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11/13/12 – HUFFINGTON POST – Hey General Petraeus, How’s That ‘Spiritual Fitness’ Stuff Working For You?

Published On: November 13, 2012|Categories: News|1 Comment|

Yeah, General Petraeus, we see how well that "spiritual fitness" stuff is working for you.

by Chris Rodda, MRFF Senior Research Director

Selected Article Excerpts:

  • I hate hypocrites. And the first word that came to mind when I heard about David Petraeus’s extramarital affair was “hypocrite.”
  • One of the big issues we’ve been dealing with for several years at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is the military’s push to make our troops “spiritually fit.” There’s the mandatory Army-wide “Spiritual Fitness” test, spiritual fitness concerts, spiritual fitness centers, and lots of other spiritual fitness events and programs to keep our military “spiritual.” But while the military insists that “spiritual fitness” does not mean religion, it does. All of this spiritual fitness stuff, which the military spares no expense on, is just a cover to push religion, and particularly evangelical Christianity. The spiritual fitness concerts always have evangelical Christian performers and most of the Army’s Strong Bonds events are really just evangelical Christian retreats.
  • And what’s one of the big goals of all this “spiritual fitness” stuff? Strong marriages, of course! And who was a big proponent of this “spiritual fitness” stuff? Yeah, you got it – General David Petraeus.
  • Gen. Petraeus first came on MRFF’s radar back in 2007, when we were looking into the completely unconstitutional practice of soldiers being forced to attend mandatory Christian concerts during basic training at several of the Army’s largest training installations. That’s when we found Petraeus’s photo and endorsement of these concerts on the Eric Horner Ministries website, praising Horner’s military base concerts.

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  1. Al Foster November 13, 2012 at 4:42 pm

    Ah, schadenfreude, how sweet it is. I couldn’t care less what he does in his private life, but, how does it go, “hoist on his own petard”?

    “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
    ~H,L, Mencken

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