ASSOCIATED BAPTIST PRESS – Group says Southern Baptists oppose religious equality in the military
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- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (ABP) – A group dedicated to separation of church and state in the armed forces charged that Southern Baptists are against religious equality after an article compared its work at the U.S. Air Force Academy to “a mission to rid the institution of Christian influence.”
- “Hey, they have to have some other juicy, if not quite true, examples of Christian persecution to generate some good outrage, right?” Rodda wrote. “And they also need someone to target as the big, bad anti-Christian boogeyman — and that would be Mikey Weinstein, the founder and president of MRFF. In fact, the main gist of the Baptist Press article is that none of this horrible Christian persecution at the Air Force Academy is the Academy’s fault; it’s all the work of Weinstein.”
- Rodda said Weinstein, a 1997 Air Force Academy graduate who was honored last year as Americans United for Separation of Church and State’s first-ever “Person of the Year,” is not anti-Christian. Of 351 Military Religious Freedom Foundation clients at the Air Force Academy, she said, 316 are Christians, both Protestant and Catholic.
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“In an article from the Baptist Press, the news arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Southern Baptists have finally come right out and admitted what we at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation have known all along — they oppose religious equality in the U.S. military.”
If you are a christian, then you know that no one or nothing can equal JESUS CHRIST. Why sould a country founded on christian values accept or acknowledge another religion. If you honestly beleive the only way to get to heaven is thru JESUS , then to accept another religions views is blasphemy.Our job as christians is stated in the BIBLE, go forth, preach the word, help to convert the non-believers. How can we honestly do this if our own gov’t says we must allow, give equal time, and accept every other religion in world. ______ Rodda said Southern Baptists’ problem with MRFF clients is not that they are atheists but rather the “wrong kind” of Christians. The “right” kind of Christians, she contended, are “dominionist and fundamentalist” evangelicals who want to take over the U.S. military. The only right christian is the one who excepts that JESUS already owns the world and we are just here by his grace for a short time. And yes I beleive that our job is to erase the world of any other religion,,but not by force. Will everyone be saved,,it is possible, but not probable, the BIBLE says so.
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