It included not only his quotation of Isaiah 6:8 but an anti-immigrant screed. And now, over the weekend, Hegseth’s Defense Department was back at it, posting social media memes linking the Isaiah 6:8 passage to service in the U.S. military. “The chapter is a mystical call of the prophet Isaiah by God to serve God and proclaim messages from God. His co-option of Isaiah 6:8 makes the same fundamental mistake. “Hegseth might think that a call to serve the nation is synonymous with a call to serve God, but that’s simply because of his Christian nationalist lens.”