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Hunting People For Jesus (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Apr 2015 OP
These people scare me. Hulk Apr 2015 #1
Perhaps this illustrates 2naSalit Apr 2015 #3
Agreed.. haikugal Apr 2015 #4
http://animalnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/wtc_attacks_911.jpg blkmusclmachine Apr 2015 #15
Wouldn't it be nice if all the fundies on both sides killed each other off valerief Apr 2015 #2
We'd find more reasons to kill each other. Archae Apr 2015 #5
This is wrong. How old is this? mountain grammy Apr 2015 #6
Fundies don't give up that easily. DeSwiss Apr 2015 #8
I've been a long time supporter of Mickey Weinstein mountain grammy Apr 2015 #13
I wish I still had the link, but... jmowreader Apr 2015 #7
How Inspiring! (Gush). Here's a great song they can teach the Pashtuns! progree Apr 2015 #9
All this stuff.... Plucketeer Apr 2015 #10
If your calling to serve Jesus sulphurdunn Apr 2015 #11
http://theatheistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/jesus-camp.jpg blkmusclmachine Apr 2015 #16
Forward into battle... MrMickeysMom Apr 2015 #12
https://thatsmyphilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/7-mountains.jpg blkmusclmachine Apr 2015 #14
I see these people as deranged. What they are doing is also clearly unconstitutional. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #17
Whatss wrong with a little jesus ? father founding Apr 2015 #18
 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
1. These people scare me.
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 03:20 PM
Apr 2015

Happy Easter Bunny.

This is an element that has infiltrated the military, government and lives next door to us. I don't mind them living next door to me. I have problems with the other two, when their bible-thumping mentality takes over their loyalties and sense to serve "we the people".

This are some scary bastards, all of them. They don't strap bombs to their chests, but they work in devious ways to get their twisted message across.

2naSalit

(86,760 posts)
3. Perhaps this illustrates
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 03:49 PM
Apr 2015

the idea that whatever it takes to be able to go out and kill is good, especially if it is wrapped in religious dogma.

haikugal

(6,476 posts)
4. Agreed..
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 03:58 PM
Apr 2015

However this was inserted purposely by the Bush people who, like Ted Cruz, are part of the Dominionist 7 mountains movement. Lot's of money behind that. This isn't infiltration..it's in our face. These people will do anything to get what they want, anything at all...

valerief

(53,235 posts)
2. Wouldn't it be nice if all the fundies on both sides killed each other off
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 03:28 PM
Apr 2015

and we could finally have world peace?

Archae

(46,340 posts)
5. We'd find more reasons to kill each other.
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 03:58 PM
Apr 2015

I know I sound cynical, but humans have made excuses to kill each other since before religion existed, and will do so even if religion completely died out.

mountain grammy

(26,644 posts)
6. This is wrong. How old is this?
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 04:16 PM
Apr 2015

Just wondered, because I thought the military had put an end to this nonsense. Remember a few years ago when all the bibles brought for distribution were burned.

If this is still going on, it's very disturbing.

Ok, so I watched the beginning again and it's from 2009. Not that long ago.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
8. Fundies don't give up that easily.
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 04:33 PM
Apr 2015
- That's partly why they call them fundies.

In 2004 a team of Yale Divinity School students and professors found "challenges to pluralism" at the academy. A memo expressed "concern that the overwhelmingly evangelical tone of general Protestant worship encouraged religious divisions rather than fostering understanding among basic cadets."

An internal AFA investigative panel in 2005 found religious "insensitivity," but not "overt religious discrimination."

Still, the Air Force that year issued guidelines that banned some public prayers and discouraged public discussion of religious belief by commanders and enlisted personnel. A 2006 revision relaxed the guidelines somewhat by allowing personal religious discussions that are not coercive.

A 2010 survey found 41 percent of non-Christian cadets faced unwanted proselytizing, even as the religious majority felt that their freedom of speech was being infringed upon.

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mountain grammy

(26,644 posts)
13. I've been a long time supporter of Mickey Weinstein
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 09:33 PM
Apr 2015

and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. The MRFF has taken on these issues with the fundies in the military, especially the Air Force and the Academy in our own Christian Mecca of Colorado Springs.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
7. I wish I still had the link, but...
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 04:23 PM
Apr 2015

In the early days of the Iraq war before Halliburton was able to start building miswired barracks, the Army shipped some eight-foot wading pools to Iraq for the troops to cool off in between patrols...and sure as shit, the fundamentalist chaplains scarfed them up and turned them into baptismal fonts.

progree

(10,911 posts)
9. How Inspiring! (Gush). Here's a great song they can teach the Pashtuns!
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 04:38 PM
Apr 2015

Last edited Sun Apr 5, 2015, 05:34 PM - Edit history (1)

(no, its not "Onward Pashtun soldiers, marching as to war; with the cross of Jesus going on before ... Christ, the Royal Master, leads against the foe; Forward into battle, see His banners go, oh",

but good stuff nevertheless) [font color = "gray", size = 1]{sarcasm thingy}[/font]

A video of U.S. Marines singing, dancing and worshiping God at Camp Pendleton in California

(They don't all look like they are there voluntarily)

"There's no God like Jehovah! ... Hooah"



Some of the lyrics include:

"These are the days of Elijah
Declaring the word of the Lord, yeah
And these are the days of Your servant, Moses
Righteousness being restored

"These are the days of great trials
Of famine and darkness and sword
Still we are the voice in the desert crying
Prepare ye the way of the Lord!"
 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
10. All this stuff....
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 05:33 PM
Apr 2015

makes me wanna The ONLY religious inquiry I got when I joined the service was what faith are you. I was "none" and that was it as far as me. religion and my service time went. And that's the way it SHOULD be! This "Crusader" shit has GOT TO STOP!

 

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)
11. If your calling to serve Jesus
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 06:51 PM
Apr 2015

trumps your oath to support, protect and defend the Constitution, that's fine with me, so long as you get the hell out of the uniform of the United States.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)
17. I see these people as deranged. What they are doing is also clearly unconstitutional.
Mon Apr 6, 2015, 09:40 AM
Apr 2015

They do not even suspect the harm they are doing.

 

father founding

(619 posts)
18. Whatss wrong with a little jesus ?
Mon Apr 6, 2015, 10:08 AM
Apr 2015

They should bring them home to hunt here and restore America back to christianity from the self proclaimed " Atheists for Yahweh "

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