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Ever since former president George W. Bush referred to the war on terror as a “crusade” in the days after the September 11 attacks, many have charged that the United States was conducting a holy war, pitting a Christian America against the Muslim world. That perception grew as prominent military leaders such as Lt. Gen. William Boykin described the wars in evangelical terms, casting the U.S. military as the "army of God." Although President Obama addressed the Muslim world this month in an attempt to undo the Bush administration's legacy of militant Christian rhetoric that often antagonized Muslim countries, several recent stories have framed the issue as a wider problem of an evangelical military culture that sees spreading Christianity as part of its mission.

A May article in Harper’s by Jeff Sharlet illustrated a military engaged in an internal battle over religious practice. Then came news about former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s Scripture-themed briefings to President Bush that paired war scenes with Bible verses. (In an e-mail published on Politico, Rumsfeld aide Keith Urbahn denied that the former Defense secretary had created or even seen many of the briefings.) Later in May, Al-Jazeera broadcast clips filmed in 2008 showing stacks of Bibles translated into Pashto and Dari at the U.S. air base in Bagram and featuring the chief of U.S. military chaplains in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Gary Hensley, telling soldiers to “hunt people for Jesus.”

In the aftermath of that report, the Pentagon responded that it had confiscated and destroyed the Bibles and said there was no effort to convert Afghans. But while the military dismissed the Bagram Bibles as an isolated incident, a civil-rights watchdog group, Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), says this is not the case. According to the group's president, Mikey Weinstein, a cadre of 40 U.S. chaplains took part in a 2003 project to distribute 2.4 million Arabic-language Bibles in Iraq. This would be a serious violation of U.S. military Central Command's General Order Number One forbidding active-duty troops from trying to convert people to any religion. A Defense Department spokeswoman, in an e-mail to NEWSWEEK, denies any knowledge of this project.


What a bunch of fux. No respect. The blinders-on children of Reagan, Falwell, Robertson, Quayle, Hagee, Robison, Schuller, Dubya, Dobson and, now, Palin.






"Remember, boys, before we go in, that these sand-niqqers (sorry, Jonesey and Ricky) is denyin' the existence of our Lord, Jesus Christ. If you don't kill 'em, convert their worthless asses, y'hear?"

Sucks for you to be a non-believer, huh?

AZGrizFan wrote:Sucks for you to be a non-believer, huh?

What is sad is the flippant remark that both of you made. These God-warriors are unfriendly to Catholics and semi-believers (like Z) as they are to anyone else.

Handing out Bibles vs cutting off the heads of those who don't convert......let me see, oh no wait.......

I forgot that they are all in the same boat.

Only God hating trash would be offended at this.

catamount man wrote:Handing out Bibles vs cutting off the heads of those who don't convert......let me see, oh no wait.......

I forgot that they are all in the same boat.

Only God hating trash would be offended at this.

Hey if you want to believe in God as your religion tells you to that's your business Cman. That ain't what our fucking military is for. How the hell do you compare what the muslim extremist is doing to what we are supposed to be doing there? I don't see the disjointed "They did this so we're doing that" comparison. You are free to worship as you wish but the military is not an agent of your, or any, religion. This is not a matter of being offended by religion or hating God.

catamount man wrote:Handing out Bibles vs cutting off the heads of those who don't convert......let me see, oh no wait.......

I forgot that they are all in the same boat.

Only God hating trash would be offended at this.

Such intolerance.


Evangelicals exploit Air Force Academy; military officials interlocked with local activists
http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/pub ... _363.shtml

Air Force Pays Evangelicals to Preach About Terrorism
http://atheism.about.com/b/2008/02/27/a ... rorism.htm

Air Force Removes Chaplain From Post Officer Decried Evangelicals' Influence
http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2005 ... ademy.html

dbackjon wrote:What is sad is the flippant remark that both of you made. These God-warriors are unfriendly to Catholics and semi-believers (like Z) as they are to anyone else.

Be....honest....jon!!!

You...don't....like...evangs

Because...they...call...your

Lifestyle....by...its..proper

Name....a..crime..against.....

Nature

citdog wrote:

dbackjon wrote:What is sad is the flippant remark that both of you made. These God-warriors are unfriendly to Catholics and semi-believers (like Z) as they are to anyone else.

Be....honest....jon!!!

You...don't....like...evangs

Because...they...call...your

Lifestyle....by...its..proper

Name....a..crime..against.....

Nature

That's ok citpuppy - they think we are both going to hell, anyways.

Those assholes. Reppin' an intolerant America overseas.

Everybody's indignant.

Christians are indignant at the Muslims.

Muslims are indignant at the Christians.

