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Related: About this forumTrump Effect Inspires Radical Christians in Military
Donald Trumps election has led to such a steep rise in fundamentalist Christian evangelizing and religious bigotry in the U.S. armed forces that the matter is reaching the level of a national security threat, according to information shared exclusively with Newsweek by an organization that represents and advocates for secular and minority religious views in the military.
The number of complaints from servicemen and -women in the Army, Air Force, Marines and other service branches to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has doubled in number since November 2016, according to lawyer Michael Mikey Weinstein, a former Air Force officer who founded the organization.
Many of the recent charges are coming from members of minority religions, including Roman Catholics, Jews and Muslims, and from atheists. Among the complaints: military family and marital therapy programs are being infused with Protestant Christianity, which would violate the U.S. Constitution; open anti-Semitism; anti-LGBT statements, posters, symbols and bullying; openly anti-Muslim teachers and Islamophobic attacks; a rise in on-base evangelizing; and increased pressure on recruits or lower-level personnel and service members to convert to fundamentalist Christianity.
With the advent of Trump as the commander in chief of our armed forces, MRFF has experienced a massive influx of new military and civilian personnel complaints of religion-based prejudice and bigotry, most of them coming from non-fundamentalist Christians being persecuted by their military superiors for not being Christian enough, Weinstein tells Newsweek.
http://www.newsweek.com/christian-fundamentalists-us-armed-forces-national-security-threat-613428
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)This not just "Freedom of Religion" it's "Freedom from Religion" as well. I'm sick of them. Absolutely sick of them. Trump is no "Christian" folks by any means of the definition.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Is it because all bad people must be non-Christians?
rug
(82,333 posts)Obviously.
No need for you to put words in a poster's mouth.
monmouth4
(9,694 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)Wow, that sounds like religious bigotry. Are you sure?
rug
(82,333 posts)Why do you do that, while suggesting the words you put in their mouths is bigotry?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Back when Trump was just a common con man with no pretensions to political office.
HAB911
(8,875 posts)It is run, and has been for a long time, by Fundamentalists
I don't think anyone has ever accused Trump of being a Christian, especially Christians
trotsky
(49,533 posts)I don't think anyone is in a position to judge who is or who is not a Christian. If someone says they are, we have to take them at their word. To do otherwise, and assume that all Christians are good people and anyone who isn't good automatically can't be a Christian is religious bigotry.
HAB911
(8,875 posts)"He/she is not a real Christian", I have to ask them..........Just who has the authority to make that determination?
They usually start mumbling at that point