Posts Tagged ‘crusader mentality’

It is a pretty common, if rather unfunny, joke that while serving in the military, one gives up many of the very freedoms one has sworn to protect for others.  And even bitchy old broads like me can see the point of some of it; sure you may disagree with what your commander has in orders, but hey, dude…it IS your job.  And not campaigning for your favorite politician while IN uniform, well, yeah—cause that reeks of demagoguery of a sort, doesn’t it?  (Never mind a couple generals have done this…and in a church??)

But to be told how to worship?  What, you can only be a Christian and preferably of the Evangelical sort at that?   I really don’t see how that spreads freedom and democracy of any sort that deserves the name, do you?  I guess significant pressure is brought to bear on military members who are NOT outwardly Christian.  Complaints are being gathered, the the one doing the gathering gets death-threats including sentences like “Those Jews who died in the Holocaust are burning in hell now….and so should you.”

Wow.  This isn’t my daddy’s military anymore.  It isn’t even MY military any more.  So, the men and women whose names I keep, for whom I walk the Labyrinth to honor, are not free to openly be anything except Christian crusaders?

There will be a new graphic soon, folks,  so you can support the Military Religious Freedom foundation, whose founder, Michael Weinstein, receives death threats from these so-called “Christians”.  For shame, to so use Christ’s name and yet call most Muslims names like “jihadists” in the same breath.

The link to read one story about this, and to hold you till the graphic is up:  http://wildhunt.org/blog.html (the title about “Christian Military..” is the one you want.