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A fundamentalist Christian movement within the US military seeks to convert locals to the detriment of US strategy in Afghanistan, Jody Ray Bennett writes for ISN Security Watch. By Jody Ray Bennett for ISN Security Watch |
As if the Obama administration needed more problems with regard to Afghanistan, it can now add another to the growing list of concerns challenging American strategy in the 'graveyard of empires': Christian fundamentalists. This time, at least, the problem has nothing to do with “the enemy” - Taliban insurgents, covert Iranian influence or otherwise - as much as it has to do with the American forces itself. Indeed, the latest concern has everything to do with a seemingly opaque yet ubiquitous religious culture within US forces that has enabled a specific fundamentalist Christian movement to turn its sights on the Afghan public.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Or are they too tight with them, because of Israel?
MCM
From: Elizabeth Sholes
Date: May 28, 2009 12:49:48 PM MDT
To: Afoxman
Subject: A thoughtful request to you
Dear Mr. Foxman-
California Council of Churches IMPACT has been a long-time ally of ADL. For many years I have worked with many wonderful California and national ADL people around our mutual interest in stopping hate crimes, and we continue to ally on these issues and support for religious freedom. Therefore I write to ask you to engage with us on yet another such concern.
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Major Jeff Strueker is a bit of a celebrity among chaplains. As an enlisted soldier, Strueker was in the 1993 battle in Mogadishu, Somalia, and was portrayed in the movie "Black Hawk Down." He later became a chaplain, and is currently with the 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, Georgia. Chaplain Strueker's personal website promoting his speaking appearances and books is full of his publicity photos, in uniform, which are frequently used by churches where he is scheduled to speak.
In this video produced by his ecclesiastical endorsing agency, the North American Mission Board, Chaplain Strueker explains his evangelizing tactics while assigned to the Army Ranger School, saying that his "goal has been to meet them when they're at their absolute worst -- when they're coldest, and the most tired, and the most hungry that they're gonna be because the more difficult the circumstances, the more receptive the average person becomes to issues of faith and spiritual matters," and how being cut off from the outside world while in training means that they can be "confronted with the gospel for the first time with no distractions."
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MRFF has received a number of reports of the promotion of a program called "The Truth Project" (www.thetruthproject.org) on various military bases, with posters for the program being hung in unavoidable places like mess halls, and flyers and announcements being emailed to the troops. Unlike other evangelizing programs, "The Truth Project," created by Focus on the Family, is not aimed at non-Christians, but at the Christians who aren't the "right kind" of Christians. The program's goal is to transform these "other" Christians into fundamentalists by promoting the fundamentalist "biblical worldview," a view that, according to Focus on the Family, only 9 percent of professing Christians have. The promotion of programs like this, whose aim to impose the views of the fundamentalist minority on the non-fundamentlist Christians in the military, both Protestant and Catholic, might help to explain why 96% of the service members who contact MRFF for assistance are Christians themselves -- just not the "right kind" of Christians for today's military.
This was a PowerPoint flyer emailed to one of the service members who reported the military's promotion of this program to MRFF.
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