Fresh from praying for “overwhelming violence” on Iran, ‘Christian’ (I know, right) bloodthirsty US ‘secretary of war’ Pete Hegseth has quoted a ‘Bible verse’ to an audience of military personnel. Except it wasn’t a Bible verse – it was a fake one lifted almost word for word from the ultra-violent film Pulp Fiction.

And one enterprising soul even overlaid one on top of the other to demonstrate it:

Wow this is embarrassing!

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction at a Pentagon speech and prayer session yesterday.

The prayer was an adaptation of the monologue delivered by Samuel L. Jackson’s character. In the movie, the character falsely attributes it to… pic.twitter.com/G4OJc9BdQC

— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) April 16, 2026

Hegseth told his audience that a US air force pilot had given him the ‘biblical’ quotation, supposedly based on the book of Ezekiel.

Nah. He still thought it was an actual scripture. Try as he might, he just isn’t selling the disastrous US-Israel attack on Iran as a ‘holy war.’

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