as a team."
You claimed I said you defamed Hegseth.
“and thought it to be Scripture.”
I guess you didn’t read the article ...
“it’s not too hard to find a half dozen real verses that would be appropriate to the situation.”
Please!
Combat
Search
And
Rescue
“Hegseth always fails to exceed expectations.”
You live up to expectation regarding stupid posts.
OK, I don’t recall that being said. 👍🏻
Oh, I get it.
Hegseth was either being effeminate/wanting pleasure and adulation at a solemn event that required masculinity, or he failed basic due diligence.
If he was a Dem, we’d all roast him. But nah, he’s one of US say the spinmeisters. Give him a break…he smiled, didn’t ya see it?
Reagan would’t have tolerated this, and Casper Weinberger wouldn’t have said it.
He has a nice suit, I’ll give him that.
Peace out. Have a great day.
I wear your disdain as a badge of honor.
she says, then absolutely proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that she doesn't get it and never will.
LOL!!!
Says a loser who has accomplished nothing
So you’re a winner who has also killed hundreds of innocent school girls?
That thar is certainly looking through the lenses of Marine glasses for you. Hegseth isn’t a Marine but he’s been deployed to Iraq and there is ZERO chance that he thought that was quotable scripture. When it comes to war Hegseth is a killer and rightly so.
Or at least a sausage McMuffin.
I just saw a YT video where Patton was acknowledging that Pete had read his book.
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