Hegseth announced last week that the US public would be able to see the execution of Nidal Hasan, which is set for 3 December at Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan, a former army major and psychiatrist, killed 13 people and wounded 32 at Fort Hood in 2009. A military court sentenced him to death in August 2013.

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public,” Hegseth said. “It was a radical Islamist attack in uniform inside the ranks, and so he’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers – as it should be.”

The de facto leader of Hegseth’s theocratic Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), Douglas Wilson, welcomed the announcement.

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    15 hours ago

    That was just god being a dick, rather than being an actual legal code.

    Which means he was in one of his better moods. I mean, really. Supposedly, he once offed most the planet just because some angels (or possibly his children…) came down and started boinking some girls.

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      15 hours ago

      Part of the argument is that all of God’s words are law, which makes sense. If a perfect omnipotent omniscient being tells you anything: it’s law.

      If He says not to look back (ignoring the obvious metaphor) then doing so invites Divine retribution.

      Urgh, now I feel like Micheal Bay responding to every Goof in his movies on IMBD.