Pete Hegseth just prayed over the Iran war. He used the fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction.

At the Pentagon's monthly worship service yesterday, the Secretary of Defense stood up, told military leaders what they hear in worship should "inform" their war decisions, and then read a prayer calling for "great vengeance and furious anger" on Iran. He said the prayer was called "CSAR 2517," standing for Combat Search And Rescue, and was based on Ezekiel 25:17.

It wasn't.

It was from Pulp Fiction. Specifically, it was the speech Samuel L. Jackson's character recites before executing an unarmed man. Tarantino wrote those lines himself.

They are not in any Bible. They are in a Quentin Tarantino movie. The actual Ezekiel 25:17 has one sentence. The rest, including "the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men," was invented for a 1994 film about hit men eating hamburgers.

"The path of the righteous man 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 charity and good will, shepherds the weak 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. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

The Secretary of War read a fictional hit man's execution speech to bless an actual war.

And then he said this: "Fifteen minutes ago I was talking about blockades with Admiral Cooper, and now we're going to study the Lord's word. May what we talk about, how we worship today, inform the remainder of our day and the remainder of our week."

The man coordinating a naval blockade and potential strikes on Iran is citing Bible verses that don't exist. From a movie. To bless a war that has killed more than a thousand people and threatens to starve millions more.

Pope Leo responded to Hegseth's earlier violent prayers on Palm Sunday. The Pope quoted actual scripture, Isaiah 1:15: "Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood." Archbishop Reinhard Marx of Munich called Hegseth's sermons "shameless blasphemy."

This is the man in charge of American war.machine.

The Crusader-tattooed former Fox News host who prayed for "overwhelming violence" at his confirmation. Who has fired Army leadership out of paranoia. Who invoked a movie as scripture to justify killing Iranians.

You can’t make this stuff up.