Crusade from the Pentagon: How Calvinist Theology Is Shaping America's Iran Policy
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A Guardian analysis argues that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is steering US policy toward Iran through a militant, Calvinist form of Christian nationalism connected to the CREC network and figures like Douglas Wilson and Brooks Potteiger. It portrays the war as divinely sanctioned and warns that this faith-driven framing—echoing Crusades-era rhetoric—risks escalating conflict, undermining church-state separation, and advancing a long-term project to reshape US governance and foreign policy in a Christian nationalist mold.
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- Evangelicals amplify Trump's religious framing of Iran war Reuters
- ‘God deserves all the glory’: Hegseth sparks controversy with faith-based message MS NOW
- Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees. The New York Times
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