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Officer Cleared in Military Bible Complaint
ToddStarnes.com ^ | 23 Aug 16 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 08/24/2016 7:11:53 AM PDT by xzins

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1 posted on 08/24/2016 7:11:53 AM PDT by xzins
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A member of the military does not lose his/her religious rights by virtue of entering the military.


2 posted on 08/24/2016 7:12:27 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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“I am intimidated by the display, and I am a practicing Christian,” the unnamed airman wrote. “This open Bible is discrimination at the highest level.”

If you're intimidated by the sight of an open bible you're a liar and you serve the prince of lies.

3 posted on 08/24/2016 7:16:04 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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The God hating atheistic Jew Weinstein is going to have to find another Christian to persecute.


4 posted on 08/24/2016 7:16:14 AM PDT by PAR35
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Apparently, airmen/women are a sensitive lot.


5 posted on 08/24/2016 7:18:32 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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Weinstein claimed to be representing some 33 Air Force personnel who were frightened by the sight of the open Bible on the major's desk.

Yes, because it is Christians who are beheading so many people. Oh, wait …

6 posted on 08/24/2016 7:18:47 AM PDT by Petrosius
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I laughed at both that and the shallowness of the complaints.

Everyone of them have something personal at their work station. Forbidding the major to do the same is religious discrimination via viewpoint discrimination.


7 posted on 08/24/2016 7:19:48 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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Those 33 airmen don’t exist.


8 posted on 08/24/2016 7:20:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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[“We have 33 very scared Air Force families,” Weinstein told me.]

JESUS CHRIST is the WORD. Every knee will bow to the CHRIST, the WORD, and confess that He is LORD. That is why they afraid, very afraid.


9 posted on 08/24/2016 7:20:31 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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Disgusting


10 posted on 08/24/2016 7:20:31 AM PDT by wastedyears (There's never enough anime.)
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wouldn’t surprise me at all.

someone, though, reported that the major actually did have an open bible on his desk.


11 posted on 08/24/2016 7:21:51 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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If the presence of God's Word causes you to tremble in fear -- perhaps you should consider another line of work.

Better suggestion.

If the presence of God's Word causes you to tremble in fear -- perhaps you should consider reading it.

12 posted on 08/24/2016 7:23:09 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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A local middle school kid did a report on MLK where he posted an excerpt from a sermon where MLK stated that Jesus was the only way to Salvation.
The teacher didn’t know whether to poop or go blind.


13 posted on 08/24/2016 7:23:37 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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LOL.


14 posted on 08/24/2016 7:26:03 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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It is difficult for Christians to pray for those who hate and persecute them, as God’s Word directs us to do. But we are assured that “Vengeance is Mine. I will repay, says the Lord.” (Romans 12:19)


15 posted on 08/24/2016 7:28:03 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Poor little fainthearts!
***Weinstein claimed to be representing some 33 Air Force personnel who were frightened by the sight of the open Bible on the major’s desk.

“We have 33 very scared Air Force families,” Weinstein told me. ****

King James Bible
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.


16 posted on 08/24/2016 7:29:06 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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If they had a rule against the Bible, or for that matter....Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto....then it’d be a open and shut case. They have no such rule, and never will.

My guess is that leadership just sat there and kept asking what list of books are forbidden, and people started laughing because there isn’t a forbidden book list in existence.

Whoever started this episode? I’m guessing that their days in the organization are numbered and they will be told to find a job elsewhere. Frankly, if you got time to go look around people’s desks.....I think you ought to go out back and fill forty sandbags or do sixty push-ups. That’s the kind of behavior I wouldn’t put up with.


17 posted on 08/24/2016 7:29:22 AM PDT by pepsionice
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“I am intimidated by the display, and I am a practicing Christian,” the unnamed airman wrote. “This open Bible is discrimination at the highest level.”
The airman went on to say that he wasn’t just offended by the Bible – he was “outrageously offended.”

You say you are a practicing Christian, and yet you are outrageously offended by the Bible? Psalm 119:165 declares you to be a liar:

Great peace have they that love Thy Law; and nothing shall offend them.

18 posted on 08/24/2016 7:30:55 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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***The teacher didn’t know whether to poop or go blind.***

Lemme guess! He closed one eye and passed gas!


19 posted on 08/24/2016 7:31:37 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Third, I want to challenge Mr. Weinstein to stop pestering the military with his petty complaints. And stop bullying Christian military personnel, too. We've grown tired of his anti-Christian vendetta.

How about we challenge all branches of the military top brass instead: Repudiate this vile hateful anti-Christian activist forcefully, and sue him for the costs of the investigation for every warrantless attack he brings in his efforts to trample on the religious freedom of our military officers. Call him what he is loudly and put him on the defensive and make his outrageous abuse of officers' civil liberties cost him dearly.

20 posted on 08/24/2016 7:34:34 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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