Christian proselytizing in the U.S. armed forces?

Torvald Von Mansee · 06-05-12, 05:22 PM

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/ins...printArticle=y

Discuss.

Morts · 06-05-12, 05:34 PM

How about you actually post something outside of obvious troll bait for once ?

Torvald Von Mansee · 06-05-12, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Morts

How about you actually post something outside of obvious troll bait for once ?

Perhaps you should comment on the link?

Sailor Steve · 06-05-12, 07:15 PM

Perhaps you should.

Ducimus · 06-05-12, 07:25 PM

I do recall seeing one evangelical dude trying to convert people at my last duty base when i was still on active duty. Never met him myself, but I'd see him out and about the barracks every Sunday; and I'd just point and laugh at him to my friends as a drank my beer. I think he knew not to come our way. Something about loud music, laughing, and beer bottles clanging around.

So the obvious question is, if i never spoke with him, how do i know he was a military member looking for converts? I've seen him in uniform around the barracks towards the end of the duty day. I think he was a desk jockey pencil pusher. I've also saw him in a suit and tie every Sunday with a book in his left hand, talking to people around the barracks to whoever would listen to him.

I never paid him much mind, what people do when they were off duty was their business. If he came my way, decked out in his suit and toting around his book, i probably would have laughed in his face.

CaptainHaplo · 06-05-12, 10:41 PM

Total troll bait - and entirely misrepresented in the title.

The link goes to a guy who is claiming something is a problem, but does not offer one single, documented instance of the "problem". Nothing more than someone who wants every possible "religious" reference scrubbed from sight.

So somone claims the sky is green and sets up an organization to fight all the mean, proselytizing people who claim its blue. Doesn't mean there is a real problem.

Stop posting your anti-religous dung on here. Its ok that you don't like religion. Its ok that others do. Your trying to stir up stuff just for fun.

Read the law - its freedom OF religion - not freedom FROM religion. Religious symbology permeats our society because so much of our history shares a religious facet. By trying to remove all religion, your trying to rewrite history.

Oh - and the "Crusaders" thing - if folks like the moron in the article had his way, I wonder what the F-8 would have been?

P-51, F15 and F16? Well the names mustang, eagle and falcon are common animal totems for native americans ....

F4U? Totally unacceptable to all the piratical folks who prefered the name Buccaneer - not to mention all the Tampa Bay football fans.

F-18? Upsets entomologists everywhere.

UH/SH-60 and AH-64? Indian tribes in an uproar!

Get over it.....

Onkel Neal · 06-05-12, 10:45 PM

Closed.

06-05-12, 05:22 PM	#1
Torvald Von Mansee Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: CA4528 Posts: 1,693 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Christian proselytizing in the U.S. armed forces? http://www.statesman.com/opinion/ins...printArticle=y Discuss. __________________ "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you" - Leon Trotsky

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06-05-12, 10:41 PM	#6
CaptainHaplo Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 4,404 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	Total troll bait - and entirely misrepresented in the title. The link goes to a guy who is claiming something is a problem, but does not offer one single, documented instance of the "problem". Nothing more than someone who wants every possible "religious" reference scrubbed from sight. So somone claims the sky is green and sets up an organization to fight all the mean, proselytizing people who claim its blue. Doesn't mean there is a real problem. Stop posting your anti-religous dung on here. Its ok that you don't like religion. Its ok that others do. Your trying to stir up stuff just for fun. Read the law - its freedom OF religion - not freedom FROM religion. Religious symbology permeats our society because so much of our history shares a religious facet. By trying to remove all religion, your trying to rewrite history. Oh - and the "Crusaders" thing - if folks like the moron in the article had his way, I wonder what the F-8 would have been? P-51, F15 and F16? Well the names mustang, eagle and falcon are common animal totems for native americans .... F4U? Totally unacceptable to all the piratical folks who prefered the name Buccaneer - not to mention all the Tampa Bay football fans. F-18? Upsets entomologists everywhere. UH/SH-60 and AH-64? Indian tribes in an uproar! Get over it..... __________________ Good Hunting! Captain Haplo

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06-05-12, 05:34 PM	#2
Morts Admiral Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denmark Posts: 2,395 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	How about you actually post something outside of obvious troll bait for once ?

06-05-12, 07:25 PM	#5
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	I do recall seeing one evangelical dude trying to convert people at my last duty base when i was still on active duty. Never met him myself, but I'd see him out and about the barracks every Sunday; and I'd just point and laugh at him to my friends as a drank my beer. I think he knew not to come our way. Something about loud music, laughing, and beer bottles clanging around. So the obvious question is, if i never spoke with him, how do i know he was a military member looking for converts? I've seen him in uniform around the barracks towards the end of the duty day. I think he was a desk jockey pencil pusher. I've also saw him in a suit and tie every Sunday with a book in his left hand, talking to people around the barracks to whoever would listen to him. I never paid him much mind, what people do when they were off duty was their business. If he came my way, decked out in his suit and toting around his book, i probably would have laughed in his face.

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