http://www.pattonhq.com/prayer.html
Another who believed in prayer.
Patton commanded his chaplain to pray for good weather so he could go to the assistance of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne, encircled by German troops.
MacAuliffe’s 101st denies to this day needing any help, Divine or otherwise.
“But now we are on the subject—why are there official chaplains in the armed forces at all? Is not their very presence, paid for out of the public treasury, an affront to the establishment clause of the all-important First Amendment? The author of that amendment, James Madison, certainly thought so. His “Detached Memoranda,” which also opposed the use of chaplains to open the proceedings of Congress, were very clear about clerics in the armed forces:
Better also to disarm in the same way, the precedent of Chaplainships for the army and navy, than erect them into a political authority in matters of religion. … Look thro’ the armies & navies of the world, and say whether in the appointment of their ministers of religion, the spiritual interest of their flocks or the temporal interest of the Shepherds, be most in view.
Madison also thought that such appointments would lead to majority tyranny, as indeed they mostly have. He could not believe that even a Catholic chaplain could ever hope for preferment in the U.S. armed forces. But it may not be long now before we hear demands that Muslim chaplains be allowed to conduct separate (and perhaps sexually segregated) ceremonies in the ranks, and what I want to know is: What will our Christian, godly campaigners say then? Defense of the Constitution and of Madisonian principles, if invoked at that too-late point, will be portrayed by Muslims as discrimination. The evangelicals have already prepared the way for such a stupid outcome, with all the litigation and time-wasting in Congress that it will require. Their activity is a clear and present danger to the national defense, and ought to be regarded and treated as such.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
Are you prepared to use special pleading, as so many `finger pointers’ have been doing here lately, e.g. “Democrats and their lunacy—give `em both barrels! Carson’s unusual behavior? That’s off-limits, lefty troll!”
If local zoning authorities are going to continue to allow your local Methodist church to toll its bells by speakers located in the steeple, before long we’re going to have muslims demanding, pursuant to the Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment, the right to broadcast five times a day their `call to prayer’—what Obama called “One of the prettiest sounds on Earth.”
What do you think about that LauraJean? Are you ready to listen to that heathen BS, and not just this morning but every day?
I’ll wait right here.