Is aggressive Christianity in the U.S. Military indicative of a creeping American theocracy?

Question

I refer to this alarming article here:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071107_the_cancer_from_within/
which is a personal account of a Vietnam-era Air Force member's recent experience with the "new" style of Air Force orientation for new recruits.

He writes:
"I no longer recognize the Air Force Academy as the institution I attended almost four decades earlier. At that point, I had no idea how invasive this extreme evangelical “cancer” had become throughout the entire military, that what I had witnessed was far from an isolated case of a few religious zealots."

Sinclair Lewis said: "When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Has that moment arrived?

What should be done about it?

Answer 1

Protest to you congressmen and senators. If it can be exposed to the general public by way of the media might help. I spent 7 years in the Air Force (enlisted) and that was shocking to me.

Good luck

Answer 2

Albert Einstein got i right. Would you condemn George Washington too?

Another way to look at this is the nation of Israel is surrounded by Arab counties. And when you are in a life and death situation, you find out in a real hurry "What you believe in" and "Why you are here". And there is no question about it.

That is a warfare mentality for survival.

America exists is a world filled with countries that are turmoiled in war in their own borders. Iraq is only one of them.

For your information another link that shows a Jewish Islam chapel in Germany for the military.

I think it is okay. I think common sense dictates unfairly but necessarily to not have Muslim chapels on bases. Not because good Muslims don't need one there. But because the enemy can pose as good and heavy damage can be done there. And the families of a lot of people would be gravely affected.

I hope what I wrote makes sense.

Answer 3

Sinclair Lewis said: "When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Has that moment arrived?
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I have never come across this statement before but I agree with it completely. It is a paraphrase of Revelation 13 where it says in symbolic language that the church will control the state to impose the "christian" religion.

Yes, I believe the time is here. Soon the christian right will succeed in convincing the congress of the US that the time has come for "the establishment of the kingdom of Christ as an earthly and temporal dominion. They desire to make Christ the ruler of the kingdoms of this world, the ruler in its courts and campuses, its legislative halls, its palaces and market places. They expect Him to rule through legal enactments, enforced by human authority. Since Christ is not here in person, they themselves will undertake to act in His stead, to execute the laws of His kingdom. The establishment of such a kingdom is what the Jews desired in the days of Christ. They would have received Jesus, had He been willing to establish a temporal dominion, to enforce what they regarded as the laws of God, and to make them the expositors of His will and the agents of His authority. But Jesus said, 'My kingdom is not of this world.' John 18:36. He would not accept the earthly throne."

Answer 4

Aggressive Christianity in the U.S. military is indicative of creeping American stupidity!

Answer 5

In every modern civilized countries, thanks to higher education and public school systems, religious superstitions and delusions are quietly fading away.
It's a well know fact that, due to difficulty in recruiting, the US armed forces decided to lower the academic standards required. With less education, you get more superstitions...

Answer 6

Thanks for the lead, it was very interesting. I think it is a fully blown theocracy under false pretences. It's just putting a halo on military machines and aggression. They are self deceived into thinking they are doing godly acts. They must have a nice clean conscious.

Answer 7

When your goal is to sell your version of religion to the world, well, a few cheats will not make you feel bad.... They need more aggressive chaplains from other groups, or less evangelicals..

Answer 8

It is God who has preserved our military since the time of Geo. Washington...

Please quit believing the liberal nonsense provided by the liberal highly biased TV media.