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Secretary of War adapted a monologue from the Quentin Tarantino film which purports to be from the Bible but is made up

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Read what he actually said which is a line by line lift from Pulp Fiction. He's too stupid to realize it's from Pulp Fiction.

Whether or not it's CSAR 25:17 is not relevant, the original source is, in fact, Pulp Fiction.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Yes, he didn't realize it's from Pulp Fiction. I show as much in the linked comment. Since apparently nobody's willing to even check a link anymore, here's (nearly) the entire comment verbatim:

He knew it wasn't an actual Bible quote, but he did think it was a modified version of Ezekiel 25:17. Which it definitionally is. The actual string is:

Ezekiel 25:17 –> (edit: Bodyguard Kiba modification) –> Pulp Fiction modification –> USAF modification

Whereas he thought it was:

Ezekiel 25:17 –> USAF modification

I think that's understandable if you've never seen Pulp Fiction (because you just assume the Pulp Fiction stuff was the USAF's addition), but it's still pretty funny.

The actual problem here, as usual, is separation of church and state being trampled over to make way for Abrahamic prayers in the US federal government.

If you think that means "Pete Hegseth adapted it" and not "Pete Hegseth quoted an adaptation of it he didn't write and acknowledged as much but didn't realize what the chain of sources looked like", then I have no idea at all what to tell you. It's beyond a clear-cut lie, and people on Lemmy still want to argue over it for some reason.

If you don't think that, then I have zero idea why you're trying to explain something I already explained more concisely in the linked comment nobody will bother to read.