Barn Raiser Covers MRFF, from its Beginnings Two Decades Ago to Navigating the Challenges of a Christian Nationalist MAGA Regime
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Here’s what MRFF Board and Advisory Board members interviewed by Barn Raiser had to say:
“I remember having some problem with what I would call radical Christians in the military but not to the extent that I couldn’t handle them as a commander.” … “The problem has just metastasized. It’s grown and grown and grown, and with the MAGA folks. Now it’s become gargantuan.” … “If they do try another January 6, [Christian fundamentalism] will be a huge component of it.” — MRFF Advisory Board Member Col. (Ret.) Larry Wilkerson
“I’m a civil libertarian and certainly very deeply concerned about the Christian Nationalist movement and the dangers that I think all this nonsense carries with it.” … Two things inspire his support for Weinstein: “His direct, overt exposition of what of the danger is” and the fact that “he goes to bat for particular people who are suffering.” — MRFF Advisory Board Member Mike Farrell
“The chaplains that I knew were real friendly and open and flexible and respected other people’s beliefs and let ’em believe what they want to,” he says. “There wasn’t a lot of imposing religious beliefs on the military when I was in there. It just wasn’t. It was just a completely different atmosphere.” — MRFF Board Member Brig. Gen. (Ret.) John Compere
“MRFF’s role is to give a voice consistent with our constitutional rights to especially junior members of our military who don’t have that voice.” — MRFF Advisory Board Member Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Marty France
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Petey Hogsbreath looking like a real “Paper Lion” with that crusader tattoo.
Christian’s hate the Jews for being “Christ killers,” but it was, if you believe the story, a preprogrammed event. As the story goes, “he died for our sins.” What sins? Oh, my bad, the sins we were born with, taking from the tree of knowledge, God, like MAGA, wants you dumb and docile, pliant, inculcated with fealty. It’s a great little heavenly catch 22 to start out your life with. But a great little scam. You know, keep you in the fold. Very lucrative financially if you’re on the receiving end of that scam.
So, one way or another, the Jewish Savior was going to die anyway, amirite? Well, he didn’t really die, he just had a bad weekend, you know, being God incarnate an all, the outcome predetermined. It was God who “killed” him. You know, for your benefit.
You were, if you believe, born sick and commanded to be well. Money helps btw.
All religions are cults. Period. A continuum of Asch Conformity Experiments, proven time and time again.
“Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Inculcate a man in religion and his brain turns to mush!”
I’m convinced the Christianization of our military is temporal. They’ll eat themselves. At some point, it becomes a question of flavors of Christianity, not whether or not you are Christian.
Just like the current administration. The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing, cabinet infighting, exposed abject incompetence. Iran just kicked Trump’s ass and has reserved for itself the right to enrich uranium. They’ve won the hearts and minds of the world leaving the U.S. and Israel the pariah States they are. New partnerships being formed, the world putting distance between themselves and the two most hated states.
Israel wants the U.S. in a ground game against Iran but the U.S. has no ground game, only body bags to bring America’s sons and daughters home in, the sacrifice of dystopian incompetency.
Much like proselytizing Christian Commanders. They’ll eat themselves!
Religion – You can’t start a war without it!
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Apparently, according to Trump, the pilots of the B2s that attacked Iran are calling Trump and are literally crying that their feelings are hurt because the media is saying they didn’t destroy Iran’s nuclear capability as Trump said they did. I think the words Trump used were, “totally obliterated.”
Come to find out, yeah, not so much. Facilities were empty as it turns out, and the uranium had already been moved?
SECDEF Hogsbreath berating the media in a press conference, yelling at reporters, reiterating that the pilots were crying as a result! Completely broken hearted. In tears. You know, MAGA tears. Shame on those reporters! They know everyone gets a participation trophy!
We know it wasn’t female pilots flying the B2 Iran mission because Hogsbreath hates women in the military, particularly, women aviators.
Which means, the pilots “crying” to Trump are ….. men? Ouch!
