New Delhi, April 16 -- US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a recent sermon delivered at the Pentagon, appeared to quote what he presented as a biblical passage. Except, it was largely different from what the Bible reads and closely resembles a well-known monologue from Quentin Tarantino's movie 'Pulp Fiction', delivered by Samuel L Jackson's character.

The video of the incident is now all over social media - with netizens commenting about it.

While discussing the Sandy 1 mission on Wednesday - to rescue a downed pilot in Iran earlier this month - Pete Hegseth urged the audience to join him in a prayer, which he claimed was recited at the start of the operation.

"This prayer was recited by Sandy 1, which is one of the Sandies, to a...