Pro-Christian video, filmed at Pentagon, under attack
Posted December 11, 2006
An interesting story from today's Washington Post:
Inquiry Sought Over Evangelical Video Defense Department Asked to Examine Officers' Acts Supporting Christian Group
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 11, 2006; Page A03A military watchdog group is asking the Defense Department to investigate whether seven Army and Air Force officers violated regulations by appearing in uniform in a promotional video for an evangelical Christian organization.
In the video, much of which was filmed inside the Pentagon, four generals and three colonels praise the Christian Embassy, a group that evangelizes among military leaders, politicians and diplomats in Washington. Some of the officers describe their efforts to spread their faith within the military.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121000883.html
Archived Comments
This is extremely scary stuff.
My father was a Colonel in the United States Air Force, an outstanding attorney and a pilot. He was also active in what was then called the Officers' Christian Union. Billy Graham asked him twice to sit on the platform wearing his uniform at his evangelistic crusades. This is nothing new, but anti-military, anti-administration neo-socialists tend to blow this sort of thing out of proportion.
There has traditionally been a connection between the military and evangelical groups that has always rather sickened me. I suppose that if your mission in life is to go out and kill people as efficiently as possible, it helps if you think God is on your side.
Something tells me that the Pentagon never invited, say, the American Friends Service Committee, or other peace groups to come in and film there.