Who knew US Air Force B2 pilots were so sensitive! All 14 of them? I can’t believe all of them were crying. We’re ALL of them crying Donnie?
“Awwww, look, you tried. “A” for effort. Let’s go to the O club, I’ll buy you a root beer. Come here. Let me give you a hug!”
Trump’s Troops – He says they’re pretty fragile! Who knew?
My apologies for off topic commentary but this shit is too dystopian not to mention.
Trump just said he’s “letting” China buy Iranian oil because Iran needs the money to rebuild! WTF? This is the country Trump just attacked! Unprovoked! Illegally!
Remember when he made the news talking about all the money Obama had given Iran by removing sanctions, unfreezing the hold on Iranian money? But now, he wants Iran to have money? He, literally, thinks he just fought a war with Iran. Complementing them on how tough they are! Thanking them for warning us about their attack on our air base in Qatar. In other words, capitulating, acknowledging Iran kicked our ass without even a fight!
When, just a week ago, he was raging on about how if Iran didn’t immediately “unconditionally surrender,” the United States was going to open up hell on Iran! You see Iran surrender? In fact, they responded with an attack on one of our bases! ‘Here’s your surrender. 14 made-in-Iran missiles!”
Incidentally, haven’t heard him say shit about rebuilding Gaza.
But let me interpret his comments for you. “If I don’t let Iran sell oil to China, they’re going to shut down the straight of Hormuz and fuck us all and there’s nothing I can do about it! They’re going to attack our bases in the region, Americans are going to die. Our 5th Fleet in Bahrain is going to be attacked, Saudi Oil. Iraqi oil. Kuwaiti oil. American aircraft carriers will be attacked. We just can’t let that happen.”
In other words, Taco’d. He knows he can’t beat Iran because, ‘he doesn’t have the cards” to use his phraseology.
As I previously posted, he’s going to run Bibi out of his job as Prime Minister. And Bibi knows it. Israel has been shaken like they’ve never been shaken in their history. Iron Dome is no defense against Iranian missiles. Parts of Tel Aviv look like Gaza. The Israelis are scared! Israel is running out of missiles, their people are leaving, the economy is decimated, energy targeted by Iran. In other words, Iran kicked Israel’s ass!
How would one know Netanyahu is leaving? Because Trump is asking for a pardon for Bibi or the dropping of charges against him, which means, once Trump guarantees no charges against Netanyahu, Netanyahu will be allowed to step down. It’s either that or jail and Trump is trying to keep him out of jail. Netanyahu is gone, history. Along with his henchmen Smotrich and Ben Gvir. Progress, ironic green apples, although a bit late to save the thousands of innocent lives.
Netanyahu may end up living his golden years in the U.S. A plush exile. Hopefully at Mar a Lago! :-)
Trump knows Israel and the U.S. are the most hated nations on the world stage and no one’s going to give a Nobel prize to the leader of one of the most hated states. It’s all about ratings with the Orange Man. It’s all about how it looks on TV.
Netanyahu, Biden, and Trump should be tried for crimes against humanity given the carnage in Gaza. Removal of Bibi from power is a positive first step in the right direction.
Progress of a kind.
Trump could, legitimately, be awarded a Nobel Prize if he would immediately cut off all financial support to Israel and cut off all weapons shipments to Israel.
And Trump doesn’t give two fucks about AIPAC – he can’t run again! He doesn’t need their money. He’s made billions grifting while in office and will make billions more before he leaves. His legacy could be sealed with not only a Nobel Prize, but a Palestinian State right along side Israel! A marked legitimate achievement. He, literally, could have a Trump Tower in Gaza built by – Palestinians!
So easily accomplished. Israel is on the ropes.
Israeli aggression would end completely- overnight!
And the nights would be peaceful!
Today is PTSD Awareness Day shame on the MRFF for not noting this. Every day 22 veterans take their own lives and THAT is a much more important issue then Bibles on tables. All they want is publicity and money.
