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FWIW, there is a moral imperative for commanders to mandate Christian exposure of their personnel on active duty.

Recent ecumenical perspectives fail to recognize the significance of God the Holy Spirit in the continuing sanctification of each and every believer, every day and moment of their lives. Many worldly officers believe they are able to substitute a worldly system of counterfeit belief independent of faith through Christ and still advance in good works. Such thinking is good for nothingness, not only jeopardizing the sanctification and spiritual growth of their juniors, but also placing their commands at risk of divine discipline, being in the wrong place at the wrong time on the battlefield which is deadly.

IMHO, if our commander-in-chief was remaining in fellowship through Christ in all things, he would relieve those in the chain of command who seek such counterfeit substitutes to God’s Plan and place the US armed forces at risk, without divine guidance through faith in Christ.

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old comment by Staccato

I actually sent him an e-mail in response to this article.

Dear Dr Dixon,
Congratulations on your attempt to aid the distressed youth of America in their search for moral clarity. However I must question the methods with which you are achieving this goal. On your page regarding abortion (http://www.realhelpforteens.com/index.php?PGNM=article&id=8)
you explicitly state that "A few hours after conception, a tiny heart begins beating". This is a complete fabrication. A few hours after conception the zygote may have divided to the point at which it is a four or eight celled organism at best, but no heart, tiny or otherwise, has even remotely begun to form, and will not do until the fifth or sixth week.
Obviously this is merely an oversight on your part, and in no way an attempt to maliciously mislead teenagers to irrationally scare them aware from abortions with the threat of punishment in Hell. A doctor of your calibre would surely not jepordise his professional reputation for the sake of "tub-thumping", nor could this piece of incorrect information be anything other than an accidental mistake from someone with the a Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes or, one presumes due to the title of "Dr", a doctorate in medicine or a biology-related field of study (for, as you will well know, a DMCC would not confer this title). I ask with genuine interest as to where said doctorate was acquired, and await your rapid update of this article with the correct information.

Yours sincerely...

I don't think I'll get a reply. Ever.

old comment by Darwin

To quote Pat Tillman, Would you shut your (expletive) mouth? God’s not going to help you; you need to do something for yourself, you sniveling ...”
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19984732/page/2/

How great is the military and how pure the holy spirit of god when men are murdered because they don't accept the propaganda garbage and indoctrination pushed on them from a deluded officer corps.

Actually Prager, that sounds like the false report filed by a chaplain in an obvious attempt to make Tillman look bad. The soldier with Tillman, and to whom the comments were allegedly directed (he survived the attack), said that Tillman did not use the word 'snivelling', and was much more diplomatic than the chaplain claimed. I'll try to find the reference.

old comment by Darwin

Aha! Found one...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-28-tillman-moments_N.htm

Some excerpts from the article:

The chaplain told investigators that O'Neal said Tillman was harsh in his last moments, snapping, 'Would you shut your (expletive) mouth? God's not going to help you; you need to do something for yourself, you sniveling ..."

"He never would have called me 'sniveling,"' O'Neal said. "I don't remember ever speaking to this chaplain, and I find this characterization of Pat really upsetting. He never once degraded me. He's the only person I ever worked for who didn't degrade anyone. He wasn't that sort of person."

The chaplain's name is blacked out in the documents.

old comment by szena

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39182

"We're dealing with a Christian Taliban.

Let me make this clear. I'm doing this Q&A with you guys today as a man at war with the gun smoke in my face. We are not at war with Christianity or evangelical Christianity. We have many evangelical or non-evangelical Christians who massively support what our organisation, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, is doing. We are at war with a small subset of evangelical Christianity [known as] "Dominionist Christianity" and it represents about 12.6 percent of the American public or about 38 million people.

And at every one of those 737 US military installations that are scattered in 132 countries around the world -- as we garrison the globe -- we have one or more of those organisations. They're called the "Officers Christian Fellowship" for the officers and "The Christian Military Fellowship" for the enlisted folks and these organisations have a tripartite, or three level goal, which they view as much more important than the oath that they all swear to protect and preserve, support and defend the constitution of the United States.

The first goal -- and they're unabashed about it, it's right on their website -- is they want to see a "spiritually transformed U.S. military..."

Second, "...with ambassadors for Christ in uniform..." which, parenthetically, hasn't worked out too well for the world for the past 2,000 years.

And then thirdly, "...empowered by the Holy Spirit."

old comment by szena

(from the same interview)

IPS: What consequences do whistleblowers within the armed forces face?

MW: They're terrified. Look, in many aspects the military controls their lives. We are closing in on having our 6,000th active member of the U.S. military contact us not as claimants but as tormentees. And the amazing thing is that it stays remarkably constant that roughly 96 percent of these tormentees coming to us are Christian themselves.

Roughly three-fourths of that group are going to be traditional Protestant -- that is to say Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists and Episcopalians. We even get Assemblies of God, Church of Christ, Baptists and sometimes Southern Baptists. The other one-fourth of that 96 percent are generally Roman Catholic. And that leaves four percent who are Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, Shinto, Jain, Wickan and atheists and agnostics.

Basically what we're facing are Fundamentalist, Dominionist Christians that are preying --- P-R-A-Y and P-R-E-Y -- on non-Fundamentalist Christians including in many respects other evangelical Christians that are just not fundamentalist Christians, telling them that, "you may think you were Christian enough for us but you're not. And as a result, you will burn eternally in the fires of Hell along with the Jews."