Navy Chaplain Who Called for Attack on Islam Finds His Credentials Under Scrutiny

[babylonsister]

Navy Chaplain Who Called for Attack on Islam Finds His Credentials Under Scrutiny
by Jason Leopold

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But a closer look at Waite's credentials shows that the chaplain, who serves tens of thousands of military personnel, may not be as scholarly as he holds himself out to be.

Indeed, Covington Theological Seminary is just one of the religious institutions on Waite's lengthy resume that has been identified as a "diploma mill," and has been found to award degrees to students through "correspondence" studies. Covington had received its accreditation status by The International Accrediting Commission for Schools, Colleges and Theological Seminaries (IAC) of Missouri, which was caught up in a federal investigation more than a decade ago for accrediting more than 150 higher learning institutions that failed to meet the most basic standards under the US Department of Education, the Generally Accepted Accrediting Principles, and the Council on Higher Education (CHEA).

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Military chaplains have come under fire from civil rights groups over the past several years for allegedly force feeding soldiers on the battlefield a form of fundamentalist Christianity origination from highly controversial, apocalyptic "End Times" evangelists and their mega-churches. Evangelical Christians have become such a dominating presence in the military’s chaplain corps that the Air Force held a four-day Spiritual Fitness Conference at Hilton Hotel in Colorado Springs in 2005 for chaplains and their families. The Air Force picked up the $300,000 tab it cost to stage the event.

The presence of evangelical Christian chaplains in the military is certainly nothing new, but it comes at what some believe are widespread constitutional violations with the full knowledge and support of Pentagon brass.

Chaplains and their evangelist counterparts who lead mega churches across the country have been invited to US military installations throughout the world and have been openly proselytizing to military personnel, in violation of the basic tenets of the United States Constitution. Under federal law, chaplains are only authorized to offer “spiritual guidance” to soldiers. They are strictly prohibited from using government resources to proselytize or convert soldiers.

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[Postman]

1. Chaplains shouldn't be uniformed military personnel.

They have no business being in the military, period.

[hifalutin]

2. Who is going to

deliver the last rights to the dying soldier, most of whom are believers?

[Postman]

4. Chaplains could be there as representatives of the church, not in a military uniform.

What rank do you give Jesus?

That isn't to say that some schmuck chaplain is Jesus but that "men of God" shouldn't be subserviant to any military ranking nomenclature.

[noel711]

3. Chaplains in the military serve the same purpose

as chaplain in hospitals... spiritual counsel
when necessary. Chaplains are not supposed to
proselitize or evangelize, but to provide
counsel, comfort and prayer.

And if this guy's credentials were revoked,
as Martha Stewart says: It's a good thing.

[hifalutin]

5. Thank you,

you said it better than I could.

[Selatius]

6. Kick his ass out. If he can't respect the Constitution, he shouldn't be in the armed forces.

Get his fucking ass out.