Evangelist Video Shot at Air Force Academy Exposed

[babylonsister]

Evangelist Video Shot at Air Force Academy Exposed
by Anna Schechter


A video made by a Christian ministry group shows Air Force Academy cadets being pressured to become “government paid missionaries when they leave” the academy, according to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), which released the video this week.

MRFF president Mikey Weinstein says the video is unconstitutional and an outrage.

“This is absolutely out of control. You cannot engage the U.S. government to propel your religion,” said Weinstein.

The video features former Academy Campus Crusade for Christ director Scot Blum saying, “They’re government paid missionaries when they leave here,” referring to graduates of the academy.

“Our purpose for Campus Crusade for Christ at the Air Force Academy is to make Jesus Christ the issue at the Air Force Academy and around the world,” said Blum on the video.

Watch the Campus Crusade for Christ video at link~

Weinstein, whose organization has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense for violating service members’ right to religious freedom, said the video is one item on a “long menu” of unconstitutional evangelism going on in the military.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/21/5955/

[Submariner]

1. Armed crusaders for an imaginary sky-person

That is scary stuff when the military gets involved in enforcing belief in the religious world of make-believe.

[IntravenousDemilo]

2. Yeah, who do they think they are -- the Taliban or something? n/m

[bperci108]

7. Crusaders?

Probably a more accurate description than you intended, eh Submariner? ;)

[Echo In Light]

3. Didn't this story break some yrs back?

[Swamp Rat]

4. or they can join christo-fascist Blackwater afterward.

[whistle]

5. In the whole video there was not one Black or Hispanic face, the video

...images shout white dominance. Is that the policy of the U.S. Air Force Academy?

[peacetalksforall]

6. Makes you wonder if there is a religious angle to the bombs transferred

from ND to LA. The angle that comes to mind for me is Evangelists for Cheney complying with his bid to position a strike against Iran? Wild? Yes. But, we must think like a script writer and beyond with these people. Who else would blatantly destroy tapes. Who else would kill our kids and the kids of Iraq? And cause mental, physical, spiritual, immune, career, family destruction and leave anquish in the souls of some for the rest of their lives. Done on behalf of all their baron and corporate friends with plenty left over for them stashed in lock boxes off shore and in Dubai banks.

[rocktivity]

8. I see they've destroyed the evidence already

The video is no longer at the Campus Crusade site, but fortunately http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/video/USAF.mov">MRFF made a copy of it.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Joe Fields]

9. Mikey Weinstein's son was a cadet at the academy, and was beaten

severely by other "christian" cadets for being Jewish. According to Mikey, the Air Force Academy is actively churning out christian crusader officers.

Pretty scarey stuff, really.