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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts) Tue Jun 16, 2015, 10:16 PM Jun 2015

Onward 'Christian Soldiers': First American Volunteer Dies Fighting ISIS

The first American volunteer to die fighting ISIS in defense of persecuted Syrian and Iraqi Christians will be laid to rest Wednesday.

Keith Broomfield, 36, had been in Syria for four months with the secular Kurdish People’s Protection Units. On June 3, he was killed during a skirmish with ISIS fighters near Kobani, a city in northern Syria.

Broomfield felt “led by the Lord” to enter the fight despite his lack of military training, his father told CBS.

“He turned his life over to the Lord and he decided this was God's will and God wanted him to do it," his mother told NBC.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2015/june/onward-christian-soldiers-fighting-isis-keith-broomfield.html

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Onward 'Christian Soldiers': First American Volunteer Dies Fighting ISIS (Original Post) SecularMotion Jun 2015 OP

Onward Christian soldiers... Historic NY Jun 2015 #1

Anyone fighting ISIS is doing somehing useful (except their al Nosra nemesis) Yorktown Jun 2015 #10

This makes as much sense as the three teenagers leaving Denver to join ISIS mr blur Jun 2015 #2

My god can pee farther than your god! Major Nikon Jun 2015 #3

It's ok. He's just waiting for the respawn cool down timer. AtheistCrusader Jun 2015 #4

The joking about this death is an embarassment for DU at large. The guy is dead, period. pinto Jun 2015 #5

If you held your friends to the same standard you hold the rest of DU, trotsky Jun 2015 #6

It's what they do. It's who they really are. Leontius Jun 2015 #7

Somewhere, there's a mirror looking for you. cleanhippie Jun 2015 #9

Sounds like a good man trying to do what he thought was a good thing. cbayer Jun 2015 #8

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)

1. Onward Christian soldiers...

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 11:11 PM

Jun 2015

what a novel approach to fighting the crusades again.

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)

10. Anyone fighting ISIS is doing somehing useful (except their al Nosra nemesis)

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 02:06 AM

Jun 2015

Whatever the cranky motivation, anyone fighting ISIS is helping roll back those psychopaths.

mr blur

(7,753 posts)

2. This makes as much sense as the three teenagers leaving Denver to join ISIS

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 01:51 PM

Jun 2015

So here's a guy with no military training and no reason to kill people except that "God wanted him to do it"

Why would God want him to do that? Oh, right, because Christians were being persecuted. That's OK then.

I suspect that he was conditioned into this ridiculous view of existence by the same mother and father who are not shouting and raging like rational people would at another senseless waste of life. "He turned his life over to the Lord"? Well that explains it. You stupid, stupid woman!

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

3. My god can pee farther than your god!

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 02:01 PM

Jun 2015

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)

4. It's ok. He's just waiting for the respawn cool down timer.

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 02:13 PM

Jun 2015

pinto

(106,886 posts)

5. The joking about this death is an embarassment for DU at large. The guy is dead, period.

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 05:37 PM

Jun 2015

As in d-e-a-d, dead. Whatever his motivations were, however misguided his intentions, however misled he may have been is a matter of conjecture. All well and good for a look and discussion. Yukking it up over the death of an individual - any individual - is tacky to say the least. I'm sorry to see that here.