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(171,404 posts) Thu Apr 16, 2026, 09:30 AM Apr 16

'Pray With Me Please': Pete Hegseth Reads Fake Bible Quote From 'Pulp Fiction' During Pentagon Prayer Service

Source: MEDIAite

Apr 16th, 2026, 7:40 am

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth read a fake Bible quote from Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 movie Pulp Fiction during a prayer service at the Pentagon on Wednesday. Discussing the Sandy 1 rescue mission of a downed pilot in Iran this month, Hegseth (as first flagged by A Public Witness, a religion-themed Substack) urged his audience to join him in a prayer, which he claims was delivered at the beginning of the mission.

“This prayer was recited by Sandy 1, which is one of the Sandies, to all Sandies, all those A-10 crews, prior to all CSAR missions, but especially this CSAR mission, which happened in real time,” Hegseth said. “They call it CSAR 25:17, which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17.”

He continued:

So the prayer is CSAR 25:17 and it reads, and pray with me please, “The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of camaraderie and duty shepherds the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother, and you will know my call sign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Amen.”

While the prayer didn’t sound very much like Ezekiel 25:17, which — in the King James Bible — simply reads, “And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them,” it did bear a strong resemblance to a fake version of Ezekiel 25:17 quoted by the actor Samuel L. Jackson in Tarantino’s 1994 crime movie Pulp Fiction, just before his character shoots a man to death.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/pray-with-me-please-pete-hegseth-reads-fake-bible-quote-from-pulp-fiction-during-pentagon-prayer-service/

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'Pray With Me Please': Pete Hegseth Reads Fake Bible Quote From 'Pulp Fiction' During Pentagon Prayer Service (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Apr 16 OP

Blessed are the cheesemakers. AZLD4Candidate Apr 16 #1

...for they shall fortify my non-kosher bacon cheeseburger. nt Ilsa Apr 16 #10

😲 mwmisses4289 Apr 16 #15

I had a craving recently, and have been making my own bacon cheeseburgers at home... Jack Valentino Apr 16 #20

I've said it before, they are living in a movie. Too many action movies. Srkdqltr Apr 16 #2

I've seen it as mostly propaganda -- even McConnells pratfalls and glitches live love laugh Apr 16 #8

This reminds me of the time Sarah Palin went after Tina Fey thucythucy Apr 16 #3

Remember when VP Dan Quayle wenr after fictional TV character Murphy Brown? OMGWTF Apr 16 #12

"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus." dalton99a Apr 16 #4

Hegseth DUI/DEI hire - the minor major Norrrm Apr 16 #5

The crazy is contagious... Bayard Apr 16 #6

He keeps praying for the same things. SamuelAdams Apr 16 #7

If you pray hard enough, Shipwack Apr 16 #14

Oh, you just can't make this stuff up Grim Chieftain Apr 16 #9

Bugs Bunny says Pesky1 Apr 16 #11

Instead of "Amen" at the end, it would have been more appropriate to say, "Howzat?" thought crime Apr 16 #13

How long before the Pentagon starts stocking up on Kool-Aid? RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Apr 16 #16

They really only need one serving of kool-aid FakeNoose Apr 16 #19

Somehow it doesn't surprise me he would use a fake quote mwmisses4289 Apr 16 #17

Genuine Fake Bible Quote Roy Rolling Apr 16 #18

They probably know this but they don't care. They are answering to a higher power. The true believers in Trump are CTyankee Apr 17 #21

AZLD4Candidate

(6,856 posts)

1. Blessed are the cheesemakers.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 09:31 AM

Apr 16

Ilsa

(64,495 posts)

10. ...for they shall fortify my non-kosher bacon cheeseburger. nt

Reply to AZLD4Candidate (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 12:08 PM

Apr 16

mwmisses4289

(4,549 posts)

15. 😲

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #10)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 12:40 PM

Apr 16

Jack Valentino

(5,193 posts)

20. I had a craving recently, and have been making my own bacon cheeseburgers at home...

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #10)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 10:29 PM

Apr 16

(that pre-cooked bacon certainly makes it more easily done!)

