While I believe they are loners to an extent, I also believe what they are teaching is being allowed and possibly even condoned or it would not keep happening... I don’t think it is policy, but just that attitude is being tolerated and somewhat rewarded or would not have happened but once...
Do not forget the watch list the Department of Homeland Security had that included Christians and others that in no way should have been included on a list like that.
It may not be governmental or military policy but done with wink and nod or even verbal approval from above.
At what point does hyperbole become reality? With this administration it is easy to believe there is more to most things than what we are told and especially more than is being documented.
So under that backdrop, it isn't (or shouldn't) be surprising that when speaking on the topic of INSIDER THREATS (that is the correct technical term that is being used right now) in the military, the biblically-challenged can't distinguish who's-who-in-the-zoo. Thus, it manifests itself in what we are seeing. And I will go a further and state there are some in the military will go to great lengths to deride Christians because it assuages their guilt and innate sense of a pending judgment. Those are in the vast minority, but they seem to get a lot of mileage in the press.
But I don't see, and we have not arrived at the point, where the Department of the Army, or any other service is winking and nodding, or putting together curriculum that would include Christians as targets of concern. So I must reject that notion. The evidence just isn't there.
Don't get me wrong, we've lost a lot of philosophical arguments because we are lazy, and we don't flex out political muscles. I guarantee you that had the churches unified in specific districts and states, and moved this issue to front of the line: there would be a Congressional hearing and subsequent investigation by the respective Inspector Generals from each service. Particularly in light of the upcoming November elections.
But that didn't happen. We do a lot of whining here on FR. What we should be doing is marshalling for a fight, and put our elective representatives on notice that we hold the keys to their political success or failure.
The church needs to dress-right-dress, and learn how to fight once more with Christian rhetoric. But that is another discussion altogether.
I do not think (wait for it, here's the big finale) that this will be achieved by any other method short of what we saw in 1978, the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerancy (1978). The biblical principal is this: unification. Paul wrote extensively on it. We are not unified, so we shouldn't be shocked that our influence is dissipating.