Many veterans do not receive VA care.
Coupled with Trump’s VA staff cuts of 83,000, yeah, it leaves a sense that this administration cares very little about the nation’s veterans.
You know, those Trump calls “suckers and losers!”
Old Soldier, I’ve been retired from the Air Force longer than I served: it’ll be 28 years in December! I’ve never heard of PTSD Awareness Day — which isn’t to say that PTSD Awareness Day doesn’t exist. Rather, in the shuffling madness of day-to-day living, I’ve simply never heard of it.
I agree that more people should be aware of PTSD Awareness Day, and I feel reasonably certain MRFF could do things to bring it more attention. I have to ask two questions, though. First, MRFF’s mission is about protecting the rights of members of the armed forces to worship as their conscience calls, rather than according to the desires or dictates of their superiors. Given that, how would promoting PTSD Awareness Day fit within MRFF’s mission? Is there a religious element here? Are unit commanders suppressing displays of PTSD awareness for religious reasons? If so, there may well be a justification for MRFF to get involved.
My second question relates to what appears — to me at least — a degree of hostility toward MRFF on your part. If that’s the case, are you sure that MRFF is an organization you want promoting PTSD Awareness Day? I ask because there seem to be a lot of people who oppose MRFF because MRFF interferes with promoting their White Christian Nationalist views among members of the armed forces. That being the case, it may be better for the cause of promoting awareness of PTSD Awareness Day if MRFF didn’t publicly support it.
I agree that PTSD Awareness Day is important — more people need to be aware of PTSD and its effects year round! I have an older brother who served with 1 CAV in Vietnam. Before volunteering for the Army, he was bright, inquisitive and motivated. When he came back — not so much. He was withdrawn and behaved strangely — strangely enough that my family got a committal order that put him in the mental health unit at the local VA hospital. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Today, that would probably have been diagnosed as PTSD.
If getting MRFF to publicly support PTSD Awareness Day would help promote the cause, I’d be all for it! But if getting MRFF to publicly support PTSD awareness were to taint efforts to garner support for PTSD research and treatment, I’d respectfully ask that they refrain.
Been quiet. You know, life.
Anyhoo there is a PTSD awareness day but the focus is ALL those suffering the effects not just those in the military. But the grumpy old soldier doesn’t really care about PTSD as an illness but a way to attack another by virtue signaling. Again.
All that exceptionalism SecDef Sneezy blurted out and yet Israel had to send some bombs after we dropped ours. I guess obliterated means something different than from when I was a kid.
Also, here is a thought for the old soldier who complains all the freaking time – where is your outrage for the cancelling of the mental health hotlines for the VA? You care about PTSD but say nothing of the defunding?
As I said, virtue signaling, that skill learned at the knee of every Nat-C.
Israel’s latest propaganda campaign taking place right here in America. You know, Land of the Free.
The legislative bodies in the United States are the best Israeli money can buy (money we gave them btw – great little scam).
The tactic is to criminalize free speech using the anti-Semitic trope they always pull out to stifle truth. “Criticism” of Israel is criminalized, not only in Washington but in state houses across the country. A critical op ed in a university paper gets you incarcerated and deported. “Defund universities” Trump’s calling card, US adversaries thrilled by the news of further debasement of U.S. intellectual capability. China, Japan, Canada, and Europe already recruiting university professors, researchers, and tech professionals. “Why live with the uncertainty? Come live and work with us – we’ll take you!”
US education system being gutted in favor of for-profit privatization, sitting your little Johnny and Suzie down in front of a computer screen for self-taught learning while they rake in billions, home-schooling encouraged as Christian parenting choice, the production of minions the goal in your new self-isolated Gilead.
