{"id":81726,"date":"2026-03-25T18:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81726"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:25:49","slug":"hegseth-prays-for-violence-against-those-who-deserve-no-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/hegseth-prays-for-violence-against-those-who-deserve-no-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth Prays For &#8216;Violence Against Those Who Deserve No Mercy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, hosting his first monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Iran war<\/a><\/span> began, prayed Wednesday to have \u201cevery round find its mark.\u201d\u00a0\u201cEvery month it is fitting to be right here,\u201d he told the gathered civilian employees and uniformed military personnel. \u201cAll the more fitting this month, at this moment, given what tens of thousands of Americans are doing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He read a prayer he said was first given by a military chaplain to the troops who captured then-President\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/venezuela-maduro-capture-trump-rodriguez-oil-mood-978b680e56f5dad8841793c553f281ba\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a><\/span> of Venezuela.\u00a0\u201cLet every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation,\u201d Hegseth prayed during the livestreamed service. \u201cGive them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774463149\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Hegseth Prays For &#8216;Violence Against Those Who Deserve No Mercy&#8217;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, hosting his first monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the\u00a0Iran war began,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}