Integration of church and state in our military

[Anonymous]

In case you didn't know it, we are fighting a "Christian war" and combat unit commanders do not think twice about making this claim when talking to their soldiers.

This is kind bogglingly inappropriate.

https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for?

"A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.

From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night."

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"The NCO wrote to the MRFF that their commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”"

[Anonymous]

“ Right now in the Pentagon, the war with Iran is being protrayed as a biblical war to hasten the return of Jesus Christ.

Service members report “unrestricted euphoria” among segments of the chain of command portraying the assault on Iran as biblically sanctioned and tied to end-times prophecy in the Book of Revelation.

Pete Hegseth has expanded evangelical programming within the Pentagon, including prayer sessions and Bible studies aligned with staunch pro-Israel theology.”

-@wallyrashid

At this point we are going to have to reboot every part of the government.

[Anonymous]

My brother-in-law is an Army officer who happens to be an atheist - but doesn't say the quiet part out loud. His dog tags say "Catholic."

It's not a good sign when this happened while Obama was president...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2015/06/18/navy-lawyers-defend-rejection-of-atheist-chaplain/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My brother-in-law is an Army officer who happens to be an atheist - but doesn't say the quiet part out loud. His dog tags say "Catholic."


It's not a good sign when this happened while Obama was president...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2015/06/18/navy-lawyers-defend-rejection-of-atheist-chaplain/

And it’s not a good sign that in the face of empowering white Christian nationalists you bring up a tangentially related but mostly irrelevant concern here — just so you can say: but Obama!

Any thoughts on the white Christian nationalist stuff that’s happening now, quite deliberately, on an unprecedented scale? Or would you rather shift the discussion to why, several years ago, someone made the not unreasonable decision that the “chaplain” category not be extended to include an atheist? Let’s deflect, shall we? SMH

[Anonymous]

Why isn’t this being reported by mainstream media outfits. Isn’t one of our founding principles is separation of church and state?

[Anonymous]

Put Church vs State aside for the moment. That commander said that the goal of the war was to annihilate all of humanity!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My brother-in-law is an Army officer who happens to be an atheist - but doesn't say the quiet part out loud. His dog tags say "Catholic."


It's not a good sign when this happened while Obama was president...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2015/06/18/navy-lawyers-defend-rejection-of-atheist-chaplain/

And it’s not a good sign that in the face of empowering white Christian nationalists you bring up a tangentially related but mostly irrelevant concern here — just so you can say: but Obama!

Any thoughts on the white Christian nationalist stuff that’s happening now, quite deliberately, on an unprecedented scale? Or would you rather shift the discussion to why, several years ago, someone made the not unreasonable decision that the “chaplain” category not be extended to include an atheist? Let’s deflect, shall we? SMH

+1 same thought. And I'm an atheist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put Church vs State aside for the moment. That commander said that the goal of the war was to annihilate all of humanity!

It’s definitely something to take seriously. Security is pretty well siloed so that no one person has access across a wide range of things, but if a coordinated group could somehow decide that lighting off a nuke would bring Jesus back…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My brother-in-law is an Army officer who happens to be an atheist - but doesn't say the quiet part out loud. His dog tags say "Catholic."


It's not a good sign when this happened while Obama was president...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2015/06/18/navy-lawyers-defend-rejection-of-atheist-chaplain/

And it’s not a good sign that in the face of empowering white Christian nationalists you bring up a tangentially related but mostly irrelevant concern here — just so you can say: but Obama!

Any thoughts on the white Christian nationalist stuff that’s happening now, quite deliberately, on an unprecedented scale? Or would you rather shift the discussion to why, several years ago, someone made the not unreasonable decision that the “chaplain” category not be extended to include an atheist? Let’s deflect, shall we? SMH

This is laughable. You can neither point to this so called "white Christian nationalist" stuff, nor measure it. It is a boogeyman in your head. I look forward to your response that will be something like "All you have to do is open your eyes" or some other fluff to make you feel good.

[Anonymous]

“Christians” who try to engineer the apocalypse are so weird.

Even if Jesus really is set to return when the world ends, that doesn’t mean he’ll reward the people who tried to speed up the process. I’m pretty sure causing mass death and destruction is a sin. Hell, excitement at someone else causing it is a sin. Cheering it on because you think you’ll get to meet sexy white Jesus is the kind of greedy behavior that will make sure you don’t get raptured.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My brother-in-law is an Army officer who happens to be an atheist - but doesn't say the quiet part out loud. His dog tags say "Catholic."


It's not a good sign when this happened while Obama was president...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2015/06/18/navy-lawyers-defend-rejection-of-atheist-chaplain/

And it’s not a good sign that in the face of empowering white Christian nationalists you bring up a tangentially related but mostly irrelevant concern here — just so you can say: but Obama!

Any thoughts on the white Christian nationalist stuff that’s happening now, quite deliberately, on an unprecedented scale? Or would you rather shift the discussion to why, several years ago, someone made the not unreasonable decision that the “chaplain” category not be extended to include an atheist? Let’s deflect, shall we? SMH

This is laughable. You can neither point to this so called "white Christian nationalist" stuff, nor measure it. It is a boogeyman in your head. I look forward to your response that will be something like "All you have to do is open your eyes" or some other fluff to make you feel good.

Go back and read the first post in the thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In case you didn't know it, we are fighting a "Christian war" and combat unit commanders do not think twice about making this claim when talking to their soldiers.

This is kind bogglingly inappropriate.

https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for?

"A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.

From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night."

...

"The NCO wrote to the MRFF that their commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”"

Can't wait to have lunch with Jesus and Muhammad one day.... lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Christians” who try to engineer the apocalypse are so weird.

Even if Jesus really is set to return when the world ends, that doesn’t mean he’ll reward the people who tried to speed up the process. I’m pretty sure causing mass death and destruction is a sin. Hell, excitement at someone else causing it is a sin. Cheering it on because you think you’ll get to meet sexy white Jesus is the kind of greedy behavior that will make sure you don’t get raptured.

It would be a mistake to think that eschatological accelerationism is limited to Christians.

[Anonymous]

The US is now exactly what we accuse Muslim groups/countures of being - insane, murderous religious fundamentalists. The older I get, the more I hate religion!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why isn’t this being reported by mainstream media outfits. Isn’t one of our founding principles is separation of church and state?

Our mainstream media outfits are no longer run by mainstream people.