BREAKING NEWS: Pentagon Burns Soldiers Bibles - Military Chaplains Attacked
A Pentagon spokesman under the Obama Administration has just acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned Bibles of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan. The Bibles had been printed in the local Pashto and Dari languages, and sent by private donors last year to American Christian soldiers and chaplains, for distribution to American troops on overseas military bases during optionally-attended Christian worship services. Had the Bibles not been recently seized and destroyed, they could have legally been given as gifts during off-duty time to Afghani citizens who welcome our troops in their homes, as an expression of American gratitude for Afghani hospitality, promoting the democratic ideals of freedom of religion and freedom of the press.
But the Muslim controlled Al Jazeera television network obtained video footage of the Bibles, held by American soldiers while listening to a chaplain on the Bagram Air Base (inside the base chapel) whose sermon encouraged outreach and personal evangelism. The American values of freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of Christian speech offended some extremist Muslim groups, and angered a small group of American atheists, who demanded the chaplain be punished for "proselytizing" because he simply repeated Jesus' words to "Go and make disciples of all nations" in church. (Can you imagine their outrage if we burned the Koran, instead of the Bible?)
Let those people over there have freedom of religion, let them be free from the USA trying to convert them to "our" Christian faith.
Well the problem is they do not have freedom of religion. They are free to be Musliam and that only.
And it is NOT the USAs place to stick our nose in their business about who they worship. It is up to them to put the other religious books in their stores and to buy them. The USA needs to quit running around the world saying:
"If you don't believe in my religion, I will either MAKE you believe as I do or I will kill you."
The USA needs to quit doing that. I have a God I believe in. Do I think EVERYBODY NEEDS to believe in the God I believe in? NO. It seems ALL of the religious wars are caused by people trying to convert others to their way of thinking. Back off, leave people alone when it comes to religion.
"Oh, but God TOLD me I was to MAKE these people convert to my religion."
Yeah, right.
People CAN and DO make their bible say ANYTHING they want it to say.
How sad. Everyone has the right God, everyone thinks the other persons God is the wrong one. KILL them if they won't convert.
Thus, the world we have today. And it will just keep getting worse.
Mean while... I will pray.
I will not let my government or anyone else tell me I can not share my faith with whomever I please. I worship God not my government or any man./I]
If you want to share your faith with the world, go right ahead. Our brave men and women in the military, on the other hand, are over there to do a military job. They are not religious missionaries. It sends the wrong message to have U.S. military representatives handing out religious materials.
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