I suppose you’d prefer this guy? He’s a real genius.🙄
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.
Moltke caught me already. doh!
Over at “mediaite”, their native tongue is the Black Speech of Mordor ...
I guess everybody saying he clearly knew it was a joke was watching a different version than what I just saw.
It was, however, unintentionally hilarious.
The hard, grim, and frequently dark humor shared amongst MEN isn’t for everyone. And that’s OK.
Those of us who “get it”, get it. Those of you who don’t should probably retire to the kitchen and make sammiches ...
I see what you did there. ;)
I recite "Shepard's Prayer" routinely ...
It's not in the Bible, either.
😊
May all their legs grow together...
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My favorite: “That is a tasty burger!” Such incongruity.
Do you also have a problem when someone in the military says?
“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. For I am the baddest whatever ever in the valley.”
Well Said!
Today... is Christmas! There will be a magic show at zero-nine-thirty! Chaplain Charlie will tell you about how the free world will conquer Communism with the aid of God and a few Marines! God has a hard-on for Marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand?
That’s deeper than military jargon there.
OhhhhNOOOESSS!!!!
You quoted a movie! And it’s not from the BIIIIIIBLE!!!!
AAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGhgggggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!
I suppose you’d prefer this guy? He’s a real genius.🙄
The mental gymnastics to dismiss it is funnier than the phony Bible quoting.
****************************LOL. You’re letting your hate-on for Hegseth cloud your reasoning skills. What’s the dumb shit? It’s a prayer. Where is it written in stone that a prayer ahs to be from the bible?
Show me where he QUOTED the bible. You can’t.You’re the one making excuses.
I don’t have a problem with that or with Hegseth. It was just a dumb thing to say.
Christ almighty, this is getting sad.
“They call it CSAR 25:17, which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17.”
It is. You've put yourself at the bottom of a hole.
Stop digging.
“I don’t have a problem with that or with Hegseth. It was just a dumb thing to say.”
Then maybe you should try to be the secretary of war and say every word that everyone agrees with.
LOL. I see this as similar to the movie quote from Conan the Barbarian. People quote that one all the time.
“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”
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