Stephen Colbert, the late-night host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, expressed delight in Pete Hegseth's reading from "The Gospel of Tarantino" during a Pentagon worship service. The defense secretary's prayer, which resembled a classic movie quote, was read from the Gospel of Quentin Tarantino. Colbert compared the prayer to "your self-tape versus the guy who actually got the part" and compared it to iconic quotes from classic movies like "Forks on a Plane". The Pentagon defended Hegsetth's statement at the worship service, stating that both the CSAR prayer and the dialogue in Pulp Fiction were reflections of the verse Ezekiel 25:17, which is not the same as the passage used in the King James Version of the Bible.