{"id":134716,"date":"2017-09-16T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T16:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134716"},"modified":"2017-09-17T12:57:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T18:57:04","slug":"chaplains-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/16\/chaplains-gone-wild.html","title":{"rendered":"Chaplains! gone! wild!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The military is a microcosm of society as a whole, even with the added layer of discipline and mission. So it shouldn’t be surprising that questions of religious intolerance and excessive zeal — and just plain bigotry — would find their way into the armed services. It’s troubling amongst the enlisted. It’s dangerous when it’s seen in the leadership.<\/p>\n

But it’s particularly problematic when it comes from members of the chaplaincy. Chaplains in the military are in an odd role — sponsored by their particular faiths, they are intended to serve the needs of all the troops, not just their coreligionists. They oversee religious services, provide counsel and support. They walk a fine line between their own religious fervor (one wouldn’t expect a someone devoting themselves to such service to be wishy-washy in their faith) and supporting the people and service as a whole.<\/p>\n

Proselytizing is dodgy. Condemning the very foundation of unity, of a pluralistic military and society, should be right out.<\/p>\n

A U.S. Air Force chaplain who ministers to thousands of men and women at an Ohio base is asserting that Christians in the U.S. Armed Forces \u201cserve Satan\u201d and are \u201cgrossly in error\u201d if they support service members’ right to practice other faiths. In an article posted on BarbWire.com three days ago<\/a>, Captain Sonny Hernandez, an Air Force Reserve chaplain for the 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, criticized Christian service members who rely on the Constitution \u201cand not Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

He wrote: \u201cCounterfeit Christians in the Armed forces will appeal to the Constitution, and not Christ, and they have no local church home\u2014which means they have no accountability for their souls (Heb. 13:17). This is why so many professing Christian service members will say: We \u2018support everyone\u2019s right\u2019 to practice their faith regardless if they worship a god different from ours because the Constitution protects this right.\u201d Hernandez continued: \u201cChristian service members who openly profess and support the rights of Muslims, Buddhists, and all other anti-Christian worldviews to practice their religions\u2014because the language in the Constitution permits\u2014are grossly in error, and deceived.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For a member of the military to suggest that the Constitution must be subordinated to Christ, or that other faiths are inferior and should not be practiced is, perhaps, theologically sound from Capt. Hernandez perspective, but it’s not an attitude that can be itself be tolerated within the military service of the United States — any more than a fervent evangelical Protestant preacher could be tolerated as the Rabbi of a synagogue: it’s not an assertion as to the correctness of their faith, but their suitability to the position.<\/p>\n

I disagree profoundly with Hernandez, but he has ever right, under the Constitution,<\/i> to hold his opinion. But not to preach it as a member of the US Military. It is destructive to discipline, and a violation of his military oath.<\/p>\n

Will he be disciplined? Will he be booted? That’s quite another question.<\/p>\n

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\nChristians in U.S. Military \u2018Serve Satan\u2019 If They Tolerate Other Religions, Air Force Chaplain Says<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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