Atheists are indignant at .... Christians. Sounds more like anti-Christianity than anti-religion. Sorry that priest tore your taint, Cap'n, but not everybody had to kiss Mr. Happy Skin Sock in the rectory basement when they were 11.

CID1990 wrote:Everybody's indignant.

Christians are indignant at the Muslims.

Muslims are indignant at the Christians.

Atheists are indignant at .... Christians. Sounds more like anti-Christianity than anti-religion. Sorry that priest tore your taint, Cap'n, but not everybody had to kiss Mr. Happy Skin Sock in the rectory basement when they were 11.

That was....hilarious, CID.

dbackjon wrote:What is sad is the flippant remark that both of you made. These God-warriors are unfriendly to Catholics and semi-believers (like Z) as they are to anyone else.

No. What's SAD is that Cappy had to pull out a story about something that happened FIVE FUCKING YEARS AGO and we're all supposed to get spun up about it.

AZGrizFan wrote:

dbackjon wrote:What is sad is the flippant remark that both of you made. These God-warriors are unfriendly to Catholics and semi-believers (like Z) as they are to anyone else.

No. What's SAD is that Cappy had to pull out a story about something that happened FIVE FUCKING YEARS AGO and we're all supposed to get spun up about it.

That part is what's funny I thought? Wasn't this argued about once already? Maybe this was just cited in another argument a couple of years ago over on AGS but I think I remember this...

Ursus A. Horribilis wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:

No. What's SAD is that Cappy had to pull out a story about something that happened FIVE FUCKING YEARS AGO and we're all supposed to get spun up about it.

That part is what's funny I thought? Wasn't this argued about once already? Maybe this was just cited in another argument a couple of years ago over on AGS but I think I remember this...

Maybe next he'll start a thread about the merits of going to war in Iraq.

By the way, my little coffee man is reading how Obama has poured old wine into new bottles with his Indefinite Dentention program he has called Prolonged Detention. What a fukkin word smith.

SeattleGriz wrote:
By the way, my little coffee man is reading how Obama has poured old wine into new bottles with his Indefinite Dentention program he has called Prolonged Detention. What a fukkin word smith.

Um, what's dentention?

What a fucking wordsmith.



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And, Z, you don't give a single fleeting fvck about religion, so stay out of places you do not belong.

Cap'n Cat wrote:

SeattleGriz wrote:
By the way, my little coffee man is reading how Obama has poured old wine into new bottles with his Indefinite Dentention program he has called Prolonged Detention. What a fukkin word smith.

Um, what's dentention?

What a fucking wordsmith.



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And, Z, you don't give a single fleeting fvck about religion, so stay out of places you do not belong.

And you don't give a flying fuck about football, and that hasn't kept you off these boards.

AZGrizFan wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote:

Um, what's dentention?

What a **** wordsmith.



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And, Z, you don't give a single fleeting fvck about religion, so stay out of places you do not belong.

And you don't give a flying **** about football, and that hasn't kept you off these boards.

Dumb, unfunny reply.



Z is an atheist, like to res a u muvfuckerz. Guzziiiiing!

Mango wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
And you don't give a flying **** about football, and that hasn't kept you off these boards.

Dumb, unfunny reply.



Z is an atheist, like to res a u muvfuckerz. Guzziiiiing!

Not as pathetic as YOUR attempt at humor, "Mango".

How many screen names you need? Guess "Cap'n Cat" has lost ALL credibility?

AZGrizFan wrote:

Mango wrote:

Dumb, unfunny reply.



Z is an atheist, like to res a u muvfuckerz. Guzziiiiing!

Not as pathetic as YOUR attempt at humor, "Mango".

How many screen names you need? Guess "Cap'n Cat" has lost ALL credibility?

Z, misses the point, again.

Cap'n Cat wrote:

SeattleGriz wrote:
By the way, my little coffee man is reading how Obama has poured old wine into new bottles with his Indefinite Dentention program he has called Prolonged Detention. What a fukkin word smith.

Um, what's dentention?

What a **** wordsmith.

Dentention is detention that happens in our mythical 7 extra states Obama made up after toking on his inhalator.

SeattleGriz wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote:

Um, what's dentention?

What a **** wordsmith.

Dentention is detention that happens in our mythical 7 extra states Obama made up after toking on his inhalator.

Your just PO'd because the extra 7 states are all blue states.

BlueHen86 wrote:

SeattleGriz wrote:
Dentention is detention that happens in our mythical 7 extra states Obama made up after toking on his inhalator.

Your just PO'd because the extra 7 states are all blue states.

Exactly, more proof of Democratic voter fraud!

SeattleGriz wrote:

BlueHen86 wrote:
Your just PO'd because the extra 7 states are all blue states.

Exactly, more proof of Democratic voter fraud!

Four out of five dententiontists recommend democrats for their voters who choose to vote.