The implosion of NOAA and demolition of NCAR & the illustrate the embrace of lethality as a best practice in science policy by an Administration that largely shares Secretary of War Hegseth's enthusiasm for kinetic intervention and animated prayer meetings. The Pentagon is a building far vaster than St. Peter's , and having delegated acronym creation &decision-making to their AI savvy staff many new Trump appointees experience a spiritual crisis on finding so much time on their hands, and, turning to religion, crowd the E ring chapels to capacity.
They believe all those presided over by Secretary of War redeemed by sobriety, need a fitting spiritual patron. None fills the bill better than Saint Rumbold, the 7th Century princeling who on the day of his birth near Buckingham precociously cried out “Christianus sum”, demanded baptism, and preached a sermon prophesying his own prompt demise.
Some compare former Fox News anchorite Pete Hegseth’s miraculous recovery from alcoholism to the prodigy of Rumbold's brief, but eternally impactful life amidst the lethality of a dark and violent age, producing a parable fit for the Pentagon chapel where Hegseth girds himself to preach the Gospel of War.
This is not tale drawn from the 11th-century Vita Sancti Rumwoldi , or The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, but a modern epic of sudden salvation. As Christ’sVicar upon the Earth, Hegseth commands the might of right from the Panama Canal to the Strait of Hormuz, just as St. Rumbold, another true avatar of infantile zeal spanned the gap between his pagan grandfather King Penda, and Northumbria's first Christian dynasty.
Just as Christianity transformed Britain, Rumbold has helped Hegseth transcend the Demon Rum, and turn the Pentagon chapel into new holy ground, where military discipline and spiritual warfare converge. When the Secretary of War breaks bread with King Charles at the White House later this month, he should implore the head of Church of England’s to let the saint’s relics join the trophies and treasures our allies in the Holy Land have donated to the Chapel, like the marble statue of St. George & the Dragon spared desecration by Hezbollah by its timely fragmentation by an IDF bulldozer in Lebanon
Churches & Holy Wells from Britain to Flanders have honored St. Rumbold’s name since the Year of Grace 666, and the Gospels themselves point to infants as models of adult devotion. Once Rumbold's familiars rid the Pentagon Chapel of its meddlesome Chaplains, it will become an American Canterbury, a place of Pilgrimage where those seeking redemption promotion, or escape from moral clarity, can humbly blend martial resolve with a childlike trust in God.
It would be fitting, for the iconic Crusader Cross blazoned on Sec War’s Hegseth’s chest is the purest emblem of the child Rumbold, the ultimate infant warrior, whose brief and un-inked life has inspired President trump to protect the innocent not just with lethal kinetic force, but by the demolition of the heathen institutions that threaten to defile their minds in woke universities and hostile capitals at home and abroad.
Secretary of war at prayer in the Pentagon might inspire our Commander in Chief to consecrate his beautiful ballroom to Saint Rumbold, and apply the fortune his family has Providentially garnished in recent months to raising a new National Cathedral in the pentagonal courtyard of the Department of War, closer to the District's heart than St. Alban's, which having brought the nation only tears and Al Gore can be razed to make way for a badly needed Trump National golf course, and its rare-earth rich granite blocks laid to rest in America's Strategic Masonry Stockpile to await their resurrection as the Arc De Trump.
