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Christians “proselytize Christianity”.

And I say that Christians have the perfect the right to proselytize and as an American citizen, I have the right to listen to them or not to listen to them. That’s what religious freedom in the United States of America is all about.

It is a basic requirement of their religion, that they do so by both words and individual deeds, by acting as examples.

I have great respect for and am much more impressed by Christians (or those of any other religion) who proselytize by their individual deeds and by the example they set in they way they live their every day lives rather than those folks who hand me pamphlets and preach at me. Read my tag line. I’m not so impressed by mere words. I turn on the TV any Sunday morning and the airwaves are filled with televangelists who fly around the country in private jets and make boat loads of money by duping desperate or gullible people into giving them even more money so they can live a lavish and rather un-Christian like lifestyle.

They don’t have any religiously based requirements to kill or forcefully conquer disbelievers of their faith. They are merely required to make known their beliefs to all they come into contact with.

“They”, in this case, being our armed forces, do have a job to do and that involves killing. That’s what our military is trained and paid to do.

Or as General George Patton said, “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

That’s our military mission. And it has nothing to due with religion. As I understand, we are not in Iraq or Afghanistan to convert anyone to Christianity. Our mission is to take out (kill) the bad guys and bring stability to the region in order to protect our national security and anything that interferes with that mission is an unwarranted and dangerous distraction.

I think the Pentagon’s objection was not in this group’s delivering Bibles or religious texts to soldiers, but in the proselytizing material in English and Arabic.

It’s not a solder’s job to “proselytize” and any organization that encourages our military men and women to do anything other than their job is wrong and Pentagon and DOD has a right to censure such materials.

My employer pays me to do a job. If I spend my day at work going around and preaching to my fellow employees, rather than doing the job I’m being paid for – guess what, I’ll be fired. I’d be fired not for being a Christian but for not doing the job my employer paid me to do.