Posted on 04/06/2013 7:51:02 AM PDT by xzins
Yeah...
THAT worked out well!
Thump away, Honey!
We need MORE folks willing to get SCRIPTURE to the masses!
Isaiah 55:11
BECAUSE.................
Defense Department classifies Catholics, evangelicals as extremists
The Defense Department came under fire Thursday for a U.S. Army Reserve presentation that classified Catholics and Evangelical Protestants as “extremist” religious groups alongside al Qaeda and the Ku Klux Klan.
The presentation detailed a number of extremist threats within the U.S. military, including white supremacist groups, street gangs, and religious sects.
The presentation identified seventeen religious organizations in a slide titled “religious extremism.” They include al Qaeda, Hamas, the Filipino separatist group Abu Sayyaf, and the Ku Klux Klan, which the slide identifies as a Christian organization.
“Religious extremism is not limited to any single religion, ethnic group, or region of the world,” the slide explains, in language that closely resembles the text of a Wikipedia page on “extremism.”
While outfits such as al Qaeda and the KKK are explicitly violent, the presentation also lists Catholicism and evangelical Protestantism as extremist groups.
More than half of all Americans identify themselves as members of those two Christian denominations. National Public Radio reported in 2005 that 40 percent of active duty military personnel were evangelical Christians.
“Men and women of faith who have served the Army faithfully for centuries shouldn’t be likened to those who have regularly threatened the peace and security of the United States,” said Col. Ron Crews, a retired Army chaplain and the executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty.
“It is dishonorable for any U.S. military entity to allow this type of wrongheaded characterization,” Crews said in a news release.
Crews also criticized the presentation for citing the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center to support its findings.
The SPLC has dubbed organizations “hate groups” for promoting Christian teachings on morality and sexuality.
A SPLC map of “hate groups” was used by a gunman in 2012 to target the conservative Family Research Council for its position on gay marriage. The gunman shot a security guard at the FRC’s headquarters. The SPLC has refused to comment on its role in the shooting.
The Archdiocese for the Military Services, a Catholic organization that trains and endorses military priests and chaplains, said in a release that it was “astounded that Catholics were listed alongside groups that are, by their very mission and nature, violent and extremist.”
The AMS called on the Pentagon “to review these materials and to ensure that tax-payer funds are never again used to present blatantly anti-religious material to the men and women in uniform.”
An Army spokesperson said the presentation “was produced by an individual without anyone in the chain of command’s knowledge or permission.” The Army removed the offending slide after receiving complaints.
The person responsible for the presentation, the spokesperson said, “was not a subject matter expert, and produced the material after conducting Internet research.”
I pray we’ll be pleasantly surprised.
I was at a Military funeral yesterday for a relative who was killed by an IED last month in Afghanistan.
There was PLENTY of Catholics and Evangelical Protestants in attendance and speaking that were dressed in their finest military uniforms.
There will be literal HELL to pay if a command would EVER come down from on high to ‘do something’ about the Catholics and Evangelical Protestants!
(Very many guns were also present throughout out the crowd, in a local HIGH SCHOOL and no one got shot!)
“Devout Christians don’t usually engage in phone sex, especially when they have a family.”
And BOR’s wife was having an affair w/ a cop. Obviously not a happy alliance. I wonder if they are now divorced?
I believe there eventually will be, who knows if WE will be around to see that day.
Things are happening and deteriorating so fast, I would not be surprised!
But, well, we know how it will end. God Wins!
Everything out there okay? It's good here, but it's been a cold spring (due to global warming of course)..........
I was about to post this almost verbatim
Great minds.....:-)
Great minds fo sho!
Good to see ya.
They were well written, but didn’t offer anything new that hadn’t already been discussed again and again.
...his next book should be titled ‘Killing Jim Bishop’...since Bishop just happened to write books on the exact same three luminaries as O’Reilly...by the way, all three of these books are recommended reading, highly informative, meticulously researched, and contain a personal element missing in the BOR tomes...
If a supposed contradiction can be reconciled, then it is not a contradiction. Some reject any effort at reconciliation, because it disrupts their agenda of claiming that “the bible contradicts itself.”
...I absolutely do not reject reconciliation, quite the contrary, I seek it avidly in the New Testament...yet that does not blind me to any contradictions or lack of independent confirmations...for instance, the Lucan and Matthean lineages for Jesus are completely at odds, and I’m not aware, though I could be wrong, that Paul references himself as Saul of Tarsus, as do the Lucan Acts of the Apostles, or in his corpus of epistles describes his event on the road to Damascus...if I am wrong about stuff like that I would like to be corrected, so please let me know...
The lineages can be reconciled with one being Joseph’s side and one being Mary’s. Both are from the line of David, and that was the point. So, it can be reconciled.
I’m not sure your question about Saul/Paul because you don’t spell out what you see as an issue in need of reconciliation.
If you are wondering why sometimes Paul and sometimes Saul, then it is the same for Simon and Peter. One’s Greek and the other Hebrew, and it was not uncommon for a “newly born” Christian to take a new name. Matthew/Levi is another example of more than one name.
As always, reconciliation can take time, given, for example, the Pilate stone. It has happened so often that I’ve seen the Bible’s track record of correctness so often that it’s easy for me to say, “it’s only a matter of time”.
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