In a prayer delivered by US Defense Secretary Hegseth during a Pentagon worship service yesterday, he read the fake Ezekiel 25:17 verse from “Pulp Fiction" that Samuel L. Jackson’s character recited just before he shoots a man to death.

[newsguyusa@flipboard.social]

In a prayer delivered by US Defense Secretary Hegseth during a Pentagon worship service yesterday, he read the fake Ezekiel 25:17 verse from “Pulp Fiction" that Samuel L. Jackson’s character recited just before he shoots a man to death. https://variety.com/2026/film/news/pete-hegseth-pulp-fiction-fake-bible-verse-prayer-service-1236723446/

[linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io]

@newsguyusa Christ on a cracker. He not only doesn't know how to interpret the bible, he didn't even watch the end of Pulp Fiction when Jules says that he isn't the righteous man, and vengeance is in fact reserved to god.

[me_valentijn@m.ai6yr.org]

@newsguyusa
He's already on Team Antichrist. No need to keep auditioning.

[sharoncrockett@toot.community]

@newsguyusa I know Pope Leo doesn't care. But I think he may be praying for Hegseth's sins.

[lockex@ioc.exchange]

@newsguyusa What a maroon!

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@newsguyusa

> The actual Ezekiel 25:17 passage in the King James Bible, which is a declaration of divine vengeance against the Philistines...

... isn't a lot better, considering "Philistines" is what the Bible calls modern-day "Gaza"

[hszakher@mastodon.world]

@baconandcoconut @newsguyusa "pentagon worship service" is like "Moloch childcare center" 🫠

[zebadiah_carter@mastodon.social]

@newsguyusa

Because of course he did.

Because Idiocracy is a documentary.

[mancavgeek@social.teamb.space]

@newsguyusa I just Tarantino sues him for this...

[traecer@techhub.social]

@newsguyusa MOST CHRISTIAN ADMINISTRATION

[nichni@mastodonapp.uk]

@newsguyusa Religious affiliation: Ultraviolence (Pulp Government)

[kimlockhartga@beige.party]

@newsguyusa because of course he does.

Armaments, chapter 7. . .

[suedioh@mastodon.social]

@newsguyusa Well of course the media-educated Saturday morning talk show host who dishonored his sacred marital vows, who coveted other men's wives, is a glutton for alcohol and puts trump before God doesn't know the Bible.

[mkoek@mastodon.nl]

@newsguyusa life imitating art

[laukidh@infosec.exchange]

@newsguyusa the unit reciting that before going on search and rescue missions is also disturbing.

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@newsguyusa it was probably AI-generated, as the Pulp fiction version has to be more prominent in the training set than the actual version..

[kanamauna@sauropods.win]

@newsguyusa

Don’t know how The Onion can survive this.

[stekopf@mstdn.social]

@newsguyusa

The article portrays it a bit differently:
»Hegseth told the assemblage that the prayer was recited by the “Sandy One” Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) mission in Iran. “They call it CSAR 25:17, which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17,” the secretary said.
Calling on everyone to pray with him, Hegseth then read this (via Defense Now): “The path of the downed aviator s beset on all sides...«

So it's a variation of a variation of a way shorter original:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel%2025%3A17&version=NIV

[grossefehn@friendica.de]

@newsguyusa

Those are simply alternative facts that were cited.

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@KanaMauna @newsguyusa this almost beats the time in Sunday school when I tried to ask a question about the Six Day War but came up with the War of Five Armies