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"Steve Dufour" |
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12 Dec 2006 11:18:12 AM |
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Religious Group's Ties to Pentagon Questioned |
Religious Group's Ties to Pentagon Questioned
by Guy Raz
All Things Considered, December 11, 2006 =B7 A military watchdog group
is asking the Pentagon whether senior uniformed officers had permission
to appear in a video endorsing an evangelical Christian group.
The Christian Embassy is an evangelical missionary group focused on
government workers in Washington, DC. The group's recent promotional
video features endorsements from several prominent military officers.
In response, another group, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation,
is preparing a possible class-action lawsuit against the Pentagon for
what lawyer Michael Weinstein calls "the creation of a theocracy, of a
particular fundamentalist perspective within our own military
branches."
The foundation says a core of evangelicals are gaining influence at the
Pentagon, and violating military policies. It cites Wednesday-morning
prayer sessions in the Pentagon's executive dining room, which features
speakers from the Christian Embassy.
The Pentagon released a statement Monday insisting it does not endorse
any religious viewpoint or organization. But the Defense Department
also promised to review the promotional video. In it, Brig. Gen. Vince
Brooks and seven other uniformed officers endorse the Christian Embassy.
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| User: "Feisty" |
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| Title: Re: Religious Group's Ties to Pentagon Questioned |
12 Dec 2006 11:43:43 AM |
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"Steve Dufour" <stevejdufour@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1165943892.454698.320740@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
Religious Group's Ties to Pentagon Questioned
by Guy Raz
All Things Considered, December 11, 2006 · A military watchdog group
is asking the Pentagon whether senior uniformed officers had permission
to appear in a video endorsing an evangelical Christian group.
The Christian Embassy is an evangelical missionary group focused on
government workers in Washington, DC. The group's recent promotional
video features endorsements from several prominent military officers.
In response, another group, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation,
is preparing a possible class-action lawsuit against the Pentagon for
what lawyer Michael Weinstein calls "the creation of a theocracy, of a
particular fundamentalist perspective within our own military
branches."
The foundation says a core of evangelicals are gaining influence at the
Pentagon, and violating military policies. It cites Wednesday-morning
prayer sessions in the Pentagon's executive dining room, which features
speakers from the Christian Embassy.
The Pentagon released a statement Monday insisting it does not endorse
any religious viewpoint or organization. But the Defense Department
also promised to review the promotional video. In it, Brig. Gen. Vince
Brooks and seven other uniformed officers endorse the Christian Embassy.
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Such prostelyzing groups are not allowed in public schools.
$cientology would support any prostelyzing ("those are fighting words") group, because
it is about the "conversion of people" to a belief, because they are not inline with
"that particular totalitarian doctrine;" based on "this group has the only answers
black hole." I'd call groups like this paramilitary, not faith groups - approaching to
evangelize at the Pentagon? (the word militia comes to mind)
And what this have to do with peace, rather than war?
Artur Solomoynan is backed by a group parading under the guise of 501C3 in order to
trade weapons under a $cientology religious visa. Fighting for human rights and
religious persecution is a bit weak of an argument here.
Feisty
'Seeing that scientology can embrace a science. a religion, a psychotherapy, one of the
wittier DScns recently invented Scientocracy, which is a "government by the people, by
the thetans."'
L Ron Hubbard
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Religious Group's Ties to Pentagon Questioned, but nobody is questioning Sun Myung MOON?!? |
12 Dec 2006 01:36:49 PM |
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*moonie* Steve Dufour wrote:
Religious Group's Ties to Pentagon Questioned
by Guy Raz
All Things Considered, December 11, 2006 =B7 A military watchdog group
is asking the Pentagon whether senior uniformed officers had permission
to appear in a video endorsing an evangelical Christian group.
The Christian Embassy is an evangelical missionary group focused on
government workers in Washington, DC. The group's recent promotional
video features endorsements from several prominent military officers.
In response, another group, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation,
is preparing a possible class-action lawsuit against the Pentagon for
what lawyer Michael Weinstein calls "the creation of a theocracy, of a
particular fundamentalist perspective within our own military
branches."
The foundation says a core of evangelicals are gaining influence at the
Pentagon, and violating military policies. It cites Wednesday-morning
prayer sessions in the Pentagon's executive dining room, which features
speakers from the Christian Embassy.
The Pentagon released a statement Monday insisting it does not endorse
any religious viewpoint or organization. But the Defense Department
also promised to review the promotional video. In it, Brig. Gen. Vince
Brooks and seven other uniformed officers endorse the Christian Embassy.
.
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