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Christians in U.S. Military ‘Serve Satan’ If They Tolerate Other Religions, Air Force Chaplain Says
Newsweak via Yahoo ^ | 09/15/2017 | Nina Burleig

Posted on 09/15/2017 12:31:26 PM PDT by DFG

A U.S. Air Force chaplain who ministers to thousands of men and women at an Ohio base is asserting that Christians in the U.S. Armed Forces “serve Satan” and are “grossly in error” if they support service members' right to practice other faiths.

In an article posted on BarbWire.com three days ago, Captain Sonny Hernandez, an Air Force Reserve chaplain for the 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, criticized Christian service members who rely on the Constitution “and not Christ.”

He wrote: “Counterfeit Christians in the Armed forces will appeal to the Constitution, and not Christ, and they have no local church home—which means they have no accountability for their souls (Heb. 13:17). This is why so many professing Christian service members will say: We ‘support everyone’s right’ to practice their faith regardless if they worship a god different from ours because the Constitution protects this right.”

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To: DFG

I think Paul did it right in Acts 17 when he was at Athens. yes, get out your Bible and read the chapter. :)


21 posted on 09/15/2017 12:55:42 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: huldah1776

“act”ually, I just realized I can post the link to it online.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17&version=NASB


22 posted on 09/15/2017 12:57:08 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: DFG; xzins
Put it in context. This is what he actually said:

All service members have taken the oath to support and defend the Constitution. Taking an oath to defend the Constitution, does not require a service member to compromise their own sincerely held beliefs in the process, nor does it force a service member to accept a worldview that is antithetical to their own. According to the First Amendment, there is freedom of religion, and freedom of speech. Therefore, Christians in the Armed Forces should feel free to espouse and practice their convictions, and even deny participating, or accommodating a religion or practice that would cause them to sin—regardless if it offends others or not.

Military chaplains are not forced to do anything that would violate what their conscience dictates, and chaplains are not allowed to conduct themselves in any way that would compromise their ecclesiastical endorsement convictions. This is why it is imperative that Bible-believing military chaplains align themselves with the right endorser that has sincerely held beliefs that appeal to Scripture alone, and will not support or accommodate evil.

Therefore, if military chaplains are criticized by individuals for not accommodating all service members, and are told to resign from the military since they cannot care for all, just ask them this question: “Does the free exercise of religion apply to ‘all’ service members or only service members whose beliefs concur with yours?” If the response is: “Military chaplains must provide for all or they are not fit to serve,” they are now guilty of violating their own criteria of providing for all, since they are establishing a religion that requires every service member to accommodate evil even if their sincerely held convictions prohibit them from doing so. However, if they respond to the question by saying that the free exercise of religion is for “all,” simply tell them: Thank you very much.

23 posted on 09/15/2017 12:58:15 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: usafa92
"...infidel of every denomination."
--Thomas Jefferson

What does this mean?

24 posted on 09/15/2017 12:59:34 PM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: BBQToadRibs

Yes, indeed. Sure not helping morale IMO.


25 posted on 09/15/2017 1:00:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: fwdude; BBQToadRibs

Beware ... what you consider "serving honorably" may simply be "taqiyya" to a muslim. Many dogs look like foxes, and many foxes look like dogs, but you never let a fox defend your chicken coup regardless.


26 posted on 09/15/2017 1:01:16 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: DFG

Anyone who disagrees with Sonny Hernandez is clearly a racist bigot.

(That’s how it works, right?)


27 posted on 09/15/2017 1:02:45 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BBQToadRibs

Not to mention our American Jews.


28 posted on 09/15/2017 1:08:44 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DFG

A Marine Corps officer once told me that the military has a lot more chaplains than are needed. There are plenty of churches and pastors right outside the gates of most U.S. military bases. Some chaplains would be needed for deployed units. Is it true that a chaplain with a commission gets the same pay as an infantry officer? I used to go to the officers club with my father when he was alive. We would go to lunch in the officers club and about half the officers were chaplains.


