From The Duffel Blog

QUANTICO, VA – The recent nomination of retired Marine Gen. James Mattis for Secretary of Defense may have made Marines feel like they died and went to heaven, but not everyone is shouting “Hallelujah!”

Just weeks after Mattis was nominated to the post by President-elect Donald Trump, Headquarters Marine Corps has issued an emergency All-Marine message (ALMAR) directly ordering Marines to stop referring to Mattis as “God.”

ALMAR 040/16, released yesterday, states that “all units are directed to inform their Marines that there is no evidence that James Mattis is God and Marines will stop referring to him as such in uniform, at religious services, public events, or on social media.”

The ALMAR suggests that Marines wishing to worship Mattis as God should instead use pre-approved pictures of Chesty Puller.

Mattis is known more for his military thinking than any religious activity, other than his famous letter to the First Marine Division during the 2003 invasion of Iraq where he told them, “If you meet the Buddha on the MSR, kill him.”

A spokesman for Headquarters Marine Corps told Duffel Blog, “We originally thought the problem was just limited to MARSOC posting that ‘Saint Mattis of Quantico’ picture, which is bad enough, since a Saint has to perform three miracles, and Mattis raining fire and brimstone upon Fallujah doesn’t count.” … read more here