[DonnerT]

They lied to their captors. So?

If they don't do something just as publicly to confess the lie then they remain liars.

[M1911A1]

There's the rub. I'm not going to judge a gunpoint conversion, but I will be very interested to see what their story is after the get back to the USA.

It might be worth pointing out that a bullet to the head is probably the best you could hope for short of release...the prospect of, and application of tortures and mutilations beyond a normal persons ability to imagine are a very real prospect for a those captured by Islamofascists.

I have no idea how I would hold up against that. As a fighting man, I had planned to save the last bullet for myself, to spare me and my family the prospect of having to undergo or view such things. Suicide is a pretty unchristian thing, but there you have it.

I have no idea if I would have had the guts to kill myself in that situation. I do know that the Islamofascists have shown the will to use methods that would push almost all of us beyond human endurance.

I am unwilling to judge the decisions of those facing such grisly prospects. I am willing to judge the actions of those who know what the enemy is all about and refuse to speak the truth from a position of relative safety.

We shall see about that.

[MineralMan]

"If they don't do something just as publicly to confess the lie then they remain liars."

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Really? I'd think that the more appropriate place would be on their knees, in private, addressing their own deity and explaining themselves, don't you?

That is assuming that they follow Christianity in the first place, of course.