Like I said, my "basis" is fine.I am aware, considering I attended a reformed Christian service of one in an Australian camp in Afghanistan. There were no American chaplains at the time. My spiritual needs rested on a devout Aussie.
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Like I said, my "basis" is fine.I am aware, considering I attended a reformed Christian service of one in an Australian camp in Afghanistan. There were no American chaplains at the time. My spiritual needs rested on a devout Aussie.
Does it? This was once a Christian nation, still rooted in the moralistic teachings of Christianity. Can the chaplain put aside his beliefs for the female soldiers or the LBGT soldiers? Is the chaplain safe working around those whose suffered losses of friends and family to Muslims? As a Christian I understand that God has placed this chaplain in this position for a purpose beyond my understanding. This doesn't mean I have to like it.Continent or country, the point stands.
Does it? This was once a Christian nation, still rooted in the moralistic teachings of Christianity. Can the chaplain put aside his beliefs for the female soldiers or the LBGT soldiers?
Do you understand the religion of Islam, and the significance of the descendants of Ishmael in regards to Isaac's descendants as stated in Genesis?
That's more a myth than reality. The earliest English colonies in the US were in Virginia and they were looking to make money as a commercial enterprise. Religious idealism was only part of early America, and was by no means the only reason that people came here.
Since you have no basis in which to make your points relevant let me give you some perspective. This Sunday you'll have a new priest at your church. You are confined to only that church and that priest and must rely on him for your spiritual needs. This is the role of a chaplain in a setting such as a remote area of Afghanistan.
we are at war with Islam, Islam has been at war with all non-muslims since it founding, if wasn't for the brave Christians who fought at the battle of Kosovo, the Battle of the Gates of Vienna, who liberated the Holy Land in the 10th century, or the brave man Charles Martel who expell all Muslim's from Europe, or the brave Russians who fought the Turkish, and Tatar Yokes, the Heroic Marines who Thomas Jefferson sent to punish the Islamic barbery pirates, you all would be Muslim now with 5 wives, one of the wives being a donkey probably, and the other wives being 9 year olds. Democrats only want war with Christians, hench their recent hostility to Russia.
And yet, the nation of Sengal--which is 90% Sufi Muslim--peacefully elected a Catholic president and retained him for 20 years.
Sufis are a minority in the Islamic world, compared to the 12ers, Deobandis and the Salafists/Whabbis. We're talking a Suicidal Cult of radicals, the size of most modern nations, except maybe India or China.
But it also means your broad-brushed diatribe is false.
Not false at all, Islam been at war with non Muslim's since the 7th century, they use taaqiya to fool the "infidel" and they learned to weaponize the womb to build up a army of Jihadists.
Do you honestly find no difference between the two? Would you have asked our grandfather's to serve with a Japanese officer, and be 'blessed' by them before battle? Maybe you need to study your history and the Bible more before your moralistic worldview dictate your judgement in the matter.
Plymouth Colony =/= our country.I've already served, but thank you. It's not the religious liberty I'm against, our country was founded by Christians escaping religious persecution. The role of the chaplain is significant, and as an officer they have authority. How is a Muslim chaplain going to be able to both uphold the duties of his position while adhering to the teachings of their religion?
Hey now, if it weren't for us and the Crown losing Georgia there wouldn't be an Australia.*I was going to mention Jamestown, and the fact the "Pilgrims" were, like, 200 years before the idea of America a a country had even been thought of, but you guys are awfully wedded to your national narrative, and pointing out inconvenient historical facts seemed likely to derail the thread.
Feel free to make what you will of the fact that an Australian knows more about your colonial history than many of your countrymen, though.
Either way you would be wrong. Did you miss where Armoured referenced Jamestown?Was I referring to the country or the continent? Nice try.