China working on maglev trains capable of speeds in excess of 600 mph as the U.S. wants to sell off public lands and “drill-baby-drill,” a fool’s errand. They currently have more high-speed rail than all other countries combined! Embracing technology, growing their research and engineering base. Working on photolithographic capability to rival that of the world’s sole producer, AMSI, looking at machines capable of chips at 2nm and beyond, self sufficiency the goal. Chinese aviation soon to rival the world’s only two competitors, Boeing and Airbus, for transatlantic wide body people movers, complete vertical integration in China as opposed to US reliance on global supply chains for aviation production. With Trump’s tariff tantrums, how long do you think US competitiveness will last? Not long!
If that’s the backwards America you want to live in, “then you just go on with your bad self!l
Joe Biden, for example, said “I am a Zionist,” As a life long Democrat, I say “fuck Joe Biden,” his entire legacy stained with the blood of innocents being slaughtered in Gaza with US manufactured and funded weaponry and bombs.
Trump no better, continuing to support the carnage, green lighting the war criminals in Israel, genocide the order of the day fueled by Christian bigotry. Trump himself publicly wanting to “own Gaza” for the benefit of his dreams of a Mediterranean riviera, everything Trump at its center, once the Palestinians are purged from their home land. Trump’s developer wet dream.
In Orwellian fashion, the oppressed became the oppressors going on eight decades, free speech now all but dead, the United States a dying empire, its waning hegemony being challenged on the world stage as new alliances are formed leaving America to its own self-isolation and aggression directed inward against its own people. The U.S. military deployed in the streets against its own people. A warning not to those watching from afar on the world stage, a warning to its own people, “step out of line and see what happens,” face covered unidentified thugs the enforcers. A “good guy” with a gun as republicans like to say? Unidentified good guys. The State’s secret police. No different than that used by despots in other countries.
Your wake-up call front and center!
“The freedom you thought you had?” Pure fiction. Keep wishing, ‘Merika!”
Trump, after having “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program capability, is threatening to attack Iran again – for its nuclear program capability!
You absolutely can’t make this shit up!
In other words, the U.S. capital in Tel Aviv wants regime change, just like it did in Iraq and Libya and Syria.
It’s about subjugating the Iranian people, bending them to the will of the power brokers, you know, kind of like here in the United States with their secret police forces, using the U.S. military for civil control, unidentified government thugs rounding people up without due process.
But that’s what Tel Aviv wants and you know, whatever Israel wants, Israel gets!
Albeit, this time it’s a bit different. Israel is already preventing its own people from leaving, the brain drain severe. Actually preventing their own citizenry from leaving. You have to get special permission from the “Exception Committee.” I say good. If that isn’t a sign that the Israeli Stste is on the ropes, I don’t know what it! The economy on the ropes, Iran having hit its energy sector. 60,000 businesses closed. Israel didn’t anticipate Iran handing their ass to them! Neither did Trump. The Taco Man backed down very quickly right after threatening Iran with a massive U.S. attack. Because, Trump Always Chickens Out! All talk and even that’s unintelligible!
Seems the Israelis didn’t seem to like it when Iran rained down missiles on their Apartheid asses! Kind of like being on the receiving end in Gaza. What’s that? You didn’t sign up for it? Yes you did. You asked for it. No different than what you doled out for others, but of course, they’re “animals” aren’t they? Palestinians don’t count!
Only colonial settlers. Preferably “white” settlers!
Dripping irony in Israel setting up a battle command center ………… wait for it ……….. under a hospital! When you hide behind human shields, don’t be surprised when civilians pay the price! Haven’t I heard that before somewhere?
More and more are fed up with Israel’s “forever wars” and aggression.
The good news is Israel is eating itself and those bought and paid for legislators in America are finding themselves between a “holy rock and a genocide,” exposed for all to see. World pariahs. Everyone knows who you are and what you are!
The word on the street and even in MAGA congressional circles is “fuck Israel and the Christian Nationalist horse they rode in on!” Insidious parasites!
What happened to America First?
You go MAGA! Getting what you asked for – American troops destined for body bags adorned with a Star of David? Have fun! As Steve Bannon said just before Jan 6, “it’s gonna be wild!”