Srkdqltr

(9,881 posts)

2. I've said it before, they are living in a movie. Too many action movies.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 09:34 AM

Apr 16

live love laugh

(16,450 posts)

8. I've seen it as mostly propaganda -- even McConnells pratfalls and glitches

Reply to Srkdqltr (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 11:53 AM

Apr 16

align with their term-limits agenda. It’s all calculated which is why the underestimation of them is dangerous.

thucythucy

(9,125 posts)

3. This reminds me of the time Sarah Palin went after Tina Fey

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 09:48 AM

Apr 16

saying Fey was a frustrated unmarried woman without children.

Fey responded that Palin was reacting to her character on the 30 Rock TV show, and not the actual actor herself.

Yup, too many of these folks confuse fiction with reality, that is when they're not busy fabricating "facts" entirely.

OMGWTF

(5,193 posts)

12. Remember when VP Dan Quayle wenr after fictional TV character Murphy Brown?

Reply to thucythucy (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 12:30 PM

Apr 16

He sent the actress who played Murphy Brown a teddy bear for her fictional single-mom baby, who, IIRC, responded by dumping a truck load of potatoes in his driveway, because Dan Quayle gave bad spelling advice to a kid in a spelling bee and he lost.

dalton99a

(94,980 posts)

4. "When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus."

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 10:02 AM

Apr 16

- Turkish proverb

Norrrm

(5,386 posts)

5. Hegseth DUI/DEI hire - the minor major

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 10:15 AM

Apr 16

Hegseth DUI/DEI hire - the minor major

Bayard

(30,076 posts)

6. The crazy is contagious...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 10:47 AM

Apr 16

Run away! Run away!

SamuelAdams

(118 posts)

7. He keeps praying for the same things.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 10:49 AM

Apr 16

This has been going on since the war began. Why haven't his prayers been answered yet? Do so-called Christians like him ever think about why their prayers aren't answered?

Shipwack

(3,097 posts)

14. If you pray hard enough,

Reply to SamuelAdams (Reply #7)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 12:37 PM

Apr 16

you can make water run uphill.

How hard is that?

Hard enough to make water run uphill!

Grim Chieftain

(1,936 posts)

9. Oh, you just can't make this stuff up

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 11:58 AM

Apr 16

Pesky1

(79 posts)

11. Bugs Bunny says

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 12:14 PM

Apr 16

What a maroon!!

thought crime

(1,743 posts)

13. Instead of "Amen" at the end, it would have been more appropriate to say, "Howzat?"

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 12:34 PM

Apr 16

He sounds like a member of the Satanist Jimmie Cult from "28 Years Later".

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,163 posts)

16. How long before the Pentagon starts stocking up on Kool-Aid?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 01:19 PM

Apr 16

FakeNoose

(42,093 posts)

19. They really only need one serving of kool-aid

Reply to RedWhiteBlueIsRacist (Reply #16)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 04:56 PM

Apr 16

If I were ever in a strategy meeting where someone says "Let us pray," I'd get up and leave.

mwmisses4289

(4,549 posts)

17. Somehow it doesn't surprise me he would use a fake quote

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 01:26 PM

Apr 16

from one of the worst and most boring movies ever made.

Roy Rolling

(7,673 posts)

18. Genuine Fake Bible Quote

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 01:32 PM

Apr 16

From the book of Samuel.

Samuel L. Jackson.

CTyankee

(68,360 posts)

21. They probably know this but they don't care. They are answering to a higher power. The true believers in Trump are

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Apr 17, 2026, 04:15 PM

Apr 17

religiously insane. And they have lots of power.

That said, I think it is good that folks like you step up and speak out, correcting them about what the Bible actually says. It reminds everyone that this administration is very sick mentally.

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