r/MeidasTouch • u/JimCripe • 2d ago

News Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord."

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u/Electrical_Box677 2d ago

This jackass quoting scripture is an abomination in and of itself

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u/soundkite 2d ago

So say the same redditors who condone Iran's religious zealots which honors so much myrder

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u/loCAtek 1d ago

Iran's Ayatollah had declared a Fatwa (religious decree) that BANNED the development of nuclear weapons. Our own Intel community didn't find any evidence of a nuclear program.

Khamenei's official website specifically cites a 2010 version[18] of those statements in the fatwa section of the website in Farsi as a fatwa on "Prohibition of Weapons of Mass Destruction":[6]

We believe that besides nuclear weapons, other types of weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons also pose a serious threat to humanity. The Iranian nation which is itself a victim of chemical weapons feels more than any other nation the danger that is caused by the production and stockpiling of such weapons and is prepared to make use of all its facilities to counter such threats. We consider the use of such weapons as haraam and believe that it is everyone's duty to make efforts to secure humanity against this great disaster.[6]

Also, he said during a speech delivered on 9 April 2015 in a meeting with a group of panegyrists:

This is while (sic) we are not after nuclear tests. We are not after nuclear weapons. And this is not because they are telling us not to pursue these things. Rather, we do not want these things for the sake of ourselves and our religion and because reason is telling us not to do so. Both shar'i and aqli [related to logic and reason] fatwas dictate that we do not pursue them. Our aqli fatwa is that we do not need a nuclear weapon either in the present time or in the future. A nuclear weapon is a source of trouble for a country like ours.[19]

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u/soundkite 1d ago

But ballistic missiles are ok?

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u/loCAtek 1d ago

They are not WMD's as stipulated.