Valerie Voigt told me about the May issue of Harpers, whose cover story, “Taking of Jerusalem by crusaders,”   describes the attempt by conservative evangelical Christians to take over the American military, turning it into a vehicle of religious indoctrination at the point of a gun.   I had reported on this problem earlier in my blog in 2007    but evangelizing in the military and using it to evangelize Afghans and other Muslims is such a great threat to our relations abroad and freedom at home that I want to do so again.  Valerie’s alert nudged me to return to this issue, and today’s story on Hunting people for Jesus in Huffington Post  assured it would be today.

Troops forcing their religious commitments on others and killing those who disagree once slaughtered millions in Europe, and unknown multitudes later elsewhere.  Our Founders thought they had freed the American people from these ignorant and barbaric practices.  But boring from within, subversive dominionists   and other anti-American evangelicals are undermining our own traditions.  Their demonizing of people with other religious beliefs opens the door to the enxt logical step: using force and murder to force their views on those weaker than them, something many Christians long relied on when their arguments are found wanting.  

Today the Huffington Post has an important video appeared on how ‘Christians’ in the military are encouraging soldiers to “Hunt People for Jesus.”  Of course these practices are receiving plenty of attention in the Muslim world, even as Americans are kept from learning about it by our corporate press.

Even under President Obama officers pursuing this agenda continue to serve and are in line for promotion rather than being court martialed and jailed, as they deserve.   They violated their oath to uphold our Constitution, disobeyed order number one in the military, not to evangelize, and are in practice as anti-American as any Taliban.

In the front of the battle against these subversives, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation,  is fighting to ensure that all members of our Armed Forces receive the constitutional guarantees of religious freedom to which they and all Americans are entitled by our Constitution.  According to a prepublication statement by the Foundation, among other things the Harper’s article reports

1. An Easter Sunday raid on Iraqi insurgents in 2004.  Special Forces Officers, inspired by a showing of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, wrote the words “Jesus Killed Mohammed” in Arabic on their Bradley Fighting Vehicle and shouted the saying in both English and Arabic to entice Muslim soldiers into the open before embarking on an attack to put down the insurgency.

2. A meeting of an underground all-male, cadet-led prayer group at the U.S. Air Force Academy where members discuss, among other things, the deceptions necessary for missionary work in China.  The author attended the group’s meeting under the promise that he would not publish the group’s name out of fear that: “Those who do believe in separation of church and state might interfere with its goal of turning the world’s most elite war college into its most holy one, a seminary with courses in carpet bombing.”

3. Interviews with Lieutenant Colonel Bob Young in which he defends and shows no remorse for stating that it would be better for a black to be a slave in America and know Christ, than to be free and not know Christ.

4. A speech given by Army Lieutenant Colonel Greg Metzgar before the Officers Christian Fellowship – a group with 15,000 active members at 80 percent of military bases – in which he stressed: “Christian soldiers must always consider themselves behind enemy lines, even within the ranks, because every unsaved member of the military is a potential agent of ‘spiritual terrorism.'”

Secrecy, deception, lying, and the dehumanization of any who disagree, I can find nothing spiritual about these so-called religious people with guns.  The logic of their arguments leads to violence against “spiritual terrorists.”  They worship power and domination, and the more they worship power the less of a human heart remains, until they can only feel fulfilled by exercising domination and are drunk on self-righteousness.  We need not wonder where they would fall on the PEW torture poll.  I urge you to look at the video on Huffington Post and read the Harpers article.  

I look forward to the day, if ever it should it happen, when the decent part of the Christian community loudly and publicly denounces these traitorous frauds.

I fear I’ll have a long wait.