A command chaplain sets the tone for the Commander’s religious program, and as the rater of other chaplains who will rate chaplains, his words have an impact. His recommendation to read any particular book is just a recommendation. Commanders also have reading lists, and those are for the most part recommended. Obviously, those who read from his list are able to engage him on that reading. But the bottom line is that a following a recommended reading list never appeared on any Officer Efficiency Report I ever had in my entire Army career. The bottom line, especially from a chaplain within a technical chain, is that a recommendation is simply that.
Chaplains sit and discuss things all the time. Books come up at times. Someone will say that this or that is a great or an awful book. Theology comes up and they discuss their differences. It just happens. None of these things are other than folks having conversations. Trying to make them more than that is an overreach.
“Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein, Esq. – MRFF Founder & President
Mikey Weinstein is the undisputed leader of the national movement to restore the obliterated wall separating church and state in the most technologically lethal organization ever created by humankind: the United States armed forces. Described by Harper’s magazine as “the constitutional conscience of the U.S. military, a man determined to force accountability...”” - from his website.
“Weinstein is often mistakenly characterized as an atheist, a charge he and his defenders vociferously deny on the basis of him being “a Jewish agnostic who still prays three times a day in Hebrew ... definitely not an atheist.”” - wikipedia
So, we have Mikey’s national movement to “restore the obliterated wall separating church and state” and Mikey as “the constitutional conscience of the U.S. military”.
Um, Mikey — the “wall of separation of church and state” is not in our COTUS. Duh.
bkmk
Wonderful and truthful article; thank you for posting it.
The author is correct, it’s about Jesus, it’s about the Bible. And everything quoted by John Piper in this article is 100% correct because it is according to the Scriptures.
2 Timothy 3 talks about the people of the “last days.” We are living in the last days right now. The last days will end when the Lord Jesus Christ returns, and judgment will follow.
The writer of the book of Hebrews said in 1:1-2: “in these last days God has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.” Hebrews was written before 70 A.D.
Going back to 2 Timothy 3, the apostle Paul describes the people of the “last days,” v. 1-9, 13. These are people who are faithless—without faith—in God or His Word, the Bible. Read the list of around 28 things that describe these people.
Then there is the contrast in v. 10-12 and 14-17 of people who are saved by the grace of God through faith, who know God, and who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus.
V. 15-16 say that all Scripture (the Bible, OT & NT) is inspired by God, which means that it is God-breathed, not man-made.
I have been studying this book of the Bible, 2 Timothy, for a few weeks with a group of other people who love to study God’s word. Reading this article brought this week’s lesson on Ch. 3 to my mind because the controversy mentioned in this article is an application of what God is saying about two kinds of people in our world—the faithless, who are described as opposed to the truth, of depraved mind, and rejected as regards the faith—and the faithful, who are described as those who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus (true Christians).
The character of both is very evident in these last days of difficult times.
John 3:16
Romans 1:16
1 Corinthians 15:1-8
Anally Injected Death Symptoms: AIDS.
It was a homo disease and remains a homo disease. Were it not for homos, this disease would not even be worth mentioning because of how miniscule or obscure it would be (example: prion disease).
But in America we create our own parallel reality if we don’t like something, and so AIDS is something ‘everyone’ can get... BS. 67-70% of all new infections come from a 2% segment of the population. Near 20% of the urban homo population is HIV or AIDS positive.
Certain behaviors (screwing people in the ass is a behavior and not something you must do) carry with them natural consequences. Not all behaviors are equal in what they pose in risk and benefit... AKA outcomes. Seems pretty obvious, but apparently that is a complex idea for university educated PhDs in sociology, psychology, and ethicists to understand. In this country Hollywood defines everything.