Wednesday, December 21, 2005

This is Scary - no Sad

Trust me -- "there is no atheist in a foxhole"! Trying to censor a chaplain, officially or unofficially, is wrong. If the only chaplain at your disposal is of the Jewish faith we (military members) are intelligent to know that "in Jesus name" want be used, but most are aware if the chaplain's faith is Protestant then surely they will use "in Jesus name".
Military chaplains told to shy from Jesus -The Washington Times
I am a Navy chaplain being fired because I pray in Jesus' name,' said Navy Lt. Gordon Klingenschmitt, who will be holding 6 p.m. prayer vigils daily in Lafayette Park.
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[b]About 80 percent of U.S. troops are Christian[/b], the legislators wrote, adding that military "censorship" of chaplains' prayers disenfranchises "hundreds of thousands of Christian soldiers in the military who look to their chaplains for comfort, inspiration and support."
Official military policy allows any sort of prayer, but Lt. Klingenschmitt says that in reality, evangelical Protestant prayers are censored. He cites his training at the Navy Chaplains School in Newport, R.I., where "they have clipboards and evaluators who evaluate your prayers, and they praise you if you pray just to God," he said. "But if you pray in Jesus' name, they counsel you."
Muslim, Jewish and Roman Catholic chaplains are likewise told not to pray in the name of Allah, in Hebrew or in the name of the Trinity, he added.

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