Posted on 11/22/2021 3:13:46 AM PST by MtnClimber
Like many others, you may have decided not to comply with the vaccine mandate, or your employer is bearing down on you, and you have not decided. You're thinking about how you would make a living, care for your family, and how the government could arbitrarily defy your constitutional rights. I know the feeling, because I was there...over twenty years ago. Except it wasn't over a vaccine, but over a prayer. It wasn't called being "canceled," but being "blacklisted." Twenty years later, I am still here. Perhaps reading my story will give you encouragement for the road ahead.
In 1998, I was in the U.S. Army and had been serving as an analyst/interrogator with a focus on Iraq. I spoke Arabic fluently and was tasked to debrief an Iraqi defector. He was anxious about his status in the U.S. and the fate of his family back home, so, with his permission, I prayed for him — not only for his sake, but to calm him down so we could finish the debrief. He had already asked whether I was a Christian and was very vocal about his Christian practice, so there was little risk of alienating him. After the prayer, he calmed down, and I collected a significant amount of information.
Even though my prayer fell under routine rapport-building, officers at the intelligence agency in Washington, D.C., where the debrief took place, and my superior at my local command treated my prayer as a national security threat. My superior ensured that my follow-on assignment to an agency position was canceled.
I fought this decision, since it set a precedent that Christians can be excluded and discriminated against on the whim of a superior.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
A very interesting article. It is surprising oww fast leftism has rotted our society.
Except it’s 10 times worse now than it was a mere 23 years ago.
the way that Hemmingway approached bankruptcy: Slowly at first, and then suddenly, all at once.
This rot has been eroding social and institutional foundations for generations.
I am planning to cancel myself, otherwise knoqn as Going Galt.
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Yup—I retired and now I don’t need to worry about “offending” anyone....
They can do all the tough work too since I am not there to clean up their messes.
(What stupid people do in such situations is point fingers at each other, call each other names, and pound the table—since nobody knows how to actually fix the problem.)
Yet a muzz’s prayer is encouraged and promoted.
They fear muzzies but not Christians.
Going through it now.
We stand to lose 60% of a multi-million dollar operation. (100’s)
I will sell everything and move into an RV.
The service we provide will collapse.
Just another day in utopia I guess.......
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