I often marvel at the variety of folks we have in this country. In my eight decades of life, I’ve seen all kinds and just when I think I’ve seen it all, someone surprises me. Case in point, a recent post ended up in my FB feed, left to me by some major hiccup in their artificial intelligence algorithm, where a MAGA fanatic glorified the war in Iran.
His post was steeped in testosterone and talk of war, our strategic might, and how Donald Trump is a master of all he attempts as he is a spokesperson for God. He bragged about the specifics of our B1, B2, and B52 bombers, their bomb payloads, and how these instruments of war are instruments of peace destined to restore order to the world.
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His writing was peppered with two and three emojis on almost every line. They were of Bibles, and flags with Christian crosses, American flags, fire, praying hands, and flexing muscles. He reveled in target destruction, and talked like he had some secret insight into military strategy. He described how the B-2 bombers would destroy hardened defenses, then B-1 bombers would “exploit the degraded defenses” going deeper into the country, and in Phase 3 the old B-52s would rain down “70,000 lbs of ordinance per sortie.”
He went on to praise the sacrifice of four soldiers by name who had lost their lives and that they would be avenged. Then he quoted Scripture and reveled in the glory of war. He closed his 718-word diatribe with a series of “God blesses” for pilots, warriors, and the US of A. He then included a series of hashtags: B52; OperationEpicFury; AmericaFirst; MAGA; PeaceThroughStrength; GodAndCountry; AirPower.
I must wonder what happened in this person’s life for them to end up so deranged. I doubt this person ever served in combat, let alone the armed forces. I doubt this because I feel he would have worked that into his statement if he had. I also doubt his military service because I have been in and around military people my entire life and I never met anyone who talked like this.
If I had to hazard a guess, this person grew up playing Call of Duty on his PlayStation. The religious Christian warrior nonsense has been with us for centuries, but this new breed seems to have taken it to another level.
In my five years of early formal religious training, I must have missed Jesus the Warrior seeking world domination. I seem to remember a more peaceful fellow who wanted to turn the other cheek, not someone who wanted to quickly drop 70,000 lbs. of ordinance on an unsuspecting citizenry. Yes, they truly walk among us.
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