nerdgirl 0
QuoteQuoteA friend of mine is a US NAVY Chaplain, LTCMDR, and he advised me that the military is conducting missionary efforts throughout that part of the world in delicate social interface with foreign commanders.
Now there's a monumentally stupid idea.
*If* the described LCDR (that’s the abbreviation for Lieutenant Commander) is evangelicizing Christianity (“missionary work”), that is counter to US military policy and strategy (counterinsurgency) in Afghanistan as well as domestic Afghan law. That would be personal action on his own.
*If* the LCDR is overseeing economic development or rebuilding health or educational infrastructure ("missionary work") or something similar as part of a Provisional Reconstruction Team (PRT) that would be smart and within US policy and strategy (& NATO's too).
It is not US or DoD policy to evangelicize Christianity (or the beliefs of any other religious sect).
/Marg
Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters.
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JackC 0
QuoteIt is not US or DoD policy to evangelicize Christianity (or the beliefs of any other religious sect).
It may not be oficial policy but there are stories in the press about US soldiers having Bibles written in Pashto and Dari languages with the intention of distributing them to the locals in Afghanistan. There are also mentions of soldiers being told by Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Hensley, the chief of the US military chaplains in Afghanistan, that as followers of Jesus Christ, they all have a responsibility "to be witnesses for him".
That is a monumentally dumb idea. It looks very much like these idiots are trying to turn the Afghan campaign into a crusade, in the religious war sense of the word. Fucking morons.
billvon 2,400
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>the military is conducting missionary efforts throughout that part of the world . . .
That's the worst idea I've heard since funding the Contras.
That's the worst idea I've heard since funding the Contras.
nerdgirl 0
QuoteQuoteIt is not US or DoD policy to evangelicize Christianity (or the beliefs of any other religious sect).
It may not be oficial policy but there are stories in the press about US soldiers having Bibles written in Pashto and Dari languages with the intention of distributing them to the locals in Afghanistan. There are also mentions of soldiers being told by Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Hensley, the chief of the US military chaplains in Afghanistan, that as followers of Jesus Christ, they all have a responsibility "to be witnesses for him".
That is a monumentally dumb idea. It looks very much like these idiots are trying to turn the Afghan campaign into a crusade, in the religious war sense of the word. Fucking morons.
I am familiar with those actions, as well as others. Understand and agree with the perils of pursuing evangelical actions in Afghanistan or it even being perceived as a "religious war."
Nonetheless, “Proselytizing of any religion, faith, or practice” is in direct violation of US Central Command’s General Order Number 1B (GO-1B).
That doesn’t mean folks don’t do it. They’re just acting in violation of orders and against military policy.
/Marg
Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters.
Tibetan Buddhist saying
jclalor 12
QuoteQuoteso, the crusades, the witch-burnings of course were not done under the flag of the (catholic) church!?
Say what ?
Skyrad 0
So you can be a Christian then without going to Church?
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Skyrad 0
In which case these people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVGmbzDLq5c
Should be court marshalled, removed from theatre and not be posted to any Islamic countries in future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVGmbzDLq5c
Should be court marshalled, removed from theatre and not be posted to any Islamic countries in future.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
-Hunter S. Thompson
"No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try."
-Yoda
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