[shrinkermd]

Banning the Bible seems to be the new liberal excercise in purging the community of Christian belief. Actually, banning the Bible, highlights its importance on the basis of, "every knock is a boost."

If it was just mystical meanderings the Bible would not be perceived as so dangerous.

[stuartcr]

I’m guessing it had more to do with the game, than the bible.

[mrsmel]

So are we still required to have the Gitmo terrorists provided with the Koran?

[Earthdweller]

Christianophobia. Liberals want you to decide for yourself as long as it's pre-approved by them.

If children can be subjected to porn on the tube and the cry is for self censorship then why can't grown men decide whether to throw away a package with a Bible game in it?

I'm telling you people, these liberals are totalitarian bigots.

[PurpleMan]

A whole lotta previous yammering here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883851/posts

[sageb1]

Slightly OT - I really hope people are listening to the President’s speech because it is a brilliant one - perhaps the best he has ever given.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Yeah! and make sure the Jewish soldiers get two of them!

What the f is wrong with you? I'm not in The Evangelical Christian Army, I'm in the US Army!

[perseid 67]

We have an effete pseudo-intellectual class that likes looking down its collective nose at those they see as beneath themselves. They are incapable of understanding evangelicals or the role evangelical churches play in lifting people out of poverty. They can only tear down.They can not build up.

[George W. Bush]

the apocalyptic computer game "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" (derived from the series of post-Rapture novels), in which "soldiers for Christ" hunt down enemies who look suspiciously like U.N. peacekeepers.

While I normally don't go for the apocalyptic stuff, they're starting to make this sound tempting. LOL.

The games should be allowed. So should the Bibles in both languages, provided that soldiers do not use them to proselytize. However, a soldier is entitled to share Bibles with Arab Christians or with Muslims who ask to learn more about their religion.

If this is challenged in court, the Pentagon will probably lose. Enlisted men have considerable rights under the First Amendment. That is not true of officers, not even retired ones of high rank.

[NRA2BFree]

If it were the Koran they would personally pass them out. Try as they may, they won’t stop the Word of God from going forth.

[Marysecretary]

What a disgusting article. Those damn Christians...what will they do next to promote peace and prayer in the military. Cheez. Pardon me while I barf.

[Spiff]

So, you could send “care packages” stock full of pornographic magazines and books as well as extremely violent video games to our soldiers. But, if this report is correct, you can’t send them packages with Bibles and Christian-themed video games. What is wrong with this picture?

[Oztrich Boy]

The group has staged a number of Christian-themed shows at military bases, featuring athletes, strongmen and actor-turned-evangelist Stephen Baldwin. But thanks in part to the support of the Pentagon, Operation Straight Up has now begun focusing on Iraq, where, according to its website (on pages taken down last week), it planned an entertainment tour called the "Military Crusade."

Marvellous. When George Bush called for a crusade against terrorism, sensible people took it as a mere metaphor. Mohammadans claimed it was coded for attempt to convert The Middle East to Christianity. Sensible peoople diuscounted those claims as nonsense.

Now we have these idiots in Operation Gay Up making it look like the Mohhamedans weren't being paranoid alarmists.

Great way to lose all suppport for the USA in the rest of the world.

PJ O'Rorke had it right - any actor with the last name of Baldwin should be in the "Enemies List"

[XR7]

First Amendment: verboten for US troops

[gondramB]

They should have included both a bible and home made cookies... the Army would not have turned that down.

[goldstategop]

Liberals wouldn't raise a fuss if The Pentagon shipped Korans to our troops. Its only Bibles that has them up in arms.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[GovernmentShrinker]

“Proselytizing material in Arabic” is apt to provoke violence against any soldiers/units known to the local Muslim extremists to be in possession of it. Refusing to deliver that was the right call. It would be very detrimental to our military-political effort there to have the US military involved in distributing such material.

The computer game sounds like a hoot!

[jer33 3]

Wow. And to think we, as a nation, help to free communist countries which ultimately gave them freedom to worship. Think of all the people who risked their lives to smuggle bibles into closed countries. Who would ever think such a minuscule group of people in America could so boldly object to others enjoying their freedom and to actually have influence?

I say let them move to China.

[Popocatapetl]

I suspect the real reason the Pentagon stopped this had a LOT more to do with that video game than Christianity, per se.

Remember how that soldier was court martialed a few years ago for refusing to serve with the UN? That started an angry debate in every US enlisted and officer club on every corner of the planet, and *nobody* would speak up on behalf of the UN.

“I hate the UN.” “I hate the UN more than you do.” I hate the UN more than anybody.” “Do not, I do.” etc.

In other words, there are a LOT of soldiers who have now reached the firm conviction that being assigned to serve the UN is NOT worth staying in uniform for. They will quit the US military or be fired before they will do it.

To allow the soldiers to have a video game where they are actually *fighting* UN soldiers! What a nightmare!

Right now, the military personnel services must cringe at the very idea of the next time the US government decides to commit US military personnel to a UN mission. That one court martial could turn into a hundred, with as many resignations from officers and senior NCOs. Having UN service in your 201 file might mean the end of your career anyway.

In fact, it would be a VERY good idea for the Pentagon to start quietly polling military personnel about exactly how much they hate the idea of working for the UN.

[the invisib1e hand]

Military Religious Freedom Foundation

wtf are these bozos?

[WashingtonSource]

Notice the perjorative “fundamentalist.”