Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon and God by script

byRainer Hofmann

April 16, 2026

Pete Hegseth stands in the Pentagon. It is a prayer service. He opens his mouth and recites what he believes is a Bible verse. It comes from Pulp Fiction.

Quentin Tarantino, 1994, Samuel L. Jackson, black suit, just before a killing. A scene that uses religious language to break it. Cinema as blasphemy - deliberate, crafted, unmistakable. In the Pentagon, it lands as a prayer.

No one pauses. No one asks. The words carry weight, so they are treated as truth. That is how it works here. Not truth matters, but tone. Not origin, but posture. If you sound serious enough, you preach. You preach from a script instead of the Bible - and whoever preaches has God on his side. And whoever has God on his side commands the most powerful military in the world.

Tarantino won an Oscar for this screenplay. Hegseth has not commented on it to this day.

The difference between the two: Tarantino knew what he was writing.

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Ela Gatto
12 hours ago

Und mit welch verzückten Gesichtern die Zuschauer Hegseth anblicken. 🤬

Dabei kann einem Angst und bange werden.
Die glauben an Gott und glauben gleichzeitig diesen gequirlten Unsinn 🙈

Klasse, dass Ihr aufgedeckt habt, dass es kein Bibelzitat ist. Sondern eine Szene aus Pulp Fiction.

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