There is a military draft coming.....because war is coming. I've posted on what a draft would look like for almost the length of these posts. Who will get drafted? There is no longer a student deferral....other than completing the semester that the students are in. Gays are no longer exempt. As it stands right now....women do not have to register for the draft. A Vietnam magnitude draft would take young males. A World War II magnitude draft would take older males....but still young men....unless the need for new recruits became greater.
                 Trump changed the name....as you surely know by now....from the Department of Defense....to the Department of War. There is a sickness in that.....but that is another story. Hegseth called a meeting in Quantico of generals and admirals from around the world. It was a political rally. He told the brass to either believe....or get out. It was a big warning....not that all military personnel had to stick to the Military Code of Conduct....but they had to join in the MAGA code of conduct.
                  Trump's part in the rally was about the same as every other rally that he has ever had....and I have watched most of them over the years. He fluttered around like a butterfly....stopping on this green shoot and that leaf....and eventually on a flower  that has some nourishing nectar. The green shoots and leaves are lies and embellishments....and the flower is the occasional truth....a process which is good for the butterfly....but not for the Christian.
                   It was a different way to begin a Christian walk....mine in 1982....for I immediately....and I mean right now....went into the defense of biblical truths. Maybe it had something to do with my personality....that I was inquisitive? Maybe it was because I had been an analyst of some sort my whole life....even in the military? The president of a national apologetic ministry came to our church for a conference....and stayed with us....because I volunteered first. I have been writing stuff like these posts for forty years now. I came across a thirty year old letter-to-the-editor that I wrote....and Hegseth....or Stepehen Miller....could not have composed it better. I had a high level of knowledge on cults in those early days....but other than the pure love and thankfulness of the forgiveness in the gospel....I was as it turned out....almost illiterate in the doctrines of salvation....but that didn't matter as I put all of my efforts in confronting cults....or the woke Christianity of the day.
                  I know what cults are....how they draw people....particularly young people....into their web. I know the makings of a cult leader or cult founder....how he or she acts....his or her ploys and deceptions....and his or her charismatic mesmerizing oratory....and his or her absolute need for loyal people. I know how they will kick a person out of the cult if that person questions things too much. I know how they control what the members of the cult read and listen to. I know how they must have their own....scriptures so to speak. I offered a Jehovah Witness who came to our house a copy of a book by one of their own leaders who had seen the deception.....questioned it....and was kicked out....and his hands went right up in the air. There was no way that he would take that book. 
                    Quite a number of years ago....maybe fifteen....I have a post on it somewhere....during the early Obama years....Rush Limbaugh described Obama true believers....as they believe anything that he says....as cult members. He apparently never put two and two together with Trump.
                     This is more than just....cultic....that we are witnessing today. These are tried and true cult techniques....the magnetic cult leader....the threatenings....the isolation....and the absurdities that are automatically believed by everyone. It is all done in the name of God....even though Lenin's and Stalin's fingerprints are everywhere....and now the German Fuhrer's stormtrooper mentality to rid the country of the evil communist....which then moved to the evil union worker....and then the evil Jew....and then the evil Christian ministers.