Tuesday, December 12, 2006

This should frighten any intelligent American who still believes in freedom of religion in this country.

A watchdog group that promotes religious freedom in the U.S. military accused senior officers on Monday using their rank and influence to coerce soldiers and airmen into adopting evangelical Christianity.

Such proselytizing, according to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, has created a core of "radical" Christians within the U.S. armed forces and Pentagon who punish those who do not accept evangelical beliefs by stalling their careers.

"It's egregious beyond the pale," said Mikey Weinstein, president and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. "We apparently have a radicalized, evangelical Christian Pentagon within the rest of the Pentagon."

The group asked the Pentagon's inspector general to investigate a video in which some Army and Air Force officers discuss their faith while in uniform.

If the "Jesus Camp" story bothered you, this will scare the holy shit out of you!

You can see the video here.

P.S. By the way any organization that produces video which talks about providing a moral blueprint for lawmakers and then prominently features Tom Delay, should be treated with complete disdain and suspicion by any thinking individual. It has all of the appearances of a satirical video produced by the "Daily Show" or the "Onion". But sadly it is all too serious.

1 comment:

  1. I couldn't watch more than 3 minutes of it. It makes me nauseous.

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