When Oppressor and Oppressed Pray to the Same God

HAVE YOU PRAYED about this? 

Martin Luther King Jr. and his compatriots in the Civil Rights Movement could emphatically say yes. They prayed before boycotts, before marches, and covered every nonviolent, disruptive, anti-racist action they took in prayer.

Pete Hegseth could also say yes. He prayed at the Pentagon in April as the U.S. initiated an inhumane and nonsensical war in Iran. Hegseth called for God’s blessing on the U.S. military action, inviting God to move with vengeance and anger. (Oddly, his prayer closely followed a scene in the film Pulp Fiction.)