I am not one for watching News 24 (which is what Sky News Australia became after it forced to rebrand itself after court orders) and so I am not usually aware of the kind of effluent propaganda being dragged through people's minds, but this morning I am (was) on the train while someone played it sufficiently loud enough on their phone for all the immediate world to hear.
At the weekend, a pilot in an F-15E Strike Eagle jet that was shot down by Iran on Friday, was rescued from an Iranian mountain after spending two days in the open.
United States' President Donald Trump praised the fighter pilot and the US Air Force who successfully returned him safe and sound, to a US airbase; and then the broadcast got weird.
President Trump threatened to find and jail the journalist who first reported that the fighter pilot was awaiting rescue in Iran, unless the reporter reveals the source. I note that Fox News and Washington Post were the initial news outlets to report the story, so there might not be a lot in that threat.
The broadcast then proceeded to show Mr Trump in the Oval Office, with various people laying hands on him, praising God for his leadership, and then thanking God that Iranian people have been killed.
In reference to the return of the fighter pilot who was retrieved, there was no reflection upon the fact that this same military put him in harm's way in the first place; much less the actual moral fitness of the war.
"At least 13 hospitals and other health facilities have been hit during the US-Israel attacks on Iran, global health chiefs have said."
- The Guardian, 6 Mar 2026
I don't know to what degree that this is being marketed as a just war in the United States but at least 13 hospitals, and over 30 schools and colleges damaged or destroyed in Iran during these military actions.
Make any claim that you like about regime change and the cruelty which the Ayatollahs and high-ranking Shia clergy have perpetrated in Iran (which was already well known), but to then turn around and claim that God is pleased, or wants to bless you when you have clearly targeted civilian populations, seems like a very strange clarion to blow.
This war began with an opening volley of Tomahawk missiles thrown directly into Tehran; and resulted in 138 girls being killed at school. That was Day One.
This sits alongside Israel's continued efforts to turn every single last person in Gaza to bloody pulp, and and second front where innocent people in Lebanon have also been killed.
To turn around and yell at NATO for not wanting to help, after threatening to take Greenland by force, just looks churlish.
But to then dare to pray for God's blessing while you are busy tearing people to pieces and seemingly gloating at the fact, seems gauche.
I mean I already get it that this man is a politician by office, so Christians in the United States are willing to overlook his character and the fact that he is more than likely a rapist (which apparently doesn't morally disqualify him from being elected to office a second time), but to lay hands upon him and make theatre by suggesting that he is a blessing, is madness.
It is really easy to look at the world like a chess board and watch as pieces fall. It is even easier if your King happens to be on another chess board which is on the other side of the room. So long as the things falling are only chess pieces, that's okay. However, when they are actual people, who used to have families, daughters, sons, wives, husbands, grandparents, friends... to pray a blessing upon the destruction of these people? Something doesn't work here.
“Mr President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price.
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It almost cost you your life. You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It’s a familiar pattern that our Lord and Saviour showed us. But it didn’t end there for him, and it didn’t end there for you.
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Because he rose, we all know we can rise, and, sir, because of his resurrection, you rose up.
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Because he was victorious, you were victorious. And I believe that the Lord said to tell you this: Because of his victory, you will be victorious in all you put your hand to.”
- Paula White.
You will be victorious in all you put your hand to?
What does that look like?
"I don't want to tell you that. ... We have a plan because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never to be used again. I mean, complete demolition by 12 o'clock, and it will happen over a period of four hours if we want it to. We don't want that to happen."
- Donald Trump
"The Iranians are animals. That’s why blowing up their bridges and power stations isn’t a war crime.”
- Donald Trump
My question is to "Christians" in the United States. So you voted for this, eh? Really?
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