Pentagon To Drop Bible Quotes From Briefings

[intheflow]

Source: CBS-4 News (Denver)

WASHINGTON (AP) ―

GQ magazine recently posted on its Web site images of Pentagon briefings plastered with quotes from the Bible, as seen in this grab.{image at link}

The Pentagon said Monday it no longer includes a Bible quote on the cover page of daily intelligence briefings it sends to the White House as was practice during the Bush administration.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said he did not know how long the Worldwide Intelligence Update cover sheets quoted from the Bible. Air Force Maj. Gen. Glen Shaffer, who was responsible for including them, retired in August 2003, according to his biography.

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The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, on Monday said U.S. soldiers "are not Christian crusaders, and they ought not be depicted as such."

"Depicting the Iraq conflict as some sort of holy war is completely outrageous," Lynn said in a statement. "It's contrary to the constitutional separation of religion and government, and it's tremendously damaging to America's reputation in the world."

Read more: http://cbs4denver.com/national/Pentagon.briefings.bible.2.1012993.html

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God, the Bush administration were such manipulative, hypocritical assholes! Of course I've known that right along, but this is freaking nutty from a bunchof people who think torture is okey-dokey. :grr: Glad this practice was discovered and is going away!

[dgibby]

1. This might go away,

but the Christofacist underground in the military is alive and well.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Uh, the practice has been gone since about 2003.

[sandnsea]

3. Where was that reported?

I thought that just ended this recently.

[TwilightZone]

5. It talks about it in the link.

The person who was doing them retired in 2003.

[sandnsea]

11. But the program didn't retire

The program continued.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Thank God" - JC

"The Republicon Pharisees have abused me -- and others -- for the last damn time"

- JC

[marshall]

6. Can they replace them with quotes from the Koran?

Or alternate sources from the world's great literature.

[No Elephants]

7. Why? They're intelligence briefings. They don't need quotes from anywhere.

[regnaD kciN]

8. I've got a Bible quote for them...

Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword."

-- Matthew 26:52

[SkyDaddy7]

9. Excellent!

If Jesus were here today the The Republicans would be on FOX News screaming Jesus was a Socialist Liberal who would make America less safe!

[choie]

10. How about "blessed be the peacemakers"

If this practice hadn't been revealed in Robert Draper's article, it would still be going ON?????????? what the hell. Didn't anybody in the military have the balls to stop this after Obama was elected?

[eomer]

12. The title of the article is misleading.

The article itself implies that the practice was probably stopped in 2003.