1/ 🚨 Congress isn’t just debating “aid to Israel” anymore.
That’s the old fight.
The new fight is whether the U.S. quietly embeds Israel into our defense tech, intelligence sharing, weapons development, and military-industrial supply chain.
There are 5 vehicles to watch.
Mike Lee's complaint only works if everyone agrees to ignore what Mormonism actually teaches.
He wants the public to focus on the label while averting its eyes from the contents.
But theology is not judged by branding.
If it were, every cult in America could become orthodox by hiring a better marketing department.
Mike Lee belongs to a religion that teaches God the Father was once a man who progressed to godhood, that human beings may follow the same path, that Jesus and Lucifer share the same heavenly parentage, and that the highest aspiration of the faithful is not merely to worship God forever but to become gods themselves.
These are not minor disagreements within Christianity. These are different answers to the most basic questions Christianity asks.
Mike Lee knows this.
He was raised in Mormon royalty, educated in Mormon institutions, and formed by Mormon theology. His objection is not that the Pentagon misunderstood Mormonism. His objection is that the Pentagon accidentally described it accurately.
What makes the spectacle particularly amusing is that Mormon leaders spent generations insisting they were not what Mike Lee now demands to be called.
-Joseph Smith launched his movement by declaring every existing church on earth an abomination.
-Brigham Young mocked the God of Christianity as a being who "never did exist."
-John Taylor described Christianity as "a perfect pack of nonsense."
-Bruce McConkie warned that the doctrines of Christendom would damn men's souls.
-Gordon Hinckley openly admitted that the Christ worshiped by Mormons was not the Christ worshiped by traditional Christians.
For nearly two centuries Mormon leaders built a theological wall between themselves and Christianity brick by brick, sermon by sermon, book by book. Now Mike Lee appears before that same wall demanding to know who built it. The answer is simple: his own prophets did.
The deeper problem for Senator Lee is that Mormonism's truth claims are so spectacularly strange that they force a choice. Either they are true, in which case historic Christianity has been wrong for nearly two thousand years and Joseph Smith really did restore the gospel through golden plates, angelic visitations, sacred underwear, proxy baptisms for the dead, and a seer stone in a hat. Or they are false, in which case Mormonism is one of the most successful religious inventions in American history.
What it cannot be is ordinary Christianity.
The faith that emerged from Nicaea and Chalcedon has many internal disputes, but none of them involve exalted men becoming gods, planets populated by spirit children, or a deity residing near a star called Kolob.
Mike Lee is free to believe every one of those things.
What he is not free to do is pretend they are the same religion that produced the Apostles' Creed.
Thomas Massie says the conspiracy theorists were right again about Section 224 of the NDAA, which he says will merge the United States military with the IDF.
Massie says the provision is treasonous and warns that it will force the United States to compromise its own security for Benjamin Netanyahu's demands.
"The difference between a conspiracy theory in Washington has been reduced from six months to six days."
Constitution requires two-thirds vote from the Senate to bind us to another country.
They hid it in the bill because they knew it was unconstitutional.
It’s treasonous as far as I’m concerned.
Every single person who voted for this needs removed from office.
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Massie calls Section 224 "treasonous" and announces he'll offer an amendment to strip it from the defense bill:
"That provision would enmesh, synchronize, integrate, whatever word you want to use, the IDF and the U.S. military.
We were called conspiracy theorists last week for saying this means we're going to merge the two militaries.
Then this letter shows you the path they intend to go down."