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| + | * '''2007-09-07''' [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18334.htm "We're Dealing with a Christian Taliban"]: Interview with Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the [[Military Religious Freedom Foundation]], 1977 honor graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, 10-year veteran of the [[US Air Force]] as a "JAG" (military attorney) | ||
* '''2007-09''' [http://thehumanist.org/humanist/CarlosBertha.html The Right to Religious Expression at the Air Force Academy] by Carlos Bertha: "Speaking as a faculty member at the Academy, though admittedly a biased one, I can say that the media didn't blow anything out of proportion--if anything, they missed out on some of the more objectionable examples of theocratic mischief." | * '''2007-09''' [http://thehumanist.org/humanist/CarlosBertha.html The Right to Religious Expression at the Air Force Academy] by Carlos Bertha: "Speaking as a faculty member at the Academy, though admittedly a biased one, I can say that the media didn't blow anything out of proportion--if anything, they missed out on some of the more objectionable examples of theocratic mischief." | ||
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* '''2007-05-14''' [http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/05/navy_conversion_070513w/ Navy vet: Chaplains tried converting me] | * '''2007-05-14''' [http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/05/navy_conversion_070513w/ Navy vet: Chaplains tried converting me] | ||
Revision as of 13:08, 19 September 2007
Overview
There have been repeated warnings from different sources that the United States military is being taken over, through replacement of officers at the highest levels, by "far-right" Christian evangelists.
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This appears to be happening with at least the cooperation of the Bush Jr. administration, and may be an active project of that administration.
This is yet another way in which George W. Bush seems to be willingly participating in an attempt to pilot the US towards a Nehemiah Scudder scenario.
Links
Articles
- 2007-09-07 "We're Dealing with a Christian Taliban": Interview with Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, 1977 honor graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, 10-year veteran of the US Air Force as a "JAG" (military attorney)
- 2007-09 The Right to Religious Expression at the Air Force Academy by Carlos Bertha: "Speaking as a faculty member at the Academy, though admittedly a biased one, I can say that the media didn't blow anything out of proportion--if anything, they missed out on some of the more objectionable examples of theocratic mischief."
News
- 2007-05-14 Navy vet: Chaplains tried converting me
- 2007-04-21 Birth of the Christian Soldier: How Evangelicals Infiltrated the American Military, excerpt from the book With God on Our Side by Michael L. Weinstein and David Seay.
- 2006-12-31 Chris Hedges: America’s Holy Warriors by Chris Hedges: "The former New York Times Mideast Bureau chief warns that the radical Christian right is coming dangerously close to its goal of co-opting the country’s military and law enforcement."
- mirrors: RichardDawkins.net
- 2006-05-22 WTF? 'Navy SEALS' at Christian Youth Rally?
- 2005-11-12 Group Trains Air Force Cadets to Proselytize (mirror@truthout) by Alan Cooperman, Washington Post Staff Writer
- 2005-11-10 Senate OKs academy prayer by Tom Roeder, The Gazette: this actually sounds fairly innocuous, but may be worth further checking
- 2005-06-09 Flying Over the Line by Richard Cohen