Pete Hegseths Iran war messaging echoes sermons from his extremist church

US defense secretarys openly Christian nationalist church continues to have growing influence in the White HouseOn 17 April, at a briefing on the Iran war, secretary of defense Pete Hegseth told reporters he had been sitting in church with my family the previous Sunday while the minister preached from Mark 3.Hegseth then recast a passage about the Pharisees watching Jesus so that they might accuse him as a description of the US press corps, which has long been a target of his ire. Our press is j...