29 posted on 09/15/2017 1:10:46 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: DFG

What flavor? American Methodist, Dutch Reformed, Presbyterian? German Lutheran, American Baptist, what???? I know there’s a lot more that I can’t recall the names of.


30 posted on 09/15/2017 1:11:57 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: DFG

Luv to go fishing with this Tard....NOT....

Use better bait....


31 posted on 09/15/2017 1:16:44 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: The Cuban

“Ahh the Hispanic Convert to Protestant heresy has the balls to say others will go to hell”

Yeah, the Protestants in this nation really did not know what they were doing creating a nation with freedom of religion, as opposed to the supposedly non-heretical church that burned people alive for publishing the Bible.

The non-heretical church has done such a great job of preventing the spread of godless socialism in south and central America, right?


32 posted on 09/15/2017 1:20:16 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: unlearner

I think he was being sarcastic.


33 posted on 09/15/2017 1:24:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: usafa92

Yeah, there are a lot of us who are thankful he went through the Zoo and not OTS. I get the impression that “Mikey” had a really bad time at the academy, and is determined to payback his offenders (real and imagined) for the rest of his life, and make a lot of money in the process.

As I recall, Air Force Times (amazingly) did a little digging into Mikey’s little organization and discovered its business model is based on the Southern Poverty Law Center—except in his world, there’s a religious fanatic behind every tree, trying to force everyone in uniform to become a Christian (or else). The same expose revealed that Mikey pays himself a six-figure annual salary, and does little else with the money. One of his board members is a guy that lives down the block from him.

Weinstein is a total fraud. He must be a blast at his AFA class reunions.


34 posted on 09/15/2017 1:27:53 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: sean327

Christianity is not about politics or political correctness nor even about the Constitution. Christianity is about salvation in Jesus Christ and that all other religions are a lie, a satanic lie.


35 posted on 09/15/2017 1:29:15 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: DFG
Snews from Newsweak via Yahoot?

Wonder what the truth actually is here, before jumping into believing anything coming out of those sources.

As President Trump has so aptly named them, "Fake news!"

36 posted on 09/15/2017 1:33:41 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: DFG

Why are members of Free Republic so eager to lap the vomit off the floor when it is spewed from the mouth of a liberal news reporter?

These people hate Jesus and hate Christians. They will twist words and attack all Christians just for existing. They do not want us to be able to hold jobs, or even to live. Consider that when listening to unfounded and twisted accusations from the left.

Here is a quote from the article:

“More than 100 service members also complained in March when Army Major General Julie Bentz, vice director of the multiservice Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization, gave a speech at the 56th Annual Kansas Prayer Breakfast, during which she stated, ‘But my greatest privilege is standing in front of my king and my God, carrying every member of my organization to his throne and asking for his protection, his mercy, his love on each of them and their families and whatever are their concerns and burdens of the day.’”

Exactly what would the complaint be in this case? A major general is not allowed to publicly express her faith? This was at a prayer breakfast.

Those complaining are obviously in violation of their oath to protect the Constitution and should be dishonorably discharged.

The anti-Christian sentiment being promoted by the media is the antithesis of everything this nation was built upon.


37 posted on 09/15/2017 1:34:10 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: DFG

The U.S. Constitution evidently not studied in Divinity school.


38 posted on 09/15/2017 1:34:59 PM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: DFG

Captain, I was raised as Dutch Reformed married in an American Baptist Church, served in the military as a Baptist, wore and still St Barbra catholic symbol around my neck, raised my 3 children as Presbyterians. In the course of my military career I attended many denomination funerals to bid a final farewell to to fallen brother. I wasn’t wrong, God Help me. YOU ARE!!


39 posted on 09/15/2017 1:35:48 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: P-Marlowe

Thank you for posting the context. We’ll see how many freepers jump on the bandwagon against the guy before they read what he actually said. Newsweek got it wrong.

Best regards in Christ,

Refreshed


40 posted on 09/15/2017 1:36:28 PM PDT by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified... 1 Corinthians 1:23)
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