{"id":26516,"date":"2026-05-01T14:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26516"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:27:24","slug":"us-troops-were-told-war-on-iran-was-all-part-of-gods-divine-plan-watchdog-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/us-troops-were-told-war-on-iran-was-all-part-of-gods-divine-plan-watchdog-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"US troops were told war on Iran was \u2018all part of God\u2019s divine plan\u2019, watchdog alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">US military<\/a>\u00a0commanders have been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical \u201cend times\u201d to justify involvement in the Iran war to troops, according to complaints made to a watchdog group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) says it has received\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org\/2026\/03\/mrff-inundated-with-complaints-of-gleeful-commanders-telling-troops-iran-war-is-part-of-gods-divine-plan-to-usher-in-the-return-of-jesus-christ\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">more than 200 complaints<\/a>\u00a0from service members across all branches of the armed forces, including the marines, air force and space force.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/03\/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US military\u00a0commanders have been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical \u201cend times\u201d to justify involvement in the Iran war to troops, according to complaints made to a watchdog group. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) says it has received\u00a0more than 200 complaints\u00a0from service members across all branches of the armed forces, including the marines, air &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/us-troops-were-told-war-on-iran-was-all-part-of-gods-divine-plan-watchdog-alleges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US troops were told war on Iran was \u2018all part of God\u2019s divine plan\u2019, watchdog alleges<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6TG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26517,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516\/revisions\/26517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}