October 15, 2004

“What I’m here to do today is to recruit you to be warriors of God’s kingdom.” Pointer is to an article within the Yurica Report website; I've quoted only a brief excerpt. Seymour Hersh commented in a radio interview recently that footnotes are one of the marks of the liberal position. There are upwards of 160 footnotes for this article. You judge ...

An excerpt from the article: "... Force Ministries takes Matthew 11:12 as their “Defining passage:” It reads in the version quoted: “From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it.” NIV. The web site states, “FORCE skydiving is a ministry to the military and through the military. The FORCE Ministry skydiving team is comprised of current and former Navy SEALs whose lives have been touched through FORCE.” In other words, FORCE is composed of men from the military’s “Special Operations” branch. The website boasts a worldwide military ministry: “Force Ministries will send and maintain military missionaries in strategic locations throughout the world. Funded through Morning Star Partnership Development, these workers will locate near military bases and campuses throughout the world. This effort will be headed by Lt. Col. Art (Raylee) Smith, USAF (Retired).” "In addition Force states that it will “provide a discipleship environment for Christian chaplains to encourage and support their efforts in the field.” ...

posted by hank 20 years ago
  • Christians in the military?!! And their faith influences their politics and worldview?!! And they try to persuade others?!!! End times, indeed.
  • Out of curiosity, and nothing to do with the post, but why do some words/topics get garbled on my MoFi front page? Does this happen to everybody, or have the clowns taken over my pc?
  • linky no worky
  • Yep. Link fuxx0red. I'm curious about the character gobbledegook too.
  • I get funky characters, too...
  • Hmmm. The link works without the trailing slash but not with it. http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/InfiltratingTheUSMilitaryGenBoykinsWarriors.html The references (those hundred-sixty-plus footnotes) are worth a look, if you can get to the page. Among them you'll find references to a variety of Christians saying -- these people aren't behaving like Christians. Rather odd mirror much like the Moslems who are saying that Al-Quaeda isn't a religious group, come to think of it.
  • When Catholics get Confirmed into the Faith, they are slapped by the Bishop and called "Soldiers of Christ" they are not allowed to slap the Bishop back.
  • Yeah, LarryC. Because a bunch of people who have guns and think everyone should convert to their faith has never caused any problems before.
  • TeneciousPettle/Meredithea - If you're using internet explorer 6.0, you can make it look right by going to View -> Encoding -> More -> Unicode(UTF-8). Now you should be able to see the main link with fancy left-and-right quote signs. Mozilla gets it right without any fiddling. I'm afraid I don't know how to make IE "Auto-Select" work right to recognize the encoding of these pages every time. Any professionals out there care to consult?
  • Thanks! Now it's all pretty :)
  • In today's NYT, another early warning in the same vein (as pointed out in Metafilter) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?position=&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position= A brief excerpt "... October 17, 2004 Without a Doubt By RON SUSKIND Bruce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush, told me recently that ''if Bush wins, there will be a civil war in the Republican Party starting on Nov. 3.'' The nature of that conflict, as Bartlett sees it? Essentially, the same as the one raging across much of the world: a battle between modernists and fundamentalists, pragmatists and true believers, reason and religion. ''Just in the past few months,'' Bartlett said, ''I think a light has gone off for people who've spent time up close to Bush: that this instinct he's always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do.'' Bartlett, a 53-year-old columnist and self-described libertarian Republican who has lately been a champion for traditional Republicans concerned about Bush's governance, went on to say: ''This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can't be persuaded, that they're extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he's just like them. . . . ''This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts,'' Bartlett went on to say. ''He truly believes he's on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence.'' Bartlett paused, then said, ''But you can't run the world on faith.'' ..."
  • In which case he is psychotic. This explains so much.
  • TeneciousPettle/Meredithea - If you're using internet explorer 6.0, you can make it look right by going to View -> Encoding -> More -> Unicode(UTF-8). My god....it's full of stars!
  • Now featured at Metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36334