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.
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Oh really. You don’t think that Hegseth noticed that there was no such thing as a “aviator” in Bible times. Looks like you didn’t notice.
The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
“This isn’t Hegseth being funny; Dude had no idea he was reading from Hollywood.”
Nonsense. He gives a mischievous grin which goes unmistaken.
“And if he WAS trying to be a joker, he picked the wrong place to do it. More like a clown vs joker.”
Nonsense. In the “preamble,” he speaks about the heroic sacrifice of the Sandys, deliberately likening to Christ. He shares their prayer as evidence to their self-awareness of that. There’s nothing wrong with passing on their prayer, even if it contains a little humor.
I don't think he pays much attention to the meaning of words as long as they sound good.
The left is simply retarded. ‘Nuff said about mediaite cheese richards.
Will the next headline be,
“Hegseth goes to restroom following event with warfighters”
???
/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s
It’s not a scandal.
It’s just some dumb shit he pulled.
The mental gymnastics to dismiss it is funnier than the phony Bible quoting.
Usually it’s their aid’s that hand their bosses things to say when requested.
I finally got around to watching “Jackie Brown” a few months ago, I really liked it.
Agreed. I say the Serenity Prayer every night. It’s not found in the Bible.
**Who cares whether or not it’s a real Bible verse? It’s instantly recognizable to most people as a much-quoted scene from Pulp Fiction, along with many other lines from that movie.**
First, its Mediaite, part of the CMC (commie media complex).
Secondly, I don’t know much about the movie, except that it was plenty violent and probably not at all beneficial to my mind. I have for decades chosen to face reality. Fiction, pulp or not, is fiction. Actors famous for saying a catchy line (that they didn’t write, but had to memorize and practice) is not reality, for me anyway.
Next time Hegseth should deliver a prayer in his “prayer language”. Anything to freak out the Left and TDS “ conservatives”(hah) is okay by me.
‘Jackie Brown’
I liked too.
Tarantino has a couple clunkers
In my Book.
He doesn't say it's a Bible verse, he said it's a prayer. Which can be almost anything as long as it doesn't contradict scripture.
Some people may not be familiar with prayer that's not the "Our Father".
And you know that how? Are you friends with him? Used to work with him? You’re clairvoyant? How is it you know so much about him?
“They call it CSAR 25:17, which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17.”
Rev. Pete Hegseth
“And yay, though the Hindus speak of Karma, I implore you, give her a break.”
If you like Tarantino humor, ‘Jackie Brown’ is just as good as ‘Pulp Fiction’ or ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’.
If you havent seen ‘Four Rooms’, Tarantino is in top form in that one. Its four separate stories that take place in a hotel one night, linked together by the bell hop. Tarantino is a main character in the final story with a surprise ending that is Tarantino classic.
Yup! doh
Exactly....
We Take In Scripture and breathe Out our own Soul in prayer.
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To paraphrase a line Is Not blasphemous
In my book but it’s Makeing a spiritual
Truth your Own in Reverence to God.
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The ‘Warriors Prayer’ is Psalms 91 to be honest.
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